HOUSE OF THORNS : EPISODE 21 – 30
HOUSE OF THORNS
Episode 24
Valerie raised her hand to push him off. Yes, she needed to free herself from his hold, but her hands were acting on their own. Impulses from the brain had directed the hands to push, but they were working in reverse order!
Her hands pulled closer instead. She grimaced as she understood that her hands had sabotaged the mission they were sent on. Why were her hands holding Leonard and pulling instead of pushing? Why was her head moving to the kss and her body melting into his?
Oh God! Why did he have to kss this good? She could smell the sweet cologne he wore and taste the sweetness of his lips just as her soul could feel his deepening breathing and her thighs could feel his hardness.
She was falling, yes, she was falling deeper Into his web, she was finding it hard to see anything else but him. Her brain kept registering the way he m®aned as his hands ran over her body hungrily.
They stayed locked in each other’s arms, she allowed him kss her for a while, and then without knowing when, she was kssing him back, with the same urgency and need, with the same vigour and passion as he was kssing her.
“I’ll live for this moment and take what comes after” she told herself as she allowed them both bolt away from the earthly realm, their passion teleporting them successfully to a place where nothing else mattered.
They remained in each other’s arms, kssing and touching, igniting fiery sparks with the love that shone in their eyes as they shared laboured breathes. “Oh God, I love this man too much for my good!” She told herself as she looked at him when he eventually let her lips go,panting for air.
“Please Valerie, please be my girlfriend” he asked again while holding her head in his palms and looking deeply into her eyes as if to search her soul through them.
Valerie looked up at those eyes and she couldn’t believe that she had never noticed how deeply the eyes spoke about what his heart held.
Did this man have to look this good? She had always known he was a cutie, but looking at him closely as he made his tongue wade through her mouth, slopping in and around every part of her mouth, made her more aware of his features as she stood there, letting him kiss her so perfectly, and making her as helpless as she was now.
She could see his face clearly, oh Lord, he had a dapper, military moustache and a manful, gritty stubble. Why did his eye have to have a-flush with triumph? Valerie closed her eyes as her brain summed up all it had taken in, in those few seconds of skimming his face; He had a devil-may-care outlook and a stellar smile as he stood there waiting for her to respond to his plea.
When she opened her eyes again, he was standing sure and closer, she could feel his breathe over her tender nostrils. She opened her mouth, but words failed to form, her vocal cords couldn’t produce a sound.
How could she speak when he was looking intimidatingly over her face, his eyes dancing over her body as though he wished to consume her. She opened her mouth and closed it the fourth time and with the closing of her mouth this fourth time, her eyes involuntarily shut as well, her senses were being hyper aware of his domineering presence, and she was having a hard time fighting the urge to jump on him, to kss him and tell him how much she feels for him.
To tell him how she had fought her feelings since the day she had come to the office to pick her sister up and met him in the parking lot, looking lost and deserted.
She wanted to tell him how she had found working at Mcmorrit Holdings interesting because she’d get a glimpse of him everyday. But how could she confess the same feelings she was so sure she had relegated to the invincible and inaccessible part of her heart?
“Please my lady, I know you have fears, I know you have doubts and worries, but believe me when I say it, I’ll never let you shed a tear by my side. The only time you’d be allowed to cry would be out of extreme pleasure this man here is willing to make you get always” he spoke again, his baritone voice ringing throughout the room and touching the core of her being.
“Will you allow me be your man? Will you be the reason my soul finds peace at last? Will you let the deep feelings we have for each other pilot the affairs of our lives?” he prodded the more, as he covered the distance between them. She had pulled out and was moving away, he wasn’t going to let that happen, he walked over to her sides, standing in front of her, this time, with her back on the wall, he was practically leaving her just space enough to allow her breath.
She nodded slowly, but surely. She had to tell him how she feels and what she fears, but that had to be another time, it had to be sometime, when she’s able to connect her vocal cords with her tongue, but for now, she couldn’t trust her tongues again.
And as she stood there thinking about how her tongue had betrayed her that night, Leonard was reacting to her acceptance, he was lifting her off the floor in super excitement.
“Thank you my darling! Thank you for giving us a chance. You can be sure that I’d spend my life making you see how right you are for pushing those fears aside and allowing this love made in heaven a reality on earth, this I promise you!” he assured her, as he carried her all the way to the bed.
He put her down gently and sat besides her, smiling triumphantly as he watched her look down like a school girl. He never imagined a day would come when Valerie the witty girl would look all shy and tongue tied that she just sat looking at him and blushing helplessly.
That night, Leonard and Valerie talked about a lot of things. He was shocked to find out that his little talk with her that morning had made her imagine he was still interested in Vivian.
He was pained to know that she’d been crying every night for him, when he was hurting with the efforts he made to stay away from her, because he was bent on remaining loyal and trustworthy before his friends, Tricia and Vince.
Valerie coughed uncontrollably as she laughed painfully, listening to him talk about how he’d been afraid of what Vince and Tricia would think of him getting involved with her.
“Look Leo, my sister has been worried sick about me not having a boyfriend, and I’m sure she’d be the happiest of all humans to find out that we love ourselves the much we do. She likes you so much because she thinks you’re a good man, so you see, she won’t have to worry her pretty head, double checking the man I have chosen” she told him happily.
They spent the entire night playing games, talking and mostly, kssing and cuddling. Valerie felt like she had never felt her entire 23 years sojourn on earth and for Leonard, his 27 years on earth has never had a night as fulfilling as that night
HOUSE OF THORNS : EPISODE 21 – 30
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