body and down. He couldn’t remember when his body had responded so erotically to a woman’s touch. His soft kiss turned into a deep breath taking one.
With both their hands touching and caressing one another it didn’t take long. Stacey loved his deep sensual kissing. The look and feel of his body and the hair on his chest. She loved it on him but wanted none on herself except on her head. Stacey wanted to remember this night. It was her first time and it might be all she would ever have. She had heard enough guys talk about, ‘one night stands.’ Stacey was young, but she knew sex and love were two different things. She wasn’t even sure of her own feelings. She knew she liked being with him. He was handsome, sexy and had a wonderful personality, but Stacey knew they came from two totally different worlds.
The second and third time they made love was even better. This time they flew together. Shane kissed and held her until she went to sleep. He knew she was asleep because of her even breathing and her hands had stopped roving. He lay there holding her thinking about the warm sensual trusting look in her deep blue eyes. Shane knew he should get up and go to his own room. He made it a rule not to stay the night with any woman, if it could be avoided.
Of course, he had done a lot of things with Stacey tonight he didn’t do with other women. Tonight was a first for him too, for many things. Sex had never been a spontaneous act for him. It was a planned well thought out thing. Through the years the women he dated liked it that way too. At age seventeen he had started university. His father had a talk with him about women, sex and protection. An older woman of twenty-three had introduced him to the pleasures of the body. Until tonight he had lived by a set of rules. No virgins, always use protections and no staying over night when not necessary.
He was always the one in charge, but Stacey made him feel things no other woman had ever made him feel. He thought it must be her youth and innocence’s. It’s like I can’t get enough of her. His head told him to put a stop to this while he still could. After they made love the third time, Shane told her, “Don’t let me hurt you.”
Those trusting eyes, when she looked up at him and said, “I won’t, that’s not in my plans,” and kissed him until both their lips were swollen from kissing and still they wanted more. Shane told himself again he should get up and go to his own room.
Shane woke with Stacey still in his arms. He could see the dawn was breaking. He woke Stacey, kissed her and said, “I should go to my room before the house wakes.”
Still heavy with sleep, Stacey said, “Okay.” Turned on her tummy and went back to sleep.
Shane grabbed his shoes and clothes and went to his room. He tried to get another nap but all he could do was think about Stacey. Shane knew he should put a stop to this relationship right now. Going to Scotland with her was ludicrous. He hoped when he told her he wasn’t going, she wouldn’t be too disappointed. She’s a sweet kid and I do like being with her. She makes me feel things I’ve never before felt. Better to stop it now before we’re in too deep. With that decided, he said, “Bloody hell.” Then got up and took a shower.
Chapter 10
The Morning After
W hen Stacey woke, she laid there for a while thinking about last night. She knew as much as she liked him she had to let him go. There was no way it would ever work between them. He’d made no commitment and neither had she. When she changed the sheets she found Shane’s shirt he’d put between her legs. She didn’t know what to do with it, so she put it in a zip lock bag and stuck it in her valise. Stacey left a note for Mrs. Nickels. (Sorry about the blood on the sheets. You know how it is with us girls.) She then showered, packed her bag, got dressed and took her bag downstairs.
Later that
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