Chapter 2 #3
This home has ten bedrooms, all split on different levels, as the building is designed to take in the panoramic water views as it spills all the way down the side of the hill.
We are right on the edge of Sydney Harbour and look down the waterway toward the Harbour Bridge from a suburb called Point Piper.
I don’t have words to describe the view.
I think everyone is the same, we are just in awe.
I feel his arms slide around my waist from behind me as he pulls my back to his chest. “Am I forgiven for bringing the kids?” he whispers in my ear.
“Totally,” I reply. “It’s…” My brain is struggling to find the word to describe it. “…extraordinary.”
“I’m glad you like it. Wait until you see it at night when everything is lit up.
We will have plenty of time to enjoy the view while we are here, but we need to settle the kids in, and I’m desperate for a shower after traveling for a day.
” Spinning me around to face him, he kisses me and then leans into my ear.
“Care to join me?” he asks, only loud enough for me to hear.
“I wish.” I look over his shoulder to see the kids all running around the large open-plan living area with a wall of glass between us. My heart is pounding with anxiety at the way they are touching everything. “But like you said, we have that to deal with,” I say, nodding my head toward the house.
“Is this the part where I admit that maybe you were all right and that I should have left the kids in Chicago?” Lex groans into my shoulder, and then we head back inside to get kids showered, fed, and to sleep, hoping like hell we can get them on to the local time zone as quickly as possible.
I’m glad Lex scheduled yesterday as a rest day and made sure each family had a driver to take them out exploring on their own if they wanted to.
It’s hard to settle the kids down when they are all together, so a day apart from their cousins was a good idea, and it also gave the younger ones time to nap when they needed to.
Stretching out in the beautiful bed in our room on the second floor, watching the sun rise over the horizon, is something I’ll never forget. For most of my life I struggled just to keep a roof over my head, that even my dreams never stretched this far.
It took a while to accept that I never had to worry about money or feeling safe, but Lex was so patient with me as I navigated through such a huge change.
Wishing on the stars at night is an important routine for us as a family, and I tried not to giggle last night when Gabe and Remi were worried that the stars they were looking up at wouldn’t work for their wish because they were on the bottom of the world.
Kids’ minds fascinate me, the way they try to work out the great big world around them.
And although nights are precious, the morning sunrises are just for me and my thoughts.
This morning, like many mornings since I’ve met Lex, I’m just processing the last few days and feeling blessed.
Normally I would get out of bed and grab a coffee and enjoy the stillness of our home at five am, but today, I just want to lie here with Lex wrapped around me and take it all in.
Watching the sun rise over the water is such a contrast to what I see every morning in Chicago—not better, just different.
“Mmmm,” Lex murmurs as his lips softly start kissing my bare shoulder. “Good morning, beautiful.” I love his gravelly voice as he wakes me and the safe feeling as his arms tighten around me.
“Go back to sleep, enjoy the quiet while you can,” I whisper, knowing how tired he was last night after spending time in the pool here with the boys and kids, trying to wear the little ones out so they would sleep, but I think it was the adults that ran out of energy first. We have done big family holidays all together before but never this far from home, where jet lag is involved.
“Not a chance. I have better plans for our quiet time together.” He pushes his crotch against my bare ass, and the tingles start heightening my body. It never takes much when my husband is naked around me.
“What if the kids hear us and wake up?” I whimper as his hand slides over my lower stomach.
But the moment his fingers reach my slit, parting me, and he slowly drags them up over my clit, all my conscious thought slips away.
All I can concentrate on is how good it feels.
He knows my body in a way that I don’t even have to say a word; he reads my cues, and I’m like putty in his hands.
“Then you better be quiet.” He rolls my body toward him, and as soon as I’m on my back, he is on top of me and his mouth is on me like he has been starved of the passion a kiss between us can hold.
His lips are my weakness.
The perfect softness of skin and the roughness of his beard. I crave it when we are apart, and the moment we reconnect, it’s like his facial hair awakens the sexual woman I never knew I was until I met Lex, the same one I bury deep down around my children.
But right here, right now, I want to let her free.
I grip his hair tightly as I devour him just as fiercely as he is me. Our bodies rub hard against each other, trying to find some relief from the arousal that is exploding inside us like fireworks that have been lit a few days too early.
“Fuck,” he growls at me as he pulls back slightly, and the pupils in his eyes are black, wide, and full of fire. I never have to wonder how he feels about me, it’s written all over his face.
“Until the day I die, I will never get enough of you.” His head drops to my breast, and he sucks on the nipple that is rock hard, sending chills through me, and my pussy is dripping.
“Then take me now, hard and fast, before we miss our chance.” I’m desperate to feel him inside me after his words have my heart full to the brim of blissful love for him.
“I don’t have to be told twice.” And in one motion, he pushes his cock deep inside me, his mouth opening over mine, swallowing the loud moan of pure joy that is being freed from my body.
We are so frantic to get to the peak of our orgasms together.
Our mouths are intertwined, hands are moving in a frenzy to touch every part of each other’s bodies as Lex continues to pound into me over and over again.
I wrap my legs around him, giving him the perfect angle to rub against my clit every time he buries himself so deeply.
I’m so close and am struggling to breathe, but I know if I pull out of this kiss, I’m going to be screaming the house down as this orgasm hits me hard. Tender sex is beautiful, but this fast, chaotic sex is hot as hell and has my body responding explosively every single time.
The fire starts burning through my body as I scream his name into his mouth, and I come so hard my body is shaking. White flashes of light cross my vision as my eyes clench shut. Lex’s body responds to me losing it, as I feel him draining every last drop of come inside me.
We finally break apart, and all I can hear echoing through the room is the sound of us both gasping for air.
“Holy shit, woman!” Lex grunts beside me on the bed.
“You promised me I would still get my time with Sexy Lexy, so I’m holding you to that.” I giggle, and in my head, I know that we will be old and gray and I’ll still be calling him that. It keeps me back in the memory of that first special summer we met and our time at the lake house together.
“Give me ten minutes and I’ll fulfill that promise again.” Rolling to his side and propping himself up on his elbow, he looks down at me.
“Ten minutes… You must be getting old, it used to be five.”
“Oh, you will pay for that comment.” He moves down the bed, and before I can say a thing or move an inch, he is between my legs and drops his head toward my body. “You better get the pillow, because I’m not going to stop until you are screaming my name repeatedly and can’t hold on any longer.”
And he wasn’t joking.