Author's note: Historical facts may be inaccurate, and this story is fictional. Just thought I'd write this disclaimer in case readers hound me about getting my history wrong :P
After a nice warm soak in the bathtub, Hoshi sat at her desk, ready to finish up another chapter of her thesis. Her small eyes, made smaller by her frowning and intense concentration at her work, were getting heavier by the minute. Yawning, she made her way to the bathroom again. When she was done, she detoured and made her way to the living room, just to take a second look at her new purchase - the nude marble statue of a Roman man.
Hoshi Yamada, the only daughter of a Japanese father and a black American mother, was currently working on her Ph.D. in Life in Ancient Rome. As part of her research, she had gone to Rome to visit the great libraries for precious literature and the like. Shopping was also one of the must-do items on her itinerary and along the way, found this beautiful statue in an antique shop. It was costly, but there was something alluring about the figurine. When she stood beside it, it towered over her by a head. Like a siren, it seemed to call out to her and she was entranced by it. Hesitating over the price, she left the shop. After three days of inner struggling, her heart got the better of her. She gave in to her desires and returned to the shop. When she handed over the cash to the shop owner, her intuition told her that it was the best buy she ever made and that it 'rightfully' belonged to her. So eager was she to have it safely back home, she had it wrapped thrice than usual, placed in a solid box, insured for damages and sent via Overnight Mail. Her precious cargo arrived two hours after she returned.
Her slim fingers softly trailing the statue's face and down to the neck, she wondered what was the artisan thinking when he was working on the piece of stone. Such beauty at every angle: perfect angular features, the aquiline nose, the curly locks, masculine torso, cute navel, and his manhood that dared anyone to mock at it. One could not help but blush at its virility. And his sexy cleft chin - sigh - Hoshi was a sucker for men with a cleft chin. She felt sorry for the figurine; that such a 'man' would never know what it is like to kiss soft lips, or experience the pleasures it could gain from 'utilising its tool'. He was made for loving; he exuded raw maleness, and the cruel irony that such perfection could only be found in carved stone was not lost on Hoshi. Standing tall on her toes, she gently touched her lips to the statue's cold hard 'lips'. She left for her bedroom, leaving moist salty dew on his lips.
Tucked in bed with a book, Hoshi slowly drifted to sleep with the reading lamp still on. She slept a dreamless sleep, a deep restful sleep. She didn't feel the mattress sag under a new heavy weight. She couldn't see a shadow creeping towards her. A small moan from her throat, mouth slightly agape, she slept on, dead to the world. She didn't feel the blanket carefully removed from her, exposing her scanty nightgown to the warm air. She couldn't sense the hungry stare at her barely covered body. With the warm mocha skin tone and body curves inherited from her mother, and the height and Asian facial features of her father, she was truly a sight to behold. One pink nipple peeked out of her nightgown. As her full breasts heaved up and down with each breath, the nipples waved at the world, inviting one to taste and suck it.
She didn't feel warm lips applying light pressure to hers. But she felt a rough hand squeeze her breast hard and a foreign tongue stroking hers. Rudely awakened, Hoshi opened her eyes and stared into a pair of piercing green eyes looking back at her. The kiss broke, she screamed in fear and surprise, instinctively trying to back away from him. But there was not much space behind her. The stranger sat where he was, unmoved. Waiting for her to calm down. She tried to make sense of the situation - she's in her room, she had fallen asleep while reading. There's a strange handsome man in her room but the security alarm didn't go off. So how did he enter her room? What? He's naked? And is that devil staring at her breasts? "Who are you and what are you doing in my room?" she spat the words at him. Replying in Latin, the gorgeous hunk thanked her for breaking the spell.
Hoshi switched to Latin: "Who are you and what are you doing in my room? And why are you thanking me for?" "My lady, you have saved me from a terrible fate. I had lost hope for redemption, but like a goddess you appeared, and with your tears and the kiss, I'm now free to walk the earth at night. But come daylight, I am once again bound." "What crazy thing is this? I don't believe what you are saying... Stop! Stay where you are, and don't come any nearer. You'd better give me a better explanation or I'm going to call the police!" She was blushing, and could feel her face hot with embarrassment. The stranger had no sense of decency! There he was, sitting at the edge of her canopy bed, totally unaware of his nakedness. He should be ashamed of himself. In the corner of her mind though, she admired his amazing physique and beautiful face. He also looked rather familiar - curly locks, a roguish grin, an aquiline nose...a shudder ran through her as her suspicions were soon confirmed.