“Oh, God!” I cried out as he inserted the final inch so deeply it was like I could feel him inside my stomach.
“You like that, baby?” he said in his exotic accent. I loved the way he said baby.
He rolled his hips slowly. Round and round each time as if I was being wound tighter.
The movements were intoxicating. Hypnotizing. It was like experiencing something completely new.
It was an unusual feeling to both want this moment to last forever and also for it to come to a pleasurable end.
I twisted my fingers into Frankie’s soaked hair. The weight of the water caused it to hang low, the tips just touching the tops of his shoulders.
“Frankie,” I moaned as I felt my climax building.
“Wait,” he said as if he’d read my mind.
“For what?”
“Until I say so,” Frankie said.
I tried everything I could to distract myself. I thought about the food waiting in the other room. When that didn’t work, I opened my eyes but that didn’t help either. Seeing his completely naked body in the mirror as he fucked me was too much.
“Frankie, please,” I said.
“Okay, okay,” he grunted.
I clenched around him and squeaked out as I released my pleasure. My brain tingled. My limbs felt numb. It felt like I was in the corner of the room looking down on myself.
Frankie’s muscles tensed. He held me as he drilled deeper and deeper. After he was finished, he didn’t let go.
“Olivia,” he said my name like I was an exotic flower. “That was incredible.”
“I know,” I said. “Thank you.”
Frankie looked into my eyes and then laughed. “I should be thanking you.”
He gently lowered me to the floor and handed me the bar of soap. Frankie poured shampoo in his hands and lathered his hair.
“This is going to sound crazy,” he said facing the showerhead. He let the water wash away all the shampoo.
“Nothing would sound crazy to me,” I said. What was happening around me was about the most normal thing I’d ever experienced in my entire life.
Frankie looked deeply into my eyes as he took my hands into his. He lightly stroked his thumb on the back of my hand. “I don’t want you to leave.”
10
Frankie
I’d lost my mind. What kind of an idiot was I to say that out loud?
She was going to think I was a lunatic. But I was out of my mind crazy about her. I really didn’t want the only great thing in my life to leave.
I shouldn’t have ever allowed myself to do this. It had been a mistake.
“I wish I didn’t have to leave,” Olivia said squeezing my hand. “But the truth is, I can’t afford to stay. I couldn’t afford this in the first place. It was a gift.”
Olivia looked down at her toes. A frown curled onto her beautiful lips and my heart started to ache.
“Oh, hey, no,” I said crouching so I could see into her eyes. “I’m broke too. I didn’t mean to make you feel bad.”
Shit. She was going to walk away from me. Why the hell did I have to say that? The old me would have been able to come up with a lie.
There was something about Olivia, though, I couldn’t lie to her. I didn’t even want to lie to her.
“I’ve lost everything. My inheritance, my job, all my money in a divorce and I lost my daughter,” I said. Everything burst out of me like an erupting volcano.
“You have a daughter?” she asked.
“I do,” I said as I turned off the water and grabbed two towels. I handed her the first. “Her name is Ana. She’s six and my ex-wife ran off with her. It’s been too long since I’ve seen her. My daughter, that is. Do you have children?”
Olivia shook her head. Sadness filled her beautiful bright blue eyes, giving them a gray hue.
“I don’t. I have an asshole ex-husband, though,” I said. “He was abusive. Thank God we didn’t have any children.”
My hands clenched into tight fists. I didn’t know her ex-husband but that didn’t make a difference. I still wanted to throw my fist into his face.
“That’s why I don’t want to go back,” Olivia said. “There’s nothing back there for me. Well, I guess that’s not entirely true. I have two good friends, one of which paid for this trip.”
“Stay with me,” I blurted.
“I don’t know you.” Olivia frowned. Her head was down but her eyes flicked upward to meet mine. “I wish I could, though.”
I wrapped the towel around my waist. “There’s nothing stopping you.”
“I don’t have money,” I said.
“I know these cabins aren’t huge but I think we’d manage,” I said. The breath I drew in filled my lungs. “You think I’m crazy.”
Olivia wrapped her arms around my middle. “I really don’t. There is something here… I feel it too. I mean, obviously, this is incredibly soon but it would be painful to just walk away from this.”