Chapter Twelve

Until the image of Lex and the other girl in each other's arms, grunting and sweating flashed before her eyes, the memory of this treachery bringing her back to the present.

Ebony's eyes flashed around the room at lighting speed trying to work out where she now was, the room was nice, big and lavishly furnished but none of this mattered as she suddenly realised where she was upon seeing … Lex.

Anger and upset coursed through her system especially as she saw that insufferable smirk which was driving her crazy, she had to wipe it off his face. Before she knew what she was doing she felt herself flying through the air, claws out and ready to do some serious damage.

Lex was slightly nervous, he had seen the way that the shock had turned Ebony into a virtual zombie and wasn't sure where it was a medical thing or just a form of day dream as he walked arm in arm with her to his room. Once in side he was about to start speaking to her to see if he could get a reaction or whether he should get her a cold compress when she launched herself at him.

He noticed this just in time to side step her attack and to prepare himself for the next onslaught.

Ebony landed half crouched as she missed her target but within a second had span around and was going after him once again with hatred in her eyes, she wanted to hurt him. In her mind he was the reason that she wasn't still with Slade, he was the secrete that she had kept from him and most of all he had broken her heart.

There was no way that Ebony was going to let him go, she wanted to make him pay for everything that he had done to her, the way that he had made her feel for him, the way that he had haunted her thoughts in the night and most of all for the way that despite all this she still found herself wanting him.

As Ebony flew towards him Lex pushed her back once again this time obtaining a few scratches but upon seeing the pain and fire in her eyes he knew that it wasn't going to be over in a few minutes and that if he just deflected her attacks that it she would just keep springing more on him, the only hope that he had was to completely disarm her.

On a normal day a fight between Ebony and Lex would have been completely even if not slightly more in Ebony's favour as Lex refused point blank to hit a girl yet today Ebony was mad and upset making her sloppy, there was more power behind her attacked but less real position which was what allowed Lex to flip her so that she landed on his bed, on her back and then within seconds he was on top of her pinning her to the bed.

Ebony felt herself hitting the bed and immediately tried to get up but found herself restrained. She tried to push up with her legs but Lex's superior weight upon her hips kept her firmly in place as did his strong hands on her wrists above her head.

She knew that it was hopeless yet she struggled against him unable to accept that she had lost, that there was no way out of the situation until she looked up at him. His muscular form above her holding her in place with easy it appeared and as much as she fought she just couldn't get away.

Never before had she been held down she tightly and in that moment she realised the truth, that she wasn't all that strong. Sure Ebony was a cunning fighter and amongst most people she could hold her own yet there were still some people that could take her down.

She had fought Lex before and won, yet now she realised that it was as much her presence and mind that had allowed her to win as much as her strength. Ebony knew her own strength and knew that she could have got out of there at that moment using her feminine charm, yet not pure brute force.

It unnerved her to realise that she had underestimated Lex, and she knew that she couldn't use her feminine charms for fear of falling for him once again, that was what caused her to finally lay still.

Lex smiled as Ebony finally calmed down and didn't seem too bothered about the fact that he was holding her down but on the inside he was a wreck. Zandra, Tai-San, Amber, he had had his fair share of women on top of those names but he had never loved one before.

He had never felt as if his heart would break if he didn't see them again, he had never felt turned on when they didn't obey him in public and most of all he had never been dumped by one of them before. Yet, in all of these things Ebony was his first.

Everything about her was different to him, at first he hadn't realised it, he had thought that she was just yet another girl that he could sleep with yet when he had slept with another woman in the middle of his relationship with Ebony all that he could think of the whole way through was how it didn't even compare.

The next morning he had got up, sent the girl on her way and gone into Ebony's room ready to make it up to her and devote himself to her only – which was really something for Lex – however then he found the note.

Lex could still feel that heart break as he saw all of Ebony's stuff gone accept for her nightie and letter, he could still remember the anxiousness which held him prisoner as he tore through the mall looking for someone who could read it to him and worst of all he still remembered the moment when he found out that she had left him for good.

As he looked down at her he couldn't believe how much pain he had gone through just for this one girl and how worth it all she had been yet he couldn't let that show through. While he longed to show her how much he wanted her and how good they were together even Lex knew that this was not the right time.

The most important thing was that he got Ebony out of there the next day, and then he could worry about everything else.

"Look Ebony", he started only to be cut off.

"Look? At what? You ugly face, no thank-you", Ebony hissed, hating the feel of being underneath him. She wanted to hurt him, and if she couldn't do it physically then by heaven she would do it by words.

"Well, this must be a novel experience for you Lex, being on top of me. Weren't you always underneath like a little boy with no balls", she said with slow deliberation.

Lex blanched slightly at her words but the memory of her rich moans and loud screams preventing him from being too hurt by her words and instead he reminded her, "Strange Ebony, because I seem to remember some naughty girl screaming her appreciation and paying special attention to …"

"Don't say another word", Ebony growled out, she knew exactly what he was going to say and didn't want to hear one word of it.

He smiled back at her sexily, "Let's just concentrate on getting you out of here and then we can worry about anything else".

Lex knew that he had to be strong and that he couldn't bring up anything to do with sex for fear of making her too uneasy and leaving the room, if that happened that she would surely be sold to someone else.

"Well then get off me", Ebony ordered and was pleased to see that he obeyed. Sitting up on the bed she looked at him for a second and felt a pang in her heart. She couldn't bare the fact that once upon a time she would have loved to have been in a room with him and now she could not stand it.

After a moment's silence Lex asked, "Why did you leave me Ebony? I know that you didn't really just decide to up and leave me for no reason, you were so happy the day before, what changed your mind about me?"

Although it was not in Lex's nature to ask questions about the like sand dislikes of his women yet he couldn't help himself from trying to find out the truth about why he had lost the one woman that he might possibly have loved.

Ebony looked at him with sorrow in her eyes not to mention slight confusion, part of her wanted to scream at him the reasons why she had left him and to try to make him regret what he had done however she knew that she could not for to betray the reason that she had left would show him how much he had hurt her and she didn't want him to know that he had ever had that power over her.

That was what possessed Ebony to reply, "You were a good romp while I had nothing better to do but if you thought that you were anything more then you are sadly mistaken. Now if you will excuse me I need to sleep", and with that she turned over to face the wall hoping that Lex would not notice the tear which slowly tricked down her fair cheek, serving as a constant reminder of her pain.