One Last Kiss: A Second Chance Romance

by Lauren Wood

  She shivered and I pulled her closer. They were about to play our song for the first dance and I had a feeling that I was going to have to hold her up. Her legs were turning to jelly in front of me and it was everything that I could do to help her.

  “Are you ready for this dance?”

  Claire just kind of smiled up at me and shook her head that she wasn’t. It was clear to everyone watching that Claire was having a moment and I almost felt compelled to lift her up into my arms. I wanted to protect her, even from myself and the naughty thoughts that went through my mind. Could I even trust myself?

  “Yes, I am ready for everything Rick. I just wish this was over and we were away from everyone. It is time for us to be alone.”

  I couldn’t have agreed more and the dance took about as long as everything else felt like lately. I knew that I was going to have to speed it along or I was not going to be any good for anyone. When the music stopped and everyone started to join us on the makeshift dance floor, I was ready for us to get away. No longer was I even trying to pretend that I was going to be able to stay any longer. Claire had said herself that she wanted to get out of here. Who was I to change that when I wanted the exact same thing?

  Grabbing her hand, I pulled her out of the reception and for right or wrong, I didn’t say a word to anyone else in there. I figured that they would get the hint after they realized that we were gone for a while. That was what I was banking on anyways.

  ***

  The ride to the house was one that dragged on like everything else since I had asked her to marry me and she had said yes. As soon as she had said yes and our lips had met, there was nothing else that I could think about then having her in my bed. I wanted it so badly that when we were talking about a honeymoon and what we were going to do on our first night as husband and wife, I had insisted that we stay in my house. I wanted our first time to be a memory that lingered in that room for the rest of our lives. It seemed cheap in a way to go to some hotel where we would never be again. I wanted it to all be in our new home together where I could think back to the exact moments. I hadn’t really even put my hands on Claire yet and I knew that I was going to want to savor every moment. She was a rare find indeed and I felt lucky to be alive and to be the one able to call her my own.

  Claire didn’t say much as we made our way back to my house. She kept glancing over at me from time to time, but she never really said much of anything or looked very long. I would see her out of the corner of my eye for a few minutes and then she would turn away before our eyes met. What was going through her mind, I had to wonder. While I was nervous because I knew what was next and I questioned how I would be able to control my need, she didn’t really have anything to compare it to. Being her first was an honor in all manner of speaking, but it was also a huge responsibility that I never properly respected until this moment. Because now it was time.

  The car stopped and I looked over at my new bride. She was everything that I ever wanted, more than I thought I would ever need.

  “We are home Claire.”

  She smiled over at me finally and the look took my breath away. How trusting she was and I wished then that I was going to be worth it for her. I hoped more than anything that I was worth the wait.

  Claire stepped out before I could get around to opening it for her. She wasn’t walking quite straight and I decided that helping her gave me a good excuse to get closer and pull her in towards me. She was trembling against me and I didn’t like the feel. It wasn’t the cool air because her body was emanating heat like a furnace. Was she shaking because of me?

  I brought her inside and offered her a drink before we went back into my bedroom. She seemed to need a little liquid courage and I needed something to take the edge off. I wanted her too much and my own hands were shaking for a whole other reason. It wasn’t like me to be this way, but ever since I’d met Claire, everything had changed. I was just going to have to get used to them. There were worse feelings than being this attracted to your wife.

  “We don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do Claire. I have waited this long and I can wait longer if you aren’t ready yet.” It killed me to say it and I wanted her to tell me that it wasn’t that way, but I didn’t want our first time to be anything but perfect for both of us.

  Claire smiled at me and downed the rest of her drink. It was straight whiskey and by the look on her face she wasn’t used to such strong things, but the need for it outweighed the horrible taste. I had felt that way many of times and I didn’t want sex with me to be that sort of occasion. It just wasn’t right.

  “I want to be with you.”

  That was all I needed to hear and before a but was added to the sentence, I kissed her hard on the mouth. She tasted as good as she looked and the smell of lilacs took over my senses from her perfume. The woman was downright intoxicating and I finally just picked her up into my arms and carried her into the bedroom. There was no turning back for either one of us.

  Laying her down on the bed, I covered her body with my own, pleasing her with gentle kisses, getting her ready for what was to come. I wanted to relax her and I knew that making her feel good would get it done.

  Rubbing the side of her and then her breasts, her body started to lift up into my hands and I started to cup her. My fingers found the tips of her nipples and I twisted them a little bit until I heard a soft moan in my mouth. I asked her if that felt good and she whimpered that it did as she shook her head up and down. It was like she couldn’t answer such a simple question and finally I knew that she was ready for more.

  My mouth went to her neck and shoulders, sucking and nipping as I moved down her. I wanted her more than anything and when I pushed her legs open and wedged myself between them, I knew there was no going back. I was raging hard and dying to bury myself inside of her. I needed this as much as she did, even if she didn’t know it yet.

  Moving off of her, I started to pull my pants and shirt off. I wanted to feel my skin against her skin and I didn’t think leaving her naked for too long was going to help. I wasn’t going to want to think of it later, but I would have slowed down if I would have realized how she was going to see me in this state and what that would do to her.

  Standing naked in front of her, Claire was sitting on the edge of the bed and she gasped at the size of me. I had never seen it as anything extraordinary, but she was looking at it as if it was the Lochness monster itself. I was afraid her fear of my manhood would push her back, but instead she went to her knees is front of me and moved to stuff it into her mouth.

  I pulled back like her mouth was full of glass and she looked up at me confused. “What’s wrong? Don’t you want this?”

  “Claire, what are you doing?”

  “Something that Amy told me to do. She said it would help you with encouragement.”

  “Trust me when I tell you that I don’t need any encouragement Claire. I feel like I am going to explode at any moment and if you do that to me I will.”

  She looked at me and then at my cock like it was literally going to explode and she made it up to her feet in record time. I wanted to laugh at the moment, but I knew that it wouldn’t be appreciated, maybe another time when we weren’t in the moment. Instead I started to pull her black, skintight dress over her head to reveal what she had on underneath. There was only a bit of white lace covering the rest of her body and my eyes took in every curve. She was just as beautiful as her sister and I knew then that it was going to be harder than I thought it would be to hold myself together. Control was going to be my biggest problem now.

  “God you are beautiful Claire. I knew you were going to be perfect.”

  Claire couldn’t even really look at me. Her eyes kept darting around and only when I stopped her head from moving and kissed her to ground her, did she seem to respond. It was like she was realizing that this was about to happen and I can’t say that I liked the way she looked. This was not at all as I had planned it. My heart slammed in my chest and I just wan
ted everything to be right. She closed her eyes tightly and it looked like she was bracing herself. I didn’t want her to brace herself for me.

  “Claire?”

  “Huh?”

  “What are you doing?”

  “Waiting.”

  “Open your eyes love. I want to watch your face.”

  Her eyes fluttered open and I leaned down to kiss her lips and then move slowly down her body. I was going to have to become the king of distractions.

  Chapter 20

  Claire

  His hot mouth moved down my body quickly and I was left trembling from his attention. He felt good, almost too good and I felt like a clock being wound up. The closer he got to my ether regions, the tighter I was wound up. I knew that was the final destination, but knowing so could not take away the feelings that it gave me inside. I wanted his mouth on me, but at the same time I had to wonder if I was going to be able to handle it if it moved that way.

  I jerked with the first lick on my core, burning my flesh where it pushed between my lower lips and delved below. My hands went to his shoulders and then to the thick hair on his hair, pushing him down and away, all at the same time. I didn’t know what I wanted, but I knew that I wanted him.

  “Please Rick!”

  I didn’t know what I was asking for, but like every other time, I didn’t have to know. Just like Amber had told me, Rick knew what to do and I was left there to close my eyes and to just feel it all. It was overwhelming and the coil inside of me was wound so tight that I was sure it was going to snap. I cried out when it did, colors bursting behind my eyes. I held my breath because I had forgotten how to do everything else but cling to the man above me, my thighs wrapped around his neck in a tight grip.

  Finally he moved away and looked down at me with a grin on his face. I loved the way he looked and I couldn’t hold his gaze for long. His body was moving up and over me and I knew what was next. I was scared of this part, but when I closed my eyes, I didn’t have to see the pulsing manhood coming towards me like a weapon. All I could do was feel his hard body moving over the top of me and how it felt to be pinned underneath him. I was still having aftershocks of pleasure as he moved over me.

  When I opened my eyes at his request, it wasn’t his own that I saw. I was looking in between our bodies and he was touching me in the most delicious way. His cock looked huge next to me and it sat on my mound, awaiting further instructions. I knew where it was supposed to go, but I never thought it would actually fit. Now I knew for sure that it was impossible.

  I looked up to Rick so that he could see the error and he wasn’t worried about it. His eyes were dark and needy. There was no more waiting. I clenched my eyes closed as I felt the pressure on my core where his mouth had given me pleasure not long ago.

  “Look at me Claire. I want to remember this moment forever.”

  I did as he asked and he pushed in suddenly without warning. The pain was swift and took my breath away. The slow burn was quickly dissipating and I was left with a need to move and rub him around inside of me. He kissed my face, my eyes, everywhere before he started to move slowly. I gripped his neck with my arms and pulled him down for a kiss. Each thrust into me gave me a wave of pleasure that I had never known before and it wasn’t long before I was at the edge of reason again. His name was like a mantra on my lips, urging him on to a bliss that I knew was so close. I could almost touch it, but it was just out of reach.

  “Rick?”

  He stopped and I whined. “Am I hurting you? I can stop if I am.”

  He started to pull out and I grabbed him around the waist and shook my head not to. The last thing that I wanted was for him to stop what he was doing. He just felt too damn good, but I wanted it faster. When I told him that, Rick called me a minx and immediately gave me exactly what it was that I needed. I screamed with the next wave of pleasure that took over me and the only thing stopping me from flying off was my grip on Rick. He grounded me.

  In the distance, I heard his own breathing becoming ragged as he slammed in harder and harder. What I thought wouldn’t fit was taking over every inch of me and my body was somehow receiving it all. I didn’t know how, but it was and it felt amazing.

  When Rick stopped on top of me, pushing deep one last time, I could feel the hot seed blast inside of me and make me feel even fuller than before. It was more than I was able to handle and before long I was pushing up against his chest to get him out of me. Now I was going to explode if he didn’t.

  Rick pulled out and laid down next to me, pulling me into his arms. I had never felt so content in my life. All of the worry was for nothing and I felt shorted that no one had told me how amazing it was going to be. Was it like this for everyone because if so, I couldn’t see how anyone ever left their bedrooms?

  Epilogue

  One Year Later

  Claire

  “I can’t believe that we are finally here Rick.”

  He smiled back at me and then we both looked down to the view of the Big Apple. We had talked about this, planned for it, but to finally have another office open in New York was like a dream come true. Rick had told me about it long ago and then his dream had become mine.

  “I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you. Everything has changed now and I feel like the sky is the limit.”

  “It always was you Rick. You just needed someone to believe in you.”

  He smiled back at me and I knew that he was going to kiss me next. He had this look in his dark eyes that was hard to ignore and I looked away before I was pulled into his vortex. “Don’t start Rick. Amy and Amber are going to be here soon with Makayla. I don’t want you getting all wound up.”

  He growled in response and I giggled back at him, moving towards the coffee pot that was set up in the office kitchen. We had spent the day decorating and making sure all of the furniture was where it was supposed to be. There had been many long looks and my only way to get out of it now was to get away from the temptation.

  “Where are you going Claire?”

  Rick had followed me in and I pushed him back when he came in for a kiss. “I am trying to be good. You need to do the same.”

  “I will be good, I promise that. Never heard a complaint yet.”

  He was impossible sometimes and when I wanted him as badly as he wanted me, it was easy to see how we were always getting ourselves into strange situations. If I wouldn’t have heard the ding of the bell on the door, I have a feeling we would have been caught in an awkward position today as well. I feel like people around us were used to our ardor, but it was hard to deny how badly I wanted him.

  “Stop. They are here.”

  I pushed a little harder and ignored his full lips in a pout. I wanted to be in his arms as much as he wanted me in them, but later. When I told him as much, it didn’t brighten his mood all that much. I didn’t have a chance to give a counteroffer before Amy was bursting in with Makayla. She was crying and I took my baby girl into my arms.

  “Did you miss momma, Kaykay?”

  She stopped crying almost immediately and I was sure that it was because we had been separated. I was still finding it hard to do things without her, but with Amy and Amber there to help me, things were starting to get back to normal. This was one of my first trips and I had to make sure I was here for the opening.

  “How was she?”

  Amy shrugged her shoulders. “She was good until a little while ago when we pulled up. I swear she knew you were in here and was going to cry until I brought her to you.’

  “Well she does have her father’s stubborn streak.”

  “And his hair. She has so much hair and it is so dark.’

  I smiled and looked down at the blue eyes staring back at me. It was the best part of both of us and I snuggled her to my chest in a moment of utter love. I couldn’t help it and for a moment I had to wonder why I was leaving her at all. Wasn’t there a way that I could take her everywhere with me?

  Shaking my head, I knew it wasn’t the case and
I gave Makayla back to Amy after Rick gave her a kiss on the nose. He was just as smitten as I was and the only thing that wasn’t certain was who was going to spoil her worst. I had a feeling that it wasn’t going to be me. Kaykay already had her father wrapped around her finger.

  “Has she had anything to eat?”

  “She had a bottle a little while ago. She will let me know when she is hungry. We are going to play somewhere while you guys do the opening.”

  “Take her to my office. I have some of her things in there for when we are here. It is already baby-proofed. Amber ran through it all earlier.”

  “Where is your sister?”

  “Getting dinner I think. We are doing a meet and greet with the new consultants and then heading home. It is going to be a long night, but then we can all sleep in our beds tomorrow.”

  Amy smiled and I knew that I wasn’t the only one that was ready to get back. New York was beautiful and I loved the place we had here and the apartment, but I was still missing our home. The place where we started was always going to have a special place in my heart.

  I helped Amy to the office I had set aside for her and the baby. Giving Kay a kiss on the head, I went back to the small kitchen and moved to get my coffee.

  “I can’t wait to go home Rick.”

  “I was hoping that we would have a chance to see some sights tomorrow.”

  “You don’t want to go home, in our own bed?”

  Rick was noncommittal and asked me why.

  “I just miss it. I want to be there with you. Hotels feel strange. It doesn’t feel like ours.”

  His arms wrapped around me and I added that I was ready for him to have me, at home.

  “You are going to make me wait until we get home?”

  I laughed at the painful look that he was giving me. One would have thought that he had his penis in a vice. “If you are good, I may take pity on you in the plane.”

  That got his dark eyes leaping with fire and I looked away to save myself from getting scorched. He pulled me to him and kissed me hard on the lips. I was left breathless when he finally pulled away. Rick was going to make me pay for my teasing with some of his own.