To The Woman He Loves 2

by Theresa Hodge

  He caught my hand at the wrist to bring it forward and placed a kiss on the palm of my hand. Then, he kissed his way slowly up my arm, along my shoulder, to the sensitive area under my neckline.

  I closed my eyes. He kissed the side of my jawline and each corner of my mouth before he captured my lips into a full kiss beneath his. He captured my tongue with his own. Our tongues mated and dueled with lustiness.

  He grunted into my mouth, alerting me of the pleasure he found in our kiss. I sighed my acceptance into his mouth.

  “I’ve had no peace, without you Ruby,” Ronan muttered against my lips. “You’re my peace in this stormy world. I never should have forsaken you.”

  I ended the kiss and stepped back. “Then, why did you—”

  He placed a finger to my lips to quiet me. Then, he leaned down and took both of my breasts in his big hands. He squeezed them together and began to lick both of my pebbled hard nipples at the same time.

  “Because I’m a fool. I was trying to fulfill my ego, and I’m a fool,” he said in between releasing one breast and sucking the other. “I promise I didn’t sleep with her in our house. This is your palace alone, my queen.”

  I gasped aloud. His actions were causing pin pricks of delightful pleasure to shoot deep within my slick core.

  “Please tell me you haven’t given my sweet pussy to anyone else?” he asked me, before biting down on one of my breasts.

  “Ahhh,” I cried out from the sharp, pleasurable bite from his teeth. Ronan had some nerve to torture me for his sins.

  “Tell me what I need to hear now, Ruby. Has any other man been partaking of my sweet, succulent pussy?” He growled out once again and bit down on my brown, dusky nipple.

  “If I did sleep with someone, I would be well within my right, since you opened our marriage.” I watched his features spiral out of control with that acknowledgement. “No, Ronan. I have not given myself to anyone else. How could I, when you still have my heart?” I asked.

  It pained me to know he could so easily find himself in my good graces. Still, Ronan was the only man I ever loved this way. The only man to embed himself inside my core. I loved him so deeply that it would take an act of nature to remove him from the depths of my being.

  Ronan’s orbs bored through me with a feral look. With a growl deep in his throat, he dropped down to his knees before me. He lifted one of my legs over his strong muscular shoulder, before parting my nether plump lips with his hands.

  He blew his hot breath on my protruding nub before he attacked it with his tongue. My head fell weakly back onto my shoulders as my husband sipped of my throbbing body. I craved for more of him.

  Ronan took my whole mound into his mouth and did a sucking motion, before he stuck his long tongue into my wetness. My hips began to dance and adulated against his hungry mouth. I sought relief under his expertise. Tears from my eyes mixed with the water from the showerhead. I cried out my pleasure and my pussy wept into Ronan’s open mouth.

  “You taste so good and sweet, Ruby,” Ronan mumbled against my mound. “Feed me some more,” he demanded. “I’ve missed this so much.”

  “Ugh…oh, Ronannnn.” I cried out my pleasure for the second time and filled his mouth with more of my sweet juices.

  My leg slid weakly from Ronan’s shoulder and he stood. He placed his sticky lips coated with my own juices against my lips. He swept his tongue around mine as he allowed me to taste myself on his tongue.

  “Feel how much I need you,” he ground out against my lips and took my hand to place around his velvety hardness. My hand wrapped around his length and squeezed. “Damn Ruby,” he growled from deep within his throat.

  His mouth left mine. He turned me around to face the slick shower wall. He nudged my thighs apart and lifted me slightly until I was on my tip toes. He bent at his waist and plunged into me to the hilt.

  I gasped aloud from the feel of him embedded deep inside my walls. For a moment, he stayed still to allow me to adjust to his fullness. I pushed my ass back against him, giving him the go ahead. He began to plunge into me with animalistic pleasure. After a while, I went stiff as the thought of him plunging into Misty Crewe in the same way in our garage flashed in my mind.

  “Don’t think, Ruby. Just be one with me, baby. Relax,” Ronan urged me as his hot breath hit the side of my face. “There’s no one else in the world, but me and you,” he said.

  I closed my eyes and pushed every horrid memory from my mind. My husband’s strokes became faster and faster. Our breathing filled the shower adding to the steamy effect. Little electric tingles began deep within my walls for the third time. Before long, the tingles had turned into fiery sparks and ignited into a full bloomed orgasm.

  “I’m cumming, Ronan,” I whimpered.

  “Cum on, sweetheart,” Ronan urged me on as he continued to deep stroke me.

  My walls gripped his dick with a strangled hold and clenched him tightly within their depths.

  “Oh, it’s here, Ronan!” I yelled as I began to pulsate, squeezing his shaft for dear life.

  “Shit! I’m cumming, Ruby,” Ronan snapped out on his last plunge into my slickened core. He held me tightly to his chest as he stiffened and ejaculated his load inside of me. I felt his large cock jerk and spasm as his hot seeds mixed with my essence. My body trembled in Ronan’s grasp.

  He slid from my depths and turned me to face him. “I love you, Ruby Michaels. There isn’t a day that goes by that I haven’t loved you. You must know that as absolute truth. Please forgive me…again. I promise to be faithful to you,” he said before placing his lips on mine.

  Our kiss lasted until the water grew cool on our heated flesh. We quickly washed off once again and stepped from the shower. He dried me off before drying himself. He lifted me and carried me to our king-sized bed, seeming to never want our kisses to end. He lowered my naked body to the bed and urged me to slide in between the crisp, cool sheets.

  “Get some rest. I will pick the kids up from school and pick up a meal before coming home. He placed a soft kiss on my lips.

  “Okay,” I said, feeling extremely tired.

  “I’m glad you’re home where you belong,” he whispered, before walking away to get dressed.

  I was too pleasurably exhausted to respond. My eyes closed, and I was napping before Ronan left out the door to pick up our children up from school.

  Chapter 15

  Ronan

  “Hey Yasmine, how are you, sweetheart?” I asked when I pulled up to the curb. Yasmine and Benedict reluctantly got inside my car.

  “I thought Mommy or Auntie Shauntay were going to pick us up from school,” Yasmine said.

  “Well, daddy is here, and I asked you how you are doing?”

  “I’m fine,” she said as I pulled away from the school’s curb and into the slow traffic. “Well, really I’m not fine,” she said looking at me.

  “Do you want to talk to me about it? Is someone bothering you at school? You can tell me anything, and I will handle it right now,” I said, prepared to take on anyone who had the audacity to give my daughter trouble.

  “It’s okay,” Benedict interjected, looking at Yasmine as if he didn’t want her to speak what was on her mind.

  “No, it’s not Benedict. I told you I was going to tell daddy the next time we saw him.”

  “Hold on,” I said, pulling over to the Shady Tree Park that was just ahead. “I’m going to pull over so we can talk.”

  Benedict sighed and whispered loudly into Yasmine’s ear, “We finally get to see our daddy and you want to run him away again. Don’t give it to him, Yasmine!”

  I couldn’t wait to get seated at one of the park benches, so I could find out what was bothering my children. I wiped off a spot for us with my hand and said, “There, sit down and talk to me, Princess.”

  “Don’t call me that please,” Yasmine said, as her cheeks began to shiver and tears rushed out of her young doe eyes. “I’m not your princess as long as my mommy is not your queen.” />
  “Your mommy will forever be my queen, Yasmine. Until my dying day,” I said.

  Yasmine reached inside of her satchel and pulled out a letter and handed it to me.

  “I asked Auntie Shauntay to mail it, but she was taking too long, so I put it in my bag again. Read it.” She then sprang up from the bench and ran over to stand by a tree with her hands over her face.

  I stared at Yasmine for a long while before my eyes traveled to the letter. I opened it and began reading.

  Dear Daddy,

  Why you make mommy cry? Mommy never cry before. Mommy say we left home cause you was on a trip, but I don’t know. Mommy told Aunt Tay, you break her heart. Why you break mommy heart daddy? Don't you love mommy me and Benedict anymore? I miss sleepin in my room at home. Why you don’t come get us daddy? Do you miss us? We miss you lots and lots daddy. I ask mommy who that woman was you was with when we came home. She said she your lady freind. You look at her funny, like you use to look at mommy. Do you love your lady friend more than you love mommy? I think my heart is brokin too. Cause I cry all the time at night in bed. I try not to let Benedict see cause he will cry to. Benedict miss you daddy. He want to come home so bad. But we both don cry. That will make mommy sad and make her cry more. I'm mad at you daddy. I don't wont to see you anymore. I'm not your princess anymore. You break my heart so much.

  From your ex-princess,

  Yazzy

  I looked at her all balled up inside of herself standing under the tall oak tree. A big fat lump grew in my throat and cut off my airflow. My whole world crashed down on my shoulders. The pain I felt when I found out about Ruby’s diagnosis was insurmountable. However, breaking my little princess’s heart was painful beyond words.

  I walked over to her and pulled her into my arms. Benedict hugged my leg. I pulled him into our threesome embrace.

  “Let me explain something to you two,” I said, and they both stared at me with glowing, innocent eyes. I squatted down so I would be eye level with them. “There’s no one in this world I love more than you kids and your mother. I have made some mistakes that I am trying to fix. I promise I’m doing all I can to rectify them. I hope one day, you will find it in your hearts to forgive me for making you feel sad and unloved.”

  “I forgive you,” Benedict said, kissing my cheek.

  Yasmine didn’t respond with words. She hugged my neck tight. “I just wanna be a family again,” she finally said. “I wanna see Mommy happy. I wanna be back in my room too.”

  “I don’t want anything in the world more than that Yasmine. Let’s go home and see if we can talk your mother into taking that trip to Jungle Island for the weekend.”

  “Yeah!” Benedict said, balling his fist and bringing it up and down as if he’d just made a touchdown.

  “Yay!” Yasmine said, showing her first bit of excitement.

  I walked to the car hand in hand with my two children, feeling the best I’d felt in months. I had a lot of making up to do and, for these two, I planned to walk the moon to get back in their good graces.

  *****

  When I arrived back home, I searched every room and there was no Ruby. I called her cell and she answered on the second ring.

  “Ruby, baby, I picked the kids up from school. We’re home. Where are you?” I asked.

  “Today was special, Ronan. I still need time to sort things out. A rump in the shower did not change that,” she said in a low tone that told me she had been crying.

  “Ruby, Benedict and Yasmine are here and they were expecting to see you here when we got back home,” I said, stepping out of their earshot and into our bedroom. “Yasmine wrote me a letter to tell me how much she missed being home. She thinks I don’t love her anymore.”

  I walked over to the closet and realized that Ruby had taken even more of her clothes with her.

  “They can spend the night with you, Ronan, so you can spend more time with them and let them know that you love them. I will be over there to get them in the morning.”

  “But where are you now?”

  “I’m not telling you where I am. I don’t want you coming over here.”

  That meant she was at Serenity’s house. My private investigator had given me the status of Ruby’s daily routine since she’d been living with Serenity.

  “Please, come back tonight, Ruby. I just talked to our daughter. She’s hurting over all that’s happening. We need to get our family back together before things get worse for her and Benedict,” I said.

  “If you can’t handle talking to Yasmine, just take the kids to Shauntay’s house. I will pick them up there. They can spend the night with me tonight, since you seem not to know what to do with your own kids,” she said. “I will talk to Yasmine when I get there.”

  “No, they can stay with me tonight,” I said as Yasmine entered the room and asked where her mother was. “I will think of the best way to handle it,” I said hanging up the phone.

  I had an inkling that Ruby leaving abruptly had something to do with that nuisance of a pest that sold chicken and biscuits for a living. Looking at the glow that had returned in Yasmine’s eyes caused me to push my thoughts to the back of my mind. I would handle Ruby later. The other most important lady in my life needed to feel like the princess she was. I was about to pull out all stops to give that to her this evening.

  “Your mom is hanging with her friends tonight. Do you want to go to the nail salon?” I asked Yasmine.

  “Yassss!” she said jumping up into my arms. “My friends have the pink nails with the white tips and I want that. Can I get that?”

  “Well, sure. Whatever you want,” I said.

  “Will you get a manicure with me, too?” she asked.

  “I guess I can get one minus the paint though,” I said, causing her to laugh.

  Benedict said, “Awe man, we gonna do girl stuff, Dad?”

  I rubbed his tousled naturally curly hair. “Not all night man; I’m going to take you to get a cut, but we have to take care of our ladies first,” I said, as the three of us headed out for an evening of fun.

  Chapter 16

  Ruby

  Serenity and I had been working out with twenty-pound dumbbells for the last fifteen minutes. I had built up a fine sheen between my breasts. She had a big smile on her face as she watched Jonathan Knight spot a man lifting weights. He would glance over at Serenity with a look of interest. He would also send a sexy smile her way quite regularly. I glanced over Jonathan shoulder’s and noticed his identical twin brother, Jason, who had long golden shoulder length dreads, was watching Serenity too. His arms were folded across his muscular chest. There was a look of feral lust in his eyes.

  Oh Lord. There was a disaster waiting to happen in the very near future. Both of those fair-skinned brothers had the hots for Serenity in a bad way. She’d better be careful or she would surely get burned in the crossfire.

  My phone stopped playing my workout music as a call came in from Ronan. I dismissed the call and continued my workout. I was working on a new me, and I didn’t want Ronan’s drab mood to ruin my morning.

  “Look who just walked in the door,” Serenity said, relieving me of my thoughts of Ronan.

  “Who?” I asked looking towards the front of the gym.

  I didn’t need her to answer my question after all. Instantaneously, my eyes collided with Darryl Nichols’s tall, imposing frame as he walked through the door dressed in a sleeveless black and gold zippered hoodie and matching black workout shorts. His eyes searched the gym and alighted on mine. I froze from the brilliance of his smile clear across the room. He started walking in my and Serenity’s direction.

  “Look at you,” Serenity said with a chuckle.

  “What?” I found it hard to tear my gaze away from Darryl. I forced myself to look over at Serenity.

  “You’re blushing!”

  “No, I’m not,” I lied and couldn’t stop the smile from growing that attached itself to my face, even if I tried. For some reason, Darryl had that kind
of effect on me. He made me feel lighthearted…like my cares could be tossed in the wind.

  “Howdy Purdy ladies.” Darryl’s southern drawl was so sexy to me. I felt a shiver run down my spine from the sound of his voice.

  “Hello Darryl,” I replied and put down my dumbbells. I sent Serenity a warning look to stop with the teasing. I was feeling all giddy inside. I hoped I wasn’t blushing too much. I didn’t want to make a fool of myself.

  I am a married woman, I silently reminded myself.

  Serenity smirked at me before she turned to speak to Darryl. “Hi Darryl, it’s a surprise to see you here,” she said.

  “I’ve been here a couple of times and hoped to catch Ruby here,” he admitted. He looked me up and down and did nothing to hide the appreciation in his eyes. He liked what he saw.

  “You’ve been coming here looking for me?” I asked in surprise.

  “Don’t sound so surprised. I was hoping you would call me. When you didn’t, I decided to take matters in my own hands. Will you work out with me?” he asked, getting directly to the point.

  “That’s a great idea!” Serenity answered for me, since I just stared at Darryl, like he wasn’t talking to me. “I like a take charge type of guy,” Serenity added. “I’m going over there to see if Jonathan can spare me a twenty-minute one-on-one session. I’ll catch up with you guys later.” She deserted me without waiting for my reply.

  “It looks like it’s just the two of us,” Darryl said with a pleased glint in his eyes.

  “It looks that way,” I answered him with a nervous laugh. “I was just about to do some cardio.”

  “What machine should we start on?” he asked looking around the gym at the array of possibilities.

  I had to remember that I couldn’t do any strenuous workouts just yet.

  “We could use the tread climbers,” I suggested.

  “After you, my lady,” he offered me to lead the way.

  My face burned from embarrassment. I was certain Darryl was checking out my ass in my tight yoga pants. The material left very little to the imagination.