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  “I think you are plenty sexy just the way you are.” She led him upstairs into her room. Mark looked around and felt like he was home. She had a king size bed with white sheets and a white quilt. There were built - in book shelves in the corner with a small flat screen TV mounted in front. Birdie walked into the bathroom and looked in her cabinet, “Found a new toothbrush for you.” The bathroom had windows along the back wall with a small tub in front and a big shower with a bench and two big shower heads in the middle. He could think of some things to do in that shower… maybe tomorrow. “Do you want to shower? You smell good so you must have already changed.”

  “I got cleaned up at the base after we got back.” He took his new toothbrush and they stood there looking at each other as they brushed their teeth, it was a surprisingly intimate moment. When they were done, Mark put his toothbrush right next to Birdie’s in the cup. Try getting rid of me now, my toothbrush is right next to yours.

  “Did you bring your go bag? Do you have pajamas?”

  “Do I look like I wear pajamas? I sleep in my boxers if we’re deployed and I’m naked when I’m home. I don’t want to scare you so I’ll keep my boxers on tonight.”

  Wow, this is really happening, I’m nervous and excited. “Thanks, I appreciate that.” He took his clothes off and put them on the chair and could feel Birdie staring at him. He hoped she didn’t freak out about his collection of scars. She might not think he was so attractive when she saw them all at once. He heard her swallow and turned around, “You’re better looking than I first thought. You have the most amazing body.”

  I guess the scars don’t freak her out. “Birdie it’s only because I haven’t slept in 48 hours that I’m going to leave you mostly alone tonight. I don’t want to miss a thing when I slip inside you for the first time.”

  She smiled and got under the covers, he slipped in and scooted close to her. She rested her head on his chest as he wrapped his arm around her side. “I’m nervous - I haven’t been in bed with a man in a very long time and I’m freaking out a little.” She ran her hand over his chest and enjoyed the feel of his skin under her hand and the way he smelled. If she got this and nothing else, she would be light years away from where she was last week.

  “Baby, we can take all the time you need. Just ignore my instant reaction to you.” He felt her small hand running up and down his chest and shuddered. He felt himself harden instantly and shifted so her leg wouldn’t rub against his hard on. He slipped his hand under her shirt and ran a finger along her side until he felt the underside of her breast. Running his finger over her nipple he enjoyed the feeling of it harden with his attention. He heard her take a deep breath in and rolled over to pin her beneath him. Finally she’s under me. It’s a hundred times better than I imagined. He braced his arms on either side of her head and kept his weight off of her by leaning on his forearms. Dropping his mouth he took control of her mouth and kissed her deeply. His kisses started out slow and gentle and then became ferocious. He felt Birdie pressing up against him, she probably wasn’t conscious of her hips pressing into him. “Baby are we going to wait until morning when we’re both awake?”

  She pulled back, her pupils were dilated and it took her a moment to process what he was asking. “Let’s wait until the morning. This is a big deal for me and I want to be awake when it happens.”

  She rolled onto her side away from him and he adjusted himself as he curled his big body around her. He wrapped his arm around her and kissed her head, “Night Birdie girl.” He slipped his hand under her shirt and held on to her breast, “I don’t want to lose you in this big bed.”

  If he keeps touching me and kissing me, my mind will blank out and I won’t be able to freak out. She slowly felt herself relax and soon fell asleep. Mark listened to her steady breathing and relaxed for the first time since he met her. This is where Birdie needs to be…. wrapped up in my arms. Mark fell asleep wrapped around the woman who was stealing his heart.

  CHAPTER SEVEN

  SATURDAY

  Birdie woke up on a hard, warm, hairy surface, Mark’s chest to be precise. She smiled as her hand moved across his broad chest. “Hello,” she whispered against the warm skin of his chest.

  “Morning baby, how did you sleep?”

  She didn’t say anything and rolled into him and kissed him over his heart. He pulled her up a little and whipped her shirt over her head. He was so fast she didn’t even see it coming. He was more than ready to help Birdie get out of her rut and hoped in the process she would start falling for him.

  He rolled on top of her, started kissing her and dipped his tongue into her mouth. He couldn’t get at her fast enough - he wanted to feel and taste everything at once. Kissing his way down the curve of her neck, into the hollow of her shoulder, he discovered a nerve she didn’t know she had. “I’ve been thinking about getting you under me since I met you and now I have you here.”

  He moved his hand down her neck and trailed his fingers over her breasts. Then leaning down he kissed each one and pulled her hard nipples into his mouth. She moaned as his erection pressed into her thigh. “Are you ready to use me to break your rut?” She couldn’t form words so she grabbed his head and brought it up to hers and kissed the hell out of him. All of her pent up desire poured out of her and Mark had trouble keeping himself in check. “I’ll take that as a yes. You have the softest skin and you smell fucking amazing.” He ran his mouth down her neck again and licked her neck where he could see her pulse beating. He felt her shudder and trailed his mouth down to her breasts and took his time learning what made her moan. He wanted to catalog all of her responses and file them away.

  His big hand slid down her thigh and she felt him slide her underwear off. His hand ran over her hips, then he stopped and rolled her over. “Birdie what is this patch?”

  She looked over her shoulder, “That’s my birth control patch - it stays on for three months. Which reminds me I better get the box of condoms I bought the other day.”

  “Baby, if you are on birth control, we don’t need condoms. I can enter you bareback.”

  “We haven’t exchanged health certificates. I can go downstairs and get mine, but where is yours?” He rolled her under him, and somehow in the process, he’d lost his boxers.

  “I promise, I’m disease free. We get tested all the time for everything. I haven’t had sex since before our last deployment and I got tested when we got back home several times.” He rocked his hips into her as he said it. “I’ve never been inside a woman without a condom, I want to be inside you without a barrier.”

  “All right, but you have to show me your results later on today. If you’re lying, I will kill you or have your friends do it for me.” He captured her mouth again and, and as his fingers slid between her legs, she closed her eyes at his touch, “Oh …wow.” The feel of his big hands against her skin made every nerve in her body jump. This man could command her body with no problem at all.

  He kept kissing her and stroked her over and over, then he slid his finger inside and made her body jump from pure pleasure. “Tell me when it feels good,” he whispered in her ear and heard her moan. He laughed, “No, when it feels really good” and moved his finger to curve inside of her. “Here?” She shook her head. “Wait” and slipped a second finger in. He moved higher this time until he hit something so good that she jolted against him and moaned.

  He slid down her body and licked into her, finding her center with no problem at all. He pressed her down into the bed as she mindlessly moved against his mouth and hand. Her pleasure built until she felt the first surge in her blood. She cried out shuddering against his mouth and felt her mind slip away. He let her come down gently as she lay there letting her senses seep back in. “I didn’t even know that was possible. We could stop right now and I would definitely be out of my rut.”

  He crawled up her body, “Baby we just got started. We have a lot more to do to get you out of your rut. We need to do it several times to make sure that was just the
warm up.”

  She pushed him over on his back and for the first time saw him completely naked, he was breathtaking. Laying back against the white sheets he was so hulking and muscular. He was tan and had a thick mat of brown hair covering his big chest, narrowing down to his groin. Lord, he was big; he was a large man and he had the large parts to go with it. “I didn’t realize you were so big. I’m not sure it is going to fit.” She reached out her hand and felt like she was touching steel, but it was warm and felt soft at the same time. His hard on twitched under her hand and as she stroked him up and down, she was smiling at him and staring.

  Not able to wait a moment longer he rolled on top of her, “It’s all going to work out.” He began kissing her, his tongue stroked deep into her mouth, mirroring what he wanted to do further down. She held onto his big shoulders as he positioned himself at her entrance, he pushed forward and the head of his cock slid in. Pushing in a little further, he slowly pulled out and watched her eyes roll closed. He was sweating trying to keep himself under control and one drip slid down his face and dropped on her chest. He slid in again further and pressed his hips into her and was seated all the way into her. “You feel like a warm glove - you’re so tight.”

  He stilled as she stared up and him. She was trying to relax and not panic. She felt like she was stretched to the limit, it was a little painful but also wonderful. “You with me baby, how are you doing? Can you feel how hard you make me?” She looked at him and he felt like an arrow pierced through him. She was trusting him and he wanted to be worthy. Nobody ever looked at him like that and he felt his heart thud against his chest. He dropped his lips to her face and started kissing her gently. He could feel her become a little softer and started moving slowly, taking long slow strokes. He thought his head was going to blow off - he’d never been inside a woman bareback and didn’t know how he was going to last. She felt soft and creamy as he slid in and out easily. He felt her tilt her hips up, and when she wrapped her legs around his hips, he almost exploded inside of her.

  Nothing in his personal experience prepared him for the raw hot pleasure of being inside Birdie. He could feel her start to contract around him and he started to pump a little faster. “God Birdie, I love being in you.” She started coming and he could feel her pulling on him with her contractions. “That’s it baby, come on me.” Mark lost control and started pumping into her and Birdie yelled his name and exploded. He tried to keep her orgasm going longer and finally went over himself. He let out a stream of curses and came inside her, pumping fierce hot jets into her. His toes dug into the mattress and his hands clutched her hips as he tried to push himself even further into her. He came and came - he had totally lost control and was mindless with pleasure.

  Finally he sank onto her, panting and totally wiped out. Every once in a while he’d shudder, an electric shock running through him. Birdie was breathing hard and running her hands up and down his back; the tidal wave of sensation left them both momentarily stunned. They stared at each other for a moment in silence and then blinked in mutual recognition.

  Mark finally gathered enough muscle control to roll off her so he wouldn’t crush her. He gathered her in his arms and tucked her into him. They both lay there, slightly dazed, neither capable of conversation.

  He was finally able to form a thought, “I think we need to keep doing this. I don’t want you to slip back into a rut.” He kissed her gently with an unmistakable note of possession.

  “I didn’t know that was what sex was supposed to be. I think I’ve been doing it wrong. Usually I am so in my head and worrying about everything – this is the first time I was completely mindless. It was like drowning in pleasure.” She grabbed the sheet and wiped his chest off and rolled half on top of him and kissed his chest. “I was right. You are a sex god.” She laid her head down and could feel herself drifting off.

  Mark gently trailed his fingers up and down her back and she felt every muscle in her body totally relax. He held her and tried to figure out why he had that same pain in his chest again. He had a lot of sex in his life, and had a very healthy sex drive. He had lots of opportunities to have all kinds of it, but never before had he felt like he was connected to the person who was under him. Birdie was different from any woman he’d ever been with and she thought he was a sex god. He closed his eyes and enjoyed the feeling of having her draped all over him. He drifted off with a big smile on his face.

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  She woke up with a start and couldn’t get her bearings. Then she remembered how she spent the morning and could hear Mark’s heart beating under her ear. He was the best lover she’d ever been with. She hoped they might be able to do it again. But if this was the only time, she knew she would never settle for boring sex again. Once you drive a Ferrari, it’s hard to go back to driving an Escort.

  She started to get up, “Where are you going baby? Let’s stay in bed and practice some more.” He pulled her back into bed on top of him and he kissed her very slowly and very deeply. He rocked his hips into her and she could feel herself opening up to him. He was so hard that he slipped in with very little effort. “Hi.”

  She looked down at him, “Hi. I was going to make coffee and then take a shower. I have to go into the shop this morning.” He continued to move his hips and was slipping further in and she could feel her body start to let go. “I like your idea though,” she leaned down and kissed him. He held on tightly and pumped his hips into her and she felt herself start to slide off and she started laughing.

  He rolled her over and pinned her with his hips, “You think that is funny, I will show funny.” He rolled his hips into her and her laugh turned into a moan. Looking down into her smiling face, he kissed her so deeply that he felt like they were one. He felt the beginning of her orgasm and let himself go so he could join her as they exploded together.

  He might have lost consciousness for a moment because he felt Birdie trying to push him off. “Mark, I can’t breathe. You have to move a little so I can take a breath.”

  He rolled off her and kissed her cheek, “I think I blacked out for a second. Are you ok?”

  She laid on her back and she waved her hand, “I have lost the power of speech. I think I’m in a sex coma, is that possible?”

  “I think it might be. You have magic super sex voodoo powers and I am happy to be your victim.”

  Birdie started to sit up and look for her robe, “I think you have the voodoo powers, not me.”

  He slipped out of bed and stood up and stretched. The sight of him naked took Birdie’s breath away. “See anything you like Birdie?”

  “I like looking at you. When you have a masterpiece in your house, it’s a good idea to look your fill.” She walked into the bathroom, she didn’t feel that comfortable walking around naked. She was not a skinny girl and felt self-conscious about her big her hips and butt, but was working on not thinking about it.

  “I am going to take a shower and then I will make breakfast.” He followed her into the bathroom; got in the shower and turned on the water. She started brushing her teeth as she studied him in the shower. Mark smiled at her, “Bring me my toothbrush please.” She put toothpaste on his brush and walked into the shower. They both stood there under the warm spray and looked at each other as they brushed their teeth. “I like your shower. What made you go with a big shower and a bench?”

  “I like to take long showers and I though the bench - would be good for my beauty nights.”

  “I can think of some things we can do on the bench, you inspire all kinds of ideas in me. I think you are so sexy and pretty and I feel damn lucky to be standing in this shower with you.”

  “Thanks for getting me out of my rut. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it. I think you’re better than cake.”

  “I’m better than cake?” She looked up and nodded her head. They soaped each other up and Birdie washed Mark’s hair. “Thanks Baby, that feels amazing. I think we need to shower everyday together.”

  “We’ll se
e.” She stepped out and handed him a big towel and they dried off. She brushed her hair and put her lotion on and went to get her robe. “I’m going to make coffee and get breakfast started.”

  He pulled her back and kissed her soundly, “Let me go and make the coffee. I have to grab my bag out of the car.” He slipped on his shorts and headed downstairs.

  She pulled the sheets off the bed and put them in the hall and went to her closet and got dressed. I think that man is one hundred times better than cake. How am I going to give him back?

  “What do you want in your coffee?”

  She leaned over the stairs, “A little cream and one packet of sweetener - it’s there on the counter.”

  He came up and planted a kiss on her forehead. “I hope you like it.”

  Birdie took the cups from him and tasted hers, “Thank you, it’s perfect.” He dropped his bag in the hall and started going through it, looking for clean clothes. He found what he was looking for and went in the bathroom and finished getting ready. He started shaving and Birdie put the clean sheets on the bed. This is sort of domestic, is this how flings work? She finished making the bed and decided she’d worry about it later. Grabbing her coffee, she leaned against the door frame and watched him shave. “I’m going downstairs to start breakfast…. do you like waffles or pancakes?”

  He looked at her and lost his breath. When had she become the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen? “Whatever you want. I like everything.” Smiling, she turned and headed downstairs, I hope this fling lasts a little while. I sure like him and I want to have more sex.

  He stood in front of the mirror looking at his reflection, I am not letting her go. I have to figure out a way for her to fall for me, otherwise she’s going to break my heart. The lyrics to their song kept running through his head, “Now, I got you in my space, I won’t let go of you.” He wasn’t going to let go at all. He just needed for her to latch on to him.