Her eyes grow wider.
“This is still too new.” I’m confessing my darkest fears to her again.
Ana leans toward me, and I don’t know what she’s going to do, but she kisses the corner of my mouth. “Christian, I got the wrong idea. Please don’t worry about it. Please don’t think about it.” She kisses me again, and I close my eyes and kiss her back, hungrily. I grab the back of her head, holding her in place, and press her into the mattress, banishing my demons as I do.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Scarlet nails rake across my chest. I can’t move. I can’t see. I can only feel. You don’t like this, do you? I can’t speak. Silenced by the ball gag. Frantically I shake my head as the darkness slithers inside me, trying to crawl its way out, while her talons wreak their havoc on the outside. Hush, now. You’ll get your reward. The flogger strikes my chest, the small beads pinching my skin in a stinging rebuke that silences the darkness with pain. Sweat beads on my brow. Such beautiful skin. She hits me again. Lower. And I pull against the restraints as the flogger sings its song across my belly. Fuck. She’s going lower. The pain will be hard to take. I steel myself. Waiting. Ana stands over me. She’s caressing my face while wearing my fur glove. Her hand moves down my throat, across my chest, the fur sliding over my skin. Soothing. Quieting the darkness. Ana watches me, her hair mussed, her eyes shining with her love. Ana. Her hand moves lower to my belly and sweeps over my stomach with the softest caress. Then her fingers are in my hair.
Opening my eyes, I find I’m wrapped around Ana like swaddling, my head on her chest. My gray eyes meet sparkling summer blue. “Hi,” I murmur, delighted to see her.
“Hi.” My joy is mirrored in her face.
Her satin nightgown is perfectly designed, revealing that special valley between her breasts. I kiss her there as the rest of my body wakes…fully. My hand skims over her hip. “What a tempting morsel you are,” I mutter. “But, tempting though you are”—the radio alarm reads 7:30—“I have to get up.” Reluctantly, I disentangle myself from my wife and climb out of bed. She puts her hands behind her head and watches me as I strip, teasing her top lip with her tongue.
“Admiring the view, Mrs. Grey?”
“It’s a mighty fine view, Mr. Grey.” Her mouth twists into a smug grin, so I throw my pajama pants at her.
She catches them, giggling.
To hell with work.
I hoist the duvet off of her, kneel on the bed, and grab Ana’s ankles, drawing her toward me so that her nightgown rides up over her thighs, and up, and up, revealing my favorite place.
She squeals. It’s a stimulating sound, and I lean down and start a path of kisses from her knee, to her thigh, to my favorite place.
Good morning, Ana.
Ah! She groans.
Mrs. Jones is busying herself in the kitchen when I stroll in. “Good morning, Mr. Grey. Coffee?”
“Good morning, Gail. Please.”
“And what would you like for breakfast?”
I’m famished after this morning’s, and yesterday evening’s, activities. “Omelet. Please.”
“Ham, cheese, and mushrooms?”
“Great.”
“Mrs. Grey did an excellent job on your hair, sir.” Mrs. Jones smiles, and there’s a teasing glint in her eye.
I grin back. “That she did.” I perch on one of the barstools at the kitchen counter, where she’s laid two place settings. “Ana will be with us shortly.”
“Very good, sir.” She hands me a coffee, and while my omelet is cooking she lays out granola, yogurt, and blueberries for Ana. I check the markets on my phone.
“Good morning, Mrs. Grey.” Gail hands Ana a cup of tea as she greets her.
My wife is wearing a pretty blue shift dress that complements her eyes. She looks ever the cool publishing executive, and not the sex siren that I know, intimately, and often. She sits down beside me. “How are you, Mrs. Grey?” I ask, knowing that she was well pleasured, and loud about it, this morning.
“I think you know, Mr. Grey.” She gazes up at me through her lashes, giving me that look that goads my libido.
I smirk. “Eat. You didn’t eat yesterday.”
“That’s because you were being an arse.”
Mrs. Jones drops a plate that she’s washing beneath a tap into the sink; the sound startles Ana.
“Arse or not—eat.”
Don’t fuck with me on this, Ana.
Ana rolls her eyes. “Okay! Picking up spoon, eating granola.” She sounds exasperated, but proceeds to serve herself yogurt and blueberries and makes a start on her breakfast.
I relax and remember what I wanted to talk to her about. “I may have to go to New York later in the week.”
“Oh.”
“It’ll mean an overnight. I want you to come with me.”
“Christian, I won’t get the time off.”
I peer down at her. Oh, I think we can work that out.
She sighs. “I know you own the company, but I’ve been away for three weeks. Please. How can you expect me to run the business if I’m never there? I’ll be fine here. I’m assuming you’ll take Taylor with you, but Sawyer and Ryan will be here—” She stops.
As ever, my wife makes a good point.
“What?” she asks.
“Nothing. Just you.” And your negotiation skills.
She gives me a sideways look, but the amusement in her expression abruptly vanishes.
“How are you getting to New York?”
“The company jet, why?”
“I just wanted to check if you were taking Charlie Tango.” Her face loses color as she shudders.
“I wouldn’t fly to New York in Charlie Tango. She doesn’t have that kind of range. Besides, she won’t be back from the engineers for another two weeks.”
She looks relieved. “Well, I’m glad she’s nearly fixed, but—” She stops and looks down at her granola.
“What?” I ask.
She shrugs.
I hate it when she does this. “Ana?” Tell me.
“I just…you know. Last time you flew in her…I thought, we th-thought, you’d—” She stutters and then stops.
Oh.
Ana.
“Hey.” I brush my fingers down her face. “That was sabotage.”