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“Oh, yes, many times.” Jacob chuckled.

  “What’s so funny?”

  “It’s just that . . . your father was the one who showed me how to dive off of this cliff,” he answered.

  I looked down. It had to be at least thirty to forty feet down to the water.

  “No way. You can dive down there?”

  “I didn’t think it was possible either when I first saw it, but your father showed me how to do it. It’s nothing, really.”

  I examined the jump again. It just seemed so overwhelming. I got goosebumps just looking down it. If I was in the air? Forget it. I’d be traumatized for life. I’d probably die.

  Jacob smiled at me.

  “Well, we’re going to jump now.”

  “What? No! Absolutely not! It’s so far down!”

  My heart began to race.

  “No, Jacob, it’s too far down.” I grabbed onto him. “Seriously. There’s no way I’m making that jump!”

  “Andrea, do you trust me?” Jacob asked, running a hand through his thick brown hair. My heart skipped a beat.

  “Yes. I trust you, Jacob,” I answered.

  “Then let me show you how to jump off the cliff into the waterfall,” he said. “We can do it together.”

  “We can?”

  “Yes.”

  “Just . . . in my clothes?”

  “No . . . it will be more fun like this.”

  Jacob took my dress off and there I was, stark naked in the outdoors, holding just my camera. Jacob quickly took off his loincloth to join me, naked.

  “My God, you are gorgeous, Andrea. Somehow you are even prettier than you were yesterday. Your skin is so soft. It’s like you’re glowing. I don’t know how you do it.”

  I smiled. “You aren’t looking so bad yourself.”

  “Andrea, I would never do anything that could hurt you. I just want you to experience the world as a true Jarona would. You’ve lived your whole life away from here; it must be exhausting. Let’s make the leap.”

  I took hold of Jacob’s hand. I would never had made this jump by myself. But the truth was, I trusted him.

  “I’m ready, Jacob. Let’s jump.”

  “Come a little closer, Andrea.”

  Jacob stepped behind me and wrapped me completely in his arms from behind. I felt so secure with my ass against his legs and his forearms pressing into my breasts. And then I felt a playful hard slap on my ass. I let out a yell and looked over my shoulder at Jacob.

  I yelped.

  “Sorry, Andrea . . . I had to.” He grinned. “Your butt just looks so damn hot in the sunlight.”

  “I guess I’ll let it slide,” I smiled back.

  “Okay, you ready?” he continued. “On the count of three. One . . . two . . . three!”

  Holding hands, we leaped together into the air, and the sound of the roaring waterfall became louder and louder until it was almost piercing. I screamed. Adrenaline rushed through me and Jacob tightened his grip around my body. Our feet hit the water first, directly underneath the waterfall. The resistance of the water finally stopped us and we popped back up on the surface, ten feet or so from where the falls were crashing into the water. Jacob’s strong arms helped pulled me up and I gasped for air.

  “Isn’t it refreshing?” he exclaimed as soon as we floated up to the surface. Jacob shook his hair to get some of the water out, almost like a dog would.

  “That was ridiculous!” I shouted, gasping for air. Jacob just smiled.

  “But you did it, didn’t you? I wish your father could have seen that. He would have been so proud.”

  My daddy . . . who I hadn’t seen in some time. Jacob was right. I would have loved to be here with my father. I got teary-eyed.

  “Andrea, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to upset you.”

  He wiped the tears from my eyes, running a thumb across my cheek.

  “It’s okay, I just . . . I really wish I could have come here with my daddy.”

  Jacob brought me over to a shallow part of the river, farther away from the falls.

  “Andrea, look at me.” Jacob took my chin with his hand and forced me to look deep into his dark eyes. Tears still streamed down my cheeks. It wasn’t that I was necessarily overwhelmed by sadness, but my overall emotion was so damn strong.

  “Sometimes, things happen and they are out of our control. It’s sad you didn’t get to meet your father. I’ve never even met my own father. Just my stepfather.”

  “You haven’t?” I said softly. “I’m sorry for that.”

  “It’s okay,” Jacob said. “Really it is.”

  Jacob moved in closer and pressed his body against mine as we stood in the warm, clear water. My tears started to ease up. I felt so totally protected by him.

  “Maybe there’s a reason for everything.”

  “Sometimes sad things happen in the world, but we just have to remember to control what is within our sphere of influence,” he added.

  “You are full of surprises. Sometimes I wonder what other surprises you might have.”

  My breasts pressed against Jacob’s body as we stood in water that came just about up to our waists. Jacob messaged my neck and shoulders with his strong hands and I could feel my stress melting away.

  Jacob kissed me, first on my forehead, and then my lips, and then down to my neck and breasts. He took his time, working his way down ever so slowly. Then he lifted his head up and spoke to me.

  “Andrea, sit down over here on the bank. There is something I think will make you feel a lot better.”

  “Okay. It’s kind of high up though, how can I—”

  Just as I was in the middle of my sentence, Jacob finished my thought by hoisting me up onto the bank of the river.

  “Just sit back and relax, my queen,” he said.

  CHAPTER THIRTEEN

  I leaned back and put my arms out to support my body, legs spread for the king. Jacob remained in the water. He took one of my legs in his hands and began to kiss it, working his way from my calf all the way to my inner thigh.

  “Jacob, please, just do it already,” I said to him.

  He only looked at me with that wry, cocky smile of his.

  “Now, Andrea, don’t be impatient,” Jacob said in his low rumble of a voice. “I still have one more leg to kiss. You wouldn’t want me to miss a spot, would you?”

  “Well, I guess Mother Nature hates when things aren’t symmetrical.” I smiled.

  He began kissing my left calf, and I swear he took two whole minutes to work his way to my inner thigh. I was so wet I was about to orgasm already. And he hadn’t even touched me between my legs yet. My body was convulsing involuntarily with pleasure.

  “My, my, Andrea, you’re quite wet already. Why are you being such a naughty girl today?”

  “Oh, Jacob, please. You’re killing me. Put your mouth on me already.”

  Jacob kissed me on the stomach, and then he made his way to the spot in between my legs, which was sopping wet by now. I thought I might be brought to orgasm with one touch of his tongue.

  He licked around the edges, teasing me even more.

  “Jacob,” I begged, arching my back.

  He only smiled and continued at his own pace, rubbing his tongue everywhere except the spot he knew I wanted the most. Jacob was going to tease the life out of me before he gave me what I wanted the most. He lifted his head up for a moment.

  “Andrea, remember, I love you. I’ve thought about doing this many times at this exact spot.”

  I was breathing hard now. I was on the brink of coming, and Jacob was sending me over the edge with this build-up.

  “Jacob, baby, I love you too! My life has been nothing but incredible since you walked into it.” I had just told him I loved him. And it was true.

  Jacob brought his head back down and—Oh. My. Gosh. One more touch and—Jacob dove into me with his whole head and tongue and lapped me up like a wild man. This was the most pleasure I had ever experienced. I let out a primal yell so the whole jungle could
hear me. My body convulsed in all sorts of ways as Jacob let loose and put his mouth all over my pleasure center. I must have moaned and twitched for two minutes. Finally, I could take no more.

  “Jacob, please just fuck me. I want to feel you inside me.”

  “When you ask so nicely you make it hard for a guy to say no. Are you sure, though?” he teased.

  I looked up at Jacob, stared him dead in the eye, and grabbed the back of his neck with my hand.

  “You better stop teasing me.”

  Jacob cocked his head and flopped his impressive package onto my stomach. He was already rock hard.

  “You like it when I tease you, though.”

  He smiled down on me as I viewed his brawny, muscular body.

  As wet as I was, I tensed up as Jacob pushed his mushroom tip into me while he stood with his legs in the river.

  “Andrea, baby, relax,” he said.

  I let go of some of the tension as he pushed himself a little bit farther into me, filling me up more and more with every inch he penetrated into me.

  Jacob slowly thrust in and out of me. He put his finger on me for added pleasure. It was like he knew exactly the tempo I wanted.

  “You feel so amazing, Andrea. You’re so tight . . . and God, you look sexy squirming down there,” Jacob said.

  “I do?” I managed to say through the haze of pleasure I was feeling.

  “You’re so voluptuous, it’s incredible.” As he said it, he grabbed a hold of my sides to leverage his hips as he pumped into me. “But it’s your sexy eyes that I can’t stop staring at.”

  Jacob leaned down over me as his hips kept slowly pounding me. I felt like a wild woman, naked with no clothes in sight, letting Jacob take me completely as the roar of the waterfall kept on in the background and the mist of the falls rose up all around us.

  Jacob pushed me back farther onto the bank of the river so we were totally on dry land. He climbed on top of me, pushing my legs back, almost behind my head. My legs pushed back against his shoulders as he folded me up.

  He leaned down over me and gave me a kiss. I grabbed onto his big biceps and shoulders. His deep strokes began to hit my G-spot deep inside me and I screamed louder and louder. I could hear the echo of my own voice as it rang throughout the wilderness in the fresh morning air. I was losing control.

  I was getting close to orgasm and Jacob could sense it. I actively moved my hips as he pushed in and out of me. Our bodies were totally in sync, as if we were one moving living organism.

  “Oh my God, Jacob, just fuck me, please, any way you want!” I screamed.

  Jacob heard me and responded by finally forcing his considerable length all the way inside me.

  “Uhnngh,” I moaned in pleasure, lifting my hips into him as I gripped him. My own screams were bringing out the wild animal in him, and soon I felt the slap slap slap of his hips against me as he plowed deeper into me. I was getting so turned on feeling his entire weight, his entire power on top of me.

  “Jacob, I’m going to come again,” I said, and my body began to convulse in pleasure.

  “Oh my God, you feel so good. Squeeze tight for me, baby,” Jacob said.

  I came and squeezed on him tightly as I could. Right as I did, I felt his hot white come shoot deep into me. I reached forward and grabbed his hips, holding him as he continued filling me with his seed. Jacob cried out and so did I as I came again, my juices squirting out all over him. I must have squirmed for a whole minute.

  Finally he pulled out, and we lay on the bank of the river, chests heaving.

  “I love you, Jacob,” I said.

  “I love you too, Andrea,” he answered. “And I can’t wait for you to have my babies.”

  “Babies?” I was on the pill. Although, of course, somewhere not too deep in my subconscious, I had considered it a possibility. I mean seriously, who wouldn’t want to pass down this man’s genes?

  “Yes, have you forgotten? I mean it’s not like we used a condom at all and I can tell by the way your skin is glowing that you’re right at the peak of your fertility.” I guess the Jarona people weren’t aware of the pill. But I didn’t want to say anything.

  CHAPTER FOURTEEN

  We went back to town, and King Jacob Napletoni and I were still lying in bed when nightfall came. I hadn’t felt this sexually liberated and satisfied since, well, ever. I was still wondering, though, when I would be able to learn to the psychic connection Jacob had mentioned.

  The sun was beginning to set again and we hadn’t left the bedroom. Jacob’s servants had delivered a few choice meals throughout the day, but other than that, we had been submerged in a world of pure pleasure.

  Now I had one teensy little problem to worry about. You know, just the tiny little prophecy that said I had a nine out of ten chance of dying.

  “Jacob, can I ask you something?”

  “Yes, of course. Anything.”

  “How can we escape the prophecy? Or are we just going to worry about it forever?”

  “Andrea, it could happen tonight, or it could happen five years from now. There is no way to know for sure. But there will be danger here, there’s no doubt about that. Being a Jarona isn’t just fun, games, and sex twenty-four seven,” Jacob told me.

  I laughed. “Well, it sure seems like it, doesn’t it? Don’t jaguars lie around all day anyway? And then hunt at night? Are the Jarona people the same way?”

  Jacob nodded. “Well, we do have excellent night vision to carry out our nocturnal missions.”

  “That’s good. It’s starting to get a little dark right now!”

  “And I won’t have any problems locating my prey all night!” Jacob laughed and jumped on top of me, pinning my arms above my head with his hands. I giggled and screamed.

  The weight of his muscular chest against my breasts felt so powerful. He kissed my cheeks and neck and began to work his way down.

  “The night is young, my lady,” he said.

  I looked up at the ceiling as I felt his chain of kisses move down my body. This was a king who knew how to treat a lady right. I had to keep pinching my arm to remind myself this was real. Just as his kisses were almost down to that area on my body where Jacob was becoming an expert at lately, there was a forceful knock at the door. Jacob stopped and turned his head.

  “I’m going to pretend I didn’t hear that,” Jacob said. “I told them absolutely no interruptions tonight.”

  The knocking continued. Jacob roared out from the bed, and in a flash he was naked at the door. Jacob was not happy with the interruption. I was a little perturbed myself, although as I stood there watching him, I took a moment to admire his naked body. The ebbing twilight of the evening seemed to accent every single muscle of his. His six pack, his chest, his shoulders . . . not to mention the impressive package, which had probably been inside me more than it hadn’t today.

  Jacob was going to answer the door like this? Well, I guess that’s how they do it here. “Why the hell are you interrupting?” Jacob roared. On the other side of the door, I recognized his brother, Shooter.

  “I’m very sorry to interrupt, sir,” Shooter said, “but we are under attack.”

  “Attack?”

  “Yes, several of the huts on the outskirts of the village have reported missing children. We believe it’s a stealth mission from our neighbors.”

  “Dammit!” Jacob roared. “It’s the neighboring tribe, King Newgatu, isn’t it?”

  “I believe so, my King. Although they were not seen, the scent of Newgatu’s tribe was strong in the area where the abductions occurred.”

  “I thought we had sent them a message that night you defeated them and brought Andrea home.” He glanced in my direction. “I understand. Thank you. I will be out in a minute. Will you please send for a guard to look after Andrea? I’ll send her back to be with her friend.”

  Shooter nodded. “I’ll guard them myself.” He nodded slightly in the direction of Jacob and then left.

  “Andrea, my love, my queen.
I must go.”

  “Do you have to? I was really hoping that you and me in this bed would just kind of become our natural state.”

  Jacob smiled. “I think you might need some time to recuperate. Don’t worry, I should be back by sunrise.”

  “You’ll be gone all night?”

  “Yes, it is likely.”

  I watched Jacob put on his battle paint and get ready for the fight.

  Don’t go, Jacob, I thought.

  King Jacob Napletoni turned and walked out the door, and I was all alone again.

  CHAPTER FIFTEEN

  I’m not going to lie, I was a little pissed Jacob left me alone. Since when did the king have to actually go into battle? I thought that was what the soldiers were for: so the king could stay at home and hang out with his queen.

  Why did this asshole have to be such a noble king?

  Jacob was gone, but I wasn’t alone, at least. Amy had a budding romance with Shooter, and she was telling me about it as we played Gin Rummy with the deck of cards she had brought.

  “So are we just supposed to sit here for the whole night?” she asked Shooter, who stood at attention in the room.

  A couple of hours had passed since Jacob had left and the darkness of the night had set in.

  “King’s orders,” Shooter replied firmly. “You two aren’t going anywhere.”

  “But we want to see the town and how it looks at night. I’ve still never been able to walk around and see the stars and everything. I’m getting antsy!” she whined.

  I wanted to leave as bad as Amy did.

  “It’s not safe right now. You’ll have to remain here,” Shooter said.

  Amy sighed. And then she turned to me and got right down to the nitty gritty, as usual.

  “It sounded like King Napletoni has a pretty good idea of how to take care of a lady. For three straight nights. Really?”

  “Amy, oh my God. He is ravenous. I literally lost count of the number of orgasms I had today. Honestly, maybe it’s a good thing he left. I’m basically walking side to side so hard today that I put Ariana Grande to shame.”

  “Did you guys . . . use protection?”

  Amy arched an eyebrow at me as she put a card down for the game.