Just One Look (Women of Substance)

by Lee, Marilyn

  “It was your idea.” I sighed. “Now I have to go shower and change again.”

  He slapped my ass as I moved away from the wall.

  When I emerged from the bathroom with a towel wrapped around my body, he lay stretched out on the bed—nude and fully aroused. He patted the bed beside him. “Come join me, honey.”

  I shook my head. “Even if I didn’t have to go to my parents, how much pounding do you think my pussy can take in one day?”

  “I don’t know. Let’s find out.”

  I laughed, thrilled that his desire hadn’t abated. “I’m due home in less than an hour. Will you wait for me?”

  “No, but I’ll come back when you’re home,” he said.

  “Wait for me?”

  “I need to run a quick errand or two while you’re gone. Let me borrow your spare key and I’ll be here when you return.”

  “My spare key?” I’d never given my key to a man.

  He nodded.

  You’ve just allowed him to come inside you twice. And you’re worried about giving him your key? I reached into my nightstand drawer and placed the key on top.

  He smiled. “I’ll be here when you return.”

  I bent over and kissed him.

  He pulled me onto the bed.

  “Hey! No!”

  He wrestled me onto my back and slipped between my legs. “How about a quickie, honey?”

  “No, Andy!”

  He rolled off me. “That’s the first time you’ve called me Andy.”

  “You don’t like it?”

  “Generally? No, but you can call me whatever you like and I’ll come running, honey.”

  “Oh…damn. That’s sweet.”

  He grinned. “I can be very sweet.”

  “So can I.” I gave a gentle tug on his cock and then scrambled off the bed when he reached for me. “I have to get dress and go.”

  He sighed and turned onto his stomach. “Don’t keep me waiting long.”

  “I’ll be back as soon as possible.”

  Chapter Six

  Narena

  I smiled like an idiot for most of the forty-five minute drive home. My mother took one look at my face and drew me into the kitchen and closed the door. “Who is he?”

  “Who is who, Mom?”

  “The man you’re in love with.”

  I moistened my lips and decided it would be useless to pretend she was mistaken. “It’s early days yet, Mom. Very early days.”

  “The way you’re glowing the feeling must be mutual.”

  I didn’t delude myself into believing that Anderson was in love with me but I knew he at least had a major league crush on me. And I knew I was going to do everything I could to make him fall in love with me. “Not yet, but I’m hoping he’ll soon get there.”

  She caressed my cheek. “It’s so good to see you looking so radiant, darling. I’m looking forward to meeting him.”

  “It’s early days yet, Mom,” I reminded her. “And he’s not in love with me.”

  “Maybe not yet but how could he not fall in love with you?”

  I smiled and we hugged each other.

  Both my brothers were there. Watching the men I loved lavish affection and adoration on the women they loved left me longing for something like it with Anderson.

  Lunch at home usually ended at one-thirty or quarter to two. But having all of us together for the first time in over a year, Mom was loath for the day to end. Even though I longed to rush home to Anderson, I agreed to stay a little longer.

  Mom served Sunday dinner at five. At four-ten I kissed everyone goodbye and left with two plates filled with some of Mom’s southern favorites. I made a quick stop and then drove home, eager to see Anderson.

  I walked into an apartment filled with roses.

  Anderson sat on the balcony sipping a beer. He immediately rose when I walked out onto the balcony and put his arms around me. “It’s about time,” he said, kissing me behind my ear. “I was beginning to imagine things.”

  I slipped my arms around his neck. “Such as?”

  “Such as you encountering an old boyfriend and deciding to stay and get reacquainted with him.”

  “With you waiting here? Surely you jest.”

  He smiled. “You do realize you’re even prettier now than you were this morning. Don’t you?”

  I laughed, filled with delight. “Mom sent you a plate.”

  “I’m flattered.” He hesitated for a moment before he went on. “I have a present for you.”

  “I love presents.” I looked around. “Where is it?”

  Releasing me, he stepped back and reached inside his jacket pocket.

  I stared at the small black jeweler’s box in his hand. It clearly held a ring. I moistened my lips and looked up at him. “Anderson?”

  He opened the box. Inside was a gorgeous golden promise ring with a beautiful medium sized diamond surrounded by a cluster of three small diamonds on each side.

  When I stared at him silence, he removed it from the box and slipped it onto my ring finger.

  “It’s a perfect fit,” he said. “Just like you and me.”

  I sucked in a breath. “Oh Anderson.”

  “Do you like it?”

  I’d like an engagement ring better but this beautiful ring was a step in the right direction. “I love it!” I said, slipping my arms around his neck. And I love you.

  He kissed me before stepping away to pull another jeweler’s box from his pocket. He opened it to reveal a simple golden band. “I thought you might want to buy this for me to wear,” he said.

  I slid the golden band onto his ring finger. “Just how much is this going to set me back?” I asked, blinking hard in an effort to keep my gaze tear-free.

  “Only a couple of hundred dollars. Do you like the idea of my wearing a ring too?”

  I nodded. “You know I do but I didn’t expect this. Before last night, I didn’t even think I’d ever see you again.”

  “And you were okay with that?”

  “No, but what choice did I have?”

  “I feel as if things are rapidly spinning out of my control.”

  “And you’re okay with that?” I asked.

  He shook his head. “Not really but I’ll be damned if I’ll risk having any other man in your life. I know this isn’t the commitment you want but give me time to get there?”

  I would have liked a firmer commitment, but as I’d told my mother, it was early days. I was in love with him and ready to do everything I could to make him fall in love with me. And I loved that he’d not only bought a ring for me but one for himself as well.

  I smiled up at him. “I’m sure you’re not ready to hear this but I’m in love with you.”

  I felt his chest expand several times as he took deep breaths. “Are you sure?”

  I nodded. “I’m positive. That’s the only reason I had unprotected sex with you and allowed you to come inside me. I have no plans or desire to be a single mother but if it happened, I wouldn’t be devastated—because I’m in love with you. Because I am I couldn’t view having your baby as anything but a positive experience.”

  He closed his eyes and pressed his forehead against mine. “Give me a little time, honey, and I’ll be there with you.”

  “I hope so because I’d hate to be in love alone, Andy.”

  “Oh fuck!” He inhaled slowly. “You’re not.”

  I jerked back and stared at him, the muscles in my throat tightening. “I’m not? You mean…what do you mean?”

  “I…ah…I’m having a little trouble saying the words because I’ve never said them and I know they’ll bind me in a way I’ve never been bound before.”

  “And you don’t want to be bound to me?”

  “Part of me is scared shitless at the idea.”

  Why couldn’t he want the commitment I was desperately needed from him?

  “That’s why I let you walk away and then had to resort to drinking to try to deal with the ache and the emptiness I
felt when I had.”

  I bit my lip.

  “Another part of me can’t envision a happy future that doesn’t include you and me together…forever.”

  Tears filled my eyes and ran down to my cheeks. “Don’t say that unless you mean it, Andy.”

  “I do mean it. I think it happened for me the day we met but I’m just going to need you to give me a little time to be comfortable with saying the actual words. I know you want to hear them and part of me wants to say them but I just need a little more time to wrap my mind around the idea of what’s happened to me. Is that something you can handle?”

  I so wanted to hear I love you too but I was confident that I would one day hear those three precious words. I now believed he felt them and was willing to wait until they came easily to his lips. I nodded. “Yes. I can handle waiting.”

  He engulfed me in his arms and held me close. “Oh thank God!” He kissed my neck. “I won’t let you down, honey. I promise.”

  I rubbed my cheek against his shoulder. “You want to go to bed so we can have a first fuck as a committed couple?”

  “Hell yes.”

  We walked into the bedroom hand in hand. He sat watching while I slowly stripped off my clothes. Then I walked across the room to the chair where he sat and urged him to his feet. “You’re overdressed.”

  He caressed my breasts. “What do you plan to do about it?”

  I kissed his neck and ear and then we pulled his shirt over his head and tossed it aside. His undershirt followed. Then I kissed and nibbled at each of his nipples while opening the waistband of his pants and sliding his zipper down.

  He inhaled slowly when I slipped my hands into his briefs and pushed them off his hips.

  His cock sprang up, pressing against my body, heightening my arousal. Kneeling, I urged first one and then the other foot up as I removed his shoes and socks.

  He drew me back to my feet and rubbed his nude body against mine.

  “I need you inside me,” I whispered.

  “Raw?”

  Having experienced the absolutely bliss of raw fucking with him I couldn’t see going back. Especially not after we’d committed to each other. “Raw,” I echoed. “But first I want to taste you.”

  “Taste away, honey.”

  Smiling, I closed my fingers around his shaft as I kissed my way down his body to his groin. On my knees, I leaned forward and circled my tongue around the head of his shaft. I tasted his pre-cum and drew his cock between my lips and into my mouth.

  Cupping one hand over his balls, I gripped his hip with the other one and slowly sucked and licked him until he shuddered and I felt three quick jets of cum splash against my tongue.

  Then I rose and walked across the room to the chair. Turning it so the back faced me, I bent over it and glanced over my shoulder at him. “Come take what’s yours, Andy.”

  He quickly crossed the room. Instead of his pushing into me, he bent to eat my pussy until I was wet and moaning with need. “Fuck me,” I pleaded. “Please.”

  He rose and leaned over my back to rain kisses against my neck and ear as he rubbed his cock along my slit. “I adore you,” he whispered, gripped my hip, and slowly pushed his cock into my pussy.

  “Oh…yes. Yes.” I closed my eyes and reached a hand back to pull him closer. “Oh God I love having your bare cock inside me.”

  He fucked me to a quick climax before taking me to bed. I curled on my side, ready to fall asleep but he lifted my top leg and slipped his cock back inside me.

  “You’re not going to be happy until you fuck my brains out,” I teased.

  He slipped a hand down to cup my pussy. “Are you complaining?” he asked, biting the back of my neck.

  “No.”

  “Why not?”

  “Because I love you and I can’t get enough of having you inside me.”

  “Yeah?” he eased his cock in and out of me. “The feeling is mutual, honey.”

  I pushed my ass back against him and rocked my body in time with his as we shared a leisurely fuck made all the sweeter by his frequent declaration of desire and need.

  By the time he eased out of me, I was completely and irrevocably in love. And determined to make him fall just as hard for me.

  * * *

  Narena

  In the morning I woke feeling on top of the world. We cuddled for half an hour before I cooked breakfast as he showered. I had no appetite so I sat sipping coffee while he ate. When he left for work the apartment felt empty. And doubts set in. He’d been horny but had probably had his fill of sex with me. Now what?

  Now you trust the man you say you love. It’s not as if he had to lie to get in your thong. So don’t lose it. I wrestled my doubts under control and got on my bike for twenty minutes. The doubts returned as I showered.

  Then he called me. “Hi honey.”

  “Hi,” I said, feeling my heart race at the sound of his voice. “Did you forget something?”

  “No. I just wanted to hear your voice.”

  A big smile spread across my face. “I can’t wait to see you. When?”

  “Tonight. I thought maybe we could have dinner out and then spend the night at my place. Manning wants to buy us dinner.”

  He wanted me to meet his only sibling. Oh yeah baby. This show was finally getting on the right track. “Sounds like a plan. What shall I wear?”

  “Something pretty but not sexy. You’re taken now and there’s no need to get other men jealous.”

  Damn but the man was delusional. Must be love, I thought as we said our goodbyes and hung up.

  Feeling on top of the world and longing to share my delight, I called Candi.

  “I’m thrilled for you, Rena, but not surprised. When do I get to meet him?”

  “Very soon. Maybe we can double date.” The silence that greeted my response unnerved me. “Candi? What’s wrong?”

  She sighed and then sucked in a breath. “Rob and I…I don’t know how much longer we’ll be dating.”

  “I thought you were working things out.”

  “I thought we could but I’m sick to death of his feeling as if he has to measure every piece of food I put in my mouth. Yes I’ve gained about eight pounds and they’re proving more difficult to take off than I expected. But I’m tired of feeling like he’s going to walk out on me if I can’t drop them within his proscribed time.”

  “What happened?”

  “We had an agreement and I just about told him to go fuck himself.”

  Yes! Finally! “Do you need to talk?”

  “No…I…oh God. I don’t think I was in love with him but now I feel empty and wish I could undo everything I said.”

  “Candi?”

  She took a deep breath. “Don’t worry. I’ll be okay. I have to be.”

  She’d been a rock for me when I thought I’d lost Anderson. Now it was my time to help her get over the dumbass Rob. “Do you want to do dinner?”

  “I’d love to but I wouldn’t be very good company.”

  “It doesn’t matter,” I told her. “I was supposed to have dinner tonight with Anderson and his brother, but I can postpone—”

  “The hell you will! What kind of friend would I be if I allowed that to happen? We can do dinner tomorrow—if he can tear himself away from you. Tonight, you dazzle him and his brother.”

  “Candi—”

  “No, Rena. Tonight’s your night. I’m not going to spoil it. We’ll talk tomorrow.”

  “I think Anderson would understand if—”

  “He’s not going to have to understand anything. Have a great time tonight and I’ll talk to you tomorrow. Maybe we can do lunch.”

  I spent over an hour deciding what to wear that night. Then I felt so wound up, I needed a thirty minute soak in my favorite oil before I dressed and made up my face and brushed out my hair until I felt satisfied I looked my best.

  “Damn, you are one pretty woman,” Manning said when Anderson introduced us that night at the restaurant.

  �
�Thank you.” I was about to tell him he was almost as handsome as Anderson when I noticed his date’s cool stare. It didn’t take long to realize that Manning’s date didn’t like me and didn’t care who knew it.

  But Manning was charming and attentive and each time she made a nasty remark, either he or Anderson backed her down with an equal coolness until she finally got the message. Still she managed to put an undeniable damper on the evening and I was relieved when it was over.

  “Is he serious about her?” I asked on the drive to my apartment.

  “Manning and Marla? I doubt it.”

  “How do you know?”

  He kept his gaze on the road. “He told me he was going to look into expanding his dating horizons. Up to now he’s dated white women exclusively but that’s about to change.”

  “Why?”

  “Once he saw you, the idea of dating a woman of a different size and color intrigued him.” I saw a smile curve the corner of his mouth. “So you see, honey, you’ve charmed us both.”

  “That’s a sweet thing to say.”

  “It’s true. Tell me, do you know any women you’d like to introduce him to?”

  I thought briefly of Candi but quickly dismissed the thought. As far as I knew she didn’t date white men. I frowned. But then neither had I before Anderson. “I’m not sure. I’ll think about it.”

  “Great.”

  We were silent for the remainer of the drive. Once home and naked, we went to bed. Anderson was particularly passionate that night and we fucked twice before I fell into an exhausted sleep when he finally eased his cock out of me.

  The next day when I went into the office, Candi looked radiant. So much for my half-formed plan to introduce her to Manning.

  “Rob and I spent the night together and we’re going to try to work things out.”

  “Great,” I said—even though I thought he was a waste of time.

  After a day spent in the office I couldn’t wait to rush home to get ready for a night out with Anderson. We spent an hour dancing after dinner before taking the long way home. In bed, I eagerly parted my legs to welcome Anderson’s thick shaft into my pussy. After a quick fuck, he spanked me and teased his cock against my ass for several minutes before I rolled away from him.