Lee had barely unlocked the door when they were in each other arms again and they stumbled through it together. He pushed her up against the door closing it partially with the force of their combined weight as he kissed her feverishly. She reached up to push his jacket off his shoulders as he did the same with her sweater leaving them in the entryway. They continued to cling to each other sharing fiery kisses as they made their way further into the apartment knocking over his end table in the process. Even this didn't stop their frenzy for each other. They fell to the sofa together knocking the phone off its cradle, Amanda landing atop him as they continued to feed on each other, Amanda's nimble fingers unbuttoning his shirt and stroking the hard muscles beneath it. As she tried to pull it off him, they both tumbled to the floor knocking the coffee table still laden with coffee cups onto its side.

Neither of them was deterred by this. Lee, who had landed atop Amanda this time, shrugged out of his shirt and began to work on her blouse kissing each new patch of skin he exposed. He rose to his knees and pulled her up with him to straddle him as he removed her blouse entirely, her front clasp bra following behind it as he threw it across the room not caring where it landed. "Lee," Amanda cried out as he lowered his mouth to her bared breast. She leaned back to give him better access as she reached to free him from his pants, wanting to feel him, every inch of him. She pushed his pants and boxers down over his bottom as he began to work on her pants, succeeding in getting them unbuttoned and unzipped but struggling to pull them off.

"Oh, God, Amanda," he cried out as she began to stroke him boldly. He rose and pulled her to her feet, kicking off his shoes and stepping out of his pants while she did the same. He reached for her again and began an assault on her neck ravaging it with his tongue and lips delighting in the feel of her bare body against his. He then lifted her into his arms carrying her through the French doors to his bed. He laid her down and laid beside her kissing her tenderly before pulling back to gaze into her eyes and was shocked to see the raw desire burning in them He captured her lips in a passionate kiss as her covered her lithe body with his own needing to be as close to her as possible. He slipped her panties down her legs so that there were no longer any barriers between them. He slid his hand between them and stroked her center, gratified by the low moans of pleasure it evoked in her. He dipped a finger inside her to find her already wet for him.

Amanda tore her mouth from his and cried out," Lee, Please!"

"Please, what?' He said, his voice demanding as he stroked her inside and out.

"Please" she cried again.

"Tell me what you want, Amanda," he said looking deep into her eyes.

"Make love to me, Lee, please." She raised her hips toward him and when he responded only by kissing her again as he continued to stroke her, She pulled away from his kiss and cried out, "Lee, I need you, Need...you...inside,' she pleaded as she reached her peak shaking beneath him closing her eyes against the waves of pleasure that overtook her..

"Amanda, look at me," Lee said. When she opened her eyes and gazed into his, he said hoarsely, 'I love you," as he entered her slowly all the while never breaking eye contact with her.

She started to responded in kind, but found that she was only able to gasp as the feeling of having him inside her after so much anticipation overwhelmed her. She lightly stroked his face as they began to move together. She beamed at him as he clasped his hands with hers and began to thrust into her slowly clear that he was trying to make their first time together last as long as possible. She pushed against him, needing to feel all of him.

When she began to raise her hips to meet his and drive him in deeper, Lee was lost; feeling her beneath him as he'd longed to for so long, hearing her cries of pleasure as she called out his name, those cries driving him crazy with need. They moved together again and again sharing scorching kisses and whispering to each other until they tumbled over the edge together crying out each other's names.

They lay like that for a long moment, happily entwined with one another as they exchanged soft kisses and touches while their breathing slowed back to normal. Lee planted one more firm kiss to her lips and pulled back to look into her eyes and noticed they were glistening with unshed tears. "Amanda?" he said his voice worried. "What's wrong. Did I hurt you?"

"No, Lee, no," she said letting the tears fall. "Far from it. This was...I've wanted this, wanted you. I just...I'm having trouble believing it's real."

"Me too," he said kissing her softly. "This feels like a dream."

"It's not a dream," She said as she softly stroked his face pulling him down for another kiss.

When their kiss ended he raised his head to look her in the eyes again. "More like a dream come true. Amanda, I want you to know that I meant what I said. I love you. I have for a very, very long time. I was just never ready to ...you know."

"I know," she said softly as she looked up into his eyes and ran her fingers through his hair. "I know. Me either."

Lee started to shift positions, but Amanda stopped him. "No, Lee, not yet."

"But I must be crushing you," he protested.

"No, it feels amazing, your weight above me, feeling you still inside me, I don't want to lose that feeling yet." Her voice took on a pleading quality as she reached for the back of his head pulling him in for another long slow kiss.

They kissed for what felt like hours, their lips and tongues meeting repeatedly. As their kisses grew more heated, more fiery, Lee felt himself growing hard again within her. He was amazed that just her kisses could make him that way and so soon.

Amanda felt it too, relishing the feeling of his erection inside her and locked her legs around him pulling him deeper within her again. Lee groaned, rising to his knees and pulling her with him to straddle him in one fluid movement driving himself up into her while she placed her hands on his chest thumbing his masculine nipples while lowering her head to the pulse point on his neck suckling the tender skin there, "Oh, Amanda," he cried out. "That feels so good." He lowered them back on the bed feeling the need to be deeper within her and grabbed her hips to raise them higher giving him a better angle to thrust deeper and harder inside her.

Amanda continued laving Lee's neck while he drove into her faster and harder until she cried out, 'Lee, Oh, Lee!" and wrapped her arms around his back holding onto him while trembling with the force of her climax.

Lee, feeling her writhing beneath him, her muscles compressing around his manhood reached his own peak calling out her name repeatedly. He buried his face in her neck raining soft kisses on her neck and shoulder before rolling over onto his back and pulling her with him to lie atop him her head on his chest.

"God, why did we wait so long for this," Lee said once he was able to catch his breath again.

"I don't know," she replied as she raised her head to look at him. "But if I'd known we'd be this good together, I'd have jumped you a long time ago," she said with a sultry smile.

"Yeah?" he said with a hopeful smile.

"Yeah," she said kissing him tenderly. "I was just never quite ready to take that chance with you."

"So, what made you take a chance tonight?"

"Believe it or not, it was Joe."

"Really? How's that?"He asked not sure he wanted to hear the answer.

"He asked me tonight if I wanted to go back and I told him no, that I wanted to go forward and it really hit me when I said it that even though you and I have been on several dates, we haven't really been moving forward. We've been in kind of a holding pattern minus the holding."

Lee laughed at her turn of phrase and said, "I guess that's true."

"Then when we were dancing and I saw you walk in, he noticed that my attention was no longer on him and he told me to go start my future. I think it was his way of giving me his blessing."

"So," Lee said nervously. "Is this the start of your future?"

"Uh-uh," She said with a shake of her head. "It's the start of our future." She kissed him again softly before lying her head back down on his chest and they drifted off to sleep together.