"Lily. Lily Montgomery."
Lily heard the most delectable male voice lulling her out of sleep. Was she dreaming? If so she didn't want to wake up, not if it meant that that voice would go away.
"Sweet Lily, please wake up. Breakfast is being prepared."
She felt hands stroking her arms and shoulders which were, she supposed, exposed. It felt so delicious being touched by those warm, big hands that her fear of the dream being ruined became an increasingly traumatic thought.
"No!" Lily said with a pout.
The voice chuckled, a deep and spine-tingling sound.
"And why not Ms. Lily?" The voice asked.
She frowned and then answered, "Because if I do, you'll disappear."
The hands stroking her arms stilled and then left. Lily was about to protest when fingers began to stroke her cheek.
"Open your eyes Lily, you must be starving, and I'm not going anywhere."
Lily did as she was told and was relieved to see the smiling, kind and beautiful eyes of Noah. The night's events came back to her in a rush bringing with it a dull ache in her nether regions.
She rubbed her eyes and smiled up at him. "You're really real." She said.
Noah smiled and bent down to kiss her but Lily turned on her side, covering her mouth with the sheet.
"No!" She cried. "I have morning breath and you're all fresh and clean and nice-smelling!" She began to giggle at her admission but it was true. She probably looked like hell and he looked like Mr. December.
Lily noticed that Noah was quiet. She looked over her shoulder at him and her breath caught at the expression on his face. He looked like he wanted to devour her. Why? She thought.
A cold shiver hit the backs of her legs and she realized her folly. In turning on her side she had lifted off the remainder of the sheet exposing her naked form from the nape of her neck all the way down to her heels. She cursed herself for clearly hogging the sheet during the night.
The look on Noah's face froze her. She knew she should cover herself but she couldn't move under his gaze. A part of her was petrified by his look of unfiltered lust and a part of her relished in the fact that she was making him feel that way.
Noah cleared his throat and shook his head slightly before turning his back to her.
"Um... the shower is tiny but it has hot and cold water. I hope you don't mind my soap; it's maybe not as flowery as you might like. Help yourself to anything you want in there. I hung up a shirt of mine and some boxers that you can wear seeing as your clothes are not quite dry yet. There's toothpaste, an extra toothbrush. Uh, I think that's it. When you're done come join me over there for breakfast." He said as he pointed to a small table in the corner.
Noah walked away making sure to keep his back turned away from her.
Lily gathered up the sheet and wrapped herself in it as she made her way to the bathroom.
Once inside she closed the door and leaned against it. What had she gotten herself into really? She thought. She didn't even know this man and yet here she was, talking to him like they were newlyweds, acting as if she were some wanton, experienced vixen when she didn't even know where to begin with a man like that!
Lily shook her head and smiled. Life could be so interesting sometimes. She frowned though as she remembered her car, the wolves and the fact that she would have had a hell of a time trying to get her vehicle towed from its snowy and rugged path. She felt a pain in her chest at the thought of leaving her 'forest man' and heading back to the real world, where men were too busy on their IPADs and other devices to really pay attention to her the way Noah had in the past however-many hours.
With a reluctant sigh she dropped her sheet and proceeded to take a shower.
When Lily came out of the shower she was met with a smiling Noah.
