Ana POV

It's time for my monthly trip to Vancouver for the editors meeting.
I've packed a bag and plan on staying for the weekend so I reserved a suite instead of a room. Luke is stopping by tomorrow night to do some upgrades on my computer and then we are having dinner. I didn't get to see him last month because he was out of town on a job for Taylor.

It's a 5 hour drive down there, so I lower the top of my R8 and head out. My meeting starts at 9 tomorrow morning and will take most of the morning and afternoon, and afterwards we are all going out for drinks to celebrate signing a new author. Everyone is going clubbing afterwards, but since I am meeting Luke for dinner I told them I couldn't join them this time.
I arrived at the Hilton in Vancouver about 2:00, and after I checked in I was able to schedule a massage downstairs at the salon...luckily they had a cancellation so I was able to get in at the last minute.

An hour later I'm back in my room, totally relaxed after my massage, and I decided to order room service and relax for the rest of the evening and watch TV.

I'm up before my alarm the next morning, and after a long bath and breakfast I head to the office for the day to discuss new manuscripts, rejected manuscripts, new authors, and up and coming ones to watch. We give our inputs on our manuscripts and the group as a whole makes a decision. It's a good group of people and everyone respects each other's opinions.
Finally 4:00 rolls around and we head out for the day, meeting down the street at a local pub for a few rounds before calling it a week.

I get to back to the hotel just before 6:00 when Luke calls and says he's on his way and should be there by 6:30. I take a quick shower and am just finishing my makeup when I hear a knock on door.
I look through the peephole and see that it's him so I open the door to let him in. I haven't seen him in 2 months and I give him a hug and a quick kiss on the cheek. I have missed him. He returns the hug, pecks me on the cheek too, and tells me I look great.
"You're not too bad yourself, Mr. Sawyer" I tell him, earning me a little smile from him.

He is finally over his ex. fiancé...her betrayal really did a number on him. Since he was there for me during my divorce, I was there for him during his breakup, and as a result we became even closer friends...I guess you could call us best friends now.

"So, let's get your computer updated so we can go to dinner...I'm starving."

"You're always hungry" I tease him.

I walk over to the desk where it's sitting, sit down and turn it on for him and log in my password. As I'm sitting at the desk logging in, he walks up behind me, looking over my shoulder leaning into me, and I feel a fluttering in my chest that I haven't felt in a very long time. My heart rate increases and so does my breathing. I sit there not moving until he asks me to let him sit down.
I stand up on shaky legs and move, allowing him to sit down.

"Ana, are you OK?" Luke asks me, but I notice his voice isn't as strong as it normally is.
I just nod my head, and he sits down and starts working on my laptop. What is going on? I think to myself.
I excuse myself and walk to my bathroom and look at myself in the mirror. My face is flushed and that strange feeling I have in my chest is now moving south.
Have I developed feelings for Luke?
I think back to all we've been through together, and although we have never had sex, we have shared more intimate moments with each other in the past 2 years than most couples do in their entire relationship. We have seen each other at our best and also at our worst; we know each other better than anyone else knows us. I trust him with my life and I feel safe with him.
Holy shit. It hits me like a ton of bricks...I am attracted to Luke.
Why now? What has happened to make me feel this way? Does he feel the same about me?
I get ahold of myself and walk back into the living room where he's just finishing up on my laptop.
"Do you want a drink before we head to dinner?" I ask him as I pour myself a glass of wine. I need something to calm my nerves right now.
"Sure. I'll have a glass of wine." He says to me.

I pour him a glass and hand it to him, and he notices that my hand is shaking a little bit.
"Ana, what's wrong? Your face was flushed earlier and now your hand is shaking. Are you feeling OK?"
"I'm fine Luke. I haven't eaten today so I'm sure that's what it is. Let's go to dinner."
I finish my wine and set the glass on the table and picked up my purse and we head out, my legs still a little weak. He puts his hand in the small of my back as we walk through the lobby and wait for the valet to bring around my car, and I feel my body tingle at his touch. He opens the door for me and then goes around and gets behind the wheel and we head out. I know he noticed my flushed face but didn't say anything. I can feel the sexual tension in the car all the way to the restaurant and all through dinner, and the glass of wine I had before and one with dinner did not help the situation at all. We chatted and laughed all through dinner like always, but the entire time I kept staring at his lips and wondering how soft they are and what it would be like making love to him.

Get ahold of yourself, Ana, my subconscious barks at me.

After dinner we headed back to the hotel, and because he wanted to see if the updates on my laptop were done, Luke came up with me. The ride up to my suite seemed to take forever, and the tension in the elevator was driving me crazy. He opened the door to my room and as soon and we walked in and closed the door he pushed me up against the wall and kissed me like his life depended on it. Immediately I started kissing him back and after a few minutes we broke apart and looked at each other, not saying anything, but we could both see lust in our eyes.
I finally broke the silence "Wow. I need to sit down...I don't think my legs can hold me up for much longer" I told him as I walked to the couch and sat down.
"Do you want a glass of wine?" He asks me, nervously.
"No. I need a clear head right now" I said.

He sat on the couch next to me, looking down at his hands he began "Ana I'm so sorry. I don't know what came over me. I just lost control. I don't want this to affect our friendship...your friendship means more to me than anything in this world. I'm so sorry for what I just did."
I just looked at him for a minute, and reached over and put my hand on his arm. "Luke, in case you didn't notice, I was kissing you back. If I wanted to stop you, I would have. I have feelings for you...I just realized that this afternoon. That's what was wrong with me earlier in the hotel room, and all the way to dinner. When you leaned over me at my computer, I felt the heat from your chest on my back and neck, and when I inhaled your scent, it ignited something in me that I hadn't felt in a long time."
I leaned into him and kissed him very softly, running my tongue across his lip, asking for permission. He reached up and pulled me into him while deepening the kiss, as our tongues battled each other. He moaned, and laid me down on the couch, never pulling our lips apart.
I could feel myself getting wet, and I let out a moan as he ran his tongue down my neck, trailing kisses as he went, and when he gently caressed my breasts through my blouse with his very adept hands, I reached around and squeezed his firm ass, pulling him into me, and I felt the massive bulge in his pants as he started grinding his hips into me. "Ana..." he groaned, looking down at me. "If we don't stop now, I don't think I will be able to. I need to be sure this is what you want before we go any further."

We broke apart again and sat up, my face flushed, and my panties soaking wet, and he was almost bursting out of his pants. I wanted him to make love to me right there on the couch but he was right, we did need to talk about this before we went any further. Once we became intimate our friendship would never be the same...we had to be sure we both wanted to pursue this.

We sat up all night talking, and we realized we had been attracted to each other for a while, but were both afraid to act on our feelings. We decided to take things slow, and not jump into bed right away, but to date for a while and let nature take its course.

4 weeks later Ana POV

It's been a month since Luke and I officially started dating, and I can feel myself falling in love with him. We see each other every weekend, and sometimes during the week when he's not working out of town I will drive down and stay for a few days. I have set up a makeshift office in his spare bedroom so I can work when I'm there. We still haven't slept together yet-I'm still nervous about being with another man, and he has been very understanding-but I'm going to remedy that this weekend.

He's been out of town for almost a week, and is driving up to my house when he gets back this afternoon. I am making his favorite dinner, my famous lasagna, and for dessert I'm going to surprise him. I went to the salon yesterday and had the works done, and also bought some sexy lingerie, so I am ready for whatever may happen.
I hear my phone beep and I see it's a text from him, telling me he just landed and will be here about 6:00. I texted him back that I couldn't wait to see him again, and to let himself in when he gets here.
I have a few hours before he arrives so I prepare the lasagna and will put it in the oven about 5 so it will be ready when he gets here.

I'm putting on my sexy new lingerie after my relaxing bath and I feel like a giddy school girl about to go on her first date when I hear the timer beep on the oven, letting me know I have 5 minutes before the lasagna is done. I finish getting dressed-I'm wearing a sexy red dress that hugs my body and shows off my curves-and walk into the kitchen, and as I'm taking the lasagna out of the oven to cool I hear a sexy voice behind me say "something smells good, and it's not dinner."
I turn around and Luke is standing there with flowers in one hand and a bottle of wine in the other staring at me lustfully.
"Wow...you look beautiful, Ana"
I walk over to him, take the flowers and wine from him, setting them on the counter, and kiss him like there's no tomorrow.
"I missed you" I say to him when we come up for air.
He smiles at me before saying "I missed you more" and I feel my pulse quicken and my panties get wet.
"What a nice surprise...you're earlier than I expected. Something tells me you didn't drive the speed limit on the way here."
"Well, I was anxious to get here. I haven't seen your beautiful face in a week..." he smirks at me, then pushes me up against the counter as he kisses me, pressing his tongue gently against my lips, and I part them, granting him access. My knees weaken so I wrap my legs around his waist and can feel his erection digging into me. He continues his assault on my lips then moves down to my neck, and I moan loudly. "Luke...please" I beg.
"What do you want baby?" He asks as he gently begins to massage my breasts through my dress.
"You. I want you. Make love to me."
He pulls back and looks at me, and I can see lust in his eyes.
"Ana, baby, are you sure? We can wait if you aren't ready."
"I'm ready Luke. Please, make love to me now" I plead with him.
He doesn't say anything, just picks me up and carries me into my bedroom and sets me down next to the bed. His reaches behind me and slowly lowers the zipper on my dress, then pulls it all the way down, exposing me in my lacy new bra and panties.
"God Ana, you're beautiful" he says as his eyes roam up and down me as I step out of my dress.
"Mr. Sawyer, I think you're overdressed." As he starts to unbutton his shirt I drop down to my knees and unbuckle his pants, lowering them down his muscular thighs and kiss his erection through his boxer briefs. I smile up at him and hook my fingers in his briefs and pull them down, and as his huge cock springs free I run my tongue up and down his shaft before taking him in my mouth, sucking the tip, tasting the pre cum that is now leaking.
"Ana" he groans, "God that feels good."
I take him completely in my mouth, all the way down my throat, sucking him harder and harder.
"Baby, OMG that feels incredible" he incoherently mumbles and puts his hands on my head as I continue to suck him harder.
"Fuck, Ana I'm gonna cum!" He shouts. I reached around and grabbed his ass and pulled him further into my mouth, and a few seconds later I felt him explode, and his hot seed hit the back of my throat. I swallowed every drop and licked him clean before looking up and smiling at him.
He reached down and pulled me up and then smashed his lips to mine, probing my mouth with his tongue. When he pulled away he had a look of awe on his face.
"Wow, Ana. I've never had..." and before he could do finish the sentence I reached up and kissed him. I didn't want to hear about his past experiences...I wanted to make new ones with him.
He reached behind me, unhooked my bra and dropped it on the floor
before he pushed me down on the bed and climbed on top of me kissing me the entire time, while running his hand slowly down across my collarbone to my breasts. He gently massaged each of my breasts before running his tongue down and flicking my erect nipples, alternating sucking on them. That familiar, but long lost feeling started burning in my groin, and I arched my back in pleasure, moaning his name as I felt an orgasm starting to build. He slid his hand down and slipped 1, then 2 fingers in me. I was soaking wet and was barely holding on.
"Luke..." I moaned." I couldn't form a sentence. It had been so long since I had felt this type of pleasure; a battery operated boyfriend just doesn't come close to the pleasure Luke was giving me. I felt his tongue slide down my belly and stop at my clit, and as soon as his tongue touched that bundle of nerves and he started sucking I couldn't hold on any longer and I screamed his name at the top of my lungs; I came so hard that I saw stars, and my body was shaking from head to toe.
He looked up at me grinning, and after I was able to catch my breath a little he went back for seconds, and started kissing and licking my pussy while sliding his finger in and out of me, hitting my G spot
"Oh God Luke, please," I moaned.
"What, baby? What do you want?"
"I need you inside me now" I managed to say.
"I need to get a condom" he says as he goes to move off me.
"No, don't. I'm on the shot. I haven't been with anybody since..." I didn't finish my sentence. I didn't want to ruin this by saying his name.
"I'm clean too baby. I got tested again right after that night in the hotel when we decided to start seeing each other."
He reached up and kissed me very gently and asked "Are you sure, Ana?"
I nodded my head, and in felt him line up the tip of his rock hard cock at my entrance, and then he slowly slid into me.
"Oh God, Luke!" I moaned as he pushed himself all the way in.
"Ana, baby you feel so good" he whispers in my ear. "You're so wet and tight."
"Luke, move please" I begged, and he picked up his pace, and really started to move. I felt another orgasm start to build and I knew I wouldn't be able to last much longer.
"Harder Luke, harder!" I screamed at him, and he really started to pound into me.
"God, Baby you feel so good. You're squeezing my cock so hard and I don't know how much longer I'm going last."
He started moving faster and harder, then reached down and started rubbing my clit again, and that was enough to push me over the edge.
I came again, moaning so loud that the neighbors probably heard me.
"Ana I'm gonna cum again" he cried out, and then I felt him slam into me one last time before he stilled and poured himself into me; I could feel his cock pulsing as his hot load filled me up.
He collapsed on top of me, and then rolled off onto his back. We both laid there for a few minutes, sated and trying to catch our breath. I rolled over on my side and ran my fingers over his chest, playing with his nipples and the hair on his chest.
"Wow." I said to him. I didn't know what else to say. He smiled at me and said "Wow doesn't really cover it, but I'll go with it for now."

I knew at this point that I was truly in love with him. I know he feels deeply for me too, but I'm not sure if he's at the "in love with me" stage yet.
"Uh oh, I'm leaking" I muttered, so Luke rolls over and grabs some tissues off my nightstand and cleans me up.
"It appears that you had your dessert before dinner tonight, Mr. Sawyer" I said to him.
"Well, if this is what dessert is going to be every time, I say we should have dessert first every time" he said, smirking at me, trailing his finger down the side of my face. "I'm thinking I am ready for another serving of dessert" he said, pulling me on top of him. He was already hard again, so I climbed on top and lowered myself down on his massive cock, and we lost ourselves in each other again.

It was past midnight when we woke up, both starving, and wandered into the kitchen and warmed up the lasagna that was still sitting in the counter. We both laughed that we were so preoccupied earlier that we completely forgot about it.

Luke stayed all weekend and the only time we left my bedroom was to shower and eat. We did foray into my hot tub Saturday night and of course we had to christen it.
He got out to refill our wine glasses, so I actually got to admire his physique as he climbed out of the hot tub and walked naked across the living room to the kitchen. He really is a gorgeous man. His 6 pack abs, firm ass, massive thighs, and his finely sculpted chest were a sight to see. I had seen him shirtless before, but that didn't do justice to what I was oogling now.
He caught me staring at him and said "Getting an eye full, are ya, Miss Steele?"
I turned away, embarrassed that he caught me checking him out.
He laughed at me, then said "It's OK baby. I've been doing that to you for a long time, but I never had the pleasure of seeing you naked until now, and may I say, it is a real pleasure! "
That really made me blush, and when Luke got back in the hot tub I showed him again how much his body turned me on.

He left to go back to Vancouver early Monday morning-he was flying out for 10 days and had a 10:00 AM flight to catch. There was security breach at the offices of one of Jason's clients in Germany and since Luke was the most familiar with the system he was elected to go.
I could feel tears burning my eyes when he kissed me goodbye in the dark. I didn't want him to leave, especially since I wouldn't be seeing him for 10 days after we just made love for the first time. We will Skype and text, but it's defiantly not the same a seeing and sleeping next to each other.

My monthly editors meeting was postponed until the week after next due to the bosses wife going into labor a week early, so I will be driving down again on the Wednesday Luke gets back, and will be staying with him for at least a week because he isn't scheduled to be out of town for that entire next week.

10 days later Ana POV

Damn this has been a long, lonely 10 days.

I just let myself into Luke's apartment and carried my bags into his bedroom and put my things away. It's 2:30 and his flight is due in a little after 4:00. I bought groceries so I could have dinner ready for him, but after what happened last time I made dinner for him, I decided we could call for takeout because I'm sure food is going to be the last thing on our minds when he get home...
I walk into the bathroom to run a bath to freshen up before he gets home, and I decide to wear only a short silk robe and another set of my sexy new lingerie while I wait for him to arrive, because I'm pretty sure I know where we will wind up the minute he walks in the door.
A little later I hear the door open and his keys rattle when he sets them on the counter.

"Ana? Where are you?"
I come walking out of the bedroom in just my robe, and his jaw drops, and he stares at me.
"Ana..." he says, and walks over and kisses me, taking my breath away. He pulls the sash on my robe, allowing it to fall open, and when he sees what I'm wearing he has lust in his eyes and says "God you're so beautiful. I missed you so much."
"Me too, Luke. This has been then longest 10 days of my life." And I reach up and pull him to me and kiss him, pushing my tongue in his mouth and completely taking control of the kiss. When I pull away, I look him in the eyes, and take a deep breath. "Ok Ana, just say it" my subconscious tells me.

"I love you." I said to Luke; those 3 little words I didn't think I would ever say to another man.

He looks at me for a second before saying "Ana, I love you too. I've been in love with you long before that night at the hotel, but I was too afraid to say anything. I didn't want to scare you off and risk losing the most important person in my life. I promise that I will never hurt you, or give you a reason to not trust me."

And, true to his word, he has kept every one of his promises.