Chapter EIGHTEEN
Sami strolled out through the French doors at the back of the DiMera mansion and walked over to the edge of the pool watching the man currently enjoying use of it. It was a balmy night so night swims were no problem and EJ and taken to using the pool as part of his physiotherapy. The doctors had told him that it would be at least five or six weeks before he was up on his feet, he'd done it in less than three just to prove them all wrong.
When EJ DiMera set his mind to something nothing could stop him.
Sami gave a little smile at the thought; she was living proof of that. He still used a walking stick but Sami doubted that he'd be relying on that for very much longer. His recovery had been nothing short of miraculous, he told her it was her but Sami rather doubted it. It was just another testament to the indomitable spirit of her husband. She watched him cut a forceful swath through the water, his upper body becoming even more powerful nowadays for having to compensate temporarily for his legs during his recovery. The swimming had also gone a long way towards that. EJ stopped swimming then, having seen her during his lap and he treaded water about twenty feet away from her and grinned up at her.
"They still asleep?" he asked her, knowing it was her usual time to be checking on the twins.
"Like perfect angels," nodded Sami, returning his smile, "I can't believe those are the same children that were screaming the house down this afternoon."
"They do have their moods," conceded EJ, "But they're still the most perfect, gorgeous babies that have ever drawn breath and no one will convince me otherwise."
"Not that you're biased or anything," Sami teased him.
"Absolutely not," said EJ firmly and then they both gave a little laugh.
"So," drawled EJ, looking her up and down, "Feel like a dip Mrs DiMera?"
Marlena and John were having dinner together at Chez Rouge and Rolf was out as well. Sami still hadn't had the nerve to find out what he did with his nights. Don't ask, don't tell was her motto when it came to Rolf.
"I don't have a bathing suit," sighed Sami regretfully.
"And yet," said EJ with an absolute straight face, "I am strangely alright with that."
Sami shook her head at him. They hadn't had sex since the day at his office, just before EJ was hurt but not for lack of trying on EJ's behalf. But Sami was terrified that he was going to hurt himself and do some permanent damage. They'd come this far the last thing she wanted to do was jeopardize his recovery just because they couldn't keep their hands off each other.
Of course that was easier said than done and every day EJ got a little bit better Sami found it harder and harder to put him off… mainly because she was as desperate for it as he was! It had only just reached the one month mark since his surgery and the doctor's were very pleased with his progress but Sami couldn't help but worry.
"But if I take my clothes off and come in you'll still have your bathing trunks on," pointed out Sami, "That isn't very fair now is it?"
EJ immediately ducked under the water, surfacing a few seconds later with the black swimming trunks he'd been wearing. Next thing Sami knew they were sailing through the air and landing with a wet squelching sound at her feet. She looked down at them and then back at her husband who was smiling smugly.
"I'm a problem solver," he informed her sagely.
"So I see," said Sami dryly.
"So?" EJ arched an inviting eyebrow at her.
"We're not having sex," she warned him warily.
"Absolutely not," agreed EJ readily.
EJ looked at this as a work in progress. If he could get Sami to take her clothes off and get in the water with him then he'd start working on the next stage. He'd learnt patience loving this woman and he'd always been relentless.
"Are you just saying that because you think that I won't be able to control myself once I'm in the water with you?" Sami asked folding her arms in front of herself and narrowing her eyes at him.
"Absolutely not," EJ repeated the lie again easily.
He was a hard man to say no to, especially when Sami really didn't want to in the first place. She had a quick look round to make sure that no one was around but the back garden of the DiMera mansion was well protected and unless someone came in from the house they had their privacy. Sami started to unbutton her pants, stepping out of them and then started on her blouse. EJ meanwhile had swum over to the side of the pool, stretching his arms out along the top, his back against the wall and was watching her intently, the beginnings of a lascivious smirk on his face as he watched her undress in front of him.
"You know a gentleman would look away," Sami told him, her blouse joining her jeans on the ground.
"Lucky for both of us then that I'm no gentlemen," grinned EJ and she shook her head at him again.
Her bra was next and EJ gave a low growl at the sight of her naked breasts.
God but she was beautiful… and she was all his, for the rest of their lives, no one's but his.
Sami quickly pulled off her panties and feeling particularly exposed immediately dove into the pool. She swam under the water until she reached where he was propped up against the wall and surfaced, just in front of him. Sami treaded water, her legs too short to touch the bottom of the pool like his were. EJ looked at the water nymph in front of him, pale hair darkened from being wet, rivulets of water trickling down the curves of her face, enticing him to rediscover those soft angles for himself. He went to move towards her but she swam back a little, shaking her head at him.
"Behave yourself EJ," she warned him but the smile on her lips kind of ruined the effect, "Remember your back."
"I'm a little more focused on my front right now," he told her, his lips twitching with a teasing grin, "And your front has got me particularly intrigued I have to say."
"Are you ever going to stop flirting with me?" sighed Sami, sounding hopelessly annoyed but both of them knowing she was anything but.
"Certainly," said EJ, very seriously, "The moment I take my last breath that will probably be it for me on the flirting front… until we meet in the next life of course. Then I'll have some lost time to make up for so you'd better brace yourself."
"You are impossible," said Sami with a resigned sigh,
"And you are the most gorgeous, irresistible creature I have ever seen in my entire life," said EJ, "And if I don't kiss you this very moment I'm probably going to have an instant relapse."
"Well," said Sami slowly, "I guess we can't have that can we? One kiss but that's it."
EJ's smile widened as he walked over to her as she still hung there, treading water in front of him.
"One kiss," she reminded him as he moved in for his prize.
"One kiss is all I'll need," he told her sexily and she opened her mouth to tell him off for being so cocky but then his lips were on hers and she couldn't remember what it was that she was upset with him about any longer.
At the first touch of his lips on hers she felt his arms go around her, supporting her so she no longer had to mark time in the water. Sami put her arms around his neck, sinking into the kiss and him. Their tongues met in a dance of domination and submission, each taking their turn until they finally had to end it, both of them breathing raggedly from arousal and lack of oxygen.
"Oh god!" he groaned, his breath hot against her flesh as he pressed open mouth kisses down her neck, "The things I want to do you Samantha!"
"Oh," purred Sami, a smile on her lips, "What kind of things?"
EJ pulled his head back from where he'd been nibbling on the soft skin of her neck, his eyes warm with desire and love.
"I've started a list," he told her and then made as though he was going to get out of the pool, "I'll just fetch it shall I?"
Sami tightened her grip on his neck, laughing at his silliness.
"A list?" she repeated in amusement, "You've made a list."
"Yes," said EJ, moving back into her arms again properly, "I've had to occupy my time someway since you've been so unreasonable about the nooky thing since my operation."
"Not wanting to cripple you is being unreasonable?" Sami challenged him.
"Some things are simply worth the risk," he told her very seriously, "You know it won't take me a minute to go and get that list, there's some good stuff on it, I promise."
Sami smiled and ran her hands through his wet hair, nails scrapping along his scalp and making him shiver a little.
"Why don't you wing it?" she suggested, pressing her body up against his, her voice low.
"Hmm," said EJ, pretending to be thinking, "Well I definitely remember this being on the list."
He leant down and kissed the delicate skin were her neck and shoulder met and Sami gave a little smile.
"And these…" he looked down at the breasts pressed against his chest with an evil leer, moving a hand up to cup one full mound, "… these definitely were on the list, more than once… in fact I dedicated at least two pages to these."
EJ tightened his hold on her breast, thumb scrapping across the top of her nipple, making it harden. Sami squirmed against him, loving the feel of his hands on her body.
"Two pages!" she laughingly gasped, "Just how long exactly is this list of yours?!"
"I've been working on it since I first met you so it's pretty long," he conceded, straight faced.
"Since we first met!" exclaimed Sami rolling her eyes at him.
"Truth be told sweetheart I'd written the first three pages in between you coming and asking for that wrench and me asking for it back again," he told her, tongue in cheek.
"You're a crazy man," she told him in exasperation, shaking her head at all his carry on.
"Correction darling," he said, "I'm your crazy man."
"Yes you are," murmured Sami sexily, wrapping her legs around his waist, "All mine."
He kissed her then and the kiss was raw and needy, the hunger between them never seeming to be satisfied no matter how many times they were together like this - it only seemed to grow.
"Love me…" said Sami when they finally broke apart again, her voice uneven as she looked up at him wide eyed.
"Is that a question or a request?" he murmured, eyes moving over her face adoringly, "Because the answer is yes."
"I don't want to hurt you," whispered Sami with quiet anxiety, her resolve to stop this from happening all but gone now.
"Then come here," he said softly and she resist him no longer, going willingly into his arms.
He was so ready for her, right away, before they'd even really started. The weeks of being close to her but then the frustration of his body's limitations taking it's toll on him and now he just needed to be inside her before he died from the wanting. He walked them backwards until they were at the steps that led down into the pool, kissing her heatedly the whole time. Sami groggily looked behind her, dazzled by his kisses.
"We… you want to get out of the pool?" she panted, confused.
"I want to feel how wet you are for me," he growled in her ear, "I can't do that here."
"EJ!" she shuddered, his sexy words ensuring he wasn't going to be disappointed with what he found.
Sami's legs felt rubbery as she climbed up the stairs and out of the pool and she worried about EJ's but she needn't have. He was right behind her, grabbing a towel and laying it on the ground before pulling her down on it and laying her out before his avid gaze. He moved over her, holding himself about her with his strong arms, water running from his naked torso and raining down on top of her.
"Can you come for me sweetheart?" he asked her throatily, licking his lips, his eyes as dark as the night skies above him, "Can you show me how you come for me?"
Sami bit her lip, the ache between her legs bursting into a painful throb and the wetness he craved flooded out of her. Still holding her gaze his hand found the apex of her thighs, slipping itself between the sensitive folds.
"Samantha," he rumbled, his voice so low that she felt it vibrate through her, shaking her to the core.
EJ closed his eyes briefly, feeling the dampness of her sex under his hand and knowing it was for him. His member swelled painfully, craving it's place inside of her. Instead he pushed two fingers into her and she whimpered her pleasure. He began to move them in and out, crooking them as he did so that they could find that pleasure spot that drove her so wild. Sami moaned and arched her back, clamping around his fingers, helping him in his endeavours. Her pale skin gleamed in the moonlight, body flushing as her excitement grew.
"Yes sweetheart," he encouraged her, his voice rough from his own want but he couldn't bare to take his eyes of her when she was like this, "Keep going, you can do it, come for me beautiful girl!"
Sami moaned loudly, her body starting to ride his fingers harder, desperate to give him what he was asking for, needing to find her release as much as he wanted her to. He deepened his thrusts abruptly and she couldn't take it anymore, exploding around him much to his delight. EJ watched her face twist into an expression of pained enjoyment and could wait no longer. She was still orgasming when he entered her, mounting her in one powerful thrust that made them both gasp.
It was one of his most favourite things to make her come before he allowed himself the joy of being inside of her. It always made her body so hot and tight for him, intensifying that first foray into her body unbelievably. Sami blinked rapidly, trying to recover her senses but he was making it impossible for her with the way he was driving himself so fiercely into her over and over. It was excruciatingly good and despite the orgasm she just had her body immediately began to prepare for another, meeting each of his thrusts just as wildly as he was giving them. EJ was moaning so loudly now that she wanted to tease him about the neighbours now but she had more pressing things on her mind, like the latest orgasm that was starting to rip through her.
"E… EJ!" she gasped, her eyes wide.
EJ felt her begin to clench wildly around him and he couldn't take it any longer. He violently thrust a few more times into her and then gave a howl of release as his body emptied itself into hers, feeling her milking him continuously as he did. Just when he thought he was done Sami grabbed his backside and drove him deeper into her and he came again, not knowing where he was finding the strength from.
It took a long time for either of them to be able to catch their breath again, their ragged breathing the only sound in the quiet of the night. EJ's muscles felt like jelly and it was all he could do to keep the bulk of his weight off Sami so he wouldn't crush her. He looked down at her, her face aglow from their lovemaking, damp hair spread out around her face and shook his head in a quiet despair at how much he loved this woman.
"Love me…" he said achingly.
"Is that a question or a request?" she asked him softly, her eyes alive with the force of her feelings for this man, "… because either way the answer is yes."