Butterfly and Flame - Alina and Evan

"We should kiss Alina, kiss and never stop"

The walk back up to the compound was quiet. Neither Alina nor Evan spoke other than to comment on the beauty of the place. By the time they were back inside the safety of the compound she had a headache. "Evan I'd like to speak with you today but I think I was out to long and my head is pounding". He smiled and reached for her hand but then stopped and moved it as if giving her passage to precede him down the hall to her room. "Go and take a soothing bath and rest, I've got nothing planned except a late night stroll so call me if you're still up to it. He turned and walked away before she could interject. He wasn't cold or aloof simply friendly and it bothered her more than if he had been angry or hurt. Perhaps he had rethought his own feelings for her. She couldn't blame him one bit. She walked slowly to her room hoping that he might return after her. As she closed the door and walked in her eyes took in the freshly made bed, flowers on her coffee table in front of the comfy sofas, the windows open to the wonderful breeze and the scent of Jazmine. She walked toward the bath and found the jacuzzi tub filled with water and scented with the oils of the Jazmine she smelled. He had known she had overdone the sunbathing and had asked for it before she even got there. The knot in her belly twisted even further and she felt both elated that he still thought of her every need and saddened at loosing him. She stripped and stepped right in, sinking into the warmth and silky water and letting it envelope her completely. She had a perfect view of the ocean and decking of her balcony. As she watched she felt the stress in her body slowly dissipate. "Just a little longer and I'll get out, don't fall asleep Lina; your luck you'll drown". Her words to herself making her grin as drowsiness took over and she succumbed to a languid nap.

He knocked a few times before going in. He had been less than engaging and wanted to make sure she knew he did want to talk to her and clear the air. They were walking around each other on pins and needles and he was done with it. Whatever they were or would be to each other what mattered was the here and now. "Alina?". When she didn't answer he walked toward her bedroom and found it empty as well. His heart began to beat two times faster than normal as he went past the foot of her bed aiming for the onsuite bathroom. He called out to her again but there was no response. His hand on the door with his voice elevated he called out again. "Alina, are you alright? Aline?" He waited seconds for her to answer but there was no sound and his skin seemed to prickle at the absence of her voice. Fear shot through him remembering just how close they had come the last time to Kyles threats. He turned the knob and walked in, totally focused on finding her; coming to a dead stop  at the sight before him. There she lay, soaking in the bath he had ordered for her with her arms across the top of her head. The image it posed was deadly. He could see her breasts and their peaking nipples exposed over the silky oiled water. Before he realized what he was doing he was next to the tub looking down at the nude exquisite body of the woman who had stolen his heart. She had fallen asleep as the water calmed and softened the edges of the day. He felt desire coarse through his body, so strong and so demanding that he wanted nothing more than to strip down and get in the tub with her and make her his one more time and try and convince her that she belonged with him forever. The shrieking of the islands birds pierced the stillness of the moment and her eyes fluttered open. She looked right into his eyes, blinking the sleep away before realizing where she was. She let out a curse while sitting up and covering herself with her arms. "I'm sorry..... ah...you didn't answer when I knocked and —ah I called your name. I got worried so I.... Uhm". Alina felt both happy and perturbed at his inability to complete his sentence. "So you walked in and found me bathing..... and decided to become a peeping tom?" Her tone was harder than she had meant it but she couldn't stop. "Mystery solved. If you don't mind you can leave now". He turned around slowly and marched out feeling every bit the voyeur she accused him of being. Standing in the living area off  her bedroom he called back to her. "I didn't mean to invade your privacy -I'm sorry!" Alina heard him as she toweled off and crossed into her bedroom slipping into her white strapless sundress. From Evan's vantage point he watched her from the floor to ceiling length mirrors that made up one side of her room. He couldn't tear his eyes away from the image of the globes of her ass and the sides of her breasts. She had bikini lines in all the right places. As she slipped the dress over her head he watched the dress be pulled down over her breasts getting the perfect view of peachy pink areolas and soft nipples. It made him hard instantly. The dress in place she pulled on a a lacy panty and then pulled her hair out of its high pony letting the tresses flow all around her. He wanted to march in and take her in his arms and strip her of the dress and make mad crazy love to her but he wouldn't. He couldn't unless she asked for it and he knew they had a chance. He turned as she left his sight and when she walked into the room she found him sitting on the patio. She walked towards it looking at the back of his head and wondering just what she could say to make him react, get angry, or anything but this friendly posture he had adopted. She was done waiting and so she decided to go on the offense. "I thought you would have left after getting an eyeful". She braced for the angry retort but instead heard him breath out slowly, the way a parent does with a cranky toddler who just won't be appeased. "I apologized. I apologize again Alina. I just wanted to make sure you were safe and inadvertently walked in on you. It won't happen again". He stood up and walked to stand next to her. She could feel the heat radiate off him and wanted desperately to lean into him and have him wrap his arms around her. Instead she proceeded with her intention to piss him off. "Well that's good to know. I for one have had enough of ....." A knock on her door stopped her from saying something stupid and for that she was grateful. One of the indoor guards walked in coming to stand by Evan, "your brothers on the private line downstairs. He says it's urgent". Evan motioned to the guard and then turned back around to her "when I'm done speaking with Christian let's please have dinner down by the pool. I don't want to fight Alina. I just want to see you safe and....." she knew what was coming next so she interrupted him. "I know Evan, friends. We should be friends and nothing more. It's very kind of you. Dinner then it is, by the pool and 8:00 then. Go take your call, who knows it might just be good news and all this can finally be over". She looked for any sign that her words struck him, wounded him somehow but instead Evan knitted his brows together before stalking out of her rooms. When she was alone she hugged herself and stared across the expanse of the sea. They were not meant to be, and he had been clear. The best thing for her to do was to accept it. Hopefully the call would be to let them know that Kyle had been apprehended or was dead. She really didn't care witch.