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Continuation..
And she knew...
Something incredible is happening.
This callous, impatient, short-tempered, sophisticated, dark and beautiful woman was given to her by fate. The brunette was hers to.. to do what? Piper desperately thought. She didn't know, but she was feeling it. Right here in this garden.
Piper wasn't foolish enough to believe that she knew what to do with Alex, but she was certain of two things: she wanted to make the brunette happy, to be an instrument, and, somehow and some way, she was going to discover the means to do it.
Swallowing the painful memories of Alex's previous behaviour, Piper knowingly accepted deep within what fate was offering her.
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After the kiss in the garden, Alex excused herself to change her clothes because she had been travelling all day and asked Piper to meet her in the dining area that night. The blonde knew that the maids were preparing something for dinner and offered to see how things were progressing in the kitchen. Both women wanted time to recollect themselves after the intense, precious moment they'd just shared.
An hour later, Alex stepped inside the hall and saw Piper, and the brunette gestured to the counter near the kitchen.
"I thought we could eat here since it's just the two of us," the brunette said in a soft caressing voice. "It's cozier."
Piper's mouth went dry with Alex's tone, and she tried to quickly change the subject.
"Are you hungry?" Piper asked. She felt somewhat proud that she'd helped a little in preparing the meal while waiting for Alex.
Alex nodded slowly. "Starved." Piper's hand stilled at the husky intimacy she thought she'd heard in the brunette's voice. She forced herself to think that the brunette had not purposely chosen that word and consequently tried to look innocent when she addressed Alex. "Would you like something? I kinda familiarized myself with the kitchen in the week that you were gone."
"What are you offering?" Alex answered, playing verbal chess with her with seeming ease though Piper wondered back and forth about whether all the double meanings in their exchange existed only in her head. She couldn't help but overthink. The brunette made her so nervous whenever she used that seductive voice of hers. But still, Piper was never sure when Alex was being innocently sincere or whether she was expertly playing "the game."
"I was offering food. Uhmm for dinner. Of course," Piper blurted out and immediately felt foolish and awkward.
"Of course," Alex agreed seriously, but her eyes glinted with amusement.
"Steak, to be specific."
"It's very important to be specific."
Piper thought there were some remnants of the kiss they'd shared earlier that still remained. Maybe that explained why their conversation now seemed so strangely charged. Piper decided to make a strategic retreat and began backing away toward the kitchen to bring out the food.
She needed to keep herself busy and not drive herself crazy overthinking. In the kitchen she told one of the maids that she could finish the preparations on her own.
Miss Claudette had not been around since yesterday because the old lady had to visit a family member who'd gotten sick.
Cozier.
The word swirled inside Piper's brain. She knew perfectly well that by Alex's definition "cozier" meant "more conducive to intimacy." She knew it just as clearly as she knew that the situation between them had altered irreversibly the moment Alex saved her from that stallion that day. And Alex knew it too. Piper clearly saw the evidence. There was a new softness in the brunette's eyes when she looked at her and a tenderness in her voice, both of which were utterly shattering Piper's own self-control. Piper shook her head at her foolish attempts to reason with herself. There was nothing left of her self-control, no more arguments that mattered, nowhere she could go to hide the truth.
The truth was she wanted Alex, and the brunette wanted her. They both knew it.
She placed the food on a silver tray and went out to find Alex sitting on one of the sofas near the counter at the side of the dining area. She looked so relaxed and sexy as she watched Piper coming her way.
How come she isn't nervous? Piper wondered. Of course she isn't. She's undoubtedly done this to hundreds of women, women much prettier than me.
With that last thought, Piper stifled the urge to go back to the kitchen to find something to arrange just to delay the whole thing.
Alex watched Piper return to the counter and observed how graceful and uncertain the blonde's movements were as she placed their meal on the table. The light from the chandeliers gleamed on her blonde hair as it spilled forward over her shoulders and glowed on her soft skin as she arranged the plates and cutlery on the place mat. Alex noticed that Piper had beautiful hands. Alex had a poignant memory of those hands clasping her face when she'd been semi-conscious, Piper rocking her in her arms and pleading with her to get up the day she'd saved her from the stallion. Alex remembered those hands smoothing the blankets over her during the two days that she'd been recuperating as well as the frantic worry in Piper's voice when she'd first awoken and saw the blonde was sleeping beside her bed.
As she watched Piper now, she realized how carefully the blonde was avoiding her eyes. Alex knew Piper as someone who'd opposed, outwitted, defied and challenged her from the very beginning, and yet for all her dauntless courage and spunk, Alex could see how amazingly shy the blonde was being right now, now that the hostilities between them have disappeared.
"I'll get some wine," Alex said, and before Piper could decline she got up and returned with a bottle and two wine glasses.
Piper reached out for the glass but seemed to changed her mind.
"I didn't poison it," Alex remarked.
"I didn't think you did," Piper said with a self-conscious laugh. Alex again noticed how nervous Piper seemed to be.
They both slowly sensed the possibility of something happening between the two of them tonight, something that had started with their kiss and was now further developing with this intimate dinner that they were sharing.
The blonde probably thinks that Alex was going to jump on her the moment they were done with their meal, Alex thought. If anyone should be worried it should be her, concerned with her tendency to lose control when it comes to the blonde.
Alex decided to reassure and put Piper at ease by engaging her in some pleasant and casual conversation. She was about to try to get Piper to talk when she realized that the blonde was giving her an odd, curious look. "What?" Alex asked.
"I was wondering where you had gone to this whole week," Piper answered.
Alex couldn't tell Piper that she was now sure that Mendez had indeed left his regular post and had finally set out to look for them. She had to travel to meet with her insider who was still working for the drug organization. What Alex had done had been a huge risk, making herself visible like that, but she'd needed to gather essential information, and she didn't trust anyone save for John to be left at the island to look out for Piper. If Mendez was already close to finding her property, Alex didn't know, but that's what she and John were trying to find out now. They couldn't find any traces from the hidden cameras set up on the island, but they hadn't installed many of them around the property as Alex preferred to just rely on John's men hidden about the area, not wanting to feel like she was being watched 24/7. Alex trusted John to handle his men and behave accordingly to her needs.
Alex didn't want to worry the blonde so she simply said, "I went to shop for some things."
"Mhhm. Like what?" Finished with her stew, Piper leaned back and fixed Alex with a skeptical look that made it clear that Piper wanted the truth.
"Things needed for the house. Supplies." And she wasn't lying. She had indeed acquired some things that Miss Claudette had asked her to buy. "And food." Alex smiled. "I thought we'd run out because I heard you'd been feeding people in the area."
"Do you mind? I went to meet one of the maid's family," Piper asked with a slightly worried note.
"I don't. It's totally fine," Alex answered her tenderly. She'd been assured by John that Piper had returned before nightfall.
"I left you a piece of bread in the pantry though if that's what you're concerned about," Piper joked with a charming smile.
Alex couldn't help it and burst out laughing. She needed this relaxed atmosphere with her, refreshed with just Piper's presence and glad that she was now spending time with the blonde.
"Thank you," Alex whispered.
"For what?"
Alex held Piper's gaze. "For making me smile. For spending time with me. For helping me when I was hit by the horse. For being brave. And for helping with this wonderful meal." Alex tipped Piper's face up from under the chin to lighten the mood and saw that the glint in the blonde's eyes wasn't embarrassment.
Piper stood up to start putting the things away to escape the burning look the brunette was giving her, but Alex placed a hand on her shoulder. "Stay here and enjoy your wine. I'll do it."
Too tense to sit still and waiting to see what would happen next, Piper got up and walked over to the windows. Leaning her shoulder against the pane, she gazed out at the captivating view of the area outside the house gleaming under the moonlight.
Alex turned the lights dim, sending the room into a mellow glow. "You'll be able to see outside better this way," the brunette explained when Piper threw a questioning look over her shoulders. Piper saw Alex move towards the stereo in the corner of the room, and she started hearing slow music filling the room. Piper immediately felt her throat drying up, and she drank more of her wine before looking back out to the view again.
When Alex came up behind the blonde at the windows, she saw Piper's shoulders stiffen, and the blonde's nervous reaction to her began to genuinely unnerve her. Rather than ignoring it and wielding Piper into the kiss she'd been wanting to have again, Alex shoved her hands inside her pockets and tried to catch Piper's attention. When she did, Alex tipped her head towards the stereo and asked with a teasing formality, "Can I ask you for a dance?"
Piper turned. Her eyes looked nervous, but she was smiling. Alex's spirit soared crazily simply because the blonde looked pleased. Alex kept her hands deep inside her pockets to herself keep from touching her, but grinned. "I remember the last person I asked for a dance was a teacher. She turned me down though."
"Really why?" Piper asked, surprised but glad that Alex was sharing something from her past.
"I was too short for her."
Piper smiled because Alex was very tall for a woman and thought that she must be joking or else the other woman would have been a giant.
"Were you really shorter than her?"
Alex nodded. "By about two feet. But I didn't see that as an obstacle at that time because I had a wild crush on her."
Piper caught on then, and her smile faded a little, remembering the sweet little girl that Miss Claudette had told her about. "How old were you?"
"Eight."
Alex saw how Piper looked at her, like the blonde had known the slight had hurt her back then.
"I wouldn't have turned you down."
The catch in Piper's voice and the soft look in her eyes almost ruined every wall that Alex had built deep inside. Mesmerized by the feelings unfolding inside her, Alex pulled her hands out of her pockets and held out her hand to her. Her gaze locked onto the blonde, silently asking for her permission. For her consent. For Piper, this revelation and humble act, although small, filled her heart with so much warmth.
Piper laid her hand in Alex's, and Alex slid her arm around Piper's waist, drawing the blonde closer to her while Labrinth's Beneath You're Beautiful played in the background.
A jolt shook Alex when she felt Piper's legs and thighs come into intimate contact with her own as the blonde matched her steps, and her heart began to beat much too fast. They weren't even kissing yet, and desire was already pounding through every nerve ending in her body. Not wanting to rush things and make Piper more nervous, especially now that the blonde was acting comfortable dancing in her arms, Alex thought of a conversation that would further her ultimate goal without immediately stimulating her more than she already was. Linking her fingers with Piper's, Alex brought the blonde's hand against her chest and asked. "How did you manage to pull me up on top of the horse? I'm glad you didn't twist an arm. I probably weigh more than a cow," Alex tried to joke.
Still feeling guilty over that, Piper said, "That's not funny. What you did was the bravest thing anyone's ever done for me..."
It wasn't her words that melted Alex. It was the way Piper was looking at her, the admiration in her eyes, and the awed wonder in her voice. Growing up all these years, hearing what her father thought of her and how he'd made her believe that she was nothing and would never be enough, it was heady merely to be looked at with admiration. Yes, she had people close to her like Miss Claudette and John, but they were different. She knew they cared for her, but they also felt pity for her. So now, to have Piper look at her as if she were brave and fine and decent, it was like a gift being given to her more precious than anything she had ever received. Alex wanted to crush the blonde in her arms, to lose herself in her sweetness. She wanted to be the best lover the blonde has ever known.
Alex was bursting to show Piper the tenderness that she was feeling, wanting to make her feel good because this was the only way the brunette knew how.
Alex slid her hand slowly from the blonde's arms to take Piper's hand and gently guided her out of the dining room.
Piper knew they were heading to the brunette's bedroom. This is really happening now... If she didn't want this to happen, this was the time to put a stop to it, but everything in her body didn't want it to.
Alex stopped at her doorstep and turned to look into Piper's eyes, something in those blue orbs making her stop and ask. "Are you afraid?"
Unable to force out a word, Piper gazed up at the tall, daunting, seductive woman and nodded.
"I won't force myself on you, and if you don't want to do this. Just tell me." When the blonde didn't answer, Alex tried to make her laugh. "I'm a little afraid too."
"You ... You are? Why?"
"I'm afraid I'll lose my control with how much I want you, and I won't pleasure you as much or as well as I want to." The brunette said with a light voice reassuring as she opened the door to her bedroom and waited for Piper to step inside of her own accord.
When Piper did, Alex smiled and earned a shy smile back from the blonde.
"I like it when you smile, do you know that?" Alex asked, trying to ease the blonde's shyness as she guided Piper closer to the bed.
Piper looked up into the brunette's mesmerizing eyes as Alex lowered her slowly onto the bed. The brunette's hand slowly slid up her midriff, encompassing her breast while Alex slowly bent her head and took her mouth in an endless, drugging kiss that made Piper's senses reel.
Alex kissed her again and again, her hands shifting, tormenting, seducing until Piper lost all control. Moaning helplessly, she turned into Alex and kissed her back with all the suppressed longing that she'd been holding back. Piper's parted lips crushed Alex's, and her tongue darted into the brunette's mouth as fingers tangled into Alex's thick hair, holding her to keep the brunette's mouth against hers. As the blonde surrendered, she gained the victory, for this time it was Alex who groaned and lost herself in the kiss.
Wrapping her arms around Piper, Alex rolled onto her back, taking the blonde with her legs, tangling with Piper's, her body slowly grinding, telling the blonde how much she wanted her.
Alex willed herself to slow down, but her body, starved for the blonde, would not listen to the commands, especially not with Piper kissing her like this, the girl's tongue sliding in and out of the contours of her mouth. Shuddering with the need that refused to be denied any longer, Alex rolled Piper onto her back and began undressing her almost hurriedly, and when all clothing was gone, Alex's hand slid down between the blonde's thighs to the warm wetness that assured her that Piper was ready for her.
"I'm sorry," Alex whispered hoarsely. "I... can't... wait." The brunette's breath caught as she eased her finger slowly into the blonde, careful not to hurt her, but Alex stopped in a painful surprise when she saw Piper turn her face away from her and watched as two bright tears slid down from her eyes.
"Piper?" Alex whispered, her arms and shoulders taut with the effort she was trying to exert to control her need to continue moving deep inside her, going crazy with how wet the blonde is. Bracing herself on one forearm, she took the blonde's chin and turned Piper's face to her. "Open your eyes, and look at me," Alex pleaded quietly.
Piper's eyes were full of tears as Alex stared into her eyes.
"Am I hurting you? I'm sorry.. I'm so sorry," Alex asked in disbelief, cradling the blonde's face in her hands, feeling so sorry for her past actions. Wanting nothing but to bring her happiness. To prove herself to Piper. But she has broken her, that's why she can't stomach what she's doing to her now, this must be why she's crying like this.
If only she can repair what she has done. She would, in a heartbeat...
Piper swallowed and shook her head, fighting down the urge to plead with the brunette to take her, to beg her to make love to her, to let Piper make her happy. So many realizations were hitting the blonde right now, that's why she was crying. In a few short minutes, the brunette's lovemaking had broken down every barrier Piper had erected against her.
"Piper, what is it?" Alex asked, leaning down and kissing the tear from the blonde's cheek. Seeing her like this was breaking Alex's heart. "Don't you want me?"
It was the humble innocence in the brunette's voice, combined with the tenderness, was Piper's undoing. "Yes," she whispered, gazing up into Alex's eyes and seeing the passion that the brunette was fighting to restrain.
"Then why are you crying?" Alex whispered.
"Because," Piper confessed in a little voice. "I don't want to want you."
A sound that was part groan, part laughter from feeling so tender escaped Alex, and she once again, slowly, placed her hand in the middle of the blonde's legs, to reacquaint her fingers with her wetness, thrusting her finger fully into her, slowly at first, pulling back and plunging deeper and faster. Piper's hips arched spasmodically beneath her, and Alex almost came right then and there. "I want you," Alex groaned, withdrawing her fingers and plunging again, deeper and deeper with each plunge. Her heart swelled with joy as she felt Piper wrap her arms around her shoulders and surrender completely to her stormy desire. "God, you feel so good," Alex gasped, her thumb circling the blonde's swollen clit, giving Piper more pleasure she could endure.
Piper squeezed Alex arms as her hips lifted, nearing climax. Alex felt Piper's walls clenching around her finger, and she placed another inside her, moving in and out, curling to reach for that spot as she continued to rub her clit. Alex wanted to bring the blonde to that edge, watch her face as she started falling into that oblivion of ecstasy and be completely satisfied, knowing that it was all her doing.
"Let go, I'll be here to catch you," Alex whispered into Piper's ears as she felt the blonde's warm breath on the side of her cheek.
Two more strokes and Piper orgasmed with a force tearing within her, Alex's name in an agonized moan.
When the brunette moved onto her side, she wrapped her arms around Piper and cradled the blonde against her while she waited for Piper's breathing to even out. Staring into the ceiling, Alex felt sanity finally return, and two realizations came to her. First was that she had actually asked Piper if she wanted her, like a small girl pleading for favors. Her experience as a child embedded in her the need to never again beg for anything. The last time she begged was with her dad, and it broke her heart and soul.
Never in her entire life had she asked a woman to want her. Her pride rebelled at her performance in bed tonight and her general lack of control. She had planned to pleasure her all night and make Piper feel good. Second, the blonde called out her name when she reached that peak.
Piper stirred and lifted her head, tilting it back on the pillow so that she could see Alex's face. Piper saw the brunette's jaw tighten and sensed that there must be something that was displeasing her, so she asked in dismay. "You're angry?"
Alex tipped her chin down and smiled without humor. "At myself, not you."
"Why?" Piper asked, lovely and naked in her arms.
"Because I..." Alex shook her head and closed her mouth. Because I want you so much. Because I lost control tonight. Because the simple touch of your hands on me makes me insane with want. Because you affect me so much. You can make me angrier than anyone alive. You can make me laugh. Because where you are concerned, I'm vulnerable and soft...
Her father's voice shouted inside Alex's head: You're so soft. You're no use to me cause you're a girl! You can't be tough. You're too dependent on so many people. You should learn to trust no one but yourself!
Alex pushed the memories out of her head, reminding herself that it had taken her a long time to be where she is right now and not be affected with what happened before.
Piper's soft, timid words drew Alex from her thoughts. "May I go to my room right now? I can see that I've somehow displeased you.."
Alex heart wrenched at the thought of Piper believing that. "On the contrary," she said, smiling to hide what she was really thinking, "You do please me... too much."
Piper looked sceptically at her with the last two words that Alex chuckled and teased her. "In bed you please me," she clarified. "Out of it you infuriate and challenge me. I think the only solution," Alex huskily added as she felt a hot wetness in between her legs as desire surged back again, "is to keep you in bed with me." Bending her head, she took Piper's sweet lips in a deep kiss.
And this time, when Alex made love to Piper, she lingered over her for hours, holding herself back while she guided the blonde to peak after peak of trembling pleasure.
It was already dawn when she made love to Piper for the last time and finally fell into deep slumber herself.
Cautiously lifting the brunette's imprisoning arm from around her waist, Piper inched forward and slid out from beneath the sheets. Her body felt weak, limp, and deliciously weary as she tiptoed silently from the bed to collect her clothes from the floor.
Sliding her arms into the sleeves, she looked at the brunette's sleeping on the bed, her dark hair sprawled out onto the gleaming whiteness of the pillow and sleep softening her features. Piper's gaze move over the brunette, revelling in the freedom to look at her at her heart's content. Piper thought, the woman lying naked on the bed right now is splendid, truly splendid. The most beautiful woman she has ever seen even. Piper looked at Alex one more time and leaned down to carefully draw up the sheet up over the brunette's shoulder, but she did not leave.
While looking down on Alex, Piper thought about the way the brunette made love to her tonight. A fresh surge of delight washed over her as she recalled the brunette's helpless apology when she lost control "I'm sorry, I can't wait." Piper felt good knowing that she was able to make Alex feel good as much as her body was also burning for the brunette. Yes, she had seen Alex lose control before, but from anger and not from pure pleasure like she did tonight, truly enjoying all she can do to Piper's body.
Alex made love to her repeatedly throughout the night, touching and kissing her with the skill of an expert violinist playing his violin.
Piper felt drugged with how satisfied she was physically but at the same time, Piper warned herself not to forget to be cautious and wise with this no matter how dangerously fascinated she was with this vulnerable side of her enigmatic hostess, she realized this and turned away, returning to her own room as she softly closed the door behind her.
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Piper woke up later that morning. She took time to get ready and got impatient when she couldn't decide what to wear, too eager to see how Alex was this morning. She stepped out of her villa and walked to the house when she saw the brunette outside on the patio, sitting at the table while talking to John. The brunette glanced up as she passed and their eyes met. Alex nodded a brief greeting at her, but there was something in the brunette's expression that told Piper that she was not in a good mood.
Confused by this unexpected change of attitude, Piper politely returned her nod and continued past them to the kitchen, where she ate in thoughtful, somewhat dismal silence, wishing that Miss Claudette should be there.
Thinking that her hostess must be busy, Piper decided to keep herself busy with helping in the kitchen, which she realized she enjoyed. She also planned to make another visit to the maid's family. After lunch she began to read a book Miss Claudette had left her in case she became bored, but shortly afterwards, feeling restless, Piper decided to go down to the stables and see the horses.
There was no one there when she arrived. She thought that it couldn't hurt if she rode one of the horses just around the property since the house felt so empty.
It was late in the afternoon when Piper finally returned, discovering how vast the brunette's estate truly was. She had also found a stream and thought how nice it would be to go back there to cool off or just to enjoy nature. Exhilarated from the freedom of riding, she didn't notice at once the stable man rushing at her. She was surprised when he hurriedly took the reins from her, his face was breathless but still managing a smile.
"Miss Alex has been waiting for you for more than an hour, going back and forth from the house to here, and very impatient to see you..."
Pleased with that information, Piper smiled at the sight of Alex as the brunette strode from the side of the house going to the stables, but Piper's smile abruptly faded when she saw that the brunette's face was very dark and angry.
"Don't ever leave the house without telling someone exactly where you're going and exactly when you expect to return!" Alex snapped when Piper dismounted from the horse. "And from now on you're not allowed to leave the house without anyone accompanying you!"
Piper thought that the brunette's anger was completely unreasonable and her attitude so different from her compelling tenderness last night that for a moment Piper just stared at her in astonishment, then she felt her own temper starting to boil.
"Are you finished?" Piper snapped, intending to leave Alex there and go back to the house.
"No," Alex bit out, looking angrier than ever. "There's one more thing... Don't ever crawl out of my bed in the middle of the night when I'm asleep again, like you're a prostitute returning to you post!"
"How dare you!" Piper exploded, so enraged she swung her hand to slap Alex before she realized what she was doing. Alex caught her wrist, her hand clamping onto Piper's slender wrist so tightly that she felt like her bones were going to break. The brunette's eyes glowed like shards of ice, and for a moment Piper thought Alex was going to strike her. Then without warning, Alex dropped her hand, turned on her heels and strode off toward the house.
You can see our Alex is trying very hard here. But you can't change a person overnight. What do you think guys? Thanks for reading. Miss Claudette will be back in the next chapter.
And once again, thank you Rosa No more crying.. hehe