One Mistake(2)

The smile that spread across my face was pure sex. As he watched, I slid my wet tongue from his tip, down the length of his shaft. His mouth dropped open in pleasure and his eyes closed. I repeated the move, this time using my hands to gently squeeze his testicles. William’s jaw clenched hard and I knew that he was about to come. His eyes flicked open, and he silently let me know that he was about to release. I widened my eyes to say that I understood and then I closed my mouth over him again, and after one trip over his length, his body jerked beneath me and he released into my mouth, grunting my name again.

I quickly swallowed the sticky liquid that filled my mouth, trying my best not to gag or make a disgusted face. As much as William turned me on, that part of oral pleasure was never sexy. He was panting slightly as I trailed kisses from his now satisfied erection up his torso. I stopped just below his jaw, and whispered in his ear, “Delicious.”

William exhaled sharply and turned his head to face mine. “Holy fuck, Olivia.”

I laughed at the stupefied expression on his face. I couldn’t help but tease him. “Was that good for you?”

“Everything about you is good for me,” he said, his head shaking slightly in awe. “You better not plan on leaving me anytime soon because I don’t think I could let you go.”

“I’m not going anywhere in this snowstorm,” I said, rolling onto my back.

“That’s not exactly what I meant.” William rolled onto his side, and I melted as his warm body pressed against me. Whether I liked it or not, my attraction to him wasn’t going away. He placed the palm of his hand over my stomach, just below my bellybutton. “You are so amazing,” he said in a near whisper.

“You’re only saying that because of what I just did,” I said. It wasn’t the first time a man had declared his amazement to a woman just after sexual activity. I wasn’t that naïve.

“I’m not,” he insisted. He pushed up on an elbow so that he hovered over me.

The intensity in his eyes caused me to shrink back into the bed. His eyes burned a steely gray and his lips pressed into a firm line. I could tell he was weighing whether or not to say something else. After a slow blink of his eyes, he said, “Just promise me you’ll stay.”

I nodded, lifting my head to kiss him softly on the lips. “If that’s what you want. I’ll stay.”

William smiled. “Our first Christmas together,” he said. “How romantic.”

“Romantic, erotic. Same thing.” I kissed him again, and then jumped out from under him. “Shit.”

“What’s wrong, Livy?” William jumped out of bed as well and watched as I frantically scrambled to find my clothes.

“I can’t believe I forgot.” I pulled on my underwear and snapped a bra into place. “I’m such an idiot.”

“Livy. Calm down.” William grabbed me by the arm and pulled me to a halt. In my hasty panic, my heart had been racing but now it skipped a beat for an entirely different reason. William was standing before me, naked, wearing nothing but a worried expression and wild sex-hair. I was dying to run my hands through it, but I didn’t have time.

“I have to go, William.”

“Go? Where? Livy, I don’t understand what’s going on.” His troubled face was utterly adorable. I wanted to wrap my arms around him and pull him back to bed.

I placed a hand on his chest and smiled up at him. “I’m sorry. I don’t mean to be acting like a crazy person, but I have a prior commitment today and I just remembered.”

“What kind of commitment?” William stood watching as I pulled on a pair of jeans.

“Do you remember that place I told you about? The shelter where I help out?” In a fit of anger, I had told William the darkest secret about my past. I had an ex-boyfriend that turned violent, and put me in the hospital. Since then, I had been volunteering my time at a shelter that took in abused women and children.

“I remember.” The clench of William’s jaw said that he was thinking about my ex-boyfriend, not the shelter.

“Today they are having a Christmas party, and I’m sort of in charge of it.” It had been my idea, actually. The shelter had about a dozen kids, and most of them didn’t have a lot to be happy about. I wanted to do something to cheer them up, even if it was just for a day. “I need to be there in twenty minutes to get everything set up.”

I found a clean sweater in my bag and pulled it on. Then I got on my hands and knees to retrieve my boots from under the bed. When I got back on my feet, William was already half-dressed in a pair of dark jeans and he was working on the buttons of his white dress shirt.