Page 22 of Lady Sings the Blues

“Did your friendship with Logan mean nothin’? Did he really mean so little to you?” Margo knows nothing.

“I loved Logan like a brother, but he never deserved her and you know it. He screwed up. Now I’m gettin’ the life I always wanted but never went after because Ididlove him so much.”

Margo gasps. And I know it’s because Elise, she’s standing behind me. “Whore!” Margo shouts.

But then stupid George, stupid, stupid George goes and opens his mouth. “So you goin’ to sleep your way through the entire town? How many more boys you gonna screw over by gettin’ knocked up?”

It’s Elise’s turn to gasp. Me, I don’t even think, just react by slamming my fist into his jaw. He stumbles backward and down one step before he recovers.

“You will regret that decision,” he threatens. The bastard has the nerve to threaten me while rubbing his jaw. He licks at the blood dripping from the corner of his mouth.

“Get off my property.”

At least he’s not stupid enough to come at me or Elise again. She goes back inside while I watch to make sure they leave.

“Elise,” I call out to her, only once I’ve closed the door. “Elise, darlin’?” She don’t respond, but I do hear her crying in the bedroom. “What are you doin’ baby girl?” I ask when I can clearly see what she’s doing. She’s getting her stuff together to leave.

“I can’t bring this on you.”

“It was brought well before today, and they know it. Don’t leave me again. Not now. Not after just gettin’ you back.”

“The town’ll never stop. Get Beau’s parents to show up? The mayor and his wife ready to run me out of town. A new low even for them. You don’t need all this in your life. Even if you did turn into a misogynistic caveman last night.”

I can’t help but smile. She’s right about the misogynistic caveman stuff not the not needing her in my life, because I do. Need her in my life. And I always have.

“Come on.” I take the suitcase from her, setting it on the carpet and take her hand. We do our Fred and Ginger dance move where she matches me step for step only moving backward ‘til the backs of her knees hit the bed and she falls onto the mattress.

“What are we doing, Mark?”

“Makin’ up.”

“But yesterday I hated you.”

“That was yesterday. Today’s today. Besides, you never actually hated me, darlin’. That was just stress-induced panic.” We weren’t gonna go here until she knew everything. But if she leaves me, she never will. “So now I’m gonna help reduce your stress.”

“I don’t think—” I cut her off pressing a finger to her lips.

“Shh…thinkin’ causes stress. So let’s not think, hmm?”

Now’s the time to show her why she can’t leave me, what she means to me. I cover her with my body, peeling the T-shirt up and off so that I’m looking at the most beautiful woman in the world wearing only her pink satin panties with the black lace.

It’s the sexiest thing I’ve ever seen.

This, our first time together, Elise deserves to be worshipped. And so I do.

With my lips and hands I begin to show her how much she means to me. With every captured moan I give her a little more of myself. It don’t take us long to go from boxer briefs and panties to two naked bodies giving and receiving more pleasure than I’ve ever known before. So much pleasure that when I finally slide inside her and she wraps those shapely legs around me, using her heels to push me further in, I almost loose it completely.

She’s everything.

She’s everything I ever dreamed, hoped or imagined. And she’s all those things because she’s mine. We’re together now because she cares for me. Her body and her heart, they remember me even if her mind ain’t put those pieces together yet. That’s why she didn’t refuse me.

I find a pace to make her beg for more of me without rushing. I don’t wanna rush any part of this. But she makes it hard to keep slowly building us up while she’s beggin’ again and again for me to let her let go. “Please, Mark. Please.”

Every time she begs, I plunder her body harder. Beautiful. Sensual. Our noises fill the air. The thick smell of love and lust, and sex surround us as I continue to deny her that fall she so desperately desires. Pumping and rocking, my thrusts come measured. We fit together. Our bodies meshed into a perfect unity. And I feel the moment there’s no turnin’ back. My balls draw up tight.Fuck.

She claws at my back begging. “Please, Mark. I can’t take anymore. I…I…”

And that’s when I let go, pourin’ every drop of love I have for the woman inside her. Elise and I find that sweet release together. I take back what I said before. Her face as she comes is the sexiest thing I’ve ever seen. Her arms hold me close, tight to her chest. Her legs stay wrapped around my hips keeping me planted still inside her.

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