"Leave it on. Please leave your wedding ring on."
I wasn't sure I heard you right. I wasn't sure what you meant. Did you just ask me to leave my ring on my finger? Surely I heard you wrong. "What did you say baby?"
"I want you to leave your wedding ring on. I've thought about it and I want you to keep it on...for now."
Her request confused me. We had discussed the rings before we met this weekend. I told her that I felt the ring was a symbol of my belonging to another β that it showed a possession by someone else.
"I thought we'd discussed this before" I said softly. "I thought we agreed we'd remove the rings once we arrived. After all, we came here freely. We left our spouses behind in order to be together. We came here to give ourselves to each other. I told you the ring represents someone else's claim on me. I don't want that to be a hindrance to what we share or a reminder that our time must come to an end. I came here to give myself to you β completely! I didn't want the ring to be a reminder that when this weekend ends I have to return to her."
"I understand your feelings sweetie. Trust me...I do. And I do see that ring as another woman's claim on you. It's just now...seeing you here before me for the first time...knowing you traveled all this way to be with me...that's all the proof I need to know that you are offering yourself to me so completely. I want you to leave the ring on. Now that you are here, now that you are with me, I want to remove the ring myself...in my own way. I want to claim you for my own. Even if it's only for this weekend, I want to take the ring off your finger myself and claim you in my own special way."
For months we have 'owned' each other. In every way, but physical, we have given ourselves so completely to one another that this weekend was inevitable. The distance and time zones between us were minor obstacles. In a different decade, we might never have met, but in this information age, technology had allowed our two souls to find each other in a way previously unimaginable. Cell phones and the internet had bridged that gap between us and brought our hearts together in a way that can only be described as destiny.
Our chats had led us here...led our hearts together. Who knows how it really started - just an innocent comment, a witty statement, a flirty retort? However it began neither of us could honestly recall. Since that first statement, in whatever form it had taken, we had spent countless hours together online. We had exchanged thousands of messages, hundreds of emails, and scores of hours talking on the phone and web-camming. The connections we felt had been much more than simply visual attraction. We had bonded so completely in heart, mind, and soul that we knew each other as well as we knew ourselves. We had shared intimate details of our lives that we wouldn't even share with our spouses. Our relationship had blossomed into something that neither of us saw coming, neither was looking for, yet here we stood β together in our hotel room...looking at each other with love blazing in our hearts and our eyes. Both knowing that in mere moments we were going to consummate our love in the only way that remained foreign to us.
I gazed upon her...allowing her body to fill my eyes. Her image was etched into my mind so distinctly that I could have drawn her in my sleep. But now she stood before me β in three dimensional glory...so very perfect in every way. And as she untied the soft belt that held her white terrycloth robe closed I felt my pulse quicken. The simple satin panties she wore, already damp from excitement called to me, and I moved toward her in perfect obedience. Wrapped only in a towel, I felt naked, exposed, but with her I felt completely safe...completely loved.
"I wanted this so much Sean. From the first day we chatted I knew. Something felt so familiar about you, something I couldn't explain. But I knew on that first day, that we were meant to be together."
I reached for her hands. Our fingers interlaced; her soft gentle hands in mine. I pulled our hands to our sides, holding them tight β an embrace I never wanted so much before. Her body pressed against mine and I could feel the heat of her body. I leaned forward and kissed her lips β gently at first, just a peck...pausing...then moving back in close for a longer one.
Her lips met mine and on the second kiss her hands broke free of mine and she wrapped her arms around my neck and shoulders. I felt the pull of her weight against me and in that moment felt her body fall into mine β seamlessly joining into one. My arms fell around her waist, underneath the robe so I could feel the small of her back. I held her tight against me β never wanting to let go!
We held this pose for a brief eternity. Just the feel of her in my arms was more than I had dreamed of. Her scent filled my nose, the sweetest fragrance I'd ever known - floral in every way, yet with a hint of citrus that ignited my mind. 'She remembered,' I thought, 'she remembered what I had said about my love of tropical flavors.' I breathed deep and held her in my nostrils. This scent only completed my intoxication. How could this moment be any more perfect?