Chapter FIFTY ONE

There were a quite a few people wanting to use the same elevator Sami and EJ were going to use so they all crowded in but EJ made sure that he manoeuvred them to the back so that everyone was standing in front of them. EJ leant up against the back wall of the elevator and Sami stood in front of him, resting back lightly on him. EJ's arms went around Sami's waist with practiced familiarity and Sami snuggled back into him, enjoying the feeling of being in his embrace and hardly able to wait until they were alone in their room together. EJ seemed to feel the same way but didn't seem to feel the need for the alone part quite as much it appeared because Sami felt him begin to rub himself against her as they stood there in the back of the elevator, people crowded all around.

Sami's lips quirked and she joined him, moving her hips in time with his, the movement subtle but stimulating to them both. It appeared that this was going to be a longer elevator trip because every button to the seventh floor was pressed as people got off on each floor. By the forth floor stop EJ had grown impatient and Sami bit back a gasp as he suddenly moved one hand from around her waist and brazenly slipped it inside her bodice, cupping a full breast, testing it's weight in his hand.

Sami's eyes widened, unbearably conscious that any one of the people still left in the elevator could turn around and see them, her heart beating wildly in her chest now but that possibility didn't seem to be fazing EJ at all as he began to fondle her breast, finding her nipple and pulling and twisting on it how he knew she liked it. Sami was suddenly so wet that she actually felt some moisture escape her body and trickle down her leg as the ache between her legs became full blown. She bit down on her lip to stop herself from crying out and EJ leant down over her shoulder, rubbing his cheek against hers and she felt the roughness of his slight beard. The next stop was floor six, their floor but instead of loosening his hold on her he simply tightened it. The door slid open and one person got off.

"I want you again in here," he whispered into her ear, his voice so low that only she could hear and she nodded mutely, wanting that too.

They let the doors slide shut on their floor and rode with the remaining occupants to the seventh and eighth floors with EJ still grinding himself into her slowly from behind, his fingers still tweaking at her nipple, getting her wetter and wetter all the time. Sami wanted to scream at what he was doing to her but she bit down on her cheek and endured his sweet torture of her body in silence. Finally the last occupant of the lift alighted and Sami almost cried with relief as the doors slid shut and they were at last alone. The elevator hovered for a minute and then began it's slow descent and without being asked Sami reached out a hand and hit the emergency stop button for the second time that night.

"Good girl," he praised her, his own voice rough as she felt his hand at her breast becoming increasingly urgent.

Sami doubted that this was going to be any less frantic then their other couplings so far, it had been too long since their last release and they were both at a fever pitch of need again.

"Hurry," she moaned to him, unable to think beyond having him back inside of her.

EJ didn't need to be told twice, at last letting go of her breast only to put both his hands on her hips and swing Sami around so that she was facing the wall. Sami groaned and bent over at the waist, putting her palms flat on the wall and waited for him to take her in agonising anticipation. EJ growled low in his throat at seeing her like this. This was one of his favourite positions, seeing her perfect backside presented to him like this, knowing she was letting him be in complete control, it was enough to drive a man insane.

Sami heard the sound of his belt and then zipper being undone and then pants dropping to the ground and braced herself, knowing she was about to be ridden very hard and wanting it so badly. She felt him push up the material of her skirt and knew she was fully exposed now and he would be able to see how wet he'd gotten her.

"Oh god sweetheart," he grunted, one hand going between her legs and rubbing the back of his hand along her now dripping thighs, "So wet… and all for me."

"Yes," she gasped as his hand rubbed up against her centre, lingering there, "All for you! Now please… I need to come right now!"

EJ grabbed her hips with both hands and gave her a final warning.

"I'm so big sweetheart," he panted, "You've got me so hard… I don't want to hurt you…"

"DO IT!" she ordered him roughly, prepared to take anything as long as she could have some kind of release to end her torment.

EJ growled low in his throat, her command breaking the last of his restraint and he just mounted her without further warning.

"Oh god!" she gasped, squeezing her eyes shut as she had to now take all of him in a single thrust.

He was even bigger than the first time he'd been inside of her tonight and it would have been excruciating if she hadn't already had him and been so very wet. Her body quickly adjusted to him and the flash of pain passed and then there was just the feeling of having him inside her again.

"So tight!" he grunted, immediately bending over her so she could feel his chest against her back, "You're so damn tight sweetheart - I love it!"

Both of his hands went to her breasts now, freeing them from the confines of her dress before finding her nipples again and beginning to pull on them in time with his thrusts. Sami's eyes rolled back in her head and she knew she wouldn't be able to take this kind of double stimulus for very long which EJ of course knew full well. EJ was varying the angles of his thrusts, looking for the one that would give Sami maximum pleasure and she cried out when he found it.

"Oh right there!" she moaned desperately, "More - don't stop EJ, just like that!"

"Samantha," he groaned, beginning to ride her in earnest now, his strokes alternating between long and deep and sharp and frantic.

The small room was filled with the sound of their ragged breathing and slick bodies moving over one another and the heavy smell of sex was in the air as Sami felt herself let go, her core pulsating wildly even as her hips heaved and strained against his frantic thrusting. As soon as her orgasm started it made EJ come as well and he cried out her name in that final frenzied push to empty himself into her. Sami's knees gave way then and it was only EJ's quick reflexes that managed to wrap his arms around her waist to stop her from falling.

"Oh… my… god…" she gasped weakly.

EJ tightened his arms around her waist and rested his cheek against her back, not even being able to manage words yet as his body hummed and throbbed in the aftermath of his own climax.

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"What?" asked Sami in amusement as they finally made it out of the elevator and to their room when she saw the expression on her husbands face.

He leaned back against the door of their room and blew out a tired but pleased sigh, arching a mischievous eyebrow at her.

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"I'm was just thinking we should get an elevator installed at the mansion," he said straight faced, "I think I'm developing a bit of a fetish for them."

Sami burst out laughing at that and he joined in.

"Well there is that dumb waiter that goes from the basement into the kitchen," noted Sami humorously, "Will that do?"

"I couldn't even get my legs into that thing," snorted EJ and then ran his eyes appreciatively all over Sami's body as she stood regarding him in amusement, "Let alone the most important part of my fetish."

"Well I guess you'll have to talk to John about it then," she smiled up at him, "Knowing John it's something he'd actually consider."

"Mm," said EJ, pursing his lips together thoughtfully, "I guess he would at that."

EJ looked over at Sami now as she kicked off her shoes and wiggled her toes in the plush hotel carpet, giving a grateful sigh of relief.

"I've just realised something," said EJ thoughtfully, walking up to Sami and sliding his arms around her waist from behind.

"That you're insatiable?" she asked, tongue in cheek as he nuzzled her neck.

"Oh no," he said very seriously, "I knew that already."

"Then what's this new revelation then?" she laughed.

"That we've been here in this hotel for hours now," he began.

"Wow EJ," she interrupted him teasingly, "You're quite the time keeper aren't you?"

"And we've enjoyed some very… very… enjoyable moments together already," he continued on, ignoring her teasing.

"Yes," nodded Sami seriously, leaning back against his chest, "Dinner was excellent wasn't it? And the dancing was fun too."

"And despite all that," he went on, undaunted by her continued cheekiness, "I have yet to see my gorgeous wife naked."

"Oh," said Sami, sounding very concerned now, "Well that's just terrible EJ - I so wish there was something I could do to fix that for you."

EJ's nimble fingers went to the tiny hidden zipper along the side seam of her dress, undoing the delicate catch.

"It's fine Samantha," he told her knowingly, "I've got it all in hand."

EJ pulled on the zip, all the way down and went to push off the scraps of material from her shoulders but Sami's hands came up and still his that were about to do just that.

"I've got a better idea," she said, looking up at him over her shoulder with a smile.

"Well I have no complaints about your ideas thus far sweetheart," he grinned, "So what's your idea?"

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Samantha leaned back a little further, settling herself more comfortably and let out a blissful moan. Her eyes drifted shut as her body was bombarded with sensations and she smiled around another happy groan.

"You started with out me," pouted EJ unhappily, taking in his wife's naked body and the very pleased expression on her face.

"You were taking to long," she sighed and grinned up at him, "I couldn't wait any longer."

EJ walked the rest of the way into the bathroom, white towel draped loosely around his waist and surveyed the steam filled room with amusement.

"You've turned this bathroom into a sauna," he informed her, walking over to where Sami was immersed up to her neck in hot, scented water.

"And is that a problem for you EJ?" she smiled up at him sweetly, her face flushed pink from the heated water and steam, "If I recall you quite enjoyed your last visit to a sauna."

"I think we both did sweetheart," he said with a grin, "In fact I remember very distinctly."

"Well then," she shrugged with a lazy smile, "Stop complaining and get in here then."

"Did I ever tell you that it gets me very hot when you're bossy?" he teased her, dropping his towel and watching as Sami scooted down to one end of the old fashioned bath tub so he could climb in behind her.

"If I was to believe everything you said EJ," she returned his teasing as he settled behind her and she moved back between his legs, resting her back against his chest, "Everything I do seems to get you hot."

"Believe it," he growled into her neck and she giggled as his arms encircled her and he hugged her back to him tightly.

"Are you comfortable?" she asked him after a minute of soaking quietly.

"I've got a facet jammed between my shoulder blades," he replied calmly, "My legs are cramped up because this tub is too short…"

Sami looked at his bent knees poking out of the water whilst she herself was stretched out completely and had to smile to herself.

"… the bath plug is currently dangerously close to somewhere I don't even want to think about… " he continued on blithely.

"Oh well, we can move if you like," said Sami with a giggle, going to sit up.

"Don't you dare!" he said throatily, tightening his hold on her and stopping her from moving even if she'd wanted to which she didn't, "You didn't let me finish… and I've got my beautiful, finally naked wife in my arms…"

Smiled and settled back in his arms more fully.

"I…" he said, punctuating his next words with kisses to her neck and shoulders, "… am… in… heaven."

"Mmm," sighed Sami happily, letting her head drop back against his chest, "Me too."

She made a rueful face then even though he couldn't see her.

"I feel a bit guilty though," she sighed, "I hope the twins are behaving for Grandma."

"Caroline has their number," smiled EJ, resting his chin on top of her head before dropping a quick kiss to the same, "I'm sure they are all having a ball."

"I was going to leave them with Mom and John," she told him, "But I changed my mind when I caught what John was doing with the twins yesterday."

"Oh," said EJ with a little laugh, "You know about him racing them do you?"

"What?!" exclaimed Sami, sitting up suddenly and looking back at him in horror, "He races our babies?!"

"Oh," grimaced EJ ruefully, "You were talking about something else eh?"

"What?" asked Sami, bewildered, "Like against each other you mean?"

"Aha," nodded EJ and then looked suddenly thoughtful, "There has been talk of giant turtles and the occasional Oompaloompa but I'm pretty sure that hasn't actually eventuated yet… well, certainly the Oompaloompa part anyway."

"Why?" asked Sami in a kind of resigned horror.

"Because Oompaloompa's don't really exist darling," said EJ teasingly.

"Not why the Oompaloompa's EJ!" she rolled her eyes at him, "Why if you knew about this are you letting John continue to do it?!"

"Well," shrugged EJ, "I've watched the twins and they really seem to be enjoying themselves and it's perfectly safe darling – I checked. It's not like he's putting them on a pole over a tank of electric eels and getting them to fight to the death with bamboo sticks."

"Yet," scowled Sami with a shake of her head and turned back round, leaning back against him again, "I tell you EJ – John is completely crazy!"

"But the twins love him darling," he pointed out reasonably.

"The twins are thirteen months old EJ," said Sami with a roll of her eyes, "What do they know?"

EJ paused then and she felt him give a little shrug.

"I love him," he confessed to her and Sami gave up then.

"I love him too," she sighed, sounding resigned to her fate, "But it doesn't make him any less of a nut bag EJ."

"Well that goes without saying," nodded EJ straight faced.

"Do you think he and my Mom will ever work things out?" she pondered.

EJ thought back to his earlier conversation with John about third base and smiled.

"Oh I think it might," he said and then he thought about it a bit more and the sometimes 'interesting' interpretations John seemed to be able to put on the simplest things let alone something as complicated as a love life.

"… or your mother will be filling out a restraining order against him," conceded EJ ruefully, "It's too early to tell at this point."

"If that was the case and they both needed lawyers whose case would you take?" asked Sami, suddenly curious, looking back at him over her shoulder.

"Oh…tough one," said EJ, pursing his lips, "On one hand I've got a blood relative in Uncle John, a man who has opened his house up to our family in our time of need and has been there for me when I needed him to be…"

"All good points," nodded Sami with a little smile.

"But on the other hand a chance to impress a mother in law is always a hard thing to pass up," he continued on thoughtfully, "It's a bit tricky really."

"So?" she prompted him when he left it at that, "Which one would you chose EJ?"

"Well," he said slowly, "Weighing everything up and considering all sides I think my best bet would be to simply fake a coma and wait until the whole thing blows over."

"That is not particularly noble of you EJ," she laughed at him.

"Darling there is nothing noble about getting yourself in the middle of something that you can't possibly win," he said with great certainty, "I'd rather fake a coma and live to fight another day thank you very much."

"My hero," she teased him.

"I'm a modern day hero," he said straight faced, "Pragmatic."

"I suppose I can live with having a pragmatic, coma faking husband," Sami sighed in feigned resignation.

"Well you'd better," said EJ firmly, "Because you're it for me Samantha. There will never be another. If I was to lose you'd I'd never love again - I'd never marry again."

Sami didn't speak for a long time

"You're meant to say that you'd want me to be happy and that if I found someone else to love that you would want me to be happy," he prompted her teasingly.

"Forget that!" snorted Sami inelegantly, "If I die first you're going to be raising those babies and then you'll die alone because if I see you with another woman I will rise from the dead and make your life a walking nightmare… and don't think for one moment that I won't EJ DiMera!"

"So I'm never allowed to love again or re-marry then?" mused EJ thoughtfully, "I see."

Sami looked over her shoulder at him and gave him an unhappy frown. She then straightened up and managed to turn around so that she was now facing EJ, straddling him, water slopping messily over the sides of the bath tub as she did.

"You were the one who just said you would never love another," she accused him.

"And that's true sweetheart," he said with a quirk of his lips and she frowned unhappily at him, amused by their conversation, "But I would want you to be happy… so I guess that makes me the better person eh?"

"Oh right," she sneered, "So you'd be perfectly happy if after you were gone for me to marry again? Is that what you're telling me?"

"After a respectful amount of time has passed," said EJ with a nod of his head, "Of course."

Sami gave him a sceptical look, not believing the calm front that he was putting on for a second.

"So you are alright with the thought of me doing all this," she waved a hand at the hotel room and then their naked bodies, "With another man."

"Oh," said EJ matter of factly, "It won't be that kind of marriage."

"It won't?" queried Sami with a quirk of her lips as she began to see why he was being so reasonable about all this, "What kind of marriage would it be exactly EJ?"

"One of convenience of course Samantha," he said brightly, "You couldn't possibly contemplate sex with another man… I've ruined you for anyone else now."

"Have you indeed?" she laughed at how assured he was of that fact and the truth was he was right but she wasn't going to tell him that while he had that smug look on his face.

"Oh yes," he said in all seriousness, "But you'll need a man around to do the heavy lifting, get the lids off jars and of course take care of the cars… you're not exactly gifted in that area after all - remember the radiator fiasco?"

"How was I meant to know that you had to put water in it all the time?" she grumbled at the memory, "It's not my fault that the engine got cooked - they should have some kind of warning system in the car if it is that important!"

"They do darling," said EJ dryly, "That was the flashing red light on the dash board that you drove around with for a week."

"I thought it was something to do with the security system," she pouted, "If they want a serious alarm it should make a noise! It's only common sense!"

"Whilst a red light flashing the word 'alarm' is completely ambiguous," noted EJ straight faced, "I see your point sweetheart, I should really write a strongly worded letter to the manufacturer about that I think."

Sami shook her head and tried not to smile at his teasing of her which was pretty hard when he broke into one of his dazzling smiles.

"You know my next husband is going to have a lot less smart things to say about my knowledge of cars," she goaded him, eyes narrowing dangerously.

"Quite possibly," he nodded thoughtfully, "I am after all the only one who's been able to give as good as they get from you."

"You are just so full of yourself aren't you?" she said in mock disgust and then tilted her head to one side and gave him a considered look, "Besides, none of this matters anyway – you're not leaving me EJ… ever. Even if you up and die on me I'll find a way to bring you back like you did for me – you are so stuck with me – deal with it!"

Sami saw the sudden flash of pain in his eyes at that last part and frowned, wondering what that was about.

"EJ?" she queried, looking at him intently, "What's wrong? What did I say?"

"Nothing darling," said EJ, trying to reassure her and looking determinedly up beat for her benefit, "Everything is fine."

"Then what was that look for?" asked Sami in concern.

"It's nothing Samantha," he said and smiled at her tenderly, his hands going to her back and running up and down it's length soothingly, "Really."

Sami bit her lip and looked down, knowing that he was hiding something from her despite his comforting words. She looked up then, holding his gaze steadily.

"Why haven't you… " she began to ask but hesitated, "Why didn't you want…?"

"What darling?" asked EJ, giving his own concerned frown now.

"Me," she finished softly, feeling suddenly vulnerable, "Why wouldn't you touch me EJ… after my operation? I know my leg wasn't exactly appealing to look at and it must have been hard for you to look at it… and me."

EJ's eyes widened and he sat up straighter in the tub, looking at her in disbelief.

"You thought we weren't having sex because I had suddenly found you unattractive?" asked EJ in horror, "Samantha! How could you even think such a thing?!"

"Well you weren't talking to me so what was I meant to think EJ?" said Sami, looking suddenly sad and EJ could have kicked himself for being so thoughtless.

"You are and always will be the most beautiful woman in the world to me Samantha," he said urgently, cupping her face with his hands, "You're the mother of my children, my soul mate and it kills me to know that I made you doubt that even for a second."

EJ pulled her closer then, resting his forehead against his own.

"I am so sorry sweetheart," he said earnestly and there was actual pain in his voice, "I never meant you to doubt yourself. It honestly never occurred to me…"

He pulled back a little again and looked her in the eye, giving her a crooked smile.

"… that you would think that I could ever stop wanting you," he finished sorrowfully, "It's such an alien concept that the possibility of you thinking that never even entered my head."

"So what was it EJ?" she asked him achingly, touched by his words of devotion but needing to know, "Every time I tried to get close to you, you kept on pulling further away. How could I not think that it was something I'd done… or not done?"

"It wasn't you Samantha," he said achingly, "It was me… all me."

He looked down at Sami's small hands that were resting lightly on his chest as she straddled him in the bath tub and moved to cover them with his own much larger ones.

"That night…" he whispered, staring down at their now entwined hands, "… than night I watched you die Samantha, right there in front of me… it was the most horrific thing I've ever seen in my life."

"Oh EJ," she said hurriedly, feeling so badly for having put him through that, "I'm sorry… but there was no other way and I knew you'd save me… I just knew it!"

"And what if I hadn't?" he asked her painfully, holding her gaze now and Sami gasped to see the anguish behind their dark depths, "What if I'd lost you forever that night Samantha?"

"EJ…" she began, wanting to remind him that he hadn't but now that he'd started talking EJ couldn't seem to stop himself.

"I saw you in hospital and then at home," he continued on, seeming to be almost talking to himself now as he shook his head, "I saw you getting better all the time but I couldn't let myself enjoy it, couldn't make myself believe it. I just kept feeling like at any minute you were going to be gone again and I'd be left utterly alone and I couldn't bear the thought of a life without you in it. I was just frozen inside and nothing I told myself seemed to make any difference."

"Oh EJ," sighed Sami, cupping his face and kissing the stressed lines of his face tenderly, "Why didn't you tell me any of this – we could have worked through this together."

"You had enough to deal with in your rehabilitation sweetheart," he told her truthfully, "I didn't want to burden you with my silly fears."

"They weren't silly EJ," she said with a shake of her head, "And I hate to think of you suffering in silence all this time."

Sami frowned a little then, looking at him curiously.

"So what changed?" she asked him, "I mean, you're here now and you seem…"

"Back in the game?" he suggested and smiled, feeling suddenly so much lighter for having confessed his worries to her.

"Yes," said Sami with an answering smile.

"Well in part it's due to a certain baby racing, crazy Uncle of mine," admitted EJ with a grin.

"Oh?" said Sami intrigued and then had to laugh, "Well in that case I forgive him for racing the twins but he still can't feed them Roger's food."

"What?!" exclaimed EJ, "He's been feeding Ali and Johnny Roger's food?"

"Yes," said Sami flatly.

"Oh god that man!" said EJ in exasperation, putting his hands over his face and shaking his head in a moment of defeat.

"So what was the other part?" she prompted him, "You said that John was only part of the solution."

EJ dropped his hands from his face and looked at Sami, his eyes moving all over her beautiful face.

"Why my unbelievably sexy, drop dead gorgeous wife of course," he told her, his eyes twinkling now, "How can I ever hope to deny her anything… especially that… when she demands it of me."

"You make me sound like a wanton," sniffed Sami, pretending affront.

"No," he corrected her with a shake of his head, his hands going to her back again, his fingers fanning out as he stroked the soft flesh, "You're my wanton Samantha… "

He held her gaze steadily then and Sami felt a little thrill go through her at the desire she could see in their chocolate depths.

"… and don't you forget it," he finished huskily.

"Perhaps you should remind me?" she suggested, looking ever so innocent, "I can be quite forgetful sometimes you know EJ."

"Is that right?" he growled, holding her gaze as he bent his head and licked at a droplet of water that had trickled down between the valley of her breasts as they had sat talking.

Sami trembled as his hot tongue traced a line up her already heated skin and found herself holding her breath for his next move. She didn't have long to wait.

"Best I get to reminding you then hadn't I Mrs DiMera?" he asked her throatily and promptly attached himself to an already hardened nipple.

Sami whimpered as he took the sensitive peak into his mouth, her finger nails digging in EJ's shoulders and silently encouraging him to continue. She bit down on her bottom lip as she felt his tongue lapping at the tightened bud, her body already responding to him as she felt him hardening against her. Sami's hand slipped beneath the water's surface and found him, encircling his thickness and squeezing, wringing a low groan from deep inside him. In very little time he was ready for her and Sami couldn't wait any longer. She raised herself up, making him break contact with her breast and then sank slowly down on his swollen shaft, both of them trembling as she did.

"Mine," she breathed once he was fully sheathed inside her, tightening her muscles around him repeatedly.

"Oh yes," he sighed, a look of delirium on his face as she tensed and released around him, "All yours."

Sami looked down at him, his face beaded with water from the heat of the steamy bath, the water droplets running down his face and chest and wanted him so badly. She braced her hands on either side of the tub and began to move up and down on him, holding his enraptured gaze as she did. EJ's hands went to her hips and helped guide her, urging her onwards. The water sloshed over the side of the bath tub as their movements quickly picked up speed but neither cared.

"Say my name when you come," he begged her and she nodded mutely, feeling her core already beginning to tighten and wondering if she'd ever be able to get enough of this man tonight… or any other night.

She leant forward more, making sure her breasts were rubbing against his chest with each of her movements, knowing he loved that.

"EJ," she whispered in his ear and felt his hands tighten on her hips, "Oh EJ…"