Heart's Desire Ch 19

Chapter 19

SPOV

“Sookie damn it, be still!” He growled again.

I was tormenting him and I knew it, but when I woke up this morning wrapped in those beautiful arms I couldn’t help but snuggle in closer to him. At first it was just a small tap, one that probably would have gone unnoticed if I had remained still. Yeah, if I had remained still. With just another small squirm the tap became more of a nudge. Without any verbal acknowledgement Eric tightened his grip around me, I suppose trying to keep me still. Whatever! I remained still until I felt him relax again then I arched my back just a little, just enough to grind ever so softly against his awakening member that was now almost fully aligned with the crack of my ass.

“Sookie love, you need to be still.” He mumbled into my hair. “Go back to sleep.” No way!

Now it was time to go in for the kill. I pushed my butt as hard as I could against him and began brazenly flexing my ass cheeks. I was going all in with this move. Sensing that my movements were deliberate, he placed a restraining hand on my hip and growled.

“Sookie damn it, be still!”

“Or what?” I asked almost giddy now with my new found feeling of power.

“Or I won’t be able to wait any longer and I’ll be forced to push your leg forward and slam my now rock hard dick into your hot wet slit and fuck you until neither one of us remembers our names!” OK honestly, you’re going to threaten me with that? And when exactly did Executive Northman crawl in bed?

What he had intended to be a warning had only managed to make me instantly slobbering wet.

“Why would you be waiting?” I asked with my back still to him.

He sighed heavily before answering. “I’ve wanted to wait until I was stronger. I want our first time together like that to be perfect. But right this minute you are truly testing my restraint.”

“Well what if I don’t want to wait?” I paused for a second but without really waiting for a response I continued. “I can understand where you’re coming from and I appreciated it, I do, but I saw the way your naked ass maneuvered around this bed last night and while you may not be able to support my weight while having me pushed up against the wall somewhere, I think you can more than handle yourself while in this bed.”

Somewhere in my tirade I must have said the magic word because without another word or any warning, Eric reached over, placed his hand behind my knee and thrust my knee forward, exposing my now dripping center to the air. Suddenly I felt the weight of his body against my back and felt him drag his tip up once along my slit before plunging it in abruptly, my moisture allowing unobstructed passage.

“Yes!” I almost shouted as I pushed back against him with matching force as we urgently found our own unique rhythm.

“Sookie wait.” He panted while trying to pull away. You’re kidding me, right?

“What?” I asked, turning myself slightly to look at him while trying to hide the growing frustration on my face and in my voice. Horny much?

“Protection?”

“Pill!”

Eric quickly kissed me and then rocked my hip forward again and continued the welcomed assault. Gradually our pace quickened as urgency and need spurring us on.

“Harder Eric!”

“Oh God… Sookie…so tight!”

“Eric don’t stop!”

“So good! Cum with me Sookie!” Eric groaned as he plunged still deeper.

“Oh fuck, yesssssss!” I cried into my pillow as I tried to suppress my screams thinking it best not to introduce Mrs. Hadley to that side of me just yet.

My body tighten around him as he spilled deep inside with his last thrust.

I felt Eric relax against my back as we both struggled to catch our breath. And just like that, Executive Northman left the bedroom.

“Oh shit Sookie, I am so sorry.” Eric said while rolling over. I turned over to face him. Seeing him lying there with his arm thrown over his forehead, I knew he was cursing himself for his lack of restraint.

“Northman, don’t you dare! I will not let you take what we just experienced and cheapen it with words like that. What just happened between us was exactly what we both needed, hard and fast! Both of us damn it! Not just you. And I will not apologize for it, nor will I allow you to!” He moved his arm and lifted his head so he could see my face, obviously a little shocked by my declaration.

“Look, there will be plenty of occasions in the future for tender and sweet as well as hot and steamy and I will expect you to deliver at all those opportunities, but for right this moment, this was what we needed. Get over it!” He laid there just staring at me for a minute.

“Woman, you are fuckin’ amazing!” He said before pulling me to him and planting tiny kisses all over my face. Damn right!

We laid there holding each other in that place somewhere between awake and sleep for almost another hour before getting up to shower.

It was a struggle keeping Eric focused on just getting clean in the shower but I felt we had been pushing his physical limits for the last two days and I didn’t want our newly discovered insatiable need for each other to slow his recovery in any way. “Will you be ok while I go upstairs and get dressed?” I asked standing by the bedroom door still wrapped in my towel.

“I’ll be fine; I’m not completely helpless…but tell me, how do you like your room upstairs?”

“The room is beautiful.”

“Well, I’m glad you like it, but if I’m honest, I hope you never use it.” He said somewhat sheepishly.

“Eric, if you didn’t want me to use it, why did you have them put my stuff up there?” I asked as I walked over to him.

Eric had moved to bench at the foot of the bed to put on his socks.

“Sookie I wanted you to have a space here that was yours.” He grabbed my hand and pulled me into his lap. “Look, I want you here…in my room…in my bed but I don’t want you think that is where you have to be. I wanted you to have a choice.”

“Well then, I want to be here, with you. That’s my choice.” He cupped my face with both hands and kissed me sweetly.

“Perfect. I’ll have your stuff brought down later this morning. Now, go get dressed so we can decide what we are going to do today.” He said playfully shoving me off of his lap and swatting my ass.

“Careful Northman, I’ve had lots of practice dealing with guys smacking my ass.” I joked but I was sure I saw him wince when I did but I decided not to ask him about it and instead darted off upstairs to change.

When I found Eric he was already sitting out on the lanai with a cup of coffee talking to Mrs. Hadley.

“Good morning dear can I get you a cup of coffee?” She asked.

“I’ll get it Mrs. Hadley; just point me in the right direction.” Having someone wait on me was still not something I was comfortable with.

“Nonsense dear, I’ll get it. Now what would you like for breakfast?”

Completely unprepared for such an open ended question I wasn’t sure how to respond. Eric sensed my uneasiness and suggested I might like to have an omelet like he was having.

“That sounds great, thank you.” I told her and she made her way to the kitchen.

“Sookie are you ok? You seem very uncomfortable right now.”

“I’m just not used to having someone serve me.”

“I know, and it’s one of the things I love about you but I assure you Mrs. Hadley does this job because she wants to and she is well compensated for it. You will end up making her feel uncomfortable if you do not allow her to do what she is here to do. How would you feel if a customer came to your place of business and wanted to do part of your job? You wouldn’t feel right about it either.”

His words made sense but it was going to take time to undo all my preconceptions. Wait! Did he say love?

“I know, you’re right.” I said just before Mrs. Hadley returned with our breakfast.

“So Ms. Stackhouse, what would you like to do today?” He asked.

“Well I’m eager to get started on reviewing those donation requests.”

“Sookie, you realize its Saturday right? You don’t have to start on those right away; they will be here on Monday.”

“I know, but I only have two weeks, so I don’t want to waste any time.” There was that wince again, the same reaction he gave me earlier in the bedroom.

“There’s not a deadline. If you’re not…well, let’s just see how far along you are then.” I could see the wheels in his head turning, but clearly he was not willing to share those thoughts just yet.

“Ok, so how about this, we do some work this morning. I can get started on the donations, I’m sure you have a long laundry list of things you need to do and then when it warms up a little more we head out to the pool?”

“Nice negotiation skills Stackhouse, I’m impressed.”

We finished breakfast chatting about nothing in particular and it wasn’t until we were ready to make our way to the library that I realized he was not in his wheelchair.

“Eric, how did you get out here?”

“I walked.” He said as if I was stupid to ask.

“Ok smartass, how ‘bout I race you to the library then.”

“Don’t you worry Love; I’ll be chasing you all over this house soon enough.”

“No seriously, where is your chair?”

“I left it in the bedroom. I found some renewed motivation this morning for getting my strength back.”

“Oh yeah, where did it come from.” I asked as we were slowly walking to the library.

“If I recall correctly, I believe the exact words were ‘you may not be able to support my weight while having me pushed up against the wall somewhere’. Well guess what my new goal is?” He smirked.

Fuck me!

“Thanks Northman, now I have to go change my panties.” I prayed I hadn’t said it loud enough for Mrs. Hadley to hear. As I turned to run upstairs, he grabbed my arm.

“Oh no hell you won’t. I’m going to enjoy working this morning knowing you are sitting across from me wet.”

FUCK ME!

We had only been working for maybe an hour when I heard his Blackberry chime. Without looking up I could hear him as he punched out a response.

“Sookie?”

“Umm.” I said still without looking up as I continued fervently entering information into the database I had created.

“Selah is on her way here to drop off a few files I need to go over for a teleconference on Monday.”

I tried to keep my face neutral as I fought the urge to look up; I knew he was staring at me trying to gauge my response to his comment.

“OK.” I said hopefully without any hint of stress.

“Are you sure you’re OK with it?”

I smiled as I raised my head to look at him. It made my heart happy that he was so worried about my feelings. I had already resigned myself to the fact that she was a part his professional life that I was going to have to learn to deal with, but his concern made the effort worth it.

“It’s fine Eric, really.”

“Well, my offer still stands. After I am sure I have a handle on everything again, I will have her transferred if you wish.”

“Thank you, I appreciate that, but I don’t think it’s necessary.”

“Hey, come over here a minute. I want to show you the mock up for our new website.”

I saved what I was working on and walked over to his side of the table. As soon as I was within reach he grabbed me and pulled me into his lap.

“Mr. Northman, have you gotten me over here on false pretenses?”

“Maybe.”

“Well now that you have me over here, what do you plan to do with me?”

“How about you tell me more about these panties you mentioned earlier.” He smirked as he slowly rubbed his hand up my leg under my dress. And then as if on cue, the moment his hand reached my upper thigh, inches away from their goal, there was a knock at the door. Eric removed his hand from under my dress as he answered the knock.

“Come in.”

Mrs. Hadley opened the door and took a few steps in.

“Mr. Northman, Selah Pumphrey is here to see you.”

“Thank you Mrs. Hadley, give us two minutes and then you can send her back.”

Mrs. Hadley nodded and left the room closing the door behind her. I kissed Eric quickly and proceeded to get up off his lap when his arms clamped down around me.

“You don’t need to move.” I knew his desire for me to stay put was an attempt to make a statement to Selah, but this was not the statement I wanted to make.

“Yes I do, but thank you.” I said giving him another quick kiss before standing up.

He was about to protest when Mrs. Hadley opened the door and escorted Selah in.

“Good morning Eric. Welcome back.” She smiled.

“Good to see you Selah. I believe you’ve met my girlfriend, Sookie Stackhouse?” Ya gotta love this man.

“Yes, of course. It’s good to see you again Sookie.” Her words seemed sincere.

“You too Selah.” I tried to respond in kind. Her words seemed genuine but I wasn’t ready to just leave her alone with him so I returned to my spot at the table and resumed my work.

She gave him the files that he had requested and they talked for a few minutes going over each one until Eric felt he was comfortable.

“Thanks for bringing these by Selah, I appreciate it.” Obviously brining this visit to an end.

“No problem, call me if you have any questions or if you need anything else.”

“Thanks, I will.” He said then returned his attention to the files.

“Um, before I go…Sookie, could I have a word with you in private?”

TBC