Chapter Twenty-Six
Olivia
Monday
I sang along happily as the shower water ran over my head. I felt better than I had in a very long time. I still had some time before Mark came back and keeping myself busy with Justine and Mrs. Stedman was helping me to forget… or maybe not forget, but I wasn’t quite so worried about seeing him again. This time, the distance, it was a good thing. Maybe him traveling a lot would work for us. Perhaps we could make it work. Then once he was here, he could spend a lot of alone time with Justine, and we wouldn’t have to see each other much. If we didn’t have to see one another, then there wouldn’t be any chance of us falling into bed together.
I guess it was the loneliness. I didn’t feel like I didn’t have anyone in the world anymore. Maybe my friendship circle hadn’t grown, but I felt a whole lot happier about the people who I did have in my life. Mrs. Stedman had a good ear, Justine was a whole lot of fun, I enjoyed talking to Rosa as well. And Mark… well, I wasn’t sure about him. I had absolutely no idea where I stood with him, but I had another day of being completely alone.
I swung my soaking wet hair around, and I turned the shower off, mentally planning to get out the yoga mat once I was done. I was bringing it back into my daily routine, and I liked it. It made me feel more flexible and good about myself. Anything to bolster up my already really good mood was fine by me. I could flick the big TV screen on, find a music channel that suited me and my mood, and just work it all off. This was my last calm day before the storm kicked in so I figured I might as well make the most of it. I liked being alone today.
“Dum, dum, doo…” I sang along as I ran my fingers through my hair, deciding to let it hang loose to dry naturally. I had plenty of time until Justine came home and Rosa wasn’t due today. I was on my own. “Da la laaa.” I grabbed the purplish towel and wrapped it around my waist. “Humm hum hummm…”
With almost a skip in my step I made my way into the kitchen. Just before I got into yoga, which I would maybe follow with a nice long walk, I wanted a nice steaming mug of coffee. The coffee in this house was to die for, it would be one of the main things that I missed if I left here… but not the only thing. Not that I was thinking about what I would miss since I wasn’t sure what would end up happening between us.
“La de daa, doo dum de da…” I was out of tune, acting weird, but I was alone so who cared? There were some really good sides to being by myself. I didn’t mind it when it didn’t consume me “Dum, darr dee… Argh!”
I screamed loudly, much too loudly actually, but I assumed that I was completely by myself. I didn’t expect to find a shadowy figure sitting on the couch looking up at me expectantly. “Hello, Olivia.”
“M… Mark?” I stammered, shaking all over. “Mark, what are you doing here? It isn’t Tuesday.”
“No, I know.” He smiled and nodded slowly at me. “I got an earlier flight back. Sorry, I probably should have made myself known, I could hear that you were in the shower when I got in and…” He nodded towards me, his face heating up as he spotted me in my… shit! Where the fuck was my towel? What the hell?
I glanced downwards and saw the purplish color bunched up around my feet. I guessed in the shock I must have dropped it. I didn’t even realize that it had fallen. It was a good thing that this man wasn’t a stranger, a burglar or something, because I would have revealed my naked body to him. It was bad enough that my boss had seen… and he had already seen me naked one time already. But this situation was totally different. Embarrassingly so.
I dove down, grabbing at it, needing to cover myself up before I made this even more awkward. My fingers wrapped around it, but I was so nervous and shaky that I couldn’t stop fumbling with it.
“Stop,” Mark said huskily to me, his arms were wrapped tightly around my very naked waist as he tugged me upright. This was wrong, I knew that, but it felt oh so right too. Especially as I glanced up at him and I saw that deep, powerful lust in his eyes. It jolted through me and made my core pulse with need. He kissed me, he claimed me with his mouth, and while I was still very aware that I was the one who wanted to put a stop to this, I couldn’t stop myself from kissing him back. The bond was far too powerful between us.
Mark lifted me to my feet, and he pressed me back against the wall. It felt cold against my flushed skin, but it wasn’t enough to calm me down. I felt fiery and more excited than ever.
“Tell me yes,” he growled into my mouth. “Olivia, I need you to tell me yes.”
I paused for a second, knowing that Mark would back off without question if I asked him to. This would just be another moment where we moved past it quickly, but I didn’t. I couldn’t do the smart thing because the deep need inside of my body overshadowed anything else. I nodded, and Mark scooped me up into his arms as if I weighed nothing. I hooked my arms around his neck and stared at him while he carried me.
What are you doing? I asked myself desperately. Where is this going to lead?
But to be honest, I didn’t really care. It felt too good to have him admiring me like that.
Once inside the bedroom, Mark dropped me onto his bed sheets, and he stripped his own clothing off. His hungry eyes remained fixed on me the entire time, making me feel like I was having the hottest strip show of my entire life. I fell completely into a sexy zone; the real world couldn’t touch me here!
I propped myself up on my elbows to watch him in all his glory as he mesmerized me. I ran my eyes over his body, my breath getting caught in my throat as he did. He was so sculpted; he belonged on the pages of a magazine rather than with me… not that I was willing to share him!
Once completely naked, Mark joined me on the bed, and he kissed me all over, entangling his limbs with mine as he did. I locked myself around him, wrapping around him and clinging to him tight.
“Oh, God,” I groaned wildly as his mouth moved from mine and it slid across my cheek towards my hypersensitive neck. He darted his tongue out, licking the perspiration from my burning hot skin as he did, sending a buzzing all the way from my brain to my toes, which curled over in sheer ecstasy. My head lolled to one side, and I couldn’t keep my eyes open however hard I tried as his lips brushed down over my collarbone and further downwards. I was not expecting this moment; it seemed to come from nowhere. One minute everything was completely normal and the next I barely knew what was going on, but it felt amazing.
“Oh fuck!” All of a sudden, Mark’s mouth had slipped over my hard nub of a nipple and he sucked on it hard, sending a wild range of prickles everywhere. I ran my fingers up through his hair and left them there while he ran his tongue everywhere. His mouth was really doing it for me today!
Almost as if he could sense that, Mark moved his lips downwards. He kissed over my hips, he brushed his lips over my stomach, he ever so slowly, tantalizingly, got nearer and nearer to where I craved him. I fisted his hair harder, needing him down there. He was so close, I could feel his breath on my entrance and it made my head spin… and then, his lips connected with the most sensitive part of my body and my hips bucked violently into his mouth. There was no chance of playing it cool when my body was giving me away.
I rolled my waist, causing his tongue to flicker over my clit in a speedier, more satisfying way, and soon I could feel myself buzzing. His mouth was expert, it seemed to know my body even more than I did myself, and the moment that he added fingers into the mix, sliding them inside of me, I felt like I’d died and gone to heaven.
“Oh shit, it’s too…” I gasped as I could feel the pressure building. “It’s too much…”
Just as I was about to tilt too far over the edge, Mark whipped his mouth away, leaving me cold and alone. I sat up almost automatically and watched in awe as he slipped a condom over that thick erection of his. Fuck, he was gorgeous. I couldn’t believe that he was here with me right now.
“Come here,” I basically growled at him. “You fucking sexy bastard.”
He climbed back over me and connected with me instantly; his cock slid into me as if he couldn’t wait either. As he did, I wondered if he had been thinking of me while he was in Tokyo. Maybe he’d even thought about me on a long, lonely night while touching himself… oh fuck, that was almost too much for me.
I clung to him tightly as he thrust hard, driving into me to send me right over that edge. I was already so close, I could barely keep myself sane; after everything that he’d already done to me, it wasn’t long until I tumbled right over into the abyss. I saw stars flying over my head; I felt like I was soaring. Mark was the only thing fixing me to the earth. He was everything to me, he had totally consumed me, and as the orgasm swallowed me up whole and shattered through my body like a tsunami of waves, he was all that I cared about. It felt phenomenal; the unexpected pleasure was the most intense feeling that I’d had in ages. I loved it… he was amazing.
Me and him, him and me: that was all that mattered. At least, it was in this room.
As the pleasure got to Mark, I kissed him hard, loving the feeling of his loud, sexy groan against my lips. It burned down to my core and made my own pleasure last so much longer.
Once we collapsed onto the bed panting, reality kept bouncing around the edges of my thoughts, trying to dive in, but I was keeping it at bay for just a couple of moments. I simply wanted to lie in this gorgeous post-coital bliss for a little bit longer. It felt too good to sacrifice just yet.
“Don’t go,” Mark said spontaneously while resting his hand on my arm. It was almost as if he could see where my brain would eventually go. “Stay here, just for a little while longer. The real world will intrude soon enough.”
I got what he meant; in here, this was like a little bubble in which it was safe to be just him and me. I liked it just as much as he did, which was why I nodded and agreed with him.
“Okay, I’ll stay. Just for a while though.”