It had been so long since I had seen you.
I had convinced myself I had moved on; gotten past the addiction that was you.
At first, I had lain awake, night after night, a hot ache between my legs, longing for you to be there, to feel your touch, to feel you possess me; but over time, the feelings faded to memories and I took a new lover, someone less exciting, but also less demanding. I convinced myself I was fine, I didn’t need your particular brand of fun. How wrong I was.
She opened the door and felt her heart stop. There he stood in the sunlight, bathing over him as if he owned it, as if it’s only purpose was to show the world his beauty.
Her hand flew to her throat; her brain tried to make desperate sense of his being here; her stomach flipped and her crotch ached. Just like that. All this time, and all he had to do was stand there and she wanted him. She hated him, but God how she wanted him.
She had forgotten how desperate a hunger he fueled in her, how the flick of his eyes down the length of her body could make her nipples hard.
“You look good Cara”, he said with a half smile, that same lazy smile that used to warm her heart, the same smile that always made her feel like she was the only woman on the planet.
“What are you doing here?” she asked, instantly flustered. She suddenly wished she was better dressed, had on more make-up, or perhaps body armor, she wasn’t sure which.
“Aren’t you glad to see me?” he asked, knowing damn well the effect he was having on her. God, she hated him, she hated herself for letting him do this to her, their whole relationship he had the power to turn her into jelly, the sexual chemistry between them had been so strong it had blocked out everything else. For months she had wandered in a daze of lust, ignoring her family, work, everything but when she would get her next fix of him. When he left, her world had stopped turning, she had lain on her bed, waiting to die, but eventually she realized her heart kept beating even though she didn’t want it to, and days came and went, and eventually she decided to give herself a kick and get on with her life. She had thought she had succeeded, she had found someone else, someone less addictive and less challenging, someone manageable, who fitted into her life without causing so much as a ripple. She convinced herself she was happy.
Only now here he was, smiling at her, and her first thoughts were of his fingers slipping between her thighs, of his tongue circling her nipple, slowly, ever decreasing circles until he hit the tip, and sucked it into his mouth……..she was in trouble.
She fought her body, trying to calm her rapidly beating heart and find her voice.
“I asked what you were doing here.” She tried to sound dismissive, she didn’t want him to know what he was doing to her, didn’t want him to know the power he still held to control her every breath.
“I’ve missed you too,” he said with sarcastic edge to his voice.
Then he regained his grin and said “ I left a couple of music books here when I went, and now I really need them, you didn’t burn them or anything did you?” he managed to look almost sheepish, disarming her anger instantly.
She wanted to say yes, she had burned them, she wanted to tell him to go to hell, yet she heard her mouth invite him into her home and say she would get them for him.
As he walked past her in the open doorway, his arm brushed her breast, lightly and in passing, but it was enough to make her knees weak. As she closed the door, then led him through to the living room, she tried to control her traitorous libido, she told herself she could do this, she could be calm and civilized until he left, and then she could have a damn good cry if need be; as long as she didn’t make a total fool of herself just now.
“You’ve redecorated.” He said scanning her living room. When they had been together it had been warm African tones, now it was silver grey, with chrome finishing and light fittings, and reflective panels on the walls.
“It needed a change.” She said. How could she explain to him that she had tried to change everything as much as she possibly could? That everything in her home had reminded her of him, driving her crazy every moment of every day?
“It’s nice,” he said politely, looking around “I wouldn’t have thought it was your style, but actually its very nice.”
Not wanting to encourage small talk of interior design, she just thanked him politely, and went to move away to find his books.
“Have you christened it yet?” he asked, blowing all her intentions clean out of the water.
“Pardon?” she gasped, not believing what she was hearing!