Part Six

Family

Christine didn't trust herself any longer. When ever Luke Wallace would to the house she would never let herself be alone with him. She still couldn't believe she had let him kiss her in such a way. The thoughts of what else she might have let him do to her made her sick to her stomach. Christine tried to distract herself with other things. The thoughts of being able to have a baby kept her busy a lot of the time.

As Christine knitted in the sun room one afternoon Emma came in and gave Christine her drink. "Emma, you seem to be avoiding me lately, why?" Christine asked her maid. Emma had been avoiding Christine. But for a very good reason. Emma had Christine in the arms of Luke Wallace that day and couldn't get the image out of her mind. Emma hadn't told anyone.

"I've just been busy, Madame." Emma lied. Christine nodded her head and went back to her knitting. Emma didn't like lying but she couldn't tell Christine the truth.

As Emma left the sun room she heard the front door open and then close. She went to the front door to see Erik Destler standing there removing his coat and handing it off to the butler. "Emma, where is Christine?" Erik asked. Emma directed him to the sun room. Emma wondered why he was home so early.

"There you are," Christine heard a familiar voice say. Christine looked up and saw Erik coming toward her. Christine put her knitting down, stood up and ran to Erik's arms. Erik wrapped his arms tightly around Christine lifted her off of her feet. "What are you doing home so early?" Christine asked after she had kissed him. "I wanted to be with you. Work was boring me. Luke can handle it for me." Erik told her. "Luke? What do you mean?" Christine questioned him.

Erik shrugged. "Oh, I hired him as my business partner." Erik said to her. Christine put on a fake smile. That meant he'd be coming to their home more often than normal. And that made Christine feel very uncomfortable. Christine came back to reality when she felt Erik's lips pressing soft kisses along her and face. "Not now, Erik." She said trying to move out of his arms. Erik chuckled. "Don't play hard to get, Christine, it doesn't suit you." Erik whispered to her as he continued to kiss her.

Christine felt his hands grasp her behind and pull her harder against him and she immediately felt his hardness between her legs. Erik finally captured her lips in a hard kiss. Christine pulled away. "No, Erik, stop it!" she yelled at him. Erik held her tighter. "Christine, I do not want to hurt you." Erik threatened her. Christine couldn't believe what she was hearing. She thought he had changed. She thought he cared about her and wouldn't hurt her the way he had before.

"Erik, please, not now." Christine pleaded with him. Erik sighed deeply. "Christine, I have had a very hard morning and I came home early because I wanted to be with you and have you in my arms… and my bed." He said a little rougher than he wanted. "But-" Erik put a finger to her lips and silenced her. "No "buts" no nothing. I thought you want a baby Christine. Here is your chance to have one." He said before kissing her again.

Erik's tongue pushed past her lips and sought out her own in her mouth. Erik reached behind himself and closed the door and locked it so no one could get or out. He pulled away from Christine and walked over to the chair Christine had been sitting in when he came in. He pulled her along with him. When he sat down he made Christine straddle his lap. Erik's hands began bunching up her skirts and then he reached under and touched her between her legs.

Christine gasped as he touched her. Even though she wasn't in the mood to have sex she felt herself becoming wet from his erotic touch. Christine leaned forward and began kissing his lips deeply. She didn't want to anger him and have him take her roughly. Christine's hands then went to his belt and undid it along with the buttons in the front of his pants. Erik moaned when Christine took him into her hands and began stroking him up and down.

Next, Christine moved off his lap and down onto the floor and on her knees. Erik growled deep within his throat when he felt Christine take him into her mouth. Erik sunk his hands into her hair and then began thrusting slowly into her mouth. "Oh…God, Christine." Erik managed to say. Christine slowly took him as deep into her mouth as she could.

Christine knew he would come soon. She easily took him out and began running her tongue along the bottom of his shaft. Then Christine swirled her tongue around the head of Erik's cock and then took him back into her mouth completely. Then, Erik exploded into her mouth. It wasn't the first time Christine had done this for Erik. In fact, on the night when he first purchased his office, he had brought Christine to show her the place. Later on that night they tried many new "techniques" in love making and pleasuring.

When Erik was spent Christine stood up from the ground and sat down on the sofa next to her Erik as he buttoned his pants and buckled his belt. He leaned over and kissed her hard on the lips. "Aren't you satisfied?" Christine asked him as he kissed her neck. "Not quite." He answered her. He stood up from the sofa and unlocked the door and almost dragged Christine up to the bedroom.

Halfway up the stairs Christine tried to pull herself from his arms. "Erik, please stop! I've already pleasured you. I don't want to do this now." She begged him. If Erik was in any other mood she would've wanted to make love with him but for some reason she just didn't want to. It was strange. Normally she'd be craving Erik's touch all day.

Perhaps because she was already so preoccupied with so many other things.

Erik opened the bedroom door and threw Christine in. "Stop this, Christine! I'm going to make love to you and you are going to enjoy it like you always do." Erik yelled at her. He walked over to her and turned her around and began unlacing her dress. His hand was placed firmly on her stomach to keep her to him. When he finished with her dress he forced her to step out of it and then began working her corset open.

When that was finally open Erik pressed her down onto the bed and began removing his own clothing. Christine knew that there was point in fighting. She might as well get into the "mood" and enjoy it. Erik finally got his clothing completely off and then climbed on top of Christine. He moved between her parted legs and began kissing her slowly but deeply.

But Erik didn't take her as she thought he would. He just lay there kissing her. And slowly Christine felt that familiar heat rising to the pit of her stomach and moving down between her legs. "I love you," he whispered against her neck. Christine moaned softly as Erik's lips closed around her jugular and sucked hard on it. Christine shivered, but in a delightfully good way.

"I love you too." She whispered back to him. Finally she felt Erik enter her with one long thrust. Christine wrapped her arms around his waist and pulled him closer to him. Erik began to slowly move inside of her. "Please… please… faster." She begged him. Erik complied too his lady's wishes and moved faster inside of her.

Christine awoke an hour later. Erik was gone which was surprising because he normally woke her when he left. Christine sat up and winced in pain. Erik had been rougher with her than usual. She cracked her neck and knuckles sighed deeply. Christine got up from the bed and wrapped her herself in a sheet. She walked over to the window and opened it. She heard Erik's voice below. Christine saw him talking with a servant. She was going to call out to him but decided not to. He got into a carriage and rode away. She wondered where he was going.

When Erik's carriage was out of eye sight Christine looked at the man that bore her wedding ring. She touched it and then looked out across the city.

"I like to watch you from above
it's not an ordinary love
I like to feel so close to you
I bet I'm neared than you'll see

And I'm sitting up against the wall
Trying to find away
Playing it safe in case I fall from yesterday

You're letting me live
Inside of you
You're letting me live
As someone new

I wanted to be forever young
You and me now
I'm forever free
I wanted to learn from our
Memories

You're never cold though
Your not here to hold
And I'm sitting up against
The sky
Trying to find a way
Nothing to do but wonder
Why it's not yesterday

You're letting me live
Inside of you
You're letting me live
As someone new

Believe in me 'cos I believe it
Somewhere there is an angel
Watching over your life
Somewhere there is a silence
Somewhere a face in the light
Know this place is where I am
Know this face is of me
Know I'm watching over you
Do you feel it too?

You're letting me live
Inside of you
You're letting me live
As someone new…"

When Christine finished her song she sighed once more. She moved away from the window, closed it and then began dressing for dinner.

Erik's carriage slowly made its way down the streets of Paris. He wanted to get out for a while and clear his head. He knew he shouldn't have been so rough and awful with Christine but he couldn't help himself. He had gotten so angry with one of his employees. He had gotten angry with one of his female employees.

When the carriage rode by the park Erik ordered his driver to stop and let him walk around for a while. Erik climbed out and told his driver to meet him at the other side of the park in ten minutes. Erik needed some time in a peaceful place to think.

As he walked down the winding paths of the park he thought of nothing but Christine. She wanted to start a family so badly and Erik wanted a family with her as well. But she wouldn't, or couldn't, get pregnant. He was starting to get worried. It wasn't like they couldn't adopt, or even had a surrogate mother but that was out of the question.

Erik knew those two things would be last resorts. He would continue to try and have a baby with Christine until she got pregnant. Until then, all he could do was hope.

As Erik walked through the park he saw a young woman with her friends. They were flirting with a group of boys across from them. Erik remembered when Christine had been doing such a thing with boys in the opera and then with the Raoul De Changy boy.

"Beauty queen of only eighteen?
She had some trouble with herself
He was always there to help her
She always belonged to someone else
I drove for miles and miles and wound up
At your door
I've had you so many times but somehow
I want more,"

Erik heard a man's voice and he saw that one of them was singing to the blushing young woman. The young man took the young woman's hand and continued singing to her as he led her around the park with everyone watching.

"I don't mind spending everyday
Out on your corner in the pouring rain
Look for the girl with the broken smile
Ask her if she wants to stay a while and
She will be loved, she will be loved

Tap on my window
Knock on my door I want to make
You feel beautiful

I know I tend to get so insecure it
Doesn't matter anymore
It's not always rainbows and butterflies
Its compromise it moves us along

I don't mind spending everyday
Out on your corner in the pouring rain
Look for the girl with the broken smile
Ask if her if she wants to stay a while
And she will be loved, and she will be
Loved…"

Everyone in the park clapped as the young man kissed the young woman on the cheek and ran off with his friends leaving the young woman blushing and at a loss for words. Erik couldn't help but smile and yet he wondered if he had let Christine live a "normal" life with Raoul if their life together would've something like that. Erik knew that Christine might've been somewhat happy, but was she genuinely happy?

Erik didn't know anymore. He wanted to badly to make her happy but he didn't know how. He knew a baby would make her happy but would it complete them? Would they still have the same problems they had today? Would their problems double in size? Erik wished he had all the answers. But, alas, he did not.