~ The Nap in the Portrait ~
by S. Anne Garner
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"Come take a nap with me, cara mia,"

It's two o'clock in the afternoon." she teased, knowing full well that the last thing her lover had in mind was sleeping.

Her lover pulled her back against her. "I will always want you, cara." She finished saying kissing her ear. "Our little one is taking a nap and my body aches for you, cara mia. Come to bed with me?"

She turned around in her arms and saw the molten desire apparent in the eyes. She raised her hand to caress the face of the woman that she loved.

"I have never felt such love as I feel for you," she said with such emotion that her lover pulled back a little and looked at her. "I cannot imagine living without you." She added.

Her lover took her into her embrace and held her tightly. "Mi amore, my life will end the day I lose you. I will die with you. Amore, I love you more than life itself."

She pulled away and saw as tears ran down the beautiful face of her lover as she said, "You are my life, during it I will love no other, after you I shall simply die." Her lover stared deeply into her eyes as she had said the words.

She brushed the tears away. "I plan to live forever in this fairytale with you, my dark haired lover. I want at least a hundred years." She smiled.

"One year, one day or even one minute?I would give up my life to spend it with you," her lover said seriously.

She smiled. "Let's not speak of sad things?.we have a lifetime in front of us. And?"

"And?" her lover asked.

"And, I want my nap," she said as she met her lover's lips
Later as they lay in each other's arms she felt her lover's embrace tighten around her. She looked up and found those dark eyes that had bewitched her staring at her.

"What is it, darling?" she asked as her hand caressed her lover's face softly.

"If I lose you I will die?" her lover said as a tear escaped from her eye and rolled down her cheek.

"You will never die, my love, you will never lose me." She kissed her lover's lips as her arms embraced her and made love to her once more that sunny afternoon as their daughter slept safely close by?and she repeated. "You will never die my love; you will never lose me?"




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