Chapter 28: Unfinished Business
I barely made it past the door before he reached out to grab me; I turned around to evade him and felt my blouse get caught on something. In my panic, I pulled away from it and heard the ripping sound almost immediately.
He had grabbed my hand by then and had pulled me inside the room and shut the door behind us. I tried to push away from him, embarrassed beyond belief at what I had admitted ā¦
His grip was strong and waylaid my efforts to get away as he turned me against the corner by the door, putting his hands on either side of me, the turn of the wall giving him a solid way of cornering me in.
I could feel the hardness of the wood behind me in a long line just to the right of my spine where the tear was a vertical split halfway down my blouse. I tried not to move too much so that the rest of it wouldn't rip away.
He didn't seem to be aware of my predicament and I kept my eyes downcast hoping that he would sense my discomfort and just leave me alone like he had a history of doing whether or not I wished itā¦
When he was content to stand there without saying anything, I finally bit down in frustration and raised my eyes to give him a piece of my mind.
I never did get a chance to work out exactly what it was that I wanted to say to him in that moment thoughā¦ as soon as I raised my face to his, his arms snaked around my waist to lift me up against him and a split second later, his lips were on mineā¦
For a moment, all thoughts vanished and my mind went utterly blankā¦
The one and only other time that he had done this to me before, his lips had been on and off mine in less than a second, just a peck to shut me up and make me do his budding. But this oneā¦
This oneā¦ was something else entirelyā¦ his lips did not come down hard, but softā¦ and it lingered, catching me by surpriseā¦
I tried to pull away from him, my back bending slightly over his arms that were around my waist, but he followed me down, his lips now moving over mineā¦
I felt light-headed, I thought, although I didn't think I would faintā¦ I felt my fingers grab onto the front of his shirt, but whether to push him away or prop me up I couldn't be sureā¦
He moved down from my lips to my neck and I heard an almost indistinct moan as I felt one of my hands move up to his shoulder to hold onā¦ it took me a moment to realize that the sound had come from my throat, and I don't know that I would have realized it if not for an answering growl from him. He grabbed me up to him tightly and buried his face in my neck and I breathed him inā¦ his smell was no longer just as I remembered, but something infinitely moreā¦ earthy and rawā¦ it was a heady scent and it made me want to sink my teeth into something.
The sensation that I had felt in my belly that day in the rain and then again when I had seen him change came back trifold now, squeezing my insides so badly that it felt as if it was giving off sparks.
I thought I heard him mutter, "Holy f**k!" and wondered at the sacrilege of the phrase just as I realized that he had found the rip in my blouseā¦
I gasped involuntarily as my back arched away from the unexpected strangeness of his touch on parts of me that had never been at the receiving end of something so intimate orā¦ decadentā¦ everywhere his fingers grazed, my skin tingled until the pinpoint of intensity was so extreme that my body jerked away from it in self-preservation.
"Your blouse is tornā¦" he whispered in my ear, his breath teasing my hair and the awe in his husky baritone sending shivers down my spine.
I turned around in his hold so that his fingers were no longer teasing open my secrets that I couldn't bear to open up to him.
I tried to open his hold to leave once again, but he once again tightened his grip around me quickly before I could manage it.
When his lips once again found my neck I bit my lips so that whatever sound of ecstasy was waiting to be released from deep within me would understand my reticence and return to realize itself in secrecy without revealing itself to him.
When he nipped me just below my ear, my palm was over my mouth, holding it there tightly. He noticed a moment later and raised his hand to pull mine away.
"Noā¦" I whispered and he stopped distracting me with his mouth even though he still held me back against him.
When I pushed at his forearms that were around my waist, he whispered, "You're a real fool, Niki, if you thought that I could have spent all that time with you and never thought of doing all this to you."
"No." I said again, my voice mildly louder than a whisper.
"You can't imagine what super-human power is required on the part of any hot-blooded man to consciously refrain from touching his girlfriend, especially when she has the face and body of Venus."
He had said something that finally gave me the power to find my resolve again. Venus indeed!
This time my "No!" was strong as I pushed out of his hold.
"I am the last person anyone would accuse of looking like Venus. If you are trying to make excuses for four years ago, at least use lies that are believable, not those which are so blatantly untrue!"
This time he did not stop me when I walked away from him. I almost left the room but at the last minute remembered that my blouse was less than modest and walked to my suitcase for a change of clothes before retreating to the bathroom.
By the time I came out, he was gone from the room.
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