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His brow flickers with a frown, as if he’s puzzled at my words, but he doesn’t say anything, blinking slowly as desire spirals up inside him.
“Mmm…” I tip back my head, arching my spine so I can push my breasts into his hands, starting to lose control.
“Jesus,” he mutters, and then he rears up, slides a tight arm around my waist, and somehow manages to turn on the sofa so I’m pinned beneath him. Our clothing twists and wraps around us, my arm’s caught under him, and he’s leaning on my hair, but he immediately starts to thrust, and at that moment I don’t care about anything except the feel of him sliding inside me.
I suck my bottom lip, torn between closing my eyes so I can concentrate on the pleasure flooding me, or keeping them open so I can watch him. I choose to watch him for a while, and slide my hands up under his T-shirt so I can dig my nails in his back.
Growling, he lifts up, tears off the top, and tosses it onto the floor, and then I get the full glory of the sight of his muscles painted with copper sunlight. I scrape my nails lightly down his arms, and he shudders. Pushing up my knees and wrapping my legs around his waist, he changes the angle of his thrusts so he’s grinding against me, and instantly I feel the first flutters of an orgasm deep inside.
“Ahhh… I’m going to come,” I whisper.
“Yes,” he says in triumph, “come for me,” and so I close my eyes and my lips part as the exquisite feeling sweeps over me. Everything clenches deep in my belly, like a drawstring being pulled tight, and it’s slow and beautiful, making me cry out loud before the six or seven hard pulses take my breath away.
“Ah God,” he says, “ah, Heidi, you feel so fucking good,” and with another half a dozen thrusts he comes too, shuddering with the force of his climax. I dig my nails in his back and tighten my internal muscles as tight as I can, clamping around him. In response he lets loose a string of swear words, some of which I’m sure I haven’t heard before, as he releases inside me.
I lift my hands and sink them into his hair, and pull him down for a fierce kiss. He’s such a fantastic blend of passionate and gentle. He’s so perfect for me.
First I kiss his cheeks, his nose, and then his mouth, long and soft. My heart is light as a feather, filled with hope after his earlier declaration that he’s crazy about me. I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I’m excited to think it might not be over, and there might be a future for us to explore.
Chapter Twenty-Two
Titus
After a snooze and an earth-shattering orgasm, I discover that I’m ravenous, despite my large lunch. Heidi offers to cook something, but Alan has urged me to make use of their chef, so I call the house and ask whether he’d be prepared to make us something. “Anything, sir,” is the answer, so I ask him for something Chinese and spicy. After a while, there’s a knock at the door, and a young guy delivers a bag full of containers. We take them into the kitchen and unpack them with whistles and cheers when we discover kung pao chicken, twice-cooked pork, king prawns in ginger and garlic, and a superb crispy chili beef, along with fried rice and homemade vegetable spring rolls.
Heidi and I pour ourselves another drink, serve up the food, take it out onto the terrace, and sit at the outdoor dining table to eat. It’s a beautiful evening, warm and sunny, and we work our way through the dishes while we talk about the day. She asks lots of questions about the board meeting and what Alan said, and I tell her a bit more about Stork and what Alan’s hoping to achieve at Acheron.
When we can’t eat any more, we sit until it starts getting dark, and then pick up our plates and take them inside. After we’ve washed up, I collect my laptop and make myself comfortable in the armchair, and call Elizabeth, then Mack, then Saxon on Zoom while Heidi goes off to have a bath.
I keep the calls short, and Heidi’s still in the bath when I finish. I stand in the doorway, listening to her singing, and smiling at the sight of her immersed in all the bubbles.
She sees me and her face lights up. “Hey! All done?”
“Yep.” I walk in and sit on the chair beside the bath.
“I’m guessing Elizabeth was pleased?”
“They all were, and relieved.”
“I’m so glad.” She looks genuinely thrilled for me, which brings a lump to my throat. I saw the look on her face when I walked in and told her that Alan’s investment was unconditional. I’m sure she’d been hoping that my moving here would be a condition. Instead, I don’t have to make that difficult decision between taking the money and leaving my home country and my business behind.
“I was just about to get out,” she says. “Hand me that towel?”
I hold it out for her as she rises, wrap it around her, and then pull her into my arms. Her skin is warm and glistening, and her hair is damp at her temples when I nuzzle there.
She leans her cheek on my shoulder, and we stand there like that for a moment. Then I kiss the top of her head. “Fancy a movie?”
“Sure, why not?”
So we watch a movie, then go to bed. Despite my snooze, I’m tired out from the day, but it doesn’t stop me lying awake for ages after we’ve turned out the lights and snuggled up together. From her breathing, I’m pretty sure she’s awake, too. But we lie there in the darkness, lost in our thoughts, as the full moon rises slowly in the night sky.
*
The next day, Alan and Vicky come to see us just after eight a.m. to say goodbye.
Heidi hugs them both and I hug Vicky, and then I go to shake Alan’s hand, and he laughs and pulls me into a bearhug.
“So great to meet you,” he says. “Call me when you land, okay?”
