Chapter 2
Ana was as nervous as Cal. She was coming to a new country and though his pictures showed Cal as handsome and young, she had heard stories of women getting to America and who they thought they were going to meet, turned out to be someone else entirely. She had looked at his pictures several times, hoping that he was who he said he was.
The plane touched down and Ana was a bundle of nerves. Her stomach tightened as she walked into the airport, hoping that Cal would be there waiting for her. When she caught his gaze, her heart thudded into her chest. It was him and he was more devastatingly handsome then she had thought. Why would someone like this, need a mail-order bride? Her concern then was if he had some secret needs that others found hard. There had been a lot of those too.
“Hello Cal.”
“Hi, Ana. You are even more beautiful than your pictures.”
She thanked him, her blue eyes finding it hard to hold his gaze. It was the way he looked at her, with hunger that she had never felt before. “I’m surprised as well. You are a very good looking man.”
He was tall, dark and handsome. He offered to take her bags and she thanked him again. Everything just seemed too perfect. He was too perfect.
“I’ve gotten the day off today, but I have to go in tomorrow, so I was hoping we could get you settled in today. I was hoping that I would have more time off, but it seems that it is impossible to get time off right now.”
“I understand. You must work. You get some days off, yeah?”
“Yes, usually one a week.”
“That’s good. Will you let me work?”
He shrugged, not even thinking about it. “If you want to. I make enough for the both of us, but I wouldn’t stop you if that is what you want to do.”
Ana liked that answer. Not because she had any intentions of getting a job, but she liked that there was an option if she wanted to.
They rode home the rest of the way in silence and Ana was in for more surprises when they got there. To her, it seemed like a mansion, but he assured her that it wasn’t. “Just typical around here. The fire station makes sure that all their employees live close, so I was given a good offer on this place because of the location.”
She nodded, but it was getting better by the minute. It really was hit or miss with those kinds of things and Ana always heard the whispers that put the fear in all women that decided to find a man in another country. It seemed that she had hit the jackpot in a way. Cal was more than she ever could have imagined. He was handsome, kind, gentle. Those were qualities that usually didn’t go together.
They got inside the house and she asked to use his phone to call her family.
“You don’t have a cell phone?”
She shook her head that she didn’t. Cal showed her where the phone was and went to bring her bags into her new room. Cal didn’t want her to feel uncomfortable, so he thought that for the time being while they were getting to know each other, she should have her own room to go to instead of sharing a bed with him. As soon as he had seen her, he hardened in his pants, she was beautiful, but he knew he had to take his time or he may scare her away.
He heard her talking quickly in Russian and though he had started to learn what he could, he still did not understand half of what she was saying. She came back into the living room after she was done and
asked where her bags were.
“I put them in your room, so you can get settled. Then we can do whatever you want, get something to eat, go see some sights, whatever you want.”
“But this is your day off.”
“Yes and I want you to be happy. Whatever you want to do.”
Ana wasn’t prepared for such an offer and she wasn’t sure what she wanted to do. It had gone so much different in her head. He showed her where her room was and she was a bit confused.
“We will not share a room together?”
“Maybe in time, but for now you don’t have to share with a stranger.”
It was sweet in a way, but it raised Ana’s suspicions. What if he didn’t want her and wanted to send her back home? She shivered slightly, thinking about the problems that she had left behind, the dominating boyfriend that thought he owned her. She had left in the night for her new life, promising herself that it would work out. It had to.
“You are not a stranger. You are to be my husband, right?”
He nodded his head, his eyes unable to stop roaming over her. Cal liked the idea of calling such a gorgeous creature his wife. “Yes, but in time. We have 90 days to get married Ana, so there is no rush.”
There was to her. She wanted to make sure that he married her so that she could stay there, no matter what happened. “The room is beautiful thank you, you have been so kind.”
“No problem. There is a shower and bath in the bathroom that’s connected.”
“Thank you. I think I will clean up first, if you don’t mind.”
He didn’t and he walked out before his urges made him do something that he would regret. It had been so long and Ana was someone that a man could dream about. He went to his own room to settle his nerves and his ardor.
Cal heard a light knock on the door and he walked into the bathroom, pulling his pants up as he went. “Just a second.”
He came back out with just his jeans on. She was already in the room and her eyes took in his hard body. Ana noticed something else was hard, but he seemed embarrassed by it, so she didn’t say anything.
“Can you help me with the shower? It’s really different than the ones we have at home.”
Cal took in her body covered in a towel and groaned inwardly as he went to turn it on for her. He had expected many things, but not to feel like a randy school boy again. Did she even know what she was doing to him, he wondered to himself.
He bent over and turned the hot on, asking her if she wanted it hot or warm.”
“As hot as it goes.”
Cal did as she asked and then excused himself back to his room so he could take care of his need that was driving him crazy.