CHAPTER ELEVEN
Disclaimer in Chapter One
The double doors to Lex's den swung open and slammed to the walls as he and Chloe walked in, lips practically mauling each other and hands roaming wherever they can be in contact with skin.
Without breaking away, Lex turned them around, aiming to move them forward to the leather sofa. Chloe busied herself by unbuttoning his coat with little success, to which she let a groan out in frustration. Lex smirked at her reaction as he continued to nip at her bottom lip.
"Let me," he finally murmured as he covered his hands over Chloe to move them away from the buttons, but not away from his body. She continued to kiss him, peppering his lips, his cheeks and back to his lips with a variety of soft but assertive pecks, while he worked on his buttons.
Inspired by the brief contact with his skin when he had moved her hands, she decided to up the ante when he finally got his coat off. Stroking his chest over his crisp shirt, she looked up at him and revealed a smirk that almost rivaled his. Before he could question her motives, she inched her face closer and began sucking on his lips again as her hand firmly pressed on his front side and began to lower.
'Whoa' was the closest coherent thought he had, and it immediately vanished when she reached her target. A moan escaped his lips, but while it sounded so foreign to him as he had done nothing of the sort since he could remember, it sounded so natural and so right for Chloe.
Finally gaining her composure, Chloe began to take control as she slowly brought her hands up to Lex's chest, feeling the frustration from her partner upon the loss of her touch on his weakest point. She moved her lips from his to his neck, where she continued to nip and peck, and when she had reached the top of his shirt, she unbuttoned the first, stopped and removed all contact from Lex altogether.
Making sure that he was looking at her, she smirked once again, and without warning, she pulled the shirt apart, tearing the pearl buttons away from the silk.
Lex was amazed for a second, almost not believing that she could be capable of such act. But when she resumed to touch him and finally began to lower herself to kiss his chest, the burning in him came rushing back. Before any rational thought escaped him forever, he asked, "Chloe, are you sure about this?"
She didn't even stop. "Absolutely."
"I am a ninja. A stealthy ninja," Cupid uttered to himself for the twenty-second time as he prepared to enter his home. When he finally found the courage to enter, he was greeted by his wife, sitting stoically on the love seat facing him. "So much for stealth," he muttered.
"So?" Psyche prodded.
He shrugged. "So?"
"Did you fix it?"
"Well, Clark and Lana stayed at the restaurant, and Chloe and Lex left together. If that's what you mean," he said with feigned innocence.
"You didn't, did you?"
No amount of lying could save him now. In surrender, he hung his head and groaned, "No."
Psyche's mask went from stoic to annoyance in a beat. Carefully to place enough distance between them, Cupid plopped himself next to her on the love seat, burying his head in his hands. Incoherently muttering something about retirement, he was stopped by a few words from her.
"It's a good thing that I placed back-up then."
"What?" His head jolted up. "What are you talking about?"
Psyche shrugged innocently. "I just placed some love potion into the wine. I figured that Chloe and Lex would be smart enough to figure things out eventually, and if they did, the potion would be insurance that they secure the bond."
"But honey," he protested. "Love potions are a misnomer. Everyone in Mount Olympus knows that once people find that they destined to be in love, they are really.."
"Aphrodisiacs?" she interjected with a knowing grin. "They've been at it for two hours," she added as she nodded to the looking glass.
The glass showed nothing, but Cupid knew what she meant. "You doubted me?" he smiled sadly.
"No," she assured him. "Just played sidekick, that's all."
"So I guess you got your happy ending then?" Cupid hoped.
"Nope," Psyche shook her head. Seeing the disappointed look on her husband's face, she closed the distance between them and covered his lips with hers. After a long passionate kiss, she resurfaced for air and said, "Now I do."
