A/N: Enjoy! Btw, thank you for the lovely reviews. They have definitely unraveled my writer's block!
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"Take it easy," I appeased softly as I slowly lowered Aaron's shaking body onto the queen size bed. Collapsing onto the thick comforter, he moaned with audible pain. Quickly, I darted to the motel room's small bathroom and yanked a white wash cloth from the railing on the wall. Dousing it in cool water I returned to him and began peeling off his clothes. He was perspiring so heavily that his shirt was drenched in wet splotches. Tugging the garment off, I smoothed back the damp strands of hair from his forehead and laid the cloth on his head.
Every few minutes, I replenished the temperature of the towel so that it remained cold and tried covering his upper body with it. An aching torment flowed steadily through me as my hands worked tirelessly. My gaze upon him was troubled as his breathing grew shallow and his clammy skin turned pallid. I watched over Aaron as he tossed and turned in his delirium, emitting strangled sounds of agony and soft whispers of broken words. On one or two occasions, I thought I heard him mutter my name, but I wasn't completely sure.
Lowering my fingers to brush the side of his cheek, I received a white-hot jolt of warmth from his burning skin. The sensation was startling and upsetting and I bit my lip with a distressing heartache. Aaron's eyes slowly blinked open and he stared at me with a heavy lidded gaze. Parting his lips with effort, he spoke in a wretched whisper.
"1120 12th Street in L.A. Underneath the floorboards in the bedroom is everything you need to start a new life."
Aaron took a shuddering breath and my lungs dispersed like something had cut off the air that I so desperately needed. The tragic harrowing way in which he uttered those words sounded so final like this was the ending to a beautiful dark fairy tale.
"Leave me. Save yourself," Aaron beseeched with an urging tenderness. I put my fingers over his lips to silence the unwelcome words and felt a poignant pang of anguish that sweltered fiercely within me.
"Shh...Aaron."
His statement rendered me into a state of unyielding pain. The thought of leaving him here helpless tore at my heart. I couldn't do it and I won't. The love that bloomed in my chest for him would not allow it. He clasped his blazing hand over mine and squeezed affectionately.
"We've come this far together. We'll get through this together," I assured him and he smiled, wanly.
The seconds slowly ticked into minutes and the minutes crawled into hours. Time seemed to creep leisurely by as if enjoying a deliberate unhurried stroll through a never ending road. The overwhelming stress and concern washed over me making drowsiness cloak me in a illusory abstracted landscape. Slumber whisked me away into the mythical fanciful world of dreams. I roamed there amidst dappled hues of color and shifting blurred images that I couldn't quite decipher. A small ray of light in the distance swirled brighter and closer until the brilliance forced my eyelids to open. Blinking into the sunlight that poured through the motel windows, I slowly sat upright. I had fallen asleep at the foot of the bed, half sitting half laying on the crumpled sheets.
Wiping the tiredness from my eyes, I glanced at Aaron's sleeping form. The bed covers only obscured half of his body revealing his bare chest. I stared at his perfection, all chiseled muscle and smooth skin. A shudder of desire stole through me. I had to look away, because my knees were visibly shaking and the rhythmic thundering of my pumping heart sounded extremely loud in my ears.
Using the bathroom, I decided to take a shower but then I remembered that I didn't have any clean clothes to change into. Doing the best I could, I washed my face and looked at myself in the mirror. The person who stared worriedly back at me was somebody so different that I barely recognized her. The change on the outside was untouched, but in her dark eyes was a tremendous transformation. A profound alteration that changed everything about the way the world works and how the machinations inadvertently wove it's thread of destiny around my life. How odd that two complete strangers could become so much closer within a span of a few days. The past moments were frightening, exciting, sensual, treacherous, and incredibly revealing.
Turning, I opened the door just as Aaron turned the knob. He stood on the other side, an expression of panic-stricken despair on his magnificent features. As soon as his eyes saw me, the dread that occupied his countenance vanished replaced with blissful relief.
"Fuck!" I swore in surprise at his tense briskness. His taut shoulders relaxed as he gathered me into a crushing embrace.
"I thought you left," Aaron muttered with increasing ardor, and then pulled back far enough to blurt out in a hoarse, needful tone. "Yes, let's fuck."
The vicious want in his gaze swept me into a cloud of sweet, succulent ecstasy. His supple lips found mine with a famished craving as if what he greatly needed was my willing mouth and what he ached for was the touch of my flesh on his fingers. Backing me further into the bathroom until I hit the front of the sink, Aaron fumbled with my pants and got them off without any trouble. Hastily pulling his mouth from mine, he turned me around so that my back was to his front. I felt the welcoming stiffness of his loins against my buttocks and a gleeful wetness accumulated down within the chambers of my woman's center. It roared and reared encouraging and waiting for the pleasure that was sure to come. Depositing his own jeans next to mine with a careless rush, Aaron grasped my slender hips and with a harsh shove he immersed his phallus deep inside me.
A delicious groan escaped my lips, coupled with his own ragged cry. The excitement of searing delight that we created was bottomless. It flowed through me with strong waves of convulsing passion, making the measured tempo that grew slick and moist between us accelerate with a crude and rough speed. I had clutched onto the sink to support myself and as my breathing became more uneven and rushed, Aaron's thrusts rocked me to and fro. Savoring the sweet tang of our lovemaking, I cried out with utter exhilaration as he climaxed wildly within me. His grunts of desire filled my ears as Aaron trembled from his release.
Pulling away, he waited until I slowly turned to face him once again. Contentment etched across his ravishing face as he stared at me with twinkling sapphire eyes. The splendid shimmer within the gates to his soul heartened the compassion that had consumed my very being. Noticing that the pale luster of yesterday had disappeared from his skin and the fever had faded to normal, I admired him with endearing love.
"I could never leave you," I finally answered, the words rolling from my mouth. Aaron grinned and kissed me quickly on the lips. Recovering his jeans, he pulled it on and sauntered into the other room to find his shirt. I slipped my own pants back on and followed him.
Donning my shoes, I was about to ask him what our next plan would be when Aaron stiffened and shot up straight from where he was leaning over the side of the bed. Before I could register what had happened, the door to our room exploded sending jagged debris and shrapnel flying in every direction. The sound was loud and jarring and the force of the explosion slammed me backwards onto the carpeted floor. An outbreak of commotion in the form of booted feet and hurried yells surrounded me. Squinting through the haze of disorientation, I saw black clad men in army vests stampeding through the blasted door. Heavy looking weapons were clutched in their hands as they issued incoherent replies. I stumbled onto my feet, looking frantically around for Aaron. Locating him on the opposite side of the bed, I felt panic in my chest as I realized he wasn't moving. He was closer to the door when the explosion happened and must have taken the brunt of the force. I hastened toward him, but rough arms snatched at me and forced me down on the floor. My screams pierced the air, shrill and fearful and my arms were crudely yanked behind my back and tied. Something hard connected with the back of my head and jolts of pain rendered me immobile. Darkness took me as everything went black.