A/N: Rated R for content... I like to warn. THis chapter has not been beta and will be. I will repost it when they are done but a few happy readers want to read now...I hope you like. Get out the ice cream I am prescribing at least a whole pint to cool your jets.
Gia wearily walked into her bedroom and plopped down on her bed. She was still dressed in her formal red dress that she wore to the gallery opening. The last two weeks were a blur in her mind. She not only planned the event, she painted for the event and attended as a representative for herself and her firm. After coming home from her day job she had pretty much locked herself in the study and painted every night so she would have something to show. She painted over 35 paintings and only 16 made the grade. Her paintings had been a range of emotion from the frenzy of her anxiety to her sadness when she heard a family friend had died back in Philadelphia. Some of her painting's subjects were her feelings for Don filled with reds and creams that showed not only her passion for him but also her respect and love.
One of the painting had featured several 3 pares of eyes they were of her friends and family. She enjoyed watching them try to figure out who was who. Only Megan Reeves had correctly identified all the eyes except for the three sets she had never met before. Charlie had gotten every pair wrong except for one and that was the ones that Gia painted of Margaret Eppes from her memory.
Her parents had come out a couple of days ago to attend the gallery telling her that they wanted to be there for her big day. But she wasn't fooled they came out West to meet, no not meet but to see if Don was good enough to be going out with their daughter.
At dinner the Thursday evening before the gallery opening she couldn't have been happier at the way that Don handled her parents and handled them he did. Okay well Don handled her father as much as one seasoned FBI agent could handle another one. Gia could sense that for the first time her dad had actually liked one of her boyfriends. He never liked any of her boyfriends' (all whopping 4 of them) ok he liked what's his face from high school Tommy, cause he knew that it would go nowhere after they graduated. Her father was very protective of his youngest daughter. However, if people thought her father was protective god help them her mother was worse.
Five foot one and 105 pound, Philomona Conti was a force to be reckoned with. If she had been a law enforcement agent Gia imagined that any one she would have arrested would have begged to confess. Why? She had this look that could melt stone and make you do whatever she wanted.
Gia was the only one of Philomena's children who could effectively ignore the look. Her mother and her had butted heads since Gia was at least five yours old. She almost fell over when Don deftly had her mother believing that he was the best thing since sliced bread.
When the two ladies has excused themselves to powered their noses Gia's mother turned to her and said that she thought that Don was the perfect man for her daughter. She found him kind, intelligent and very handsome.
Things couldn't have been more perfect till her mother turned a knowing look at her daughter and asked her how her sex life was! Saying, "You know Giada a successful relationship needs to have some oomf in the bedroom like your father's and mine." Gia felt her face drain of color. Even though Gia had the power to ignore that look her mother knew many other ways to get under her skin. Then things got worse her mother turned to her and asked her as they left the ladies room when Giada thought that Don would be proposing since they were technically living in sin.
After that comment Gia kept shooting looks at her mother trying to warn her from saying anything like that to Don.
Once at home Don had turned to Gia and said, "That wasn't so bad now was it?"
'Yeah? Is that what you think? Let me tell you about the conversation with my mother." As she told Don what her mother had said she watched his face turn a slight shade of green.
Don could only reply a quiet, "Oh."
And the 'fun' was only beginning. Tomorrow her sister was having a BBQ and had invited Don and his family. She wondered what nightmare tomorrow would be.
Thinking about the art gallery again she spied at one point Alan and her mother speaking quietly to one another. She didn't even want to try to imagine what they were plotting. Gia's mother gushed over Charlie and all his accomplishments. She also asked him when he thought he would settle down and that nice dark haired girl named Amita seemed like a good choice. Charlie's face faced turned crimson as he tried to reply to her comment.
Giovanni and his fiancé were also in attendance (thank god!) Philomena when she caught site of them at the gallery started to pepper them with questions on when they would be setting a date. Gia could only sigh in relief that someone had garnered her mother's attention from her for a while.
About an hour into the opening her boss welcomed the guests to the opening of the gallery. He told everyone that it couldn't have been down with out Dr. Giada Conti and that the gallery was also proud to be first to display her work. She was then given the microphone and gave the small speech she had prepared.
She said, " Thank you all for attending tonight. My ego and I appreciate it." (Light laughter followed from the audience)
She went on to explain the concept of the gallery and that they would indeed feature local artist and art from all genres's and time periods. She hoped that many would return to view all the wonderful things that the gallery would have for sale and people would participate in the monthly auctions.
Gia gave one last smile to the crown and told them she wanted to thank the people in this world that she loved the most. The people, who supported her, let her fly when she needed to fly and grounded her when she needed to feel the earth beneath. She told all that none of this would be possible without her family and her friends. She told them she loved them all and thanked them again. She raised her wine glass and propose a toast to those people she spoke of. "With out you all I'd crash. I love you and I thank you." Everyone raised their glass and toasted.
Gia mingled and talked to guest as they sipped wine and ate crab puffs. She walked by Don who was talking to her mother, Charlie and Giovanni with his fiancé. He gave her a glowing smile and winked. She returned the smile and went back to mingling with the clients and other representatives of the firm. During her mingling she saw her dad staring at a painting. She walked over to him and flushed red when she saw what painting he was looking at.
After a few minutes Victor Conti turned a raised eyebrow at his daughter as he read the title of the painting and said, "Lovers Entwined?"
Gia cleared her throat, "Um, yeah."
Victor's eye scanned his daughter's face and then trailed over to where Don was. "Anyone I know my daughter?"
She licked her lips and felt the color crept from her cheeks down to her neck, "Uh dad let's look at this painting." She grabbed his hand and turned him to one titled The Friendship of Art and Math. "This is the one that I did after Charlie gave me a challenged. See it's a scene at the Calsci campus and I worked in math symbols into the background. For example, that guy's tattoo is the symbol of PI and those girl's earrings are the Greek letter Sigma. Cool huh?"
"Yes Giada very interesting."
"Well check out this for a while I have to back and mingle." She kissed her dad on the cheek and fled quickly away.
She walked by Don and whispered in his ear, "You may want to stay away from my dad for a little while. He um, saw some of THE paintings."
He replied, "Ah. Thanks for the heads up." He gave her one of his best smiles and kissed her on the cheek. I'll go talk to Larry and Megan for a bit."
She nodded, "Good choice."
Back in her bedroom…..
She sat up straight when she saw Don walked into their bedroom. His tie had been loosened and his tux jacket was off. Gia licked her lips at how delicious he looked. He gave her a smile and sat down next to her on the bed. He said, "I am so proud of you. You were the toast of the town."
She grinned back at him and said, "Thank you love."
She rose from the bed and started to take off her jewelry. He got from the bed and stood behind her. He wrapped his arms around her waist and said into her ear. "Do you need help getting undressed?"
A playful grinned ghosted over Giada's lips. She simply said. "I thought you never ask. Please unzip me." He kissed her on the back of the neck as he stepped back to unzip the dress.
Don turned her around and slid the dress off her shoulders. She allowed the dress to slide to the floor. His eyes gleamed with desire. He said, "Oh wow." At the lingerie she wore underneath. She wore a red lace strapless bra and matching cheeky lace panties. There was also a red garter belt that secured her thigh highs. He lowered his lips to kiss the tops of her breast and his hands snaked around her back to unhook her bra. He felt her fingers undoing the buttons on the tuxedo shirt that he was wearing. Not even a minute later he felt her hands start to undo his belt. Don began to kiss Gia's neck as his hands caressed her nipples. She let out a moan when he gave one of her breast extra attention by nibbling at it. She stepped back a little from him so she could pull off his tux shirt and then his undershirt he wore. He pulled her back to him and they began kissing each other softly. His hands ran down her back and slipped between her panties. She pressed into him more to feel his hardness against her groin. Giada slipped her hands into his boxers and started to massage him. Don let out a groan of pleasure. In one motion he grabbed Gia and pulled her onto the bed. He started to slide her panties off her hips. He pulled them off of her and tossed them away from her. She lay beneath him wearing only the garter belts and thigh highs. He grinned at her as he started to kiss her on the lips. Her hands continued to massage him. He ran his hands down her sides till he reached her hips. He started to stimulate her, which started to make her breathing more rapid.
Gia moaned, "Don stop teasing me."
He laughed, "As milady wishes." With one knee he spread her legs wider apart, He took her leg and secure it around his waist as he entered her warm liquid center. Simultaneously moans of pleasure escaped their lips. Don placed one of his hands around Gia's face as he started to thrust into her repeatedly. His other hand he placed between their bodies so he could continue to stimulate her. Gia wrapped her other leg around him, which put her body at a higher angle. She wrapped her arms around Don's back and held onto him tight. He kept his movements slow and rhythmic to allow time for her to orgasm first. After a few minutes he felt her body arch into him and knew that she had. As always they stare into each other's eyes as they made love.
He whispered into her ear that he loved her. He heard her whisper back to him, "Love you too." Followed with a moan of pleasure. She then mumbled, "Harder Don. Oh god don't stop."
He picked up the pace and gave her what she wanted. He felt the beginning of the point of no return and he allowed himself to be consumed by it. With one last thrust he peaked. He felt the ripples of pleasure flush through him. He was about to roll over when Gia caught him and said, "Stay still. I want to feel you for a while." Not able to speak yet he nodded and stayed on top of her. He leaned down to kiss her. As he did he felt her clamp down on him, which made him gasp in pleasure. "
He said, "G don't do that. I'm too sensitive."
She gave him a sly smile and did it again.
"Oh god." He breathed. "Stop please."
"Do you really want me to stop?"
"No, do it again." And so she did. He felt his orgasm bubble back up and she contracted her muscle around him. After a moment to her felt her tighten one last time and she herself moaned in orgasm. She let out another moan at her legs loosed their hold on him.
Don rolled over on to his back pulling Gia so she laid on his chest. They laid there together and listen to each others breathing slow back to normal. He kissed the side of her head and said, "You are an evil woman."
She giggled, "Yeah but you love it."
"Yeah I do." He started to toy around with a few of her loose curls. He looked at her face and smiled at the look he knew he put there. She liked to tell him that it was a look of a satisfied woman. He should get used to it. He noticed that sometimes she wore that smile for hours after they made love.
Don said, "You have that look."
She murmured, "How could I not?"
He let out a sigh.
Gia propped herself on her elbow. She gave Don a concerned look, "Hey what's the sigh for? You ok?"
After a moment he said, "No I have feeling your dad is going to take one look at your face tomorrow and he'd going to kick my ass."
Gia burst into a fit of giggles, "Apparently I'm not the only screwed." She started to laugh at her play on words.
Don groaned and shook his head. "You're no help."
