Chapter Eight

"Umm", Ebony moaned and threw her arm over her head as the light beamed down on her face wanting nothing more than to go back to sleep, in her sleepiness she protested, "Nice dream", as if that would stop the sun from raising and puling her back into reality.

The low male chuckle and weight shift of the bed went unnoticed by Ebony until she realised that the sun was gone from her eyes. Blearily she opened her eyes and turned over towards the window to see Slade standing naked in front of her.

Slade smiled slightly as he heard Ebony's slight protest about the sun and couldn't resist a slight chuckle as he climbed out of bed and went to close the curtains for her. He wasn't sure if she knew that she had been in bed with him or not but she did seem a lot more relaxed, he thought proudly.

The answer to his thought came soon as he saw her role over and looked with shock at him, she hadn't remembered.

"Is the memory so bad that you are repressing?" Slade asked teasingly.

Ebony lay back down as she remembered what had happened, "Yes, it was terrible", she teased, in retaliation. All of the memories were flooding back to her now and she couldn't help but smile as she remembered everything that they had done and made a mental note to remember some of those tricks.

It had defiantly been a very effective way of forgetting all of her hurt and pain; in fact she couldn't remember the last time when she had felt so utterly contented.

"Is that so?" Slade said as he walked back to the bed and crawled so that he was above Ebony once again before continuing, "Because you seemed to be enjoying yourself last night".

As these words left Slade's lips the memory of Ebony's screams of delight and her nails scratching deep into his back flittered through his mind.

"But that was last night", Ebony reminded him, "I think that I need a little reminding about how it was, my memory seems to be going".

She was eating up this playful atmosphere and didn't want it to end, and wondered what he would do next.

"Well then I had better remind you then hadn't I? It started something like this", he said burying his lips into the side of her neck.

"And then it continued kind of like this", his hot kisses travelled down her throat to the valley between her breasts.

"And then …" Ebony's husky voiced trailed off mid prompt as earth shacking screams erupted from her full lips.

A little while later Ebony lay wrapped up in a sleeping Slade's arms, as she looked down on him she wondered what all of the other girls who had been wrapped up like that must have thought. Did they think that he was going to stay with them? Did he just leave them?

Suddenly a doubt immerged, was this a one night stand or a commitment? After having such great sex she wasn't sure if she could go back to not getting that treatment ever night yet she would if it would save her self respect.

The more that she thought about it the more she began to become sure that he was just using her for the night, when he woke up again he would probably not want anything to do with her and spin her some line about just wanting to be friends with benefits or something like that.

No, Ebony would not have that. That was why, while Slade slept on Ebony began to think of what she would say to him, how she would say that she had enjoyed last night but that it was a one off. That way Slade wouldn't think that she was hurt by the fact that he wouldn't want her for any longer than that.

She carefully separated herself from his arms and set to work about finding her closes from where they had been thrown the previous night and hiding a few of the rips that Slade had made in his haste.

As she did this words and phrases circled about in her mind, such as: "Thank-you for a lovely night but I do not as yet feel ready for such an obligation", etc however this sounded far too formal. She often found that while she could think things up on the stop when inspiration came to her, thinking it out before hand sometimes didn't work as well.

It didn't matter, she supposed as, as she reached for the door she guessed that she would still have a few hours to think about it however just as she opened the door there was a loud squeak which woke Slade up.

Without turning around to face him she could hear him calling her name, no doubt he had glimpsed her retreating figure, she was stuck, what did she do? Should she turn and try and say it now or just leave?

Her legs tensed with the immediate shock and she felt as if she was being backed into a corner yet she forced herself to move and keep walking out of the door.

She tore along the landing and hoped that he wasn't following her; she knew logically that he couldn't be as he was naked however there was still something about her that wouldn't let herself relax until she was back in her own room with the door closed.

Once inside she paced the room almost nervously as the adrenalin burst through her veins in anticipation, she knew that she should have turned around and have said her speech then and there but at that moment she didn't feel prepared, like if she saw him she would melt on the spot.

Yet fate would not allow Ebony the time that she needed to collect her thoughts as no sooner had she thought this than she heard a tapping at her door sending her almost into cardiac arrest yet she appeared composed enough as the door began to open to reveal Slade.

"Slade", she acknowledged in a breath, with a slight nod as if she had no idea what he had come about and thought that it was just a social call.

She knew that she couldn't just go straight into her speech and so instead asked, "Is there something that you wanted?"

Slade looked at her oddly, not knowing what game she was playing, yet merely replied, "Yeah, I saw you leaving and I just wondered if I had done something to not want you to stay".

Ebony couldn't resist a grin. That was it, the opening that she had needed and the inspiration for her speech.

"Nope", she answered casually, "look Slade, I mean last night was nice and everything, really I had a great time but I don't think that it is necessary fro me to stay in bed and moping all over you afterwards".

She tried to be calm and managed it pretty well yet there was a slight bite behind her tone which alerted Slade to the fact that something was wrong.

"Ebony, you know full well that I don't expect that. I know that you are strong and confident and I would never expect you to mope over anyone, I was merely asking as for a woman or man to leave the bed in such haste is normally a sign that something being wrong. Come on Ebony", he added in mild frustration, "I can't read your mind, you have to tell me what is wrong".

"Slade there is nothing wrong, I mean you don't want a relationship with me and I don't want one with you so there is no problem", she said coldly.

He noticed the tone of her voice and began to cotton on to what was wrong, "Really that's strange because I don't remember saying that I didn't want a relation ship with you. In fact nothing was further from my mind", he confided.

Thinking that it was better not to point the finger at her for thinking that she could have thought that he merely asked, "Would that change your mind?"

Ebony couldn't believe it, he didn't want to leave her like a one night stand, she meant more than that to him. That didn't mean that they were going to get married or anything of the kind but the mere fact that she meat more to him than just some whore was something that she had never felt before.

"Yeah", she admitted, "that would change my mind; in fact it makes the only thing on my mind become what the best way to kiss you right now would be".

Slade grinned, "This seems to be a pretty good way", he said pulling her to him and kissing her gently.