Chapter FOURTEEN

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
~Victor Hugo~

Betty clutched at the bed sheets as she felt EJ's spread apart her folds with two fingers and then his tongue was suddenly plundering her core as he knelt between her legs. It felt so wonderful that she began to make a noise almost as though she was purring. EJ smiled to hear it but knew he had something even better in store for her. His hands went to the back of Sami's knees and pushed her legs back even further and then wider apart, spreading her flower out in all its' perfection for him, propped up by the pillows under her backside. EJ bent down again and with his tongue coaxed her little bud out of its' hiding place.

Betty screamed loudly when he did that, the shock of the sensation electrifying her as she tried to twist away from EJ but he pushed back on the back of her legs firmly and wouldn't let her move. Betty couldn't process the rush of pleasure that ripped through her as EJ began to suckle on the little bud that she'd had no idea about her body even having before this. It was different to how it had felt when EJ's fingers were inside of her but just as wonderful. Before this Betty had no idea that there could be so many different types of pleasure to be had and EJ seemed to know them all, expertly.

EJ's teeth playfully nipped at her now bulging nub and it was enough for Betty, she exploded against his mouth and catching EJ a little off guard. Seeing as he'd already brought her to orgasm just before he'd expected Sami to be able to last a little longer but it appeared that Betty was even more sensitive than Sami had been if that was possible. While she climaxed EJ enjoyed the fruits of his labours, lapping at all the new wetness her orgasm was causing Sami' body to make.

"Ooohhh," said Betty in a strangled half sigh, half moan when she could finally speak again, "That was wonderful EJ."

"It was too quick," said EJ with a knowing little smile as he lifted his head to look down at from between her legs, "It's much better if you have to work for it for a bit, trust me sweetheart."

"Way better than that?" asked Betty in disbelief, her mind boggling at such a thing.

"I'm going to show you darling," he promised her and rubbed a thumb over her now hugely engorged nub.

"OHHH!" she cried out loudly at the sensation, "No more EJ! I can't - I'll die!"

"Yes you can Betty," said EJ firmly, knowing she'd be thanking him soon enough for his persistence.

He grabbed her hips and flipped her easily over so that she was face down on the bed now, quickly getting rid of the cushions. EJ pulled on her hips, drawing her back towards him.

"Up sweetheart," he instructed her, indicating she should go onto all fours.

"I don't know if I can do this EJ," she warned him shakily, uncertain that her body was capable of anymore pleasure but doing as he asked.

EJ pushed her legs wider apart and then lay back on the bed on his back, placing his head directly between Sami's legs.

"Just relax sweetheart," he encouraged her, his hands going to Sami's bottom and urging her to drop down further, "I'm going to make you feel so unbelievably good."

Betty groaned, thinking he'd already down that and a lot more besides! She moved her knees further apart though, knowing that she couldn't deny herself whatever knew delight that EJ had in store for her. A part of Betty was overwhelmed by all the sensations rioting through her body but another part of her craved even more, somehow sensing that the best was yet to come. EJ felt her give in to his request as she settled her sex just above his face, adoring how trusting she was of him. EJ didn't have to look down at his body to know that he was at full attention again despite his recent dual release. Her effect on him was mind blowing and EJ almost despaired that he'd ever be enough in control of himself when it came to the love making proper to be able to please Sami like he wanted to.

The smell of her arousal met EJ's nostrils and he inhaled deeply, loving the rich scent and adoring the fact that it was all for him. Betty gasped when she felt him suddenly attach himself to her very plump nub, straining out from its' little hood with his mouth and at the same time insert two fingers into her wet heat. He began slowly, sucking and pushing in and out of her with his fingers but then steadily built both up. Betty's arms began to shake as she began to feel her arousal grow again as he worked on her, the anticipation of an impending release tightening her muscles and making her push back on his fingers so he could penetrate her more deeply and bring more satisfaction.

EJ could feel her growing urgency, knew she was needing more from him. His hard on screamed at him to let it take her but EJ wasn't sure that Sami was quite ready for that just yet. Besides, Sami had begun to moan loudly each time he shoved his fingers deep into her and then grunting as she bore down on them and listening to her cries of pleasure had caused his member to engorge to an enormous size again. EJ had never found a woman being loud during a sex a turn on before Sami and now he just adored listening to her groaning out her pleasure for him, the sound arousing him to almost a frenzy. Sami was getting more frenetic in her movements and knew she was getting close now. To help her EJ inserted another finger into her heat, making her cry out and make a grab for the bed head that was just in front of her.

"OH GODDD!" she yelled, her knuckles going white on the backboard as she began to frantically ride his fingers and tongue now, "Oh… ohh… ooohhhhHHHH!"

Betty's head hung down between her out stretched arms, her eyes closed tightly as her most powerful orgasm yet tore through her. It came from deep inside of her and EJ was right, it was so much better when you had to work for it. Every cell in Betty's body seemed to be involved and she felt it from her toes to the ends of her hair it seemed. The fact that EJ didn't stop what he was doing once she began to climax just seemed to prolong the whole thing until Betty began to fear she was going to pass out at any second. In the end she couldn't hold herself up anymore and just fell face down on the bed and lay there a quivering mess, her voice hoarse from screaming out the intensity of her release, unable to do anything else but. EJ took his time, enjoying tasting her ecstasy as well as hearing it. His tongue sought out every last drop of her excitement before gently lifting Sami's hips up and moving out from underneath her.

Betty lay face down on the bed, hardly able to move a muscle after that all the simply indescribable things EJ had wrought from her body. She had no words or even strength left to speak them if she did to tell him how much she'd enjoyed that. EJ moved then, coming to lie beside her and running a hand up her back, over the top of her slip before pressing a kiss to where he could see the exposed, flushed skin above the garment. Betty made an incoherent murmuring noise at the gentle caress, turning her head so one heated cheek was against the bed sheets as she looked over at him. EJ smiled down at her tenderly.

"Did my darling girl enjoy that?" he asked huskily.

Betty didn't speak, just nodded her head tiredly without bothering to lift it, giving a bliss filled little sigh.

"We've only started sweetheart," he warned her throatily as he sat up again.

Betty groaned loudly at that, not know how much more of this she would be able to endure without losing her mind altogether. It didn't seem humanly possible to keep receiving this amount of pleasure without there being some dire consequence. She felt EJ's straining erection brush against her thigh and gave a little shudder. Despite how utterly spent Betty felt right then she desperately wanted to know what it would feel like to have EJ push into her with such a thing and her core quivered excitedly at the thought. Somehow Betty found the strength to roll herself over and EJ looked down at her in surprise, not expecting her to do that.

"Can you put it inside of me now?" she asked him, still trying to catch her breath from her last release.

She reached out a hand and wrapped it around his heavily engorged member, stroking it and causing it to jerk wildly.

"God Betty I've just made you come three times in a row and you want more?" groaned EJ as she began to stroke him a little harder.

"Yes," she admitted freely, feeling herself starting to get wet again just from touching his huge, pulsating member, "Is that a bad?"

"God no," growled EJ excitedly, "I love how ready you are for it all the time."

Betty smiled at that and gave him a hard squeeze making EJ grunt loudly.

"I love how ready you are too," she told him happily, her lack of guile doing untold things to EJ, "I really want you to be inside of me now EJ."

Sami no longer had any preconceived ideas about what a person should or should not say and EJ adored how she was being so perfectly honest with him without worrying about what he would think. It was deeply exciting to him and was getting him even harder if that was possible right then. Having her climax into his mouth repeatedly like that had gotten him impossibly big again and it was with real regret he had to deny her.

"I'm too big Betty," he groaned unhappily, "It's going to hurt you too much for your first time and I don't want that."

"Would it help if you came in my mouth first?" she asked him innocently, "Because I'd like that too."

"GOODDDD!" EJ nearly howled the word at hearing her offer, grabbing at his raging hard on with both hands, trapping her hand underneath and squeezing it tightly to stop himself from coming there and then at her words.

Betty watched in fascination at the suddenly intense look of concentration on EJ's face as he closed his eyes tightly, straining to keep himself in check. She loved seeing him this close to the edge and knowing she was the reason.

"EJ please," she said breathlessly, tightening her grip on him.

Hearing her begging for him was almost EJ's undoing again and he made a strangled noise in the back of his throat, trying to hold on so she could get her wish. He opened his eyes when he felt Sami's free hand tugging on his thigh.

"Like you did with me," she encouraged him and EJ groaned again at seeing her so eager.

They both let go of his aching shaft as EJ clumsily moved over Sami as she settled back more comfortably against the bed and placed a pillow under her head. He moved slowly because every little movement was agonising in his current state of full blown arousal and threatened to cause him to simply lose his load before managing to take Sami up on her offer. EJ carefully placed his knees either side of her head as she'd done with him and moved them far enough apart so that her mouth could find him easily. He leant forward on the bed, bracing his weight on his forearms before reaching down between his legs and taking hold of his impatiently straining manhood and guiding it to Sami's waiting mouth. He cried out at the first sensation of sliding into that hot cavern and then immediately made a pained yelp, jerking out.

"Teeth!" he said with a pained gasp, "No teeth sweetheart!"

"Oh," said Betty, not realising how very sensitive that part of EJ's anatomy obviously was, "Okay."

She quickly worked out what she needed to do, pulling her lips over her teeth as EJ fed himself back into her a little gingerly.

"Oh god yessss!" he hissed in delight this time at the way she received him, "Oh god that's perfect sweetheart, don't stop!"

Sami's hands went to EJ's bottom cheeks, pulling down on them and encouraging him to put more of himself into her mouth. EJ complied willingly, tilting his hips and allowing more of his swollen length to slip into her mouth as Sami began to suck enthusiastically on it. EJ whimpered at her eagerness realising that yet again Sami was going to make him climax very quickly. He was meant to be the experienced one showing her the way but she literally had bought him to his knees and EJ couldn't have been happier about that fact. EJ couldn't hold himself back any longer, beginning to thrust urgently into her mouth, trying to be as gentle as he could but control was rapidly leaving him.

"UUHH YESS!" grunted EJ as one of her hands left his backside to wrap itself around the remaining length of his manhood, squeezing and pumping in time to his strokes.

Betty was just as breathtakingly good at this as Sami had been and EJ was beyond grateful for that little fact. His thrusting was becoming decidedly more demanding as he rode her mouth helplessly and EJ knew he didn't have much time left.

"I'm close!" he warned her thickly, the sweat from his body beginning to drip off him and onto Sami, as he dropped his head back onto the bed and prepared himself for a powerful release.

Sami's hand that wasn't massaging his pumping member had remained on EJ's backside as he ran her nail all over both cheeks, causing him little fissures of pleasure on top of everything else from the simple action. Sami's hand slipped between his buttock cheeks as her nails raked over the very delicate skin she found there, causing EJ's eyes to practically roll back in his head but it was when her nails scraped over the puckered little hole between them that EJ instantly climaxed, totally swamped by one of the most fierce orgasms he'd ever experienced. It was just as well he was face down in the bed because EJ screamed mindlessly at the top of his lungs from the power of it all, delivering himself into her mouth almost violently. Betty gasped as his near volcanic eruption caught her off guard despite his recent warning about how close he'd been but quickly managed to adapt.

When EJ's screaming had stopped Betty pushed on his hips and some barely functioning part of his brain realised she wanted him to roll over. He didn't so much roll as collapse to one side, falling heavily onto his back. Betty quickly rolled over and settled herself between his legs, reclaiming EJ's still pulsating member with her mouth and ensuring that she'd milked every last drop of goodness out of it before letting him be. EJ lay there with his eyes closed, moaning softly as Sami serviced him to within an inch of his life and tried to imagine life getting any better than this. She finally released him from her mouth and moved up EJ's body, lying her body on top of his as she looked down at his groggy, sated expression with satisfaction knowing she was the reason for it. EJ's hands went to Sami's bottom cheeks instinctively, massaging them even as he lay there with his eyes closed, still trying to come down from what she'd done to him. He eventually forced his eyes open to see Sami smiling down at him happily.

"So I did that right then?" she asked him teasingly, pretty sure she knew the answer to that question.

"Sweetheart if you'd done that anymore right I'd be dead right now," said EJ unevenly to which Sami giggled.

EJ made a low growl in his throat and rolled them over so that there positions were reversed but quickly rolled to one side so that Sami didn't have to take all of his weight but he threw a possessive leg over hers, rolling in towards her. EJ looked down at her lovingly and noticed that there were still a few globs of his seed on her neck and chest from the force of his ejaculation. EJ reached for a bit of the sheet to wipe it off for her but Sami stalled him, seeing what he was intending.

"I want you to do it," she informed him huskily, her hand going to the back of EJ's head and indicating what she wanted him to do.

EJ gave a little groan and then leant over Sami, beginning to lick his own come from her body without hesitating. He'd never done this before, only ever having tasted himself in the woman he'd been with when he kissed her after oral sex. Sami of course had no idea that most men would baulk at such a thing seeing as he'd asked her to do the exact same thing with her own juices barely an hour ago. It was darkly thrilling for EJ to know that Sami was the only woman he'd done something like this for. Sami meanwhile purred her appreciation as EJ dutifully used his mouth to clean up his own seed from her body. Unbelievably EJ could feel himself beginning to become slowly aroused again as he did it and wondered how it was even possible. He'd always had amazing reserves when making love to Sami but Betty seemed to bring out something completely rampant in EJ. He didn't know if it was from their long separation or Sami's naive sexiness but EJ simply couldn't get enough of her.

"Don't you taste just so amazing?" she sighed up at him in wonder, "I love the taste of you so much EJ."

"Betty!" moaned EJ excitedly and all he could do was kiss her like there was no tomorrow.

Eventually he broke the kiss, sitting up despite Betty's disappoint sigh. EJ moved round, his to kneel between her legs again and set up divesting Sami of her garter belt and stockings. He unclipped the flesh toned stocking one by one, rolling them slowly down her leg and making Betty shiver everywhere he touched her before removing them completely from her body.

"Sit up sweetheart," he instructed her, his hands going to the bottom of her slip, intending to pull it off over her head.

Betty froze then, coming back to the reality of the situation. She'd been so swept away by everything that EJ and she had shared so far that Betty had completely forgotten about her scars. Despite the many intimacies that had just passed between them Betty was genuinely horrified at the thought of EJ seeing the ugly reminders of the fact she was more a less a memory-less freak. At first EJ thought Sami might be just a little shy when she didn't do as he asked immediately and went to sit her up but she shied away from his touch and shimmied up the bed to sit against the bed head.

"Betty what is it?" asked EJ, genuinely concerned when he saw the sudden fear in her eyes, his own desires completely forgotten in that moment, "What's wrong?"

"I… I don't want you to see me," she said huskily.

"Why not sweetheart?" he asked her gently, "You're so beautiful… I just want to look at my gorgeous girl properly."

"I'm not beautiful," said Betty, her lips trembling.

"Yes you are," said EJ very sincerely, "How can you think otherwise darling girl?"

"I… I've got marks… scars," she all but whispered to him, "On my back and side… from the accident… they look really bad and… and I don't want you to see them EJ."

EJ sat back on his heels as though she'd physically struck him with this information. There was just too much horror in her words to take it all in at once. The raw reminder of the terrible beating she'd sustained, her obvious shame about her disfigurement and the fact that she feared what his reaction would be was utterly mortifying to EJ. It was beyond enduring to think that Sami had absolutely anything to feel ashamed about when none of this whole mess had been her doing and yet she was the one who'd had to bear the brunt of it all. So many emotions clawed at EJ for release that he could do nothing for a split second other than just stare back at her with a distressed look on his face. Betty's breath hitched in her throat at seeing that, misinterpreting his distress for revulsion. She went to scramble off the bed and put some distance between herself and EJ but before she could EJ just suddenly reached across the distance that was separating them and hauled her into his arms and onto his lap, holding her so tightly that Betty could hardly breath.

"EJ?" she said uncertainly when he didn't seem like he was going to let her go anytime soon.

Betty pulled her head back and craned her neck up, looking up at EJ and saw real grief on his face and was taken aback. EJ for his part couldn't speak, too choked with emotion. He just wanted to hold onto Sami and just never let her out of his arms again so that he could protect her from every evil in this world from this day forward. He finally loosened his hold on her and looked down at her with serious brown eyes.

"I want to see you darling," he said softly, his voice so compelling that Betty found herself utterly unable to deny him.

EJ gently moved her off his lap, getting Betty to stand beside the bed while he moved to sit on the edge of it, parting his knees so she could stand between them. Holding her gaze unblinkingly EJ's hands went to the hem of her slip. Betty couldn't help herself, stiffening and putting her hands over his to stall him.

"Trust me Betty," he implored her, his deep voice rich and full of emotion.

Betty relented reluctantly, removing her hands and then EJ was pulling the little scrap of material over her head and she was now standing there before him, just as naked as he was. EJ gave a soft little groan at seeing her glorious nude body again, seeming even more perfect than he remembered it. He pressed adoring kisses to the swell of each breast, her chest and stomach, the simple caresses almost seeming like an act of worship the way EJ did it so lovingly.

"You're a vision Betty," EJ told her throatily, his gaze warm as he looked back up at her.

Betty flushed under his praise, her impossibly pale skin pinking beautifully and making EJ's head swim at the sight. The front of Sami's body was completely unmarked but from Nicole's account of what she'd done with that poker EJ knew Sami's back and side would have taken the worst of the vicious beating. He turned her slowly around and Betty held her breath anxiously, unable to bring herself to look back at EJ as he looked at her badly scared flesh. EJ's throat tightened and angry tears stung his eyes as he looked at Sami's back. There were crisscross lines of where Nicole had rained down blows from the deadly poker onto Sami's defenceless body. It was obvious the poker had done more than just bruise Sami but it had also cut her quite deeply in areas, such were the force of Nicole's blows. It was beyond comprehension how his ex-wife had been so brutal to the young woman, regardless of the circumstances and it just made EJ wish he really had snapped Nicole's neck the day he'd found out what she'd done.

The scars were all down one side of Sami's back, EJ counted eight in the end that had been so deep that he could see where the skin had needed to be stitched back together. EJ could literally feel his heart breaking in his chest at the sight. He leant forward and began to press tender kisses along each reddened scar which showed up so brilliantly against Sami's very pale skin. They were completely healed of course, nine months after the fact but it would take much longer before all of that redness would fade for good. Betty gave a little gasp as she felt EJ peppering soft kisses down the line of each of her scars, shocked that he should do such a thing. To her they were as hideous and deforming as the day the doctor had first taken the bandages off and shown them to her. In her head these wounds had never really healed and it was a strangely confronting yet cathartic experience to have EJ being so lovingly tender to the marks she hated so much.

EJ had kissed his way around from her back to one particularly long scar that ran across her rib cage, turning Sami around slowly so that she was facing him again as he continued to press soft kisses to every inch of that last scar. Betty put her hands to his head, burying her fingers in its dark length, letting him finish with his self appointed task and feeling as though he was actually healing them somehow, once and for all with each touch of his lips to the slightly puckered skin. She suddenly felt a wetness run down her side and she looked down at EJ in confusion, tugging on his hair lightly to make him look up at her. When he did just that Betty was shocked to see that he was crying and that was what she'd felt running down her side - EJ's tears.

"I'm so sorry Betty," he said achingly, his voice unbelievably raw as he wrapped his arms around her waist and drew her closer to him, "I would have given anything to be there, to have been able to protect you from all this."

"I know," she said, a little taken aback by all of his emotion, "I know that EJ."

"It kills me to think of anyone hurting you," he said roughly.

"EJ," she said softly, cupping his face and bending down to kiss him.

Betty tasted the saltiness of his tears in their kiss and couldn't believe how much he was taking to heart what had happened to her. She broke the kiss and looked down at him tenderly.

"It wasn't your fault," she reassured him tenderly, her hands stroking the back of his head soothingly now.

EJ throat tightened, knowing that wasn't true.

"Everything happens for a reason," she said with a little smile, "If this hadn't happened to me then I would have never met you and I can't bear to think about that."

EJ had to look away then, fresh tears stinging his eyes at her words. Regret sat as a bitter lump in his throat when he thought of all the things he could have done differently to have protected Sami from what had ultimately happened to her. All EJ wanted to do was throw himself at her feet and beg her forgiveness but he couldn't because he was scared what telling her about their past together would do to Sami. He worried that it might be too much for her to take in and even over that that she would want nothing more to do the man who had brought such suffering in her life. He looked back at Sami and told her all the truth he could. EJ pulled her into his arms, settling her onto his lap.

"I'm so glad I found you too Betty," he said, his voice raw, "You mean the world to me and I'm never going to let anyone hurt you ever again… I swear to you on my life. I'd die before I let that happen again."

Betty was overwhelmed by his words and the deep sincerity with which he said them. EJ lay back down on the bed then, with her still his in arms and held her to him tightly. Betty snuggled into him and had never felt safer in the nine months since waking up in that hospital bed. EJ held her like that for a long time, all thoughts of further love making leaving him as all he wanted to do was comfort Sami and make her feel safe. Eventually her even breathing told him Sami had fallen asleep, exhausted from all their intimacies and emotion. Sleep wouldn't come for EJ though as they lay there in his darkened hotel room. He was flooded by too many emotions and most of all an unbearable tenderness for the woman in his arms. Before this had all happened EJ didn't believe he could love Sami anymore than he did then but how wrong had he been? Everyday another depth was added to his love for her, another truth and it was both exhilarating and terrifying.

All EJ knew was the he didn't know how he was ever meant to let her leave his arms again…