(A/N-You guys...I want to thank you all so very much for reading this story from this idea that popped in my head months ago. I can't thank you enough for all the reviews, faves, follows, and messages. You are so amazing and very kind. Thank you to Celina for betaing this fic, appreciate it tons!)
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Regina was just about to walk out of the bathroom when the door opened and in walked, Graham.
"Graham? How dare you come in here? And how could you say those things at dinner?" Regina asked.
"I had to talk to you. And I am sorry for that stupid speech," Graham said as he walked up to her.
"That doesn't make what you did any...what happened to your face?" Regina asked.
"Oh, we had a run in with your husband's fist," Graham said.
"Graham, I want you to leave Robin and me alone," Regina said as she left the bathroom, only to have Graham follow her to the outside courtyard.
"I can't stay away from you, Regina," Graham said. "I made a huge mistake with us, and I want to make this work with us again."
"Graham, I'm married. I want my marriage to work," Regina said.
"My gods, you're in love with him. Aren't you?" Graham asked. He could see it in her face, in those beautiful eyes of hers.
"Yes, I love my husband," Regina admitted, hoping this would put an end to Graham's attention of her.
"Like you used to love me?" Graham asked. "He's only going to break your heart and you know it."
"Graham, please-" At that second, Graham reached out and grabbed the sides of her face and kissed her, hard, putting his all into that kiss, in hopes to rekindle those old feelings. For him he instantly knew his feelings for her had never changed, not after all these years. She was still the one for him.
But for Regina, when Graham used to kiss her, she had felt something. Now, now all she felt was void, empty. His lips were not Robin's. The passion was not Robin's. The intensity, sweetness, gentleness all were not Robin's kisses. What she had felt for this man was completely gone. She was about to push him away when they heard someone clear their throat. Regina moved from Graham and saw...Robin standing there. An angry Robin on top of that.
"Excuse me for interrupting this tryst," Robin said as he turned and headed back inside. He was angry, jealous, embarrassed all rolled into one. Angry he had let his guard down with her. Jealous that Graham still had some hold on her to be kissing her. And embarrassed that he had lost his wife to that wolf in sheep's clothing. Obviously he had chosen the wrong woman when deciding, especially considering what he had just witnessed. He quickly made his way to the bar to get a drink. He had just come from speaking with Marian, which was another can of worms.
Ten minutes earlier...
"Marian? What are you doing here?" Robin had asked.
"Isn't it obvious?" Marian asked as she walked up near him."I came to see you, I came to tell you I'm sorry for leaving like I did. I never should have done that."
"Marian-" Robin said.
"Robin, we can have it all again," Marian said as she came up and took his hands in hers.
"Marian, I'm married. It's over between us," Robin said. He has been hurt when she had left him, not because he was in love with her but because she was a failure. He hated to fail, at anything.
"Because of that whore you hired?" Marian asked.
Anger flared in his eyes at her words about Regina, "Don't call her that. She is not a whore!" Robin said loudly.
"You paid her to marry you, you're paying her to spread her thighs for you. What would you call someone who does that?" Marian asked.
"My wife," Robin said.
"Then my apologies...Wait, you can't be...you told me you didn't believe in love. But you're really in love with her?" Marian asked.
"What is between my wife and I, is between us. Now, Marian I have to go find my wife," Robin said as he marched off to find Regina. His Regina, who as soon as he got her home would be in bed with him. Or maybe he wouldn't wait, there was always the limo...
Robin was in a better mood now, thinking about the night ahead for Regina and him. He couldn't wait to get Regina home, their home. Where they would make love again tonight, over and over until they couldn't move.
He was almost to the dining room when he spotted a couple out in the courtyard, sharing a private moment. He was about to keep going when he saw who the man was, more importantly who the man was kissing.
His wife! He quietly made his way out to confront them.
Ten minutes later...
"Robin, wait!" Regina made a move to go after her husband, when she felt Graham put his hands on her arm to stop her from doing so.
"Graham, let go of me!" Regina said.
"Regina, let him go. He's not worth it," Graham said.
"How could you? You knew he was standing there didn't you?" Regina asked.
"Of course not, I can't help it that he saw us kissing," Graham said.
"Wrong, Graham. You were kissing me, not the other way around," Regina reminded him.
"You think that matters to your husband? Regina, come away with me. Forget him, I can make you happy if you would only let me," Graham said.
"No, I love my husband. And I have to make him understand," Regina said as she walked around Graham and went in search of Robin.
"Regina!" Graham called to her but, she was past the point of caring. All that mattered was finding Robin, and explaining.
She searched the dining room but, couldn't find him there. Garrett had said he had not returned since leaving with Graham. She had no choice but to call a cab to drive her home, on the way she had tried calling the house but received no answer, the same when she called Robin on his cell phone, she only got his voice mail.
Once she arrived home, she went inside and started to look for Robin. She first went to his study, where she found him in his seat behind his desk. There were a few dim lights on in the room but, she could feel his anger.
"Robin? Why did you leave like that?" Regina asked as she walked into the room.
He waited a few seconds, took a swig of his drink and stood up, "Was there an encore? Did you expect me to watch you and Graham makes out some more? Sorry hun, but I don't share."
"Robin, I know what you think you saw-" Regina was saying but Robin stopped her.
"I know what I saw, I saw my wife kissing another man," Robin said, his voice heavy with anger.
"No, you saw your wife being kissed by another man. I didn't start the kiss nor did I respond to it," Regina tried to defend herself.
"You didn't fight him off either, now did you?" Robin said.
"Robin, I know it looks bad but, I had to convince him it was over between us. And I thought that once he saw I had no interest in us again, he would move on," Regina said.
"And now is he convinced?" Robin asked.
Regina shook her head, "No. But Robin, I explained how I want to be with you, how I want this to work between us. Please."
"So that you can play the devoted wife but have a lover on the side?" Robin asked.
"He's not my lover," Regina defended herself.
"He was though," Robin said, knowing he sounded like a child.
"Exactly, he was. Not now and not again. It's over between us, and it has been for many years now," Regina said as she walked up to stand in front of him."You are my lover, my husband. You're the one I want, the one I lo-"
"Don't, don't say things you don't feel," Robin said.
"Robin, you have to listen to me," Regina tried again. She wanted to declare her love for him, thinking it was the only thing that could make him understand.
Before she could say anything else, his lips closed over hers in a kiss of hunger and possession. His arms enfolded her, and she was left in doubt that he wanted her, craved her. And was in fact extremely jealous of Graham.
Until recently his kisses had been of passion but gentle. Now, now it was a blatantly sensual demand to possess, and her desire for him intensified, heating her blood to a fever pitch.
As he sensed her capitulation, Robin's mouth softened on hers, and with the tip of his tongue he soothed her swollen lips, before raising his head. Her glorious eyes were dilated with desire and her lips softly parted. She was his for the taking...
Robin ate her body with his eyes. God, but he wanted her, even after seeing her kiss her ex.
"Robin, you're angry," Regina said, she didn't want their lovemaking to be one of anger. "Not in anger, not between us."
"I wouldn't dream of it," he responded silkily, and quickly removed their clothes. He next cupped the smooth, creamy fullness of her breast, and trailed his thumb over the rosy tip, bringing it to rigid life, and watched her response with cynical masculine satisfaction. He would seduce her and try to keep his heart detached.
Her fingers slid around his neck and into the silky dark hair of his, her breasts were then pressed into his chest, rubbing them against him as he held her closer, and she surrendered to the throbbing need his mouth and hands aroused in her.
He took her hand and lifted it to his thigh. "See what you do to me, Regina." He pressed her hand hard against him, and her palm seemed to burn as she felt the strength of his cock. Her fingers flexed, she realized she was stroking Robin with tactile fingers of desire.
He pressed her against his desk, lifting her hips up and settling himself between her spread thighs, as his mouth came down to claim her lips in a scorching kiss. Regina was aware of his huge male body and her own, the beating of his heart, the heat, the pressure of his hips between her thighs, easing them further apart with his own.
Emboldened, she ran her fingers over his back and felt the contraction of muscle and sinew beneath her touch. She pressed her lips to the strong cord of his throat, tasting the salty tang of his skin. Then she gasped as his hand tangled in the long length of her hair and pulled her head back.
She looked up into his eyes...his eyes as blue as the sea as he scattered gentle kisses on her cheeks, her eyes, her nose, and finally took her mouth again. His mouth searched hers with a sensuous building passion and with a wild, uninhibited delight she responded, her tongue dueling with his, her hands stroking feverishly over his broad back, his firm buttocks. She felt the urgent thrust of his body as, with a hoarse groan, he broke the devouring hunger of their kiss.
His head bent to press hot, hard lips to her throat and lower to her breast, and she arched in pleasure. Her fingers raked through his hair and slipped to his shoulders as he reared up. His hands cupped her breasts, kneading and pushing them together. His thumbs teased the rosy nipples, his blazing eyes watching in rapt fascination as the tips strained to hard, aching peaks beneath his sensuous manipulation.
"Mine," he said as he groaned and then swooped, his hungry mouth tasting first one and then the other in a compulsive, greedy passion.
Regina felt the pulsating waves of sensation flooding through her in ever increasing force. She clung to him and cried out as his head moved lower, to kiss her navel, and lower still. He kissed and caressed her slender body with a sensuality, a need that Regina had never experienced before him. She exulted in the tremors that shook his great frame as she responded, her hands touching him, stroking him, wanting to give him the same incredible sensations.
When his caressing fingers slipped into the soft heart of her core, she shuddered violently. Every nerve end in her body was taut with a painful, aching need. She grasped his head and drew him to her, and she kissed him with a hungry, mindless passion.
In Robin's mind he saw her kissing Graham, and his jealously returned full force. So with a near violent wave of desire surged through him and with an animalistic growl low in his throat, he lifted her slender hips and drove forward into her moist core.
He stretched and filled her body, her soul, her heart. He simply took her, he rode between her thighs with an intensity she had not received from him before, before tonight. It was not painful because she wanted him, but she knew that come morning she would have bruises on her thighs, he was riding her that hard.
"Robin," she helplessly moaned his name, pulsating with the exquisite torture of his possession.
It was his downfall. With one final deep thrust, he drove them both over the edge in a passionate climax. His body shuddered violently, the breath stolen from his lungs as he emptied himself into her, five...six times.
He moved finally from her, and started to get dressed. Regina sat up on his desk and said," Where are you going? We still need to talk."
"Are you alright?" Robin asked as he knew he had been very passionate with her just now. But seeing Graham kissing her and her not pushing him away had caused a reaction in him he had never experienced before.
"I'm fine. Now about Graham," Regina was saying as Robin turned away from her. "Robin."
"We just had sex and you want to talk about your ex now?" Robin asked.
"We...or I just made love. And I don't want Graham to come between us," Regina said. "I think I have finally gotten through to him."
Robin knew the man enough that he was not about to give up on Regina, not by a long shot. He would have to keep a close eye on Regina to make sure that Graham didn't come sniffing around her anymore. He decided to play it cool for now.
"Look, everything is alright. Now how about we get some sleep, I for one am exhausted because of a certain lady," Robin said, hoping it would distract her for now.
Regina was a little apprehensive about Robin's turn around but, maybe he was now understanding her side of things. She grabbed his shirt and put it on and together they went upstairs, where yes, they eventually went to sleep but not after another round of lovemaking.
The next few days it seemed things were back to normal, Regina even was on her way to surprise Robin today at work by taking him out for lunch. She was almost to his office when she was stopped by this lady who was at Mrs. Lucas's desk.
"Excuse me, can I help you?" the woman asked.
"Hi, I'm Regina and I'm here to see my husband," Regina said.
"Oh well, he's in a very important phone call right now," she said with a arrogant smile.
"Who are you?" she asked.
"I'm Marian, Robin's new secretary. Robin and I go way back," she said with a sly grin.
Regina didn't like her, didn't like her at all instantly. "What happened to Mrs. Lucas?"
"Oh, she had to take a leave to see her sick sister," Marian said.
"Well, I hope she returns soon," Regina said as Marian understood exactly what she was saying. She wanted her gone.
"Well, it just might be awhile," Marian said as the two women stared down at one another.
"Well, hope you like it here," Regina said as she put a hand on Robin's office door.
"Oh, I thoroughly intend to enjoy Robin...I mean working for Robin," Marian said as Regina turned around to look at her.
"Well yes, he is certainly great to enjoy," Regina said, her meaning again very clear. Regina didn't stop this time, she walked right into Robin's office who saw her and put a finger up to signal to give him a moment.
"Yes, I'm looking forward to it, thank you Garrett," Robin said as he ended the phone call. "Well, this is a surprise." He said as he stood up from his desk and walked over to her.
"I thought we might go out for lunch together," Regina said.
"Oh, I'm sorry I have a lunch meeting scheduled today," Robin said. He was sincerely sorry about having to cancel on her.
"Oh, well I hope your meeting goes well then," Regina said, hoping her hurt wasn't showing too much.
"Regina, I am sorry," Robin truly was. He did want to spend time with his wife, more so to put this Graham thing behind them once and for all.
"It's alright, I at least got a chance to meet your new secretary," Regina said trying not to let her jealously show.
"Marian is going to fit in just fine," Robin said as he walked up to Regina.
"I'm sure," Regina said under her breath.
"What was that?" Robin asked.
"You couldn't tell me about hiring a new secretary?" Regina asked.
"I didn't know I was to consult you about the decisions I make for my company," Robin said. He saw the impact his words had made on her, and he regretted them instantly. " Look, I'm sorry. She came to me last night asking if I could use her help at the office. Mrs. Lucas called first thing this morning to let me know she would be out for the near future," Robin explained.
"Robin, about Graham," Regina began. Robin let out a breath as she said that man's name.
"I don't like him, Regina. Not at all," Robin said.
"I know you don't, and I understand why you don't but, I think I finally got through to him," Regina said.
"Time will tell," Robin said. He knew that Graham was not out of their lives, not by a long shot.
"Robin, he's not a threat to us, not anymore," Regina tried to reassure him and herself.
"Just avoid him if you can, that's all I ask," Robin said.
"I see, well I guess I'll see you at home then," Regina says as she turns to leave his office. She was almost to the door when she felt his hand on her elbow, she turned to look back at him.
"Do I not get to kiss my wife goodbye?" Robin asked as he gathered her body to his and kissed her lips, his mouth tasted of brandy as his tongue entered her mouth. He kissed her like he had not seen her in days. Till finally he moved his mouth and kissed the tip of her nose and the soft curve of her cheek.
"I'll see you at home," Robin said as he kissed her lips once more before she smiled and headed out of his office. Regina stopped as she left his office and looking at Marian, she smiled and rubbed her lips, effectively letting the other woman know what has just happened.
Hours later, Regina was lying down on the couch, waiting on Robin to come home. It was past eleven now and he had not called, she had tried calling his cell but it only went to voice mail. She missed her husband, missed the lightness they had shared briefly until Graham had come back into her life. She knew Graham wanted her back but, she had talked to him and made him understand it was over. She closed her eyes, just to rest them for a minute...
When she awoke it was morning, early morning and from the looks of it Robin had still not come home. So she left the house and drove to his office, thinking that something had happened to him. She arrived in no time and went straight to his office, only to find Marian standing over Robin on the couch, Marian was moving a few of his hairs away from his forehead.
"What is going on here?" Regina asked as Marian looked up to see her standing there.
Robin shifted on the couching waking up. "What...what time is it?" Robin asked as he sat up on the couch, looking from one woman to the next.
"It's six in the morning," Regina answered.
"Is it? I must have fallen asleep last night," Robin said.
"You must be exhausted after all that hard work we put in last night," Marian said.
"Will you excuse us?" Regina said to Marian who gave her a look, before leaving the two of them alone.
"What happened last night? Why didn't you come home?" Regina asked.
Robin looked up at his wife, his angry wife, "I told you I must have fallen asleep. I just lied down after a very long day and I fell asleep."
"And Marian?" Regina asked.
"She comes to work early, she must have just walked in," Robin said as he stood up from the couch and stretched his back.
"Right," Regina said under her breath again. That woman irked her.
"You did say we had a party to attend this Friday right?" Robin asked as he went to get him a cup of coffee to wake up.
"Yes, it's an art gallery showing," Regina said.
"Great, will you make sure my tux is ready?" Robin asked as he took a swig of his coffee.
"Anything else?" Regina asked sharply, receiving a look from Robin.
"I'm sorry about last night, we'll enjoy ourselves at the gallery, where I can show off my beautiful wife," Robin said as Regina just nodded and after a few moments, said she needed to run some errands.
"Good Morning, Mrs. Locksley," Marian said as Regina walked past her.
"Isn't it though," Regina said as she headed for the elevator. She thought, two could play at this game, Marian...
A/N-Hope you liked this chapter, yes there is more drama/angst coming, but I can assure you, I'm not Adam H. I make up for any drama. I have a twitter just for these fics, I post polls, ask questions, and have sneak peaks of anything I might be working on. I hope everyone who celebrates Easter had a great one.