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Part 42
Age: 34 Years 7 Months
Jack felt almost as shy as he had when he and Samantha had made love in the rose filled clearing as he laid beside her and sought her lips with his. As they kissed, Jack held her tightly and was pleased when Samantha moaned softly. Relishing the feeling of her in his arms, he kissed along the column of her throat and traced her collar bone with his tongue. Pausing for a moment to look at her face, Jack moved his mouth to her breasts. Teasing her nipples with his tongue into stinging peaks, he caressed her soft stomach and rested his hand at the waistband of her jeans.
Lifting his head from her breasts, Jack asked, "May I?"
Breathlessly, Samantha nodded and shivered with anticipation as he unfastened her jeans and raised her hips so he could slide them off. When Jack got off the bed to pull her jeans off completely, Samantha sat up. Once her jeans were removed she knelt at the end of the bed and kissed Jack's taut stomach. Skimming her hands over his thighs she grazed his arousal with her fingertips through his pants.
Looking up at him as her hands moved to his belt, Samantha hesitated, "Jack?"
"Please, " he responded, affirming her request.
Although she was more than ready and aching to have him inside her, Samantha unfastened his belt slowly and unfastened his pants at an unhurried pace. Trailing her tongue from his navel downwards, Samantha was pleased to find Jack was naked underneath. Before Jack could step out of his pants as they fell to the floor, Samantha took him into her mouth and made him gasp. After a couple minutes, Jack placed his hands on Samantha's shoulders and gently pressed her back.
Concerned and slightly disappointed, Samantha inquired, "Didn't you like that?"
"Far too much," Jack answered, making her smile.
Samantha moved back on the bed as Jack stepped out of his pants and watched. Slowly Jack slid up on top of her and kissed her again. The feel of his arousal pressed against her sex with only her panties between them made her whimper with need. At the sound of her desire, Jack brought his hand between her thighs and pushed her panties to the side. When his fingers brushed her sex, Samantha cried out and buried her face in Jack's neck.
As his fingers teased her heated flesh, she licked and nipped along his throat and writhed under his touch. Her hands quivering as she was on the edge, Samantha clutched Jack tightly and welcomed the invasion of his mouth as his lips captured hers. Crying out her pleasure against his mouth, Samantha came with a shudder. When he moved to replace his fingers with his tongue, she stopped him.
"Later. Right now I need you inside me," she panted. Before he could respond, Samantha slid her panties off and begged, "Please. Please Jack, it's been so long since I've felt you inside me."
Covering her body with his, Jack purred, "My Samantha."
Gazing into her eyes, Jack slowly slid his shaft into her sex. As he entered her, she wrapped her legs around his waist and ran her fingers through his hair. For the first time in more than twenty years, Samantha felt complete. Pulling his face down to hers, Samantha kissed him eagerly, wanting to have every part of Jack. Hot and sweet their lips met and their tongues caressed as they coupled. Although they moved slowly, there was an fierce intensity to their mating.
As they made love, their eyes were locked in silent communication as two decades of pain and loneliness were coming to an end. Mouths meeting in a litany of moans, they moved in unison against one another. Looking up at Jack's eyes, they were sparkling with unshed tears of joy and pain and Samantha realized as a trickle of moisture ran down her face she was crying.
Tears were flowing hotly from her eyes as he rasped, "My Samantha. My sweet wife. I've missed you so much my Samantha."
His Samantha, she thought happily. How often had she dreamed of hearing those words again? Now her Jack was inside her and saying those sweet words. Her name sounded magical on his lips. Her Jack was holding her, touching her, loving her. As quickly as her life had ended when she was girl, it had begun again now that she was a woman.
"My Jack," she murmured. "I would die without you. Never leave me."
"Never," he vowed.
Trembling as they moved closer to climax, their eyes met and spoke vows of love they were no longer coherent enough to utter. As they came their cries of pleasure and their tears mingled in a marriage of pain and rapture. Collapsing from the intensity, Jack rolled onto his side bringing her with him. Still joined from their coupling, neither moved to disentangle from the embrace. After being apart for so long, having physical contact was comforting.
Pushing a lock of hair away from his eyes, Samantha kissed a lingering tear drop from his cheek. Softly she told him, "I never stopped loving you. Every day you were all I thought about. Every night you were all I dreamed about."
"You haunted my days and nights as well, but I guess the trail of bodies and roses might have already given that away," Jack teased gently.
"A least a hint," she giggled. Her face grew serious as she asked, "Why didn't you come for me sooner or at least demand an explanation for the letter?"
"When I was in Russia, all I could think of was trying to find you. If it hadn't been for that letter, I would have come for you right away, but I thought you didn't love me. I guess I was afraid to confront you about it, hearing you meant it was more than I could face."
"I wish I 'd never agreed to write it. As an adult I know your Father would have never risked the publicity of suing for my wedding ring. But at the time-"
"You believed him," Jack interjected. "It hurt, but I understand wanting to keep your wedding ring. I had to fight to keep mine. Got my hand and fingers broken by my Father but I held onto it."
Samantha reached for his left hand and looked at it for a moment before kissing his ring finger and quoting, "Alpha and omega, the beginning and the end. Infinity itself."
"You remember!" Jack exclaimed. Pulling her left hand up with his he looked at their rings which had been apart for so long.
"I would never forget something so important. I remember you saying that that was what our love was. Every day we were apart, I would look at the inscription inside, infinito amor and dream of being with you again in another lifetime."
Kissing her tenderly, Jack said, "Forgive me. Forgive me for believing that stupid letter, I should have come to you."
"There's nothing to apologize for. We were both so young and your Father was such a horrible-" Samantha trailed off and demanded, "Did you kill him?"
"Afraid not, the night I was going to, he cheated me out of the satisfaction by having a heart attack."
"Damn," Samantha swore softly. Noting Jack's surprised expression she explained, "I would have liked to have had the pleasure myself."
Jack laughed and kissed her...
