John stared at the card for a second before Rex said, "I thought you didn't know her. And you better not be cheating on my sister or I will have to hurt you!"
"Rex, I would never cheat on Natalie! And I don't know her. I have never met this woman before in my life." John said heatedly.
"So are you going to meet her?" Rex asked.
"I don't know, I'll have to talk to over with Natalie. Now, I need to go." John said on his way out the door.
Four hours later Natalie sat in the lobby of the Angel Square Hotel talking to Roxy.
"So you and john moving in together yet or what?" Roxy asked.
"Roxy!" Natalie exclaimed. "John and I are not living together." She said.
"Are you sure? You certainly spend enough time here. You even got a key to his place yet? I could let you in if you want." Roxy continued.
"Roxy, I don't even know if we will even be together tomorrow so I am certainly not going to piss him off by breaking into his room." Natalie said.
"What? You're breaking up? Why? He cheating on you sweetheart? I can throw him out if you want. Though it would be a shame, he is a hot piece of…"
"ROXY!" Natalie said, mortified. John had come in just in time to catch Roxy's last statement.
John didn't say anything about what Roxy had just said but instead asked Natalie, "Were you waiting for me?" Glad to see she was back he smiled at her. He wondered where she had gone. What was so important that she had to sneak out before he got up? Then he thought of the note she had left him and he didn't really care. She had said she loved him. That alone was enough to keep him smiling all day.
"Yes, I was." Said Natalie, taking his hand, practically dragging up the stairs. She smiled at him as he unlocked the door.
John let them inside and watched as she started pacing nervously between the two rooms. He wondered what was up. "Natalie, why would Roxy ask if we were breaking up?" John asked jumping in with both feet.
"Because we might after I you hear what I have to tell you." Natalie said sadly.
"Natalie as long as you want to be with me and only me, there is nothing you could tell me that would make me break up with you. I tried to tell you this last night but you fell asleep. I " John said.
"Don't. Don't say it. Not until you hear what I have to say" Natalie interrupted. Natalie took a deep breath, looked into John's gorgeous blue eyes and said, "Cristian is alive."
"What?" John asked, shocked. "Where is he?" looking around the room as if Cris might jump out at them.
"Carbondale Minimum Security Prison." Natalie said. "The man that came back pretending to be Cris actually was Cris, John."
"How do you know that? The DNA test said…. The test! It was positive wasn't it?" Suddenly understanding what she was saying, "You lied to me?" John asked, hurt that she would keep something so important from him. Did this mean she was going back to Cris? No, if she wanted Cris she could have been with him before. So what did this mean he wondered.
"Yes." Natalie said, scared out of her mind that John was going to leave her.
"Why?" Hurt evident in his voice, he asked again "why did you lie? Was I just an itch you had to scratch before you went back to your husband?" John asked angrily.
"NO! That's not how it was. I love you John!" She said desperately.
"I don't believe you. You have been lying to me for months, why should I believe you now?"
"I'm telling the truth! I LOVE YOU JOHN! You have to believe me." Natalie said tearfully.
"Then why? Why did you lie to me?" John asked, trying to understand.
"He made me promise! He made me promise not to. Cris was afraid that if people knew he was alive he would put Antonio, Carlotta, and me in danger. I begged him to tell them but he wouldn't listen. Hell, I went back every week for 3 months and he wouldn't change his mind." Natalie said starting to cry. She cried even harder when John came over and wrapped his arms around her. Burying her face in his neck she sobbed "I'm sorry I didn't want to lie to you John. You have to believe me. I went to Cris today and begged him to let me tell you."
John pulled back a bit and looked into her face. "You went to see Cris today?" John asked. Natalie nodded and John said "and he agreed to let you tell me?"
"Yes," Natalie said, "he still cares about me even though we aren't married anymore. When I told him that it was killing me to lie to you he agreed to let me tell you but you have to promise not to tell anyone else. "
"What do you mean your not married anymore?" John asked, hoping this meant what he thought it did.
"We had the marriage annulled a month before you and I got together." Natalie said, looking up at John hopefully. Maybe he could forgive her after all. "John, you have to promise not to tell anyone else about Cris." Natalie pleaded.
"Is that it, is there anything else you haven't told me?" John asked. "Tell me now if there is."
"That's it, That's all. I'm not keeping anything else from you." Natalie said. "Does this mean you forgive me, you aren't gonna break up with me are you." Natalie asked, scared.
"I forgive you Natalie, please just don't ever lie to me again." John pleaded.
"Really? You forgive me?"
"I love you Natalie, I meant what I said, as long as you want to be with me and only me, that there is nothing you could tell me that would make me break up with you." John said taking her face in his hands and bringing his lips to hers.
John kissed Natalie softly on the mouth sliding his tongue along the seam of lips until they parted for him. He thrust his tongue into her mouth and tasted her sweet essence. Natalie moaned and deepened the kiss even further touching her tongue to his drawing a grown from deep with in him. She brought her hands up to his chest and placed them above his heart, feelings his rapid heartbeat Natalie slid her hands under his shirt to feel his bare skin.
John was on fire for her, everywhere she touched him his skin felt as it were set ablaze. He burned for her touch. As she caressed his nipples under his shirt John was unbuttoning her shirt and pealing it off her body. Natalie tugged on his shirt and he broke the kiss long enough to let her pull it over his head. They stood there looking at each other for a second and then John picked her up and carried her to the bed.
He gently laid her down on the bed and just stood there looking at her. "John" Natalie moaned reaching for him. He went to her, kissing her passionately. John took his lips from hers and trailed them down her neck to the hollow between her breasts, nipping and licking the whole way. Natalie arched into his mouth and John reached around to unfasten her bra flinging it aside. Natalie groaned and shuddered under the fiery assault of his lips and tongue. Sliding her hands into his hair she pressed him closer to her breasts. He took her nipple in his mouth and licked it, then sucked gently, swirling his tongue around it, till it peaked under his tongue. "Oh, god John that feels so good." Natalie moaned. John smiled against her as he alternated breasts and looked up at her. "We haven't even started yet" he rasped against her breast. He loved how she responded to his touch. His slightest caress drove her wild.
Trailing his lips back up to her mouth John reached down to unfasten her jeans. He captured her mouth with his as he pulled off her jeans and panties. Natalie's hands were far from idle as she unbuttoned his slacks and pushed them along with his boxers down to his ankles and off his body. She ran her hands up and down his chest eliciting a shuddering moan from John. As she ran her hands lower he brought his hands to her breasts squeezing them gently. Natalie took his throbbing manhood in her hands and gently stroked him. John gasped and then moaned, and moaned again as Natalie increased both the pressure and the pace.
John kissed her wildly, his mouth savaging hers. He pushed her hands away and brought his knee between her legs spreading them wide. He reached down sliding a finger inside her, and then another, moaning when he felt how wet she was. He tore his mouth away and muttered, "inside you, I need to be inside you." Natalie bucked against his hand as he pushed his fingers in and out of her increasing the pace until she was moaning and gasping under him. He took her up and over her peak, and as she shattered in his arms, crying out his name, he removed his fingers and plunged himself into her.
"I love you Natalie," he said as he sank into her still pulsing passage. Natalie moaned with renewed passion, her head thrashing back and forth as he pulled back then slid into her again and again. John had lost control the moment he slid into her, now mindless with pleasure he quickened the pace as Natalie wrapped her legs around his waist allowing him to penetrate deeper inside of her. He felt the pressure in his groin and knew that he was very close to his release and reached down between their bodies and found her clit and stroked it. Natalie let out a tortured groan and climaxed under him. Feeling her go John let go and found his own release, wrapping his arms around her so tight she couldn't breath. John held her till they stopped trembling then collapsed on top of her, exhausted. After a few minutes he rolled off of her and lay next to her, playing with her hair.
"Wow" Natalie said trying to catch her breath.
"Yeah, wow" John replied, tucking her against him he wrapped his arm around her waist as she lay her head on her shoulder. He pulled the blankets around them. "I love you John," as they drifted off to sleep. "I love you too." John replied. Both content in the knowledge that their love was unbreakable.