Chapter 4. Lustful Night 3

Lucien let go of her hands, wanting to use his left hand to hold her face and kiss her since his right balanced his weight over her.

Anna grabbed the linen sheets the moment her hands were free, but they weren't helping so she grabbed the biceps of his arms. Her fingers soon crawled up his arm to his broad shoulders, hugging them as he slid in and out of her at a steady pace that messed with her senses.

A tremble rippled through her, starting deep and spreading outward like a shiver of light. Her nails dug into his skin as the euphoric feeling hit her hard without warning.

Her breath hitched, and then broke free in a sharp gasp, her body arching as the wave took her. Her fingers clutched his shoulders tighter, and her thighs tensed. And soon a soft cry slipped through her lips. Her body shook once…then again…before collapsing beneath him, boneless and breathless.

Lucien lost it at the sound of her release. A low, guttural sound escaped his throat; half growl, half surrender as he came after her. His rhythm faltered, hips jerking once, twice, and then he stilled. He exhaled sharply, his head bowed and buried in her neck, his muscles tight, and his hands gripping her like an anchor.

Then came the silence after, slightly disrupted by just the ragged sound of breathing and the heat between them.

It was in this silence that he realized something terrifying:

He didn’t want to let her go.

*****

Morning.

Anna squinted her eyes after she turned in the large bed and rays of sunlight from the french window sipped through. She groaned and muttered curses at the light before lazily opening her eyes.

When she sat up, she looked around her. The room she was in was large, she didn't remember it to be this large last night. She listened to hear if the man she spent the night with yesterday was in the bathroom but he wasn't.

She was still curled up under the thick duvet when a knock proceeded and old woman's entry into the room. She immediately clutched the duvet up to her chest with surprise when she saw the old woman.

"Good morning?" Anna greeted, hoping the woman explained why she walked in the way she did, and she did.

"Good morning. I'm here to clean." The old woman smiled.

"Oh." Anna said and looked around. Her dress was still at the center of the room and the man's trouser was there too. Her heels were at the foot of the bed and lying next to them was her underwear from yesterday.

‘Shit,’ she thought and reached for them from the high bed, but realizing she couldn't reach it unless she stepped out of the bed, she turned to the old woman with plea in her voice.

"Can you give me a minute or more to get ready to leave?"

"Oh, yes." The old woman chuckled and was almost on her way out when she turned to Anna."Do you want me to clean that, along with your dress? It would only take forty minutes."

"No, thanks, I'm good." Anna said and waited for her to leave and close the door before grabbing her panty. She shoved it in her purse and picked up her dress. It didn't smell bad so she put it on and put on her heels.

Fixing her hair in front of the mirror, she just couldn't help wonder to herself if she was at a hotel.

‘But there was no receptionist...’ she brought up reasons in her thoughts how she was sure it wasn't a hotel last night, but she couldn't see the man around so she concluded it was. And he had left the hotel before her.

She was rushing out of the room with no directions when she almost bumped into the old woman again. She smiled and walked past her but came back to ask for directions.

Using the elevator like the old woman directed, it took her directly to the ground floor from the pent house. She covered her face with her hair as she made her way out even if there was nobody there.

She stood impatiently and waited for her ride but was surprised when a clean, black, shiny car stopped in front of her. The driver stepped out of the car and came to hold the door for her.

"Where will I be taking you, ma'am?" She heard the driver ask and just chuckled, assuming he was being fancy for a tip. But what she didn't understand was why someone with a car as beautiful as his was working under the transport company.

She shrugged off the thought, wanting to just get home and soak herself in a warm bath and get some more sleep after.

****

Monday.

Anna woke up earlier than usual just to organize and find clothes that could cover the hickeys on her neck that refused to leave since Saturday night.

She had noticed them on Sunday after her bath when she stood in front of her mirror to use her skincare. They were all over her neck and shoulders. She had assumed they'd go before Monday, but they hadn't so now she had to find an outfit that could cover it all up.

At work.

"You're late!" Anna heard her team's manager scold her from behind the moment she stepped foot into her office. She sighed with her eyes closed because she had taken every precaution to avoid being caught coming to work late by her boss but the grumpy woman just caught her.

"I'm sorry, it won't happen again, I promise."

"If it does, I'll start accepting those application letters that have been flying in here for your office."

"It won't." Anna assured the woman and waited for her to leave before joining her colleagues who shared an office with her.

"Always making empty threats," one of the two in the office mocked their supervisor.

"I know right? Talk about application letters flying in here, nobody in their right mind would want to join the company now, I mean look at it." Kel, Anna's friend supported.

"My first time coming late in three months," Anna shook her head with a sigh after before taking her seat next to Kel.

"What are you wearing?" Kel noticed the turtle neck in which she wore strangely.

"Clothes?" Anna pretended she didn't understand Kel's question.

"Yeah, you're wearing a turtle neck, you hate turtle necks."

"No, I don't," Anna chuckled nervously while itching her neck from the discomfort of the turtleneck.

"Girl, you're not just wearing a turtleneck, you're wearing the turtleneck that asshole got you. What's up?" Kel knew Kai.