Marietta felt her heart shatter against her ribs. There was a trolley with food all right but it wasn’t the waiter pushing it. Tobias pushed the trolley into the room, he was covered up but his tight black T-shirt and jeans accented the best parts of his body.
“I mean here he is,” Jessie murmured.
“I didn’t know you worked here.” Marietta willed herself to be brazen. She took a step towards him and pulled the trolley the rest of the way inside. She shot a look at Jessie who seemed to be in a trance. “Jessie, your food is getting cold.”
****
“I thought it was your food that was getting cold,” Tobias said.
It had taken him a split second after getting the information from Peter for him to decide to go down to Marietta’s room. At first he thought it couldn’t be the one. Why would a top Executive producer and screen writer stay in such a humble room? But it was the only location he had.
Tobias watched her and she watched him. He helped move the trolley into the room and stood still as the assistant picked up her tray of food and exited the room. It was just the two of them and he could do what he set out to do. With three long strides he closed the gap between him and Marietta. Grabbing her face in both his hands he crushed his lips to hers.
At first Marietta didn’t know what to do, but as the intensity of the kiss grew she had no choice but to kiss him back. She shivered as his hands released her face and found other parts of her body to caress. She wanted more of him, all of him. She wanted to claim him and mark him somehow. Marietta felt herself being urged backward and she moved to the point she collided with the bed.
Warning bells went off in her head, but she brushed them aside. She was going to do it.She was willing to be another notch on his bedpost. She needed to know what everyone was raving about. She clawed at his t-shirt and pulled it over his head. Taking a breath, she let her eyes open only to admire the Adonis standing before her.
“Dear God, you are beautiful.” She gasped in between kisses as her fingers kneaded into each muscle in his torso.
Tobias had managed to get his hands under the sweat shirt and under the tank top. He cursed Peter’s good nature because it now meant more work for him. But Marietta didn’t need to be persuaded. She let him pull the sweatshirt off and the thin fabric of her T-shirt was what separated the two of them. Marietta could feel him kneading his fingers into her flesh, pulling at her clothes and persuading her body to surrender.
“You are so beautiful, so soft, and so sexy,” sheheard him whisper in between kisses. “I want you so bad, I need you. Let me have you.”
She could feel herself surrender, her body yield to his persuasive hands. Plus she could feel something else. An orgasm was echoing inside her threatening to release and turn her into jelly. He pushed her onto the bed and she went with him. Marietta straightened her hands over her head as he pushed her top off. Tobias’ mouth seized her nipples, sucking and licking at the same time. That was it, Marietta could feel her body vibrate, she threw her head back as an orgasm rolled out of her. Tobias took this as his cue to up the ante. He moved to his knees and slipped his fingers under the waist band of her trousers and panties. He pulled them off with one tug, and undid his own jeans. But he didn’t take them off, it wasn’t time.
Marietta could feel her thighs go sore from how tight Tobias was holding her. She felt him tug her towards him, her eyes were closed, she wasn’t watching but her body was aware of what he was doing. When she felt his tongue smooth against her tender center she felt like she would break into tiny little pieces. She tried to squirm away but his strong hands held her in place. She didn’t know how long he spent placating her but it felt like an eternity. Her fingers grabbed onto the bed covers at her sides. She felt like she was crushing down into something, and as another orgasm rolled through her, her body arched off the bed, as her eyes rolled back into her skull.
She felt like all the energy had been wrung out of her, like she had nothing left. She moaned in disapproval when Tobias’ tongue left her center, but she gasped out in shock as he sunk his fingers into her as his thumb massaged her clit. She couldn’t take it anymore.She needed to feel him fill her up.
Tobias shed his pants and rose over her. He made sure that his fingers didn’t stop working as he moved to her nipples once more then claimed her lips. He groaned in approval when her hand clamped around him holding him in place. But with his free hand, he held both her wrist over her head and watched as another orgasm rolled through her.
“Please, please,” Marietta heard the words leave her lips, but it didn’t sound like she was saying them. There was no room for modesty in this situation. She wriggled her hand free and grabbed at his shoulder. Slowly she smoothed her hand down until she reached his belly. She looked into his eyes and saw the same animalistic desire in his eyes, then she grabbed his shaft with such force that she thought he had climaxed.
Tobias threw his head back and growled. Her fingers curled around him tight, making an up and down movement that he swore would bring him to his knees. Unable to take it anymore, he pulled her up against him, planted a kiss at her center then readied himself. He looked into her eyes and with one hard thrust he was inside her. As her body arched off the bed, he took possession of one of her breasts and kneaded into the soft cushion, as his other hand held her in place.
Marietta moved with his rhythm thrusting against him with the same force and desire. She had never felt so full in her life. It was like his manhood was stretching her threatening to tear her open. She felt like she was about to pee and rupture at the same time, but it was still not enough. She kneaded her fingers into his biceps and he seemed to receive the message she was trying to convey.
Holding onto both her thighs, Tobias thrust and thumped as hard as he could. He drove both of them to the edge of death with desire. He wanted to release but he pleaded with his body to wait. Just one more thrust…just one more second…just deeper and faster. He pleaded with his body to hold on, but when he felt Marietta coil and tighten around him, watching her take her pleasure from him broke him. He couldn’t hold on anymore. With one hard thrust he emptied his entire being into her.
****
Marietta was left dazed and weak from her last orgasm. She didn’t how many she had had, but she knew it wasn’t normal to have that many. Tobias was talented.His hands could drive a woman to her death. She heard him grunt out in pleasure, felt his body relax then he collapsed on top of her. He held his body over her with his elbows, but he was trembling. She didn’t know how heavy he would be, but she knew she didn’t want him to leave her. With her hands she pushed his elbows aside and his whole weight collapsed on her.
Tobias lay still on top of her. She felt enveloped, safe and the weight of his body on top of hers gave her satisfaction. But after a couple of seconds, she could barely breathe.
“You need to get off,” she mumbled.
He rolled off of her and lay down at her side. Marietta looked at him and realized his eyes were closed, but his chest heaved as his breaths were heavy. She didn’t know if she should say anything, but immediately she regretted the past couple of minutes. Marietta covered her face with her hand as she came to terms with her recent foolish decision. Tobias had now slept with every single woman in the movie crew. She had given him his trophy as he emerged victorious in his sex marathon.
Marietta used a pillow to cover her naked body as she sat up and leaned against the head board. She felt stupid and was mad at herself especially since she was on the verge of tears.
Tobias sat up when he realized that she had moved away from him. He stared at her, trying to decipher the expression on her face. “That was great.” He led with a compliment hoping to at least get a smile from her. But Marietta didn’t say a word, she didn’t move. All she did was cradle her pillow to her chest and stare at him.
With all the other women he took this as his cue to leave, but he didn’t want to. He and Marietta had shared something so earth shattering, somethin
g he hadn’t shared with anyone before. He couldn’t leave knowing she was upset. He wanted to hold her, cradle her in his arms and tell her…What did he want to tell her? This was the strong willed successful woman who had done her best to maintain a good reputation on each of her movie sets. He had managed to stay out of her way for the past three months and now here he was, sitting naked in her room a few seconds after he had broken her will. What were the right words?
Marietta didn’t know what she wanted to hear from him, but after the seconds flew by and he had said nothing, she decided to break the silence. “You can leave now. You got what you wanted.”
She got off the bed and pulled her clothes on. She left the wet top on the ground and pulled on a T-shirt she got from her wardrobe.
“What do you mean?” She watched as Tobias pulled on his pants, but made no attempt to reach for his T-shirt.
She stared at the black T-shirt on the floor and her mind flashed to the second she’d pulled it off him. The way his muscles had rippled with each movement, the feel of his sturdy flesh under her fingertips made her hiss. She took a step back when he moved towards her. There was nothing special between them. The past few minutes might have been the best in her life but she knew Tobias and his reputation. It meant nothing to her and even less to him, it was just sex.
“Are you honestly going to tell me you didn’t come down here with the one goal, to get in my pants?” She snickered. “Or did you happen to be coming to retrieve your sweat shirt, and ended up relieving the both of us of our clothing.”
“You wanted me just as much as I wanted you. “ She could see the confusion on his face, but tried her best not to put words to the expression.
“Well we both got what we wanted. You can leave now.” Marietta stood by the door and waited for him to get dressed before she opened it.
Tobias pulled his shirt on and grabbed his sweat shirt. He walked to where she was standing. He wanted to say something, but when she opened the door for him he felt silenced. He stared at her and didn’t know what to think of her. He thought that they had shared something more than sex. But the cold stare in her eyes told him he was wrong. He was just about to step out when a woman stepped into the door. He didn’t see her face first, but her breasts were the first thing he caught sight of. Without thinking he said, “Now I remember you, Jessie.”
“You didn’t even look at her face,” Marietta hissed out.
Tobias turned his head to face her then shrugged.
“You recognized her breasts?” She shook her head as if she was disappointed. “So you too have slept with him?”
“What do you mean by me too?” Jessie looked back and forth between the two of them, but the sly smile on Tobias’ face was what told her what happened. “You are a dog, you know that?”
Tobias had been called worse. He shrugged his shoulders and moved closer to Marietta. She took a step back with each step he took towards her. But soon there was nowhere for her to go. She was trapped between the wall and his muscled frame. She put her hands against his chest, ready to push him away if she needed to. He stroked her face and ran his fingers through her hair. He lowered his lips to her forehead and kissed her. Then without a word he left.
“What was that?” Jessie asked as she stepped into the room and closed the door.
“You tell me, you already had a ride on the sex train.” Marietta dropped on the bed frustrated with herself.
“The most I got was an, ‘I’ll call you’ as he shooshed me out of his room. He kissed you.” Marietta didn’t understand why Jessie sounded so amazed.
“He kissed me and drove me to the edge of insanity.”
“I think he likes you.”
“No, he just wanted to make sure he had a perfect score.” Marietta rubbed her face as if trying to get rid of imaginary dirt.“Any messages for me?”
“Yep, McKenzie has summoned the cast and some of the crew to dinner tonight. We are supposed to meet him at the restaurant this evening.”
“Why?”
“I don’t know, but I will bring my pen and notebook.” Jessie opened the door and just before she left she said, “Take a bath, and drown your shame with booze, it helped me.”
“Nothing will wash this shame off me.” Once she was left alone, Marietta ate her food. She didn’t want to spend more time at the restaurant than she needed to. She knew Tobias would be at the meeting, and she wanted to spend as little time with him as possible.
Chapter Three
Marietta was a nervous wreck as they headed to the elevator. What was the proper or, politically correct way, to behave around a guy you shamelessly surrendered to at a moment of weakness? She was determined to stay as far away from Tobias as she possibly could. The elevator doors opened and just as she was about to step inside she saw Peter, Sarah and Tobias. Sarah was hugging Tobias’ arm in a clingy undesirable way.
“In or out?” Sarah asked.
Marietta raised her gaze from where Sarah held on to Tobias, to Tobias face and for a second she could swear he looked apologetic. “Out, we’ll catch the next one.”
She stepped back and let the doors close. Marietta stared at her feet unable to look her assistant in the eyes. And when Jessie decided to rub her back in comfort she broke down. She didn’t know why she was crying but for some bizarre reason she felt heartbroken. Marietta bent over so that her tears could fall out of her sockets and on the ground and not on her freshly applied mascara. When the elevator came back up, she shook herselfsober and stepped into it.
“In and out. In and out,” she chanted to herself as she walked towards the restaurant like a sheep towards its slaughter. She groaned when the memory of Tobias going in and out of her body clouded her mind.
“What are you chanting?” Jessie hissed at her.
“I’m just telling myself that as soon as McKenzie says whatever he wants to I am getting out.”
“You just had sex, Marietta. Relax.” Jessie laughed.
“You don’t understand.” Marietta herself didn’t understand what happened she didn’t expect Jessie to.
“What don’t I understand?” Jessie gazed at her concerned, “Listen we have been friends longer than you have been my boss. You can tell me anything.”
“I know that and once I figure everything out, you will be the first person I tell.” She gave her friend a bear hug and walked into the restaurant.
As soon as the reflective glass doors opened, Marietta’s ears were assaulted by shouts of surprise. Startled she froze for a second and looked around the brightly lit room. She still didn’t understand until she spotted a happy birthday banner.
“What is today?” She asked Jessie over her shoulder.
“It’s the sixteenth of March. You forgot your own birthday!” Jessie exclaimed.
“It isn’t the first time.” Marietta prepared herself for the millions of hugs she was bound to get. The first one from McKenzie. He put a party hat on her head and planted a big kiss on her forehead, “Happy twenty sixth. Your future is full of greatness.”
“Thanks.” One by one she hugged everyone and it seemed like she was hugging over a hundred people. Sandra gave her air kisses but Tobias kept his distance. He stood at the back of the room watching her.
Marietta was grateful when she finally got the chance to sit down. The tables were arranged in such a way that they were close but not too close to each other. They were like a family and for the duration of that movie they would be a family. The crowd of people almost filled the void that the loss of her family had left. But she wished one person was there. She hadn’t seen Chris in almost nine years.
“Excuse me ma’am.” A waiter held out a wrapped box to her.
“Who is it from?” Marietta looked around the room hoping for some indication as to who had sent it. She glanced at the usual suspects, Jessie and McKenzie but they didn’t have any idea. Reluctantly she looked over at Tobias but he shrugged and shook his head. She opened the box and in it was a black and white picture, fr
amed in black marble. It was a picture of a little girl about four years old. Marietta knew all too well, writing in the dust with a stick.
“I call that the beginning of greatness,” a voice hummed in her ear.
Marietta held the picture to her chest for a second, and let the sweet melody of memories flood her mind as the familiar baritone voice hummed in her ear. “You’ve got to be kidding me. I can’t believe you kept this picture.”
It was a picture of her when she was a child that Chris’ father helped Chris take. That was when his love for photography started and she was his first subject. The little girl in the picture was smiling, her hair was shaggy and she had a little white dress on. The picture was taken around the time when her family was complete and everyone was happy. It seemed like a different life time.
“You know me. I’m always trying to make you laugh in some way.”
Marietta turned towards the six-foot-three, well-built black man. She stared at him for a second and just smiled. She needed to take this moment in. This day had been going in the wrong direction until now.She stood up and stepped into the man’s waiting arms. “I’ve missed you so much Chris.”
“You better have. It’s been almost a decade,” Chris muttered into her neck as he lifted her off the ground.
“You don’t know how much I needed to see you.” She could feel the tears spill out and soak into his t-shirt.
“Don’t cry. I’m here now,” he whispered to her. “She doesn’t want to share her cake.”
Marietta broke out laughing. In Chris’ arms she was comforted when she felt his whole body shake from laughter. His laugh was still the same, deep and sounded more like chuckling than it did a normal laugh.
“You are crazy.” She looked up at him wondering how it was possible that she had survived this long without his comforting arms. He seemed to be able to gather her up whenever she was falling apart. She turned to the rest of the table that included Jessie, Tobias and a few other crew members, “This is Chris. Chris this is everyone.”
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