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Hot and Steamy: Sizzling Erotica
(Darren G. Burton)

The seafood restaurant's outdoor patio area overlooked the expansive resort pool. Twilight had set in, painting the sky a deep shade of navy blue. A faint red smudge on the distant horizon was the only remaining remnants of the sun. The swimming pool glowed bright turquoise from its underwater lights.

Ruby and Jacob had a table for two right near the edge of the patio and had a great view of the resort grounds and the bay beyond. Several lights flickered far out on the bay where fishing boats trawled for prawns.

Jacob snapped off a crab leg and sucked the tender flesh from inside the shell. They were halfway through a Fisherman's Basket they were sharing that consisted of crab, lobster, prawns, calamari, fish and mussels.

"If I could afford to eat seafood all the time I could live on this stuff," Jacob said happily as he peeled a prawn and stuffed it into his mouth.

"And living somewhere like this would be the life," Ruby said and sipped from a glass of chardonnay.

Jacob bit into a crumbed calamari ring. "What were you talking to that guy about down at the jetty? Hiring a boat for tomorrow?"

"That," she smiled, "and a few other things."

"What other things?" He ripped open the shell of a mussel and scooped out the slimy innards.

"Never you mind. It's a birthday surprise."

Jacob could tell from the look on his wife's face that she wasn't about to elaborate, so he left it alone.

When he'd had his fill, he rinsed his hands in a bowl of water and dabbed them dry with a towel, then sat back with his glass of wine in hand.

"So," he said. "What's for dessert?"

Ruby shot him a mischievous look. "Me. I'm your dessert tonight."

Before heading back to their small villa overlooking the bay, Jacob and Ruby took a half hour walk around the grounds and along the beach to let the food settle. Both were relaxed from the wines and the environment, and as soon as they stepped onto the small verandah they grabbed each other and kissed heatedly.

Jacob fumbled with the key in the lock as Ruby tried desperately to tear the clothes from his body. He eventually got the door open and they stumbled across the threshold, lips still locked tightly together. Jacob's shirt fell from his body and onto the floor. He unzipped Ruby's skirt and it too was discarded. They left a trail of clothing all through the place until they spilled out into a private courtyard with an inground spa.