Seeing Her Pt. 02
A woman's mid-life renaissance.
Author's note:
With several of my series, each installment is readable as a stand-alone with the help of a short author's summary of past events. That doesn't work for this series. To understand the significance of what's happening, you'll want to read Part 01 first.
When I write a series I normally keep all of it in a single category. With
Seeing Her
, I chose Romance as the appropriate category for the
series as a whole
. While scenes or entire chapters may not fit the category, ultimately, the series is a romance. I should have made that clear at the outset of Part 01.
Romance isn't one thing. It's as varied as love. It can follow a path we've not walked before, a path we didn't suspect.
But...isn't that the best? When love surprises?
I genuinely appreciate your thoughtful feedback.
MP
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Madeline opened her eyes and blinked, slowly climbing from deep sleep to awake. She was lying on her side, in a king bed under heavy covers. The room around her had modern wood furnishings, a floor to ceiling window with no curtains, and a Spartan feel that said it was a man's room. Judging by the buildings visible outside, she was on a high floor in a tall building and it was early morning on a sunny day. She rolled her head to look at the other side of the bed. It had been slept in, but was empty now.
Frank Church's room.
His bed.
The realization brought her fully awake. She remembered the night before, the concert, the dinner, learning of her husband's betrayal and coming back to Frank's condo. Her body remembered what followed.
She pushed herself into a sitting position against the headboard and was about to cover her breasts, but stopped.
He's seen me, in ways no other man has. I didn't hide anything last night and it felt wonderful. I'm not hiding now.
She wondered what would come next. So many things had changed from when she woke up the day before. A recording contract? With performances, guest appearances and promotion - it all seemed unreal. She wanted to pinch herself. And her marriage... the fact that Tim lied so he could be with his young associate instead of at the concert, wounded her more deeply than broken vows. It was a statement that the substance of her life didn't matter.
She
didn't matter.
She heard Frank in the next room, apparently talking on the phone, and had a sudden fervent wish.
Please don't ask me if I'm OK when you come in here? Don't apologize for
anything
.
She wasn't sure where that came from, or why. But she knew she didn't want him, or anyone, to see her as the betrayed wife. She'd shown there was so much more to her than her relationship with Tim and resolved to never let him make her feel discarded again.
Frank was naked when he appeared, carrying a steaming coffee mug in each hand. He slowed as he approached the bed, taking time to feast on the woman sitting up in it. "Jesus Madeline, you even wake up beautiful."
She glowed with the compliment and returned his smile without taking the cup he extended, instead brazenly letting her gaze wander from his face, to his hands, and lower. His cock was hanging but not flaccid. It was filling and about to rise, with bulging veins and thicker than other men she'd been with. Madeline enjoyed watching the effect her gaze had on that part of him. She smiled playfully when her eyes finally returned to his and said, "A different presentation than one gets at Starbucks."
"If you keep staring it's going to get as hard as you made it last night."
She took the cup and spoke coyly after taking a sip, "After last night, I thought it was always hard."
"You
do
have that effect on me." He admitted. He slid under the covers to sit alongside her with their legs touching. They sipped in silence until their cups were empty before he spoke again. "You were wonderful last night."
She knew he wasn't talking about the concert. They'd talked about the concert all through dinner at Smitty's. He meant after. When Madeline remembered what they'd done after the dinner, warmth flushed through her body and her sex felt tender and bruised...exquisitely bruised.
Frank placed their empty mugs on the nightstand before rolling onto his elbow to face her. She felt his hardness against her leg. When he pulled the covers back to reveal more of her, something akin to a growl rumbled through his chest. Then he pulled them all the way down. His free hand reached out and softly landed on her tummy. It conformed to her shape. He gently explored the angle of her pelvic bones, the curve of her hips and the swell of her mons before gliding to her breasts to explore their shape and the way they rested on her and the give of her soft flesh when he squeezed them.
It was a gentle squeeze, but she moaned.
"Oh God... Madeline." He breathed.
She'd never felt so desired, never felt so unable to resist a man's touch.
Frank moved onto his hands and knees above her. He kissed her leisurely, as if that was all they were going to do. Then, leaving her lips, he kissed her chin. Her neck. He kissed the flat of her upper chest and the swell of breasts that already heaved with her quietly gasping breaths. He kissed her nipples and gently suckled them before moving lower. With his hands resting on her hips he kissed her stomach, then her Venus Mons. His hands moved to her legs and gentled them open. He whispered, "So...fucking...beautiful." He kissed the inside of her thighs. Her labial folds had grown puffy in arousal by the time he kissed them and he kissed her there like he was kissing her mouth. His lips finding hers, conforming to them, coaxing them open as his tongue slipped between them, slipped inside her. He explored her. Tasted her, and licked inside where only her husband had touched her since she was a college girl, until the night before. His tongue found her shiny pearl and writhed against it like it was the tongue in her mouth as his finger penetrated wet velvet and curled to pulse against her sensitive front wall.
Madeline's head fell back, her mouth opened, and her breath came in gasps as she soon had the most
effortless
orgasm of her life. It rose from where she didn't fight losing control, flowed from her soul... and into him. He savored the flavor of her release and held her in his mouth.
Then she lay still, resting with her eyes closed, as he slowly made the return journey the length of her naked body, until he was kissing her again. He kissed her as he had at the beginning but now with the flavor of her cum in his mouth. When the kiss ended, Madeline opened her eyes and Frank looked inside her. She hid nothing. She didn't speak, and didn't feel the need to.