They lay together, squashed in a hammock. She'd found it hidden in the hayloft and secured it, hopefully, between an apple with fruitlets and a recently cropped cherry. Getting in had been a challenge as a lot of tipping and rocking seemed to occur. Lucky it was close to the ground. They'd laughed so much that her eyes watered and they were still chuckling as they lay there.
Eventually, by sitting on it together and opposite, then swinging legs over, they managed it and were now lying facing each other, legs entwined. She was wearing his shirt, over sized on her, more like a mini dress, unbuttoned just enough to let him glimpse the entrancing valley between her breasts. He'd brought a bottle of the rough dry cider with them and they were swigging from the bottle, comfortable in the sun and in each other.
She'd noticed in the last three days that the tightness of his skin had begun to relax, he was more playful, open. The side was leaving him. She enjoyed seeing his skin take on a burnt umber, whilst she stayed as shaded as possible, the curse of the Celt.
How they came to be spending two weeks out of life in a French Manoir together was interesting, had required serendipity and and the nod of a god.
That first meeting ended unsatisfactorily for a variety of reasons
She'd laughed at some of his practised word, not the lines, but the fact that he'd mistakenly thought that would work on her..
She'd left the small bar alone that night.. But unsettled, a niggling of unfinished business and a flicker of opportunity..
She had a fey feeling for the man.
As soon as he'd laid eyes on her, he knew he needed to have her, not because of her looks. They were OK. It was the turn of her head, the way she stared out his look and challenged him. A more visceral emotion, a primitive yearning. A few hundred years ago he would have thrown her to the ground and ravished her then and there. God, he wanted that woman.
But they were together now, briefly, a delicious interval. Two people enjoying what living should be before life interrupts and asks it to cut the grass and take the bins out.
So back to now,
She's rubbing her foot up his thigh, burrowing in the crotch and letting it rest there.
Don't start if you're not prepared to finish.. He warns..