Well goodness gracious me, but I've actually finished days ahead of the deadline! Now that has to be a first!!!! Thanks so much for reading, and all your kind words
. And major warning on this post...the last one was really the ending...this one is more like an epilogue and it is rated
x 10.“I thought I’d never get you away,” Jack complained, locking the door behind him with intense satisfaction.
“Lucky for you Bobby and Tara created that diversionary tactic or you’d still be sitting next to my mother listening to her recounting all my accomplishments,” Sue’s nose wrinkled with laughter as she rolled her eyes heavenward. “Where was she – I was about ten?”
“Junior High,” Jack corrected with a smile as he shrugged off his jacket and tossed it onto a chair. Loosening his tie came next.
Sue gulped and took a step backwards. There was something dangerously exciting about the look of Jack in a rumpled tuxedo – especially as it was being removed piece by piece. She watched his tie slide to the floor and his hands wasted no time undoing the button at his neck.
“Well, you’re lucky you were spared those fateful years,” Sue said, wetting her lips nervously. “You could have been there the entire night.”
Jack tracked the path of her tongue as it moistened her full lips. He groaned inwardly, hacking off two buttons of his dress shirt in his haste to rid himself of the constricting cotton. There were too many clothes between them.
"Don't worry sweetheart, I have other plans for the night."
Sue watched the shirt join the jacket as Jack moved forward, anticipating and countering her instinctive retreat. His hands reached out to keep her in one place and she stared, mesmerized by the bare expanse of his chest. Her hands reached out hesitantly, palms flattening against the sculpted muscles. She wasn’t surprised to feel the heat emanating off him. It engulfed her too within seconds and she watched with interest as her fingers splayed, gliding along his skin in a shy exploration.
Her touch was light and hesitant. She was still unsure, groping to find her way in this new aspect of their relationship. It was just a whisper of a touch – a shadow of what could be and yet his body leapt in reaction, heat flowing through his veins, fueled by the fire that each trailing touch fanned. He wanted her. Could barely think straight with the need that was coiling up from his belly. The intensity of his desire shocked him, spurred on as it was, by such a delicate touch. He groaned when her tongue darted out again. A quick swipe across her parted lips had him clamoring to have her treat his heated flesh with similar attention. Sliding his fingers through her hair, he cradled her head and urged the direction of her gaze upwards.
“Do you know how many nights I have spent fantasizing about us? Planning this night out to perfection. What I would do, what I would say, how I would touch you. I want to drive you wild, stroke your body to life. I want to memorize every curve, every freckle, all the hidden sensitive places you’ve saved just for me.” His eyes darkened as he watched the effects his words were having on her.
Her face was flush, her lips unconsciously parting in invitation. He could see the erratic beat of her pulse at the base of her neck. His thumb stroked down to cover it, feeling the hammering against his pad. It accelerated and he smiled. “You do that to me too. Feel.” He waited for her hand to slide over to the right spot, sucking in his breath as the swirling caress shot streaks of lightning down his spine. “The one thing I didn’t factor into my careful seduction was what it would feel like to have your hands on my body and how your slightest touch would drive everything out of my mind but my all consuming need for you. I’m afraid I’m going to lose control, Sue…”
He had woven a spell around her and she found herself standing still in the circle of his arms as the depth of the meaning in his words washed over her. She looked into his handsome face, the passion in his eyes pinning her there, holding both a challenge and a promise. She shivered, every nerve ending in her body suddenly alert with anticipation. She wanted him, she acknowledged, as a powerful drive pulsed to life deep inside of her. But want was such an inadequate word. It didn’t come close to defining this moment or the feelings that they shared. She wanted more than the night of passion he was offering her. She wanted this night…and many others like it, but not just because he was heartstoppingly attractive and she found various aspects of his body highly desirable – but because she saw past the layers of skin and muscle into the heart of the man. Tender, compassionate, full of life and laughter it was his pure soul that had captured her heart. Her hand slid experimentally across his chest. Though the packaging was of superb quality.
“Jack, I thought that the whole point of a wedding night was that you were allowed to lose control,” she told him rather brazenly as her right hand grew bolder, playing at the waistband of his trousers. “I still think you’re wearing way too many clothes for a honeymoon.”
A knowing light danced in his eyes as he traced the outline of her mouth with his forefinger. “Then do something about it, Mrs. Hudson,” he murmured huskily before claiming her lips with his in a mixture of love and lust.
She struggled with his belt. It was more difficult than she thought mainly because she was painfully aware of the heated flesh her hands were brushing against as her fingers fumbled. His mouth was distracting as he playfully nipped and teased and then plundered into a deepening kiss that had her abandoning her attempt in order to cling to him for support as shocking need clawed its way through her body.
Electricity sizzled along his spine at the innocent touch of her fluttering hands and he took pity on her...on him...and hastily completed the task she had set out to do, quickly divesting himself of his trousers.
“Now whose wearing too many clothes?” he grumbled into her mouth and set about to remedy that oversight. Her bodice proved thwarting, the double bow that laced it all together at the back quickly turning into a knot under his urgent questing fingers. He had more success with the skirt, which, to his delight, he discovered was separate form the bodice and an easy matter of gliding a zipper down along her hip. Yards of fabric dropped to the floor the minute he lifted his hand away.
Her arms crept up around his neck and she pressed her body into his, reveling at the feel of skin against skin. She buried her face in his neck, her breath tickling against his flesh, the sensation almost painful in his need. Her tongue flicked out and then he felt her teeth and he frantically set to work on freeing her from the fitted bodice while her teeth and tongue wrecked havoc across his chest.
He conquered the binding at last, pulling her away from him so that he could slowly, with infinite care, ease it off her shoulders. He tossed it aside, his eyes never leaving the sight of the beauty he had revealed. His hands caressed her first; gliding with expert care from waist to neck though his fingers trembled.
Her breath hitched in her throat as she fought the sensations that his roughened fingers rasping over her ultra sensitive skin produced. She couldn’t breathe, couldn’t think, couldn’t speak or sign. She could only feel, marveling at the exquisite torture that his touch kept building.
Somehow they ended up on the bed, the last remnants of their clothing lying scattered around them. Jack pressed her back against the pillows, intent on fulfilling some of his fantasies. His teeth nipped her soft flesh, tiny pinpricks that had her shivering. He soothed the shivers away with his tongue, swirling patterns of heat that fueled the fire already rampaging out of control. And all the while he ran his hands over her body, down her spine, massaging her rounded bottom, caressing the curve of her hip.
He became more demanding as his exploration deepened. He held her firmly, refusing to allow her to shy away. His hands were everywhere, his lips alternately soft and gentle and then relentlessly demanding as he built their tension to a breaking point. He would forever remember the sound of his name on her lips, the thready tremor in her voice as she cried out in her passion.
She turned to him in the calm after the storm, snuggling closer into his warmth, wrapping herself in his arms. He kissed her. Softly, gently, reassuringly, his hands now moving over her body with the intent of soothing, though she still shivered intermittently. Still arched into his heat. He nuzzled her neck, lovingly shaping his body around hers, savoring the miracle of being with her.
You have everything you need, if you just Believe.He smiled his contentment. He did have everything he needed, right here in his arms.
He watched her heavy lidded eyes finally close. Stroked her hair soothingly as she drifted into sleep. He would be content to simply hold her like this close forever, he thought. Though his attitude changed when they both woke several hours later.
He woke to whispered words of passion; her husky sleep-laced voice caressing his ear just before her teeth began to worry the tender flesh. His hunger revived, sharp and gnawing and he fisted his hands in her hair, dragging her head closer so he could devour her, his tongue sweeping into her mouth. Passion instantly flared between them. He tumbled her onto her back and savored the joy of having her in his bed, sprawled beneath him. This time he would love her slowly, and gently with controlled precision. There was no need for haste; they had the rest of their lives together. Then Sue moved impatiently, one long leg ensnaring his hip as she arched against him. He groaned as his control snapped. It was over rated anyway. This time he would show no mercy.
The End