Beth woke up to the sun steaming through the sheer curtains. She felt a heavy, warmness wrapped around her shoulder. She opened her eyes and smiled as she heard the steady rhythm of Rio's breath against her neck. She could get used to this. Waking up with his arms around her, his body pressed against her back.
Flashes of memories invaded her mind from last night, him licking the inner shell of her ear while running his fingers up and down her thigh, him kissing her and making her feel like her whole body on fire.
She wanted him, needed him. She got him. He gave her his whole self-last night and she gave him herself. They were one with desire. She needed more.
Rio's eye quickly flicked open as she straddled his waist, pulling down the white cotton sheet that covered his manhood currently. He was already half erect and she hadn't even touched him yet,
He wrapped his arms around her waist and brought them down to her hips. "Now this is what I call a nice way to wake up", he told her.
She leaned down and kissed his lips gently. "Oh just you wait, your morning is about to get even better". She smiled, looking down at him as she popper her fingers in her mouth, sucked on each finger seductively and then used her hand to wrap around his cock. She moved her fingers up and down his entire length.
He moved his hand up around her hand and stopped her from moving further.
"I want to be in you", he said.
Beth grinned and bit her bottom lip, noticing the look of lust in Rio's eyes as he looked upon her naked form, straddling his body.
"I think that can be arranged", she said giggling.
Rio reached over to the drawer in his bedside table and grabbed a condom, ripped the package quickly and rolled it onto his length.
She lowered her body down to him so that her wet folds rubbed against his hard manhood.
She rubbed against his hard cock, feeling herself get wetter with every stroke before she lowered herself onto his cock.
He moaned and tightened his grip on her hips, his fingers were digging into her flesh with each movement, every thrust.
He moved his thumb to her clit and began rubbing it vigorously as she rocked her hips while on top of him.
It wasn't long until Beth was screaming out Rio's name as her orgasm crashed over her. Not long after that he came inside of her and she promptly collapsed, feeling boneless on top of him before rolling off his body.
Rio smiled smugly. "Now that darling is how I wished that I woke up every morning", he stated.
Beth kissed him demurely on the lips. "Mmmm that sounds nice", she uttered while grabbing her discarded clothing. "Dean is dropping off the kids in a few hours so I got to get back to my place and clean up before her gets there."
Rio tilted his head to the side while studying her face before his glance fell down to her body. "You are so beautiful", he told her. "I wish we could spend more time together but I also gotta get the little dude from Rhea's place. I promised to take him to his favorite ice cream place near the park. His team lost their little league tournament so he's pretty down in the dumps right now".
Beth nodded, "Oh I totally get it, my kids get like that too after they don't win their sports event". She pulled her jeans on over her legs and threw on her floral blouse.
She grabbed her purse and kissed Rio on the cheek, "I'll see you during the next bread delivery, right?", she asked.
He nodded, pulling on a pair of boxers before he grabbed his jeans from the floor. "Yep, will be there at the next delivery".
Beth floated through the rest of the day on cloud 9. It didn't even bother her that Dean showed up an hour late to her place. It didn't faze her that Becca was hanging onto Dean's arm, giggling at every word he said, drunk out of her mind. It also didn't bother her that the kids threw their coats on the floor without bothering to hang them up in the coat closet. Typically Beth would have a conniption fit about having to clean up a mess and the kids throwing items all over the house but she wasn't going to let it get to her today.
Beth liked organization, that's why she created colorful calendars to keep track of the kids activities. She even made a calendar that contained the meal planning for each week. She liked things being in a certain place and knowing exactly where they were. However since she had met Rio, she allowed herself to stray off of the organization path, allowed the kids to stray off that path as well. Its not that she didn't care about keeping a schedule but she just didn't value the importance of it as much.
She knew Rio was also organized based off of his appearances at the restaurants and how his apartment was designed with everything having a specific purpose and place. However, he didn't seem to be as stressed out as she was about keeping to those schedules and worrying as much as she did if something was out of place.
Annie had bugged her about further details of the date when she and Ben got back from their weekend retreats. Annie from the latest guy pal's place and Ben from their father's place where he had spent the weekend.
Annie sat cross legged on the couch while Beth put the clean dishes back in the cabinet.
"So are you two getting serious now that you had a sleepover?", Annie asked inquisitively
Beth tossed the forks in the silverware holder. "I don't want to put a label on it yet", she responded.
Annie shook her head, "Yeah but is he putting a label on it?", she questioned. "Somehow I get the impression that he doesn't view this thing you two have as just a fling. I don't even know if you know how to casually date and even if you would entertain the idea of causally dating someone, the thing that you have going on sounds like you've crossed the line from casual to serious already. Why else would his brousin be telling you to stay away from him".
Beth sat down on the couch next to her, hoping that none of the kids were still awake after she had tucked them into bed more than an hour ago.
"Annie, I am sure that he's not putting a label on it either, I mean why would he, we've only known each other for a short period of time? Also, did we decide on Brousin rather than Brother / Cousin?", Beth responded.
Annie raised her eyebrows, looking at Beth with a questioning look after her nonchalant comment. "Oh, so you are ok if bar friend goes off on dates other women?", she asked while waving her right hand in front of Beth's face when Beth got a zoned out look. "Earth to Beth".
Beth shook her head and blinked several times, "Sorry, just tired. "She explained.
Beth didn't want to have to explain to Annie about her talking about dating other women just brought flashbacks of her run ins with Dylan, Dylan who treated her as if she was a homewrecker even if Rio swore their relationship was completely over. Dylan, who made her heart race when she saw her because she didn't act predictably, and Beth never knew what she would do or say when she would see her.
Beth stood up and glanced down at Annie, "I'm going to try to get some sleep. I have a long day tomorrow. Dorothy wanted to go over some numbers first thing tomorrow and I need to prepare a report for her", she said as she started to head up the stairs.
"Good night", Annie told her waving her arm as she slumped down onto the couch.
The next morning when Beth came into the Breadwinner's shop about half an hour earlier than expected in order to get a double order or bagels completed , Dorothy was in the small, cramped office in the back of the shop. She found Dorothy slumped in the chair, with her hands covering her face. She was sobbing, her body retching as she looked at paperwork that was in her hands.
Beth put a hand on her shoulder, startled Dorothy spun around in her swivel office chair. She looked up at her, surprised to see her.
"I'm sorry dear", she said as she wiped tears from her eyes with the back of her hand. "I hadn't expected you to be here so early".
Beth gave her a half-lipped smile. She felt concern over Dorothy's emotional state. "What's wrong? Is there anything I can do to help?", she asked.
Dorothy shook her head vehemently. "No, no dear. There's nothing that you can do I am afraid. I've gotten myself into a bit of a financial situation. I am behind on my payments to ..uhhh..creditors..and they've threatened to take my business away", she said, still crying.
Beth looked at her with a look of confusion. The way she had said creditors just didn't strike Beth right. She knew they was some hidden meaning behind the way she had pronounced that word, putting extra emphasis on the word.
"Who threatened you? Did they hurt you in any way?", Beth asked curiously, dreading to hear the answer.
Dorothy gulped, looking up at Beth with her tears still staining her cheeks. "He…he had a weapon, a gun. He pointed it in my face. I gave him what I had from the safe but it didn't cover..half of what I owed.
Beth bit her bottom lip, nervous to ask her for more details but having a feeling of dread in the pit of her stomach.
"Did you know who this man was? What did he look like?", she questioned.
"I've never seen him before, but he terrified me. He was heavily tattooed and muscular. He was bald with a beard and wore a leather motorcycle vest and black leather boots", Dorothy told her, starting to sound more calm but still gasping for deep breaths as she spoke.
Beth frowned. She knew who Dorothy was describing and her heart just broke as she thought of who was behind the threat.
Beth drove the delivery van frantically to the Eagles Talon as she knew that he would be there on a Monday and not at Lucky's. She hadn't even bothered to load the bread delivery in the back.
She rung the doorbell on the back door of the restaurant and Rio opened the door as soon as she saw her standing there,
Rio started walking towards her with a big grin on his face. "To what do I owe the pleasure Elizabeth, you usually don't come here on a Monday?"
As he studied her face as he got closer to where Beth stood with her hands on her hips, glaring at him, his smile dropped from his face.
"How could you?", she stuttered out.