Chapter TWELVE
Sami stood behind the bar at the Brady Pub, drying beer glasses and absently watching over Lucas' shoulder the ball game that he had on the wide screen. The pub was closed and the two of them had come here to watch the game because neither of them had a television and Lucas was very keen to watch the game on a big screen. It was just the two of them and truth be told Sami wasn't that interested in watching baseball but at least it meant that they weren't going to be fighting.
Sami wasn't even sure why she agreed to spend the afternoon with him at all after the events of last night but Lucas had been persistent so she'd given in, more out of guilt than anything else. He hadn't said another word about her and EJ and at first she'd been relieved but now she almost wished that he would just scream at her so she had an excuse to leave.
"This is great!" exclaimed Lucas enthusiastically, looking back over his shoulder at her from where he was sitting up at one of the tables, closer to the TV whilst she stayed behind the bar, "They didn't have anything like this in prison."
"I guess that's to be expected," mumbled Sami under her breath, "It is prison."
Everything he said or did nowadays seemed to instantly annoy her and not the way EJ could annoy her either. When EJ was teasing her or frustrating her there was this kind of spark, some kind of hum between them that as maddening as it was made her feel so alive. With Lucas it felt more like he was draining the life drop by drop every time they spoke .
"What was that Sami?" he asked her distractedly, keeping one eye on the game and turning his head to look at her again when he didn't catch what she said.
"Nothing," she said with forced cheerfulness, "You just watch your game honey."
"Okay," said Lucas, already absorbed in the TV again.
Sami sighed and picked up another glass to wipe but then she had this strange sensation, a tingling along the back of her neck and she looked up sharply, feeling as though she was being watched.
EJ stood there, outside the Brady Pub on the street, looking in at her through the large window pane, his expression inscrutable. Sami gasped and almost dropped the glass she was drying. Their eyes met and Sami felt a bolt of electricity rip through her, her stomach clenching tightly. He held her gaze and she couldn't look away, she felt like she'd been mesmerised by him, the force of his presence seeming to come into the room to claim her somehow.
Sami watched as he broke eye contact with her, his dark eyes slowly drifting down her body and it was as though he was actually touching her. A heated blush began to colour her skin as she watched his eyes rake her body. Sami had the urge to walk around the other side of the bar so he could see the rest of her properly and she found it shocking that she was so eager to please him. It was only a sudden roar from the crowd on the TV that stopped her and made her remember that Lucas was sitting right there. Sami turned her head to look at Lucas and was relieved to see that he was leaning excitedly closer to the TV, oblivious to what was going on behind him.
Sami looked back to where EJ was and almost gave a sob of grief at finding that he was no longer there. She bit her lip and put down the glass she was holding. What was she doing? She was spending all her time with a man that she felt more removed from everyday whilst she barely saw the man that seemed to occupy her every thought nowadays. Nothing made sense anymore and Sami felt like she was slowly going insane.
Sami started violently when she abruptly felt a hand on her stomach, followed quickly by a hard, long body pressed up against her from behind. Her head whipped round to see EJ suddenly behind her. He must have just come in the back way through the kitchen of the pub, silently walking up to her. She opened her mouth to say something but he stilled the words on her lips by leaning down and pressing a heated kiss to the sensitive skin on her neck. Sami gasped and looked back desperately at where Lucas was sitting, completely unawares still.
EJ nuzzled her neck and even though Sami knew she should move away and break contact with him she tilted her head to one side and granted him better access, her eyes fluttering shut at the feel of his lips running up and down her rapidly heating skin. It felt like forever since he'd last touched her like this and now that he had, despite all her best intentions, she was desperate for more. Sami had no idea why it was that he'd suddenly initiated this but she honestly didn't care as long as he kept doing what he was doing.
EJ inhaled deeply, filling his lungs with the scent of her, drinking it in hungrily. How had he managed to keep his hands off her for so long… why wasn't he insane from the effort of staying away from her? Maybe he was he mused as he moved his hand under her shirt, stroking the soft skin of her stomach. After his run in with Lucas the other man's taunts about Sami never going to be his had played on his mind. So much so by the middle of the afternoon he knew he had to see her, touch her, convince himself and her who it was that she belonged to. He'd tracked them down - not hard to do with a parolee and had seen her standing there at the bar, so lost looking and had been undone, all of his hard fought for resolve faltering at last.
Sami's lips parted as she felt his hand move higher under her shirt, cupping her breast through her bra and she gave a little gasping groan, feeling her nipples become instantly hard. EJ tightened his hold on her in approval of her reaction and she immediately felt his growing arousal against her bottom and shuddered helplessly.
What was she doing her brain tried to warn her - Lucas was sitting right there - but then she felt his other hand slide up under her skirt, warm fingers trailing their way up her inner thigh. Any other thoughts she might have had left her utterly when he dipped inside her already wet heat and she had to cover her mouth to stifle the moan that came to her lips as he began to stroke her walls with a sure and steady rhythm.
Oh god she was always so ready for him, it was utterly maddening!
EJ swallowed his own groan as he felt fresh wetness from her on his hand, knowing she was as eager for this as he was. He moved both of his hands, placing them firmly on her hips, his tongue tracing the delicate outline of her ear as he did.
"Samantha," he breathed her name softly into her ear and she melted at the sound of her name on his lips.
She heard a zip being undone from behind her and whimpered, hardly able to believe that this was happening but then his hands were pushing up her skirt and she knew that it was. He placed the tip of his hardness at her opening after pulling aside her panties and began to push into her ever so slowly. Sami went up on tip toes at the sensation of him entering her, her short nails digging into the worn surface of the bar as she fought against crying out. It seemed to take forever until he was completely inside of her and it was only when he was buried up to the hilt in her that she released the ragged breath of air that she'd been holding onto.
His hands returned to her hips and she leant forward a bit, feeling his penetration of her deepen, escalating the pleasure they were finding in each even more. He began to move inside of her then, short, sharp thrusts that made her grit her teeth against crying out.
Oh god EJ was screwing her senseless whilst Lucas sat only a few feet a way!
He could turn around at any moment and catch them but Sami didn't care, she only cared that EJ would keep going and never stop. The noise of the game on the television was drowning out whatever noise the two of them were making and Lucas was so into the game shouting away at the screen, cheering on his team noisily so that it was like he'd forgotten she'd even existed.
EJ's speed began to pick up and she pushed her backside back accommodatingly, meeting each of his thrusts enthusiastically. She could feel the tension in his body, knowing by now when he was about to reach his end and knowing she wasn't going to be far behind him. EJ's hands tightened on her hips, jerking her harder and harder back onto his rigid member, increasing the exquisite friction between their bodies in a frantic need to get them both to the point of no return.
Sami looked over desperately at where Lucas still sat, completely oblivious to the fact that she and EJ were basically rutting themselves into oblivion a few steps away from him. It was thrilling in a dark kind of a way and Sami was shocked by how turned on she was at the danger of being found out at any moment. She felt EJ suddenly go rigid behind her and then him shuddering as he released himself into her, the sensation tipping her immediately over the edge as well. He buried his mouth into her neck again, choking back his cries of release, his body jerking helplessly inside of her. He felt her body milking his, pleasuring him even more with her own orgasm. It was beyond heaven.
Finally their orgasms ended, both of their bodies limps from the release they'd been found in each other. EJ's hand slowly caressed her body as he leaned over her shoulder and caught her lips in a soul destroying kiss. He was still inside of her and seemed in no hurry to leave her, his hands finding her breasts again under her shirt, massaging them rhythmically, pleasing them both. It was though he was taking his sweet time with her, almost willing Lucas to turn around and catch them like this, both still bathed in after glow and him deep inside of her. Sami didn't resist, finding herself meeting his languid kisses with her own, passion sated kisses.
Reluctantly EJ withdrew from her at last and Sami gave an unhappy pout at the loss which he promptly kissed away. Still he lingered, hands all over her body, nipping kisses to her mouth and neck until at last her loosened his hold on her. EJ turned her around, leaning down for one last hard kiss on the lips before moving away from her, walking backwards and holding her gaze until he got to the end of the bar and then he was turning around and disappearing around the corner.
Sami blinked a couple of times, trying to regain at least partial use of her mental facilities again. Had she really just done that? Had she and EJ just had sex whilst Lucas was in the same room? Sami didn't understand who she could have let that happen, it was so completely wild and reckless. What she understood even less though was the burning need she had to go after him and make him take her again because despite what had just happened and the intensity of her orgasm she needed more.
She turned shakily around, half expecting Lucas to be standing their facing her, outrage and disgust on his face and demanding to know what the hell she was thinking letting him do that to her but he was still engrossed in the TV. Sami gave a little despondent laugh, shaking her head. If she loved Lucas as she said she did she could never have done what she just did with EJ. But she had, without hesitation and what was worse she knew she'd do it again in a heartbeat - consequences be damned!
Whatever it was that she'd felt for Lucas or thought she'd felt for him was gone, Sami knew that now. It was over, so completely over that the word seemed too small to convey just exactly how finished their relationship was.
The game was in half time now and Lucas got up and walked over to her and Sami was glad of the bar between them so he couldn't smell EJ's scent all over her because she knew it would be.
"Good game huh?" asked Lucas with a pleased look on his face and then he gave a little frown, "You okay honey, you look a little flushed?"
"It's just a little hot behind the bar," said Sami, her skills with finding a good lie never more evident then right now.
"Come and sit with me," he cajoled her with a smile.
Sami felt the combined wetness of her and EJ's release trickle down a little between her legs even as she stood there and shook her head.
"Lucas," she said very seriously, "We really need to talk about a few things."
Lucas could see something in her face and stalled her.
"I have to go straight after the game," he told her, "And I've got more interviews tomorrow morning but I'll see you in the afternoon, we can talk then if you like."
"Sure," said Sami with a weak smile, "Fine, tomorrow then."
Lucas gave her a little nod and a determined smile and took himself back to the game. Sami watched him go and sit back down with a feeling of finality. She needed for this thing with Lucas to be over once and for all and if she had to wait until tomorrow to do it then she'd just have to wait she supposed.
If she'd expected EJ to behave any differently around her after their little tryst at the pub then she was to be disappointed. On returning home later that evening she was quickly consumed with meeting all of the twins needs and it was nine o'clock at night before she even had time to draw breath but then EJ announced he was off to bed and then he was gone. Sami really didn't know what to make of all his mood changes. Maybe EJ had the same personality crisis that she'd figured out she'd had at the gym. That would explain a lot really - no wonder they were so well suited.
Did she really just think that?
How long had she been denying the connection between the two of them?
Too long a little voice answered her and she knew it was true.
Only now that she had Sami wasn't entirely sure what to do about it. She supposed the mature thing was to go and talk to EJ about it but it was hard to know what he was thinking nowadays and she was suddenly frightened that he might laugh at her for her newly acknowledged feelings. Sami had laid in bed for hours, trying to sleep but it just wouldn't come for her. She had too many thoughts going on in her head so she finally gave up, getting up and going downstairs to the kitchen to make herself a glass of warm milk to help her sleep. As soon as she entered the kitchen though she saw the very object of her vexation sitting there at the kitchen table, a tall glass of what looked like water with plenty of ice in it in his hand. EJ turned his head as soon as she walked in and smiled at her.
"Couldn't sleep sweetheart?" he asked her.
"Too hot," mumbled Sami and it was although that wasn't the real reason she couldn't fall asleep.
"It is a warm night," agreed EJ holding up his icy glass, "That's why I'm having this."
"I'm going to make myself a warm milk," she said tiredly.
"How will that help with the heat?" asked EJ with a mocking smile.
"It will help me get to sleep where I won't care about how hot it is!" snapped back Sami, letting her frustrations out on him.
Nothing new there.
"Maybe I can help you with the heat thing," he offered to her calmly, unconcerned by her moodiness, "Come here."
Sami looked at him uncertainly but after today he could have little doubt that she was going to do just about anything he asked of her. She walked towards him and he parted his legs as he sat there so she could stand between them. He was shirtless, only wearing his black pyjama bottoms and her heart skipped a beat at how the sexiness of the man. He looked up at her through his long lashes and suddenly the tension between them was palatable. How could he make her feel like this with just one look Sami wondered hopelessly.
EJ hooked a finger into the top of her pyjama pants and pulled her even closer and she knew that look in his eyes. He looked her up and down, slowly licking his lips, making Sami swallow hard… she definitely knew that look! He pushed up the material of the little sleeveless stretch top she was wearing, exposing her breasts to him which he seemed to take an awfully long time admiring. Sami was tired of waiting for him to touch her so she reached out a hand, running it back and forth through his dark hair which he murmured his approval of.
EJ wrapped one arm around her legs, drawing her even closer and then with his other hand he picked up his drink and took a drink, taking an ice cube into his mouth. He put the drink back down and with a final mischievous look up at her he proceeded to blow a cold breath out onto one breast. Sami shivered at the ticklish sensation feeling her nipples tighten at the sudden stream of icy air but he wasn't done yet. EJ moved closer, taking one of her nipples into his mouth and her hands shot up to her shoulders clenching into tight fists at the sharp sensation of the ice cube that he had in his mouth being rubbed against the sensitive bud by his very clever tongue. Sami made a little squealing noise and she felt his smile against her skin, enjoying her response.
Soon the combination of the coldness of the ice cube, the roughness of his tongue and the nipping from his teeth on such a sensitive area had her groaning and grabbing at his head, both to hold him there and to stop herself from swaying too wildly. Sami tilted her head right back and gave herself over completely to his incredibly skilled ministrations. When that ice cube had melted he quickly got another and repeated the exercise on her other breast and she moaned her approval. Too soon it was over but then he was lifting her onto the kitchen table, pulling her pants off her as he did.
Sami settled back against the hardness of the kitchen table, fully expecting him to immediately join her and fix the ache that he'd started inside of her earlier today but he didn't. EJ pulled her further down the table until her backside was on the edge, her legs were pushed up as well, feet resting flat on the table, knees bent. He leant over her and smiled down at her as she looked up at him expectantly, eager for what was to come next. He kissed her then and his mouth was still cold for the last lot of ice and she eagerly returned his kisses. EJ broke the kiss and looked down at her, a little quirk to his lips.
"Ready?" he asked her and she looked at him in bewilderment - didn't she look ready?!
EJ's grin widened at seeing her confusion and holding her gaze he very deliberately picked up his glass which still had quite a few ice cubes in it and took some more into his mouth. Sami smiled back, knowing where this was going but it turned out she was wrong. EJ hovered over her breasts, pleased at seeing them still hard and swollen from his earlier attentions but he had another final destination in mind. Sami's eyes widened as she started to move down her body… he wasn't going to… was he?
At the first touch of his icy tongue to her nub Sami bucked up and would have fallen off the table if EJ hadn't been quick enough to grab her and steady her.
"EJ!" she shouted, unable to believe how good it felt but he had only begun.
After the initial shock she was starting to get used to the sensation but then she felt him move lower and the next thing she felt was the ice that he'd been holding in his mouth being pushed up inside of her before he returned to her bud and began to lap at it with his velvety tongue.
Oh my GOD!
The combination of the cold from the ice and the friction of his tongue was causing her body a riot of delicious confusion that made her scream out and grab at the edge of the table above her head just for something to hold onto. No sooner had the first lot of ice melted then he was adding another and she shook her head wildly, moaning helplessly at how good it felt. EJ stopped abruptly, much to her horror and suddenly he was leaning over her, hands on the table either side of her shoulders with an evil grin on his face.
"Not that I'm not really loving the encouragement sweetheart," he told her roguishly, "But you're going to wake the whole household if you keep screaming like that and possibly quite a few of the neighbours!"
"EJ!" blushed Sami in horror at how caught up she'd gotten in the moment.
"Now if you promise to be a good girl I'll continue," he teased her shamelessly.
Okay, now it was official, she was a complete harlot… now if only she could bring herself to care!
It mind numbing how good it was between them. Sami knew she should probably have some better sense of modesty when it came to him but she was so desperate for the satisfaction that their too short a union at the pub had denied her that it just wasn't happening. He'd left her craving more but he was making the wait more than worth it now!
It was going to be a long night…