Chapter Thirty-eight

Mark cupped Dawn's cheek as she was about to undress for the evening. "Are you alright?"

Her eyes looked deep into his before he found her lips on his. She needed him and the connection they have. Mark could only wrap his arms around her waist and lifted her up. Only knowing that she wanted his love for her.

She wrapped her legs around his waist and let him walk them over to the bed. A moan slipped out as the feeling of the bed touched her back and then Mark's weight along her front. His hands sliding deliciously from her back to her waist and then down her slender legs.

Slowly their minds hazed over with bliss as they both slowly and painfully removed each others clothes. His lips having left hers when her skin became exposed. Her breathe and thoughts were hard to grasp under his skilled lips.

Having her completely bare below him, Mark rose with a heavy breathe gazing at her. The way the dim light of the full moon glittered off her radiant skin. The deep rise and fall of her chest that called to him to wrap his lips around those delicious nipples of her again to hear her sweet whimper of arousal. But what struck him the most when when he looked into her eyes and saw the glossed over look of pure desire and love for him soul deep.

He licked devilish at his lips as all the images of what he could do to her with her palatable underneath his very ready person. "What do you want me to do first, my sweet?" He smiled when she bit her lower lip lightly and giggled.

Even though she didn't voice it, Mark slipped down her body and kissed the whole way. Dawn giggled as she continued to bite her lip when he kissed certain spots on her sides. He knew she was slightly ticklish and kissed those spots just for the pleasure of those giggles.

But she didn't giggle as he looked into eyes as he hovered over her most private and wanton self. He purposefully breathed heavily against her lower lips and was very much rewarded when her head fell back as a moan slipped from her proper lips. The sound made his insides shiver with glee. He made her sound like that.

Her breathe caught when he inhaled that wonderful scent. His stomach clenching as he became painfully hard. It took everything to stay where he was and have a taste of the wonder of his woman. The scent of her making him hungry in all the carnal ways.

Mark let his hands round her derrière and felt those delicious orbs in his hands. He lifted her up to his lips and gave a long lazy lick. Her wantonness flooded his senses and he savored every ounce of it. It gave him unending delight knowing he caused such a response from her with the smallest of movements. May it always be so because he would never get tired of her.

Dawn's mind whirled as her love tortured her slowly and deliriously. His tongue setting a burning fire deep within her that she knew only he could quench. But she just couldn't bring herself to get him to stop as she also yearned for more of his torture.

After some time and pulling the most delicious climax from Dawn, Mark rose up licking the last bit of her juices from his lips. He loved savoring everything she had to give to him. But seeing her trying to collect herself as he hovered over to watch her every breathe and moment coming back down from where he sent her had him wanting to sink into her desperately.

When she looked back up up him, he leaned down and kissed her with his moistened lips. His knees shifting her legs to open her up for him. Her arms feeling his wonderful chest before they wrapped around his neck to pull him impossibly closer to her as she felt his hardness enter her. Both their hearts beating quickly and in sync as they moved together as one. The union she needed after what she had discovered earlier that day.

For the next hour, they reveled in the bliss of each other. Mark pulling so much from her till he couldn't stop his own completion. As they've done before, when he climaxed, she did too. Then he fell to the side pulling her to his side so he may hold her as they caught their breathes.

Mark looked down to his beauty to find her staring up at him with a look he'd seen nearly all night but didn't understand. He lightly brushed her cheek causing her eyes to close momentarily. "Tell me what's going on in your mind. Something must be plaguing you since you left your father's study. Was it being in there? If so, don't go back. Stay with me tomorrow."

Dawn shook her head as she shifted placing her body along his. Her breasts pressed against his abdomen. "You'll love me no matter what, right?"

He frowned placing both his hands on her cheeks. "Why would you ask that when you know the answer? Nothing in this world would ever make me stop loving you."

"Even if I'm not from this world?"

Smirking, he brushed his finger tips along her cheekbone. "I've always thought of you as being heavenly." Then his smirk fell as his thoughts turned. "I'd never thought in a million years I'd be blessed with such an angel."

She couldn't help giggling as she smacked his chest lightly causing him to smirk. "I was being serious."

"And so was I." His trademark smirk back on his face as he gazed at her with all his love for her.

With a deep and long sigh, Dawn lifted off Mark's chest. He pouted but frowned when he watched her stride over to the other side of their room. The master bedroom. The one that used to be her parents and still held the same furniture though the bed had a new mattress and bedding that her brother had purchased just for her bedroom. Soft golds with hints of purple when the shadows hit the fabric.

She pulled out a nightgown and put it on making Mark sit up with a start. "You're going somewhere?"

Turning around quickly, she tossed a pair of lounge pants at him. "I want to show you something." She shook her head slightly. "I need to show you it."

Mark frowned as he slipped the pants on. When she held her hand out, he willingly and curiously took it. Mark would follow her anywhere and if she wants to show him something, he was going to let her. To see her so open with him warmed his heart and made his frown turn up in to a sweet smile.

He was even more curious when she took him to her father's study. His body stiffening when Dawn moved the dial of the statue unveiling the hidden staircase. He was shocked that there was a hidden room within Dawn's family home. But what was he expecting?

At the moment, Mark couldn't see the stairwell as the night was dark. For this reason, Dawn had grabbed the flashlight from their room. She twisted it on and linked her hand in Mark's again pulling him in with her.

They descended slowly down the stairs. Marks eyes flickering all around them. The light of the flashlight only hitting stone bricks that lined the walls of the stairwell. It wasn't till the bottom that he sucked in his breathe at the large open space before them. The light of the flashlight only brightening a tenth of the area before Dawn found the light switch again and flicked it on.

"Did you know this was here?"

Dawn shook her head as she moved through the room. "Neither Stephan nor I knew about it growing up. I don't even think that Nicholas knew either as it looks so untouched before we entered it earlier." She stopped at a workbench and touched the device from earlier.

Again Athenea materialized with the bands of light from the rings of the device. Mark gripped the workbench behind him in shock as he watched the whole thing in pure disbelief even though he was seeing it with his own eyes. "What the...?"

Athenea looked away from Dawn and smiled at Mark almost motherly. "Welcome."

Mark frowned. "What kind of language is she speaking? It sounds almost Greek or Latin in a way. But I know a tiny bit of Latin and it sounds a bit off from that."

Dawn went over to him. "She's why I'm a crystalline." Her eyes going over to the animated projection. "She's what I wanted to show you." Dawn wrapped her arms around her. "She was an alien from another world."

Mark's eyes took their time as he looked over at Dawn. In seeing her looking so small, he pulled her over to him and held her in his arms protectively. She didn't need to feel small around him. Well, in the bad way. "So you're really are out of this world?" His words playful wanting to lighten the mood.

She looked up at him with a tiny frown on her face. His hand coming up to her forehead to sooth out the tiny frown line. "You don't care that I'm not all human?"

He shook his head as he lowered it so their lips were close. "Not in the slightest." He grinned. "So you really are descended from a goddess."

That got her to giggle as all the worry left her body for the moment. "She was only a goddess because she lived longer than the inhabitants around her and had very very advanced technology." She felt fine now hearing that. Mark's acceptance was what she needed. How she feared he wouldn't love her anymore if he found out. How quickly she was to believe such nonsense.

Then she looked between the projection and Mark. "I think she can see you." Her eyes settled on Mark as he tilted his head to the side. "Earlier when Fen was with me, it looked like she only saw me."

"Maybe I can answer that." They both looked to the crystalline woman made of light and the three rings. She smiled. "You two have a bond that joins you together. My descendant maybe the only one to understand me, but that bond makes me able to see him as well."

Dawn frowned. "But you didn't see my brother."

Athenea tilted her head to the side. "Was he not allowed to partake in the coming of age ceremony? Not given the drink of my heritage?"

Dawn shook her head. "What does that drink have anything to do with being able to see you and understand you?"

"It is that drink that I formulated to help my descendants connect to their lineage to me. Without it, the bloodline becomes more diluted."

"So without the drink, then there isn't enough genetic markers to..."

The projection smiled. "Activate me."

Dawn sighed and nodded. Mark feeling how stressed Dawn was starting to get again. He pulled them both over to a stool. He sat down and pulled her onto his lap. "You okay?" He moved her hair out of her eyes as he held her close to him.

She gave a small shrug then looked at Athenea while laying her head on. "Will you tell me more later? I think I've hit my limit again for our discussion."

Athenea bowed her head. "I am yours to use as you need me." The rings dimmed like before as the image of Athenea started to fade. The room darkening without that light.

Mark held Dawn for a bit longer on that stool in the semi-darkness. The lights of the room looking not nearly as bright compared to the projection's light that filled the room. Little by little, their eyes adjusted to the different light.

"Shall we tell the others about this?"

He looked down at the unearthly beauty in his arms and felt again the overwhelming love for her. To know more about how such a gorgeous woman could be here in his arms. He'd thank the stars above if they'd just come down.

"How about this? Enjoy the family reunion and then we will worry about telling everyone what you found out."

Dawn gulped as she slipped her fingers between his. "I'm still nervous about being part of the reunion."

He smiled and kissed her lips. "I know, but you have me there for you to be your solid ground." Then a tap of her nose with his free hand. "Just forget about the last fifty years and become that woman again. The one that I see sometimes that still smiles freely without a single worry in the world. You don't have to worry anymore about anything because you've got me."

She smiled up at him and kissed him deeply. He smiled to as she shifted over his lap and then straddled his hips. "Since this is my house now and this room is my secret room, how about helping me with something."

A devilish smirk as his hands moved up her thighs. "Command me my goddess." He was rewards with a giggle before he moaned letting his head fall backwards as her hand touched him most wantonly. Pride welling up again as he knew that he brought this side out of her. That their love was healing her. There was still a ways to go, but they both relishing every moment together. He knew he would for the rest of his life.