Chapter Twenty-Six

Whose idea had it been for Lex to burst in on Chloe in a club, make her come home with him and put her in his bed, wearing his clothes and no underwear? Lex was fairly certain that it had been his, but he couldn't for the life of him remember why. Well, to be fair, that part of the evening hadn't been too bad, but when had he suddenly got morals? Why on earth when she had asked/demanded that he kiss her, had he been a gentleman and only done so on the forehead? Her lips had been right there in front of him, begging to be kissed, licked, suckled, nibbled, wrapped around …

Lex groaned. He should have kissed her, he should have had his way with her, intoxication be damned. Then he would be comfortably asleep now oblivious to her soft curves pressing into him, instead of lying awake trying to think of anything that would make his hard on disappear.

Lana. Lana in her cheerleader uniform. Ah, that was better. He gave a sigh of relief as the pressure ebbed a little. Chloe nuzzled up closer to him in her sleep, back to square one.

He looked over at the clock. It was almost nine, almost time to wake her up. He really had to get himself under control before then. He wasn't certain how much she would remember from the night before and he certainly didn't want to scare her. Waking up to find herself wrapped around him was now nothing new to her, but he wasn't sure how she would feel when she realised that the leg which always seemed to feel the need to drape across his torso was now so low across his body that it rubbed him in rather intimate areas every time she moved.

She shifted and he gritted his teeth. Whatever her reaction would be once awake the sleeping Chloe seemed to be aware of his problem was trying to create friction between them. He was fairly certain that she was going to wake herself up in a few moments and so he closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep. He wasn't sure that Chloe would actually believe it, but that would be a hell of a lot easier to explain than that he had been lying awake holding her for the last four hours while sending messages and conducting business on his iPad – which he had had enough sense to put in his bedside draw the night before – because he couldn't bare the idea of waking her up.

Chloe was in the middle of a very nice dream in which she was dancing with Lex in her underwear in his apartment – clearly at least half drunk – and Lex was pulling her closer, taking advantage of her willing nature. Even in her dream that seemed odd to her, Lex wouldn't do something like that when she wasn't feeling herself. She tried to think and felt the first traces of her dream leaving her.

"Oh fuck", Chloe thought as she woke with a start, lifting her head up. The sudden movement caused her head to ache and so she put it back where it had been. She had been very comfortable a few moments before.

She couldn't be bothered to open her eyes and look around, if she was where she thought that she was then she would just enjoy being snuggled up to Lex. If she wasn't, then she would rather stay in dream land for a little longer. She really hoped that she had gone home with Lex the night before, not one of the random men she had been flirting with just so that one of them could scratch her itch.

Breathing in deeply she recognised Lex's smell, although it didn't smell like the mansion but that would make sense if they were in the penthouse. Her pillow – a man's chest she had now worked out – was rising and falling just as Lex's had on the other nights, and felt smooth and hairless. Yes, it had to be Lex. She could feel pure silk sheets against her skin, his big strong arms around her and … something very large rubbing itself against her leg.

"Oh", she gasped.

She had to be sure now. She opened an eye just enough to peer out of it, she lifted herself up on one arms and saw Lex's face in repose. She smiled as she informed him, "That isn't going to fool anyone. You are clearly awake".

"And you are clearly no worse for wear after your drink filled evening", he replied, not opening his eyes.

"I'm not sure about that", Chloe said, sitting up. She leant against the headboard and was grateful that Lex had left her a bottle of water by the bed. She replayed the events from the night before, her mind sometimes getting a little stuck but eventually succumbing to her prodding, and telling her what had happened. The only problem was that she couldn't believe it.

She looked down at herself. She was in Lex's room, so clearly he had taken her out of the club. She was wearing his t-shirt. So the shower scene must have happened which meant that.

"Arghh!" Chloe half screamed/half moaned as she buried her face into his chest and heaved the blanket over her head.

"Hey didn't you get a good enough look last night?" Lex couldn't resist teasing her as he opened his eyes. He couldn't make out her reply. He tickled and squeezed her through the blanket. "Why don't you come out of there and talk to me? I can't hear a word that you are saying under there".

"No, too embarrassed", she said loudly enough for him to hear and causing him to smirk. He refrained from asking if this was any less embarrassing and looked for a way to pull the blanket off her only to find that she had cocooned her head in it.

"Alright, if you won't come out then I am coming in", he said and slid under the covers to join her.

He couldn't see her but he could feel her and so he felt around to find out where her head was as he said, "Cozy under here isn't it. I might have to send out change of address cards. But you know it's even nicer out there".

"You have to be kidding", Chloe scoffed at him. "If even half of what I think that I remember from last night actually happened I can never look you in the face again". She had briefly forgotten about what she had felt rubbing her leg only a few moments before, if not then her current position could have been even more embarrassing.

"Well that would be a shame as I like you looking at me. What do you remember from last night?" He inquired, trying to sound casual.

"Um", Chloe tried to hedge. She didn't want to tell him things she remembered just in case they hadn't actually happened. Judging by the fact that she was wearing his clothes, she could assume that she had taken her clothes off so she started, "I made an exhibition of myself".

"You could say that", he knew that she was fishing but didn't withhold the information from her, just because he could as he would have with most people. "Luckily I stopped you from going out on the balcony to impress Metropolis with your nude dance routine".

"Oh God", she groaned.

"How much did you see?" She had to know.

"Everything that you have", he answered honestly.

"Oh fuck", she swore.

"Well I would be lying if I said that that wasn't my first thought but I refrained as you were drunk and probably didn't mean it when you begged me to take you", Lex tested the waters, wondering how much she really did remember.

"I didn't do that!" She protested, then with a touch of trepidation added, "Did I? I don't remember doing that".

"No, you didn't actually beg me although you did make yourself rather irresistible", his body reacted noticeably to the memory. "Always talk to your breasts when drunk?"

"I don't know, I haven't had alcohol since I was 16", she replied honestly. She blushed to remember what she had done the last time that she had over imbibed and was happy that the dark covered it up.

"Well it happens to us all", he rubbed what he thought was her shoulder. "Why don't you come out now?"

"No", she said, still feeling embarrassed. The shower incident coming back in Technicolor, he must think her the biggest idiot but then something else tried to poke her foggy brain. Something important.

"Okay, don't come out for me. Come out for coffee", he coaxed pleased not only for thinking of the perfect way for get her out but also not making any "and while your down there …" jokes.

"Coffee?" Her tone was hopeful. "You wouldn't lie about something like that would you?" She checked as she began to crawl out with him.

"Of course not", they both came up for air. He stroked her hair out of her face, "You never have to be embarrassed in front of me", he kissed her nose then froze.

"Um Lex", Chloe started, "Did you confess something to me in the back of your car?"

He smiled and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, he had put himself out there and she was trying to see if it had really been real. He could remind her that she promised never to forget or he could be a little more evil.

As he pondered both options, he could practically see the angel and devil on his shoulders. His angelic side was a little redheaded Alexander looking sickeningly saintly and telling him that he loved Chloe and should be kind. The evil Lex he looked a great deal like him and held Chloe's red thong as a trophy. His – far more persuasive – argument was that she hadn't said it back … yet, so why should he make it easier on her?

Well Lex considered, he had listened to Alexander the night before and hadn't kissed her, so it was naughty Lex's turn. Evil Lex smiled smugly and booted Alexander off the other shoulder, reminded Lex not to be a pussy and to fuck her until she couldn't walk and disappeared. Fully sized Lex briefly wondered if Chloe had a naughty Chloe on her shoulder and if so, did she know his naughty shoulder Lex?

"Oh yes", he smiled. "And I can't thank-you enough for being so kind when I confessed my undying love for Lana, really I didn't think that anyone would understand …"

She was gapping at him, she had remembered wrong. Her brain must have just been protecting her from … she saw his smirk. He was going to die.

Chloe grabbed the pillow and launched herself at him.

Lex laughed at her attempts to beat him to death with his own property. He let her continue for a minute as he could easily defend himself from her attack, before grabbing it from her and throwing it away. He grasped her wrists and flipped them over so that she was underneath him, he had very definite plans to tickle her into submission when he saw her eyes flicker slightly.

"Are you alright?" He checked. She was obviously still not quite recovered and moving her so quickly had not been a good idea.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I just went a little dizzy", she smiled up at him reassuringly.

"That is probably because you haven't had coffee in hours", he said hopping off her, "I'll get you some".

"Oh goodie", she got up to and followed him into the kitchen much to his delight. He had never offered to bring a woman coffee in bed before but he was fairly certain that if he had most would have accepted it rather than following him to visit the coffee machine.

"That has got to be the most gorgeous thing that I have ever seen", she gasped in awe.

"Caught a glimpse of yourself in the chrome fridge?" He asked, as he was fairly certain that it wasn't his ass she was talking about.

"The coffee maker", she said. "Can I touch it? Please? I'll be gentle and oh so good to it".

"You can touch anything you like darling", he told her arrogantly.

Her eyes glazed with lust Chloe moved slowly over to the coffee maker and reached out to caress its top gently, "You are so beautiful", she whispered to it. "You shouldn't let Lex hide you away like that. You are so much bigger than I was expecting".

"It is just a coffee maker Chloe", he told her, his still neglected hard on was feeling rather left out, it wasn't its fault that it couldn't make coffee.

"It's not just a coffee maker, it is the most beautiful coffee maker in the world. My favourite shop in all of Metropolis had one of these, it made the best coffee in the world, until it closed down. I offered the man who own the shop my car, my virginity and my first born for it but he said that he had had a better offer".

"Not better, but I think that the bank manager liked mine better. I can't understand why", he looked her up and down. "What will you give me for a cup?"

"What do you want?" She wondered turning to look at him, thinking that he had a car pretty much just like hers and that her virginity was long since gone.

He had already put the machine on and left the cups to fill.

"Is that a serious offer?" He asked, raising his eyebrow in the way that he now knew she found sexy.

"Absolutely", she replied without second guessing herself.

He placed his hands on her hips and pulled her to him. "A kiss".

"No problem", she said, pressing her lips softly against his forehead just as he had done to her the night before. "That was what you wanted, right?"

"Of course", he smiled graciously, appreciating the irony. Evil shoulder Lex and mini Lex did not, in fact he was fairly certain that they were conspiring to take her against the fridge.

There was a whistling sound which announced that the coffee was ready and Chloe bounced up and down, as – he noticed through the thin cotton of his t-shirt, did her unfettered breasts. He was definitely going to need to have another cold shower.

"Lex", Chloe asked thoughtfully, "do you remember what I did with my clothes?"

"They are in the washing machine", he explained, "but I had your stuff brought over from Oliver's and a couple of dresses and things", he waved his hand in the direction of the settee where her bag lay as did her new clothes. Sometimes it was very nice to be rich and powerful.

"Oh Lex, you didn't have to do that", she said as she looked over at the bag and noted that they were from the best boutiques.

"It was nothing", he struggled as he put the finishing touches to their coffees.

Chloe gave him a kiss on the cheek, then took her coffee excitedly. She breathed it in and moaned.

A cold shower was definitely going to be needed.

She tasted it. It was gorgeous. Yummy. Scrumptious. If he wanted her first born he could have it.

"I could have one of these put in the mansion if you want", he offered.

"You wouldn't tease about that would you?" Chloe checked.

"Nope, 100% serious", he said wondering how quickly one could be made and delivered.

"Then you really have to, it is brilliant", Chloe continued in drink her coffee.

"Do I get another kiss?" He wondered.

"Sure", Chloe gave him a coy smile as her own little evil Chloe rubbed her hands mischievously and angelic Chloe (who looked like Chloe at five) hid her face behind her hands in a dramatic display to show that she had nothing to do with this … before spreading her fingers so that she could see.

Chloe placed her now empty coffee cup on the side before taking his and down in the same. He looked at her with interest as she pressed herself up against him, allowing his to feel her full breasts growing tight at being in his presence.

She trailed her hands over his bald head, delighting in the feel of his soft skin, before kissing him on the cheek again. She then whispered in his ear, "And better than that, I will give you some nice thoughts for your shower", she glanced down at his prominent hardness.

Lex gulped, he had really been hoping that she hadn't noticed that.

"I really hope that you weren't thinking of taking a cold shower to get rid of that, I can think of much better uses for it", she dragged her nails down his throat gently.

"Really?"

"Oh yes", she assured him as her thumb brushed over his nipple. "So many wicked, delicious ways that would help relax you".

He gulped.

"Well, I suppose that they wouldn't relax you at first, they would work you up to the point where you would lose your mind and lie underneath me thrashing around, begging for relief", she pinched the nub between her fingers and watched in delight as he took in a sharp breath, "but in the end I think that you would end up very … relaxed". She leaned in to lick and sooth her rough treatment.

"Chloe", his voice sounded hoarse as he grabbed her shoulders. Her teasing fingers continued their journey south, circling his navel.

"You know something Lex, there are so many things that I wanted to try but was always too afraid to", she licked her lips, "but I think that you are the man to experiment with". She made her eyes overly large and innocent as she looked up at him, "Have you ever …" she started to whisper extremely naughty things into his ear.

Lex slammed his eyes shut and willed himself under control; he was not going to lose in all over Chloe just from her words.

"Well Lex, what do you think?" She asked as she pulled back slightly.

His mouth was too dry to answer, as he tried to produce enough saliva to do so, she continued, "Such a shame that you are too much of a gentleman to take me while you are still not sure that I am not part intoxicated, isn't it? Otherwise you could have just bent me back against the counter and had your way with me right here and now".

Somehow she had slipped out of his arms and skipped over to her new bags, calling over her shoulder, "Enjoy your shower Lex".