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The restaurant was beautiful as was dinner. We had just finished dessert when Max rose from his seat and walked to my side. He reached for my hand and led me to the dance floor. Our bodies seemed to melt into each other as we moved around the dance floor. I felt as though I was floating on air. I knew that we looked as in love and happy as we were. Suddenly I couldn’t take it any longer. I moved my lips slowly up his neck to his ear and whispered, “ Did I tell you that my mom’s not coming home tonight?” He stilled and moved his head to look at me.

“No, you didn’t.”

“Well she isn’t and I think it’s time to take this dance home.” He stared into my eyes for a moment, his amber eyes turning dark and slowly nodded. He took me back to the table and paid the bill. We made our way out of the restaurant and lightening flashed across the sky. I took it as a good sign.

We drove in silence back to my house, our fingers entwined. We pulled into my driveway and Max turned to face me. He brought his hand up to gently stroke my face. “I love you more than life itself.”

“I know. I love you too.”

He got out of the jeep and came around to open my door. I slid out of the seat and into his arms. He carried me to the front door, took the key from me and opened the door. Max paused in the doorway and looked into my eyes. “Are you sure, Maria?”

“I’ve never been more sure in my life.”

He smiled and me and proceeded to carry me up to my room. He set me down just inside my bedroom door. Isabelle has done her part. The room was awash in candlelight and the smell of roses. I walked slowly over to the window and watched as rain made patterns on the windowpane.

I felt Max move up behind me. He ran his hands tenderly up my arms, from my fingertips to my shoulders. He softly kissed my neck as he slide one strap of my dress off my shoulder.

I shivered in anticipation. He tenderly moved his lips across the back of my neck to my other shoulder. He glided the strap slowly down my arm with the tip of his tongue. I moaned the sensation of his tongue on my skin was indescribable. He moves his hands to the back of my dress and slide the zipper down. My back arched and my spine tingled as he followed the path of my zipper with his tongue. He slowly, achingly slipped the silk from my body and it was his turn to gasp. He had just discovered the red silk thong I was wearing.

“God help me. I think I’ve stopped breathing.” Max rasped. I leisurely turn in his arms and took a step back from him. His eyes traveled from the top of my head, stopping to appreciate my bare breasts, than moved down over my flat stomach and the front of my panties. “I don’t know what I did to deserve you, but I swear I’ll keep doing it.”

The love and adoration in his eyes made me tremble. My lips quivered as a reached out to touch his suit coat.

“I believe you’re overdressed for this occasion.” I remarked as I took off his coat.

My hands moved to the buttons of his shirt and I could hear his breathe come faster with each button I slipped free. As I reached the top off his pants, I paused and looked up into his face.

His breathing was shallow and fast and I smiled as I undid his belt buckle and top button. I tugged the rest of his shirt out of his trousers and finished unbuttoning his shirt. He shrugged out of the shirt and took a step toward me. Lightening flashed, startling me.

Max suddenly pulled me to him. The feel of bare skin touching was electrifying. I smoothed my hands down his back, pulling him as close as possible. His mouth captured mine and he thrust his tongue in my mouth. A vibration shot through my body starting at my very core.

He brought one of his hands around my body and cupped my breast. Running his thumb over my nipple, a growl started in the back of my throat. I moved my hands down his smoothly muscled chest and found the zipper of his pants. The rasp of the zipper seemed to echo throughout the room.

I pushed his pants down to the floor and moved my hands to the edge of his boxers. His mouth moved down to my breast and his tongue swirled over my nipple. My groin tightened, encouraging me to rid us of all remaining barriers. My hand inched into his boxers and cupped him. He shuddered and I thrilled with the power I possessed in this moment.

He let go of my breast and moved my hand away from him. “This is our first time and I don’t want it to end before we get started.”

He took my hand and led me toward the bed. I lay down and he moved over me. I really thought my heart would explode it was beating so hard. Max started kissing my neck and he moved downward over my breasts, stopping to taste and tease both nipples. I wretched, as his tongue swirled around my bellybutton and dipped into my navel. The sensation was unreal. His tongue teased the edge of my panties and than he nipped at my core through the material of my panties. His breath skimmed my mound as he removed the last of my clothes.

He ran his tongue up the inside of my thigh and slid a finger into my body. My brain exploded and I knew I couldn’t wait any longer. My fingers grasped his hair as I pulled his head away from me.

“I can’t wait any longer. I need you know.” I whimpered. Max gave me a half smile as he rose to his feet. He took off his boxers and I knew I had gone to heaven. He was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. He stood before me proud and aroused.

“I need a condom,” he said turning to find his pants.

“No” I said stopping him, “I started the pill last month, and we’re safe. I don’t want anything between you and me.”

He came back to the bed and laid down next to me, moving his hands down my body, caressing me with loving hands. He stared into my eyes as he moved his body over mine. His hand settled between my legs, teasing me. My thighs trembled as I spread them so he could fit between them. His thumb rubbed my clit and I could feel the head of his cock at my entrance. I tried to remain relaxed as he started to enter me. The fullness seemed almost unbearable as he stretched me, stopping at my barrier.

“I love you,” he breathed as he pushed forward all the way into my body.

Pain arched through me as he held himself still, waiting for me to relax. My breathing stilled for a few moments before I contracted my muscles around him, he groaned and slowly started to withdraw from me until only the tip remained inside and than he sunk back into me. We started a slow rhythm at first and I wrapped my legs around his waist, the pleasure was becoming intolerable and I urged him on to a faster pace.

I never knew it could be this way, not in my wildest dreams could I have imagined this insistent pleasure. Thunder cracked, drowning out my cry of pleasure as he thrust deeper into me. The pressure inside me built and than I felt myself crest and I cried out as my world spiraled out of control. Max shuddered as I contracted hard around him and I felt his body spasm as I milked his body of everything he had to give. We stayed locked together for minutes before he moved to untangle our limbs. I held fast to him, not wanting to loose any of the contact our bodies made.

“I don’t want to crush you.” Max said breathlessly.

“I don’t care, I just want to hold you inside me like this for a couple of minutes.” He nodded at me and kissed my check as we fell into an exhausted and replete sleep.