“Is that the last of the boxes?”
“Just this one left.” Eden replied handing Jenna the box marked ‘Liam’s Toys’. She grabbed the duffel bag from the back seat of her car and hurried after the blond haired woman.
“I’m so glad we’re done. I hate moving.”
“Me too, but just think, now we get to decorate!” she said cheerfully, toeing the door closed behind her, and depositing the duffel bag on the lone futon in the living room.
Jenna groaned, “I’m leaving all that up to you. Do you want something to drink?”
“Just a bottle of water.” Walking around the partially furnished apartment, ideas flitted around in Eden’s head. She wasn’t exactly interior decorating inclined, but she’d staged a few homes in the past to know what would work, and besides that, she and Jenna had similar taste when it came to décor. “Are you sure it’s okay to have Liam’s toys here?” she asked, accepting the bottle of water from Jenna.
Jenna rolled her eyes. “For the umpteenth time, its fine! It’s not like I have a roommate who’s going to mind anyways,” she teased, giving Eden a sidelong stare.
Eden had the good grace to look sheepish. “I’m really sorry, Jen.”
Jenna laughed. “I’m just kidding. I hold no grudge whatsoever. I’m just glad you finally made up your mind. So you’re really staying?”
Eden nodded. “We owe it to ourselves to see where it goes.”
“So did you get the divorce?”
“Yeah…I’m a single woman dating my husband,” she quipped, “He’s been really good.” That was an understatement and color tinted her cheeks at the thought.
“I can see the love all over your face, skank,” Jenna tsked. “You are so far gone, you’re oozing it.”
Eden had to agree. She’d fallen quite hard for Dominic, and there really was no cure for what she had. She had yet to say those three little words to him, but he hadn’t pushed and that made Eden love him all the more for it. “Yeah,” she said simply, refusing to say anymore. She would save the words for tonight, for him. He would hear them first.
“What time are you dropping off the butterball?”
“Probably around eight. Now, let’s get out of here. We need to grab you some stuff before tonight.”
* * *
Tonight they were dining in. The rest of the mansion was quiet, empty except for the two occupants seated on the marbled kitchen floor. The only source of light in the otherwise dark room came from the open refrigerator to their left. They faced each other with legs intertwined and there was nothing in between a giggling Eden and Dominic but skin and more laughter.
“You cheated.” Eden accused with a pout, which Dominic could not seem to refuse as he leaned in to taste the sweet strawberry on her breath.
“I don’t cheat,” he refuted after a beat, swiping the tip of his tongue erotically across her bottom lip. “I just don’t play fair.” Taking a plump red strawberry from the bowl of fruits at their side, he brought it to her mouth. “Say ah,” he ordered raggedly, and she obliged without hesitation. “Bite.” Another command she carried out eagerly, her supple lips wrapping around the ripe red berry instantly had Dominic thinking of her sweet little pussy and his cock pulsed between them. With a groan he went in for another kiss, plunging his tongue deep within her honeyed mouth to chase down the strawberry and take in her addictive sweetness.
“Dom,” she called breathlessly, laying gentle hands against his bristly cheeks, she pressed a kiss where her thumb skated against his mouth. “I’m so in love with you…” she whispered, so quietly like it was a secret from her soul.
Everything stopped for a second and Dominic’s thudding heart lurched in his chest, while he stared at her bemusedly questioning whether he’d heard correctly.
“I love you,” she said again with love soaked amber eyes and a smile that was the sun itself gracing her lips. “I was so afraid to say it before. I was so sure that I wanted to be free from you, but I’ve realized that freedom is loving you. You are exactly where I want to be, Dominic.”
Overcome. That was the closest thing that could best describe the intense feeling that swept through Dominic in that instant. Her words were the breath of life to his shriveled heart, manna to his starving soul and Dominic intemperately consumed them, gorged himself until he was replete. Finally loved. Finally wanted. A monster no longer. “I am going to spend the rest of my life being worthy of this love you’ve given me, Eden,” he vowed sealing the promise with an all-consuming kiss.
-THE END-