A/N: Ok, let's move on to the fluffy stuff ;)…

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SO... ON WITH THE CHAPTER ;)!

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Judging by the cover

Chapter 12: Playing with fire

"Was it abhorrence what made your body shiver in my arms? Huh? TELL ME!"Erik clenched his teeth.

"I don't know!" Christine burst out feeling like a caged tiger "I don't remember!"

"Then, I think I have to remind you."

She heard herself protesting, but to no avail. Not because Erik didn't pay attention, but because she had surrendered... she couldn't stand any more shouting. Her throat was burning her.

"So, since when exactly did you start feeling abhorrence about me, Christine?" he asked her firmly, while wrapping his arms tightly around her and looking at her with passion "When I did this?" he caressed slightly her lips with his own setting her body on fire "Or this?" This time he traced her lips with his tongue... again and again and finally he added and a little nibble at her bottom lip until Christine moaned in bliss and parted them. But Erik was not satisfied...

"So? Why aren't you replying? You are surprising me, Christine." He mocked her "But, no... I know why. You, an experienced woman, know very well how much pleasure you can find in the arms of a man. And I suspect that you want me to give you this pleasure..."

"No!" Christine protested and tried to free herself from his hands.

"But, yes." Erik insisted softly "Admit it, Christine. You want me... your body desires to feel mine... skin to skin. Your body wants the sexual pleasure it was used to have. It hurts and suffers..."

"He's right." Christine realised in fear. She wanted him indeed, but not in the way Erik imagined. She wanted him in the way a woman in love wants the man she loves. She didn't want him as a lover...no... She wanted him to be the one and only. However, she couldn't love him. She shouldn't love him, but she did...

She fell for him the very first time she had met him at the bar. There was no use in refusing it anymore. She loved him. The idea though Erik had for her was the main obstacle which prevented her from revealing her emotions...

"Erik, let me go!" She pleaded in a firm voice.

"No! I won't do it till you admit that I'm right and you want me..." he replied "Unless, you want me to help you admit it in deed..."

Christine blinked repeatedly, feeling turned on and afraid at the same time. What Erik was saying, meant...

She tried to think of something smart... a smart statement that will make him leave her, alas in vain.

Erik got tired of waiting "You are pushing me to the edge, Christine." He warned "I want you, but you already know that, right? How could you not know anyway? A woman like you... You feel it on my body, don't you? Every time you did... in my apartment when I had you against the wall with your leg around my waist..." she shivered as he moved one hand and caressed her thigh slowly... sensually "Or a few hours ago, when I had you pinned against the door... with your legs wrapped around me." They both knew his words were nothing but vulgar, and that made them both trembling with need. "You are feeling it now, aren't you? Here..."

He took her hand and brought it to his groin. Christine froze and didn't dare to move as Erik made her hand ran over his covered length. He was already very hard...

She craved to pull her hand and tell him that she didn't want to share with him this experience that only lovers shared. But she couldn't find the strength to do it.

Suddenly she realised how desperately she wanted to use the opportunity Erik gave her to touch and explore the secrets of his body... and first of all she would tell him to stop wearing that disgraceful mask in front of her, no matter what was hidden underneath. She loved him, and love sees past the surface. Besides, the mask gave him an intimidating and inhuman look...

Unable to control herself, she moaned and trembled with need. Erik's heart was thundering in his chest. Some time ago, when he had caressed her shoulder at dinner time, she had shivered in bliss. However, what she was feeling now could not be compared to that...

She was aching for him. She was feeling a torturing desire for him and let her senses completely surrender to her emotions. She closed her eyes and imagined Erik exactly as Carlotta had described him... naked, his strong body riding the swimming pool's water. And then she moaned again... louder this time, till Erik's mouth, warm and demanding, swallowed her moan and made an explosion of passion occur inside their bodies.

Her lips didn't resist, like the other times, they opened willingly and his tongue, hungry and without control, started playing with hers, making her knees bend.

"You want me... You need me..." Erik whispered.

Christine into passion's dizziness didn't think to refuse his words. She felt all her defences falling onto the ground and the truth taking the place it deserved inside her.

In a flash everything disappeared, or lost their value. She was alone, facing herself... her needs... and her desires, which suddenly had come so close her that she could reach with her hand and touch them.

She sighed at the feel of Erik's hands travelling on her body, over her dress. And their caress was... wonderful. His body on hers was intoxicating and it erased her ability to think logically and find a reason to make him stop.

Erik had started leading her backwards till the back of her knees hit the bed. Erik, without stopping kissing her, pushed her softly and they landed both on the bed breaking the kiss only for one moment... the moment in which Erik's hips landed in the natural cradle of Christine's thighs.

They both hissed at the contact. Christine's eyes rolled back in ecstasy and Erik, after pulling her dress up to her waist, started thrusting his shaft on her covered core to relieve some of the pressure he felt.

Christine lost her mind. His teasing was unbearable. Then Erik pulled his lips from hers and started kissing her cheeks, jaw line, the sensitive area behind her ear and finally he began suckling at the soft flesh of her neck.

"Mmm... you're so soft." He mumbled on her skin as he proceeded on kissing her clothed nipples. "I could lose myself in you." He raised his hand and impatiently pulled her dress down and freed her breasts.

"Perfect" he said and drew invisible lines on them with his fingers, teasing at the same time her pink nipples. Her buds hardened almost immediately... "Look at these!" Erik stated in surprise "They are so sensitive to my touch." And without further delay he started licking one of them. At the beginning he just drew his tongue over them in slow torturous laps... and then he suckled.

Christine was unable to speak, so did just the only thing she could do... she thrust her hips back to his, easing her body's pain which had moved between her legs. Her panties were drenching with her excitement and wetted Erik's pants.

When Erik felt her moisture on his only-pants-covered rod he roared.

"Oh my god!" he brought one hand at her core and started massaging her there. "You are so wet! So wet just for me..." he bent his head and inhaled deeply her essence "So good..." he licked two of his fingers and pressed them to her centre. Christine yelped and pulled his hands to hers.

Erik smiled and without warning he licked her wet panties and suckled her covered mound.

Christine's eyes grew wide. Erik saw it and thought that she wanted it slower... So, he drove himself again at her level and kissed lovingly her neck. "You are driving me crazy, you know." Kiss "With your little moans" lap "And teasing hips." He gave one short, strong thrust and kept their bodies together, her hands clawed his forearms which had grabbed her hips.

"Can you feel how hard I am?" he asked hoarsely "Just for you. I want to pound in your heat so badly."

Christine's eyes closed at the sexuality of his words. Could she really make a man like him lose control?

They kissed again with passion and her hands moved to his face, but he caught them before they touch his mask. He crushed them under his knees and chuckled darkly as Christine squirmed.

"Open your eyes... I want to watch you..." he whispered to Christine's ear and bit her earlobe "I want to watch you expressions while I am making love to you... and I want you to watch me too... Jesus... now I understand what you do to men. There is something on you... something so arousingly innocent... something... "

She stiffened as he heard his words... he will always think of her as a whore. She sighed and tears filled her eyes.

Erik felt her stiffen in his arms "Tell me..." he coaxed her.

But Christine could not tell him. She couldn't even bear to look at him. His last words had destroyed the beautiful unknown world where he had led her with his loving and reassuring caresses. She felt nauseous at her reaction... because she was such a fool to believe, even for a moment, that he truly cared...

"I... I don't want anything..." she stopped and Erik frowned "I don't want anything to happen between us." She said and pushed him away, while adjusting her clothes.

"But, how? Why?" he asked softly, but then anger filled him "Is this some kind of game?" he questioned in annoyance and pulled her back in his arms "If it is some kind of joke, I warn you..."

Christine shook her head.

"God! I must have gone crazy." He babbled and freed her from his grasp "I... I suppose that this happens to men... I never thought I could act so foolishly..."

He walked behind her, but stopped as soon as she froze in her place.

"You are safe..." he ensured her "I am not going to touch you. There is no way I..." he paused and changed direction. "I am going to work." He announced in a heavy voice.

A/N: so, how was it? just let me know ;)...