The Light in Your Eyes (The Light in Your Eyes #1)

by C. M. Carpi

  As soon as I arrived at the hotel I thought about calling him, but what if he was with that blond girl or another girl again? I nodded while trying to forget that image, but it insisted in coming back to my head all the time. I’d better pack my things and get out.

  Maybe he was sorry, who knows? No! He wasn’t that type of person. Was he? And as the hotel got closer I could feel all my composure fading. My breath was fast and my mouth so dry I’d drink an entire pool.

  As soon as I entered the hotel I saw Carol and Owen sitting in the restaurant and talking happily, but there was someone else with them. I didn’t care who it was, I just ran to the reception and got my card as fast as I could. I gave an excuse to the receptionist who insisted to know if I liked the town and the hotel. I reached the elevator and asked all gods not to see Daniel or to make me invisible if I passed through him.

  The elevator was empty and I was relieved while the door closed. I wouldn’t know what to do if I saw him now. I should argue, demand an explanation, but I was too nervous and that would only make things worse for me, of course.

  He doesn’t have to explain anything, Elena! You are just good friends…

  I covered my ears trying to shut that noisy voice.

  The fifth floor seemed very distant, and when the doors opened, I felt my legs wobbly.

  Daniel was sitting in front of my room and looking at me. You can still push the button and run !No! I couldn’t get away from him. I just needed to calm down. Come on, Elena. Breathe! Now, walk! I walked slowly tomy room and crossed my arms in front of my body, avoiding him. If I looked at him… I didn’t want to think about it. He got up when I put the card in the slot.

  “Where were you?” — He was authoritarian and cold.

  Seriously? He disappears. Thenhe spends the night with a woman he probably had never seen before and things he can talk like that? I wasn’t nervous anymore. I was furious! But I still noticed how handsome he was with his black jeans and plaid blue shirt. His hair was messy and wet and he smelled like soap. Oh! I nodded and tried to take control of the situation. I didn’t answer him. I opened the door with my hands shaking, but when I tried to close it he pulled the door and I almost fell on the floor.

  I closed the door and took a deep breath before looking at him. I didn’t want to talk now. One of the few things I’ve learned from my mother was always to wait for the anger to go away. Many things can be said when we’re angry and words hurt, she said. She taught me that through her actions.

  And then it happened.

  I saw Daniel walking towards me with his blue eyes fixed on mine, and I didn’t have time to protest. His hands held my face and he kissed me. An anxious and desperate kiss full of desire. I tried to resist, to push him, but he was much stronger than me. Although I wanted to talk I had waited too much for that. I opened my mouth timidly and his tongue started to explore it crazily, until it found mine. Oh! Much better than I hoped for.

  He moaned and pulled me to the wall while one hand held my face and the other my butt, pressing his body against mine. His hips pressed me on the wall and made me stand still.

  Elena, you have to make him stop. That voice was shouting again. No!

  You need to talk! Ah, now?

  “Daniel, stop.” — I tried to push him away. — “We need to talk” — He ignored me and kissed me again, trying to hold my hips and pulling me against his body, raising one of my legs and putting it around his own body. His hand went all the way through my thighs, raising my dress slowly. Ah! I couldn’t talk now.

  No! He can’t just kiss you and run away from what happened. Can he?

  “Daniel, wait… please.” — I asked against his famishing lips and tried to push him away. He didn’t let me, just held me against him. — “Daniel…”

  “No” — He was breathless while looking inside my eyes. — “I want you, Elena. ” — His hoarse voice gave me chill. — “I want you since the first day.” — He said while holding my face. — “I’ve been so blind… all this time.” — He shut to kiss me again, and when he talked it was almost in a whisper. — “I can’t stop thinking about you…” — His words found me like a windstorm. I wanted him to, and I always have. Since he put his eyes on me at that hostel in Verona. — “Will you let me stay with you tonight?” — His hands pulled the straps of my dress down as he kissed my shoulder, biting his lips. — “Will you?” — His eyes were like an ember. I held his hair and pulled it while I gave myself to him completely.

  I rolled my body and pressed him on the wall while opening his shirt so strongly that I plucked some buttons. He held my waist and turned me to the wall again, undressing me while raising me. Our bodies stayed together. Skin to skin.

  He led me to bed and lay over me, kissing me and making me shiver. The heat of his lips burned my skin, and his hands stopped on my pants, caressing me before taking it off slowly. He rolled his fingers through my legs and kissed it in sequence.

  A sweet torture.

  He raised again to finish undressing and it was breathtaking. When he lay over me again I was taken by a heat wave, making my muscles contract. A smile came to his lips.

  “You’re amazing, Elena” — He whispered in my ear before biting it. I closed my eyes and put my head behind, and he made me burn. He reached his trousers on the floor and got a condom from his pocket. As soon as he put it on, I felt him inside me softly, kissing me and closing his eyes. I raised my hips, but his strong hand on my waist made me stop.

  “Not yet” — his voice was lustful. He kissed me again and when he stopped to look at me I felt something growing inside me. Too good. — “You don’t have any idea of what you can do to me, love.” — And then he started moving again.

  “Daniel” — I called him breathless, moaning on his neck. His eyes were closed and his breath was fast as he was starting to sweat. My hips found his again and this time he didn’t stop me. He moaned again as I threw my head behind and pulled my back up as he went deeper. I’ve never experienced anything like that.

  I couldn’t hear anything else. No sound through the window. The only sound was the whispers and moans we couldn’t control anymore. Our breath and heartbeat were too fast. There was no one else, no one beside the two lovers who shared a moment of intense passion and lust.

  “Elena…” — He said breathless and pressing his teeth while holding my hand and taking it to the top of my head, moving nonstop and getting to a desperate frenzy. — “Look at me” — His voice was hoarse and full of desire.

  I opened my eyes reluctantly.

  “I want you to look at me while you cum.” — His voice was so intense I couldn’t hold myself.

  My body was torn into pieces when I had a breathtaking orgasm, making my body shiver and holding his body while craving my nails in his skin. He moved twice before screaming my name on his climax, shivering and lying over me. I could die now, I thought while our bodies relaxed and our breath went back to normal.

  “Why did we spend so much time?” — I asked still breathless. He faced me and didn’t say anything, just held me and kissed me, getting closer to my body again.

  I fell asleep in his arms and nothing else could be more comforting than that.

  Daniel

  She looked like an angel.

  Her pink mouth was lightly open and her hair was like a big fan over the pillow. She was lying face down as her back moved up and down while she breathed, and her feet were out of the blanket. When I got up to go to the restroom earlier I covered them, but when I came back it was already like that.

  She was beautiful, even more than the first time I saw her. I fell in love with her in Verona, the day we bumped in that hallway. I fell in love with her every day after that. How couldn’t I?

  I started caressing her back with my fingertips going up and down slowly. Her skin was hot and soft as silk. She s
hivered when I touched her and gave me a little smile before turning her face to the other side.

  “Good morning.” — I said in a whisper while kissing her back. Her scent was divine. — “Did you sleep well?” — I kissed all the way through her back, stopping by her hips and going all the way back to her neck. I lay beside her and she smiled while caressing my face.

  “Good morning.” — She whispered.

  I pulled her closer to my body and moved my lips closer to hers, touching it gently and giving me chills.

  “This is very good, you know that?”

  “What?” — I asked while kissing her soft lips.

  “You” — She answered while moving her fingers on my chest. — “Waking up by your side.”

  “Where were you all this time, Elena?”

  “I was right here” — She answered pulling her head up and looking deep inside my eyes, kissing my mouth gently and touching my naked body with hers. — “I am here now.” — I pulled over her and kissed her hungrily, holding her hair between my knuckles while her hand went all the way through my back. She rolled her body and came over me, kissing me nonstop and biting my lips, my ear lobe, kissing my neck, my chest, my belly and the way to my groin in a slow way. She kissed my erection and rolled her tongue softly through it. My body responded immediately to her touch.

  “Oh!” — She surprised me by opening her mouth slowly and moving it up and down in my erection, making my muscles contract and my hips go to her direction. — “Elena, this is… great!” — I could hear my voice getting hoarse and my breath fastening. She sucked me greedily. – “Elena.” — I forced my hand in her hair and moved my hip up. — “You’d better stop…” — My voice choked. I didn’t want her to stop, but I couldn’t hold it much longer. – “Oh, love…” — My movements were faster, following hers. I was about to cum in her mouth now. I closed my eyes and when she realized what was going to happen she frustrated me by stopping. She looked at me with her big eyelashes and her shining green eyes and kissed my groin again, then my thigh, my belly, my chest and finally my neck. She had a mischievous smile and it was beautiful, for she knew exactly what she was capable of. She could drive me crazy.

  When I tried to kiss her she moved her face away, teasing me while something almost animalistic took control of me. I needed her, the desire burned me like I’d never experienced before. I held her waist and rolled her until I got to the top, kissing her mouth and worshiping her body. She gave me a condom and helped me putting it on, almost desperate, and that made me even hornier. Her eyes opened widely and her head went back when I went inside her fast and strong. Her hips followed the rhythm and she looked inside my eyes. God! She was so beautiful! I couldn’t control myself.

  I put my head on her neck and as I started moving faster and deeper, she held me stronger, moaning and calling my name. Our bodies were tuned. I’ve lost account on how many women I’ve slept with during these years, but never before had one of them gotten even closer to make me feel the way I felt now. The pleasure of having Elena was indescribable. The sensation of being inside her was unique.

  “Daniel” — She called my name with a trembling voice while hunching and finally having an orgasm, completely helpless and absolutely gorgeous. I came together with her while biting her shoulder and trying to lower my voice. This was transcendental, I thought while our bodies relaxed and our hearts started to beat in the normal frequency again. I could do this forever.

  “That was amazing.” — I rolled and continued facing her.

  “I know.” — She smiled, but something in her face changed rapidly. — “Daniel?” — I knew what it was. — “What happened to you that day? Why did you disappear?”

  I lay on my back and looked at the ceiling. I needed to tell her,especially now. After all we had, I couldn’t be away from her.

  “Elena, I’m sorry.” — I turned to face her, but she didn’t say anything, just looked at me and waited for me to go on. — “I drank too much that night and…” — I stopped the sentence and remembered the way she’d looked at me while I said goodbye to that girl. — “You shouldn’t have seen it, love, I never meant to hurt you.” — I remembered the promise I made her on the plane and how I broke it one day later. — “I lost my mind.”

  “Why?”

  “Because this iswho I am, Elena!” — I said sharply even though I didn’t mean to. I sat with my back to her. I took a deep breath and tried to keep control before looking at her again. — “Can we talk about it later, please?” — She liked to ask questions and she deserved to know what was happening, but not today. This particular day was difficult for me. If she weren´t with me right now I’d probably be drunk somewhere.

  She didn’t say anything, just nodded and I lay beside her, holding her once more. We stayed like that for a long time without saying a word, just listening to one another’s breathing until she broke the silence.

  “Daniel?” — I moved back to look at her. — “I’m really hungry.” — I laughed at the embarrassing way she looked at me and just then I realized it was already past three.

  “Come, I’ll take you to a place you’ll love.” — I said while pulling her out of bed to take a shower together.

  Elena

  The day was already ending. The sky had tones of orange and turquoise as the night approached. I’ve always loved the sunset and used to sit on the veranda of our house just to admire it, but today it was surprisingly wonderful.

  We walked three blocks until we got to a small pancake restaurant with tables on the sidewalk. We sat under a big tree illuminated by small green and white lamps wrapped on the bole and branches.

  “This is a very charming place.”

  “Yes, it is. You’re about to eat the best pancake in the USA.”

  “Do you always come here?”

  “Since I was a boy.”

  “You traveled a lot, didn’t you?”

  “My father and my uncle started the company early and traveled a lot on business, and they always took me when they could. I spent more than half of my spring breaks here. My parents love San Francisco and so do we. I guess, because at least once a year we spent some days here.

  “You know, you have an amazing connection with your family, Owen, and Sophie specially. ”

  “If one day I needed to choose another family, I’d choose them again.”

  “I wonder how my life would have been if I had such a family. I’m not complaining, my grandmother did everything she could, she became my father and mother and I love her really hard. It’s just… ”

  “I know, love.” — He held my hand. Of course he knew it. I was starting to believe he was capable of reading my thoughts. — “But now you have it all.” — He said with a smile on his face.

  “Have what?”

  “A crazy family to share with me.”

  I looked at him and frowned.

  “What do you mean?” — He opened his mouth to answer, but we were interrupted by the blond waitress who had her eyes smudgy by excessive make up.

  “Would you like to order now?” — She looked straight at Daniel and didn’t mind to disguise. I let him order and I was still trying to understand what he meant.

  What about this waitress? What the hell is she thinking by looking at him like that?

  When she left twerking a little too much, I laughed at the situation.

  “Why are you laughing?”

  “You didn’t notice?”

  “What?”

  “The waitress didn’t take her eyes off you!” — He looked at her and then at me again.

  “Oh, that?” — He disdained. — “That’s just the effect I have over women, love, you’ll need to get used.” — He blinked and smiled. I looked at him for a few seconds, not sure aboutwhat to answer. — “Besides, I was paying attention to you.”


  She came back with our orders and my eyes shone when I beheld that pancake tower filled with blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries covered by Maple Syrup.

  “Daniel! How did you do this?” — He smiled. My mouth was filled with pancakes when I spoke. — “This is delicious!”

  “I knew you’d like it.”

  “Like? I never ate anything like that!”

  “Sometimes it is very funny to watch you eating.”

  I shrugged before having another piece of it. He smiled and didn’t look away, making me blush, and he just stopped laughing when his cell phone rang in his pocket.

  “Hi Sophie… yes, she’s with me… I remember… we’re going… Me too… See you later” – he hung up. — “They’re waiting for us in a bar near here” – He got up and left the money on the table. — “Let’s go.”

  The bar was small and cozy, the kind of place I like to go to. There was a small stage in the back and a band played Tonight we are young. Some people were talking and laughing a lot at their tables, waiters equilibrated trays filled with empty glasses among the crowd, and they´d rather stay on the dance floor with their beer and dance with the loud music.

  His family was playing snooker on the other side of the dance floor, but when Sophie saw us coming she ran to our direction almost jumping, she grabbed Daniel on the neck, and then me. When she finally left me she looked at us and let out a comment. I knew her for two days, but I could notice how spontaneous she was, and nothing went through her unnoticed. We’d get together really well.

  “I thought you’d be inside the room forever.” — I laughed at her comment a little embarrassed, and she held Daniel kindly. — “Happy birthday, Daniel.”

  “Happy birthday?” — I put my hands on my waist. — “Really?”