Arjun

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Author: Fionn Jameson
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    “You’re a dryad. Or something to do with nature. Trees. Whatever. But you’re not human.” I was proud of how logical and calm I sounded.
    A corner of his lip quirked up in amusement. “Is that the conclusion you’ve come up with?”
    “Well, yeah.” Unable to meet his eyes anymore, I turned my gaze to the window where the sun peeked from behind a cover of thin gray clouds. “But here’s what I don’t understand. If you’re a dryad, or a nymph or whatever, why are you still here? Shouldn’t you be gone when you’ve gotten what you wanted? Which in this case would be sex, by the way.”
    Arjun took a deep breath, his chest rising under my hand.
    “You’re right. About everything. I’m a dryad. Legend mentions nothing of male dryads, but we exist. There are far more females than males, and the stories were told of them. But never of us,” he said. The corners of his eyes crinkled. “I can only surmise that the poets were all males and far more interested in the nubile female nymphs.”
    I didn’t know what to say. I’d braced myself to accept it, but now that I’d actually heard it, words absolutely escaped me.
    He rose to his feet, golden, like a thing of the sun, and my mouth went dry all over again.
    “Would you like me to leave?” he asked, and I’ll be damned if his face didn’t color a delicate pink. And when he blushed, he blushed everywhere.
    I know. I checked.
    “What? No! Why would I want you to leave?”
    “I realize that perhaps last night was lacking in many respects and it was entirely my fault, but I just couldn’t….”
    His voice trailed away, and I felt the urge to start laughing hysterically.
    Thankfully I didn’t, but it was a very close call.
    “Didn’t you hear me when I said that it was the best sex I’ve had? Mind you, it’s not that I’m a very experienced woman when it comes to matters like this, but I’d like to think I know enough to judge what is bad from what is good.”
    Now came the tricky part.
    “But it just wasn’t the sex, although that was excellent.” I ducked my head, feeling a bit like a girl confessing her feelings to someone completely unattainable. “And it’s not the fact you’re not really supposed to be real. I don’t know how to explain it. It’s like….”
    How to explain I wanted him?
    More than anything. Because when we touched, I wanted more. When we kissed, it wasn’t enough. His body called to mine in the most primal way, and all I could do was respond.
    I took a deep breath and stood up, feeling like an idiot with the rug still tucked under my chin. “But what I’m trying to say is…I don’t want this to end. I don’t want a slam bam, thank you, ma’am sort of deal, you know?”
    His facial expre
    “I mean, I don’t want you to say, ‘Hey, that was great. Come by my tree if you feel like doing that again.’ Can you understand?” I realized just how close I was to begging him to stay, but I couldn’t seem to stop the words from coming out. I was completely disgracing myself, but I couldn’t have cared less.
    “I can’t. If this is all we were meant to be, if this is your exit and your stop to leave, then that’s not fair. I felt…I feel….”
    He held up a hand. “Wait.”
    “What?”
    “I don’t recall ever saying that I wanted to leave.”
    Rendering me completely nonplussed, graciously he allowed me time to pick my jaw up from where it rested on the floor. “I’m sorry?”
    The sunlight washed over his skin as he took a step toward me, so close that I felt heat radiating from his body and I had to tilt my head back to meet his eyes.
    “I said, I don’t recall ever saying I wanted to do the slam-bam thing that you seemed to fret about.” A smile started to curve those beautiful lips, and my heart took an odd veer down to my feet. “I don’t want to be lonely anymore.”
    “But you’re a dryad. You can’t go far from your tree or trees or whatever, right?”
    Odd how easily I was taking to
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