Face Time – Chapter 27

Laura

“Let’s get started.”

Two years.

Over two years.

It’s actually been almost three years since I last had sex and there’s nothing I want more right this moment. Lee knows where my bedroom is even though he’s never been here before. He turns from me in the kitchen and walks straight to my bedroom door, tugging my hand. I trip over my own two legs that I crossed to keep the ache from swallowing me whole and smash into him.

“You’re awfully eager.” He smiles at me as I right myself.

“I could say the same about you.” My room is a disaster. I packed hastily, throwing items into my suitcase and tossing anything that got in my way onto the floor. Piles of clothes, a jumble of boots, and an empty cardboard box take up most of the available walking space. When I think back on our FaceTime conversations, his room was always immaculate. “Sorry about the mess.”

Lee spots the candles on my dresser and picks one up, raising his eyebrows at me. I point to the bedside table and the lighter sitting next to my books. No words. He reads my mind perfectly, except for one small problem. I’m frozen and can’t move. I thought this day would come, and we would naturally fall into bed with each other. In the best case scenario in my head, I pictured telling him everything of my past and then us sleeping together, but the action in my head never got past kissing because I couldn’t let myself believe any of it.

“Are you all right?” Five candles are lit and Lee stops to set down the lighter and take my hand.

“I-haven’t-had-sex-in-three-years,” falls from my mouth, a broken dam of shame and embarrassment. I look at our feet. Lee is rigidly still, and the mood feels ruined all of a sudden.

“What?” he asks, his voice rising. “But, how can that be?”

“It’s more like two and a half years. I haven’t slept with anyone since Rene.” I lift my head and make eye contact with him. He is genuinely perplexed, his head tilted and eyebrows drawn together. It’s sweet he shows his emotions for me. He was more buttoned-up on our first date, calm and reserved, and still I fell for him hard. This is the Lee I’ve come to love over the last four weeks.

“But, I thought…”

“You thought what?” I whisper.

Lee is so close, his body heat is bouncing off of me. “That a beautiful woman like you would have, I don’t know, taken advantage of, well, fuck dates. I’m sure men were falling all over themselves to take you home. You told me you hadn’t dated anyone, but I thought you were censoring things for me.”

I shake my head at him. “I don’t do that. Not anymore. I now stay celibate unless… unless he’s really fucking special.”

He smiles and tugs my hips towards his. “That’s quite a compliment.”

He doesn’t want to talk right now and neither do I. I lift my arms, hesitantly at first, but place my hands on his chest and slide them up around his neck. His body is so sexy, I can’t handle to even look at it with his clothes on. The black short-sleeve shirt he’s wearing clings to the muscles in his chest. I let my eyes wander down past his stomach to the dark jeans slung across his waist. The bulge in his pants is pressed against my abdomen. I pull my body up and to him, stretching to my tip toes so I can really kiss him. Our lips meet, and we open to each other immediately, a kiss so passionate it heats my entire body, his tongue sliding down past mine. I’m too far away from him, even like this. When his hands grab my ass, I lift my legs around him and squeeze down. He moans directly into my mouth, and my body starts to shake.

Turning me around, he lays me on the bed. I had forgotten how good it is to have a lover’s weight on top of me. It feels safe, secure, right. Lee pulls back and sits up, straddled over my middle, so he can pull of his shirt. I’m mesmerized by his smooth skin and abs.

“Three years is a crime. An absolute crime.” He pulls my shirt from my waist up over my head, kisses my navel, and runs his tongue lengthwise across my lower abdomen, chills following in his wake.

“Mmmm,” he says, sitting up. “Tell me what you like.”

“You don’t want to try and figure it out?” I tease back.

“I want to hear you tell me.” Oh, yes, Lee likes dirty talk. A wave of pleasure rolls over me from the waist up remembering our virtual sex when he described everything he’d do to me if we were together.

Hmmm, what should I start with?

“My favorite is oral…”

“Good, mine too.” His eyes are so happy. Damn, I’m lucky.

“And I pretty much have no limits when it comes to sex.” He raises his eyebrows at me. “Well, okay, one-on-one sex only. I want monogamy. One person to share things with.”

I close my eyes as I let Lee consider my intention. It’s a leap, from a tall, dangerous cliff, and I’m floating for a moment over the ground wondering if I’ll catch the wind and soar or die in a crushing thud.

“I want that person to be me.” He unbuttons the waistband of my pants and pulls them off. A huge breath empties from my lungs, relaxing my body to sink into the bed. “Hey,” he whispers, right over me. “Did you think I’d say no?”

I shake my head at him. “I don’t know what to think.”

“Don’t think. Just feel. You deserve this more than anyone.”

He crushes me to the bed with a heavy kiss, giving me a chance to undress him. I slide my hands down his back feeling all his muscles before unbuttoning his jeans and pushing them down. Lee pulls them off, and when he’s back, hovering over me, he smiles.

I bring my legs up and wrap them around him, slip my hands into his boxers, and grab his ass. I’ve wanted to do that for weeks. His butt is solid, tight, and perfect, like I imagined it would be. All of the running has paid off.

Our sex is hot and soon the only sound in the room is our heaving breaths. I lay down on top of him, sealing him to my chest with our sweat, and resting my forehead on his shoulder, I kiss his neck right below his ear. Lee squeezes me tight.

“That was…” he says, sighing. “I could have gone longer, though.” He turns and kisses me on the bridge of my nose. “I want this every day for the rest of my life.”

“Me too. Except maybe when I’m sick or you’re gone on business.”

“I’ll get you another vibrator and talk you through it.”

I push myself off of him and glance over the side of my bed. “You know…”

His eyes widen for a moment before his breathing kicks up again. “Yes. Another round before lunch. Plug in that wand. I want to use it on you.”

Shivers race all over my body.

“Mmmm, Lee. I’m happy you’re here.” I lean down and kiss him again. Slow and sexy, wanting every last moment.

When I pull away, he quirks a sweet smile at me, and I can’t help but think I’m lucky right now. Whatever happens later, at least I had this.

“There’s no place I’d rather be.”