This chapter is for mature audiences only. If you thought Chapter 3 was too provocative for your sensibilities then you probably want to skip it. It's not integral to the story, just my best effort at a highly descriptive sexual encounter for those who are dying to read one.

Chapter 17: Now Stay Put

It was Saturday, May 4th, less than two weeks before Julie was coming home for the semester. Adrian had mysteriously disappeared with Leland earlier that morning and Natalie had spent the time working on the paperwork end of their consulting work. Natalie leaned back from her bookkeeping with a smile- in two weeks, they would be married.

Her reverie was interrupted by hearing Adrian come up the staircase. He was humming a tune she couldn't make out, but it meant he was surely in a happy mood. They hadn't left the house without each other at all, but Natalie had been planning for the opportunity to greet him as he came home. She heard the door open and she leapt up and ran into Adrian's arms, locking her legs around his waist.

"Mmm, honey, I missed you," she whispered between kisses.

Adrian had briefly stumbled but he wasn't about to drop Natalie when she leapt into his arms. He met her mouth with his, then murmured, "If that's the greeting I get, I think I need to leave more often."

Natalie had been planning this for days...the moment she would pounce on him and take charge. She started to unbutton his shirt, and pull it out of his pants. "I've been planning this, you know." She hopped down and pushed him against the wall, and started to press her body against his, slowly kissing him behind his ear.

Adrian's pulse started to race as he whispered, "What plans have you been making?"

"I promised we would revisit this, remember," she purred, shoving Adrian's shirt off his shoulders.

Adrian's mouth went dry. His mind went back to that day in the park and the gift didn't fail. Perfect recall reminded him exactly what Natalie wanted from him. "I said you already please me," he panted, as her lips slid down to his collarbone.

Natalie pulled his undershirt off and tossed it on the floor. "And I said it's not the same. Today, I'm the detective."

Adrian was lost as she tugged on his belt and dragged him to the bedroom. His hands went to the zipper on the back of her pencil skirt, but then Natalie slapped his hands away and stepped back. "Oh no...you are going to sit and watch. You're the man that remembers everything...remember this," as she began to deliberately, provocatively strip for him.

Monk had few male friends, and so had never been to any bachelor parties. His own reticent nature would have made it impossible to be around a scantily clad or topless woman dancing for the entertainment of all the men present. He didn't drink, so he couldn't even do that to loosen his inhibitions. Not to mention the fact that once he met Trudy, the very idea of being in such a setting was unacceptable to him- felt like infidelity. Now that he was in love with Natalie, his sentiments still hadn't changed. But he had no guilt whatsoever watching the woman he loved slowly disrobe for the sole intention of driving him crazy. He thought it was the most erotic thing he had ever seen.

At last she stood naked before him and he was grateful to be sitting down because he felt his legs turning to jelly. Then he reached to take Natalie in his arms, and then she deftly swerved away from him. She shook her finger at him. "No way, lover. I'm in charge of this investigation." Natalie shoved his shoulders back and straddled him.

Adrian could barely breathe as her hands slid up his bare chest and she began to relentlessly torment him with her lips and fingers. Bent over one of his nipples, she began to flick it with her tongue. He only thought he was aroused until she suddenly started to suck it, first gently, and then hard. He cried out and clasped Natalie's head to his chest.

Natalie raised her head and looked him dead in the eyes. "Does that please you?"

"Oh God, you're tormenting me."

"Good." Then she bent down again and started on the other one.

Natalie used her lips and tongue all over his torso, languidly running her tongue over the sensitive skin over his ribcage. Then she started to move her head back upwards towards his neck.

Adrian groaned loudly and then pulled Natalie upwards, meeting her lips with his own- locking his arms around her back and crushing her to him.

Natalie felt a jolt of heightened arousal as his tongue slipped into her mouth and his hands moved up to hold her face firmly to his- he had never kissed her this hard before. But she wasn't done with him, not by a long shot. She took her hands and pushed his arms down on the mattress. She slid her hands up to his wrists. Part of Natalie wanted to give in and let him take control, but she couldn't let that happen...they were going to see this through. "You didn't think I was done with you, did you," she teased. "I don't even have your pants off, baby." Echoing the words of their first night together, she whispered in his ear, "I want to please you. I have to know what pleases you. Now stay put."

Natalie hopped down and swiftly stripped him of the last of his clothing. Then she started to work her way upward from his ankles, relentlessly using her hands and mouth on his legs, lingering on the sensitive skin of his inner thigh.

Adrian's entire body was on fire. He had always maintained control in the bedroom. He knew it was a defense mechanism, the need to take control, but he could deny Natalie nothing. Floating on air and drowning in honey, she had called it. He felt like a drowning man, because his heart just continued to race and he couldn't catch his breath at all. He raised his head as he watched Natalie take him into her mouth, and his head fell back as he groaned. She had done this before, of course, but it had never been preceded by total passivity on his part. The pleasure was so intense he thought it was going to kill him. His control was starting to unravel- he wanted to pull Natalie upwards, cover her body with his own, and hold her down the way she had held him down...he was so aroused that his usual inhibitions were gone and he just wanted to...fuck her until she couldn't walk straight!

Women are sexually superior beings, and so Natalie knew that he couldn't take as much of this as she could. Not to mention she was fully aroused now herself. So she finally climbed atop of him and guided him inside of her.

Both of them gasped loudly, and then Adrian sat up and pulled Natalie close to him as she started to slowly rock her hips against his. It was maddeningly slow and finally he had to beg her. "Harder!"

By this time, Natalie was starting to unravel as well, so she immediately started to press harder, faster. She knew they couldn't last long..that he couldn't last long. She felt his hands move down to her hips and pull her more tightly to him. So it came of no surprise when his moans turned into frantic, yet apologetic whispers.

"Natalie...baby, I have to," he rasped, "I can't hold it back anymore."

"Baby...I'm waiting for you." She locked her gaze with his and whispered, "Now!"

That was all it took as both of them finally exploded together, both of them almost delirious as their entire bodies shook with the ferocity of their climax.

For a long time, neither of them moved. Or spoke.

Finally, Adrian whispered, "Oh my God, Natalie..."

Still a little breathless, she asked him, "Did I please you?"

"God, that doesn't even cover it. But I usually...please you more than once."

"Worth it," she muttered.

"Worth it?"

"Was it the same?"

"No," he whispered. "It wasn't. It was both torturous and incredible at the same time. I felt like I was being devoured."

"Mmhm," she agreed. "Now I've made you feel the way you always make me feel."

Adrian embraced her tightly and sighed. "I love you so much."

"I love you too, Adrian. See? I told you that you wouldn't hurt me."

"Natalie, you have no idea how close I came to overpowering you...all of my inhibitions snapped and something really vulgar went through my brain."

"Now I have to know what it was."

"Natalie!"

"Adrian! No secrets between us. You have to tell me. And not the PG version, either."

Adrian ducked his head in shame, but finally relented. He leaned into her ear and whispered, "You had me so insane with wanting you, the only thought I had was that I wanted to pin you down and..." he hesitated, but finally took the plunge, "fuck you until you couldn't walk straight!"

Natalie threw her head back and laughed. "Oh yes, it was totally worth it."