Chapter Thirty-Three
Elisa
“ T he views are truly stunning. This must be the most beautiful place on Earth,” I say, letting the awe I’m feeling filter through my tone as I sit on the window seat in the luxurious suite Caleb booked in the plush hotel set in the middle of Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. Snowcapped mountains rise majestically outside the window, looming over the crystal clear smooth waters of Moraine Lake. Bordering the lake and surrounding the hotel, which has been built to resemble a sprawling castle, are copious trees and dense woodland. According to the concierge—a friendly older woman from the local area—the trees over on this side of the park are mostly made up of Douglas fir, white aspen, lodgepole pine, white spruce, and balsam poplars.
“Is it romantic enough for you?” Caleb asks, wrapping his strong muscular arms around me from behind. He nuzzles his nose in my neck before grazing his teeth against my earlobe, sending heady shivers cascading across my sensitive flesh. “I want this weekend to be special.”
“It’s perfect, Caleb.” I turn around and snake my arms around his neck. “It couldn’t be any more romantic.”
“That sounds like a challenge.” He waggles his brows, and a smile grows on my lips.
“I can’t believe you haven’t had a relationship before because you’re a natural boyfriend. You make me feel so loved.”
“It’s because it’s you. Everything is natural with you, Lili. Only you.” His lips descend in a tender kiss that turns my insides to mush. I pout when he pulls back, and he chuckles. “As much as I’d love to stay here and get lost in you, you have appointments at the spa.”
“I do?”
He nods. “I’m going to check out the gym and the pool while you get pampered.” He threads his fingers through my hair, tilting my head back a little. “Then we have a private dinner at the rooftop restaurant.”
“You are really spoiling me.”
“You deserve it.” He pulls me back in flush with his body. “I want our first time to be spectacular. I want this to be a weekend we look back on forever with fond memories.” His adoring gaze melts me into a puddle of goo at his feet. “I know you’re nervous, but you should know I am too. I have never had this, Lili. It’s all new for me as well. I’m experienced in fucking not making love. I’m as much a virgin as you are.”
Not technically, but I get the point he’s making, and it helps to settle my nerves to know he’s nervous too. That this is as much a big deal for him as it is for me. I trace my fingertips through the stylish stubble on his cheeks. “I’m nervous, but I’m excited too. I can’t wait to be intimate with you. To feel a part of you and to know this is what it’ll be like for the rest of our lives.”
“I’m glad you have come around to the inevitability. I’m glad we’re on the same page.” His eyes shine with some indecipherable emotion.
“I was protecting my heart and ensuring I didn’t set myself up for a fall, but you have more than proven how serious you are, Caleb. But know one thing, my love.” I stretch up and kiss his gorgeous mouth. “I always believed we were inevitable.” Even during those rough months when I believed he’d broken his promise to me, I couldn’t dispel the sense of rightness I felt whenever I considered us together.
“I love you, Elisa Salerno.” Caleb hugs me close. “So fucking much. You are my world, and I will do everything to make you happy and keep you safe. I promise.”
After a manicure, pedicure, facial, and massage, I’m brought back to our suite where a hairstylist and makeup artist are waiting to do my hair and makeup. Caleb is nowhere to be seen, but he’s clearly been back here if the gorgeous green and gold dress waiting on the bed is any indication. Exquisite gold strappy sandals and a designer purse complete the outfit.
Caleb shows up just as I’m ready, displaying perfect timing. He looks good enough to eat in a custom-fit black suit with his signature black shirt and a gold and black tie. “You take my breath away, Lil. Look at you,” he says as I twirl for him, feeling like a million bucks.
“I could say the same to you. You’re gorgeous.”
“I love you.” He reels me in, pressing a light kiss on the end of my nose.
A photographer arrives then to take photos. “We need to capture every moment,” Caleb whispers in my ear as he holds me close while we pose for the man.
The private dining area of the rooftop restaurant is tucked into a corner, shielded by an ornate patterned foldable room divider. We can still hear the patrons in the main part of the room, but we can’t see them, and they can’t see us. Our table is pressed up beside the large floor-to-ceiling window offering the most incredible view of the landscape spread out below us. Twinkling lights shimmer from the trees surrounding the hotel, and they join with the moon in casting shimmering rays across the placid waters of the massive lake.
“You couldn’t have found a more romantic place in the entire world,” I say in a breathy tone, completely bowled over by the location and all the trouble Caleb has gone to. “I am the luckiest girl in the world to be here with you.”
“I’m the lucky one.” Caleb hands me a flute of champagne after the server has left with our order. “To us,” he says, holding up his flute for a toast.
I clink my glass against his. “To the future.”
We enjoy a sumptuous meal, and the atmosphere is romantic and relaxed. Conversation flows easily, and I’m floating on a cloud as we make our way back to our suite a couple of hours later. I’m relaxed, but excited nervousness lingers in my veins at the thought of finally knowing what it feels like to have Caleb inside of me.
A gasp escapes my lips when I enter our room to discover the rose petal path leading from the door to the large four-poster bed. Lit candles surround the perimeter of the room, and the curtains have been left open to maximize the beautiful backdrop. “I thought we might take a naked dip in the hot tub,” Caleb says, circling his arms around me and kissing my cheek. I look outside to our decked balcony where a large hot tub waits. Beside it is an ice bucket with more champagne chilling.
“Okay.” Nerves thread through my tone.
“Lili.” He turns me to face him. “It’s okay to say no. I just thought it might help to relax us and help to get us in the mood.”
“It’s a wonderful idea. Let’s do it.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes.” I place my hands on his chest and stare into his gorgeous eyes, showcasing every emotion racing through me. “I trust you, and I want this with you.”
He kisses me softly and sweetly before silently turning me around and helping me out of my dress.
“You’re so beautiful, Lili.” He scans the gold and black lace bra and panties set I’m wearing with clear admiration.
Gia dragged me to La Perla to shop for the trip, and I’m glad she did. “Do you like it?” I ask, batting my eyelashes.
“Love it, though I’ll love it more when you’re out of it.” His eyes flash with heat.
I unclip the bra and fling it aside, keeping my eyes trained on him as I shimmy the panties down my legs, leaving me standing in just my heels. I hold my head up, feeling confident and powerful as his gaze roams every inch of my body. Caleb’s words and constant reassurance have helped to erase any lingering doubts. I know he wants me, and I don’t compare to anyone else. I know this night is as new for him as it is for me.
“Your turn.” I challenge him with my eyes.
“You want me naked, angel?” He smirks, loosening his tie and lifting it over his head.
“Yes, please.”
Caleb flashes me a flirty smile as he shucks out of his suit jacket, draping it on the back of the chair. “Your wish is my command.”
I lick my lips as I stalk forward to help him. I unbuckle his pants while he unbuttons his shirt. Lowering to the ground, I untie his shoes, remaining on my knees as he gets rid of all his clothes until he’s standing before me in glorious nakedness. My gaze trails over him from his feet to his head, loitering on the hard length jutting out from his body, already leaking precum, and my pussy is soaked as potent need whips through me.
“I need to taste you,” I say, sliding my palms up his thighs and licking my lips again. “I need your cock in my mouth so bad.” I am addicted to sucking his dick. Watching him fall apart as I work him over is one of the best feelings in the world. To know he is putty in my hands, that I, an inexperienced virgin, can give him that much pleasure and have him worshiping the ground I walk on is an incredible high.
“You know I won’t say no. I’m addicted to the feel of your mouth on my dick.”
“I’m addicted to your dick, period,” I say, and he chuckles.
Wrapping my fingers as far as they will go around the base of his erect cock, I begin stroking him as my tongue darts out, licking his crown. Caleb’s groan is my own aphrodisiac, and I open my mouth and suck him down, greedily running my lips and my tongue up and down his throbbing erection, loving the sounds pouring from his mouth.
“Enough, angel,” he says a few minutes later, pulling out of my mouth and helping me to my feet. “I want to come in your pussy.” He looks out the window. “What about the hot tub?”
“It can wait.” I press my body all up in his. “I need you now, Caleb. Make love to me.”
He carries me to the bed like I’m precious cargo, laying me down gently before he dashes outside to grab the champagne, setting it beside the bed. Then he spreads my legs and buries himself between my thighs, sucking and licking and fingering me until I shatter on his tongue. It doesn’t take long because I’m already so horny and dying to feel his cock inside me.
“Condom?” he asks, lifting a brow as he kneels between my legs.
I shake my head. “I’m safe, and you know I’m clean. I’d rather feel all of you inside me.”
“I’ve never had sex without a condom, and I got tested recently. I’m clean too.”
“Okay.”
He covers my body with his, careful to keep his weight off me. “I love you, Elisa. For always.”
“I love you too.” I drag my fingers through his gorgeous hair before letting my hands explore his muscular back.
“Are you sure you still want to do this?” he asks, pushing my thighs apart with his knees.
“I have never been surer of anything.”
He plants his lips on mine before lifting his head. “If you want to stop at any time, tell me. I’m going to go slow, but it will still hurt a little.”
“I spoke with Gia and my mom. I know what to expect.”
“I will take care of you, Lili.” His fingers dance a slow dance across my collarbone.
“I know you will. Now stop stalling and make love to me.”
He chuckles before leaning down to kiss me again. Positioning himself at my entrance, he keeps his eyes locked on mine as he slowly inches inside me. The feeling of fullness is almost instantaneous, and I part my legs more, wincing at the sharp stab of pain when he pushes through my resistance.
Caleb stalls, his gaze running over my face. “Do you want me to stop?”
“No way.” I cup his face. “Keep going, my love.”
Caleb’s body is straining with the effort involved in going so slow, and it only makes me love him even more. He continues pushing and I bite on the inside of my cheek to avoid crying out. He is so big, and I feel so incredibly full. My walls are hugging him as he carefully eases inside me. When it feels like he can’t possibly go any farther, he stops, looking down at me with so much love and lust I feel like crying. “You’re my beating heart, Lili.” He holds his body still as he leans down to kiss me. “You feel so incredible, and I’m feeling so much. God.” He rests his head on my shoulder, and I hug him to me, circling my legs around his waist, ignoring the stab of pain the motion produces.
“I love you. I love you. I love you,” I say, my heart as full as my body. I dot kisses over his face and run my hands up and down his back. “You can move, Caleb.”
His head tips up. “Are you sure?”
“Yes.” My lips curl in amusement, but I love how careful he is being with me. “I want to feel you moving.”
Caleb maintains eye contact with me as he begins moving in and out, very slowly at first until he feels me relaxing. We kiss and caress as he makes love to me, and though there is pain mixed with the pleasure, this is the singular most incredible moment of my entire life. “Go faster,” I request when the stirrings of lust twist in my core. I pivot my hips and angle them to meet him as he picks up his pace.
“Fuck, Lili. This is too good,” he pants in between rolling his hips and hitting some magical place deep inside me.
“Oh!” I rasp as pleasure surges through my veins. “Do that again.”
Caleb angles his hips and hits that spot inside me over and over, and I’m digging my nails into his back, arching my spine, rolling my hips, and claiming his lips in greedy kisses as he thrusts deep and hard with precise careful movements. “I’m going to come,” he pants. “I can’t hold back any longer,” he adds, trailing his fingers between our bodies to find my clit.
“I’m close too.” It’s almost miraculous. I really didn’t think I could come from sex my first time, but I feel my orgasm building as he rubs my clit and drives his erection deeper inside me. I fall off the ledge first, crying tears of joy as my body drowns in the most blissful sensations. Caleb follows me over the ledge a couple of seconds later, shouting my name and gazing at me with shock and so much love as he spills his hot seed inside me.
After, we lie wrapped in one another’s arms without speaking for a few minutes. I snuggle into his side as his strong arm holds me close. “Are you okay?”
“I’m peachy.” I can’t help giggling as I lift up and peer down at him.
“Was it good for you?”
“It was amazing. It was everything I had hoped for and more.” I trace circles on his chest with my finger. “Was it good for you?”
“Incredible. Best experience of my life.” He holds my face in his firm grip. “I have never felt anything like that before, Lili. Being inside you with no barrier is the most indescribable feeling. I have never felt closer to another living soul, not even my twin.”
Tears prick my eyes, but they are joyous ones. “I love you so much, and I want to do that with you every single day for the rest of my life.”