6 Years Ago
"I value my breath so it would be nice if you didn't take it away every time you walked by." I just looked at this man that I'd been doing flirty eyes with for the past hour. He's eyes blackened in response. I don't know if that's a good thing or bad, but I need to fix this embarrassment, quickly.
"I'm so sorry, I'm on a bachelorette party scavenger hunt and my best friend who's getting married told me I HAD to say that to you. I mean yes, you are a very attractive man but I didn't mean to offend you. Please accept my sincerest apologies." Geez my mother is gonna hear about this… am seriously going to get grounded… can a college graduate get ground… on no there goes my dessert privileges… I'm so in trouble..
"Do you win a prize for this?" he gave me the full down and up once over. I have to say a move that normally creeps the bejesus out of me made me tingly ALL over. Must be the shots we've been doing cause I'm so out of my comfort zone.
"Umm bragging rights?" I pulled out the recesses of my mind.
"What else is on the list? I want to make sure you can brag for quite some time." Oh lord this man is hot with a capita E! Just then he threw his head back and roared with laughter.
"Your wish is my command." The next thing I knew his hands held my head while he laid the mother of all kisses on me. In the distance I can hear the girls hooting and hollering but I am lost in the feel of this man.
He ends the kiss by placing little kisses on my tingly lips until I reopen my eyes. Seriously not one part of me isn't tingling, I can feel it at the end of my split ends. "I would like to continue this with your consent, but I have to warn you this is all it will be, just one night. And by the feel of that kiss it will be one incredible night. What do you say Babe?"
"Really, just like that you don't even know my name and we've barely had a conversation."
"What can I say I'm a man of action, I see something someone I want and I'll move heaven and earth to make sure I don't live with the regret of not having been with you."
"I'm not sure which I'll regret, but my instincts are telling me that I would regret not getting to know you, so yes. But I've got to talk to Mary Lou first, while I already feel like the worse Maid of Honor ditching her for a guy I just met. Stay here I'll be right back." He laid another kiss on me before he left to stumble my way back to the girls. Seriously how am I supposed to be graceful in 6" heels after those kisses?
I finally make my way over to the gaggle of giggling girls, I grab Lou's hand and drag her to the bathroom. We briefly talk over the pros and cons of this happening. The deciding factor for not feeling like the worlds' worst sluttest friend is when Lou tells me that she's happy that she's the reason that I'm breaking my sex drought. We walk back to the girls, I grab my purse, say my goodbyes with a promise to Lou to call her in the morning to let her know I survived the Mr Hottie's Wild Ride.
I started making my way back to hottie, when the thought hit me again that I didn't know his name. I run back to the girls table grab a few things out of the goodie bag, then grab Lou's hand again. And drag her with me.
We made our way back to the his table he acknowledges us with a respectful head nod "Babe, and MaryLou I presume."
"May I see your driver's licence?" I said to Mr. Tall Dark and Sexy.
He smirks and grabs his wallet from his front pocket. While he hands over to me two ID cards. I hand one to Lou and look at the other. It's a military ID card that has his picture with the name Lieutenant Ricardo C Manoso next to it. I use the disposable camera that I grabbed just a moment ago to take three pictures, one of the front of the ID card, one of the back of the ID card and the third of the man himself. I hand the camera over to Lou to take pictures of the driver's license that I gave her. I extend my hand, "Lieutenant Manoso, I'm Stephanie Plum."
He takes my hand places a kiss on it, then wraps it behind his waist thus bringing me into his body. "It's going to be both of our pleasure meeting you Ms Plum, but please Babe call me Carlos."
Mary Lou giggled handed over the driver's licence and walked back to the girls table. She didn't even say good bye. As I watched her walk away, Carlos place his hand to the small of my back and guides me out of the casino nightclub and towards the elevators.
Once we were in the elevator I turned to kiss him. I just wanted to get lost in this man, I didn't want to think but just feel and be felt by him. I guess at some point during the elevator ride I wrapped my legs around his waist and he carried me towards his room when the elevator dinged. He managed to get the door not only unlocked but opened. He used my back to close the door on his hotel room and kept kissing me against the door. I felt him pressed against me in all the right spots, while his hands cupped and massaged my ass. I've never thought of my ass as being pleasure zone but damn the way this man made me feel.
Not once had either of our lips left the other since I instigated this make out session of epic portions. I finally managed to pull some sort of coherent thought from the deep recesses from my mind. "Say you'll remember me in a nice dress staring at the sunset, babe."
A/N: No Monies, they all belong to Janet for the characters or Taylor for the inspiration in form of a song. Ok so I tried to make this more about young, dumb and full of horniness for Steph and tried not to have Ranger be a creepier, but an equally horny guy. Remember they are in their early twenties! And hopefully soon I will have the epilogue written, yup I lied this is going to be a three part story and not a two part.