I was, in fact. I brushed against him, allowing my molecules to collide with his. I wanted to feel him as I felt others. I wanted to know everything about him. All the secrets he’d tucked into the furthest corners of his mind. But it didn’t quite work that way. His emotions were still so deeply packed, so thickly entwined, that making out any one was nearly impossible.
Regaining my footing on solid ground, I followed him until he stopped, turned around, and caught me to him. Plunging his fingers into my hair, he pushed me against a storefront.
“You shouldn’t tempt me,” he said, his voice like warm bourbon.
“I beg to differ. You are the only one I should tempt.”
He’d shifted onto the celestial plane. Here his kisses were even hotter. His energy rawer. More abrasive.
He pulled at my jeans with one hand, and part of me was surprised I still wore jeans. He opened the button, ripped the zipper down, and pushed a hand inside. I bucked and grabbed his wrist. Everything was more sensitive here. Every touch more important. His fingers massaging my clit, dipping inside, had me shaking with need.
I pressed a palm to his crotch. Found the length of his erection. Molded my fingers around the outline until he sucked in a sharp breath.
“Dutch,” he said against my neck. “What are you doing to me?”
I couldn’t even begin to answer him, because whatever I was doing to him, he did to me first.
Without the slightest thought of there being a witness to our adventure, I pried the buttons of his jeans apart and wrapped my fingers around his cock.
“Motherfucker,” he said, bracing a hand on the wall behind me. And he was right. How was it all so heightened here? So extra sensitive?
The slightest bit of friction was almost orgasmic. So much so that I could hardly control my actions. My clothes were suddenly gone, as were Reyes’s, and I couldn’t remember which one of us took them off. But he pressed into me, incorporeal energy against incorporeal energy. Molecules colliding. Tendrils of heat lacing around me like ribbons.
Our bodies didn’t slide as they would during a regular round of aggressive cuddling, but our energy did. Hot. Fast. Frantic.
Then he shifted, just barely, onto the mortal plane, bringing me with him. And the solidness of his cock inside me rocketed through to my core. The pressure building in my abdomen with every thrust, the sheer weight of it, clawed at the delicate balance between the sweet pleasure of a slow, sensual fuck and the wild, passionate greed of a come-induced seizure.
And then the scales tipped and I seized, throwing back my head and bucking against him. Something deep inside me, something unnamable, exploded. I gritted my teeth as spasm after violent spasm slammed into me. Crashed against my bones. Trembled over my nerve endings, spilling the darkest pleasure known to man throughout my consciousness.
An orgasm in this state was a thousand times brighter and hotter and more intense. I’d never felt my atoms splitting. I’d never felt them collide and create a reaction as hot as the center of the sun.
As Reyes strained against me, his own orgasm shuddering through him, I wondered if this was how two gods merged to make one. And why did they do that, anyway? Why did all the gods from my dimension come together to make one god? What was in it for them?
Reyes collapsed against me as I floated in the aftermath of mind-blowing sex. And then I realized something pivotal. Cores. Centers. We had centers even in our most dematerialized state. Whether we had shape or not, we had centers.
And they fit together really well. Like pieces of a puzzle. Or a lock and key. Or a penis and vagina. Mostly a penis and vagina.
When Reyes stepped to the side, leaned against a storefront, and continued to stare, I realized I was humming. Like my body was literally humming, its current state utter perfection.
“Sorry,” I said to him, worried he could hear it, too.
At first, he continued to gaze at me, but not just at me. All around me. Then he whispered, “Magnificent.”
“What?” I floated back to the ground to join him and turned around to see what was behind me. “What do you see?”
Reyes shifted and stepped to me. “You, Dutch. I see you.”
“Really? I’m trying to be invisible. How can you see me?”
“I don’t know that you can be. Not to a supernatural being, anyway. Remember, you’re still the light the departed are drawn to. It’s just, it’s different now. When you’re like this.”
“What’s so different about it? Is it even more annoying? Pari can hardly look at me without wearing sunglasses.”
“It’s a shimmering white all around you. You literally glow.”
“Like a glowworm?”
He grinned. “Why not?”
“You look different when I shift, too.”
He lowered his head.
“Reyes,” I said, readying to tease him, “give it up already. I know all about the darkness. Being created in hell—”
“You don’t remember, do you?”
I ran my fingers over his sensual mouth even as he spoke. “Remember?”
“Before you convinced Jehovah to send me to your hell dimension instead of locking me up in the one He created, you knew me.”