Karen asked Aiden to take it slowly when they reached the bedroom.
“If you have doubts, I’ll stop at once,” he told her softly as he kissed her lips gently.
“Not doubts,” she shook her head negatively. “It’s just that I am a virgin.”
“So am I,” he said with a small smirk.
“Oh?” She was shocked by that to say the least. He was such a hunk.
“Why is it such a surprise?” He raised an eyebrow as he helped her out of her dress.
She had no time to feel self-conscious and cover herself for he grabbed both her hands in his.
She had trouble coming up with a suitable answer, and ended up saying awkwardly, “You’re just so handsome, I cannot help but wonder how that came to be.”
“I was taught to respect women,” he shrugged before discarding his shirt on the floor.
Her eyes travelled across the acres of hot sculpted chest and she dampened her lips.
“I think we ought to stop talking,” he said in a teasing tone, and she blushed but nodded nonetheless.
Before long, they were bare to one another, and their eyes feasted on the sights they were given. Their mouths worshipped one another.
It was a sweet encounter of lips, a messy entanglement of limbs, and an all-too-consuming lovemaking.
He was deep within her when he asked the fateful question, “Can I mark you and make you mine for the rest of our lives?”
“Please do,” she said breathlessly, nodding eagerly. “And please don’t stop so abruptly.”
“It is as the lady wishes,” he said with a smirk before thrusting into her some more.
When she was near the edge for the third time that evening, he finally sank his canines deep into her shoulder. She cried out in both pain and ecstasy as she climaxed hard.
“This will be a date to remember,” she said many moments later, once she had come off her high, and had regained some sort of composure.
“Let’s make it more memorable,” he told her as he stroked her cheek. “How about we film the next round?”
She thought about it and ended up agreeing, “Sure. Only what makes you think I can go for another round so soon?”
“Because I can smell you, love,” he growled the words out.
And so, the second round began, and a third followed. They were ravenous for one another, and both were seemingly insatiable.
** ** ** ** ** **
“Can you walk, Karen?” Aiden’s voice reached Karen’s vaguely as she came to.
She frowned ever so slightly, before remembering how she had all but begged him to take her the night before, and how he had obliged her.
She felt some mild pain in her lower abdomen and said, “I think so. I’m just sore.”
“I ran a bath for you,” he told her softly. “I think that’ll help you with the soreness.”
She blushed at his words, and she felt silly for such a reaction no matter how uncontrollable it was.
“Let me help you out,” he suggested and then approached the bed.
She watched him as a hawk would its prey, her eyes ogling his chest, observing the way his muscles flexed. She touched it just as he bent over to help her out, and took both pride and pleasure in the way the muscles felt taut with tension under her hand.
“No funny business, young lady,” he said in a joking tone.
“Why?” She pouted. “Can’t help a lady in need?”
He groaned. “I am more than ready to ravage you. But I am not a monster. Let’s get you into that bath first.”
She puffed, and then smiled fondly at him, “Always the gentleman, I see. But I sometimes wish you were more of demanding raunchy beast.”
“I can be a beast and more,” he told her with a raised eyebrow as he carried her out of the bed and led her to the bathroom.
He placed her delicately in the bath tub, and it was then she noticed exactly how sore she was.
She let out a noncommittal sound. “Feels nice,” she told him softly.
“Should I wash you up?” He asked, his head tilted to the side.
“Sure,” she shrugged.
The tenderness in his gestures and the love shining in his eyes made it almost hard for her to breathe.
And she wanted him all over again. School be damned! She was going to enjoy every moment of today and bask into the aftermath of their beautiful lovemaking.
“What are you thinking about?” He all but growled all of sudden, brining her out of her musings.
“You,” she told him simply. “Why?”
“I can smell your arousal, love,” he told her on a groan. “And you’re under water so the fact that I can even smell it shows how potent it is.” He paused, looked at her intently, his eyes flickering between black and that beautiful electric blue color of his. “Tell me how much you want me, Karen.”
She thought he just wanted her to stroke his ego and was about to deny him a response. And then, she remembered how she never expressed her complex feelings for him in words… and thus, seeing as the L-word was much too intimidating to her at the moment, and she didn’t want to be overwhelmed just yet, she settled for a sweet, “I want you like I have never wanted anyone else in my life.”
That was the truth too.
“And that’s how it should be,” he growled the words before claiming her lips with his.
And it was not long before they were back on the bed, indulging in pleasures most delectable.
** ** ** ** **
The following day, school was buzzing with excitement as there was going to be a dance. And as per the traditions, for the first dance of the school year, it was up to the girl to ask a guy to escort them to the dance, and not the other way around.
Karen was naturally going to ask Aiden. She was even planning on confessing her strong albeit complex feelings to him.
You can do this, Karen, she told herself as the fourth period ended and it was time for lunch.
She and Aiden were heading to the cafeteria together to have lunch when he whispered in her ear, “I can sense that you’re nervous about something. What’s wrong, love? Is there something I should know?”
Her eyes narrowed at him briefly. How could he be so dense? And then a pout broke onto her features, softening them.
“What is it?” He insisted.
“Oh god, you’re so thick!” She exclaimed angrily.
“Oh my, thank you,” he said in a teasing tone, a chuckle escaping him.
Her own words replayed in her mind and she blushed when she figured out how it could be misinterpreted. She hit his arm with her first playfully.
“You hit like a girl,” he chuckled again.
“Well, I am a girl,” she retorted with an eye-roll.
“Oh, I know,” came his drawl.
They picked their lunch and were heading to a table when the same persistent girl from the day before last showed up in front of them.
“Hey Aiden,” she greeted cheerfully, completely and purposefully ignoring Karen. “I missed you around yesterday. I hope you weren’t sick.”
“He wasn’t,” Karen replied before he could, doing her best to appear calm and collected when she was anything but.
“Oh, you checked up on him. That’s sweet of you!”
“Look, Jessica,” Karen began in a saccharine tone. “You would do well to stop if you know what’s best for you. You have the entire soccer team to bother, the popular crowd to drool over, and the nerds to gawk at if you so wish. Stop trying to get with Aiden.”
“Why? You feel threatened?” The girl had the nerve to ask her challengingly.
Karen giggled humorlessly at the girl’s comeback.
“Let’s just say that I am looking out for you in my own way,” she then told her. “He and I are in it for the long run, aren’t we, darling?”
That was when Aiden spoke at long last, “You know my answer to that, love.”
“But she doesn’t,” she retorted.
“I love you. And I will carry on loving you until the last breath I take,” he said sincerely, looking at Karen sideways.
Oh god, how was she to respond to that? Could she? Dare she?
“I love you too,” she told him in a sweet bashful mutter.
His only response was to drop his tray on a nearby table and plant his lips on hers after placing her own tray on the table as well.
“Ugh! Have fun with this bore!” Jessica spat out and then stomped away.
But the two lovebirds had no business listening to a jealous girl’s rant. They were much too busy kissing, tasting one another’s lips… until someone cleared their throat that is.
“Detention to the both of you,” the teacher said once they parted for air. “No such PDA is allowed at school.”
Karen blushed in utter mortification whereas Aiden chuckled good-humoredly.