Hey there and thanks for the reviews! For all who missed that so far - I wrote a lot of history and character stuff by now, but that will have to wait until the end of the night ...
Later that night, Jade entered the bedroom behind him, almost hesitantly closing the double doors behind her.
Mark had walked over to the bed and was busy unbuttoning his shirt. He observed Jade meanwhile, who was still standing right in front of the doors. He was still not over watching her taking a bottle of Bourbon from him a minute ago to take two mouths full right out of the almost empty bottle instead of waiting for him to get her a glass. He wondered if the few drinks she had had with Liz before were the only reason for her strange behavior.
„What ?" he asked after a moment, wondering about her peculiar posture.
She didn´t answer immediately, watching him stripping off the shirt. It didn´t matter how often she had seen him half-naked before or how often she had treated him. She had admittedly appreciated the sight of his bare chest and shoulders before, but back then, she would never have believed that she would ever get to enjoy the sight outside work.
She would never have believed to get that close to him this way.
Jade was reminded of Jake calling him a grumpy bastard before. Recalling the insult made a small smile appear on her face. He was way more laid-back and polite than the company wanted to make people believe, but his height and built alone were enough to make people think twice about confronting him in any way. He had become used to play with his image, but it was not all just show. A part of it was definitely purely Mark and the lifestyle he had chosen and Jade appreciated every bad-ass looking inch of him.
„Are you going to spend the night over there or are you going to come to bed with me ?" he asked after another minute, still not sure what to make of her unusual behaviour.
Jade licked her lips for a moment, looking as if she was considering his words.
When she neither answered nor moved, he stopped in his doings, intrigued.
She finally pushed herself of the doors and crossed the distance between them slowly, stopping right in front of him.
„Was a damn long day, huh ?" he muttered.
„And a very good night so far", she agreed quietly, reaching for the buckle of his belt.
He let her proceed, running his hands slowly through her hair. She was right. The evening had been great. It had been good to watch Jade get along fine with Jake and Liz from the first moment on. If Jade had taken offence by Liz´ behaviour earlier that night, and Mark would have bet that she had done so at least during the first few minutes, she hadn´t showed it for a second. For the rest of the evening, they had been chatting between the gigs of the different bands and Mark could tell that Liz liked her. At some point, with Jade out of earshot for a moment, his younger sister had excitedly congratulated Mark for having finally managed to find himself a woman who wasn´t a dead boring annoying barbie girl. The surprise and approval on the faces of the friends he had met there at her sight hadn´t escaped him neither.
He let her finish the task of undressing him, then moved to do the same for her, but she didn´t allow him to do so. Instead, already bare-footed, she got quickly rid of her trousers herself, then put her palms against his massive chest and pushed.
She was aware of the fact that she usually wouldn´t have been able to even make him sway. But he followed her unspoken request and took a step backwards, taking her with him down to the bed.
She climbed on top of him, looking into his eyes for a long moment. Then she turned her head to glance hesitantly at the still switched on lamp on the nightstand. Her gaze returning to him, she pulled her shirt over her head.
„Come on", he mumbled. „Let´s see if I can make up for some of today´s troubles."
He forced her carefully into a deep kiss.
When she retreated to breathe, she did it with a surprisingly vile curse.
„Who the hell allowed you to swear like that in my bed ?" he asked lowly, grinning.
„You´re the only one allowed to swear in your bed ?" she whispered.
„Damn right."
He slid his hands down her back and she slightly arched her back under his touch.
„If you wanna use your mouth in here, find a better way to do it!" he added after a moment.
Her cheeks reddened softly. Suddenly, he noticed that peculiar expression from before back on her face.
She put her hands down to the bed left and right to his face and bent forward.
„What the hell are you up to ?" he asked quietly, still holding eye contact.
„You told me to find a better way to use my mouth in here, didn´t you ?"
Mark narrowed his eyes, slightly tilting his head.
She bit her lip for a moment, then smiled when he didn´t answer.
„So, shut yours now", she suggested.
He was up to reply to that, but she put her a finger over his lips, softly shaking her head.
„Sh", she whispered. „Cut it."
He brought his hands to her back and into her hair, but she reached for them and made him drop them to the mattress.
„Hands off", she whispered.
Mark watched her, wondering what had gotten into that girl. She had never allowed him to undress her with the lights still switched on so far and she had barely been able to look him in the eyes after making love. Her sudden demand to make the rules at his own bedroom came definitely as a surprise.
In the little while following, Mark had to find out that the still small number of shared nights had obviously been enough to leave him completely at her mercy now. Roaming his body with her lips and hands, she seemed to know every spot, every touch that would slowly drive him crazy.
She had started slowly by following the line of his jaw with her mouth, placing soft kisses there and along his neck, knowing that it would cause goosebumps on his side. She followed the line of his neck down to his shoulder and along his collarbone, her hands roaming his upper body. She made her way further down south, softly licking his nipples while she carefully used her nails to caress his sensitive sides.
Mark closed his eyes with a low grunt the moment she flicked her tongue against him. He had known before that she had magic hands, but combined with what she was doing to him with her mouth, she left him stunned and breathless.
His hands found their way into her hair again, but it only made her stop what she had been doing to force them off again.
„Don´t", she whispered, putting them down to his sides and covering them with her own for a moment. Then she returned to her former doings, slowly intensifying her efforts.
It was a hard thing to endure the torture without being allowed to touch her and being able to inflict some torture on her as well. On the other hand, it had been way too long since he had gotten such a treatment and he was not going to make her stop again.
He groaned the moment she followed the length of him with her tongue, her piercing causing an additional thrill. She put a small hand to his stomach when she felt him move beneath her, silently asking him to hold his horses, changing her rhythm the moment she felt him adapt to it.
Jade glanced over him the moment she felt his climax drawing closer. She didn´t think of herself as very experienced in bed and had doubted if she would be able to return some of his former favors. But from what she saw, there hadn´t been reason to worry.
Still, it was a somehow unsettling thought and sight to have a man of his built and strength defenseless at her mercy, even if out of his free will.
It didn´t take much more to take him to his relief and he came with a low outcry.
Still on his back and the sensation of his relief slowly subsiding, he reached for her, pulling her up to him to rest right next to him, then rolled to the side to be able to kiss her. He held her close, his face burried in her hair while his breathing steadily slowed down. She could tell that she had left him in delight, but at the same time in kind of a very vulnerable state. It was as hard as exciting to witness, even more knowing that it had been her alone taking him there. It was one thing for her to make love with the both of them advancing at the same pace. It was a completely different thing to pleasure him that way, taking out his mind and will like that.
The way he was longing for her and her touch right now, even with the strongest sensation over left her amazed. With Mark only slowly recovering from her unexpeced attack, she allowed herself to dwell on that feeling.
Mark on his side was seriously wondering if he had picked up the right girl that night or probably her naughty twin sister. For some reason, he didn´t believe that her behaviour had been changed by devil alcohol alone. The thought of her demanding a drink earlier, obviously intending to give herself some additional liquid courage for the things to come, left him amused, but also baffled. She had had some drinks with Liz during the concert, but it had been three or four over several hours. She had probably been slightly tipsy, but sure as hell not really drunk.
He had to realize again that the girl was full of damn surprises for someone he had known so many years.
Slowly overcoming the first exhaustion, he was also wondering if she was up for more.
XXX
A little while later, Mark withdrew from a long kiss. She had wrapped her arms around his neck and her legs around his, craving for skin contact. He caressed her cheek, brushing the mass of dark hair out of her face again in the process. Even with that damn silence of her, he could tell that she wasn´t far from going wild.
She didn´t loosen her embrace when he moved to bring her back down to the sheets to pin her there. She only tried to pull him closer, but he wasn´t going to let her have her way right now. She was in for some payback before he would do her, that much was for sure.
Still pinning her with one large hand, he roamed her body with his mouth. She had turned her head to the side and closed her eyes, her face half burried in the pillows. He was tempted to tell her to look at him, but didn´t do it. With her having already done a first step by not insisting on switching off the light before that night, he wouldn´t push her. At least not that way.
The moment he sat up, slightly changing position on the bed, she opened her eyes to glance at him. If she was disappointed that he hadn´t made his way further south than her belly button, she didn´t show it. But the moment he bent over to kiss her on the mouth, she made her move.
Her wild kissing attack took him completely by surprise. Arching her back and pushing herself off the mattress, she pressed herself with all might possible against him, flinging her arms around his neck. Then, bringing her legs around his waist, she suddenly used all of her comparatively small weight to pull him down to her. The moment he tried to put his hands down to the mattress to lift himself up a little, she closed her hands entangled in his hair to fists. It caused Mark to grunt in surprise at her demanding behaviour. Feeling him giving up on the idea, she she one hand slip out of his hair and down his chest and belly. She moved slightly beneath him and before he had even gotten a chance to keep her from it, she had him already burrying himself inside of her.
A small cry escaped her at the rushed invasion. He could feel the jolt it had sent running through her whole body. She had already been aroused before but he wasn´t sure if she had been ready for that. As much as she seemed to have wanted it, as painful had it probably been for her and he was not still not sure up to which degree of pain she was willing to go.
With his plans overthrown once more, he obliged her for the time being. He had moved careful inside of her at first, but she made it quickly clear that she had no use for a too gentle treatment.
He brought one arm around her thigh to get a better hold of her, but wasn´t contented with that. Deciding on the spur of the moment, he rolled to his back, taking her with him. He had expected her to complain about him bringing her on top of him that way, but she didn´t. She only let her hands wander over his shoulders and half down his arms, lowering her head to softly suck at his nipples while she slowly moved her hips. The look she threw him the moment she glanced up to him made him suddenly take his hands out of her hair to get a grip on her hips, driving himself harder into her. She straightened up, putting her palms to his chest to support herself. Watching her trying to oppose him made him only growl and quickening their pace.
His climax hit with a last violent thrust and made both of them cry out.
With the blast of his release slowly wearing off, he panted hard and turned to the side, taking Jade with him once again.
„Next time you´re in such dire need for something - just tell me", he told her the moment he found himself able to speak again. With his mind offline, he realized belatedly that she had completely screwed his plans for her again.
„Right now, I´m only in dire need for a shower", she mumbled.
„I´m in need for a drink", he muttered. „So go ahead. Leave the door open and I´ll join you."
XXX
Following her to the bathroom a minute later, it was for once him deciding to switch the lights off, the bright light making him squint after he had made his way down to the kitchen and back in the dark.
She made a small sound of surprise at that, but didn´t complain any further about it when he joined her under the water.
She sank into his arms and let her head rest against his chest for a minute with the hot water streaming down on them. She had no idea how late or early it was by now, but she had reached a point at which she didn´t feel the fatigue anymore, her focus completely on him.
The moment they had finally had to say goodbye after that first weekend, she had felt all weird about it and about the days to come. He had obviously shared that feeling. At the gloomy expression suddenly showing on her face, he had pulled her close, for once not even for a kiss, just for an embrace, simply to hold her for another minute.
It had Jade made realize with all might how badly she had been longing for a simple thing like that. That long silent moment had allowed her to listen in not just on her own feelings, but on the feeling of the two of them.
When they managed to steal some minutes for themselves during work afterwards, there had usually not been that much talk. There were not a lot of things they would have wanted to discuss in that short amount of time anyway.
But especially if they hadn´t seen each other for a day or two, he had eyed her up, mustered her, took her in to see if she was fine or sore or sad. It had been exactly what had made him state the obvious some six weeks ago at the locker room with Shawn around. He had taken one serious look at her instead of only a glace, had taken her whole appearance in and realized how tired she looked. It had been such a small and simple thing to do, but she had still felt that he had been the first and only one that night who had actually done it.
Jade had actually always had a weakness for men giving a woman a classy compliment and liked the idea of being courted attentively by the man she was dating. But she had nevertheless fallen for Mark the moment she had realized that the small things he did affected her way more than all the flattery by simply caring about her.
She had known before that he was neither the guy for small talk nor for endless discussions. Therefore, she had never expected him to be the guy for a lot of sweet talk or compliments either and she seemed to have been right about that. Instead, she had quickly come to appreciate these private moments. Enjoying quietly that the silence between them never felt awkward, she wouldn´t have wanted to waste that moments on empty phrases.
„Turn around", he whispered after another minute, his words bringing her back from her trance-like state to the real world. He reached in the dark for the shower gel and she squealed softly the moment the cool fluid made contact with her skin.
He took his time with her and at the time he was done washing her, she pressed her back against his chest, a soft moan escaping her under his touch.
Mark bit his tongue for a second, wondering if she had even realized it.
He let one hand rest on her belly to steady her, then let the fingers of his free hand slip down to her center.
The intimate touch caused another moan.
Mark took a deep breath, a grin appearing on his face in the darkness.
Never stopping to caress her, he leaned in on her to whisper in her ear.
„You need another go ?"
XXX
Jade landed in the middle of the already ruffled bed, soaking blankets and sheets. He hadn´t granted her the time to dry up, neither had he. He followed suit, pinning her there with his body while reaching for the bottle of Bourbon he had brought from the kitchen.
He opened it and tilted it just enough to make a small amount of the beverage moisten her lips, then bent forward to kiss her. She gave a low sound of surprise the moment he straightened up again to pour more of the Bourbon down on her body in a straight line, following it with his mouth.
She squealed softly the moment he flicked his tongue against her most intimate spot, arching her back to meet his touch, finding herself completely at his mercy this time. He continued with the mind-blowing treatment for some more moments, only to break away from her when he felt her trying to regain mastery again.
„You had your way twice, baby", he told her after a soft kiss. „It´s my turn."
She impatiently watched him putting the bottle back to the nightstand, her eyes wide with anticipation. The moment she tried to sit up to pull him closer again, he kept her from it, only to pin her down again.
Then he hesitated.
„This is gonna get rough", he said. It was a statement, nothing more, nothing less.
She held his gaze. Then she nodded silent approval.
With the beginning of a smirk on his face, he clenched his hand and hit the light switch.
After she had left him suspended in the dark over the last few weeks, this would be even better if she wasn´t able to see things coming.
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