"This Time Around"
By: gb
Chapter 28
Ryan had taken his time about bathing Gillian and finally when the water started to turn cooler, both agreed it was time to get out. Ryan slyly promised a very special hair bath for her sometime soon. Ryan handed Gillian a towel which she took while she got out of the tub and wrapped herself. Once back in their room, Ryan told her it wouldn't take him long to shower. Still dressed in only her bathtowel, she walked over to him as he was about to start to unbuttoning his shirt the rest of the way. Reaching up, she began to slowly undo each button and when she was finished, she carefully peeled the shirt away and off of his strong, corded, lean muscled torso that boasted the slightest ever so perfect tan. Making her way down to the waistband of his trousers, her fingers made quick work of unbuttoning them, but chose not to do the zipper. He had been watching silently in fascination and quivered as she traced a heart on his chest with a forefinger. He loved to have her undress him- the seduction of it had never been there for him with anyone else, just Gillian.
"Cold, Ryan?" she asked him in mock innocence.
"Not quite." He grabbed her hand but not before she felt his now thundering heartbeat vibrating under her hand.
His hand covering hers, she used hers to guide his to her lips and kissed his knuckles.
"Preview of some coming attractions." she told him.
He now guided her hand back to the waist of his trousers, but his eyes were totally on hers as he asked, "You sure you don't want to finish the job. I wouldn't want to spoil your fun."
He was smiling confidentally now.
She decided to play along with his sensual game as she pulled away and walked over to the bed and and sitting in the middle, told him, "I'll wait, Bad Boy. Just don't take too long. You might have to wake me up."
"I don't think I'll have too much problem with that, Baby." He laughed quietly and went to his shower.
About five minutes later, Ryan returned wearing only a large, thick bathtowel around his waist. His still wet hair glistened and there were a few beads of water drops on his chest.
He picked up his pajama bottoms and went to put them on. Gillian had on a short lacy chemise with shoestring straps in a deep shade of copper and a matching silky short robe- the robe she had placed on the bureau when she had come for dinner.
Gillian came up to Ryan eagerly, not a trace of shyness evident, and gently encircled her arms around his waist. Looking up, she asked, "Would you like me to give you a massage, Baby?"
"Massage?" he asked, looking down, his own hands on Gillian's forearms.
His interest was obvious as he looked down at Gillian as she explained, "Surprise! I got some massage oil. I know you love getting backrubs."
She loved the smile that came into his eyes and she led him to the bed. He sat down and she left the room and came back a few minutes later holding up a bottle.
Ryan leaned back onto the bed and rolled over on his stomach and rested his chin on his arms.
Gillian soon came over and after putting some of the oil on her hands and rubbing them together, she put her hands on his back and began kneading his muscles lovingly.
"You have the most softest skin, Ryan- the most beautiful body." she told him.
"Well, you have the most magic hands, Baby." He practically sighed, closing his eyes. "Don't stop."
She massaged his back and his arms, paying special attention to his shoulders.
Eventually, she eased him onto his back and began to work on his chest.
Ryan watched as Gillian smoothed her hands over his strong torso. His sharp breathing could be heard as Gillian now focused on his abdomen. He never wanted this feeling to end!
"Feel good now?" Gillian asked.
"Like heaven." Ryan told her.
Slowly, he rose and gently turned her around.
"What's the matter?" she asked, confused.
"Your turn." he said simply, reaching for the oil.
Gillian had not expected this and smiled as Ryan carefully pushed her robe off of her and her chemise down from her arms. She slipped her arms out of them and closed them over her chest as her chemise pooled at her waist.
soon, Ryan's hands weaved a spell over Gillian's body as she arched her back even more towards his fingers.
He kept up the massage for awhile until she couldn't stand the pleasure another minute and leaned herself against his chest. He stopped and wrapped his arms over her her own and they sat silent for awhile, each lost in their own thoughts.
Presently, Ryan asked quietly, "Did you get this gown today too?- it's gorgeous on you, Princess."
"Yeah. I loved the color." she answered as he saw some of the lacy fabric that was resting against her thighs.
Ryan kissed her hair and also her shoulders.
"Wait here." he said and went over to the wall and flipped the light switch. Now the only light was the warm soft glow of the small wall night lamps that remained lit.
He came back over to her and leaned down and kissed her softly and then looked into her eyes and waited to see if there would be any last minute objections from Gillian.
There were none as she removed her arms from ther chest now and he stared in joy at her body; the soft light illuminating it and his medallion which she still wore for him.
"God, Gillian!" he exclaimed as he slipped her chemise the rest of the way down and laid it on the bed. "I'll never get over how beautiful you are- you take my breath away! God, forgive me, but I can't stop staring!"
Joining her on the bed, he embraced her and they kissed in complete joy and he trailed his lips from her jaw to her neck, throat, and top of her chest as she held onto him.
"Ryan!" she called out as he slowly guided her back down on the bed and leaned over her and continued exploring her with his lips.
As he kissed her bosom and her ribs, she grasped his head and caressed his hair.
Sweet Lord, how could she ever forget how good it felt to have him touch her?! How could she ever think ANYONE else could make her feel this way?!
"Remember this?" he spoke into her flesh as he kissed her bellybutton over and over again!
"Yes!..." she breathed out- it was the only word she could get out, her head spinning!
He returned to her lips and she pawed now at his pajama pants trying to move them away from his body.
"Easy- easy, Baby," Ryan soothed her. "We have time."
"I don't," she informed him as she turned to her side. "I've lost too much time!"
She stubbornly tugged at the fabric and he surrendered to the exstacy of having her pull them off of him.
Now, as bare as she was, he returned to her and eventually, not an inch of Gillian's body remained untouched.
"Sweet Baby!" he said to her and held her hand with his own. "I love you, Gillian! More than my life- I would die for you;I know that now!"
"I've always loved you, Ryan!" she told him. "I never stopped! I was always waiting for you, just like I said- all my life! You are my life- I need you more than air to breathe!"
Ryan wanted to keep kissing her, but she protested, saying, "It's my turn, Baby! I want my turn!"
Ryan torchured her for a few moments by holding her away from him and when she couldn't take it another
second, she reacted by boldy pushing him back onto his back and letting her lips trail all over him! Ryan guided her as she brought him to the heights of a passion where only she had always been able to take him and he cried out to her to take him there again and again! She trailed her lips and even her tongue over his chest and abdomen and over to the tiny light scar on the side of his lower stomach that she knew was there. The mark was the only mar to the perfection of his form. She had never had the nerve to ask him about it before, but did so now.
"What happened here, Baby?" she asked gently.
"Got the wrong end of a broken beer bottle my old man once threw at me one night when he got wasted." he admitted without pause.
What did it matter now?, he thought. She knew all about his miserable past.
She gently kissed the scar from one end to the other and back.
"God, Princess- the things you're doing to me!" he said excitedly.
"I won't ever let anyone hurt you like that again," she vowed to him. "I'll take care of you always and love you back to happiness, Ryan."
"I'm already at happiness!" he told her and reallized that it was true. With Gillian, he would always be happy...and at peace with everyting.
At this, he took hold of her and laid her back down again and finally, the two gave into their long present desire for each other and joined together as one.
Gillian bit her lip in an effort to keep them from crying out her pleasure as wave after wave of the most wonderful feeling overcame her and she told agin how much she loved him! For Ryan, being with her now and always was like coming to heaven and he wanted to sleep and dream there forever!
He shuddered as she carressed his back while he trailed kisses over her eyelids and her nose and chin!
Higher and higher they went together beyond any limits they might've set for themselves and higher still as they fell over the precipice and shattered with tons of tiny little explosions and tumbled down again together, completely deplete of energy, but too filled with their love for each other to care...
"Feels like little firecrackers going off inside me." Gillian sighed sometime later.
She was reclining against the headboard and Ryan moved to lie against her, his face turned to the side resting against her naked breasts. He put his arms around Gillian's waist.
"Fourth of July whenever we're together, " Ryan smiled quietly. "I never forgot."
He happily remembered that she had once referred to their lovemaking as "bouncing on the bed" and had irritatedly accused him of wanting only that from her. She was right, but now he knew in his heart that actual little feelings of love had begun and had been spurring him on!
Gillian cradled him to her and her voice carressed him as she said, "I once said you make love with me like angels sing...I was right."
"Not always..." he wanted her to know that it was different with her than anyone else he knew before." Just when I'm in love."
Ryan kissed one of Gillian's breasts and she moaned.
"Why did you wait, Gilli?" he asked quietly. "For me all that time. How come just for me?"
"You don't know?" she asked him. "Because I love you- only ever and always you." ]
She said it so childlike and simply that his heart turned over!
Looking up at her, she saw that he was crying as the soft light shined on his tears as they came down his face.
She wiped a teardrop with one finger and kissed it, asking, "What is it, love?"
"You are my everything." he said to her as sleep overcame him and she had to strain to hear him.
"Sleep now, Baby." she stroked his hair.
"No...just a little so I can love you again. Once isn't enough for me- it never will be, Princess." He spoke in just above a whisper.
"Are you cold, Baby?" he asked after a few minutes.
"Not as long as we're holding each other." she told him.
Still, he tiredly pulled back the sides of the bedcovers at last and they moved so that they could get under them.
They then returned to their positions of moments before and he slept against her while she continued to watch over him, their blanket coming only to Ryan's waist. The rest of them remained uncovered.
Sometime later, after she,too, had fallen into a heavy lovers' sleep, they awoke and reached out for each other again slowly...
(end of part 28)
To be continued...
Next time: The day after the night before...