Delifini

He was the same man on the beach, black clothes, sexy stubble and with intense jade green eyes he scanned the sitting area of the shop and Faith looked away down at the catalogue swiftly.

In the calm beauty of the ocean, the man looks like an intense fire. Out of its place yet somehow here and desired. Faith felt his mysterious eyes digging on the back of her head and she sat more straight, trying to shrug it off. 

Renee walked back into the sitting area and stopped with her eyes wide as she looked at the man and was about to what looks like a bow but the man raised his hand and the copper back ring was huge with some kind of crest in it in his middle finger caught the light.

“O vasiliás!” Renee nodded.

“i kopéla eínai edó gia na kánei chrísi ton ypiresión sas;” the man asked. ( the girl had come here to avail your services,)

Faith ears perked to hear without her permission, though he was standing a good six feet away, his voice was cool and deep and it ran through her like she could feel the vibration of his words go through her. She cursed herself to not know how to speak Greek.

“Ναί,” Renee answers. ( yes)

“Afíste tin se ména,” He commanded. (leave her to me)

 Renee nodded and went inside.

Faith tries not to pay attention any further, she doesn’t understand what they said but his voice in last was commanding and that somehow put her on edge. She squares her shoulder, shaking that intense feeling twisting the inside of her stomach and his feet hit the floor moving towards her, goosebumps rise on her neck and she sucks in a breath but it felt like even the room now was empty of air, what is it this is...this is ridiculous she thought but it seems her heart and everything in her body was hearing the feet heading towards her.  

This is unbelievable, she even doesn’t know him why she...she groans internally and stops in her thought as she felt him standing just behind her, from the corner of her eyes she saw his hands resting on the couch behind her and she awfully felt she was being trapped but finding herself leaning back closer to him with her heart leaping into her throat.

“Have you decided on something?” his deep dark voice whispered in her ears and she felt it moving over her skin vibrating through her body, she clutched the catalogue in her hand. She looks down at the catalogue.

“Still thinking, why are you asking?” She said in a surprisingly firm voice.

“I am the one who is going to etch it into your being,” his breath brushed on the shell of ears and she suppressed a shiver.

Faith swiftly turns, the tip of her nose brushed to his stubble and the amber fiery scent overwhelmed her sense. The jade green eyes bore into her dark blue ones and he stops for a second 

“Choose wisely, it would be forever,”  his breath brushed against her lips and heat rush in her warming her lips. She notices his eyes getting darker, at that moment she forgets where she was or what for the only thing she was vividly aware of those pair of dark lips so... close ready to brush against hers.

Faith lips parted slightly and her eyes got darker as her mouth went dry with desire.

“So have you decided?” his question break her out of her trance and she swallows, shaking herself away. Get a grip Faith!  

“I am not sure, I am still looking,” She said but her voice was hoarse, looking back at the catalogue. Maybe she should go, something is definitely wrong with her, the thing she is feeling is this... undeniable attraction, it was almost unreal and she even doesn’t know his name for Pete’s sake!

His lean muscular arm snaked over her shoulder and he had the sleeves of his black shirt rolled up, giving a clear view of his translucent skin and the muscles underneath, his musky amber scent with his equally heated demure had her completely spellbound. Faith teeth sunk into her lower lip and she forgets to breathe.

“This,” He pointed, Faith looked at it. Dolphins, three dolphins in circles being gullible and that finally broke the intense spell that she was in.

“Are you kidding me? This is for kids,” She snorted.

She met his eyes, those eyes went a darker shade of green with his expression and her breath got stuck in her throat, she felt a little terror. He leaned towards her and she fought the urge to shrink away holding on to his gaze.

“Have you ever went deep in the ocean?” He asked, the edge and the darkness in his voice just went deeper.

“No,” she breathed, mesmerized by him.

“It has the colour of your eyes, pure and innocent ready to be tempted, where delfinis made love tainting it with their passion,”

Faith let out an inaudible gasp, the intense dark green eyes might have as well had swallowed her whole and she couldn’t have protested. There was nothing left to say, pure and innocent maybe, ready to be tempted, yes definitely.

“Who are you?” She breathed the question.

“Alexander,” his hand fingertips slide with a soft caress and wrapping his hand around her wrist. A gasp of shock left her, his hand they were cold as ice.

“Come,” and he leads her inside.

There was a recliner in the room, varied tattoo art pictures on the walls, a full-length mirror and a window ground to the ceiling glass wall, where the beach was visible and the outstretched sea. The moment he let go of her hand, it was like coming back to the surface of the water to breathe and she turns to look at him. 

Alexander didn’t look like a tattoo artist, his tall frame and dangerous aura suggested otherwise, the ever good Faith white who can read people easily couldn’t guess for the life of her who was this man and why she can not move away from him.

He turns to her with the tattoo gun in hand, she steps back and an amusement glint shine in his eyes.  

“Sacred?” He challenged. 

Those challenging eyes and their effect on her infuriated her, she squares her shoulder. She won’t run away or cower because some sexy dark greek guy puts her off or rather ignite something unknown and overwhelming in her.

“No,”

“Where would you like it then?” He comes to her with a smirk and she turns away facing the full-length mirror but her heart echoed with the thrill rushing in her veins but she successfully composes her face. 

“On the back... right here,” She pointed to her shoulder blades.

He walked towards her meeting her eyes in the mirror and she could feel his heat on her skin in spite of the clothes between them.

“Are you sure? Right...here,” he caressed the spot she pointed and current shoot in her veins like some delicious punishment, his touch was cold but it put her on fire and she nodded.

He caressed the back like a feather but she was too alert not to see his dark gaze and the burning intention in his touch. He reaches for the button at her back and she moved forward putting some witness between them.

“Shy?”

“No, You are getting too familiar,” She said and started to unbutton it herself gracefully, looking at him intently in the mirror.

“Let me start first, sweetheart,”  He trailed his fingers as she unbuttons it and in the last her hand tremble, a shiver ran through her spine and her lips parted as he leaned on her ear. He slides on her personal space, caging her in his aroma and she could do nothing but let him.

“It should be somewhere here,” his hand tailed to her bare shoulder sliding upfront while their gaze didn’t waver from the mirror...from each other, he traces her neckline and she bit her lips.

“Or…” he fingers trailed over her clothed breast and settles underneath it, her breath hitched and her eyes followed his hand.

“Or...it could be…” his fingers trailed down further and stop at her belly button.

“Right here...like this,” He circles her belly button as it started to follow down, she flats his hand right where it was with a gasp, she couldn’t take it anymore.

“Right here, please,” Faith face was flushed and her pupil dilated, her heart was pounding in her chest painfully aware of his smirk and the undeniable effect he had on her, she felt thick warm nectar of desire pull between her legs.

“Nice choice, delifini,” He swung her flat on the full-length mirror and she forgets to breathe as he leaned closer.

“Than I believe you have to undress,” He murmured low on her lips.

Fuck 

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“Faith, I need to talk to you!” Bill’s voice shook Faith out of her memory and pulled herself up from the bathtub and she slides herself in the bathrobe, covering the silver black dolphin tattoo around her belly button.

Faith opens the bathroom door meeting his eyes.

“And I don’t feel like talking to you, so will let me be,” Faith strom past him towards the mirror.

“Look, I am not here to talk you out of it in fact…!” Bill chuckled running his hand over his mouth sickly pleased by being saved so narrowly.

“I can’t believe you get me off the hook from Kingston, so easily!”

Faith clenches her jaw keeping how she actually feels inside, she was overwhelmed by it all, when he said it was the mafia. She thought she could deal with it, she had been through worse but Alexander Kingston, he was a hard limit.

“I have to admit I thought for a second, you will throw me under the bus,”

You would have been between his fangs, Faith thought as she picked a lotion and started to apply it on her hand, with the picture calm and easy. No indication of what kind of strom she was holding in.