~Raiden~
She is without a doubt the cutest fucking thing I have ever seen.
She’s dancing to the music and singing a song I hadn’t heard before but it seemed to perfectly describe what I was feeling in that moment.
Being in her presence is absolutely intoxicating. I can’t seem to take a full deep breath because she keeps stealing it away.
I have never felt like this with a woman, never felt amped up and sated at the same time.
Watching her eat was borderline erotic, the way she was enjoying herself so thoroughly. It made me happy to see she was being relaxed with me because that is exactly how I felt with her. I even told her she was sexy while she was eating, which put the most adorable heat to her cheeks.
So, not wanting this day to end, I asked her if she wanted to get out of there and taking a long shot, asked if I could drive. She didn’t hesitate to give me the keys and now here we are, speeding down the highway to my spot.
A spot I always came to think and just unwind when I was home and needed to get away from the normalcy of being in the states.
I put her car in park and I turn to her, a smile already plastered across my face.
“Ready?” Her eyes sparkle back at me, a sight I know I could never get enough of.
God, what is she doing to me?
I’m enthralled.
I get out of her Mustang, a gorgeous car I have to say, whole lotta power too.
She crosses in front of the hood to stand beside me, looking up at my tall frame.
“Where are we, Raiden?”
Her voice, it’s like sex.
What I would give to hear that voice while I’m inside her.
I clear my throat, definitely letting my mind get away from me.
“This is where I go when I want to get away.”
I grab one of her small hands in mine and lace our fingers together, leading her toward the spot.
My boots sink through the sand and it isn’t long before she takes her shoes off all together, looping the straps around her other wrist.
It takes us but a minute before we are there and I breathe in the familiar salt air, deep in my lungs.
When I bring us to a stop, she lets out a sharp gasp taking in the view.
We are situated on my favorite stretch of beach between two giant weathered rocks, the sun just starting to go down in the sky.
The effect of the sunset bounces off the waves creating a cascade of different colors crashing toward us.
“Raid, this is breathtaking.”
She looks up at me, thanking me with her eyes and I know that is a look I’ll spend my life chasing after.
I sit down in the sand and pull her down so she’s in between my legs. She hesitates for just a moment before I feel her relax back into me, so I wrap my arms around the front of her shoulders.
Bringing my face down to nuzzle in the back of her neck, breathing her sweet lily smell in. “Elli,” I whisper.
She leans back into me further at the sound of me saying her name.
“Yes?” she breathes out.
“Why is this so easy with you?”
She brings her hands up so they rest on my forearms.
“I...don’t know Raid,” she pauses, “it feels like we’ve done this a million times, that this isn’t the first time we’re meeting.”
She turns her face slightly, her skin so close to my lips I can almost taste her.
She keeps going, my heart racing, and pulse pounding in my ears.
“It’s easy to forget that I’m a widow with you, that you’re the first person I’ve opened up to in over two years.” She tightens her grip on me. “You…this…me in your arms, Raid this just feels…natural.”
She finishes and her raw beauty entrances me.
She’s right.
I couldn’t put it into words, didn’t know if she felt the same way but she does.
She said it, she feels it, and this isn’t just me.
A feeling of hope takes flight in my chest, causing a strangled noise to escape my throat. I hold her tighter against me and she takes it, nestling her sweet little body further into me.
I swear we fit together like we were made for each other.
“Elli,” I get out, surprised at my ability to speak at all I’m so awash in emotion.
This is something completely foreign to me, which is probably why I’m not articulating myself very well.
“I’ve never done this before.” I cast my eyes down, unable to keep staring at the sweet skin of her jaw. She runs her fingertips along the muscles in my forearms, making the hair on the back of my neck stand up on end.
She dips her head ever so slowly and kisses where she was just trailing her fingertips. White-hot fire races up my skin, causing my breathing to quicken and my body to tense up.
She whispers, “I know, babe.”
Fuck, she called me babe.
That’s one of the sweetest things I’ve ever heard, her breath tickling my arms.
She knows, this isn’t just me out of my depth here, she’s right there with me and that gives me some sense of peace.
We stay like that for at least an hour, her wrapped up tight in my arms. Her body fitting into mine so perfectly. We stay silent, digesting everything happening between us. I think about how only a few days ago I was half a world away dreaming about this incredible woman and now here she is, and I’m experiencing a sensation unlike anything I have ever felt.
My heart feels full, it feels like it’s gonna explode and I want it to.
I want the warmth to flood my body and set me on fire, just to feel this way for her.