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    Love Beyond Time

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      had powers? Why was she so completely drawn to Kal?

      What was she supposed to do with the rest of her life? The

      scene of her parents' death played over and over in her

      mind, their lifeless bodies swinging in front of her, back

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      and forth, as the smell of death permeated the room.

      Without warning her burden seemed to lessen. She

      could still see the terrible images but it seemed as though

      she was watching them from a greater distance. The pain

      receded in her head and she felt as if she could raise her

      lids, as if the light of the day wouldn't destroy her.

      She opened her eyes slowly, testing them to see if

      they worked. Kal's face appeared before her immediately

      and, as was becoming habit when she looked at him, she

      was struck by the complete perfection that was his face.

      Next to him, she saw the most beautiful woman she had

      ever seen, presumably this was the Charma that Kal kept

      speaking to. The woman seemed to radiate light all around

      her. It was fitting because she was so blonde. Her soft

      features were strained and she seemed to be staring ahead

      right into Isabelle's very soul.

      "Not so much, Char," Kal instructed. "We can't lose

      you to this destruction. You've done enough." Kal sounded

      for the first time gentle as he placed his hand on Charma's

      back.

      "She's very important, Kal, but you already know

      that." Charma did not remove her gaze. "You didn't tell me

      you heard the chanting."

      "Get out of her mind, Charma, before it's too late or

      Veli and Leo will string me up by my thumbs. It'll take

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      both of them but somehow, I suspect, they really will

      manage to do it." Charma took a deep breath and Isabelle

      felt the company that had been in her mind disappear.

      Everything felt lighter, easier. That must be the woman's

      power, to absorb pain. Biting her lip, she tried a smile but

      no response came from the stunning blonde.

      "Go rest, little cousin." Kal helped Charma off the

      bed gently. "I will make introductions later after you have

      rested."

      Charma gently smiled, turning to glance at Isabelle.

      "It's lovely to meet you, Isabelle Listora. Your parents were

      great people and their death is a tragedy for all of us. Thank

      you for finding us after all of these years. I hope you'll

      think of us as your second family." She paused and then

      finished, "Somehow you can see him so clearly when it

      takes everyone forever to get past his safeguards. You're a

      woman to be reckoned with and I hope we'll be good

      friends."

      Charma walked slowly past Kal into the hall

      without a pause. Kal turned back to Isabelle, practically

      jumping to her side.

      Kal ran his hands through his hair, a gesture she'd

      not seen him do before. Finally, he sat on the bed next to

      her. "Do you feel okay, kiddo? You had us all terrified;

      you've been asleep nearly twelve hours. You just collapsed;

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      I didn't know what to do with you except to bring you to

      Charma." He stroked her hand.

      "I feel remarkably okay. How is that possible? How

      can I even be functioning after what's happened?" Isabelle

      was slightly confused. She decided to stop questioning

      what was happening. Nothing about the last day had been

      rational; she was simply going to have to get a better grip

      on the irrational and learn to like it.

      "It's Charma, it's her power. She shares your

      burdens, heals them if you like, and then you feel better

      somehow. It lessens the magnitude of terrible events,

      emotions, and traumas. But there is a price to pay for

      Charma; she has to live with your event instead of you.

      People are just drawn to her; they find her on park benches

      and airplanes and just to talk to her. We almost never ask

      her to do what I asked her to do for you."

      "Remind me to thank her when I see her again.

      Where are we exactly?" Isabelle sat up in bed to look

      around the room. She had to suppress a giggle because she

      immediately knew this was Kal's room. Well, Kal's room as

      it must have been when he was a teenager. She didn't

      imagine he'd have quite so many nineties rock and grunge

      music posters hanging on the wall now. She bet if she

      looked in the closet she would find flannel shirts and ripped

      jeans. But outside of the clearly dated décor, everything

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      about it still screamed his presence.

      The color on the walls was denim blue, exactly the

      shade of the shirt he had been wearing when she met him

      the day before. The room was simple and not overdone, as

      if he just knew something was tasteful or fun and then

      didn't bother to overanalyze it too much. Kal would

      attribute his lack of interest in the details of these kind of

      things as great flaw that he possessed but it was clear to

      Isabelle that Kal had put all of his energies in life where

      they belonged and didn't need to be bothered with the

      mundane things like paint colors and the changes in

      fashions over the years. He had her to do those things now.

      Well, she amended in her thoughts, if he wanted her to do

      those things for him.

      "We are on an uninhabited island right off the coast

      of Maine. Veli found this place while he and Marina were

      investigating a lead about ten years ago. She was so sure a

      member of our group was living in the town right on the

      coast of the mainland. But they could never find anyone.

      Maine has so many little islands, some of them privately

      owned, some of them public, that most people don't think

      twice about our house and the privacy we crave here. It was

      like a dream finding this place. Veli and Marina are

      stronger by the water and god knows we need Veli to be

      strong. So it's nice to have a home base, admittedly it's nice

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      to have a place to come 'home' to.

      "Dot keeps the house up and travels back and forth

      to the mainland and Marina keeps the island thriving and

      somehow makes it unappealing to boaters and tourists so

      we almost never get unwanted visitors. But, specifically,

      you are in my room, my wing if you like. The house is

      quite large, huge actually and totally abandoned when Veli

      found it. Marina thinks it was waiting for us but I don't

      know if I buy into that. Even I have a limit when it comes

      to what I will and will not believe in." Kal ran a hand

      through his hair and she stared at the way the light bounced

      off of it. She wanted to reach out and stroke his hair, his

      cheek, anything she could touch. Instead, she forced herself

      to concentrate on what he said.

      "We thought it was perfect because if
    we ever did

      find anyone else then they could move into their own wing

      but I wasn't sure where else to put you and truthfully, I

      wanted you with me. We only have furniture in the places

      where we live. Most of the house is closed up and waiting

      to be filled. Can I get you anything, some water?"

      Isabelle couldn't help but notice the worry in Kal's

      eyes and she was desperate to soothe him. Charma had

      made her feel better but hadn't gotten rid of the deep need

      inside of her to connect with Kal.

      She was a smart woman, and smart women knew

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      better than to question gifts like the man in front of her. She

      reached out and kissed him, hard on the lips. It was an

      offering she was hoping desperately that he wouldn't resist.

      Much to her delight, he didn't disappoint her and after an

      initial hesitation that she suspected was from shock, his lips

      softened and drove into hers with a longing that matched

      her own.

      * * * *

      Kal took his time, deepening the kiss with Isabelle.

      He loved the feel of her lips and he could hear the soft

      chanting begin distantly in his ears. Surprisingly it wasn't

      distracting at all or invasive but sanctified what was

      happening between them as right and sacred.

      "This feels so right to me, Kal." Isabelle's voice was

      a husky whisper. "But I have to confess, I've never done

      this before, except with you in my dreams, and I don't want

      you to be disappointed by my lack of any and all carnal

      knowledge outside of my own fantasies." Isabelle looked

      down at her hands.

      Kal pulled her head back so he could look her in the

      eyes. He wanted her to see that everything he was saying to

      her was real. "Isabelle, sweetheart, you can hear that

      chanting when we're together, can't you?" Isabelle nodded

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      slowly. "That doesn't just happen by chance. We, the

      Outsiders, if you like, we only hear that song when we're

      using our powers to right something that has gone wrong or

      when we are combining our souls with our soul mates. I

      can hear that with you and you can hear it with me because

      we are meant to be together. If you went out there and

      started kissing Leonardo, and please don't do that because I

      really like Leonardo and I might have to cause him bodily

      harm if you did, you wouldn't hear the chanting. We are

      meant to be to be a pair in all things."

      Her eyes were huge. "That makes it even worse.

      Now I have to worry that you'll be totally disappointed with

      your soul mate's lack of experience and realize that you're

      going to be stuck with me forever." There was desperation

      in her voice.

      "Do you know what an incredible turn on it is to me

      to hear that you haven't been with anyone else? Someone as

      sexy and gorgeous as you are has been waiting for me?"

      Kal could feel his jeans tightening as his erection started to

      form. He knew he was going to have to be careful with

      Isabelle—if she was worried about disappointing him, he

      was terrified of hurting her.

      "You think I'm sexy?" she asked in a barely audible

      whisper.

      "Do I think you're sexy?" A growl that he couldn't

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      control slipped out of his throat as he pushed her down on

      the bed, rolling on top of her. "Can you feel that?" He

      grabbed her hand to touch the hard point of his manhood.

      "That's how much I think you're sexy. I didn't know I had

      this much raw animal left inside of me but god, I think I

      might explode and we haven't even gotten started yet."

      He bent his head down to devour her mouth. He

      needed to take possession of her, lay his claim, somehow

      proclaim to the universe that she was going to be his for all

      time and damn anybody who tried to take her from him.

      "Oh Kal, I feel like I've been waiting for this my

      whole life, maybe longer somehow." Isabelle raised her

      hands to pull his shirt out from where it was tucked in at his

      waist.

      Kal used one hand to help her, discarding the

      garment and then began laying kisses on her neck, not

      caring if he marked her. It would just be another way for

      everyone to know she was his.

      Isabelle's fingers were playing havoc with Kal's

      nerves as she stroked his broad chest with skill he wouldn't

      have expected. "Isabelle, darling girl, if you keep doing that

      I'm going to go crazy and I'm trying very hard to be a good

      boy here and go slow so you can enjoy your first time." Kal

      strung Isabelle's hands behind his neck, hoping they would

      stay there so he wouldn't lose his mind.

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      "You said it yourself, Kal, we're meant to be

      together. Do you think I wouldn't enjoy anything that you

      did to me?"

      That was all the invitation that Kal needed.

      Surprising himself with the force and velocity of his moves,

      he ripped Isabelle's shirt right from her body. "Hope that

      wasn't your favorite shirt." He grinned sheepishly—he

      might become animal-like during the full moon but he

      didn't want to terrify her their first time together.

      "No, but it was my only shirt." Isabelle laughed. "I

      am officially without clothes."

      Kal could swear that her voice had taken on a new

      quality, almost a cat-like purr and he had to admit that the

      tone of it was turning him on as no sound ever had before.

      Maybe he wasn't the only one who had animal qualities.

      They had, after all, been born for each other. She might

      eventually like his wild side, he hoped.

      "That was my intention, love, to get you completely

      naked and keep you that way." Kal began devouring the

      skin above her breasts. He had never seen such perfect

      breasts. He reached out to cup them with his hands and

      squeezed gently before taking one of her already alert

      nipples into his mouth to suck on it. Isabelle moaned

      deeply in her throat, using her hands to pull him closer, the

      effect of which only had Kal sucking harder. "God, baby,"

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      he groaned. "If you don't stop that, I'm going to come right

      here and make a mess of things without ever taking your

      virginity."

      "You're not taking my virginity, Kal," Isabelle

      purred, startling him for a second. "I'm giving it to you."

      "I know you are, darling." He kissed her nose. "And

      that's what makes it all the more sacred to me."

      Suddenly adventurous, Isabelle reached down to

      stroke the now completely hardened rod bulging in Kal's

      pants. He groaned loudly and quickly unbuttoned his jeans

      to pull them off. As far as he was concerned, they both had

      on way too many clothes. Isabelle's were going to have to

      come off quickl
    y. He pulled her back to look at her almost

      completely naked. She was wearing black silk panties and

      given that she hadn't known what was going to happen to

      her that day it occurred to Kal that she must wear this kind

      of underwear on a daily basis. He was going to love to

      undress her every day.

      "You are the most beautiful creature I've ever seen,

      Isabelle. I didn't know that such beauty actually existed on

      earth." His hands slipped over her hips to slide her panties

      off. "How do you manage to have so many curves and still

      be all legs?" His mouth began kissing down her legs where

      his hands had just been touching. Seconds later he was

      back to making love to her mouth. He couldn't seem to get

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      enough.

      "I'm not beautiful, Kal. I'm really fairly normal

      looking," she breathed in his ear as she wantonly began to

      lick his earlobe. "But I feel beautiful, somehow, when you

      look at me."

      "You've been looking in broken mirrors. I've been

      all over the world and I've never seen anyone who can hold

      a candle to you." He touched her stomach gently. Wanting

      to extend her pleasure as long as possible, but knowing that

      he was dangerously ready, he slid down her body to her

      velvety, hot core and with his tongue began to taste her. He

      had imagined this moment several times since he had met

      her but he couldn't have imagined what the taste of her

      inside would do to him. She had been made for, designed

      for him and he knew he could never get enough of her.

      "Oh god, Kal!" Isabelle screamed, her head flying

      backwards onto the pillow. "Sshh, baby," he crooned. "I'm

      just getting you ready for me. The way you react is so

      fantastic, baby, I can't even tell you and god, honey, the

      way that you taste is like heaven."

      Screaming his name, her hands dug into his hair at

     
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