Chapter TWO

"You're so neat," commented Sami with a smile, watching as EJ carefully hung out his suit coat on a hanger and draped his tie over one shoulder of it before hanging it all on a back of a chair.

"Is that a problem my love?" he asked with a quirk of his lips, looking over to where she was sitting up in bed, dressed only in his white dress shirt, "My understanding is most women like their men to be neat."

"It's not a problem," she smiled back at him, "I'm just not used to a man picking up after himself so much is all."

"Well you'll have to get used once we are married Samantha," he said and he finished with his tidying duties and walked back over to the bed, his bare feet silent on the plush carpet of their hotel room.

EJ was only wearing his trousers, his suspenders hanging loosely down his sides and his chest bare. Sami couldn't help but admire the animal like grace he had to his movements. EJ came to a halt beside the bed and sat down on it, twisting to face Sami as she sat cross legged on the bed. Her back was against the bed head and she was swimming in his much larger shirt.

"Hey," he said softly, one finger going out to gently trace a line down one suddenly pale cheek, "What is it sweetheart?"

Sami looked a little stricken then as she looked at him anxiously.

"Are we really going to do this EJ?" she asked quietly, her blue eyes wide.

His mention of marriage suddenly making what they were doing seem very, very real and Sami had to admit, she was frightened.

"Samantha," said EJ softly, his eyes very serious as he sought out hers and his hand now cupping her cheek, "I love you… I want to be with you… today and every other day until I draw my last breath."

Sami's heart melted at his words but her worries stubbornly persisted.

"That's what you want isn't it?" asked EJ, the smallest amount of worry in his voice.

"Of course it is!" said Sami quickly, "It's just…"

"It's just you don't want to tell Lucas," he finished for her.

"Yes," she said and gave him a distressed look, "This is going to hurt him so bad and I don't want to do that - he doesn't deserve this EJ."

"He doesn't deserve to be with a woman who is in love with another man sweetheart," pointed out EJ gently.

"I know," she sighed.

Sami knew that EJ was right but it still didn't make the job of telling Lucas that she was leaving him anymore palatable.

"I'll come with you Samantha," said EJ, laying a hand over one of hers, "We can tell him together."

"No!" said Sami, her eyes widening, "No EJ, I couldn't do that to him. I'll tell him… I just need some time."

"Are you sure?" asked EJ, not completely happy by Sami's decision.

He worried over the other man's reaction. If Sami ever told him that she was leaving him EJ simply didn't know how he'd handle it but he was certain it would be very badly.

"I'm sure EJ," she smiled at him, "I'll tell Lucas when the time is right."

"You know darling," said EJ with a smile, turning a little more towards her on the bed and taking both of her hands in his, "I've been organising my finances and I have everything in order for us to leave Salem… today if you want. I think the time is right to tell both Lucas and Nicole the truth so we can finally be together properly."

"Today!" said Sami, her eyes opening wide, "But… how… what will we do…?"

"Listen sweetheart," said EJ, his face excited, "I've got it all figured out. I've organised my moneys and put it into a separate account to Nicole…"

"Isn't it her money though?" asked Sami a little hesitantly.

She was taking the woman's husband, she didn't want to take her money as well.

"This was money that I had going into the marriage," said EJ with a shake of his head, "I'm not proud of this fact but while I was with Nicole I lived off her money and invested mine - stocks, bonds and land. We are going to be more than comfortable with what I have saved up for quite a while and I intend to start practicing law again as soon as we settle in a place we both like."

"You are?" asked Sami in delight.

"Of course darling," said EJ with a grin, "I have to keep my beautiful girl in the manner to which I want her to become accustom. Besides, I'm tired of not making my own way in the world… I'm done with having a free ride through life."

EJ gave Sami an impish look then.

"Look what you've done to me Samantha," he said in mock lament, "You've made an honest man out of me."

Sami threw her arms around EJ's neck and hugged him tightly.

"Oh EJ!" she said elatedly.

EJ gave a deep chuckle at how pleased she was.

"You know," said Sami excitedly, pulling back and looking up at him, "I trained to be a secretary before I married Lucas - typing, short hand… the whole bit. I wanted to be Lucas' secretary at the agency but he already had Chloe and she's been there forever so I couldn't. But now I could be yours EJ!"

EJ pulled a bit of a face then, his old fashioned sensibilities challenged a little.

"I don't know if I want my wife working," he said hesitantly, "Sweetheart you won't have to. It's won't be like it was with Lucas - I'll be able to support you and very well at that. You don't need to work."

"But what if I want to?" she asked him with a little pout, "Don't you want to work together EJ?"

"Nothing would thrill me more sweetheart," said EJ with a smile, taking her chin in one hand and kissing away that pout, "But I admit that I'm not sure how much work I'd be able to get done with you looking so utterly sexy a few feet away."

Sami had to smile at that.

"So you'll think about it?" she pushed him, "About having me as your secretary when you start your law office? I promise you I'll do a good job EJ and won't get in your way."

"Samantha," said EJ huskily, tracing the shape of her face with his finger, "You could never be in the way and the thought of spending every day and night with you is nothing short of complete and utter bliss to me. If you really insist on working young lady then I have to insist on you working with me…"

A mischievous look came over EJ's face then.

"… until our babies start to arrive of course," he said leaning in and stealing a kiss from her.

"Our babies?" asked Sami, arching her eyebrows, "I wasn't sure if you wanted children EJ."

"I want to have children with you Samantha," said EJ with great certainty, "A whole batch of them."

"Oh EJ!" she exclaimed and hugged him again, "I'm so glad to hear you say that. I want children so badly!"

"So do I sweetheart," said EJ with a smile and then pulled back to look at her as he put a hand over her stomach, "I want to see them growing inside of you, see them born…"

"Oh no you don't!" said Sami in absolute horror at even the suggestion, "Giving birth is women's business - no men allowed! There is no way you're going to see me doing that EJ DiMera!"

"We'll discuss it when it gets closer," said EJ with a quirk of his lips at how outraged she was.

"We can discuss it all you like but the answer is going to be the same!" huffed Sami, "Do they do that kinda thing in England…it's just too much!"

EJ had to laugh at how scandalised she was by the suggestion.

"No," he admitted with a smile, "Husbands have to wait outside, just like here but I thought you and I might start a new fashion Samantha."

"We are most certainly not EJ!" said Sami with a definite shake of her head, "It's unheard of - men will never be allowed in a labour ward - never do you hear me!"

"Alright my love," he laughed at her continuing outrage, "If it makes you happy I'll admit defeat on that one."

"Good," said Sami looking relieved and giving a sharp nod of her head, "Glad you've seen reason EJ."

"Samantha," said EJ earnestly, "What I'm trying to say is that I want it all with you - children, a home, a life together. This love story is never going to end."

"Promise?" she asked him hopefully.

"I promise," he said with great certainty, "Whatever life throws at us I know that we can face it together and overcome it together. I've never been surer of anything in my life."

EJ reached out and threaded his fingers through Sami's and held her gaze steadily then.

"So once you tell Lucas it is over I want you to pack and come back to our room here at the hotel," said EJ, continuing on with his master plan, "I've booked it out indefinitely from yesterday so you will be able to come here any time of the day or the night - this is ours for the time being - until we decide exactly where we want to go. I'll do the same with Nicole and now that all my finances are in order we will be free to leave Salem and start our new life together."

Sami's heart had begun to pound nervously away in her chest as EJ rattled off his plans. The last part sounded so wonderful but the first part scared her senseless.

"Sweetheart," said EJ urgently, holding onto the tops of her arms, "Come this time tomorrow we could both be free to be together - just imagine it!"

"I am EJ," said Sami, "And I want that so much but…"

"Samantha," said EJ, moving in even closer and slipping his arms around her waist as he looked deeply into her lives, "I can't let you go one more time… I have to know that this is going to be the last time I send you back to that man. I'm going insane from the want of you. This is no longer enough for me - I have to have all of you, every beautiful, captivating part of you. I can't share you with him any longer, I just can't. You have to be mine and no one else's otherwise I will lose my mind. Darling it kills me a little inside each time I watch you leave this room sweetheart. Please, please, don't ask me to keep doing it."

"EJ," she whispered, her eyes filling with tears, "I feel exactly the same way! I can't bear going home to Lucas - all I want is you, I can't stand being away from you and I hate that you and Nicole are sharing a bed and…"

"We haven't made love for more than three weeks now," said EJ, suddenly interrupting and needing Sami to know that, "Ever since you ran off and before that… before that I was just going through the motions… to keep the peace. But now I can't bear to touch any woman but you Samantha."

"I know," said Sami softly, more tears forming in her eyes, "It's the same for me."

"You and Lucas haven't…" asked EJ hesitantly, his nerves tightening because he wasn't sure he'd be able to endure it if she told him that she'd slept with her husband since they'd exchanged their 'I love you's' - he'd always been very careful about avoiding thinking about it.

"It's been over a month now," confessed Sami, her bottom lip trembling, "I just couldn't… not any more…"

EJ crushed her to him, almost dizzy from the relief of hearing her say that.

"So tomorrow then?" asked EJ, drawing back to look at her eagerly, "You'll tell Lucas tomorrow and I'll tell Nicole and we'll meet here at the hotel. We can stay overnight and then I thought we could leave for New York in the morning."

"New York!" exclaimed Sami, her eyes wide, "I've never been to New York!"

"You'll love it sweetheart," he promised her with a grin, "We'll go by train and stay there until we work out what to do next. I think it would be more than prudent for both of us to take our leave of Salem as soon as possible."

"EJ," said Sami, her head spinning at how quickly he was moving with all of this, "Are you sure… I mean really sure that this is what you want to do because once we start there is no going back."

EJ's eyes lit up at that question.

"I am absolutely sure Samantha," he told her with great certainty.

He suddenly got off the bed then and kneeled down beside it and Sami looked at him in surprise.

"EJ," she said with a little frowning laugh, "What are you doing?"

EJ reached out and took Sami's left hand as she still sat there on the bed.

"Samantha," he said huskily, holding her hand in both of his and looking at her so intently as he knelt beside the bed, "I'd intended to do this in a far more romantic setting but I can't help myself, I have to do it now…"

Sami suddenly found she couldn't breathe as she looked at the earnest man on his knees before her.

"Samantha I love you," he said with such heartfelt emotion that it made Sami's breathe hitch, "I never want to be without you in this world ever again. Marry me beautiful girl and never leave me, be mine forever."

EJ's hand went to his trouser pocket then and he drew out a ring case. He'd picked it up this morning after having it made especially for Sami. EJ had fully intended as he'd said to make a romantic evening of it - dinner, dancing and then propose to Sami on bended knee as they took a walk through the gardens but EJ simply couldn't wait. The ring was burning a hole through his pocket and he was desperate for Sami to put it on and promise to be his. He opened the velvet case and Sami gasped to see the most perfect looking ring that she'd ever seen. It was a marquise cut diamond, simple, understated and oh so classy. Sami had never seen anything so beautiful in her life - it must have cost EJ a pretty penny and she couldn't believe that he'd bought it for her. EJ meanwhile was starting to grow anxious waiting for her reply. Sami was just sitting there, a stricken look on her face and not saying anything.

"Samantha?" he prompted her, giving her a nervous smile, "I'm sorry sweetheart but I'm really going to need an answer on that one."

"Oh!" gasped Sami, when she realised that she hadn't said anything yet.

She'd just been so overwhelmed that words were a little beyond her right then.

"Y… yes," she managed, her tongue feeling strangely foreign in her own mouth, "Yes EJ, YES!"

EJ's face lit up at her acceptance and Sami had to laugh to see it, how could he have even thought for one second that she would say no Sami would never know. EJ grinned up at her and then took her left hand. Her wedding ring from Lucas had been in hock for awhile now to pay bills so EJ had only to place his ring on her finger with shaking hands. It was a perfect fit, sliding on her finger easily.

"Oh my," said Sami weakly at seeing such a beautiful ring on her finger.

"I had it inscribed," he told her throatily.

"You did?" she asked in delight, "What does it say EJ?"

"Forever," he said simply, "I'm yours and no one else's for the rest of our lives Samantha."

"And I'm yours EJ," she said, looking at him so adoringly, "It's perfect and amazing and I can't wait to be your wife!"

"As soon as our divorces are through we'll be married Samantha," he vowed to her, "The ink won't even be dry on the papers before I make you mine, I promise you."

Sami's heart thrilled to hear the urgency in his voice and she couldn't contain herself any longer.

"So," she said mischievously, "What does a girl have to do to get a kiss from her new fiancé?"

EJ gave an approving growl at her teasing then, lunging at Sami from where he'd still been kneeling beside the bed and trapping her long ways across it. He devoured her lips and Sami returned his passion just as ardently. She was so happy that she thought she would burst from it all. Sami raked her nails down EJ's back making him squirm and then he was breaking their kiss and returning to kneeling by the side of it, dragging Sami along with him until her bottom was on the edge of the bed. He looked up at her from between her legs and gave her a devilish smile and Sami grinned back.

She bent her knees and rested them on EJ's shoulder and he in turn encircled her legs with his arms, reaching up and placing his hands just above Sami's knees. EJ rubbed his roughened cheek against Sami's inner thigh, moving ever closer to her core. Sami sighed happily, feeling herself tensing in anticipation of his first touch. EJ lingered though, taking his time and Sami began to make complaining little whimpers at his slowness.

"Do you want me to touch you sweetheart?" he asked her huskily.

"Yes," she groaned, wiggling impatiently under him, "You know I do EJ!"

"Show me darling girl," he told her, "Show me how badly you want me to touch you."

Sami eagerly complied, desperate for him to do just that and propped herself up on elbows. She reached down between her legs, her fingers finding their way into her core and all of the moisture that had already pooled there from his simple caresses. She removed her two fingers and held it to EJ's lips, showing him how wet she already was for him. He gave an approving groan, taking her fingers into his mouth, his hot tongue licking them clean.

"Again," he ordered her roughly and Sami's excitement only grew at his command.

She repeated her action, inserting her fingers back into her core, her fingers sliding easily into her slick heat but when she went to withdraw them he moved one of his hands from her leg and prevented her from doing just that, pressing them back into herself. He began to push and pull on her hand and Sami quickly knew what he wanted her to do. Without his assistance Sami began to repeatedly plunge her fingers into her core while she held EJ's rapt attention. Watching Sami pleasure herself for him, watching her repeatedly thrust her fingers into herself, the smell of her arousal in his nostrils and the growing breathlessness of her panting in his ears was having its' affect on his own body. He reached down and undid his zipper, pushing down his trousers and managing to remove them without relinquishing his place between her legs.

EJ's hand wrapped around his rampant hard on, so swollen and so very ready to be inside of her. He held onto the turgid staff, squeezing it and causing himself a painful pleasure before sliding his hand up to the tip, his thumb going over the top of it. He began to move his thumb in little circles over the velvet soft tip of his manhood, stimulating himself as he watched Sami do the same. Pre-cum oozed out of his tip, lubricating his action and getting EJ even harder. Sami was beginning to make breathless little gasping noises and hips were starting to undulate and EJ knew she was quickly bringing herself to a climax and he didn't want that, he wanted to be the one to make her scream out in pleasure so as much as he was enjoying the show he put a stop to it. His hand left his aching member, now wet with his own juices and went to her hand, stilling its' increasingly frantic pumping and withdrawing it from her body. Sami groaned her complaint, she'd been so close but let him stop her. She felt him guide her fingers to his mouth again and as before he licked and sucked all of her juices from them.

"I want you EJ!" she said, moving impatiently, "Please!"

"I want to make this last for a very long time sweetheart," he said with a shake of his head, looking up at her, still from between her legs.

He reached out and cupped her mound in his large hand, very gently massaging it.

"Calm down sweetheart," he told her, his own arousal evident in the roughness of his voice, "Just calm down for me darling… relax."

He continued to caress the apex of Sami's thighs, calming them both down in the process so that they could resume again. Sami's hand went to EJ's head as he rested his cheek against one of her inner thighs and she ran her fingers back and forth through his dark hair. They held each other's gaze adoringly as their combined breathing slowly returned to normal. When he was satisfied that they were both under control again EJ pressed a gentle kiss to her inner thigh and then took the hand that was now lovingly tracing his cheek and kissed its' palm and then all of Sami's fingers in turn. She smiled to watch him do that, wondering what she'd ever done to deserve such a man and such a lover as EJ. EJ took one of her fingers then and guided it to her already swollen nub.

"Slowly," he instructed her throatily and Sami gave a little moan of excitement.

She began to do as he said, her finger pressed against the little mound as she began move her finger in a circular motion. EJ watched her stimulating herself, his erection jerking wildly at the sight. Sami's breathing was quickly becoming uneven again and EJ put a hand on hers.

"Stop," he told her as she panted noisily, "Slower sweetheart, I want us to take our time."

Sami squeezed her eyes closed in frustration but she wanted to make this last as much as EJ did so she forced herself to relax, throwing her free hand above her head as she lay on the bed and determinedly slowed her breathing.

"OH GOD!"

Sami cried out as she suddenly felt EJ insert two of his fingers into her, his much thicker digits filling her far better than her own had. He kept them perfectly still inside of her and Sami looked down at EJ wide eyed with surprise. He just gave a little smile and nuzzled her inner thigh with his cheek, holding her gaze. After a minute of doing that EJ decided they were ready to resume.

"Again," he said huskily and Sami smiled, watching him through half closed eyes as she began to massage her nub again.

EJ crooked his fingers inside of her, pressing hard against that spot that just made Sami want to melt into puddle of liquid bliss and it barely took any time before she was straining against his still motionless fingers, her feet pushing against his shoulders rhythmically as her orgasm rapidly approached. EJ made her stop before it was too late though and they both calmed down before starting again but his fingers kept their place deep within her. He repeated this again and again until her gasping moans and the way she was writhing against his fingers was beginning to make EJ lose his mind. He was so hard now that he was almost screaming from the pain of it and needed to sheath himself in her heat or he was sure he would. Sami's pleasure was beginning to build again and he could feel her getting dangerously close to her peak. He abruptly removed his fingers, fearing they'd both lose it if they didn't stop right away and he pulled her finger away from her nub as he shakily stood up. Sami looked up at him excitedly as he took her legs and rested them on his chest and placed one of his knees on the edge of the bed. His hand went to his engorged shaft, guiding the tip to her opening.

"I'm so big sweetheart," he warned her shakily.

"I know," she groaned, experience telling her that with that much foreplay he was bound to be enormous right now, "I want it so badly EJ, don't make me wait any longer!"

"You have to say still Samantha," he begged her unevenly, "If you move I'll come instantly - I want you so much! Stay still for me sweetheart."

Sami nodded eagerly, just desperate for him to take her and end her torment. She felt EJ begin to ease himself into her and she worked determinedly to do as he asked and remain still around him. He was stretching her painfully but Sami couldn't care in the least, wanting more, always wanting more.

"YES!" she hissed in delight as another inch slid into her and she clutched at the bed sheets, "Oh god it's so good EJ, don't stop!"

EJ had been taking it slowly, concentrating on remaining in control as he forced her body to accommodate his vast size but her cry undid him and he rammed the last of himself home sharply making them both cry out. The urge to begin riding her as hard as he could was an incredibly strong one and EJ gripped Sami's ankles tightly, willing himself to keep still inside of her but Sami had other ideas.

"EJ!" she said urgently, beginning to move her hips from side to side.

"Don't!" said EJ urgently to her, knowing if she kept that up he was a goner, "I need a moment Samantha."

"No," said Sami defiantly.

She was a bundle of screaming want and need and they'd taken long enough and she just wanted the ecstasy that she knew only EJ could give her. Sami managed to sit up, propping herself up with her hands on the bed behind her. This new positioned made her walls tightened abruptly around his already too sensitive manhood and EJ cried out loudly.

"Now!"

It was Sami's turn to order EJ and he had no way to stand against her. He was so tightly clenched around him that it was an exercise in excruciating rapture to begin moving inside of her. EJ withdrew himself almost all the way out and then thrust into Sami hard and she jerked up and he was done. The sweat ran off his body as he began to hammer himself into her beyond any kind of control now. Sami began to groan helplessly and EJ lost his mind completely.

"Oh god, oh god, ohhh gggooooddd!"

His broken mantra filling the room as suddenly the ability to speak left him and all he could do was grunt wildly with each of his powerful thrusts. Sami threw her head back and began to climax around him, no longer able to stand it. EJ somehow managed to continue through her convulsions as she came and then came again and then came again. While she was still sobbing from her last release EJ slammed himself into almost violently one last time and then it was there, his orgasm tore through him so brutally that it was almost like he left his body and was watching from outside himself somehow. The force with which he released his seed into her body was almost staggering and EJ saw brilliant points of light form behind his tightly closed eyelids and gave himself over totally to the majesty of the moment.

"SAMANTHA!"

He roared her name as he struggled against blacking out from this much pleasure and his joy was complete knowing she was going to be his forever now. Sami listened to and felt him climaxing so noisily inside of her and had never felt so complete in her life.

It was an utterly perfect moment.