Chapter Seventeen Down To It
Liberty
I pulled her through the door and shut it. I took the time to lock it, in case Fate got more delusions of grandeur. I was done letting anyone get in between Belle and I. Even if Belle got in the way herself and it looked like that might be happening.
I couldn’t stop thinking about what Scarlet had said. Belle dumping guys after a few dates. We hadn’t dated really, not in the normal sense of the word, like going out for dinner or a movie, but we needed to clear the air between us for sure. I sat her down on the bed. Then I stepped back and tore my shirt off, next I toed my boots off.
“What are you doing?” Belle asked as she kept watching me.
“We are gonna get down to it,” I said with a growl as I unsnapped my jeans. “And I don”t want anything separating us, not even our clothes.”
She bit at her lip and seemed to get it as she tugged her shirt up and off.
I watched her as I removed my pants.
She tugged her jeans off and stood there in her bra and lace underwear.
I stepped over and grabbed her up, backing her to the bed.
She reached down and unsnapped her bra.
Then we took each other”s underwear off. Now, we were skin to skin.
The tension in the air could be felt as I said, “You aren’t going to leave me.”
Belle stood on her tiptoes and spoke to my lips, “I hadn’t planned on it.”
I smiled to her lips. “Good, because I would just track you down and show you why you won’t be leaving me.”
Raising her brow at me, she asked, “Oh, yeah? So what would you be showing me?”
Silently, I lowered my hand and slipped my fingers between her thighs to stroke her wet slit. Then I tucked my arm around her and leaned her back to take a nipple into my mouth. Teasing it with my teeth, I thoroughly enjoyed sucking on her erect nipple as I stroked her clit.
Whimpering and moaning, Belle was panting as she became more breathless in my hold.
I continued to play with her body until I knew she was close to coming, then I scooped her up and laid her onto the bed. Pushing her legs back, I bent them at the knees, so she would open up to me. Then I slid right into her as I lunged upward, filling her with one powerful thrust.
With a gasp, she cried out, “Ohhh—ok, ok. I get it…”
I smiled as I pulled my hips back and lunged up again holding myself still as I practically hit her G-spot. “Are you sure you understand?”
“Yes, yes…” Belle stated breathlessly.
Moving faster and deeper, I pounded into her several times as she held onto my shoulders. “Tell me that you won’t be leaving me,” I urged her to say.
“I-I—won”t be—ohhh…” Her body bowed up as she climaxed before she could finish speaking.
Lowering my mouth to hers, I kissed her as I joined her climax with mine. I held her tightly to me as we came together. We were joined in every sense of the word. I hoped she got the picture about what fire we were together and that she would not be blowing me off like some nice guy she was casually dating. Her earlier joke had been correct. I wasn’t a ‘nice guy.’ And I never pretended to be. I would treat her like my queen and continue to disagree with her when it counted, but she would always know that we belonged together.
Finally, I pulled my mouth from hers.
“Wow…” she whispered breathlessly.
I chuckled. “Yeah, I got down to it and I sort of got carried away.”
“Heck yeah, you did.” She wrapped her arms around my neck. “Not that I”m sorry about that.”
I grinned at her. “I needed to make sure that you understood something here. I don’t want you leaving me. If that sounds desperate then ok, I don’t care if it does. All I know is that you are supposed to be with me…You are not dumping me, so don’t try it… It won’t work. Pissing me off so I’ll let you leave, won’t work either, cause you’ve already been there and done that. All it did was to put you into my bed where you belong.”
She listened to me as a silly smile stayed on her plump lips and she slowly shook her head. “Let me explain, ok?” she asked in a soft voice.
I nodded as I raised up from her a bit, so my weight wouldn’t crush her.
“I never even thought about dumping you, Liberty. It never crossed my mind.”
“Yet,” I said. “It hadn”t occurred to you yet…”
“Look, you know I wasn’t a virgin, but I might as well have been. You are the first man I”ve had sex with in five years.”
At this statement, I paused. “What?”
“I dated, yes…But I never had sex with them. Remember my sister asking if I’d spent the whole night with you? Well, I never did that in all these years. I would know on practically the first date if a guy was not right for me. I refused to string anyone along and I’m not the kind of girl to just have sex because it’s expected or something. I need to have…” She looked into my eyes. “Real feelings for him. And these nice guys as Scar put it, I didn’t hate them, I just didn’t feel attracted to them. So yes, I would let them know real quick that it wasn’t going to work out. So before you, I hadn”t slept with a guy in more than five years. I know that might be hard to believe—”
I placed my fingers against her lips. “I never stopped to think of…I mean maybe we should have waited or—”
She now reached up to press my lips with her fingers. “You are missing the point. You are the first guy that made me want to have sex. These guys were nice and some were even successful type men, suits, nice cars and the whole package but they just did not turn me on, ya know? I even thought for the longest time that maybe I was cold in that way…frigid I think they call it.”
“No way.” I shook my head. “You’ve got a hot little engine, Belle.”
She laughed. “Gee thanks, I think?”
“So while you were wanting to punch me, it was actually attraction,” I pointed out to her.
“Same for you though, right? I drove you nuts, you said.”
I nodded. “It’s true. Yes, it is. I thought you were an uptight little—”
She again tapped my lips with her finger. “Careful now…”
I laughed. “Ok, no name calling. I bet you had a mouthful of foul names for me though. But if you think about it, the only thing we have really agreed on is that we are hot for each other.”
Laughing with me, she raised up and kissed me.
I tucked my arms under her and rolled us over in the bed. Now, she was on top. The kiss went on as we both simply got lost in each other. I loved the way Belle tasted. This woman made me feel like my world had just gotten righted. I admit I had issues with the dumping thing, but I believed she really wouldn’t do that and at least now she knew I wouldn’t accept it either.
After a few breathless minutes, Belle broke the kiss and smiled at me. “You are such a hot kisser and I like that in a man.”
I grinned at her. “Glad to be of service. I gathered there are a few things you like that I specialize in.”
Her face went pink as she laid her head onto my chest.
I chuckled. “The blushing is so damned cute by the way.”
Smacking my chest she said, “I never did that before, until I met you.”
“And I never argued with any females before I met you, Belle. My dad had been right about that. I either liked them or avoided them. But with you, I did not like you, but I couldn’t seem to avoid you. In fact, I found myself seeking you out. I mean it was like self punishment or something. Now, I know why, but I sure did not guess it was attraction.”
“Me either! I actually convinced myself that you would be the last guy on earth I would EVER have sex with.” Belle shook her head as she looked confused. “But look what happened with that.”
“Just goes to show that we did not see what was right there in front of us. I mean our families kept saying it, but we kept denying it.”
“That”s because we had a lot of things we disagreed on, Liberty.” Belle locked gazes with me. “In fact, that is the main thing we had going on. We saw everything differently.”
“I assume that just means we will never be boring,” I suggested.
“That’s one way to look at it.” She shrugged as she gave me a smile. “So, since we have slept together in all senses of the word, maybe we can find out if we have something in common?”
I paused and looked up at her. “Um, no, there are a lot more examples of ‘sleeping together’ that we need to explore, Belle.”
She giggled then hid her pinkening face again.
Lifting her chin with my finger, so I could look into her eyes, I asked, “Favorite meat?”
“Chicken,” she replied.
“Steak,” I said.
“Favorite ice cream?” I asked.
“Chocolate.”
“Vanilla.” I nodded. “Movie?”
“Titanic.”
“Gladiator, of course.” I chuckled.
“Oh, I know!” she exclaimed. “Holiday?”
We both answered with, “Christmas.”
“Ok, well that”ll be our best time of year then,” I joked.
“So sex and Christmas?” she asked.
I laughed. “Sounds like a movie title for a porn.”
“Is it just the hot sex?” She bit at her lip as she looked upset. “Please tell me we have more than that?”
I stared at her. “Of course, it’s more than that.”
“Oh, yeah?” she countered. “Like what more?”
“We slept together all night. Real sleeping too. We both liked that. We love our families. We are loyal to the people we love. We love our chosen careers. Your sister and my brother love each other. Annndddd we both think Fate is an idiot.”
Belle laughed. “I never said that.”
“No one has to say it, we all just know it,” I argued.
Still laughing, she shook her head. “You are a professional fighter. I am a Paralegal.”
“So?”
“So, I don’t know the first thing about the MAM.”
I chuckled at her mangling of the abbreviation. “It’s MMA, Belle.”
“See? I can’t even spell it right.”
I braced her face with my hands. “You are looking at this all wrong, woman. Our differences are what makes us compatible. The men you dated and dumped, they bored you and I bet most of them were lawyers, right?”
She nodded.
“So you had lots in common with them, but that wasn’t enough, was it? And the women who chased me knew a lot about fighting and if they didn’t, they knew enough to get close to me. But I found them to be all the same… shallow with lacklustre personalities. No real strong opinions and they certainly never dare to argue with me about anything. What was it that you called them? Booby Blondes…They were so cookie cutter that they weren’t even worth taking home.”
Belle smiled at me. “So, you’re saying that we have differences in common?”
I felt a little confused by this concept, but maybe she was talking sense. “So we agree to disagree?”
“We’ll see.” She raised a brow at me. “I admit, you haven”t pissed me off yet today.”
I rose up and took her with me to lean her back on the bed as I said, “The day isn’t over yet.”
Giggling at my clever comeback, she smiled up at me. “You do make me laugh a lot. So, that’s something.”
I laid my body down on top of her as I rested my weight on my hands. Leaning down close to her breasts, I swiped one of her nipples with my tongue. “I can make you come too. Don”t forget that.”
“Hmm,” she whispered. “And you have a hot mouth, no doubt about it.”
I sucked her sweet, pink nipple in and played with the other one between my fingers. Grasping my head, Belle’s breathing grew rapid. I switched breasts and teased her nipples the whole while. Moaning, she kept repeating my name.
I slid my body down and spread her thighs. I planned on hearing her scream my name again. I found myself addicted to that and to her. I knew I was already but I wanted the taste of her on my tongue again. Delving in, I stroked her slit with my fingers and licked at her button.
“Liberty! Oh, my God…” Belle was helplessly squirming with desperate pleasure.
Holding her in place, I used my fingers and mouth on her until, yes…she was screaming my name as she climaxed.
Everything was right in my world again.