CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

SONNY’S BATHROOM THE PENTHOUSE:

Carly(is laying back against the tub with her legs wrapped around Sonny’s hips and Sonny is laying back against Carly with his eyes closed enjoying it as Carly washes his chest with a sponge)So, how did you enjoy your first bath, Sonny.

Sonny(smiled)I had no idea what I was missing.

Carly: And just think. We’re feeling this good and we didn’t even have sex. You know, I’ve never had this with a man before. This intimacy you and I are sharing. Just look at us, Sonny. We’re both completely naked and laying in each other’s arms and we’re completely relaxed and at ease with each other. Like it’s completely normal for us to be like this with each other. I once read this book. I think Danielle Steele wrote it. It was about this couple who would spend their Sunday’s lounging around their house and they’d be completely naked and at ease with other and I couldn’t understand how they could feel comfortable with each other without wearing some kind of clothes of some kind. A pair of boxers or bra or something to cover themselves with. In the past whenever I took off my clothes with a man it was only for one reason and as soon as it was all over we both put our clothes back on. But now I know how they felt, because that’s what I’m feeling with you, right now. Have you ever shared this kind of intimacy with another woman. With Lily or Brenda?

Sonny:(sighed as he thought about it)With Lily we were always more friends than lovers. We had sex with each other but...

Carly: But it wasn’t that good between the two of you?

Sonny: It wasn’t that important a part of our marriage. We were just two friends having sex together.

Carly: Oh, I get it. No passion. You and Lily never had a moment like you and I had in November where you broke furniture and ripped off each other’s clothes.

Sonny: I’ll have you know, I’ve never had a moment like that with any other woman but you.

Carly: Good, you don’t know how happy that makes me.

Sonny: Anyway, with Brenda we were hot for each other the moment we laid eyes on each other. Brenda and I were pure hot-blooded passion. We couldn’t get enough of each other. When we weren’t together, we ached for each other. The minute we had our clothes off we couldn’t keep our hands off each other.

Carly(smiled)So, I am the only woman you’ve ever shared this with.

Sonny(tipped back his head and looked at her)And that pleases you I can see.

Carly: Oh, it pleases me very much. I don’t want you to have shared this kind of intimacy with anyone else but me, because I‘ve never shared anything like this with anyone but you. If I had the power, I’d wipe the touch of every other woman you’ve ever been with off of you so I’d be the only woman to have ever touched you. In case you didn’t realize it before, I’m very possessive of what I consider to be mine.

Sonny: And you consider me and my body your own personal property?

Carly: Don’t men feel the same way about the women they‘re with? That they belong to them. Well, you belong to me body and soul and everything we’ve done in the past few days has only made that more so. I’m kind of glad we aren’t able to have sex together at the moment. It’s allowed us to get to know each other’s body in ways we wouldn’t have known them before. We really did this whole thing between us kind of backwards, didn’t we?

Sonny: How so?

Carly: Most people get to know each other, slowly build up to making love then they make a baby, but we did the whole thing in a very screwed-up way. We had sex, made a baby together, got to know each other, made love and now we’re just starting to really get to know each other’s bodies.

Sonny: I guess that’s because we’re both so screwed up.

Carly:(running her hands up and down his chest knowing she was turning him on) You know, I really do have to admire your self-control. I’ve really pushed you to the limits of your sexual control and here you are laying as docile as a lamb in my arms while I pet and play with you to my hearts content.(she began to nibble on his earlobe)

Sonny:(was almost purring like a cat who was getting his belly scratched)It’s easier than you think. (he turned his head to hers and got serious) I’ve got the image of you laying at the foot of the Quartermaine’s staircase burned in my mind. There was so much blood I really got scared that I was going to lose you. I even begged you not to leave me. I know if I were to try and make love to you right now all you would feel is pain. I caused you a lot of pain in the past, and I never want to hurt you again if I can help it. (Carly lowered her head to his and kissed him)

STEFAN’S STUDY, WYNDEMERE:

Mrs. Lansbury(enters)Ms. Spencer to see you, sir.

Bobbie(pushes by Mrs. Lansbury)Where is he?

Stefan: What can I do for you, Barbara.

Bobbie: You know what you can do. You can give me back my son.

Stefan: So, you finally figured out where he is, did you?

Bobbie: How could you! You saw me with Mac! You saw how upset and worried I was about my son and you never said one word to me about Lucas being here with you. You’re a monster.

Stefan: Maybe I might have if you hadn’t slapped me. By the way, Barbara, I’ll let you get away with that once, but never again. If you ever slap me again, you will feel the consequences.

Bobbie: I should have you arrested for kidnapping. Maybe I’ll do just that, right now. (she picks up the phone and begins to dial the police)

Stefan: Go right ahead. (he sat back in his chair and smirked) I look forward to you trying to explain why your son is so miserable at the thought of having to live with you and your Jailbird Gigolo that he came to his ex-stepfather begging him to let him stay. This is the first time I’ve ever heard of a kidnap victim who came wrapping on his kidnapper’s door to be let in.

Bobbie(slams the phone down)You think you’re so smart. What kind of a monster would keep a mother from her son.

Stefan: You’re becoming redundant, Barbara. You already called me a monster. Can you think of anything else.

Bobbie; Just because your mother didn’t love you, doesn’t mean I don’t love my son.

Stefan: Oh yes, and you’ve proved it so much lately by going off with Troy for some romantic romp.

Bobbie: His name is Roy and we were on the run from a dirty fed. We were almost killed a couple of times. We could have died. It’s not like I was on a pleasure cruise.

Stefan: And that makes it much worse. Did you give one thought to the fact that you could have left your son without a mother. Or were all your thoughts focused on the object of your obsession.

Bobbie: Obsession? Don’t compare my relationship with Roy with yours with Laura.

Stefan: Why not. It’s just the same. My relationship with Laura sprang from my twisted relationship with my mother, just like your relationship with DeLucca springs from your twisted relationship with your brother.

Bobbie: Excuse me.

Stefan: Come on, Barbara, I’ve admitted my relationships with women go back to my relationship with my mother. Don’t you think it’s time that you admitted the same truth to yourself. That with every man you get involved with you’re looking for your brother and Roy DeLucca has been the closest you’ve been able to find, so you believe he‘s the love of your life when he‘s really just a sick manifestation of your sick desires for your own brother.

Bobbie: Stefan, you’re the sick one. I love Roy and not because he reminds me of Luke. You may want to have sex with your own mother, but I can assure you I don’t share a similar desire for my brother.

Stefan(stood up and walked towards her)Barbara, you remember the night we first met. You’d runaway from your birthday party and were crying on the stoop of your brownstone when I came along. We began to talk and their was a kinship between us right from the start. We knew, although we never acknowledged it, that deep down you and I are just alike. Just like your brother and Helena are similar in their treatment of us.

Bobbie: I’m nothing like you and my brother is nothing like Helena. Helena hates you. My brother loves me.

Stefan: Most brothers protect their sisters, they don’t pimp their little sisters into selling their bodies for money.

Bobbie(slapped him)Shut up! You don’t know what it was like. You weren’t there.

Stefan(held a hand to his stinging cheek before fastening his hands around her wrists like a couple of steel manacles and yanking her to him)I warned you, Barbara. I told you I’d let you get away with slapping me once, but not twice.

Bobbie(struggled to break free of his grasp in an attempt to hide the fact that from both him and herself that something had changed between them in the last few minutes and the heated argument she was having with Stefan was beginning to turn her on)Let me go!

Stefan(was feeling the same thing as he eyes focused on her heavy breasts)No, you have to pay the price, Barbara.

Bobbie(snarled)Just what do you intend to do to me?(she ran her tongue slowly over her dry lips as she stared at his mouth. The sexual hunger inside of her beginning to grow)

Stefan: Give you what you’ve been asking for. (he shoved her away from him and smirked at the disappointment written all over her face)Fear not, Barbara. I only shoved you away so I can do this.(with one yank he ripped open the front of her blouse and her heaving breasts came spilling out for his hungry eyes to feast upon)Now it’s time for me to mete out my punishment to you.(he lowered his mouth to her breasts and began to ravage them)

Bobbie(arched her back as she reveled in the pleasure he was giving her, while trying to deny to herself what she was feeling)I don’t want this. I love Roy. He’s the only man I’ve ever wanted.

Stefan:(scooped her up into his arms and looked into her lying eyes)Lie to yourself all you want, Barbara, but don’t lie to me. (he headed to the staircase and began carrying her upstairs)

Bobbie: Where are you taking me?

Stefan: To our bed where we can be comfortable while I punish you.