Chapter Ten
Crossing over the threshold of his room, Mark turned around for her back to face the direction of his king size bed that he made himself out of wood from the forest that stretched beyond the back of his home. His hands worked her legs from around his waist in a soft gesture, and eased her down onto the hardwood floor of his master suite. He looked down upon her with an overwhelming sexual hunger pouring out from his piercing stare with his sincere feelings for her mingling in with it.
This is the point of no return…She has the power to keep this going for the both of us, or turn me away. Any kind of future that we might have at this moment is nestled deep within her grasp.
Mark maintained the fierce gaze on her with his unbridled need for her pouring out from his eyes while his deep voice escaped out of his mouth in a tone that matched his voice.
"Ella…" He said, whispering to her, "You have to make an important decision right now. If you truly want this as much as I do, I won't let you be disappointed, and show you I can still take your breath away in a more physical way."
"What if I don't want this as much as you do?" Ella asked. Her voice shook slightly with nervousness and an unseen fear. Would you respect my choice to not have sex with you?"
His heart tightened at the suggestion of her refusing him when he wanted her so bad, but the shaky sound in her voice calmed his raging fear. She was nervous about the idea of them having sex since they hadn't been intimate with one another in over two years. He was determined to rid her of those feelings, and leave her feeling like she did the night they first had sex with one another in the bed of his pick-up truck he had during their dating period.
Mark moved himself a bit closer to her, and cupped a side of her face, gently, within his grasp. His palm pressed against her soft, fair skin on the side of her face it was on. He watched her eyes flutter the fear and nervousness away, slightly, from his hand having made contact with her skin as his voice escaped from the confines of his mouth with an unconditional love for her pouring out of it.
"Ella, regardless of whatever you choose to do from this point forward, I will support your decision."
He noticed that she was struggling for a moment to speak since the closeness of his body to hers made it a little hard for her to find her voice.
"It's not that I don't want this, Mark. I want nothing more than us to get naked, and get right down to us having mind blowing sex with each other in this large bed of yours."
"Then what is the issue?" He maintained the current tone to his voice while fighting a smirk that was attempting to spread across his face. "What is the real problem that you have about making love to one another?"
He noticed her to be biting down on the bottom lip of her mouth before she looked towards her feet at the same time her confession slipped out in a soft whisper.
"I don't want us to have sex, and…have you not wanting anything else to do with me. I can't have that kind of rejection for a second time, Mark."
Of course... Mark understood why Ella was hesitant about them having sex with one another at that very moment. The last time they had sex, he dumped her and left for Los Angeles, California for two years without even considering how she felt about it. She didn't want him to disappear again, and reject her if they had sex with each other.
Moving his hand down to rest underneath her chin, Mark cupped it in a gentle grasp, and lifted it up. He brought her eyes back to being at a level to where they made contact with his before his deep, southern voice spoke up in a soothing sound.
"Ella…There is no way that I will leave you for a second time, especially after we have sex with each other."
"How do I know that you won't rush off to L.A. again, and leave me behind here without so much as being concerned for my own feelings?"
"Because…I will be taking you with me wherever I go to next if I choose to ever leave Lexington again."
His eyes brightened a bit upon catching a look of shock dancing across her once disheartening expression she had out of fear of him leaving her again to be alone after they have sex with each other for the first time in the last two years.
"E-Excuse me?"
"I believe you heard me just fine the first time I said it, darling."
"You…You mean to tell me that you would take me with you wherever you go if you decide to ever leave Lexington again for a job in another city?"
"That's right."
"I am having a hard time believing that right now."
"Why is that?"
"I just don't understand why you would take me with you wherever you go when it would be so easy for you to turn around, and walk away from me without so much as looking back to see if I was there behind you."
Mark could tell that his confession troubled her mind, and caused her to be highly confused about what he had said to her. He wanted to ease the concern and uncertainty from her mind, and only leave a sense of calm and pleasure there.
Moving a step closer to bring his body less than a foot from hers, he moved his face in towards hers while his hand remained on the underside of her chin. His mouth lingered a few inches from hers for a moment, whispering out a simple statement to her.
"Perhaps…this will ease the concern from your mind, and show you why I can't walk away from you right now or ever again."
Closing his eyes, Mark moved the rest of the way, and pressed his strong lips against her trembling mouth. He sealed Ella into a tender yet passionate kiss with the intent to show her that he wasn't all about what she thought he was on the stairway of his home. Aidan wanted her to see that despite his outward appearance, he was still the same sweet, loving country boy that had loved her from their childhood.
With his mouth against hers, his hand that had cradled her chin slowly released itself, and trailed its fingers from her chin down a side of her neck, and across the skin that was available to him on one of her arms while his other hand was doing the same movement to her other arm.
Slowly, Mark started to realize that Ella had begun to kiss him back with the same tenderness and passion that he initiated the kiss with. His emotions started to relax the tension from his mind. A faint smile moved across his face as he took this as a sign that she had started to lose the emotions of concern and confusion and replaced them with comfort and pleasure instead.
His mouth pressed a little harder against hers, and opened a little bit. He moved his hands down her arms to where her waist was, and grasped onto her sides in a firm grip.
I have missed doing this so much. No other woman made this feel more right than Ella does right now. The way her curvy frame is in my hands and against my body excites me beyond all words that I could even try to use properly. Those size zero girls have nothing on the voluptuous, curvaceous woman that is standing in front of me right now.
His hormones started to rage like they had at the base of the stairs when he had himself nestled between her firm thighs with his groin grinding against her crotch through their clothes that separated their bodies from one another. The image of the brief moment he shared with her flashed across his mind, and added fuel to the fire that was feeding his unbridled desire and primal lust at the moment.
His strong hands started to massage her hips from where they were on her curvy frame a little bit. A soft moan escaped from his parted lips that were pressed against her sealed ones. He ran the tip of his tongue across her tender mouth to tempt her with it, and grant it entrance to the sweet warmth that dwelled deep within. Slowly, Mark found Ella's lips to be parting, and giving him silent permission for his tongue to slip inside. His tongue slipped in only to be greeted with an overwhelming sensation that shot straight through to the core of his burning desire and unadulterated lust.
Oh my god! I can't even begin to come up with words to properly describe how I am feeling at the moment. The way her mouth tastes and makes me feel is driving me up the wall with an intense level of desire that is making it incredibly hard for me to not toss her on the bed and have sex with her right here…right now.
His body shook with an intense need to rip off the clothes that separated their flesh from being pressed against each other, falling onto his bed with her, and fucking her like an animal in heat. He couldn't deny what he felt inside of his body anymore. Ella was what he wanted, and he wouldn't be able to find peace if he walked away from her at that moment.
His hands gripped a little harder at her sides, and massaged her a little bit more. A soft moan escaped from his mouth as he moved his mouth against hers, gradually deepening the kiss with her as the minutes ticked by. He slowly started to tug at her top she had on, and pulled the bottom of the shirt up a little bit more to expose her soft, fair skin that was hidden beneath it on her midsection. Lifting her shirt up, Mark discovered several of his fingertips on each of his hands dancing across her body, and the soft sound of her moaning to be reverberating inside the recess of his mouth.
Damn it all to hell. Mark wanted nothing more at that moment than to rip off his clothes, as well as Ella's clothes, and tossing her on his bed. He didn't wish to wait for another minute to pass by with her standing right there in front of him. There was nothing to stop him from doing what he wanted to do with her. It was now or never.
His hands slowly moved up a little more under her top, caressing her soft skin with his strong hands, while he worked his mouth away from hers and down a side of her face towards her jawline. Mark listened in on the soft sounds of her moaning a bit in a whispery voice as his strong mouth left a trail of fire from her mouth down towards the nape of her neck where he was moving his lips to.
"Oh my goodness…" Ella whispered, gasping the words out. Her uncontrollable need for the moment to continue between the two of them made itself very noticeable and hard to ignore. "I have not experienced this in such a long time, Mark. I didn't think that I would ever feel your touch and kisses again."
"Never say never, Ella." He said, muffled against the soft skin on her neck. His voice escaped out in almost an animalistic growl against her soft, fair skin of her throat. "I always told you to never say never when we were together…just like I am telling you now."
"I love the way that your hands are moving against my body and how you are kissing me right now, Mark. The two combined are driving me to the brink of pleasure and passion. I can handle one…but not both at the same time. I might just burst into flames from this."
"I am not going to let you burst and explode before we have a chance to spend our first night in my new home in each other's arms."
Mark would be damned if he allowed something as silly as Ella exploding or melting on the spot from what he had planned for her. He wouldn't allow anyone or anything to come between him or the woman that he loved with all of his heart and soul. Tonight…He was going to show her what he had been suppressing for the last two years until he could see her beautiful face and curvaceous frame again.
Pulling his mouth away from her neck, Mark locked his piercing stare with her own eyes from where he stood before her frame. He brought his hands to a stopping point just underneath the soft fabric of her bra that she had on underneath her tank top with the bottom of her tank top pulled up to the same spot in his trembling hands that were wanting to yank it off. He managed to swallow down a lump that had grown there in his throat with little to no difficulty, and speak up in his southern voice that was dripping with pure, unadulterated sexual hunger for her.
"Ella…I need to feel you more than ever before. I cannot stand us being apart like we have been over the years. The only thing that I want right now…is to spend tonight and perhaps the nights to come with you beside me in my bed."
"Mark…I am a little frightened by the thought of us having sex again when-"
"I swear to you that when you wake up in the morning, I will be right here in the bed with you to keep you safe, and to make you feel loved and wanted."
"Really…?"
"I mean it with all of my heart and soul, Ella. There is nothing that is going to keep me from spending every moment from this point forward with you. No man or beast is going to take you away from me without having to deal with the mother of all ass kickings from me."
Mark spoke from the heart. He wanted her to realize that there was nothing that would stop him from being with her anymore. No man or animal was going to come between Ella and him without their life either ending or their bodies being severely injured by his hands.
His eyes captured her to be smiling a bit while at the same time hearing her let out a soft chuckle at the statement he had made before she proceeded to speak up in her sweet, southern accent.
"You are still the same good 'ol boy that I went out with for such a long time with the same attitude towards anyone that would dare to come between you and me."
"Let me show exactly how strong I feel about you…right…now…"
Before he could let her get out another word, Mark slipped his hands down from being under her shirt, and let it fall down to rest where it had been at the tops of her pants. He moved one of his arms around the middle of her back while his other one swept her out from underneath her feet, cradling the backs of her knees. Maintaining the charming smirk on his face, Mark carried her over in the direction of his large bed that awaited them both.