Chapter 2 - Swimming With Her

• I’d gone to sleep thinking about mating with the woman.
• The one that can bore me young.
• As I often did.
• I always hoped she would come to me.
• But today she did.
• I could smell her in the surface waters above me. Even when it was only her foot touching.
• I didn’t dare go all the way up.
• It would be a violation of our laws.
• I wasn’t about to be imprisoned when I was so close to the target of my desire.
• After so many years.
• I watched that pretty foot stepping into the shallows. Disturbing the rushing blue waters above me. I swam up only high enough to be near her. Knowing that the darker scales along my back and the long fin coursing along my spine would be mistaken for a lurking shark, if scene.
• It always is.
• Once I could see the bottom of her blue board, covered in worn, red and orange flowers. I swam with her. Seeing the way her lithe body moved, in that tiny red string bikini. Exposing almost all of her to my roving eyes.
• Hungry to take in the sight of her.
• What would she do, if she knew the effect, she has on me?
• I wondered if that knowledge would frighten her. Or worse.
• Would she stop coming here?
• I turned onto my back. Revealing the dark gray skin of my muscled torso. My long black hair swaying through the waters around me like an eerie halo. I hardly had to move my arms. The long fin branching from my waist to my tailfin, swirled the water around me. Moving me at a speed that would’ve terrified your kind.
• I’m far faster than any fish.
• My hands were like hers, just far bigger. My arms were similar, but larger. Everything about her was close to the way I was shaped.
• Yet entirely different.
• She was nothing like the females of my kind.
• I’d never seen anything more desirable.
• Where my body was rigid, hers was soft.
• Those small feet with painted red toes skimmed through my water as she glided. I caught the flattening of one lush breast, smashing against the board, and nearly toppling from the little bikini top. Revealing the rounded orb surrounding a small brown nipple.
• I’d glimpsed it enough to know exactly what it would look like.
• I’ll have it in my mouth.
• I’ll have all of her.
• It was all I could think about.
• Her brown hair was soft, sun-kissed until it was nearly blonde in some places. Strands I wanted to examine.
• To see if they have the same texture as mine.
• There was so much I wanted to know about her.
• I felt different when I was around her.
• I was a hardened predator, I knew it.
• I hunted, I ate, I swam, I fucked. I drank the milk of the Sun Leaves in the deep to sustain myself. I warred with the other males to stay honed for battles amidst the clans. I trained and fought.
• I was the embodiment of everything our king expected us to be.
• Except producing young.
• But I had no intention of failing.
• I never fail at anything.
• She had no idea I was there with her. Barely feet beneath her. Swimming in stride, moving my arms as she moved hers. Though I didn’t sway my tail, because I’d have jettisoned far beyond her.
• When a wave came, she stood, twisting and using the momentum of a wave to turn her and that board.
• I could hear her tinkling laughter above me, feel her concentration.
• I heard another female voice. Laughing as they jogged across the sand near my shore.
• I knew it was her friend.
• Still, I felt a pang of envy.
• I wanted her all to myself.
• I’d never shared a word with her, and already I wanted to possess her.
• She was rushing back into the water. Little red toenails treading water.
• So close I knew I could touch her, pull her in.
• Bring her down to me.