A/N: Stop reading if you don't approve of my R rating. Because more than just some cursing is about to happen. That's right kiddies...a little Chlex loving (NOT SMUT!!!) is about to take place. Lap it up cuz I think this is the only chapter with it in it. AND DON'T FORGET I NEED THE FEEDBACK!!! SO GIMMEE!
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He could feel her around him, sheathing him deep inside her body as she rose up and fell back down to him gracefully. Lex splayed a hand across her back, directing her to lean down, and he arched his neck up to cover her nipple with his mouth. The pink bud tightened and he could hear her gasp his name, hear her heavy breathing, feel her nails scarring crescent shapes into the soft flesh at his shoulders.
Her legs quivered uncontrollably as she moved harder, faster, matching the tempo of her hips to the suction of his mouth. As he flicked his tongue across and around the captured peak he heard her cry out.
"Oh, God, Lex. Fuck!" And she came.
Her muscles tightened around him, her hips pistoned sporadically as her orgasm rolled through her and into him. Lex let go of the flesh he'd held in his mouth and his head fell back, hitting his pillow as he opened his mouth and her name rode out on his tongue in long syllables.
Lex shot up from the bed, panting, gasping, trying to suck air back into his lungs after noisiliy dispelling it. His body was covered in a thin matting of persperation and his silk sheets clung to him as he tried to move his legs over to the side of the bed.
He could still hear her name rolling off his tongue in his time of explosion, but why? Why her? It was the second time he'd dreamt that exact dream. She'd felt the same, tasted the same, sounded the same. Her eyes had glittered hazel at him and her hair had tickled his throat as she'd kissed her way down his body to taste him with her lips in other places.
The knock on his bedroom door had him bolting upright just as he was about to lay back down. He padded silently over to his closet and pulled out a long thick robe, then tied the sash around his nude form. He called out for just a minute and walked into his adjoined bathroom, not bothering to turn on any lights, he grabbed a plush towel and mopped the existing sweat from his head and face. As he turned to go he looked over at the vase on the corner of the vanity set aside from the rest of his bathroom. It had been his mother's and he'd salvaged it when his father had decided to throw most of her stuff out. There was no use living in the past, as he'd reminded Lex time and time again.
The crystal vase was empty, which struck Lex as odd since he'd ordered his maid to pick fresh flowers from the garden twice a week. Lex looked at the corner of the vanity and picked up the small keepsake box from the corner of it. His mother's necklace, he thought as he rubbed the pad of his thumb over the engraving on the edge of the brass clasp that held it closed. As he walked to his bedroom door he flipped open the lid and stopped in his tracks. That was odd.
Lex stared down at the undeveloped roll of 35mm film. Surely that hadn't been there all this time. Or had it? He remembered looking in the box the day before he was to marry Helen. Remembered thinking his mother's necklace would look beautiful on her. But when he'd asked her to wear it, she'd refused, stating she already had her accesories picked out. Lex frowned and weighed the roll of film in one hand, then set the box down on the table just inside his door. He opened his door with his other hand and arched a brow at his maid Maria. She stood there in his doorway with freshly folded towels and a bright smile. The fakest smile he'd ever seen grace her naturally maternal face.
"Maria." Lex said and stepped aside.
"Mr. Luthor." Maria spoke quickly and quietly as she went to his bathroom and removed his old towels.
Lex pocketed the roll of film, whatever was on those pictures he was sure it was something interesting and he'd just have to take them to a personal friend later. Lex thought back to the crystal vase and leaned against the archway that seperated his bed and bath. "Maria, why aren't there any flowers in my mother's vase?"
Maria looked startled for a moment and then smoothed her hands down her gray uniform skirt. "Before you were placed in the hospital, sir, you excused me from that privilege."
Lex frowned and couldn't help but notice the way she kept straightening the same towel over and over again. "Do you know why I'd do that, Maria?"
Maria lifted her hands and fluttered them as she said, "You said you would do it yourself."
Lex looked over at the crystal vase. He'd picked flowers for his mother when he was much younger, his father would chastise him about ruining their garden or landscaping. "Did I?"
At Maria's confused look he sighed and ran a hand over his head, patting the pocket of his robe with the other. "Nevermind." He muttered and went over to his closet.
Then again, if he'd been involved with a woman [i]after[/i] Helen, wouldn't either Maria or Enrique know? They'd have to know. Enrique especially since he was like a watchdog.
"Maria." Lex called as he took down a pair of black slacks and a tight fitting red long sleeved shirt. He frowned at his rack of clothes that ran the entire length of his closet when he didn't see the grey one that was almost the exact thing as the maroon one he held on the hanger.
Maria stuck her head in the closet and nodded at his choice of apparel. "Yes, Mr. Luthor."
Lex sighed and pulled down a pair of silk boxers which he noticed his maid immediately frown upon. Lex followed her gaze to the pants he had hanging over his arm. "What?"
When she narrowed her eyes and then widened them as if in recognition, Lex dropped his shirt and boxers the carpeted floor and held out his pants, shaking them. "What's wrong?"
"Mama Mia..." Maria whispered and covered her mouth with her hand. "Oh my, Mr. Luthor." She shook her head and laughed for a moment then turned and walked away shaking her head.
Lex looked down at the floor near his feet and there a scrap of purple lace stared back at him. His brows knitted together and he picked up the garment, which proved to be a woman's thong when he closely scrutinized it. Hell if he knew who's it was. First one of his favorite shirts was missing, and he hadn't even realized it until now, and a pair of panties had been stuck in the pocket of his pants. Not to mention the roll of film. What the hell was he forgetting?
Chloe hands were trembling by the time she made it to her car. She'd go as far as the Talon today. If he was there, she'd talk to him, if not, she'd just have to wait. There was no way in hell she was going to go back to the manor and look for him.
Chloe pressed her lips together in one grim line. Damn that Dr. Madson for opening her up until she got it all out. She hadn't told anyone about her and Lex's relationship, so she was thankful for the confidentiality agreement that the Dr had agreed to. Yet she knew she could use what Chloe told her, which was pretty much all of it, to twist his memories into something clearer. Chloe shivered in the wamth of her car. She'd go to the Talon and work on her next article. If he didn't show up by lunchtime, she'd give it a rest for the day.
How was she supposed to break it to Lex that they'd once been happy. She could just picture it now, just as it had happened not that long ago.
Chloe laughed and looked at Lex. "We're not dating, Lex."
Lex pursed his lips and conceded with a nod. "Okay, we're not technically going out places together which is what constitutes the boundaries of dating, but we're spending quality time together."
Chloe laughed again and flung some dirt at him with her trowel. "Planting Azalea's together in your freaky little indoor garden is quality time?" She snickered and patted the dirt around the base of the bush. "You sure know how to show a girl a good time, Luthor."
Lex eyed her cautiously then flung soil right back at her. "If I were to take you out, what would you be interested in doing?"
Chloe's eyes met his levelly and she smiled softly at him before leaning over to brush her lips across a clean spot on his chin. "If you were going to take me out it wouldn't matter where we went, as long as I'm with you, I'm happy."
Lex smiled down at her, a big genuine smile that showed off his pearly whites. "You're getting soft on me, Sullivan."
Chloe arched a brow and set her gardening stuff down, then climbed into his lap and wrapped her dirt smudged arms around her neck. She shifted and felt the hint of his erection nudge against the inside of her thigh. "And it appears you're getting hard on me, Luthor."
Lex chuckled softly in her ear and then nipped the shell of it with his teeth. "I love you."
Chloe leaned back and opened her tear filled eyes. "I love you, too, Lex."
Lex closed his eyes and groaned. "Don't stop saying that to me."
Chloe giggled and burried her face in his neck where the smell of him was powerfully masculine. "I love you so much, Lex."
"I love you too, Chloe."
He shoved aside the potting soil and one handedly spread a small tarp down across the dirt littered path. As he layed her back on to it he looked into her eyes. "Say it again." He whispered harshly as he pushed her skirt up her legs and unzipped his pants.
"I love you." Chloe gasped as he pushed into her and filled her completely. "I love you." She repeated as she pulled his face down to hers. And for their first time, made love.
Chloe sighed and rubbed her hands over her eyes as she realized she'd driven all the way to the Talon on autopilot. 'Well, here goes nothing,' she thought as she got out of her car and gathered her bag.
TBC...
