Free Goddess's Saga 1: Touch of the Goddess by Maria Hammarblad Page A

tease her.
    “ Oh sweetheart, I know somewhere you can put that.”
    She rolled her eyes and tucked her hands around his arm.
    “You’re hopeless.”
    “ Yes, but you’ve grown fond of me.”
    Even when zigzagging through the crowds it was a matter of minutes before Maria gaped at the entrance to the holo-theatre with its fourteen holographic movie posters. She stepped into one of them and walked around the objects and characters.
    I wonder how many hundreds of years it has been since she saw a movie.
    She circled an ugly alien with hairy mandibles and five purple eyes on long stalks, and Stephan couldn’t help but look at her ass when she bent down to check if she could see the underside of things too.
    “ Can we see that one?”
    The poster promised knights on horses, kings, queens, and a wizard.
    “Whatever you want.”
    He balanced tickets, sodas, and snacks down an aisle to surprisingly plush chairs. It was only a few minutes until the next showing, and Maria squeezed his hand, nibbled popcorn, and looked around with wide eyes.
    “ You’ve been at movies before, right?”
    “ Of course. Back on old Earth... nineteen...eighty...something. It wasn’t anything like this.”
    The movie was true 3D of course, and even he found himself ducking when a horse appeared to jump over their heads.
    “ Can I sit on your lap?”
    He winked at her and gestured to come on over.
    Holding her tight, he murmured, “I’m the luckiest man in the universe.”
     
    *****
     
    A few rows behind Stephan sat a man with wide shoulders and eye-catching red hair next to a man in khaki-coloured pants, beige shirt, beige tie, khaki jacket, and khaki shoes. His hair was almost the exact same colour as the shirt, but his eyes were bright blue, completely out of place.
    “ You know you could have your eyes changed to match the rest of you?”
    “ Shut up, Paulie.”
    “ How can two people be this preoccupied with each other? I wish they picked another movie, this is damned boring.”
    He started to pull out a weapon, but the man in beige shook his head.
    “No, no, no, you can’t start shooting in here. We’re supposed to keep it quiet, idiot. We’ll get them when they leave.”
    Paulie looked disappointed, but shrugged and tucked the pistol back into his pocket. 
    “ Wha’cha say we go wait outside? There’s nowhere else for them to go.”
     
    *****
     
    Stephan lost interest in the movie the second Maria sat on his lap.
    He had never seen a knight in armour, a wizard throwing flames from his hands, or even a horse, and the story was too far from his world to captivate him. Besides, it was impossible not to think about sex when she pressed against him. He rubbed her back, enjoying the silky fabric of her dress and her warm body close to his.
    When the king ’s best friend seduced the queen, Maria whispered, “It wasn’t like that at all.”
    Does she think this is real? Oh well, at some place in this vast universe, something along the lines of this might have happened, and maybe she was there.
    To his joy, it ended her interest in the story, and she gave him her full attention instead, kissing his neck, tickling a sensitive spot with her tongue and caressing his chest. He pulled his finger along the side of her breast.
    The dress was sexy on, but she might wear something even more enticing under it...
    Making out in the darkness in the middle of a crowd was a turn-on in itself, something j ust a little bit forbidden, and a soft moan escaped him.
    “ Babe, maybe we should go back home for a bit, but if you keep that up I won’t be able to walk out of here.”
    “ Yes we should, but walking isn’t required.”
    Her hot breath on his skin made coherent thought impossible. A split second later, he sat on the edge of the bed with Mister Teddy next to him and Maria tugged at his shirt.
     
    *****
     
    Outside the theatre, Paulie and the man in beige watched people pour out, but Stephan and Maria was nowhere in sight.
    Paulie