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dancing down her chest. He parted the front of her cover-up, and she felt his feather-light touch skim her breasts, then trail down to her stomach, where he rested his flattened palm just above her bikini.
    “Tell me your name,” he said.
    Mara obeyed.
    He repeated the syllables with an appreciative smile. “If you tell me your fantasies, Mara, I’ll make them come true.”
    “I…” A thousand naughty thoughts vied for attention in her brain. Could she really ask him to do anything?
    She considered all the possibilities and how to phrase them. Take me. Claim me. Make me so hot I beg for it.
    Then she asked herself, as she stared into his soul-deep eyes, what did she want most? What was her true fantasy?
    Finally, as she drifted off into a relaxed sleep, she told him exactly what she wanted. “Get me off this damned island.”

Chapter Two
     
     
    “How was she, brother?” Poseidon demanded when Tiran returned to their city beneath the sea. “Was she worth the effort?”
    Tiran tried to ignore him. He drifted past Poseidon on a cool current and headed toward his private chambers.
    “Tell me you fulfilled your desires with her?” Poseidon morphed into a stream of blue water and anxiously circled his brother.
    Tiran had to change direction to avoid moving through his brother’s widespread molecules. “I left her sleeping on the beach, untouched.”
    The confession made Poseidon laugh. “She refused you? In the days when our race ruled this planet, an Atlantean male would never have taken no for an answer from a human female.”
    “And they brought shame on our people that has lasted to this day. My meeting with her was not about conquest, Poseidon. I discovered that she’s trapped. She wiles away her time dreaming up diversions, but her deepest desire is to escape from the island where she’s been exiled.”
    Poseidon crossed his newly formed arms over his chest, and considered his brother’s revelation. “So she entices us, but has no intention of making good on the promises of her body?”
    “Wanting a man is only a small part of her true desire. She wants her freedom more than anything.” Tiran tried to move past his brother.
    Poseidon blocked his way, his brow furrowed with curiosity. “A human female exiled. Why?”
    “Her father has enemies who would harm her if they found her. To keep her safe, he has forced her to live here, away from the world.”
    “And you took this information from her mind while she lay open to you?”
    “No.” Tiran morphed into a strong current and slithered away from his brother. He spoke without words as he headed for the royal burrow and the privacy he craved. “She told me this while we lay on the beach, talking. I put her in a dream state to relax her, since I sensed you had frightened her with your demanding attitude.”
    Poseidon shrugged. “So your efforts were wasted. Ah well, there are other females, brother. I’m sure you’ll have no trouble finding a willing one.”
    Tiran slipped into his chambers, where he returned to his natural form. His time with Mara had been both enlightening and frustrating. He’d expected to discover her darkest sexual fantasies and act them out, pleasuring her in ways she’d never forget. He still longed to do that, but now he wanted more. He wanted to give his beautiful sand maiden her most urgent desire.
    He wanted to set her free.
     
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    Mara closed the fourth leather-bound volume of Greek mythology and tossed it across the polished reading table. It landed with a satisfying thump next to the others.
    Still frustrated, she leaned back in her chair and rubbed her tired eyes. She’d been in the library since sunrise, scouring the stacks for references on Poseidon. She’d found scads of information on the mythological God of the Sea, son of Cronus and Rhea, brother to both Hades and Zeus, among others, and father to illegitimate half-human creatures, demigods, warriors and kings. Nowhere could she locate the