CHAPTER 73
A few hours earlier,
Dominic’s lips were pressed firmly against Elena’s, their mouths moving in perfect sync as they kissed passionately. His hands cradled her face, while his thumbs traced gentle circles on her cheeks.
Meanwhile, Elena unconsciously wrapped her arms around him, pulling him closer and urging him to deepen the kiss, which he did while her fingers intertwined with his.
The world around them melted away, leaving only the soft brush of lips, the tender caress of skin, and the racing beat of their hearts.
Dominic’s tongue danced with Elena’s, deepening the kiss as her breath caught, her body leaning into his.
She suddenly swung her hand over his neck, willing him to do more to her, although her mind wanted her to stop, her body couldn’t.
Even when she finally tried to move away, Dom held her so tight that she succumbed to the desires they both felt.
Their kiss was hot, one that stole their breath away, and after a few minutes, they finally separated to catch their breath as they looked into each other’s eyes, breathing so hard.
Dominic’s eyes were filled with lust and he stared into her eyes, while her heart was racing as she questioned what was wrong with her. Why would she react to a kiss with so much hunger and intense pleasure when her mind told her she didn’t want it?
She suddenly moved back, wide eyes. How had that even happened? It felt like scales fell from her eyes in that instance.
“What did you do, Dominic? Why did you kiss me? What was that?” She asked in a despaired voice, ignoring the fact that she had responded to the kiss with as much intensity as he had given.
The sound of her voice brought Dominic back to reality and he realized himself in that moment. Shaking his head to coordinate his mind with the activities that had happened in his oblivion. But just as he was pulling himself together, Elena began to run back into the house, away from him.
Dominic panicked in that instance.
What had he done? He shouldn’t have kissed her. He should’ve controlled his feelings and not allowed himself to be taken unawares by the emotions that swirled in his head.
“Elena!” He ran after she called her name, but she did not stop, nor did she respond.
“Elena!” His voice was louder this time, but still, she did not stop until he covered up the space and got to her in time to pull her hands back and turn her back to face him.
“Elena, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean for that to happen, I don’t know what came over me. I’m deeply sorry.,” he pleaded as he held her hands but Elena did not want to listen to him.
She tried to pull her hands away, but Dominic held on tight.
“Can you just listen to me? Please.”
“I don’t want to hear anything, Dominic. Just let me go!” She was angry now, but when she looked at Dominic’s face, he looked so flushed, confused, and remorseful.
“Please Elena, I’m sorry. It was a mistake and I didn’t purposely…” He couldn’t complete his sentence at this point because he knew it was far from a mistake. He didn’t want to lie any more than he had already, so he pressed his lips into a thin line and kept quiet while his eyes spoke to her, looking deep into her soul as if he were searching for the Elena that had kissed him back.
Elena on the other hand, was so confused and angry that she kissed him back. She couldn’t even understand how she had responded to that kiss because it felt like she had been under a spell for a moment and didn’t know herself.
Had that happened?
Elena stared at his hands on her, and he followed her gaze until she stared back at him.
In a different way.
This time, she was admiring him, trying to see past the Dominic she knew to the man who had kissed her. The one she had responded to willingly without his forcing her.
And then she leaned in and kissed him again, forcefully this time.
Dominic was shocked, and for a split second, he didn’t respond, but it wasn’t visible because, in the next second, he was missing her like a ravished man. He didn’t relent a bit. He wanted to show her how much he enjoyed the first kiss and that he wanted to kiss her again and even more times.
With this one kiss that Elena had initiated, Dominic showed her that he wanted more with the way he ravished her mouth and dominated her lips as he owned it while Eleba succumbed to him.
She allowed him to explore her mouth in ways she never considered possible. She let him treat her lips like something he owned and was proving ownership of it while she relaxed into his mouth and enjoyed the savoring taste of his masculinity.
In the next minute, she began to tug at the buttons on her bathsuit.
“What are you doing, Elena?” Dominic was shocked as he had broken away from the kiss when he noticed what she was doing.
She caught her breath then but did not reply to him. Instead, it gave her more space to tug at the buttons away.
“Elena! What are you doing?” His hands tried to stop her, but she ignored him and didn’t reply until she was naked in front of him.
“Elena, you… you…” Dominic choked on his words at the sight of her naked body. All vulnerable before him.
“Shhhh…” Elena whispered, shutting him up as she pulled his mouth closer to hers and began kissing him again.
It was all the approval Dominic needed because he ravished and devoured her right there on the floor of the room till she was screaming his name in ecstasy.
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Elena woke up there with a smile as she recalled what had happened there, but she suddenly realized it was almost sundown, which left her in shock.
She had a date with Angelo and she had allowed time to run past her. She suddenly sprang up at the last minute and began to pick up her clothes as she rushed into the house right into the shower while she sprawled her clothes all over the room.
She took her shower very abruptly as she scrubbed off Dominic’s scent off her body.
A few minutes later, she stepped out of the shower to see Angelo sitting on the bed waiting patiently for her.