Suddenly a Bride (19 page)

Chr
is’ curiosity was piqued by the time she drove up to an isolated area of the beach.  She gave him a wicked smile as she got out of the car.  He followed suit and watched while she collected the blanket.

She closed the door and asked, “Are you coming?”

Of course, he was.  He’d go anywhere with her.  He walked with her down the beach and watched as she unrolled the blanket in the moonlight.  “Do you want help?” he offered, noting the way the wind coming in off the surf made the blanket toss about on the sand.

“Yeah.  Could you take these paperweights and put one on those two corners, and I’ll get these.”

He took the two glass weights in the shape of cats and obeyed her.  “Can I ask why you have different cats for paperweights?”

She shrugged.  “I went through a phase where I collected glass animals, and Randy thought one day we’d get a cat.” Rolling her eyes, she added, “He went a little overboard.  One cat is enough, don’t you think?”

“I guess.”

Staring at the cats on the blanket, he wondered why they bothered him.  They were inanimate objects, and she didn’t seem to have any attachment to them since he hadn’t seen those on her shelf of favorite things.  He recalled her mentioning her special shelf.  On it, she had her favorite two books, a crystal rose from her friend Sandy, and a gold clock she’d bought for herself a year ago.  So these gifts from Randy didn’t have a place on that special shelf, and that reminder made him feel somewhat better.  He wondered if she’d put something he bought her on that shelf.  But what would he buy?  He couldn’t
think of anything she might like except for those cheesy romance novels, which she already had a ton of in her bookcase.

“Okay.  We’re all set.” Caitlyn patted the middle of the blanket as she slipped off her sandals.  “Come on and get comfortable.”

Her mischievous grin caught his attention.  Intrigued once
again, he took off his shoes
and sat on the blanket.  She pushed on his shoulders until he was on his back, and then she straddled him.  Leaning forward, she kissed him.  This was nice, he thought as he returned her kiss.  Already, he could feel his body temperature rise, signaling that his body was getting ready to ejaculate.  But that event was still a ways off, so he could take his time and enjoy their lovemaking.
  It was a relief
to not hav
e to ejaculate
every six hours.

Straightening up, she unbuttoned her shirt and revealed the black lace b
ra.  “Sandy bought a bra and panties
for your enjoyment.”
She took his hands so he could trace her bra before she slid his hands under her ski
rt where he felt the lace trim of her panties.  Her grin grew wider when his fingers brushed the soft folds of her flesh.  His eyes grew wide, and she giggled.  “Crotchless underwear.
  What do you think?
”

Clearing his throat, he said, “It’s nice.”

“Nice?”

With a sly grin, he squeezed her hips.  “Really nice.”

“I bet you didn’t have anything this advanced on your home world.”

“Creativity wasn’t my world’s strongpoint,” he admitted.

“It’s good to know Earth has something your world didn’t.  Well, besides women.”

He laughed.  “Does that still bother you?” Slipping his hands from under her skirt, he pressed them on her abdomen.  “I’m connected to you, Caitlyn.  I’m aware of the life we created growing in your womb.” Meeting her gaze, he whispered, “Earth is more wonderful than the place I came from.”

She caressed his face with her hand,
and he likened the sensation to
a feather brushing his skin since her touch was so light.  There were other things he wanted to tell her—things
of
a more personal nature, but he stopped himself.  The
timing was right, he was sure.  Even so, h
e wasn’t sure if she reciprocated his feelings
, and the feelings weren’t something he’d experienced before
. 
He had the sensation he was flying and falling at the same time.  In his orderly way of thinking, it was a contradiction, and the uncertainty of it all scared him.  It was easier, instead, to focus on the child and the moment they had together on the beach.  Those were tangible things—things he could grasp.

She
lean
ed forward and kissed him, and he was glad for the distraction.  He brought his hands up
to her bra and traced the outline of it, brushing her nipples which hardened in response.

After ending their kiss, she wiggled down to his knees and unzipped his pants.  “I’ve always
had this fantasy of having
sex on the beach.”

“Oh?”

She hel
ped him wiggle out of his pants
and pulled down his underwear.  She gave
a low moan as she took his erection
into her hand
and stroked him in on
e slow motion that made him
throb with pleasure.
  “Yeah.”
Her eyes met his and she licked her lips.  “
I see you’re ready for me
.”

Even through his heavy breathing, he chuckled.  “What was your first clue?”

Smiling, she got on her knees and unzipped the side of her skirt.  “You cracked a joke.”

Hi
s eyebrows furrowed.  “Did I say
something wrong?”

“No.  It’s just that when you first got here, you were so serious about everything.” She removed her skirt and
straddled him again
.

He let out a soft moan and ran his hands along her thighs.

“It’s nice to see that you’re no longer taking life so seriously,” she teased before she kissed his
cheek and then gave him a serie
s of kisse
s along his jaw
line before she blew in his ear.

He shivered from pleasure.  Looking up at the clear sky, he briefly took note of the stars, reminding him that he’d come a long way to be in this place.  Then she kissed him on the mouth, and all thoughts to ho
w far he’d traveled
departed from his mind.  His hands traced the soft curve of her back, and he pulled her closer to him so he could deepen the kiss.  She parted her lips.  Accepting the silent invitation, he
brushed her tongue with his.

Despite the cool breeze that blew in from the surf, his body warmed as she moved her hands under his dress shirt and ran her fingernails lightly up and down his chest.
  The sensation tickled him as much as it aroused him.  He brought his hands back down to her waist and felt along the panties so that he could slip his fingers through the opening that allowed him to touch the sensitive folds of her flesh.
  Her hips began rocking against him, signaling that she w
as getting ready for him
.

With a mischievous grin, he rolled her over, thinking it might be fun to change the rules a bit on what she had planned.  Before she could react, he resumed their kiss, letting
his tongue mingle
with hers. 
She cupped the back of his neck and arched against him.
 
H
e
traced the edges of the crotchless part of her panties before he
inserted his finger into her.  She gasped in pleasure and moaned.

“I could make love to you nonstop and still
not get enough,” she rasped and
moved her hips so that he could slide deeper
into her
.  “Get me off this way.  With your fingers.”

“That’s the plan,” he playfully growled and lowered his head so he could kiss her cleavage while he slipped a second finger into her.

With a contented sigh, she
reached down and lightly caress
ed his hair, encouraging him to keep going. 
He smiled at
the fact he brought
her pleasure
and let his mouth descend to her bra so he could find her nipple.  It was a new experience to tease her nipple through the lacy bra, but
she seemed to like the friction, so he lingered at her breasts.

His fingers
plunged deep
er
into her
.  He loved
the way she moaned and rocked her hips
.  Her breathing came fast and heavy
,
and her legs widened for him, fully welcoming him to her.
 
His mouth left her breasts and left a trail of kisses down to abdomen and lower still until his lips graced h
er sensitive nub
.

She
groaned as she moved her hips in subconscious rhythm
to the thrusting of his fingers.  His tongue
continued to teas
e and brush over her nub
, and she
gr
abbed his shoulders and asked
him
to continue.  He did as
she
wished
, delighting in each moan and wiggling of her hips as she sought the release that his fingers a
nd tongue would give her.

H
e noted her shortness of brea
th, her murmuring “yes
” over and over, and the increased squeezing on his shoulders.  And still he continued.  He lov
ed being this close to her, knowing that she wel
comed him
into her body and letting him receive his pleasure the way she was now receiving hers.

And then she cr
ied out and jerked against him while his fingers
softly continued to move while his tongue rever
ted back to the teasing
of her nub
.  She was incred
i
b
le.  Her entire body called out to him to satisfy
it
in every way he could.  He had a feeling that no matter how much they had sex, he could hap
pily keep going
.

Still breathing heavy, she urged him to
enter her.  Getting up, he knelt before her and settled between her legs, noting the sweat glistening off her skin and the seductive way she looked in a bra and panties which had nothing preventing him from
sliding in
to her.

He almost pulled completely
out of her until just his tip remained in her before he pressed forward, driving fast int
o her.  She
urged him deepe
r and shifted her hips to give him
better access
in
to her.  No longer afraid he’d hurt her by getting rough, he pulled out again and dove back in, repeating the cycle.  The mounting tension in
his body demanded he find completion
,
and h
e threw his head back and gave a muffled
cry, his body shuddering as he sought to hold onto the orgasm for as long as he could.  It never seemed to last long enough, and in the moment, he always felt connected to her as if they were one unit.  As much as he tried to hold onto it, he lost the battle and collapsed into her arms and remained there until their bodies resumed to normal.

“Thanks for satisfying my fantasy,” she whispered and kissed him on the neck.

“Anytime,” he murmured and brushed her lips with his.

After a moment of silence, she said, “I think I’m hungry again.”

Chuckling at her incredulous tone, he pulled out of her and kissed her again.  “Well, you did work off a lot of those calories.”

“Maybe, but it wasn’t like I ran a marathon or something.  It was just sex.”

“Which does use up a lot of energy
.” He got up and handed her the shirt and skirt she’d been wearing.  “We’ll stop by the drive thru on the way home.”

“That shouldn’t excite me as much as it does.”

“It’s the pregnancy hormone in your body.  It makes food taste better than it really is.”

She giggled.  “It works surprisingly well.”

He pulled up his underwear and put on his pants and shoes before he recalled the cat figurines that Randy had given her.  A momentary thought of chucking the figurines into a trash can at the drive thru flashed through his mind, but he shrugged the thought off.  It wasn’t like Randy was still alive or anything.  The least he could do was let the figurines remain wherever they’d been in the apartment.  Content, he threw the figurines into the blanket while she dressed and waited until she
was standing
before he rolled the blanket up, the figurines, once again, out of sight.

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