She could hardy concentrate at her work when she was at office and she kept remembering the bluish green eyes and that perfect jaw line. She had become one of those girls who developed crushes at the drop of a hat but Etienne Sinclair was every girl’s fantasy. It was hard not to crush over him.
After completing her work, she headed back home and found herself standing in front of her wardrobe. She had more than 250 dresses but somehow she couldn’t decide what to pick. She knew it was a very teenager thing to do but she couldn’t help but feel a little cheesy. At the end, she decided to settle with a red halter top and teamed it with a jet black trouser that hugged her curves.
She wore espadrilles along with it and even spent some time applying her electric pink nail paint. She spent some time styling her hair, putting them in a bun and curling them so that it could look prettier like those of Etienne and she put on her fake eyelashes for accentuating the beauty in her eyes. When she was happy with the way she looked, she decided to head to Café Next Loop which was not very far from her apartment. However, the moment she headed out of her room, she heard a knock.
She wasn’t expecting anyone at that hour and was curious to know who had come. As she opened the door, she was shocked to find Etienne sanding there. Etienne had put on a red shirt and had teamed it with his beige pants which brought out his flawless skin and made him look even more handsome. He was wearing a very stylish pair of goggles which hid his beautiful eyes and Katherine wanted to remove them so she could get lost in his eyes. His red hair was tousled and his unkempt hair looked so sexy that she wanted to put her hands in them and bring him closer.
“I am sorry for sneaking up on you like this, but you had left this diary on the beach yesterday. I noted down your office number and when I had called, they told me that you were headed home. So, I figured I would drop by and say hi.”
He fidgeted a little and Katherine had to resist very hard not kissing him then and there. She invited him inside and figured that spending time in her apartment looked to be a lot better idea as compared to the coffee shop.
“You look beautiful by the way? Did I interrupt something?” he asked in his sexy accent.
“Absolutely not. I was just getting ready to head to the coffee shop to meet you. You look amazing like always too.”
“Ha, but this is just the second time you’re meeting me.”
Katherine blushed because she knew that Etienne could understand the kind of impact he was having on her. She quickly stole a look in the mirror and saw that her hair was a little messy. She tried to twirl one of her hair when she found that Etienne held her hands.
“Leave it like that, if that is okay? I like when your hair is all open.”
Katherine looked in his eyes and allowed herself the pleasure of getting lost in them. Etienne slowly pushed the hair pin and her hair fell down on her shoulders and Etienne closed the gap between them and briefly kissed her.
The moment their lips touched, she felt like there was a huge explosion inside her body. It was hard to explain what she really felt. It was impossible to believe that just a kiss could do that to her.
She knew that Etienne was hot, sexy and dangerous. She knew that there was something about him which was very different and he wasn’t one of the regular guys. However, the moment he had kissed her, she could not care about anything else. She wanted him right then and that was all that mattered.
She parted her mouth and Etienne deepened the kiss. He let her tongue inside her mouth and she bit it. He groaned and smiled and kept exploring further. They weren’t really touching anywhere except for the lips but the passion that stirred inside was getting hotter by the minute.
“I want you Etienne, right now.” Katherine whispered in his ears and that was all the invitation he really needed. He pulled her close and as his hands roamed on her back, he swiftly found the zip at the back. With his fine fingers, he slid down the zip and in less than half a minute, he had hauled her from that dress.
She was wearing her sexiest bra and Etienne swore as he wanted to both keep them on and take it off. She moved her hands on the buckle of his trousers and then pushed a little lower, playing and teasing him. His eyes flared with passion and when Katherine nuzzled him, he hauled her and placed her on the big bed in her room.
She was wearing her thongs and red bra and her espadrilles. Etienne was still dressed and his belt was hanging loosely giving Katherine all kind of bad and dirty ideas. She gestured him to come closer and when he did, she crossed her legs to seduce him even more. He pounced upon her and kissed her bosom. He let his hands move over the red bra and slowly took it off, teasing the nipples which were already hard.
He licked them and the more he licked, the harder it got. She was panting hard and pushed away his shirt and in less than 10 seconds, Etienne was completely naked, wearing absolutely nothing and looked like a complete God.
Katherine gazed at his perfect body and she wanted to touch him everywhere. She climbed above him and started kissing his hairy chest and kept heading further down. He liked a woman who could take lead and he allowed her to kiss him fervently. Katherine seemed to have become a sex kitten as she sat on top of him and started cradling him. Etienne found it hard to stay still and he finally decided to show her what exactly he was capable of.
He took off her thongs and found that she was already wet with anticipation. He liked that she wanted him as badly as he ached for him. He pushed his fingers inside her and she gave a loud cry but screamed his name. He loved the sound of his name and so without wasting another moment, he lowered his mouth and kissed the sense out of her. As his lips touched the most sensitive spot of her body, she was driven into another world and the passion and heat which she felt could melt her own body.
She couldn’t stay still and she cried in delight. He pushed her legs far apart and started licking the spot fervently. It was hard for her to do anything as she was lost in the sensation of intimacy. She had dated too many men and slept with a handful of them but no one knew how to make her come like Etienne did.
She asked him to get inside and she didn’t care if he was wearing a condom because if he didn’t get inside her, she swore that she would die.
As she tossed and screamed him to get inside, he pushed him inside her and the moment he entered her body, she cried and her orgasm shattered her. She was limp and she felt that nothing could get better, but Etienne pushed out and then pushed in again and then keeping his maleness inside, rolled her up and let her take the lead.
She winked and kissed him and he pushed harder as both of them came all over again. He let his hands nuzzle her breast and when she bit him on the neck, his eyes started changing colors and Katherine couldn’t quite believe what she saw.
“Holy shit! What did you just do, Etienne?”
Etienne was still inside her, she was breathing hard and they were naked and in each other's arms, but things were about the change and she didn’t know if it would be good or not.
She realized that there was something wrong with Etienne, something different which she was not able to comprehend. Even after they were done making love to each other, she couldn’t stop thinking about him and how distinctly his eyes changed its color from blue to green. She had seen her fair share of the world and knew, just knew that Etienne was not a part of the world that she had seen in all these years of her life. He was different and she wanted to know the reason.
“Will you tell me something?” Katherine asked him, as they both lay completely naked on the carpet floor. His hands were on her breasts and he was playing with her nipple.
“Ask me anything, love!” Etienne said, with his eyes fixed on the pendant that Katherine was wearing. He knew that the pendant had a very significant part of his soul and that he couldn’t exist without its power. The pendant that Katherine wore acted not only as a source of power to Etienne, but it was also the most crucial part of his soul. Without it, he was not capable of feeling strong emotions like love and despair. He co
uldn’t differentiate between the right and wrong. He was just a living corpse, without any sense of life in his body at all.
“Who are you?” Katherine looked straight into his eyes and touched his curly red hair. She wanted him to speak the truth. Etienne thought of giving some thousand false explanations to her. He thought of telling her some or other excuse, a lie that would make her believe in him. But when he looked at her, a tear rolled out of her eyes which changed everything for him.
The stone should have carried all sense of emotions for him, but when he was with Katherine, he could feel all his emotions rushing back to his heart, touching every soul. He would feel a sensation across his spine. With Katherine, he could feel limitless. He was unafraid and had a strange feeling – as if he could do anything, be anything for her.
He concluded that it was the power of the bright turquoise stone that had his soul, which imparted that strong sense of emotions. The more nearby he would find himself to the stone, the closer he could feel his emotions coming back to his life.
Katherine couldn’t fail to notice the kind of strange attraction she felt for Etienne. Over the last few years, she had been with some other men, but none of them made her feel that way. Etienne was her only exception. She was never so sure about any other men in her life. But when she was with Etienne, everything was different. She was just certain about the fact that he was the one for her.
“Do you believe in outer space, Katherine Murray?” he asked her and wanted her to be as honest as she could.
“What do you mean by outer space?” Katherine already got her answer, but there was a very strong part of her who was not ready to believe. She wanted Etienne to speak it out to her.
“Do you believe that there is life outside Earth as well?” he rephrased his question, indicating Katherine about his origin.
“I believe in a lot of things. But just because I believe in them, doesn’t make them real, right?”
“Sometimes, all it takes is one wish, one believer to make it all real, Katherine!” he answered and looked into her beautiful eyes. He was expecting her to judge her or to look at him with disbelief. But Katherine was true and honest. She didn’t judge him or looked at him with a disguised face. A part of her already knew that he was different, and with his words, her thoughts were getting a more concrete belief.
“So, you mean to say, that you belong from the outer world?” she asked him without any hesitation. She couldn’t sugarcoat it or convey it in any different way.
“Yes, Katherine. I am sorry that I didn’t inform you about the same, but I had no other option. I know I have kept my identity hidden from you and from the entire human civilization, but what else was I supposed to do? Knock your door saying that I am someone from outer space who finds you utterly attractive!” Etienne tried to make a point and looked at Katherine who was looking way too beautiful, being completely naked in his arms.
“I am not angry at you, Etienne. In fact, I really appreciate the fact that you are pouring your heart out to me. But I have so many questions. I don’t even know from where I should start. I want to know you. I want to know more about your life, your past, your planet. Tell me everything!” she insisted. She was utterly excited and wanted to know as much as she could about Etienne, not just because he belonged to outer space, but also there was a part of Katherine, and she was not sure how strong that part was, which made her attracted towards Etienne.
“I come from a place far away from your galaxy. We call our land Zahari and it works on a very different set of society. We are all born with a free spirit and with time, we evolve ourselves. The more we evolve, the more we become mature and the first milestone of our maturity happens when we manifest ourselves in the form of a body. Some souls can take forever to find a perfect shell to rest their body, while some doesn’t even find it at all. For us, finding a body for our soul is an extremely sacred task. It is like finding a temple for the free spirit, which we believe is the origin of the entire universe. We are all born with a part of universe embedded in our soul and we manifest all that power which comes from the universe itself in form of our body!” he said and looked at Katherine. He wanted to make sure that she was with him all along the conversation.
“This is really mind-blowing. Go on, I want to know more!” she demanded and he continued telling her more about Zahari.
“For us, choosing the perfect body means everything. Since our soul is the purest manifestation of the universe, it has no start or ending. We are immortals and once we enter a body that becomes immortal too. I came into existence in my present body some two thousand years back and ever since I am right here,” he paused letting Katherine process it all in.
“Seriously?” she asked.
“Yes! Seriously, two thousand years ago. After attaining the perfect body, we start performing different task in the society. There is a temple of the unknown which we visit the first time we enter our body that lets us know our motive behind our existence. The moment you enter the temple, you become enlightened and gain knowledge about everything in the whole wide universe. We believe that Zaharai lies at the core of the universe, which makes it possible for us to attain knowledge about everything in the universe,” he continued.
“Everything?” Katherine interrupted in between, for she couldn’t believe what she just heard.
“Yes, everything! After I entered the temple, I realized that I was created to be a teacher. I started teaching other members of our society about the true existence and guiding the lost souls to find their way back home in the eternal light. I taught in the temple to other members of our community for years, until I realized that it was time for me to move on to the next level. Love!” he paused and took a deep breath. At that moment, he decided to let Katherine know each and everything about him. He couldn’t lie to her at all. Etienne looked at her eyes and they reflected innocence in the most unadulterated way. He was completely unaware about her reaction but was ready to walk that extra mile. He was ready to take that risk.
“For us, falling in love is very different. When we fall in love, we give everything to the other person. We extract the core of our being in form of our heart and we literally give it to someone else. With that, we provide our knowledge, our existence, our belief to that chosen one. We give them the power to mold us in any desirable way. We give them the power to destroy us, with a hope that they would never do the same. But sometimes, they do!” As Etienne spoke those words, Katherine realized that something was wrong. He had a broken heart and had that faraway empty look in his eyes, which no mortal or immortal thing in the world, except love would fill.
“What happened to you, Etienne Sinclair? What made you so broken?”
“Reality,” he uttered the hard word and got up.
“Reality happened. I thought that I was in love with Cecilia, but even after knowing so much, I failed to recognize the true essence of love. I was blinded by her beauty and did the most unimaginable mistake. I confused love with infatuation. I thought it was love, but in reality, I was just infatuated towards her!” he dressed himself and Katherine followed his lead. She realized that Etienne was not feeling well and wanted to provide some comfort to his aching heart.
“I gave her my soul. I gave her a choice to teach me the true meaning of love, but when I presented myself to her, she rejected me. Her eyes turned grey and she realized what I gave to her was not love, but something else. She was furious and threw it away!”
“What do you mean by that? She threw it away?” Katherine asked, she couldn’t believe what Cecilia did to him.
“Yes! She held my heart in her heart and threw it in the universe. It got lost in the unknown space and kept floating in the universe for a very long time, until it finally reached to you!” Etienne took a few steps towards Katherine and touched the beautiful pendant that she was wearing.
Katherine couldn’t believe what she just heard. She looked at Etienne whose eyes were fixed at the pendant, as it was his soul. At that moment
, she felt dejected. She felt the same pain and remorse that Etienne felt when his heart was broken. She was falling for Etienne, but when she realized that his fascination towards her was only because of the pendant, she couldn’t stop cursing the destiny.
“So you came all this way for the stone?” she asked.
“This is not just a stone, Katherine. This is my heart, my soul. This is the years of knowledge that I had gained from my experience. This is the core of my being. It has all my emotions, all my power, and my sentiments. Everything! It is my universe,” he said and kept his eyes fixed at the stone.
“Take it then!” Katherine realized the importance of that stone for Etienne and unchained it from her neck. She handed it back to Etienne without wasting another second.
“But this is not the reason why I want to stay, Katherine. When I first came to this planet in order to search my heart, I was attracted towards you. I recognized it the moment I looked at you, and for the obvious reasons, I started believing that my fascination towards you was because of the pendant. Since you were carrying it with you, close to your heart, I thought that I was attracted towards you. But I was wrong. I couldn’t stop thinking about you even when we were apart. There is this thing about you that makes me believe in myself. I am capable of feeling all these emotions without this piece of stone when I am with you. It is like as if you already have my heart and this is just a stone. It means nothing to me anymore, Katherine. But you do! You mean the whole world to me!” Etienne poured his heart out to Katherine, expecting her to understand his dilemma.
Katherine couldn’t comprehend all that at once. It was too much for her and she just wanted to break free. She wanted to go back in time and press an undo button.
“I think it is better for you to leave. You have got your soul back; now go back to your world, Etienne!” Katherine said with a heavy heart and asked Etienne to leave. He wanted to let her know that what she was thinking was wrong, but he realized that it was not the right time or place, and decided to leave her alone.
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