Getting to his feet and within four strides towards Lilly, his mouth was on hers, hungrily kissing her. Elijah and Lilly removed their own clothing as they kissed, they had a silent race to who could be naked first. Elijah won, only because he had fewer clothes to take off.
He heard a squeak as he lifted her off the floor, carried her vertical to the sofa and pushed her body down. Bouncing on the soft sofa cushions made her breasts bouncetoo, and that made him hard. Her eyes never left his as he gently lay on top of her. He was ready to give Lilly his gift.
He pushed slowing inside Lilly, little by little as he continued to explore her mouth with a searing kiss. The further he pushed in the further Lilly’s mouth opened and he could kiss her more deeply. Once he was all the way in as far as he could go, he started to pull out. His hips moving back and forth casually, as he built her orgasm. In and out he went, adding a hard thrust when he felt her quiver. He didn’t speed up but did use more force behind his thrust. Lilly had started to whimper into his mouth but still he kissed her as he made love to her. For the first time, he wasn’t going to fuck her hard no matter how much she begged him. She was pleading with him to move faster and harder, but he ignored her pleas. He was going to be selfish the first time, and he was going to take his time making her come.
As she started to tighten around him, his thrusts became short, harder, gaining friction and building Lilly higher. It took them both by surprise when she tipped over with a single yell and then her open-mouthed, silent scream was all he could feel. He stopped trying to kiss her as her body tensed and she enjoyed the orgasm coursing through her. The tight grip on his cock nearly made him lose it, but he wanted her to come again before he did.
Releasing his arms from her body, he lifted his chest off her and pushed deeper into Lilly. Concentrating on listening to her breathing, Elijah dropped his head. He took one of her hardened nipples into his mouth, sucking hard. Lilly’s gasp of pleasure was only just audible, but her back arched and her breast pressed into his mouth, greedily wanting more. Tightening her legs around his waist she pulled him deeper into her. Raising her hips off thesofa she met his increasingly hard thrusts. Their bodies, slick with sweat crashed against each other, Elijah needed to concentrate and buried his head in Lilly’s neck as he pounded into her. Their gasps and moans coming in unison as they both climbed to their release.
Lilly tipped over a second time, wave after wave cascading down Elijah’s cock, seizing hold of him. Unrelenting spasms that sent him leaping over the edge of his orgasm and he spilt into her. His momentum was so great he kept thrusting into her, three more times until he stayed deep inside her as he emptied all of him into Lilly.
He rolled them so that she lay panting on his rising and falling chest, her legs astride him and they were still joined. They lay in silence as their breathing became more manageable.
“You feel amazing Lilly, I can still feel your lazy aftershocks. Never move from where you are right now,” Elijah said.
“I don’t think I could, you’re a pretty intense lover Elijah. For a first time lover, you were spectacular. I’ve never had a man make me come twice in one evening before. I think I could become addicted to that,” Lilly said.
“You’re already my addiction, you became my favourite addiction the first time you came into Blue’s for lunch. I have been addicted ever since.” Elijah told her.
Elijah was bursting with happiness, he had made love for the first time with the woman he loved and adored. It was daylight, he was naked, she knew everything about him and she still wanted him. It was enough to make him want to come again.
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Lilly stood back from the wall satisfied with what she saw. The picture looked amazing, a three-dimensional version of the 18th-century ball in a highland castle. All the men were in kilts and the ladies wore dresses with matching tartan sashes. She hoped Elijah loved it, he’d given her free rein and hadn’t checked the progress saying that he wanted to see it only at the end. Lilly had added in Jack and Olivia’s faces to the ball and Elijah but didn’t dare to add hers. The woman Elijah was dancing with had her face turned away, but she’d painted her own body. After visiting Edinburgh Castle, she had changed her mind about changing the eras and kept with the one timeframe.
She kept gazing and only stopped when she heard his voice. Her heart stopped, and she felt a rush of excitement at the sound of him and then the fear set in. He was about to see her first commissioned work and she was nervous. Lilly wanted him to like it, needed him to like it. Not only was the mural going to be on display for all to see she had a needto please him. She dropped the sheet that covered the wall and turned to walk to where Elijah was standing.
They had spent two days in her apartment getting to know every inch of each other’s body. Once they made love the first time, there was no stopping Elijah. He wanted to christen every room in her place and then move onto his place and repeat the process. He had the stamina of an ox, but Lilly was exhausted and gave him a timeout after two days of being naked.
She spent the next two days, day and night, painting the mural in Blue’s because she wanted it completed before the wedding. Happy with her results she was ready to show him.
Slipping her hand into his while he was talking to Pete warmed her heart. His hands were familiar to her now, and she found comfort in holding them. It was always the same, her left hand in his right. It didn’t feel the same the other way around. Elijah broke his conversation with Pete to kiss her quickly in welcome and went back to his discussion pulling her close.
He was discussing plans for when they would be away at the wedding. It was to be held at Jack and Olivia’s house further north of Edinburgh and they would be away for a few days. Pete was humouring Elijah with the instructions he was giving, paying close attention. He’d been helping Elijah run Blue’s right from the start but knew better than to interrupt when Elijah was in full flow. Lilly waited patiently until Elijah was finished and pulled him gently towards the wall at the back of the bar.
“It’s finished, do you want to see?” Lilly asked.
“Very much so, I’ve been looking forward to this for two days, mainly because then I can ravish that body of yours again. You showed me heaven for two days and then mademe go cold turkey. You’re a harsh woman, soon to be Mrs Geary, harsh woman.” Elijah kissed her soundly to show he was just teasing her.
“Well, if you still want me to reconsider being your wife, you need to ask me again properly after you ruined it the last time with that temper of yours. You can start by loving this mural,” Lilly said.
Lilly nervously went to the makeshift cover sheet and gave it a good yank and it fell away. She waited with her back to him to hear his reaction. She didn’t want to see his face if the first flicker of emotion was distaste.
“Holy hell, that’s amazing.”
It wasn’t Elijah’s voice she heard it was Mickey’s. She accepted that response and turned around. Searching Elijah’s face she couldn’t work out if he liked it or not. She had bought some white gloss paint in case he hated it and she could start again. Elijah’s face was blank and expressionless, his eyes roamed over the painting and he began to move forwards to the dancing men and women.
“Where did you get their pictures from?” Elijah asked in a quiet whisper.
“She got them from me. I hope you don’t mind but she wanted to include your family in the dancers,” Mickey answered for Lilly.
Lilly was growing concerned, she still hadn’t heard from him whether he liked it or not.
“Well Elijah, so do you like it or am I painting over it?” Lilly asked.
“Don’t you even think about painting over this wall, but there is just one problem. Where is your face, I can’t find it,” Elijah asked.
“I didn’t know if you wanted me in it, it’s my body in your arms just my face is turned away,” Lilly answered.
