Chapter 5-A Major Disappointment?
"The ACM Kid"
"What are you doing here?" Lee groused in irritation at seeing Amanda at his front door so early in the morning.
Amanda made her way into Lee's apartment and at seeing him in his short robe babbled nervously, "Well, I had to take the boys to school and I was already halfway here, so I figured why should I go all the way home and then come all the way back here? So..." She flushed a little as she took in the sight of his bare legs and quickly averted her eyes.
Lee reached for the coffee pot that sat on his desk and offered weakly, "Coffee?" He still half-awake and desperately needing a jolt, though seeing her just might do the trick.
"Mm-hmm," Amanda replied.
"Good," Lee replied with a firm nod, eager for an excuse to put a little distance between himself and Amanda his state of near-undress in her presence unnerving him. As soon as he'd seen her, he'd felt that familiar stirring that always occurred when in her presence.
Amanda looked around Lee's messy place and observed, "You know, this reminds me of a place I live in while I was in college. Mother saw it and she made me move." She then followed Lee toward his kitchen and asked cheerfully, "So, where's the little boy you want me to baby0sit?"
"Getting dressed," Lee sniped, annoyed that she hadn't gotten the hint that he was trying to distance himself from her. He groaned and said, "It'll only be for a couple hours while I go into the agency. You mind?"
"No, no, I like kids," Amanda replied energetically.
"Ah," Lee said as he began to make the coffee. Of course, she did, he thought. He didn't know why he expected anything different. That was why he'd asked for her help to start with. He knew that as a single mother of two boys, she was far better equipped to handle the wayward kid than he was. She's pretty good at handing you too.
Amanda tried to shake off his brusqueness with her and inquired, "Are you always this punchy in the morning?" She was mighty curious after all of their encounters if this is how he would be if they ever spent a whole night together. Stop it, Amanda, she thought. That can't ever happen; you have a boyfriend. She'd tried to justify their actions as that of two people thrown into life-and-death situations beyond their control, but with each new experience, that was becoming harder and harder to do. It was also becoming increasingly harder to deny the magnetic pull this man had on her.
"Are you always this...perky?" Lee fired back grumpily. He thought about their fiery escapades and was indescribably grateful that they weren't a real couple. He felt sure that he couldn't handle her over-exuberance on a regular basis. While they'd slept together, they'd never woken up together and he was glad for that. He had enjoyed her exuberance very much, a little too much at times, when they'd been having sex, but a steady diet of it would be just too much. As she went on about her being a morning person and him not, he glanced back at her, his thoughts jumbled as he took in the walking contradiction that was Amanda King, her prim, conservative attire belying the wildcat that he knew she was underneath it. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad, not if I could have the wildcat all the time, he thought and then with a firm shake of his head turned back to the coffee pot in an attempt to get that disturbing image out of his mind.
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Lee wandered aimlessly through his apartment in his stocking feet, his jacket and tie discarded. He paced restlessly, nursing a scotch on the rocks, as he waited for Amanda to arrive, their encounter at the bar disturbing him much more than he liked. Sex with you was always a major disappointment. Amanda's words had haunted him through the rest of the night as he continued his investigation. Had she meant those words about him? He thought back to their last encounter and how he'd had to coax her into admitting that she liked it. Or had she really not enjoyed it and had just said so to get it over with?
Or was it just her being over-exuberant again and playing into her role as disgruntled ex-wife? That thought made him wonder if she really was a disgruntled ex-wife and just what the circumstances were that led to her divorce. He felt sure that it couldn't have been the lack of a satisfying sex life. He knew all too well just how creative she was when it came to that. Unless it was on his side, he thought. Maybe that's where that comment had come from. Maybe she'd been disappointed in her sex life with her ex-husband. She was a very fiery, passionate woman and maybe her ex hadn't satisfied her needs. He was determined to find out.
His thoughts were interrupted by a knock on the door. He set his drink down, hurried to it, and flung it open to allow her entrance to his place. At seeing her still in the outfit she'd worn at the bar, his thoughts drifted to that comment she'd made and all thoughts of discussing Aleksei flew out of his head as he reached for her.
Amanda had barely had time to step in the door before she heard it slamming behind her and felt herself pressed up against it, Lee's hot mouth ravaging the pulse point at her neck while one hand slid under her skirt and the other worked at the buttons on her blouse. "Ohhhh," she cried out as her blouse was dropped to the floor and she felt his teeth grazing her breast through her bra. She slipped one hand into his partially open dress shirt as she tugged at the lower buttons with the other, finally getting frustrated enough with them that she just yanked forcefully with both hands, sending the offending buttons flying.
"Hey, I liked this shirt," he protested as he haphazardly dropped her bra to the floor.
"I'll sew them back on for you later," she promised as she pushed his shirt from his shoulders to pool in a heap with her blouse. She lowered her lips to his chest, clamping her mouth down on one nipple while she caressed the other, her free hand cupping him through his pants, then moved to open the button on them and slide her hand inside to stroke him.
"God," Lee groaned at the way Amanda was touching him as he realized if there was any disappointment in her married life, it had to be all on her ex-husband's side. The thought of her having done the things she was doing to him with anyone else brought out a fierce possessiveness in him and he felt a raging desire to possess her again. He stopped her actions, pinned against his front door again as he once again slid his hand beneath her skirt, this time to forcefully tear her panties from her body before lifting her to straddle him, and plunging himself deep inside her causing her to cry out with the force of it.
"Aaahhh," Amanda cried at feeling his hardness inside her, filling her again.
Lee stilled for a moment, looked at her in alarm. With the way she'd cried out he was fearful for a moment that he had hurt her until he saw the blazing look in her eyes. He relaxed as he felt her hands sliding up from his bare torso to his shoulders and felt her pushing against him using her back against the door as leverage and felt her locking her legs around him. That was all the encouragement he needed. He clamped his lips to hers, kissing her savagely while he drove up into her pulling on her hips to bring them down to meet him.
Amanda moaned loudly into Lee's mouth as she felt him withdrawing from her and driving back into her repeatedly, her passion building as his tongue probed her mouth, the way he was probing her body with his hard shaft. She tasted the scotch on his lips and tongue and greedily sucked on it longing for mouth of that taste She relished every sensation, his tongue tangling with hers, his hands on her hips, and the most exquisite sensation of all, that of him inside her, filling her up completely in a way that no man ever had. She tore her mouth from his as she couldn't help crying out her pleasure, "Oh, Lee," she screamed as she linked her hands behind his neck while he lowered his mouth to hers biting down hard on the tender skin while he continued to plunder her bringing her to yet another mind-numbing climax which was soon followed by his own, her pleasure only intensifying as she felt him spilling into her while he cried out his own pleasure.
"God, Amanda, Oh god," Lee moaned against her neck as he felt her contracting around him causing him to erupt within her. He latched his mouth onto her neck again as he continued to push into her until he was completely emptied, trembling against her as the force of his release took him over. He breathed heavily agasint her skin as he tried desperately to get his heart rate to slow down, but not wanting to leave the comfort of her embrace. Seeing this kid going through what he had, had brought all his own painful childhood memories to the front of his mind and more than just his dire need to possess her, he needed that motherly comfort from her. While his breathing slowed, he blinked back the stinging tears that had formed in his eyes before raising his head to look at her, "So, A major disappointment, huh?" he joked with a grin in an attempt to hide his inner turmoil.
Amanda laughed and said, "No. You know that I only said that to tease you."
Lee let her down and slowly withdrew from her, made quick work of re-fastening his pants and parried, "Well, now you see what comes from teasing me."
"I'm not complaining," she replied as she bent to retrieve her shredded panties, "Except for maybe about this." She held them up.
"Spoken by the woman who just ripped the buttons off my shirt, " he fired back as he held up the dress shirt.
"Well, that I can fix, these there's no hope for."
"Maybe, you should go without them anyway," Lee teased. "They just get in the way."
Amanda blushed furiously as she retrieved the rest of her discarded clothing, quickly dressing and said, "You know, we really should talk about Aleksei."
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"You've taken over the place," Lee grumbled. "It's not that it just looks nice and neat and tidy. It looks like you live here and not me!' That was exactly what he didn't want. He was now beginning to think that taking her so forcefully here in his apartment had been a big mistake. It seemed that she'd developed that same nesting instinct that all women whom he'd allowed to spend the night seemed to do, although technically she hadn't spent the night. His space was his space and he'd never bought into that old idea that every bachelor pad needed a woman's touch. At seeing the somewhat pained look on Amanda's face, he added, "Not that I'm not grateful, of course." He didn't want to piss her off to the point that she'd never touch him again.
Lee's attempt at backpedaling did nothing to soothe Amanda's bruised feelings. Nervously swinging her arms, she began pacing and then stopped leaning slightly on the mantle. "You know, I think that Aleksei was right when he said that we were incompatible," she informed him with a hint of sadness in her voice.
Too late. "Aleksei said that," Lee questioned and posed his hands on his hips at the kid's nerve. What the hell did he know about it? He could think of at least one way that he and Amanda were very much compatible, but that was the whole problem, wasn't it? They couldn't keep their hands off of each other and it was growing to be a more complicated situation with the more contact they had.
"Actually, he said, "Lee's fun, You're a drag," Amanda explained with a mournful, self-deprecating look on her face.
Lee couldn't help the grin that crossed his face as he thought of all the ways that Amanda was definitely not a drag. He started to approach her, then in an effort to get his mind off its rapid descent into the gutter, he pointed out, "You know, he's not all that bad. I mean, some kids deserve a little spoiling. Life's not easy and it's a lot harder for a scared kid," He drew closer to her and continued with, "You know, maybe he pretends to be tough so no one will know how scared he is." Boy, could he ever relate to that one.
Amanda smiled slightly at having another little piece of the Lee Stetson puzzle filled in and replied, "You know, if I didn't know better, I'd swear you were speaking from personal experience."
"Yeah, you're not kidding. Did I ever tell you about my childhood?"
"No," she answered and looked at him expectantly. Maybe this was it, the moment when he would finally open up to her a little, other than in the throes of passion.
"I didn't think so," He flinched slightly at seeing the look on her face, walked past her to the wall shelf changing the subject to his out of order record collection, leaving Amanda shaking her head in disbelief.
Amanda sighed at the thought that a man who could be so giving in the bedroom, could be so closed outside of it, not that they'd ever actually made it to the bedroom, but still. Why was he so afraid of connecting on more than a physical level?
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Amanda sat on the side of the couch massaging Dean's shoulders as she listened to him rattle on about the Russian family he'd heard about on the news, throwing out statements about plausible denial. As he turned to look at her in surprise that she acted like she hadn't heard about it, she looked away at his intense scrutiny and tugging nervously at the neck of her bulky sweater. She had been hoping that it would serve her purpose in putting it on and that it was successfully hiding the large hickey Lee had left behind. Now, with the way that he was looking at her, she wasn't so sure She was briefly saved by the bell.
Amanda shook her head as she knelt to retrieve the stuffed panda and recalled her words to Lee about buying her affection with it. Was that what he was trying to do, she wondered. She smiled at that thought as she rose with the panda in her arms and hugged it tightly.
From a safe distance, Lee watched with a smile as Amanda picked up the gift he'd left her, and then glared briefly at the weatherman's car in her driveway before turning his attention back to her. At seeing the bright smile on her face, he thought that while the weatherman may be there, she was holding a reminder of him in her arms the way she'd held him in his apartment. Maybe the weatherman was the one who was a major disappointment. Maybe that's why she kept giving in to him. He smiled at that thought as he made his way to his car.