“Come here.”
“You need to be naked first.”
He tugged off her sweatpants. Her bra came off next. Seeing a woman naked, never got old. The sight took away his breath. “Oh, Violet.”
“I love how you say my name,” she said.
He climbed back on top of her. He took her breast in his mouth as he found her clit. He rubbed in a circle, her body arching up to his hand. He could play her like a musical instrument and that turned him on. She was his most responsive lover ever.
“Oh, Amedeo.”
His name sounded dirty in her mouth. Made his body light on fire. Her fingers dug into his shoulders, her back arched, her teeth gritted. A keening noise erupted from her as her body shuddered.
“You okay?”
“I’m better than okay, Amedeo. Get inside of me. Now.”
He laid her back down his body craving her touch.
She ran her hands up and down his back as he entered her.
“I love how your muscles bunch when you’re moving inside of me,” she said.
“I love how soft you are.”
He moved inside of her, hitting all the right spots, he hoped. Her eyes fell closed, her mouth fell open. Oh yes. He knew that look. She was close. Her hands clenched.
“Oh.”
He sped up and followed her over the cliff, his body a bundle of sensations. He wasn’t even sure how he kept thrusting into her. He’d lost control of his body. As she was wracked with aftershocks, he finally stopped.
He tried to catch his breath, leaning over her. He nipped at her neck, one more time for good measure. He slumped onto her. “Tell me if I’m hurting you.”
“I have no feeling in most of my body, so no worries.”
He laughed. God, he loved to do that to a woman. She was all soft and pliant underneath him. He didn’t want to move. He didn’t want to lose the contact with her. At least he didn’t have a condom to get rid of.
He rolled off her, snuggling her up against him. The length of her was pressed against the length of him. He couldn’t imagine being anywhere else right now. Is this what marriage was like?
*
Back at work, Violet made dinner plans with Kalia for that night. She was still a little sore from the accident, but she didn’t want to go home to an empty house. Amedeo was off seeing his mother and she wasn’t invited.
Something about the situation bothered her, but she couldn’t articulate it. She shouldn’t be bothered by it. They weren’t in a relationship. Just sex. That’s all it was. Why would his mother want to meet the mother of his child? Or hadn’t he told his mother about her?
Either way, she would go out with Kalia and have a good time.
She was getting closer to her own hacker and she’d seen no ramifications from the system she hacked into. That was stupid on her part. She was just flexing her muscles. Letting herself know that she could still do it. She still had it.
Lately she’d been feeling that her skills were going downhill. Must be pregnancy brain. She sighed. She didn’t like feeling useless and Amedeo’s hacker wasn’t proving too difficult. She’d set a trap for him and now they had to wait until he or she sprung it.
Waiting was not part of Violet’s repertoire. She wasn’t a patient person. She wanted everything yesterday. At least the day finally ended and she and Amedeo went their separate ways.
She met Kalia at a restaurant halfway between her apartment and Amedeo’s house. Violet knew she’d be tired, but didn’t want to ask her friend to drive a longer distance.
They were seated in the back, but not by the kitchen. Violet knew she could eat a horse. Lunch had only been soup. Nothing had appealed to her and now she was regretting not having more. Amedeo had suggested she get a sandwich, but she couldn’t choose so she didn’t.
They ordered, then Violet told Kalia what had been going on. “So, he wants to talk about the baby. I didn’t know men like this existed.”
“Not sure if it’s an Italian thing or a white man thing. Could you imagine having a conversation like that with a brother?” Violet said.
“Not at all. You just think about being pregnant and they run away.”
“We talked for hours about what we wanted for our child. It was really kind of neat. Bonding in a way.”
“You’re in love with this guy,” Kalia said.
No. she wasn’t. “I can’t be. No. I’m not. We’re having awesome sex and that’s it,” Violet said, but something niggled at the edges of her brain. What if she was?
She shook her head.
“You are, Violet. He’s all you talk about.”
“We are having a baby together. I do spend a lot of time with him since I work at his company and I’m currently living with him. I’m bound to have a lot of stories about him.”