Chapter Twenty:
Max sat in the outer office moving his hands impatiently down the legs of his pants as he waited for her. He knew that he shouldn't be here, but he just couldn't make himself stay away. This was after all her first meeting with her therapist and he wanted to be here just in case she needed him. As the door suddenly opened him jumped to his feet.
"Are you okay?" He asked staring across the room at her as soon as the door to the inner office was close.
"What are you doing here?" Liz asked surprised to see him a frown on her face.
"I thought I'd give you a ride home." He glanced around the room hesitantly when he saw her frown. "You okay?" He asked again returning his eyes to her.
"Why do you keep asking me that?" Liz demanded her voice laced with annoyance as she held his eyes with hers, her arms crossed over her chest.
"I…I just want to make sure your okay." He said pasting a smile to his face. She was taking this to easy. As if what Mike had put her through all her life suddenly didn't exist any longer and everything in him wanted to go with the way she was dealing with it, but he'd read to many books in the past month to not know it never was that simple.
Taking a deep breath she sighed. "I'm okay…don't worry about me. I'm fine…really I am." She said walking to stand in front of him. "I'm fine." Bringing her hand up to his face she caressed his cheek. "Please don't worry. Mike doesn't exist any longer. Not to me…not to my family, so don't worry."
"Okay." He heard himself respond to her, but he couldn't erase the lingering doubt inside him. "Why don't I take you home?" He said.
"No…why don't you take me somewhere we can be alone." She countered, grabbing the front of his shirt and pulling him towards her. "I need to be alone with you, Max."
He swallowed his uneasiness as he watched her lips curve into a smile. "Okay…okay…somewhere we can be alone." He said taking her hand and leading her out of the therapist office.
She stood looking out at mother natures grace surrounding them as he watched her, lying on the hood of his jeep. He'd giving a lot of thought as they drove away from the therapist's office where to take her. He'd remember her once saying how much she loved this park, but she never had the time to go.
"It's beautiful…I can never get over how beautiful it is." She said staring around her.
"Your beautiful." Max said jumping from the jeep. "You're the most beautifully thing I've ever seen."
She smiled at him then turned back to the view in front of her. "Yea…well you're my boyfriend so you have to say that."
"Liz…I'm more then just your boyfriend…I hope?" He asked walking to her. "Because your more then just my girlfriend. I hope you understand that."
She stared up at him intently for a moment before she drew her hands through his hair. Max took a sudden breath as a shiver raced through him.
"Liz…" He glanced around them at the other occupants of the park before he returned his eyes to her.
"Yes?" She asked hooking a finger in the waist of his pants and pulling him closer to her never braking eye contact with him. "Max." She mimicked the tone he used when he'd said her name.
Max was dumfounded by the sudden change he sensed in her behavior. It was like he was staring down at a completely different person. His heart slammed against his chest when she snuggled tightly up to him. Placing the tips of her fingers on his bare arm she slowly ran it down his warm flesh, never taking her eyes from his face.
Max closed his eyes against the tremors that raced down his arms at her caress. "Liz…" He moaned, staring down at her his confusion overshadowing the desire running through him.
Cupping his head Liz pulled his face down, stopping when their lips were mere inches away. Watching him she drew the tip of her tongue slowly across her mouth.
Max couldn't stop the moan from leaving his throat as he watched her tongue course over her tempting mouth. He pushed his head down trying to eliminate the space between them, but her tight hold in his hair prevented him from moving. Looking up from her mouth his eyes collided with hers. They stood there staring into each other's eyes, their breaths intertwining. Max tried to take her mouth again, but she wouldn't release her hold on him.
He closed his eyes against his need to taste her as she suddenly hauled his head down taking his mouth wildly catching him completely off guard that he just stood there for a few seconds, baffled by her action. She ate at him until she felt his mouth move under hers and he pulled her tighter into him taking control of the kiss. Cupping her face he held on to her needing to reassure him self that she wouldn't just disappear from him.
"Oh…God." He moaned when he felt her small hand drift down his body and under his shirt. His heart racing he intensity the kiss, needing …needing…he didn't exactly know what, but he knew he couldn't brake away from the spell she'd concocted around them. "Liz…" He moaned refusing to relinquish his hold on her.
She moved her hand down his firm chest, over his belt, until she reached the part of him she knew throbbed for completion. Cupping him within her hand she threw herself into the kiss. The movement of her tongue matched those of her hand. He felt himself move to meet her as he groaned his eyes tightly closed. Her hand drifted up to his belt, unhooked it and pulled the zipper to his pants down. Pushing her hand inside his clothes she touched him intimately for the first time.
At the feel of flesh upon flesh Max quickly drew away, his body heaving as he pulled air into his starving lungs. "What the hell do you think your doing?" He made the words pass through his constricted throat as he looked around them to see if any of the people around them where watching.
She stood there looking at him, her face emotionless. "Get a grip Max." She said rolling her eyes. "I wasn't going to let things get out of control."
Max wanted to explode with all the emotions racing inside him. He wanted to let her know exactly how out of control things were hided, but he made himself look at her, really look at her. His body was heaving from the sexual tension inside him. He could feel the blood in his veins racing, his heart thumping out of control. Every inch of him screaming out for her to touch him again, and yet she seemed so unaffected by what had just transpired between them.
"Liz…"
"Lighten up Max." She stood there in front of him, her body stance nonchalant as if they were talking about the weather.
He wanted to grab her and shake her. "Lighten up? What is that suppose to mean?" He demanded as he embraced the anger that suddenly hovered over the other emotions railroading his system. "If you have something to say to me…damn it, say it."
"Take me home." She said turning away and walking back to the car.
Max stood there for a minute, just watching her sitting in his jeep staring in front of her. Running his hands through his hair he cupped his head and closed his eyes for a few seconds. Taking a deep breath he made his way to the jeep.
He pulled the jeep across the street from the Crashdown. When she reached for the door handle he grabbed her arm preventing her from getting out. She stared down at the hand holding her arm. Her eyes roamed from his hand up his arm and settled on his face.
"We need to talk about this, Liz." He said reaching out his other hand to touch her cheek, but she moved her face out of his reach so he pulled his hand back.
"I think what you mean, Max is you need to talk about it. Well I'm all talked out so let me go."
"Why are you doing this?" He demanded releasing her.
He watched her jerk the door open and hurriedly got out of the jeep and made her way to the Crashdown. Everything in him wanted to run after her and demand what the hells going on, but instead he sat there and watched her disappear behind the door.
TBC
