THIRTEEN

"Elizabeth." He ran over to her, quickly getting down to his knees to meet her. "No. No. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you cry or be cruel to you. I just want you to be honest and tell me what's going on." He placed a hand on her back trying to get her to stand but shoved him away.

"You're only here for Louise," she spat through tears.

"That I doesn't mean I can't also be here for you."

They shared gazes.

"Tell me, Elizabeth."

Her lips trembled. She couldn't stop herself from speaking through cries. "I don't know who I married! He's never laid to bed with me. He doesn't come home for months at a time. He doesn't speak to me, much less even write to me when he's gone. And, some days I don't even know if it really was him to stole my heart through those letters."

She threw her hands up, blubbering and loudly sniffling. "I don't know who Benjamin Raynes is, I don't! I don't know and yet for some reason I still love him and want him so much! I fell in love with him and it hurts me so much that I can't---." She choaked on her words, crying. "---I can't breathe. It hurts me so much!" She was fighting for air, tears clouding her vision.

"Elizabeth." He gingerly viewed her, placing a gentle hand on her cheek. "I'm so sorry." He brushed tears away from her eyes with his thumb. "I'm really sorry."

She clutched her stinging chest. "It hurts, Nicky. It hurts so much. I...I thought that if you love someone so deeply and so strongly, they were supposed to love you back."

"I know." He softly wiped away more tears. "I thought so too."

She hung her head down, sobbing harder. "You don't know, and you don't understand!"

"You're wrong about that, Liz. I understand, perfectly." He raised her chin, caressing her cheek. "You love something that doesn't love you same way."

She looked into his eyes. Her heart was hammering so loudly she could feel them in her ears.

"...Nickolas," she mumbled, losing herself in his eyes. They were sweet and tender and had a sense of shared pain she could feel every second she stared.

"Elizabeth," he softly replied, never leaving her gaze.

Without warning, she leaned forwards and pressed her lips against his.

She felt a surge of fire in her body as sunk into him, kissing him tenderly enjoying every minute of the burn of heat and breath. Boiling, she threw her hands around his neck, letting her tongue sneak into his mouth.

He let her easily, his own tongue starting to tangle with hers.

Her temperature was rising and her heart thumping when she felt his arms clench around her waist. He was pulling her in tighter, their still damp clothes pressing against each other.

Gasping, she only stopped to catch her breath with a pant. "Nickolas..." She breathed, blood pumping her cheeks.

"Elizabeth," he said, still clutching her tightly.

"What are we doing?" She weakly questioned, a tremble starting in her legs. "We can't do this...I've never looked or ever wanted you this way."

He snuggled into the dip of her neck, kissing the bare parts of shoulder. "Neither...." He felt her hands wrap tighter around him. "...have I." His kisses were turning to bites along her neck.

"I'm just...." She panted. "...very confused right now."

He pushed to the ground, pulling down her soggy underdress.

"Nickolas..." She let his hands move wherever they wanted, and they were going was between her thighs. "I love Benjamin," she said, moaning as she felt his hands starting to rub against her mound.

"I know you do." He felt his body hardening as she opened her legs. "And I love Louise."

'I love Louise?'

She heard him clearly but she didn't have time to respond before he had her moaning and soaking wet. He was moving too efficiently from rubbing and touching her intimately to licking to groping her breasts. He too was too good at pulling and tugging her into whatever positions he needed best.

Before she knew it, she's twitching and moving her hips around rhymical through pants.

"...Nickolas," she feebly cried, when he entered her.

"I think that's the thing with me and you, Elizabeth," he said, starting slow.

She writhed, her whole body hot and shivering. Every time she felt him push, her voice escaped her and the pleasure invaded.

"Nickolas..." she sputtered, breathlessly, moving her hips with him to feel him more. She felt like she was drenched, everything in her trembling body pulsating and thumping. "This isn't---ah!" Electricity was moving through her as loudly moaned.

She wanted it more, and faster.

Her felt was she was feeling, so he moved faster, feeling her pressure. "For you...Elizabeth...." He spoke through groans. "It's the same right?"

"Ah!" She was taking him whole.

"Your heart will only belong to a person I you can't have. And because of that, we won't ever be satisfied, even if we share our bodies with other people." He clutched her by the love handles, starting to thrust harder.

She couldn't stop her moans.

She wanted to stop and be ashamed for what she was doing. She was nearly screaming, making love to another man in her husband's home. But how long had repressed wanting these things? She knew her desires would bubble to surface but she thought she ignore them...stop them.

Everything about what was happening was wrong, but the red-hot pleasure felt dangerously right.

"N-Nickolas!" she sizzled, desperate to get there.

"...No Elizabeth." He grunted, teasing the moment. "That's not who you want to call out to...." He was loose on breath. "It's alright to say it."

Everything was throbbing, and she was tortured, dripping wet and tight with him moving inside of her. "Please, Nickolas, just bring me there already!" She screeched, twitching with excitement.

"Then say it, Elizabeth! Say who you want, and stop hold back."

She felt him, and it was one thrust that made them explode.

"Benjamin!"

"Louise!"

They reached the pinnacle of their climax, bodies moist, aching, and only wanting more.

And tonight, they would have it. As much as they wanted.

But tomorrow?

They knew exactly what came tomorrow.

fin

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