Chapter 25

MARIAH

Working with River for a couple days straight had Mariah feeling more for him than she even wanted to. To deal with those feelings, she took to seducing him; it was the only way to take back her power and feel a little more in control of the situation. Certainly, the whole idea of remaining professional had fallen by the wayside, but it was more than that. Mariah needed to be able to tell herself that she was still in control of how she was feeling about River.

His hands pulled her toward him, and Mariah felt like her body was going to explode right there. Every time he touched her, it made her feel like she was a teenager messing around with her first boyfriend. The electric feeling that went from his hands to her body and back again—well, it was just damn fantastic, and she was interested in having that feeling around much more.

“I think we should keep working. I mean, we need to finish this press release. I’ve got to get the mock up done for the online ads. I just don’t think we have time for breaks,” River teased.

Oh, but River wanted to take a break just as bad as Mariah did, and she could tell that for a fact. His eyes fixated on her, and his pants looked awfully tight as he looked at Mariah. She loved how he looked at her. The desire he had in his eyes was filled with naughtiness that she couldn’t wait to get a hold of again. She let her lips move down to his earlobe as she whispered slowly into his ear.

“I’m going to make an executive decision here. You see, I’ve got needs. I’m a woman … who really … really … wants to take a break,” Mariah said as she stopped to deliver a few kisses to his neck.

She felt his body reacting to her words, and it was impossible for him to deny just how badly he wanted her. Mariah pressed her body close to him and felt his energy as she held on tight around his neck. Every move, every tiny motion of his body, built up the anticipation that she would get to play with him more. She pulled his head in toward her breasts as she sat on the table with her legs around him.

“But I’m so tired; I think I just need to go to bed,” River said as he stood up with Mariah’s legs wrapped around him.

She laughed as he picked her up. It was their thing now. When he would pick her up and carry her off to his room, it was what they did, and Mariah loved it. She loved how he seemed so strong to her. How he was in control of her even when she was trying to be in control of him.

“You do love to carry your women off to the bedroom, don’t you,” she teased.

“Actually, up until I met you, I can’t remember a single woman that I carried anywhere. I guess I just like carrying you around.”

As they made it back to Mariah’s bedroom, River tried to lay her down on the bed, but she had something a little different in store for him. They had played by his rules many nights together, now it was her turn. Mariah stood up and twisted River around so he fell onto the bed. With a mischievous smile, she reached into her dresser, pulled out a silk scarf and let it dance between her fingers as she stood at the end of the bed looking at River.

First, she tried whipping it against her hand, but the flimsy thing didn’t work at all like she had seen in the movies. Then she gently strung it around her neck and pulled it back on the other side. She was trying to look sexy. Mariah was trying to entice River with her wild and sexy ways.

“Just in case you decide you don’t want to take a break,” she teased. “I’ve got some insurance right here.”

River looked intrigued but slightly afraid as he watched Mariah and tried to decide just how far she was going to take this little game. Mariah wasn’t the type of girl that was into tying people up; she knew that River could tell that about her. But she wanted to be different. She wanted to have fun and surprise him with a fun night that he wasn’t expecting.

“Oh, I’ve been waiting to see this side of you.” River smiled as Mariah climbed on top of him and pinned his arms down next to him.

“Should I blindfold you or tie your wrists? So many decisions … what’s a girl to do?”

River wiggled under her body and moved his hands as if he wanted to get them free. She knew that either option was going to be something new for him, and certainly, he wasn’t going to deny her. So she moved the scarf to his head and wrapped it around to blindfold him. Mariah liked his hands on her body too much to take them out of play.

It was fun to play with River like she was. Mariah felt comfortable with him; she felt like anything was possible with River. As his eyes looked up at her one last time, Mariah pulled the scarf tight around him. She checked to make sure he couldn’t see out and then she grabbed his hands and held onto them as she sat on his stomach.

“If I can’t see you, how will I know what I’m doing?”

His coy attempt at letting Mariah be in charge was much appreciated. She knew he had probably done some pretty kinky things with women over the years. But to her, this was all new and exciting. She liked feeling in charge around River. He was older and wiser and much more experienced than she was. It felt good to have fun, and she was happy that River was willing to go along with the game, at least, for a little while.

Mariah hopped off of River and stood next to the bed as she took off all of her clothes. She then moved slowly to River’s pants and gingerly removed each piece of his clothing. As she unzipped, unsnapped, and tugged his clothes off of him, she took great pleasure in every step. He was rock hard with excitement, and Mariah also took the time to look at him. At 22 years of age, she certainly wasn’t all that experienced with men, and she hadn’t spent a great deal of time looking at the manly organ that stood erect at attention.

With River’s eyes blindfolded, Mariah was able to gawk at him a little without feeling embarrassed. She watched as his pulsing organ moved with each of his breaths. It was rather amazing to her that the large size of River’s body actually fit inside of hers and brought her such pleasure. From the view she had at that moment, she could have sworn he was too large to fit into any part of her body.

An urge to taste him came over Mariah, and she kneeled beside him and gently kissed the tip of his body. Slow, steady kisses up and down him had River moaning and begging her for more. Each kiss she lingered longer and longer, but never quite long enough to deliver the pleasure that River ached for.

Mariah started to see what all the excitement was about. Her friends had talked about kinky things they did in the bedroom with their boyfriends. It seemed rather outrageous to Mariah most of the time. But as she teased River, she was starting to see just how appealing some of the kinky things her friends talked about could be.

Certainly, Mariah wasn’t going to suddenly like the world of S&M. But she was starting to feel much more open about all the sexual pleasures that were possible when you were with a person you felt comfortable with. For the first time in her life, Mariah felt like she would be willing to try almost anything, as long as she was trying it with River.

As she tortured him more, Mariah felt the fingers of River as they moved along her legs and found their way up to her center. She was positioned perpendicular to him, and he quickly pulled her up on top of him and spread her legs onto either side of his face.

She was surprised by the position. It wasn’t something she would have ever thought to try. Mariah was basically sitting on River’s face. She would have felt self-conscious if it hadn’t felt so damn good. If there ever was a time to just go with it, that was the moment. Mariah decided she wasn’t going to worry about her insecurities, and instead, she was going to ride his face like a porn star would in a raunchy movie.

Mariah responded to his quick movements by pulling his body deep into her mouth and holding onto him firmly. She moved up and down in a quick motion and in an effort to show him that she was still in charge. She was on top of him, certainly that meant she was still in charge. Mariah controlled how deep her mouth took him in, and she could lift her body away from his tongue anytime she wanted to. Mariah reveled in the control she had over the moment.

But River had plans of his own. He wrapped his arms around Mariah’s legs and held her center up to his mouth so she couldn’t move away. Rapidly, he pulsed his tongue on her as she moved her mouth up and down him. The harder she thrust on his body, the more River thrust his tongue onto her body. Mariah felt like they were in the midst of a contest to see who really was in control of their lovemaking that night.

Although Mariah had initiated things, River was sure trying his best to maintain control. Mariah suspected that River wasn’t very used to letting others be in control. Not in the bedroom and certainly not in any other aspect of his life. River was the kind of guy who always maintained control over the situations around him.

The give and take, back and forth of their oral skills would certainly have to culminate in an explosion sooner or later. The question was: which one would win? Would Mariah get River to release before her or would River deliver the ultimate release to Mariah first. Their little game went on for much longer than Mariah had expected.

She felt her body start to shake from exhaustion and from the sheer pleasure of having River’s tongue all over her body like that. If this had been an Olympic sport, Mariah would have requested a water break by then. She could feel the sweat forming on her brow, and she was certain that she couldn’t last much longer.

They both moved feverishly together in an effort to win the battle. Harder and faster, deeper and longer, each of them intent on winning their little battle. It was a battle to the ultimate finish, and Mariah wasn’t about to be declared the loser. Or at least she wasn’t going to willingly be declared the loser. Mariah was going to do everything in her power to make River release before she did.

She wrapped her delicate fingers around his delicate parts as she tugged on them gently and worked to bring his pleasure level up. It caught River off guard enough that he paused to see just where Mariah was planning on taking her move next. With all the kinky things he had done in his past, Mariah could only imagine where he thought she was going to put her fingers. But she stuck to holding his manhood in her fingers and playing with his two lovely balls. She could hear his breath getting deeper the more she played, and she couldn’t wait to win their little battle.

“Oh, we are playing dirty are we?” River said.

Mariah felt his grip tighten on her thighs as he pulled her closer to his body. She couldn’t help smiling at how feverishly River also wanted her to give in to him pleasuring her. He was just as competitive as she was. Certainly, she could hold out for longer than he could. Mariah was a woman who knew her body very well; she couldn’t be so weak as to let him win their little battle.

Then it started. She tried to concentrate on the job she had in front of her and not on what her body was feeling. But the earth around her kept shaking, and she couldn’t stop it. Soon, Mariah felt her body tightening and the sweet release of orgasm that she just couldn’t hold back another second.

The release started much deeper than usual, and Mariah felt her legs shaking as her body twitched with pleasure. Over and over again, she felt the waves of delight as they washed over her. The feeling was so overwhelming that Mariah stopped moving her mouth altogether and concentrated on the delicious pleasure that was shooting through her body.

As she gave in to the pleasure that River delivered her, Mariah found him quickly flipping her onto the bed and climbing on top of her. Boy, oh boy, did she love it when he climbed on top of her. Her hands pressed up against his hard body as he perched over her, and she prepared for him to deliver more pleasure.

“I like it when you shake,” River whispered as he let his hand slide from her thigh all the way up to her breast. “It tells me I’m doing something right.”

Mariah felt her body shiver as he spread her open and prepared to slide inside of her. Slowly, she moved and pressed her hips up against him as she wanted more and more from him. The anticipation overwhelmed her as she waited for River.

She tugged on him and urged him forward as he teased her, but River seemed to relish the teasing. He moved in closer to her and then pulled away. He did that over and over again as she pulled on him and tried to get what she wanted. River was certainly in charge at that moment. There was no doubt in Mariah’s mind. River had control, and he was going to use all of it until he had Mariah exactly where he wanted her.

“You’re killing me,” Mariah whispered.

River stopped moving altogether and just looked down at her with a smile. He seemed to relish the torture he was giving to Mariah. The smile on his face wasn’t that of a man who was ready to stop torturing her yet, though; instead, he continued more and more. His teasing was like nothing that she thought she could endure. She wanted to feel him inside of her. Mariah needed to feel him inside of her.

Mariah tucked her head into the small of River’s neck as she gently kissed him. She couldn’t take the anticipation any longer; he needed to move forward. He needed to give her what she wanted so desperately. Mariah wasn’t above begging, and she was close to actually doing it when she looked up at River and bit her lower lip. It was like an instant trigger to him, and River started to move into her slowly.

As she let her fingernails glide down his back, Mariah pressed them in firmly in an effort to force him to give in to her desires. Finally, he did as she wanted, and the pressure of the moment filled her with excitement. His body and hers fit together nicely like they were made for each other. Mariah knew that it was hard to find someone who she fit so well with, both inside and outside the bedroom. She felt lucky that she had found River.

Slowly, she adjusted to having him there with her, and she felt his body deep inside of her. Harder and faster they moved together until the final moment of ultimate pleasure that they both experienced at the same time.

Mariah continued to shake with pleasure while River fell next to her in exhaustion. It had been an incredible couple of days. Really, the entire last few months had been more than Mariah thought she would ever have to deal with. Meeting River and dealing with him going to jail, and then his crazy behavior when he got out of jail; Mariah was looking forward to the day when her life seemed normal again.

Hopefully, when all the press was finished, she and River would get to spend more time together again. She really did love spending time with him.

“You exhaust me,” Mariah said as she tucked herself in close to River.

“Me? You’re the one who wanted to take a break.”

Mariah couldn’t help laughing. It was totally true; she was the one who wanted to take the break first. It had all been her idea, and somehow River had hijacked her plans, and he had taken over the lovemaking. But that was just one of the things that Mariah liked so much about River. He was the kind of guy who liked to be in charge. Even when he pretended to let Mariah be in charge for a little bit, she always knew that eventually, he wouldn’t be able to help himself.

River Anders just wasn’t the kind of man who could sit on the sidelines. He was always going to push to the front. He was always going to rise to the top. River might fall back occasionally like he did when he let his anger get the best of him with the governor, but eventually River was always going to win.