A Reckless Night

by Van,P. G.

  “You are all I’ll ever want, and I will give you as much time as you need to feel that way about me.”

  “I’ve hurt too many people in my life, Kris. I don’t want to hurt you.”

  “What are you talking about? Why would you hurt me?”

  “I lost my friends, and I know Kevin is hurting every time I see him but there is nothing I can do about it.”

  “Kevin who? Kevin Smith who works out of the Sacramento office?”

  “Yes.”

  “Did you and Kevin…”

  She didn’t let him finish his question. “No, he has always been a friend, a good friend but he wanted more and I couldn’t…”

  She was dealing with a lot of internal turmoil, and he knew it. He wanted her to continue, wanted her to let out the things that were burning her on the inside, but he knew better. He didn’t want to push her to keep going.

  “Sweetheart, we don’t need to talk tonight.”

  “Kris, I’ve hurt my friends that really cared about me for that asshole of a husband, and now I regret losing all of them. Kevin moved with me when I left the startup company where I met my friends.”

  “How long have you known Kevin?”

  “I met him in grad school, and we joined the same company after graduation.”

  “Why do you think you hurt Kevin?”

  “My ex thought I was having an affair with Kevin so I told Kevin I couldn’t be friends with him. He didn’t talk to me for almost two years after I told him that, for my sake.” She took a deep breath against his soft cotton shirt. “Kevin talked to me again when he heard about my ex, but I lost all my friends. They were pissed I left the company to keep my ex happy.”

  “Easy,” he rocked her in his arms when he felt her straining to breathe.

  “My friends were my rocks. We talked about everything, and they knew what an ass my ex was. We talked about having kids so they could grow up together and grow old together but…”

  He felt the moisture on his chest, the tears seeping through his shirt felt like acid burning his skin. He could not see her in pain, he was willing to do anything to make her tears evaporate and never come back. He felt angry and helpless at the same time.

  “Varsha…get a grip,” he pleaded.

  She dug her fingertips into his back. “I hurt Kevin the most, but that guy refuses to give up on me.”

  “Did Kevin want to be more than a friend?”

  She nodded unable to speak.

  “Kevin is very protective of you as well. I could tell from the way he looks at you.”

  “He is a good guy. He confessed he had a crush on me since grad school after my divorce, but I couldn’t be more than a friend and shut him out of my life.”

  “It’s okay, sometimes distance helps.”

  “I don’t want to do that to you Kris. I like you, but I don’t know what life is going to throw my way.”

  “It’s all good. Stop worrying about hurting me. I’m here for you, and I’m not giving up on you yet.”

  “Why?”

  “Because I like you, I want to be with you.”

  He looked into her eyes full of questions. “I like everything about you. I like the way you look at me with your beautiful eyes, I like the way you moan when I touch you, I like the way you set me on fire, but most of all I like you for what you are, your little quirks, your obsession for automobiles, and just about everything that makes you, You.”

  “I think I like you too,” she said softly.

  “That’s a good start.”

  “I’ve never felt the need to be with someone until I met you that night. I am so glad you showed up at the bar that night.”

  “Me, too. Best night ever and only you can beat that standard.” He brought his lips to hers sucking her lower lip swollen.

  *****

  She felt him brushing her sleep-soft lips with his as he roused her from a warm and fuzzy state. She smiled against his lips wrapping an arm around him without opening her eyes.

  “Good morning, babe.”

  “Why aren’t you in bed?” She opened her eyes to look into adorable dark eyes that pierced through her.

  “Lisa says I need to get out before the nanny gets here.” He chuckled.

  “Because Lisa enjoys the secretive thing with her neighbor, it’s fun.”

  “Whatever you like baby, it’s my job to make your fantasies a reality.” He ran his palms past the waistband of her panties reaching for the throbbing between her legs.

  She moaned remembering the prior night and remembered being dizzy from the implosions from within.

  “Do you want to carpool?” His voice was muffled against her neck.

  “Yes, as long as I can sleep on the way to work. I didn’t get to sleep all night.” She rasped twirling her tongue with his.

  He groaned rolling on to her pinning her to the mattress as he kissed her endlessly.

  Chapter Thirteen

  Varsha was having the most happening time of her life. She stood next to the glass door that led to the yard watching Kris and Myra play. He had taken her daily routine and tossed it over the fence and made it that much more interesting. It had been three weeks since they had their date night at her place, and they did not look back.

  Kris practically lived at her place and went back to his house to shower in the morning. They had carpooled a few times in the last few weeks, but had been disciplined to keep work and life compartmentalized. She suddenly found all the time in the world to read a book and to cook something new everyday for Myra as Kris would not let her daughter out of his sight. He fed her, read to her, and put her to bed and would do all the things her daughter wanted him to do, tirelessly.

  “Are you ready to go back in, cupcake?” Kris looked at Myra playing in the sandbox with her feet buried under heaps of sand.

  Myra looked up at him and said ‘no’ and continued to play in the sand.

  “How do I get you to do what you don’t want to do, you work that cuteness so well?” he teased tickling her feet through the sand. He looked at the child that babbled to him as she played with her toys. He could not believe that he spent his day looking forward to seeing the chubby face and the gleaming eyes when she sees him since he was never the kind with the skills to entertain kids, let alone toddlers.

  “Varsha, I need your help.”

  “What’s up?”

  “I can’t get her out of the sand.”

  She laughed knowing how Myra faked crying every time she was picked up from the sandpit.

  “Watch and learn!! When she looks up at the sky, you pick her up.” She winked.

  “Myra, look!! That birdie is falling on you.” She made her toddler look up for the invisible bird, and Kris knew he had to move quickly.

  “Alright, cutie pie, we are going in now.” He picked her out of the sandbox, dusted off the sand, and headed indoors.

  “Where are you going?” She was surprised when he started to head upstairs.

  “She needs a bath.”

  “And you were planning to give her a bath?” She was surprised.

  “Yup, I’ve watched a few YouTube videos. I think I know how to give her a bath.”

  “Seriously?”

  “I’m not kidding. They do have good instructional videos,” he clarified.

  “I know they have videos. I was asking if you were seriously planning to give her a bath all by yourself.”

  “I have given her a bath in the past with some help from mommy, but I am sure I can handle it.”

  “I still can’t believe you actually enjoy all this,” she teased.

  “I know, me neither. I blame this cute face.” Kris laughed as he headed upstairs carrying her heart, and she trusted him to take care of it.

  *****

  It was a normal Tuesday morning until there was a power failure at the datacenter. Varsha spent all morning with her team in the war room as they attempted to bring up the failover systems before the second generator gave up on them.


  “We have our core systems back online, and we are working through the validation for the downstream systems,” she reported to her boss, Jack, looking at her computer screen.

  Kris was in the war room with them to observe and understand the recovery process, and he worked with his team as they assessed the security of the failover systems.

  “Varsha, it is almost five, and I know you need to go to relieve your nanny. Please go if you need to, and I will keep you posted on what is going on,” Jack said in a soft voice.

  “Jack, that’s alright. I texted my sister and she should be able to pick Myra up and take her to her place,” she said and continued to look at her phone hoping for a response from Meena.

  Her sister usually responded well to her stress texts especially in situations such at hand. Her brother-in-law was out of town on business, and Meena was the only other person who she trusted to pick up Myra.

  Her phone beeped a notification and she looked at her phone hoping it was Meena, but she was surprised to see Kris had texted her.

  He was sitting a few feet away from her but chose to text her instead of talking to her. She looked at him and he made eye contact for a moment but looked away to look at his phone.

  Kris: Trying to get hold of Meena?

  Varsha: Yes.

  Kris: I am going to leave now and take care of Myra.

  Varsha: Kris…it’s okay. Meena should be able to…

  Kris: Give Meena 5 more mins…if you don’t hear back from her, I am going…

  Varsha: Okay.

  Kris: You okay with the nanny getting suspicious about us?

  She took a deep breath and smiled weakly at Kris’s message.

  Five minutes passed and no word from Meena. Kris gathered his laptop and announced to everyone in the conference room, “Great job today everyone. I need to go get my child from daycare. Please call me if I can assist in any way.”

  A lump formed in her throat, and her heart thumped as she saw Kris leave the conference room. She took a deep breath and picked up her phone to send Kris a message.

  Varsha: Are you sure about this?

  Kris: Yes, I am on my way out.

  Varsha: Please take care of my baby.

  Kris: I promise. I will.

  Varsha: See you soon.

  Kris: Keep an eye on me on the nanny cams. 

  Three hours later, she pulled into her garage excited to see Myra after a long day of firefighting at work. Meena’s phone had conveniently died that day, and it was almost six by the time she got back to her. She had responded back telling her sister she didn’t need to pick up Myra without any further details. She wasn’t ready to tell her sister anything about Kris yet.

  She opened the door as the garage door rolled down behind her and looked straight at Kris and Myra sitting at the dining table. Kris was feeding her dinner, and both of them smiled at her. She went straight to Myra and planted a bunch of kisses on her cheek and asked, “Did you have fun with Kris?”

  “Kissss,” Myra said smiling at Kris.

  Kris had gone into the kitchen with her water cup and was at the sink refilling it. She walked over to him gently with her eyes on him as he continued to look down, and he looked up as she was a foot away from him and smiled at her.

  Overcome with a sense of gratitude for what he did for her, she walked up to him and put her arms around him and said, “Thank you!! Thank you for stalking me and coming back into my life.”

  She felt him shudder under her touch. He did not say anything for a second and then laughed and said, “I had the best time tonight. We both talked about how you don’t let us watch TV.”

  She laughed and wiped off the moisture of joy in her eyes and turned to look at Myra who was looking at them with a puzzled expression on her face.

  “Kris, I can finish feeding her.” She reached for the bowl of food in his hand.

  “Varsha, I am on duty. Take a few minutes to settle down, and we can eat dinner together,” Kris said as he walked back to where Myra was sitting.

  She went upstairs and washed her face and went downstairs to find Kris and Myra in the family room reading a new book.

  “Kris, when did you get her that book?” she asked curiously as she walked into the family room.

  Kris laughed and said, “This is the first official print copy of Myra’s favorite book. I ordered the print last week, and it was in the mailbox when I got home.”

  “That’s amazing,” she said smiling at him and asked, “Are you ready to eat?”

  Kris and Myra ignored her as usual at the dining table as they continued to converse in their own language. She enjoyed her food while she watched the two of them interact and felt her heart swell for the guy who held her precious baby in his hands. The affection he had for Myra was unbelievable, and she was amazed at how Myra looked at him. Her eyes twinkled when he looked at her and nothing in the world bothered her as long she was in his arms.

  Kris finished up dinner and picked up Myra to put her to bed.

  “Good night, baby,” she said hugging her as Kris took her upstairs. She waited in the bedroom listening to him talk on the baby monitor as he lulled her into sleep. She sat curled up on the bed realizing she had been running her life like a hamster the past year.

  She enjoyed taking a breather without feeling guilty about not doing everything herself for her baby. She knew Kris had genuine affection for Myra and wanted her to know how to love a man, a father. Her heart thumped at the thought, but she knew she couldn’t get too hopeful about life. She was going to take in one beautiful moment at a time and live it.

  Kris came into the bedroom and smiled at her. “I had so much fun tonight.”

  “You look tired.”

  “That was one crazy day at work. You did good, and you handle pressure very well,” he observed.

  “Thank you,” she chirped.

  “Good night, gorgeous. I am gonna take a quick shower and hit the bed,” he said squeezing his arms around her.

  “I’ll wait for you,” she purred.

  “I love the sound of that, but you need to sleep,” he smirked.

  “Whatever!!”

  “Good night, babe.”

  She lay in bed with the sound of the steady stream of water filling her ears. She had a long day, but her libido was running high with the gratitude for the man who came to her rescue in times of dire need.

  She got out of bed and tiptoed towards the shower. She looked at the hazy structure of the man who knew how to drive her over the edge. She wanted to be a warm water droplet that slid down his deliciously taut body as it soothed him.

  She slipped out of her pajamas and hesitated for one second before opening the shower door. She would have never considered doing what she was about to do if it weren’t for the confidence he instilled in her just by the way he looked at her.

  She opened the shower door, her eyes pools of lust, and she didn’t need to say anything to him. He pulled her into his arms right under the warm shower.

  “I was wondering when you’d show up,” he chuckled against her lips. Her lips were demanding and challenged him to bring on the heat. He groaned when he felt her fingers wrap around his throbbing virility.

  Her heart kick started when she felt the pulsation against her palm. He kissed her, his tongue swirling and swooshing in her mouth as she worked up a steady rhythm with her hand.

  His hands explored her body caressing her skin as they moved along coaxing him to his climax. She pulled away from his lips to take her lips to his chest to suck on it, nipping on his skin as she pulsated around his erection.

  A deep humming started in his bloodstream as she twirled her tongue down his chest and made her way to the tip of his hardness as he was about to explode.

  She felt the drumming on her palm as he dug his fingers into her scalp clasping her hair. Her mouth found the hot tip just as her hand gave the final tug. Her tongue let his warm release slide down her throat as she gently sucked him with her lips.

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bsp; Her body trembled with the pleasure that ripped through her with his deep groan. He gripped her hair tighter when he felt her warm mouth along the length of his shaft. A tug in his groin told him she wasn’t done yet.

  She swirled her tongue making it dance around the velvet skin making him writhe under the warm stream of water. He was huge, and she knew how to take him in and out in slow teasing swallows. He was building up another release making his body shudder in anticipation and when she deep throated him, he was at her mercy. She controlled his body with her hot mouth making him lose all control.

  When she finally came up to tease the pounding pulse on his neck with her tongue, he couldn’t take it anymore. He wanted her and was glad he came for her. He only needed that one night with her in San Francisco to know she was the one for him.

  His mouth came to her with burning hunger, his lips full, warm and delicious. Hers parted welcoming him to her as their breaths mingled with the steam in the shower. She moaned as her hands crept up the hard, broad wall of his chest.

  He angled his head deepening the kiss, his tongue sliding past her lips longing to tangle with hers. Deep desire pooled between her legs, and he knew she was yearning for his touch when he felt her shift against him restlessly.

  “Kris!!”

  “You are awesome, baby.” His hands slid down her arms, caressing the mounds of flesh that longed for his touch before sinking his fingertips into her hips, pulling her mound to his steel hard shaft. He had blasted off to the point of dangerously losing control and was still hard for her. She was the only one that made him rock hard, peak after peak.

  He let one hand slide to the front to find the source of the heat her body emitted and found her volcanic center. He lifted her leg, opening her up to stroke her matching his movement as she rocked against his hand.

  She moaned when she felt the clench deep inside her belly and felt him tighten against her.

  “I will lose it if you make that sound one more time.” His body responded to her primal response and threatened to implode. He couldn’t wait to be inside her, he ran his palms on her bottom and lifted her.