...After about four or five heart-rate soaring journeys, the slick muscle seemed to still, just at the edge of where I ached for it to be.

"Lift." Max’s soft voice commanded.

"Huh?" I was nearly dumb-struck when I saw her holding a large cushion we had knocked off earlier.

"Lift." Waggling eyebrows beseeched me. I lifted.

Max slid the well-stuffed cushion directly beneath my ass. I looked at her, questioningly.

"Just setting the table," she grinned.

"Oh god," I whimpered. Meanwhile, the nagging ache between my legs screamed: ‘Yes!’

Max leaned forward, smiled and kissed my knees. First one and then the other, she caressed them with her full, warm lips, swirling her tongue against them as she went. The most incredible blue eyes I had ever seen, looked up at me, with so much love it nearly took my breath away. I reached up to touch her beautiful long, dark hair, as I looked into her gentle face. So much passion, lying there, just beneath the surface.

"Lie back, Gillian." Max motioned me backward with just a nod. Part of me wanted to reach up once more and take her in my arms, but I did as she asked. Flashing nearly perfect white teeth, she smiled.

"I love you, Max." I whispered, as I lay back into the oversized couch.

The kisses had spread outward and upward from my knees, as her strong hands tenderly pressed my knees apart. My lover’s firm tongue played on the inside of my thighs, first one and then the other, until my knees began to tremble. Max looked up at me and warmed the room with her smile.

"Gillian. Honey, I need you to spread those sexy legs for me. Okay?" Max looked at me with controlled desire flashing in her eyes.

I was way beyond nervous. I swallowed and nodded as I moved my knees farther apart. She nodded with understanding as she placed her muscular hands beneath my thighs and slowly pulled them apart. Before the cool air could settle into the space she had made, or I could feel too terribly awkward, she moved her gorgeous body to fill the space.

With my heart pounding a fast rhythm in my ears, I watched Max move herself forward. Still on her knees, she edged her waist and hips between my slightly shaky thighs. Her strong hands slid up the back of my legs until they found my rear end. Squeezing gently, she looked into my eyes and smiled. I melted and my legs fell even farther apart. As my tall, sexy companion moved to embrace me, our mounds met and we both moaned at the damp heat.

"Oh Baby. You feel so good, Gillian. You have no idea how much I want you." Her words rushed into my ear as the heated air sent goosebumps across my flesh.

Pressing my legs tight around her waist, I locked my ankles behind her well-muscled ass. "Wanna bet?" I looked into fiery blue orbs and took her face in my hands. "Max. You’re making me crazy here. You know that. Right?" I punctuated my sentence by thrusting hard into her and clenching my legs at the same time.

"Ungh. OH...Room in that rubber room for two?" She grunted her humorous reply. The firmness and quickness of the return thrusts did not escape my notice either. "Oh God. That feels good, honey."

"Mmmmm. Ve...very good." My tongue snaked out and licked her ear as I sucked the perfect, soft lobe into my hot mouth.

Frowning, I reached again for the delicious flesh moving away from me. Quickly, I grabbed for her head and pulled her mouth to mine. Sliding my hungry tongue into her mouth, even before I covered it fully with my own, I kissed her passionately. The kiss deepened as I felt soft hands caress and knead my breasts. Never, before Max, had my breasts been so sensitive to touch or so much a part of my arousal. This woman had some special power over my body, as well as my heart and mind. I decided, right then and there, I liked it. I liked it a lot.

"Uhm. You feel so good, Gillian. So soft. Such a beautiful body." Her tongue had left my mouth and joined her hands. "I love the way your breasts fit into my mouth." She drew my right breast fully into the warm heat of her waiting mouth. I felt a gentle sucking began as my hips began moving against hers again, as if they had a mind of their own.

"Aah...oh, Max."

"Yes, Baby. Move against me. Feels...so...good." She had lifted only as long as it took her mouth to move from one erect nipple to the other.

The sensation of the tender caresses from those strong hands and her suckling was driving me insane. I was grinding against her and squeezing her into me with my legs as hard as I could. Max’s gentle thrusts were cranking up the heat and the sounds she was making with her mouth were sending vibrations directly to my center. Just about the time I thought I would cry out from the pure pleasure of her at my breasts, she abandoned them to the attention of only her fingers, thumbs and palms.

"oohhh..." I moaned at the loss.

Sky blue eyes glanced up from my abdomen and smiled as she tickled me with the tip of her tongue. "Patience, my love."

"But that felt.....oh..." words escaped me as her teasing tongue dropped into damp curls and strong hands left my breasts and found the firm, round cheeks of my ass.

Somehow, Max had slid downward in such a way that my legs were across her broad shoulders now. Bowing at the knee, my legs were fully spread where they met my body. Skillfully, she moved herself into place. Unbelievably soft lips reached between my thighs and kissed me, taking me by surprise. I jerked my head up and looked down toward my hungry lover.

"Max? What are you....oh god." Her swollen tongue had made a fast trip the full length of me, pressing it’s passion into the tender flesh as it traveled.

"Ssshhh. Lie back now. I want to taste you. Please you. Let me make love to you with my mouth, sweetheart."

"Oh God." I moaned as she did two more quick trips, pressing in a pulse this time.

She flicked only her eyes toward me and smiled. I could feel it against me as much as I could see it. ‘How could I be so deeply in love with her so quickly,’ I wondered.

"Gill?"

"Hmm?"

"I love you, Gillian. I love you so much." She kissed my inner thigh and the love I felt brought tears to my eyes.

"I love you, too. So very much. Make love to me, Max."

I moved against her mouth, without thinking. She groaned and her tongue began to circle my engorged clitoris.

"God!" I cried out at the overwhelming pleasure she was giving me. My hips bucked of their own accord. "Max! Oh God, Max."

My lover said nothing I could understand but somehow I knew she was speaking words of love to me. My heart was so full, tears slipped past my cheeks. Still my tall dream circled her hot tongue against my clit in firm, tight circles. Then the tip of her tongue began to flick the fully erect clitoris with a speed I would not have thought possible. My hips bucked harder against her mouth. I felt strong, determined hands clench the muscles of my butt, holding me in place. After what seemed like minutes of the rapid-fire pleasure, I was breathing hard and moaning loudly. Suddenly, I felt myself sucked into her mouth, as she began to suck me like a popsicle. Max was swirling her enflamed tongue round and round while sucking hard and fast on my screaming clit. My hips were thrusting into her face and rising clear up, off the cushion every time.

"Jesus, Max." I panted. "Harder....Harder, Baby."

"Mmmmmm," was all I could understand of whatever she said; but the sucking picked up and she grazed me with the edge of her teeth a few times.

My body was screaming with pleasure and I pounded into her mouth over and over. Her hands squeezed my ass in time with the sucking rhythm and I felt like I was going crazy. Yet I couldn’t get a release. Everything she was doing felt so incredible. I prayed it would never stop. At the same time, I pleaded for the final ecstasy I knew was coming. Finally, I couldn’t stand any more.

"Max. Honey," I almost whimpered, between breaths.

She slowed and looked up. Concern filled her awesome eyes. "Did I hurt you?" she asked.

Putting my hands against the back of her head, I urged her not to stop. My hips pressed the point home against the mouth I knew I would want forever.

"No. Didn’t hurt me. Not at all. So good." I paused to breathe and noticed she was sucking with a passion again and swirling and teasing me with her teeth, as well. "Something’s wrong, Max. I want you..." I panted between rapid, hard thrusts.

"Good," she quickly said and returned to what she had been doing.

"No. Want you....don’t know...everywhere.." I managed through ragged breaths.

I felt the tickling sensation of her lips spreading into a grin against my most tender flesh and hope it was a sign she understood what to do. I prayed she did. I was moaning, grunting and pleading for more with no idea what more was. My hands tangled into her thick, dark hair and pressed her into me with the same pulse that enveloped my entire world at that moment. That’s when I felt her right hand leave my behind and slide across my thigh. As I sensed something poised near my opening, I felt her head lift against my trembling hands. I eased my grip so she could find my eyes with her own. There was a question in those crystal visions. At that same moment I felt her fingers circle my dripping core. I loved her so much, even then. All I could think of was how much I loved her, how wonderful it felt to be loved by her. I closed my eyes and nodded.

Max clamped her lips around my clitoris and pulled hard into one powerful suction, which she held as two long fingers eased inside me.

"Yes!" I screamed into the air-conditioned room.

She slid the fingers in again, slowly, and sucked against the imprisoned clit. Then she did it again. And again.

"Faster. God, Max. Faster."

Two slim fingers pumped in and out of me with a quickening pace as my swollen clitoris was once again sucked and swirled in time. The slurping sound her pumping created was driving me nearer and nearer to the edge. Then I felt something change and my blood deprived brain tried to sort it out. Before my mind could change gears her mouth had left my clit, which was now being stroked and rubbed vigorously by the hand that had abandoned my thrusting, sweating derriere. I had only moments to mentally search for the missing mouth as a long, very firm tongue joined two and then three fingers rapidly moving in and out of me. My heart rate nearly tripled as the sensation nearly robbed me of consciousness.

"Mother of God, Max!" I rammed myself into the air over and over. "Deeper my love. Yes!" I was pleading now. "More...ugh...ungh....oh....oh Max....harder....hard......faster.......oh.....oh god....." I was so close. So very close.

"Gillian," she moaned between ragged breaths, pumping into the edge of the large cushion. "I love you, Gillian."

"Max! I’m....gonna....explode here....god, don’t stop! I ....I love you, Max."

I felt her fingers and tongue sliding in and out of me, moving against my inner walls. Her other hand had stopped being gentle long ago and was rubbing fiercely against a very engorged, hard clitoris. Her body moving to the same beat so near mine was fanning my flames.

"Gilli....Baby...come for me. Please, sweetheart. Come in my mouth." She struggled to catch her breath. "Come all over my fingers, baby. Come for me. I love you so much." Then she stiffened her tongue again and thrust it deep into me. Over and over and over, I felt her enter me with incredible passion.

For some bizarre reason, at that moment I heard myself from so many other times in my life. ‘Why do I always feel like there is a hole in my life?’

My hips pumped wildly against the sofa as Max made love to me with her mouth, her fingers, her tongue, her all.

The familiar scenes from my dreams skittered across my mind. ‘Will I ever know love like that while I’m awake?’

Max’s tongue slid out of me and latched onto my throbbing clitoris. She began sucking fiercely, her hand reaching up and taking mine. The fingers inside me began to twist as they slid. Upon entry the wrist twisted to the right and thrust deeply and quickly. On exit the entire wrist twisted to the left and pulled out to the very edge of my entrance. No pausing between movement, the thrusting took on a frenzied pace with the fingertips sliding along my inner walls each time. Max drove her strong digits deeper, harder and faster with each stroke and licked and sucked at the same pace. We were both covered in perspiration as she bucked feverishly against the couch, near release herself. I took my other hand from behind her head and twisted my upper body until I could reach between her legs with my fingers. What I found there sent me into the stratosphere.

"Max! Honey, you’re so wet. So swollen. Shit. Don’t stop. Damn, you feel....so good." I bucked against her and drove my fingers inside her at the same time. Nothing in my wildest fantasies had even come close to feeling this good.

"Gillian!" She had not expected that. "Don’t stop. So close. Love you, Gillian. I...oh god..." she focused everything into that unbelievable tongue of hers.

My insides were on fire. Nothing was ever suppose to feel THIS good. That was what I had always believed. But it did. She did. I felt her muscles begin to tighten around my fingers and realized my lover was giving up all control. Max was completely giving herself to me. As I was giving myself to her. It wasn’t like it had ever been with anyone before. I was making love to someone who loved me back.

"Gill....coming...love you so much....please, please come with me...please..." she whimpered and pleaded and rode my fingers. She pumped fluid all over my hand as her walls began to clench against me.

Feeling Max approaching climax, while hearing her tell me she loved me, as she begged me to come with her, shoved me over the cliff. Fingers pumped wildly in and out of me as her teeth gently scraped my hardened bundle of nerves. The jerking and trembling came as a surprise to me. A big surprise.

"Mmaaaaxxxxxx!" I shouted as my hips froze mid-air and my legs clenched into one hard muscle. I felt her fingers stop and her mouth stilled.

"OH! Oh, Giilllllliiiiaaaannnn!" Max’s vaginal muscles grabbed my fingers and held them tightly.

We lay there, panting in one another’s love for a long time. When our pounding hearts allowed our breathing to return to near normal, she looked up at me.

"You can take your fingers out now, my love." Max grinned. "Slowly. Please?"

A little embarrassed at not knowing that, I blushed. "Sorry," I whispered. Then I very carefully slid my fingers from the love of my life’s center; silently praying they would be there again, very soon.

"Don’t be. I like them there." She blinked. "No. I love them there. You were...incredible, love. And, you might notice mine are still inside you."

"Oh," I blushed again.

"Mmm. I like pink on you, sweetheart. Ready?"

"Can I keep them?" I teased.

Blue eyes winked at green. "Gillian, they’re yours for as long as you want them. They come with my heart, honey."

"Really?" I wondered aloud, amazed at the possibility.

"Really." She answered without missing a beat.

I smiled at this drop-dead gorgeous woman who had stepped out of a dream and into my heart.

"How does forever sound?" I mentally held my breath.

"Too brief, my love, too brief."

Green eyes looked deeply into blue, and smiled.

It would be months before we told each other about the silent prayer of thanks offered at that moment. When the secret was finally shared, we had to laugh. The prayers were identical:

"Mysti, wherever you are, thank you. Thank you for never taking the dream away, no matter how I pleaded, whined and begged. Thank you so much, Mistress of Dreams. No matter what the rest of the world chooses to believe: you will always be real to me. Good night, Mysti, blessed Mistress of Dreams."

Mysti continues