She had to crawl forward a little and then kneel up in front of him. He stared at her with astonished eyes. Bernadette was seeing him again that brazenly handsome face and the luxuriant long blond hair of which he was surely vain. He had green eyes deep set in the sunburned skin meeting her stare with the same intensity.
A terrible weakness came over her. Something within her softened and warmed, and the softness seemed to grow., infecting her cold heart and dead spirit. Quickly she hut it off. But some understanding was coming to her.
She could touch him and she became stronger and more powerful but if he touched her she became warmer and softer. Softness and weakness Bernadette would not allow.
" You will show yourself to me," he said with the barest trace of a smile. Before she could think what to do, he let the strands of her pale, translucent hair flow through his fingers and she was standing free by his bed and a wave of humiliation passed through her. It was as if a paralyzed man was being manipulated and molested by his nurse. Her long dead heart thudded so loudly she wondered if he could hear it?
"No," she whispered, her form fading into insubstantial ether till only the outline of her shadow lay across his bed.
"I very much enjoy your endowments," she related to him, her voice coming from above his belly. " I like to put my hands between your legs and to caress you with my fingers.
"And let you see me? Maybe. But let you touch me? No. I do not believe I will do that."
Peter felt the gentle, cool press that forced his knees wide, the not-quite-cold caress of her invisible fingertips on his inner thighs, squeezing his calves firmly. He knew her cold lips would be upon the ridged length of his cock soon. The cold should have shrunk his erection as the touch of that temperature did to any man, but Peter had been having this "dream" for many nights, so he knew her cold breath would not have that effect on his manhood at all. She was in a special category all her own, mortal rules did not apply.
For several weeks he would wake in the morning to the feeling that he was not alone in his own bedroom. But no one was with him; the bed sheets beside him were undisturbed, nothing in the room moved around. He took extra precautions to lock all the doors in his old Victorian, added new locks to the tall windows around the chamber and the salon downstairs but night after night his sleep was disrupted.
One night the quality of his dreams changed dramatically. He woke in the early morning hours before dawn broke to the last violent eruptions of an incredible ejaculation. He came like he had not experienced outside of a women's body since he was a teenager.
Seminal fluid splashed across his chest and across his bedcovers. Peter knew he had gone to sleep in his pajama bottoms, fully snapped up but woke to his bottoms unsnapped and around his damp thighs.
He would have thought he had unsnapped them himself and masturbated himself off but when he woke he found his fists firmly grasping the rungs of his headboard. His fingers were stiff from holding tight to the wooden rungs, the shin on the tops of his knuckles so cold there were nearly frosty. Peter flexed his fingers to warm them, experiencing the needle sharp pain as his fingertips felt like a touch of frostbite. Peter rubbed them together and blew his warm breath on his hands before exploring his body. It was strange to discover his semen gushed across his chest and stomach, his penis flaccid and laying like a poor deflated soldier next to his balls. Peter had not had a wet dream like that and at thirty had not done so since he was a fifteen-year-old boy.
He scared the shit out of himself. He was embarrassed and felt humiliated. But he told no one about it because 'they' would send him to the funny farm if he mentioned it.