From the misty recesses of Maria's mind, the need slowly crept into her conscience. In moments of quiet, the growing desire soon occupied more and more of her thoughts.
Memories of his face, his scent, and his heat, now intruded so strongly that they were almost tangible. Her dry mouth and pounding heart, physically underscored the tingle of lust that was building between her legs.
Maria remembered how she had feared him the first time; how he had entered her mind and then how he had entered her body. It did not seem natural.
She did not have a name for him but simply a concept of whom and what he might be. She could not speak to anyone about him or what had been happening to her. She knew that they would never believe her story.
Devil, angel, or incubus, it was a mystery that she never did solve, and in the end she did not care, because she liked how he made her feel. The pleasure of sex is its own reward and will always override any taboo that mankind tries to put in place to subdue it.
He had been coming each month with the full moon. So she watched, and waited as the moon grew stronger with each passing night. She knew that his return was close at hand and now her fear had changed to longing. She made a silent prayer thanking God that nightfall was very near.
As eventide pulled the curtain of darkness over her chambers, she laid awake in her bed, the room illuminated only by the candles placed on the nightstand and dresser.
Maria's hands followed the curve of her hips, moving around her narrow waist, and then across her flat stomach. Slowly she caressed her way up the center of her body until a breast filled each hand. Her fingers closed softly over her nipples. Gently, she rolled and pulled each bud, feeling them expand and tighten. When they were fully erect, she clamped down tightly and roughly stretched both breasts toward the ceiling. A pleasant turmoil ran through her. It hurt, but it was a good hurt that radiated from her nipples, through her core, and terminated in her clitoris.
Maria dropped one breast and slid a hand down the length of her body into the patch of dark hair at her crotch. Her fingers parted her pussy lips, finding the drops of nectar that had gathered there. She closed her eyes as she brought her hand back to her mouth and immersed herself in the taste and scent of her own sexuality. Once she had licked her fingers clean, she returned her hand to her crotch, where slowly and steadily, she used her fingers to lightly strum her clit. She kept the pleasure coursing through her body like a song that only she could hear.
When a shiver ran up her spine and goose bumps raised the hairs at the nape of her neck, she would stop and wait, never quite letting the orgasm crest. She took these moments to sip her wine, letting the sexual tension regress. After she had relaxed, her wet fingers would once again begin gliding across her clit, feeling it swell and raising her passion to just below the boiling point. Time and again she repeated this ritual, staying immersed in self-pleasure until the wine had drawn her eyes closed and she drifted into a deep slumber.
Just before sunrise, in the darkest part of the night, Maria struggled for consciousness. In that place between awake and asleep where reality meets dream, she looked into the darkness straining to see the willowy wisp of luminescent fog that she knew was her lover.
The temperature had risen since she had fallen asleep. The room now felt damp, warm and close. Her hair clung to her face and sweat trickled down her cleavage. She tossed her covers aside, unbuttoned her gown, and slipped herself out of it. She laid back on the bed and in a sign of submission splayed her arms straight out, as if on a cross, palms up, offering herself as a gift to him. She waited with desire, her sex laid bare, slick and wet.
The candles flicker sharply and the curtains lifted as a blast of air followed around the walls. It was as if a door had opened and yet the door remained closed. The source seemed to emanate from under her bed. Suddenly, she felt a subtle pressure against her shoulder blades and buttocks. It felt like she was back to back with another person. The pressure increased, lifting her slightly from the mattress. A feeling ran through her that reminded her of a cool spring of water seeking an outlet from the earth. Then as if a soap bubble had burst, the thing that was lifting her, was no more, and she fell back into the mattress.
Her breath caught in her throat. He was here.
"Achoo!" She sneezed as her body involuntarily tried to dispel what had just entered her.
Maria relaxed, embracing the feeling of her spirit lover as they momentarily shared the same body. She saw him nowhere, yet felt him everywhere. For a moment she felt as if she existed outside of time and was part of a universal mind. A stirring deep in her lower abdomen and then a twinge of pain that involuntarily caused a sharp contraction in her womb brought her focus back to her body. She had never known this pain before and it dissipated into a dull ache.
What Maria did not know was that this time her lover was determined that he would not leave her estrus to chance. He had harvested twelve eggs from her ovaries and guided them to the wall of her uterus.