Thanks for the review EC Brenway - very lol at the nudist colony! How is Elly going to explain herself to Chloe? Will Hurricane Elly disrupt Chloe's boring marriage in a way that's...NSFW...?
The Chemistry In Darkness
Chapter Fifty-Two
Monday 16th December 2024 – The Night After The Full Moon
Late that afternoon, Elly stood outside in the Kennedy's backyard.
Back to being clothed after the adventure the previous night, curling up in Chloe's arms as a werewolf, whom appeared as a dog to her mate, then waking up naked in the same position. Walking home across the road nude had been something Elly was confident enough to do. Yet she knew she was risking a lot had any of their neighbours caught her leaving Chloe and Pierce's house starkers.
And they wouldn't even know Chloe woke up with my naked body against hers… Wow that felt good…! Good in a way that's leaving me wondering how the hell do I wait for Chloe to realize I'm the one she needs to spend her life with and dump her controlling husband for me?
With Bea at work at the garage, Yashvi back home at the Rebecchi's, Karl at work and Susan deciding it would be fun to take Aster with her to the school for the first day of the last week of school term for the year to let the youngster get an idea about school life as she'd never been to a school before, Elly was spending some quality time on her own.
Quality time might not have been the words for it, more like quiet time to herself. Elly was wandering around the backyard, watering and trimming back some of Karl's precious plants.
Turning the water off at the tap and rolling the hose back up to hang on its reel, Elly froze nearly a full minute before Chloe appeared.
Elly had heard and smelt someone enter the Kennedy's household, realizing quickly it was Chloe. Being outside in the backyard, Elly had silently hoped Chloe would give up after seeing 'no one' was at home and go back to her own place.
Elly wasn't ready to talk to Chloe yet.
As confident as Elly had been walking out of Chloe's house naked, she was terrified of the questions the blonde would have for her.
Two evenings ago, Elly had kissed Chloe, with Chloe kissing her back before Elly then declared she loved Chloe, leaving Chloe speechless.
The pair hadn't even talked about that as Elly had spent the previous day dodging Chloe's need to talk to her.
Then had spent the full moon transformed as a werewolf and found herself spending the night in Chloe's bed. Only to wake up in her human form later than she'd thought she would. After Chloe had woken up and found herself entangled against Elly's naked human body under the sheets. Of the bed Chloe shared with her husband.
Elly had skedaddled out of Chloe's house, with Chloe aghast at Elly's confidence to walk around the house then across the road naked. There was no real explanation Elly could give Chloe as to why she'd fallen asleep next to an animal and woke up next to a naked woman.
Elly had prayed that she could at least get through to the next day, the end of her three-night cycle as a wolf for the month, before she would have to sit down with Chloe and find some way to explain what had happened the previous night. And deal with her confession of her feelings for her.
I can't possibly tell Chloe the truth…I need more time to think of an explanation that I can give Chloe. Yes, you've spent all day trying to come up with a lie that'll be convincing enough and come up with…nothing! I should've disappeared and hit up some of the local haunts Chloe doesn't visit for the day again…or maybe actually gone over to catch up with the Pack which I've completely neglected to do because I've been completely thrown by how things with Chloe have turned out the last few days…
Chloe opened the back door of the Kennedy's, somewhat equally relieved and scared to find Elly standing in the backyard, having obviously just finished watering the plants out there, "Hey, glad I found you. I'd have come over earlier but Pierce decided to work from home today. I…couldn't get away except for my run this morning and I should've come over after that but Pierce called wanting to meet me at Aaron's gym shed. Then we came back home and he finally got called into the hotel to deal with some issue he couldn't do from home."
"Okay," Elly replied quietly, wondering why Chloe put up with a husband like Pierce when she was very much free to be with Chloe the second she wanted to, even though she knew she hadn't exactly made her desire to be with her as explicit as she could, "I'm a bit busy right now, can we catch up in the morning or…ah after our martial arts class tomorrow?"
"Busy? Watering Karl's plants and tidying up the backyard?" Chloe quietly accused Elly of fobbing her off, "Elly, we need to talk."
"'Bout what?" Elly feigned not knowing what Chloe wanted.
Chloe ran her hand through her hair, before asserting, "Where do I start? You kissed me the other night. You said you love…me…and you were naked in my bed this morning!"
"Must've been sleepwalking and found myself in your bed without realizing it," Elly lied, ignoring the first points.
"And you ended up in the exact same position that the dog I brought into our house so it didn't spend the night out in the rain on its own?" Chloe pushed.
Elly shrugged, completely flummoxed over not wanting to tell Chloe the truth about her life as a werewolf, desperate not to have a repeat of the other evening as she'd lost track of time talking to Chloe then had to literally run away from her so she could turn into a werewolf without Chloe seeing, "Can we please just talk about this another time? I promised Karl I'd do some work out here in his garden to thank him and Suze for spending time with Aster looking after her for me over the past month I've been back here."
Chloe gritted her teeth as Elly took off and walked into Karl's green house, closing the door behind her. Wanting answers and for Elly to stop brushing everything aside, Chloe followed her into the green house, closing the door behind her.
"Chlo, please, we can talk about everything tomorrow. I promise I'll be as open and honest with you as I can be," Elly promised, knowing she still couldn't tell Chloe the truth about her because it risked the entire magical world being exposed if Chloe didn't take to the news well, "I can't do this right now."
"We're doing this now, Elly. You can't fob me off anymore. I'm not going anywhere and neither are you until we sort this out," Chloe insisted.
Elly stared around at how they were standing in the closed green house.
Why did you walk in here? Of course, Chloe would follow. I feel trapped. If I brush past Chloe to leave, she's gonna try to block my path. Should've just fled out of the backyard to anywhere else that is not standing here in a glass box with Chloe demanding to know what she might not be ready for…my feelings for her as well as who I truly am…
"What do you want from me, Chlo?" Elly threw her hands up in the air.
"The truth," Chloe decided, worried if her decision to push Elly for the truth would help her or leave her with more questions, as most time spent with her best friend often did, "Let's start with why you kissed me the other night."
Elly shrugged, "You were missing Nicolette, don't know a thing about the girl but figured if she was there, she'd have kissed you to make you feel better."
"Don't lie to me, Elly," Chloe sighed.
Elly made a move to leave the green house but Chloe stepped in front of her to block her path, "Chlo, I told you, now is not a good time. Please can you just wait until tomorrow?"
"No, what's going on with you? I'm not just going to let you walk away from me this time. There's nothing you can do that's gonna make me let this go and not want to know the truth," Chloe asserted.
Lord, Chloe is hot when she's angry. Look at the way her nose twitches and her lips curl downwards…those lips are everything…I need Chloe to let this go…just give me until tomorrow after the final night that I turn into a wolf this moon cycle when I'm more myself… Those lips are just so damn kissable…
Before Elly could stop herself, she leant forwards, kissing Chloe all over again.
Chloe tried to fight the kiss, thinking of her husband and what betraying him all over again could lead to. But this was different to her affair with Nicolette.
This was Elly. The woman she'd fallen deeply in love with years ago. The woman who hadn't fallen in love with her. The woman who was now actively kissing her. Again.
Chloe immediately fell into the kiss, like she'd done the other evening. She wrapped her hands to Elly's waist and pulled the woman closer to her, surprised when Elly clutched her hand into her blonde locks and softly holding her chin with the other hand.
Chloe broke their kiss, searching Elly's eyes as to her feelings for her, "Tell me again."
Knowing exactly what Chloe needed to hear from her, Elly re-affirmed, "I love you, Chloe."
Chloe's eyes still continued staring deeply into Elly's, seemingly needing more from the woman in her arms.
Elly ran her fingers softly against Chloe's chin, "I'm deeply in love with you, Chloe. I need you."
I need you, too… Can I say those words? If I say them, then it'll be like admitting to Elly that I think I'm falling in love with her all over again…and I can't…I'm with Pierce, I need to be strong enough to fight what's happening with Elly and I…it's the right thing to do to fight it…right?
Chloe's rambling thoughts were cut off when Elly didn't wait for a response from her, pressing her body back to Chloe's and her lips melding back against Chloe's.
You have to fight this…
Chloe was taken aback when Elly pushed the pair of them up against the small workbench Karl had in the green house that he used to re-pot his plants. Chloe had her back against the workbench, with Elly moving her hand from her chin to behind Chloe to push some of the garden tools on the workbench straight to the ground without care for what she was knocking over.
Breaking the kiss, Chloe sighed, "Elly, we need to stop-"
Elly refused to let Chloe continue any further, interrupting her, "We could stop this…or we could also…"
Unable to stop herself, Chloe gave into her feelings for Elly completely, putting her need for Elly ahead of all the reasons why she shouldn't.
For the first time, she made the first move, crashing her lips back to Elly's.
The reasons I have are pretty important and yet I'm in this moment with Elly and she's making me forget them…
Elly and Chloe both moaned at the sensation of their tongues clashing with the others' as they deepened the kiss. Chloe gripped Elly's hips tightly as she went to twist them around so Elly's back was to the workbench but Elly firmly stopped her, pushing her back against the workbench.
"I want you, Chloe, and I'm gonna show you just how much," Elly said with authority that made Chloe speechless.
And turned her on.
Bringing their lips back together, kissing passionately for a moment, Chloe was surprised when Elly didn't even break their kiss to practically rip her own shirt off her body. Chloe's hands raised from Elly's hips to feel the skin of the brunette's lower back, her fingers on fire from the feel of her skin.
Before Chloe could explore any part of Elly's body, Elly lifted Chloe up from the ground, gracefully like Chloe weighed nothing to her, sitting her on the workbench. Chloe whined as Elly broke their kiss but was surprised to see the look on Elly's face full of pure desire.
A look she'd have given everything for Elly to give her when she first fell in love with her.
Elly bit her lip as Chloe seemed to revel in the way she was looking at her, "I'll never be ashamed of how much I want you, Chlo."
That's everything I wanted Elly to say to me when I fell in love with her…there's nothing I can do to stop this…I want Elly as much as she wants me…
Chloe barely moved a muscle yet before she knew it, Elly had torn her shorts from her body. Chloe hadn't even felt her hips lift off the table in order for Elly to remove them. But Chloe didn't have time to contemplate Elly's smooth moves to get what she desired, breathing heavily when Elly flicked her right hand in a motion that ended with Chloe's panties across the other side of the green house.
Chloe stared into Elly's eyes, knowing Elly was waiting for her to make the next move. The lust and love Chloe felt radiating from every inch of Elly, compelled Chloe to lay back on her forearms on the workbench, before spreading her legs.
Am I going to regret this when it's over?
Chloe was once more surprised at Elly's lack of hesitation in showing her attraction and love for her when Elly ducked between her legs, lifting Chloe's feet to hang over her shoulders to give her as much access to Chloe as she possibly could ever need.
Chloe threw her head back and moaned loudly the instant she felt Elly show her just how unashamed she was to want her the way she always wanted Elly to.
I'll regret this in twenty minutes but for now…there's no way I could ever regret this…
Next time - Will things continue to get steamy between Chelly or will they be caught in the act together?