“YOU LOOK LIKE YOU’VEbeen rode hard and put away wet,” Roxie said to me when I returned to work on Monday morning. “Oh, that’s probably because you were.” She laughed so hard at her own joke that she nearly tipped her desk chair over. Now that was funny!
I had been ridden hard most of the weekend by Noah – both in and out of the bed. However, I was not complaining one single bit. I had always had a strong sex drive, but add him to the mix and I was completely insatiable. I was back to being a randy teenager with a perpetual hard-on. Noah was just as bad as I was. He was on me with just the slightest encouragement.
Now that he had agreed to go away with me for a long weekend for his birthday, I had to put my plan into action. I knew exactly where I wanted to take him and the only problem I could foresee was that neither one of us would want to return after only four days.
We just needed to find the object holding Elijah to the house. I was feeling a little discouraged by the entire thing by that point, because Noah didn’t have that much remaining to tear down. I thought in order to speed things up, I’d start replacing the torn down walls while Noah continued to tear down the old parts. We could mud, sand, and paint once we returned. If we went on vacation, that was. I had to have faith and believe it would happen. Therefore, I had to start making plans with victory in mind.
“Rox, I’ll be taking a long weekend off at the end of the month. I know it’s short notice, but it’s for Noah’s birthday.”
“We’ll make it happen, sweetie. You both deserve some special time together after all you’ve been through in just a few short months.” She rose to her feet and held out her arms for a hug.
“Love you, Rox.”
“Oh you,” she swatted me hard on the ass. “Don’t you make me cry first thing on a Monday morning. I spent a long time getting this winged eyeliner just right.” She batted her eyelashes at me and then forced me out of the office to get to work.
The next call I made was to Jennifer. It was the hardest call to make, because Noah hadn’t been back to work for very long. I hated to put more pressure on her than she had already been feeling, but I had my mind set on sweeping my guy away.
“I should say no,” she said with a deep sigh, “but I can’t do that to you guys. I’ll figure a way to rework the appointments without tipping him off.”
“It’s okay if it slips out, Jen. I already told him I wanted to take him away, he just doesn’t know where.”
Next, I booked the flight and resort without hesitation. We would find what we were looking for and we would go on our trip. It would probably be the last place we looked, right? Isn’t that how it usually goes?Well, as this particular stories goes…
“Last foot of wall space,” Noah said then proceeded to bite his lip. “What if it’s not there?”
“It’s there, Doc. I know it is.” My heart pounded in my chest and I knew it was there. The feeling had been with me all day and had only gotten stronger once we began. I gave him a reassuring kiss and then helped him remove the last foot of the wall.
“I just see what looks like piles of sawdust,” Noah said when the last bit of wall was cleared away.
We both knelt down and sifted through the sawdust. There hadn’t been any sawdust in the other sections, so this must have been the very last place Elijah had worked. The family probably hastily finished the job after his passing. Maybe that was why he was mad and hung around for over a hundred years. They didn’t finish his job right.
A chilly breeze blew through letting us know that Elijah had finally blessed us with his ghostly presence. Couldn’t he have at least given us some dang guidance? Knocked on the section of the wall that held his treasure or something?
“Oh my God! Oh my God!” I turned to Noah and he held up a circular item in his hand. “It looks like a ring.” Noah blew on it and then rubbed it against his t-shirt. “It’s a signet ring. It has a coat of arms on it, Mav. I bet Octavius gave it to him and it must’ve fallen off. This was why he couldn’t leave. I feel him so strongly right now, as if he’s wrapping his arms around me.”
I took the ring from Noah’s hand and held it up to the light. It was hard to make out the coat of arms under the dirt and grime, but I knew in my heart that Noah was right. Like he said, I felt Elijah wrapped around me like he was hugging me. The chilly air I associated with him warmed until there was nothing left and I no longer felt him. “I think he’s gone, Noah.” I handed the ring back to him and he fisted his hand protectively around it.
“I think so too.” The smile he gave me was bright enough to light up the entire eastern cost of the United States. “We did it, Maverick.”
“Youdid it, Noah. I just played along so I’d get down and dirty sex. You’ve believed your entire life you could set him free and you did it.” I pulled him into my arms, not caring that we were covered in dirt and grime. “You’re amazing.”
“What’s going to be amazing is this vacation trip you’re taking me on.” Noah’s quick change of subject to me proved that I wasn’t the only who felt uncomfortable with praise. “You sure you don’t want to tell me where you’re taking me?”
“Nope.”
“Think I can torture it out of you?” He waggled his eyebrows and I knew that I’d love his brand of torture.
“Nope.”
“We’ll see.” I wasn’t about to pass up that challenge for anything.
That was how I found myself tied to our bed for the first time after a joint shower that had me worked up and on edge already. I was convinced that Noah’s hands and mouth should be registered weapons. I loved the feel of the rope wrapped around my wrists and how heightened my other senses were when my sight had been taken away. My hearing was especially sharp as I heard the familiar sounds an old home makes, wind outside the windows, and all the noises I expected to hear except for Noah.
My guy tied me up to the bed and left me there. I smiled as I realized he was really going to draw out my torture before he tried to fuck the destination of our trip out of me. He was planning payback for the times I left him to wait and wonder what I had in store for him. I never left him waiting for long, but it didn’t seem that Noah was at all worried about getting back to me soon.
A smell permeated the air and tickled my senses. Chocolate. Warm chocolate. Holy shit, he was warming up fudge sauce. I’d know that smell anywhere. My hard dick jerked and leaked in excitement as I pictured him smothering me with the sauce and then licking it off of me.
I heard Noah whistling as he made his way up the steps ten or fifteen minutes later. I could tell he expected me to be upset at being tied up for so long, but I was sure that once he saw the state of my arousal he’d know that I was more thanhappyto wait for him.
