Her Savior

by Sarah J. Brooks

  “What are we doing?” I giggled as we got to the top of the stairs. “I lost one of my shoes down there.”

  “You listen to me, Jenna. And listen good!” he said as he held onto my shoulders firmly. “Not only are you an amazing dancer, but you are good enough to do anything you want to do. I know this. I know you. You can be anything you want to be. There is no question in my mind.”

  “I couldn’t dance on Broadway; come on, those ladies are amazing.”

  “Yes,” Kevin said as he grabbed my body and pulled it right up to him. “Yes, you could dance on Broadway. You could be a rocket in those big shows in New York. You could do anything!”

  His words lingered for a moment as I tried to really hear them. I’d never felt like someone believed in me as much as he did at that very moment. He clearly believed I could be a dancer on Broadway if I wanted to.

  The truth was, I’d never even dared to dream that dream. I’d thought about seeing a New York City Ballet performance. I’d considered how good those women must be to land their positions, but never once did I think I could be one of them.

  “Thank you. I believe you. Thank you for saying that.”

  “It’s true, Jenna. I truly do think you’re an amazing dancer and an amazing person. I know if you put your mind to it, you’d be able to do anything you want to do.”

  “You know what?” I said as I motioned toward the bedroom. “I’d like to go in there and talk.”

  I playfully grabbed his hand and pulled him toward the bedroom. There were literally over a hundred people downstairs waiting to talk to Kevin, but I had something a little more exciting planned.

  “What?” he asked as lust filled his face. He knew exactly what I was thinking about. “Do I need to message Ed and Mark to take over for me?”

  “Everyone’s going to be drunk and partying for a while. I think we can spend an hour up here.” I winked as I threw the doors to his room open. “Come here,” I teased as I beckoned him to follow me toward the bed.

  “Yes, ma’am,” he replied and shut the doors to his room behind him. “You know they are going to be looking for me downstairs. Someone might come up here, and I don’t have a lock on my doors.”

  “What? Why not?”

  “It kept sticking, so I had the handles changed.” Kevin laughed as he started to unbutton his tuxedo shirt. “I’m normally home alone.”

  “Oh, well. I guess we better hope no one comes looking for you.”

  I grabbed him by the shirt and pushed Kevin onto his bed playfully. There was such a relief that had been lifted off of my shoulders. He knew everything, and our connection was even stronger than it had been before.

  “God, you look beautiful,” he said as he looked up at me.

  I pulled my dress up and climbed on top of him as he continued to unbutton his shirt. Our eyes locked together, and we both smiled at the comfort we had being there with one another. His room even felt familiar to me now, and I knew this wasn’t going to be my last time in that bed with him.

  “Let me do that.”

  “I’ll let you do anything you want to do. I’m all yours.”

  “Damn, I love that,” I said.

  As I finished unbuttoning his shirt, and he pulled it off, I grabbed his undershirt and yanked it up and over his head. Instead of pulling it all the way off, though, I left it up around his eyes and started to kiss down his chest until I got to his pants.

  “Mmmm, yes,” he moaned as my hand rubbed against his throbbing body.

  “I like touching you. Teasing you. It makes me smile,” I said as I unzipped him and pulled his body out so I could taste him.

  My lips had barely wrapped around him when he threw the T-shirt off and flipped me over onto the bed. There was no talking, but he quickly started to look for the zipper to my dress and flipped me over to find it.

  I pressed my ass back toward him as he slowly unzipped me and slid the dress down my naked body. There was no sexy lingerie under my dress. Nothing. I hadn’t been able to find a bra that wouldn’t show, and I didn’t own any nude colored thong panties, so I’d decided at the last minute to just go without.

  “You’re naked,” he said in a groan as I felt his body harden even more against my ass.

  “Yes,” I said as I teased him by pressing myself back toward him.

  He moved away for a quick moment, and I turned to see him pulling off his pants and grabbing a condom from his drawer. It was barely thirty seconds before he was behind me, his hands on my hips, and his thrust waiting to enter me.

  “Yes,” I moaned as I pressed myself back toward him. “I need you inside me.”

  My words lingered in the air for a moment as I felt him press gently into me. His motion was slow and deep, and I felt every last inch of him as I grabbed onto the sheets of his bed. I closed my eyes and felt the delicious deep thrusts as my body welcomed him and wanted more and more.

  “Your ass is amazing,” Kevin said more to himself than to me.

  His hands rubbed on me and moved seductively as he looked down at my body. I liked this position. I liked having the power to push back against his thrusts and ask for more and more from him. It wasn’t as powerful as being on top, but it was still a fun way to make love to him.

  “Yes,” I said as I felt his thrusts increase. “Yes.”

  My words drove him and gave him permission to go harder and faster. There was so much tension that we had finally gotten through. I didn’t want to make love to him, though. At that moment, I wanted more. I needed to have more.

  “Harder,” I groaned as I thrust my ass back toward him.

  “Okay,” he obliged as his hands grabbed harder onto my hips, and I felt him put his full thrusts into me. “Like that?”

  “Yes, oh yes.”

  My body was shaking from our movements, and I loved every second of it. The harder he moved, the more I moved against him. Together we thrust in perfect unison until I felt the quiver of my own pleasure building.

  I bit my lip as my body shook, and I thrust back against him one last time. But he wasn’t done with me yet. He continued, and it made my orgasm radiate hard through me. There was a sound of a microphone in the distance, but I couldn’t hear what they were saying.

  “Oh, shit,” he moaned as his body finally let go. “They are starting the auction.” He laughed.

  We both collapsed next to each other on the bed in a blissful relaxed state. Our breathing labored as we tried to catch our breath and relax a little.

  “We better get you back down there. You’ve got to get some money out of those people,” I said as I put my hand on his sweaty chest. “I’ll just stay up here. You can come back up when you’re done.”

  I playfully rolled over and pretended like I was going to stay there and sleep. My legs were shaking, and I was utterly exhausted. It sounded like a good plan to me.

  “No way, young lady. If I’ve got to get dressed and be social, so do you. Plus, I need your help with some of these donors.”

  “I can’t move. My legs won’t do it.”

  “Oh, yes they will,” he said as he pulled me to the end of the bed and stood me up. His arms wrapped around me, and his lips gently kissed mine. “We will come back up here when the party is over.”

  “Perfect plan!”

  Chapter 16

  Kevin

  Waking up on the day after my big fundraiser with Jenna still laying in my arms was a high point for me. She was peacefully asleep and didn’t even budge as I crawled out of bed to do my morning work.

  I worked every day of the week. Some days, it was just a quick check in on my email, and other days it was a full day at the office; it would be hard to get out of this daily habit when I no longer had an office to go into.

  With the success of my fundraiser, though, a future for my new charity Encompass looked bright. Maybe I’d be able to build it into something bigger than I could even imagine at the moment. I was open to what the future had for me.

  After checkin
g in online, I knew there was something else I had to do. Jenna was going to be blown away by this surprise if I could manage to pull it off. There were a lot of people I’d have to ask for favors from, and if any one of them told me no, then I wouldn’t be able to give her this epic opportunity.

  It took me about a half of an hour to get all my messages out to the people that I needed help from. I could only hope that they would all be around today and able to help me out. I didn’t ask for help from people very often, and I hardly ever called in favors, but this was important to me.

  I threw on some bacon and started to make a batch of pancakes before Jenna groggily wandered down the stairs. The house was a disaster from the party the night before, and the cleaning crew wasn’t scheduled to arrive until noon.

  “Damn you look good in that T-shirt. Better than I ever looked.”

  Jenna’s curls were all tousled from our night of lovemaking, and her makeup smeared, but she still looked absolutely wonderful as she walked into the kitchen in one of my old T-shirts. It barely covered her body, and I just wanted to throw her down on the kitchen counter and kiss up and down her thighs the second I saw her.

  “Good morning, it’s nice to still be here,” she teased. “And you’re making breakfast. A renaissance man,” she said and wrapped her arms around me from behind.

  “I don’t guarantee the taste is going to be palatable, but I do enjoy trying to cook,” I said as I turned a pancake and then turned around to kiss Jenna.

  Having her still there with me as we made breakfast felt like perfection. I knew what bad mornings felt like, the uncomfortable feeling of trying to make conversation with a woman that I didn’t really know. But it wasn’t like that at all with Jenna. Despite only knowing her for a few weeks, I did feel like I knew her, and I couldn’t wait to get to know more and more about her.

  “I’m sure your breakfast will be amazing.”

  “Too high of expectations.” I motioned for her to bring it down a notch. “Let’s say that we hope it’s edible, and then you’ll be pleasantly surprised if it’s actually good.”

  “Okay.” She laughed. “Is there coffee? I need coffee.”

  “Yes, I’ll make it for you. Go sit and relax,” I said and motioned to the table sitting in the corner.

  “Your house is a mess.” Jenna laughed. “Did you throw some sort of party last night?” she teased me. “I’ll help you clean it up after breakfast if you’d like.”

  “Nope, I’ve got some people coming to do that. You and I are going to do something exciting later. I mean if all my plans work out.”

  “What are we doing?” she asked.

  “I can’t say. But I think you’re really going to like it.”

  In fact, I was pretty sure she was going to be over the moon excited about this idea. And I couldn’t help checking my phone to see if anyone that I’d messaged was up yet, and if they had received my messages. It had only been less than an hour, though, and of course, no one had responded yet.

  “You’re making me nervous.”

  “Look at me.” I leaned over the counter toward her. “Trust me.”

  She laughed, but I could tell that she did trust me. Jenna just shook her head and started to read the paper as I got some coffee ready and finished making the first batch of our breakfast. The kitchen filled with the smell of bacon, and I couldn’t help grabbing a piece for myself as I loaded a plate up for Jenna and brought it to her with her coffee.

  “Your breakfast, Madame,” I said elegantly as I set her plate in front of her.

  “Get yourself some too, and we can eat together.”

  I did as she asked and hurried to fill my own plate and turned the stove off so we could eat. I’d planned to make more pancakes and bacon, but the idea of sitting next to her over breakfast was too appealing for me to miss out on.

  The sun radiated through the kitchen window and made the whole kitchen light up as we ate our breakfast together. We laughed and joked about our night and replayed some of the fun of watching Cassandra and Mark as they seemed to hit it off perfectly.

  By the time my phone buzzed with a call from one of my contacts that I’d emailed earlier, I’d lost track of time and didn’t realize we’d been talking for over an hour. I couldn’t hide how excited I was to get this call.

  “I’ve got to take this,” I said with a huge smile. “I’ll be right back.”

  “Wow, you really are up to something, aren’t you?”

  “Hello,” I said as I kissed Jenna on the cheek and hurried off to the other room. “So do you think we could do this?”

  “I’d like to run it past Cassandra first. Is there a reason you’re reaching out to me instead of going directly through her?” the head of the San Francisco Ballet said as he searched for my reasoning.

  “You know, I just wanted to make sure it was alright with you first. I’m not sure why Cassandra hasn’t offered her the opportunity before because it’s clear she has an interest and a talent. I was hoping you could talk to Cassandra and put in a good word for this to happen. Is that a possibility?”

  “Of course. I know Jenna, and I’ve seen her work. I’d be happy to set this up. How about later today? I need to be in the office, and I’ll have Cassandra meet me there with the lead dancer Elaina. Let’s just say five o’clock, and I call you back if there are any issues with that.”

  “Really? Five o’clock today?”

  I honestly couldn’t believe how fast this was coming together. I’d emailed Elaina and even reached out to some of my friends on the board of directors. But here I had the head of the ballet, and he was agreeing to exactly what I had asked.

  “Yes, it’s most convenient for me if we could do it today. Will that work?”

  “Yes, I’ll make it work,” I said as I actually jumped up and down. “What does she need to bring with her?”

  “Just something to dance in and a pair of ballet shoes. The lead dancer will show her a routine, and then she will dance it for us. Simple as that. If we like what we see, I’ll talk with Cassandra and see if there’s a spot for her in the company. We have some good turnover this time of year, though, and I bet we could make room for her if she is up to par with the other dancers.”

  What the head of the ballet didn’t know was that Jenna was definitely up to par. I’d seen her dance, and she was just as good if not better than the other dancers who had been around her. I had zero doubt that she was going to be good enough to make it as a dancer with the San Francisco Ballet.

  “We will be there. Thank you,” I said as I hung up and was practically jumping as I made my way back into the kitchen to talk to Jenna.

  “Okay, what’s going on? You look like a kid on Halloween.”

  “How about you get ready, and we are going to go shopping? Do you have time today? Can we go shopping? I really need your help in picking something out.”

  “I don’t know what’s going on mister, but you’re up to something,” she said.

  I grabbed her hands and pulled her up. This was going to be a terrific day. I couldn’t wait to surprise her with this audition. But first I needed to get her a new pair of ballet shoes and one of those cute little dance outfits. Somehow, I had to get her to buy those things without straight out telling her she had an audition. This was going to take some creativity on my part.

  “Oh, you know what? I just realized that you don’t have any real clothes here, do you?”

  “Nope, would you like me to put my fancy dress on so we can go out? Or can I wear your T-shirt?”

  “You can definitely wear my T-shirt, and I have a pair of sweats you can wear for the time being. We could always go over to your house so you could change if you’d like to do that.”

  The idea of going over to her apartment excited me. I knew it didn’t excite her at all, but I really wanted to see where she lived. I’d lived in some pretty horrible apartments over the years, and I had a feeling hers wasn’t nearly as bad as she made it out to be.

  “We ar
e not going over to my place. I’ll wear sweats; it’s fine.”

  “You know I’m going to have to see your apartment sooner or later. I do plan on taking you out on plenty more dates.”

  “Nope, we can just come over here. I don’t think you’ll ever need to see my place.” She laughed as she covered her eyes.

  “I want to see it. I want to come pick you up and take you on a proper date. Please, let’s just go over there and get you some clothes for the day. If you’d like to leave a few things over here, I’d be alright with that too.”

  “Wow, you would?” she said a little shocked.

  “I mean you already have the passcode to get into the house. You might as well have some of your things over here too.”

  “I’m serious,” Jenna said as she put her hands on her hips and looked sternly at me. “My apartment is a total dump. I mean inside it’s not bad, but walking through the hallway and looking at it from the outside, you’re not going to be impressed at all.”

  “Okay.” I laughed. “Can we go now? I do have a schedule we need to keep.”

  She looked at me suspiciously before heading upstairs, and I followed. We found her a pair of my smallest sweatpants, but they still looked like she was swimming in them. I definitely needed her to keep some clothes over at my house so she would feel more comfortable staying over.

  “You know, I’m not actually one of those girls who like surprises,” Jenna said as we made our way downstairs.

  She was wearing a pair of my flip-flops that looked like they were going to fall off of her at any moment. The sweat pants were huge, and the T-shirt just as big, yet she looked adorable. Better than adorable, she was beautiful.

  “How about you just plan on liking this surprise? Give me this one,” I asked.

  “I think I can do that.”

  As we got to the garage, I held the car door open for her and closed it behind her. I normally wasn’t this sort of guy who was extra romantic or sweet, but around Jenna, I wanted to be that man for her. She made me want to be the best man I could possibly be, and I really liked that feeling.