Chapter Twelve
CORA
I've never done anything like that before. I don't know what possessed me, except for the fact that I was marking my territory where Tillie was concerned. It turned me on that he was not interested in her, but was all invested with me. When he told me he loved me, I was shocked, but my heart sped up. I've always loved him, yes I hated him for a while, but my life turned out okay. I know I've been through some hardship in the last year, but it made me stronger. I know who I am now.
When the elevator doors open Caleb grabs my hand and pulls me to the Presidential Suite. I'm still in shock how much it cost to get this room, but I know why he did it. And I'm delighted, the suite is to die for.
He moves me into the room and then picks me up bridal style, which is quite ironic. Then he places me on the dining table. "If I'm going to eat your pussy, that's what you said, right?" I nod at him. "Then I'm going to eat you out, here on the table." With that he pushes me down on the table and I lean up on my elbows. I like to watch him when he's hungry.
He pulls my dress up. "Fuck, Cora, you didn't tell me you didn't have any panties on. I would have fingered you under the table if I knew."
"Maybe, that's why I didn't tell you. I was going to tell you on the dance floor, but we never made it that far." I laugh.
He pushes my legs apart and kisses up the inside of my legs.
"Caleb, don't take long."
"I'll take as long as it takes to get you to explode in my mouth, baby."
He runs his tongue between my lips, his eyes never leaving mine. "Imagine me waking you up every morning like this, Cora."
"MMM sounds good." I squirm a little as his tongue pushes deep inside me. It feels so good. I'm not as full as I am when his cock is inside me or when he has three fingers inside me, but it feels damn good.
His fingers pull my lips further apart so he can get deeper inside me. Then his thumb starts rubbing and flicking over my clit. It makes me squirm, but his arms are resting on my legs and I can't move. Just the thought of him being this in control of my body sends me wild. "Caleb, fuck, yes, it feels so good."
"Come for me, baby," he says before he sucks on my clit and puts three fingers inside me. He pistons his fingers in and out at the same time as sucking on my clit and it's too much for me. I was so turned on in the elevator that I know I'm going to come so quickly.
He gets faster and faster and it's game over for me. "Fuck, Caleb," I scream as my insides tense and I feel my orgasm washing over me. He continues to lick my pussy as I come all over his face.
When I've settled back down, he moves his face away from me. "Jesus, Cora, you taste so good. And you did not hold back at all."
"I couldn't hold back, Caleb."
He moves me further back on the bed and then he kisses me. I love when he's eaten me out and then he kisses me - it's so sexy.
He lies on his side next to me. "I meant what I said, Cora. I love you. I realize now that you were the woman I am the woman that I am meant to spend the rest of my life with. Before we bumped into each other I was coasting along, not wanting to get married and have kids..."
"Excuse me, we weren't talking about marriage and we definitely didn't discuss kids." What the fuck?
He smiles at me and kisses me hard. "I know, but I can see it now. I couldn't see it before."
"I think you've had too much to drink."
"Never, I'd never have so much that I couldn't make love to you, Cora."
He stands and takes his clothes off, before lifting me and taking my dress and bra off. "Now, get into bed, woman, I want to show you how much I love you." He lifts the covers and I slide inside. Our serious conversation can take place in the morning, because right now I need my man to show me how much he cares.
We've just had breakfast in the hotel. We saw Tillie and Daly come down and everyone welcomed them. They look like they didn't have a lot of sleep last night, hopefully their room was comfortable enough for them. They didn't come over to us and I'm grateful for that because now is the time for us to be serious. We need to talk about the past, the hurt, the anger and then we need to see if there is really anything between us that we can save.
As the breakfast room begins to empty, Caleb looks at me. "I think we should go into the other room and have our chat, I don't want anyone overhearing us. And if you get angry I don't want anyone to witness that." He laughs and I smile at him. Bless him, he's trying to put me at ease, but that is not working right now.
We get up and move to a conservatory type room that is empty with some comfortable chairs and a couch, where we both sit. Caleb reaches across and takes my hand.
“Cora, I loved you so much back then and I love you now. If I really think about it, I didn't stop loving you.”
“But you walked away from me with no explanation. You never gave me an option to go with you. I would have gone with you wherever you went.” I can feel the tears welling up in my eyes. Everything that we have been doing the last two weeks could be for nothing.
He takes a deep breath. “I was offered an opportunity to be an intern at Sylvester and Co in New York.”
“That’s it? Why didn’t you tell me?” It doesn’t make sense that this is all that happened.
“I was told that the only way I could have the internship was to move to New York the next day. My grandpop was friends with Michael Sylvester and they had prepared the internship for me. But there was a catch.”
I’ve been waiting for the shoe to drop. What was so wrong with being offered a chance in a lifetime opportunity? Why didn’t he tell me?
“A catch?”
“Yeah. when my grandpop had arranged the internship, after a few too many whiskeys they had talked about me getting together with Michael’s granddaughter. They thought it was a good idea to unite the two families.”
“Surely your grandpop didn’t organize that.” I remember his grandpop, he was very business oriented, but I liked him.
“Apparently, there was a contract drawn up that I had to date his granddaughter.”
“Why didn’t you say something about the internship to me? I thought you left me because you hated me and that you never loved me.” The tears are flowing now.
“I couldn’t. I had to leave the following morning and the only way that I could do what they had in the contract was to turn my back on you, Cora. And, I’ll be honest, I didn’t know what to say. Leaving you was the hardest thing I have ever had to do in my life.”
“But it clearly wasn’t, because you did it and then started dating someone else.” The thoughts of him with someone else, while I was slowly dying at home, are killing me right now.
“I didn’t think you would want a long-distance relationship and I really needed that internship.”
“More than me?” I hold my breath. I know what he is going to say.
“Yes. I’m sorry, I realize how selfish I was being. But I really thought that I could learn all about business from the best, set up my own company, make some money and then come and find you.”
“But you never did come and find me, Caleb. Never.” He tries to take my hand but I pull it away from him.
“It was too late. It was about three years later and Mom had told me you were dating someone. So, I didn’t want to upset everything, so I didn’t go home. Then Mom and Dad moved out here to be with me.”
“Caleb, I need time to think about this. You gave up our love, without consulting me, for a job. Tillie said you never had time for her because your work was so much more important than her. Is that what it’s going to be like for us? You never home, not wanting to come home to me.”
He moves across the couch and picks up my hands. “No, Cora. I’ve always been driven by success and I won’t argue with that fact. But since you’ve been living with me, even before we got together, I’ve realized that you are more important to me than my job. You always were, but I need to find myself in the business world so that I have the money to give you the life you deserve. I think if I had told you and you had come with me, we wouldn’t still be together for sure. I worked all hours, had dinners out nearly every night. Tillie was right, I didn’t give her the time, because she wasn’t you.”
“Don’t try to sweet talk me, Caleb. I need to leave. I’ll find my own way back. I need a few days to think about this. Will you give me that, please?”
“Of course, I’ll give you anything, Cora. Anything.”
“Would you let me go if I asked?” I wipe my face with my hands to rid my tears.
“Let you go? Is that how you feel? We’ve been so close this last week. If you asked me to let you go, I would fight for as long as I could, but if that was what you really wanted then I would let you go, yes.”
“Thank you.” I stand. “I’m going to grab a cab back home. I’ll see you later.” I turn and leave, but before I walk out of the room I turn to look at him and I see his head is in his hands and I’m sure I can hear him sobbing.
I want to go back and hug him and tell him that I love him and want to be with him, but I don’t know if I can right now.