by Karen Ward
"You love me? Why?"
"Hush now and let me kiss you." He gazes deeply into my sparkling green eyes. Placing his hand on my cheek he lowers his mouth to mine. Brushing his lips gently against mine, he feels the expected zing groans in response. The minute their lips touch Barry is lost. Melanie is so sweet and their chemistry so explosive he feels like he is in heaven.
The minutes Barry's lips touch mine, every rational thought flies out of my head and is replaced by a whirlwind of feelings spinning round and round in my head making me feel dizzy.
After several long minutes of devouring her sweetness Barry moves his fingers down her cheek onto the graceful curve of her neck and then follows with his lips.
He whispers in her ear, "Oh Melanie, the way you make me feel is unbelievable. I lose my head every time I touch you." Holding her close he hesitates while his breathing returns to normal then he gazes deeply into her eyes, gently strokes a finger down her cheek and whispers, "I want to make love to Melanie. I want to caress every inch of your gorgeous body with my fingers and then follow my fingers with my lips. I want to taste you with my tongue, I want to feast on your essence, and I want worship you in every way possible until you beg me to stop."
I am shivering with anticipation, "Oh Barry, I don't know how to love you."
Barry smiles gently and says, "I'll show you." Rising from the swing, he takes my hand, pulls me up behind him, and leads me into the house and up the stairs to the master suite. He closes and locks the door behind us, then pulls me back into his arms and kisses me deeply.
My heart is pounding furiously and my head is spinning so fast I think I may faint from the feelings. Then reality slowly seeps into my consciousness. Oh God, what am I doing? I don't know how to please this man! He has made love to movie stars and I don't even know where to begin. I begin shaking with fear.
He brushes the hair back from my face and smiles tenderly, then says, "Please Melanie, don't be afraid of me, I would never hurt you. I only want to love you and give you pleasure."
"I ... I'm not afraid of you Barry. I am a ...afraid I won't be able to please you. It scares me to death to think you might not like making love with me."
Barry whispers, "Don't you know that just your being here with me pleases me. Just relax and leave everything else up to me. Let the feelings happen."
He smiles and slowly removes my clothes kissing each area of my body as he uncovers it. This is a totally new experience for me. Darren always demanded I be naked and ready for him when he got to the cabin. He rarely was gentle. Oh, the feelings he is creating in me ... my whole body is quivering with .... I'm not sure what but I like the feeling.
Then he gently lowers me to the bed. He quickly removes his own clothes before lying down beside me.
"You are beautiful, Melanie, so beautiful you take my breath away," and he lowers his mouth to mine drinking deeply of my sweetness as he tenderly strokes my body.
"Touch me Melanie, don't be afraid to touch me," he whispers.
I hesitantly place my hands on his muscular chest carefully watching his deep blue eyes. He smiles, "Yes, that's it. I love it when you touch me." I slowly run my fingers over his muscular chest tracing every rib, every muscle. I love the feel of his rock hard muscles and baby soft skin beneath my fingers. I am amazed at the look of pleasure on his face. It is very empowering. When I accidentally brush my fingernails across his nipples, he inhales sharply. My eyes widen in fear and I jerk my hands away.
"No! Melanie, don't stop. I like what you were doing. It feels wonderful. Don't be afraid," he pleads. Reaching down he unfastens the front closure of my bra freeing my luscious breasts. Gently, he brushes his palm across my nipple and I gasp. "See, it feels good to me too," he says.
Gazing at my rosy nipples, he can't resist the temptation of their sweetness. He slowly lowers his head to my breast gently suckling the puckered nipple on first one breast, then the other.
I am drowning in sensations I have never felt before. I love touching Barry. His skin is so soft. I stroke his chest tracing every rib then I dig my fingernails into the taunt muscles of his buttocks and rake them gently across the bulging muscles of his back.
He is touching me in ways I never dreamed of and I have the warmest sensation spreading between my legs. My skin tingles everywhere he touches. When he suckles my breast, I feels streak of electrical energy shooting through my body coiling like a spring in my abdomen. I clasp his head tightly to my breast and moan in pleasure.
When his hand gently caresses my stomach and then lower I gasp again. Parting the curls at the apex of my thighs, he slides his fingers into the folds of my sex gently parting them. I adjust my legs to give him better access. He is still suckling my breasts and when he touches one certain spot between my legs, I jerk uncontrollably.
"Easy Sweetheart, that's it, just relax and let the feelings happen." He gently massages that spot while he suckles my breasts. I am moving restlessly beneath his hand. I don't know what's happening. I have never felt like this before.
He can feel her nearing her peak so he rises up on one elbow gazing tenderly into her eyes and whispers, "Melanie, I want to watch as you come for me."
I am bewildered by what he is saying to me and I look at him questioningly. My heart is pounding and my breath is coming in short shallow gasps. He brushes his lips against mine, smiles down at me, "Just relax and let the feelings happen." His fingers move down deeper into my folds. He finds her wet and ready for him and he gently pushes two fingers inside her.
"Oh! Barry ...." and I begin to move with the rhythm of his fingers. What is he doing? I have never felt such glorious feelings before. I feel this coiling sensation building deep in my abdomen and all of a sudden I feels as if I explode with the intensity of my release crying out in ecstasy. "Barry!"
I slowly float back to earth and see Barry smiling tenderly down at me. "Oh, Barry, I've never before experienced anything like that!" I am full of wonder.
He grins, "Oh my precious Melanie, that's only the beginning." He lowers his head and kisses me deeply beginning the process again. His heart is soaring with joy to know that he is the first man to bring her to the peak of ecstasy.
He again gently strokes my body as he slowly brings me back to the edge of ecstasy. He slides down my body first suckling one breast and then the other. He then kisses my stomach, dipping his tongue into my navel over and over causing shivers down my spine. When he gently parts my thighs and kisses my curls I tense. What is he doing? Oh my God, he's going to kiss me there!
"Wait, stop, Barry!"
"Hush, I have to taste you. Relax and enjoy." He moves between my legs and licks the sensitive flesh of my folds dipping his tongue into my warm feminine juices and feasting on my very essence.
"Oh my God! It ...it's wonderful! Oh...Oh... Barry!" Then he inserts two fingers in my warmth as his mouth suckles that sensitive spot again bringing me to another shattering climax almost immediately.
He quickly moves back up my body, gently rocking against me to prolong my pleasure. He is once again smiling tenderly when I slowly float back to earth.
Bewildered, "Oh Barry, I never knew!" Tears are streaming down my face. He moves to the side of the bed and quickly sheathes himself. Then moving back between my legs, he kisses away my tears then lowers his mouth to mine where I can taste my own essence.
"I love you Melanie," He slowly pushes his hot bulging shaft into my warmth.
I am amazed at the things Barry has shown me. I have experienced things and felt sensations that I never even knew existed. Now as he joins his body to mine, I want so much to please him. I wrap my legs around his waist and pull him close like Darren always wanted thinking it is his turn now.
Much to my surprise, Barry lowers his mouth to mine and kisses me deeply again. Then he moves to my breasts suckling one and then the other as he slowly moves in and out of my body. I begin to feel the delicious tension building deep in my abdomen again.
As I move in rhythm
with him, he adjusts his position just a fraction and I feel a new sharper sensation and the tension builds stronger and stronger. As he speeds our rhythm, he looks deeply, lovingly into my eyes. As he senses me nearing the edge, he whispers, "Come with me Melanie, let's soar out into the universe together," as we cross that peak into the world that only lovers share.
I am drowning in sensation. I feel my body getting ready to explode again in those delicious sensations I have only felt with Barry. As Barry pushes into my body and then grinds his hips against mine I cry out as my world explodes around me and I feel as if I am flying out into the universe with Barry. He smothers my cries of ecstasy with a deep kiss. As we slowly drift back to earth, Barry moves to my side and pulls me close as we drift into a deep sleep.
Barry rouses me several times during the night showing me in more ways how much he cares for me. Just before dawn as we are drifting down from another trip to the world lovers share, I say, "I better go back to my room now. I don't want Eric to worry if he wakes up and I'm not in bed with him."
Grumbling Barry says, "I think it's time for Eric to have his own room. I'll let him pick it out today and he can decorate it however he wants."
I smile at him, "Don't be a grouch. He's just a little boy. Besides, I'm not sure I am ready for my parents to know we're sleeping together. I'll see you in a little while." I brush my lips against his and slip out of bed donning my clothes and return to the room I am sharing with Eric.
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After Melanie leaves the master suite, Barry thinks back over the hours they just shared. Making love to Melanie was even more explosive and fulfilling than he had anticipated. Now that he has shared the most intimate of experiences with her, he knows he has found his life mate. He just has to find a way to convince her. During all of the long hours of the night she never shared her innermost feelings with him and that has him worried. He doesn't think she believes him when he tells her how beautiful she is or that he loves her.
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When I enter the room I share with Eric I glance at the bed to make sure he is still asleep. Then I head for the shower. Standing under the steaming spray of the shower I let my mind drift back over the hours I shared with Barry. I am tired from lack of sleep but I feel absolutely wonderful. I am so amazed at the things he showed me, the sensations he created in my body. I had no idea a woman could feel so wonderful being intimate with a man. I realize those types of feelings could quickly become addictive. My body is already clamoring for his touch, his kiss.
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Eric heard his Mom come into the bedroom. He wonders where she has been all night. She looked happy when she came in the room. Maybe she has been with Barry ... that would really make him happy. He wants his Mom and Barry to get married like Dani's parents so he will never have to leave the ranch. Maybe they can even have a baby together. It would be neat to have a baby brother or sister. Dani's Mom, Jana, is expecting twins any day now.
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When I finish my shower, I am relaxed and happy. I am also hungry so I head to the kitchen to find some breakfast. I am nibbling on a cinnamon roll and sipping a hot cup of coffee headed back to my bedroom. As I pass the study I decide to step inside and see if I can find those home school websites on the internet that Barry was telling me about. As I sink down in the desk chair a stack of thick books on the desk catches my eye and I glance at the title, "Script for ..." That was as far as I got. Script! I open the book and quickly realize it is a script for a movie. A wave of dread slides through my body. I count the books ... six of them. Then glancing at the floor I see another one.
When I pick it up, I immediately see where Barry has been making notes in the margins. Oh no! He lied to me! He is already planning to make another movie and tears slowly slide from my eyes as I begin to read.
This movie is a romantic comedy and the part is perfect for Barry. He will be magnificent as the leading man. I wonder who the female star will be. Oh God! I can't bear to think of Barry kissing some other woman even if it is just for a movie. My heart is shattering and tears silently slide down my face.
CHAPTER 16
Whistling as he heads down the stairs after his shower, Barry is happier than he ever remembers being. As he passes the door to the study he glimpses someone at the desk from the corner of his eye. He stops and peers inside seeing Melanie sitting in the desk chair, her back to the door, reading. A slow smile slides across his face. Heading inside he calls, "Melanie?"
I jump startled when Barry calls my name. I look up from the paper in my lap and don't even try to hide the tears streaming down my face
Barry sees tears streaming down her face and a wave of trepidation flows over him. "What's wrong Melanie?" His heart is pounding with dread.
I point to the stack of scripts on the desk, "What's all this Barry? I thought you weren't going to make another movie?"
"I'm not, I ..."
"Don't lie to me, Barry! It's obvious you were making notes on this one. When are you leaving for Mexico?" I angrily brush the tears off my face. I slam the script down on the desk top. My heart is pounding with betrayal. He lied to me!
Barry steps into the room and closes the door. "Melanie, please listen to me. After you left the ranch and went to Seattle with your parents I was so lonely, so sad, I was considering taking a part in the movie in Mexico. That was before I got the call from Scoot telling me you were in danger. I never even thought about those scripts again. I had even forgotten they were in here. Even if I had already been on location in Mexico, nothing could have kept me from coming after you. Please believe me. I love you Melanie."
I shake my head in disbelief, "I believe you think you love me right now. I also believe that movies are in your blood and it's only a matter of time until you go back to Hollywood. I can't live like that Barry. I'm sorry."
I rise out of the chair and flee back to my bedroom leaving Barry standing in front of the desk his world crumbling around him. The pain slicing through Barry's body literally knocks him to his knees. He slowly crawls to the desk chair and climbs up into the seat, his heart shattering and tears sliding down his face.
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I walk into the bedroom and see Eric still asleep on the bed so I go into the bathroom and close the door where I let my tears fall. Oh God! Why did I let myself fall in love with him? How am I ever going to recover? I've got to get out of here! I've got to leave today!
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Bob Kenner finds Barry several hours later still sitting at the desk with his head handing.. "Barry, Scoot's here with those papers for Melanie to sign. What's wrong boy?" Bob can see Barry is suffering and his heart clenches.
With tears in his eyes, Barry looks up at Bob, "She won't believe me Bob. I can't convince her that I truly love her. She thinks I'm going to go back to the movies."
"You want me to handle this stuff out here then?" asks Bob. He sees the pain in Barry's eyes and understands.
"If you don't mind, I just need to be alone right now," answers Barry.
Bob turns and leaves the study pulling the door closed behind him.
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A little while later, Bob comes back to the study and finds Barry still sitting at the desk with his head hanging. "It's done boy, the papers are all signed, sealed, and delivered. I thought you might like to know that Melanie, Eric, and her parents are going back to Seattle this afternoon."
Barry nods, "I expected as much."
"Are you going to see them off?" asks Bob.
"No, I ...I can't. Make all the arrangements for them please, the jet and a limousine. I ... I'm going for a ride. I'll be back after they've gone," replies Barry, his heart in shreds. He can't stay in the house and chance running into Melanie or Eric and he can't bear to watch them drive away again. He exits the house through the door leading to the outside from the study and hurries across the yard to the barn.
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Eric is so disappointed. He can't believe they are leaving the ranch again. He doesn't w
ant to leave. He wants to stay here with Barry. He loves Barry. Something really bad must have happened between his Mom and Barry because Barry didn't even come to say goodbye and that is not at all like Barry. He heard his Mom crying in the bathroom earlier too. As the limousine drives away from the house Eric looks out the window with tears in his eyes and sees Barry riding across the pasture away from the house.
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As the limousine passes under the gate at the entrance to Rock Springs Ranch I am once again overcome with the feeling that I have just made the biggest mistake of my life. I shake my head in denial. No! Barry Farrady lied to me! He said he wasn't going to make another movie but the script is all the proof I need. I know I'm not beautiful. Darren told me often enough how plain I am. I don't believe a movie star like Barry Farrady could possibly care about a plain unsophisticated woman like me. Leaving now before I get in any deeper is definitely for the best, for me and Eric. I'll be all right in time.
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Scoot sees Barry headed out of the barn on his favorite gelding. He can tell, even from this distance that something terrible is troubling him. He skips down the steps and hurries to the barn, saddling his favorite mount he heads across the pasture after Barry.
When he catches up to him he calls, "Hey Farrie, mind if I join you?"
Barry glances over his shoulder, shrugs, and looks straight ahead without answering.
Scoot pulls his mount up next to Barry and asks,
"Would you like to talk about it? I know something must have happened between you and Melanie. I could tell she had been crying when she signed the papers this morning. Then I saw them getting ready to leave."
Barry answers, "What's the point in talking about it? She won't believe me when I tell her how beautiful she is or how much I love her. She thinks I'm going back to the movies and she said she can't live like that. Nothing I can say will convince her. Oh God, Scoot, what am I going to do? How am I going to survive without her?"
Scoot responds, "I know a little about what you're feeling. I haven't really talked about it with you or the other guys, but I think the time has come for me to share my story with you."
