Closing her eyes, she relaxed and tried to still her busy mind. She’d done enough soul-searching for one day. Now, she just needed to get her mind to turn off.
Chapter 19
Douglas reached Kuala Lumpur, and after a brief stop to buy flowers, he went straight to her apartment, but she wasn’t there. Where can she be? He had driven four hours to tell her he loved her, but now he couldn’t find her. Again.
Letting his shoulders sag in defeat, he stepped into the elevator and rode up to the rooftop pool. He needed a quiet place with fresh air to sit down and think. Perhaps then the debilitating ache inside his chest would go away.
When he stepped off the elevator, still holding the bouquet of roses in his hand, he peeked through the glass door into the open pool area. His heart did a little flip and his pulse started racing. She’s here! Toni was lying on one of the loungers in a very small bikini. She had a semi-transparent sarong loosely draped over her body, but it did nothing to conceal her from his view.
It was already dark outside and her body shone brighter than the sparkling skyline with the Petronas Towers in the background. His mouth dried up and he clasped his hands around the beautiful roses he was holding. He approached her on silent feet and softly whispered to her, “I have missed you, beautiful.”
She was startled by his voice, so much so that she dropped her book when she jerked around to see him. Her eyes brightened when she saw him and he held the roses out to her. “For the most beautiful woman in the world.”
He saw the joy in her eyes, but within moments, worry overshadowed the joy. Douglas hesitated for a moment when she put the roses away. The urge to pull her into his chest was strong, but he didn’t want to scare her.
It was a very awkward situation, both of them eyeing the other, unsure about their next step. When he finally took heart and moved to pull her into his arms, she quickly ducked beneath his arms, tossing her sarong to the ground and jumped into the pool.
Surfacing in a safe distance, she challenged him, “Catch me if you can.”
Douglas didn’t need another invitation. He took a second to kick his shoes off, and then jumped in after her. Fully clothed. A chase ensued, with her splashing him and diving to swim away from him time and time again.
He was too slow with his soaked clothes and had to think of a trick to catch her. He dove to the bottom and stayed underwater as long as he managed. From beneath the water, he could see her approach to where he lay and in the very moment she reached the spot above him, he leapt up like a shark and captured her in his arms.
She scolded him, but he just laughed, “In love and war, everything is allowed.”
He didn’t give her a chance to respond, but sealed her lips with a kiss. Her body quivered in his embrace and he felt the heat radiating from her body, heating up the water around them.
His hands were feeling out her wonderful curves. He skimmed them down her back, clutching and squeezing her butt before bringing them around to her front and taking the same path from her shoulders down to her breasts. Her naked skin felt deliciously smooth beneath his hands and while he continued to kiss her senseless, he pulled at the strings holding her bikini top up and then slipped it off her, letting the material float away.
He hissed at the amazing sight of her exposed breasts and her hardened dark nipples. Toni didn’t seem to mind him undressing her, she only protested feebly when his hands reached down to her butt and removed her panties. But when his hands started to move into her wet core, she asked, “What if someone comes up here?”
Not that there was a big possibility of that happening. He had rarely, if ever, met another person up here. But to be sure, he gave her a naughty grin, lifted himself out of the water, and strode to the entrance door.
By the time he returned to her with a very satisfied look on his face, she had already climbed out of the water, uncaring that she was completely naked. He stopped and stared at her for a moment. She looked breathtakingly beautiful, her white skin shining in the dim lights against the dark sky. Her dripping wet hair clinging to her shoulders and sexy drops of water rolling down her body. He wanted to be one of those drops of water, rolling down the length of her body, caressing and exploring each inch of naked skin. This thought stirred his erection again and he became painfully aware of his hard-on trapped beneath his zipper.
His stare must have reminded her that she was giving him a naked Toni show because she blushed and reached for a towel. But he stopped her hand. “I have a better idea. How about I lick you dry?”
His comment drew a sexy sound of need from her lungs, before she asked with a voice thick with desire, “But if someone comes in?”
“They can’t.”
She looked from him to the entrance door. “What did you do?”
He flashed her a mischievous grin, very pleased with himself. “I blocked the door with a sun chair.”
With these words, he approached her and hissed air across her bare skin, until goosebumps appeared and another sexy moan escaped her throat.
“You’re freezing.”
“Hot.” Her whisper is almost inaudible.
Picking her up, he carried her over to one of the loungers and carefully set her down. When she relaxed on her back and looked up into the night sky, he started licking the droplets of water from her body. His tongue was probing and testing every inch of her, tasting her sweet taste and the smoothness of her skin, making her shiver beneath his touch.
“You are tense sweetheart,” he murmured, massaging her shoulders and arms for a long time before his thumb grazed the underside of her breasts. Another moan of pure lust escaped her lungs and blanked out everything except her from his mind. His fingers roved south and she slightly opened her thighs. His muscles tightened at the sight of her wet and slick flesh, open and ready for him.
But as much as his throbbing shaft wanted to drive into her right now, he held himself back to pleasure her first. Sliding his fingers into her. First one, then two moving up and down, while his thumb searched for her little love bud. It was already big and swollen and he sensed her rushing pulse and knew she was ready to come. For him.
Her inner muscles tensed, and she gasped as he brought her up to the edge and held her there. A few moments later, she came with a vigor he hadn’t expected, crying out his name into the warm night air. His name on her lips warmed his heart in an unknown way and sent thrills rushing through his body.
He stilled for a few moments and then looked into the sweetest face, with eyes as big as full moons, still dark from the desire but mostly filled with love. Love for him.
“That was wonderful.” She breathed the words, still panting from her climax. Struggling to find her voice again, she added, “Douglas, wait.”
A sudden fear gripped his heart, her words like a punch to his gut. “Yes?”
“I have to tell you this. I wanted you from the first moment I saw you, but I was afraid. For all logical reasons this can’t work. Even if we wanted this, all facts are against us…”
She was about to say something else, but he put a finger on her mouth. “Antonia. We will figure out everything. Later. Now I want to make love to you the way you deserve.”
When he kissed her and brushed her nipples with his chest, she moaned again. And he knew she was ready for even more pleasure. Their problems could wait.
He felt his own desire rising again and the throbbing in his shaft painfully reminded him he was still wearing his wet clothes. Toni broke their kiss and eyed him with raw lust. “Don’t you think it’s about time you got undressed then?”
His lips curved into a smile; that woman sure voiced her wishes. She devoured him with her eyes while he took off his clothes. Her greedy stare aroused him and made him feel vulnerable at the same time. His hands trembled when taking off his boxer briefs. Why the hell am I nervous? It’s not that this is my first time. But it sure felt like it.
As she started stroking him with soft, strong touches, a groan escaped his lungs. For a
moment he wished he could jump back into the pool to cool down because his body temperature had reached the boiling point. Her strokes left hot burning marks on his skin, marks that burnt their way through his entire body.
He tried to pull her against his chest, but she wiggled down from the sun chair and pushed him to lean back. Even in his lust-fogged state, he couldn’t stop his lips from curving up into a smile. He’d known she was straightforward, never afraid to take what she wanted. He’d admired that attitude at work. But he’d never thought she’d be like that in bed as well. The idea to let her command him struck a chord, tensing each and every muscle in anticipation of what were to come.
Chapter 20
Toni needed breathing space. She’d known Douglas was hot. She had fantasized about having sex with him for endless nights. But even her wildest fantasies hadn’t come close to reality. Her body reacted to him like a volcano ready to erupt. That first orgasm he’d given her was only the prelude and had left her craving for more. For all of him.
But first she’d drive him senseless. Pushing him to lean back had been an impulse, for once not pondering the pros and cons of her every action. She wasn’t even scared of how he’d react to her taking over the lead. He liked to be in charge. But so did she. And the burning desire in his eyes proved her right.
She took him between her lips and the dark growl escaping his throat sent heat waves through her body. Oh gosh! Who knew that a blow job could be such a turn on?
She slipped him up and down in her mouth with fervor, sucking, touching, stroking, teasing him. Her left hand moved across his chest, squeezing his nipples, and down his corded muscles. Every one of her movements resulted in heavy breathing of her man.
My man! She already felt his rhythmic compulsions, when she slightly turned to look into his eyes. He wanted her to stop, but she wouldn’t. She wanted to do this. To taste him. Moments later, he came in her mouth, shouting her name. With a last soft lick, she released his length from her mouth.
She heard him hissing air out of his lungs and felt herself pulled against his chest. His gorgeous naked body lay hard and strong beneath her. The feeling of skin on skin instantly aroused her desire again. The volcano inside was still alive and kicking. Her whole body ached for another release. But neither of them moved. She drank in his presence, the touch of his naked skin, his smell, and the emotions his nearness stirred in her.
Just when the emotions started to overwhelm her, he turned her over so they lay beside each other looking into the sky, and said, “You are everything I ever wished for.”
His softly murmured words instantly brought all thoughts and worries back to her mind. She shifted uncomfortably in his arms, which resulted in him turning her face to lock his eyes with hers. “Don’t worry, beautiful.”
“I’m not.”
“Don’t lie to me. I can see the worry on your face.”
“How’s that?” she wanted to know.
“You always have that wrinkle between your eyebrows when you worry.” He trailed the wrinkle with his finger tip. “Promise me you won’t worry tonight. Tomorrow we can talk it out and find a solution, okay? But tonight I want to make love to you until the world around us stops existing.”
She nodded hesitantly, not able to push words out of her mouth, but quickly forgot all her worries when he took her nipple between his thumb and forefinger and squeezed it. A shock wave of pleasure rushed through her body. And if that wasn’t enough, she heard his velvety voice, “Now it’s my turn to command.”
Command me all you want. You can do anything to me as long as you don’t stop touching me.
He dedicated himself once more to her breasts, until she moaned and then slid his hand into her folds, probing his fingers into her, setting her body on fire. She wanted to come apart in his arms more than she wanted to breathe. But he held her there, at the verge of explosion, without letting her go over the edge, despite her writhing and begging him to quit teasing her. She felt his love in every of his movements, making her body vibrate as the heat built up to levels she’d never experienced before.
“You are so hot and wet again, sweetheart.”
She moaned, yes she was. And if he didn’t drive into her soon, she’d go up in flames. Suddenly a thought invaded her mind and cooled her off almost to a freezing point, “What about protection?”
He stopped what he was doing to toss her the most infernal grin ever, pushing any further thoughts out of her mind. Who cared about protection when confronted with that grin? “Do you really believe you can protect yourself against me?”
Whoops. No, she couldn’t. Her heart was already his. And her body too. Her mind still tried to get hold of those confusing thoughts, when she saw him take a condom from his wet wallet and heard his sexy voice, “You got it all wet, but it’ll still do.”
Thank god. She expected him to slide it on, but he didn’t. “Not yet, Mrs. Worrysome. First I have to smooth that worry-wrinkle out of your forehead.”
He continued to place soft and tender kisses on her face while pushing her against the sun chair with his full body weight. His weight squeezed the air out of her lungs. Is that how a potato feels in a pressure cooker?
Pure lust pulsated through her body, pushing the very last thought and worry out of her mind. She was his. Everything would be fine as long as he was with her. Nothing else existed besides the two of them.
Her body felt ridden with pins and needles when he slid off of her and demanded, “Open your legs.”
She did as he’d ordered and opened them. It was exhilarating to obey his commands, not knowing what he’d want next. He wasn’t satisfied though. “Wider.”
She hurried to spread her legs as far apart as possible and was rewarded with a throaty whisper, “Beautiful.” Then he lowered his head between her thighs and licked her until she cried out his name in her climax. Still shaking from the rippling waves that washed over her body, she wasn’t sure she’d heard right when he said, “Turn around.”
But she quickly learned that he hadn’t joked because she felt how he carefully flipped her over onto her stomach. As her over-sensitive nipples rubbed against the rough material of the sun chair, she squealed before the initial pain transformed into another lust wave roaming through her body, pulling a moan of need from her lungs.
Douglas apparently intended to torture her for as long as possible because instead of pounding into her, he whispered a soft, “You’re still tense beautiful,” into her ear and massaged her neck and shoulders as if she hadn’t just come apart.
Finally, when the trembling in her body faded, she felt his hands moving down her back all the way to her butt. She wanted to part her legs to give him better access, but he pushed them close and pressed her against the sun chair with the weight of his body. She felt her love bud rubbing against the material with every stroke of his hand.
Little electric shocks rushed through her and she could only wonder that she was still alive, she should have gone up in flames by now. He caressed her butt, cupped the cheeks in his hands and then an electrifying sensation indicated his tongue licking all the way from her back to her wet folds.
She’d never let a man do that before. But Douglas hadn’t asked, he’d taken what he wanted. And she’d readily obeyed. If she’d had any brain cells left that weren’t feeling, she’d be wondering what would come next.
When the sound of ripping plastic reached her ears, she wanted to turn around, but he put his hand on the small of her back and said, “Open your legs.” Moments later, he possessed her with a long and powerful thrust. Her eyes flew open in shock, she felt so full, so complete. It took her a few moments to accommodate him fully. He waited, motionless, until she relaxed her muscles, then he leaned forward and whispered into her ear, “I’ll fuck you senseless beautiful. Now close your legs.”
She did as ordered and the sudden tightness heightened every sensation. She clenched her muscles around him on the verge of coming again. He lifted her hips a bit and squeezed a tow
el under them to accommodate himself deeper inside her and when his next movement pulled a moan from her throat, he ground his hard length into her again and again.
Never had a man been so deep inside her. The tip of his shaft pushed with each thrust against a resistance that brought every nerve to the surface. An erupting volcano was an iceberg compared to what her body felt like. Her lust-fogged mind managed to think G-spot. She’d always believed that this was a myth, or at least something only some women had. Not her.
But Douglas proved her wrong. With each of his hard thrusts, the pins and needles riddling her body exploded into overwhelming sensations. Every muscle vibrated to his fast and steady rhythm. Her nipples burnt from rubbing against the hard material of the sun chair. Breathing like she’d just run up a flight of stairs, she was overly aware of Douglas’ weight on her body. With the next thrust, every cell in her body exploded and she could swear she saw fireworks in the night sky when she screamed out his name.
Her scream echoed from the surrounding skyscrapers. Still convulsing, she felt him coming with her name on his lips, “Antonia.” Minutes later, after their breathing had come back to normal, he flipped her around to lock eyes with her. “I love you, Antonia. I will do anything it takes for us to be together. Anything at all.”
She didn’t want to think about the harsh reality right now. She wanted to stay in this moment of perfect harmony. He kissed her lips and said, “You’re sweating.”
“So are you.”
“Mmmm. I happened to have an erupting volcano in my hands.” He shot her his infernal grin again. Why did her body heat up again? Wouldn’t she ever get enough of him?
“Would you rather handle an iceberg?”
His grin broadened. “Not at all, sweetheart. But I just found a great way to cool you down just a tad, my hot mermaid.”
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