and stood and just watched her. She stared at nothing, she said
nothing, and she barely blinked. He forced her chin up to make her
look at him but her eyes were glazed and didn’t focus on him. He ran
a bath and went back to her. He picked her up and laid her on the
bed. He took off her underwear, leaned her up and pulled her
nightgown over her head. He picked her up again and took her to the
bathroom and sat her on the toilet. He took off his clothes and
tested the water. It was nice, warm, and full. He placed her in the
tub, and got in behind her. He pulled her to him and held her for a
moment.
“I don’t know what to do, Norah. I don’t want to see you like
this, but I don’t want to lose you. I thought Jane and Will had a
caring relationship. I thought they had figured this out and were
happy together. If he couldn’t trust her, I….” but he didn’t finish. He
ran his hands through her hair, and kissed her neck.
“I miss you so much. I don’t want this, but I don’t know what
to do,” he said again. “I’m a very smart man when it comes to
matters of business and money. But when it comes to matters of the
heart, I’m afraid I’m just lost.”
“She hated him,” she said quietly but he heard her. He
touched her arms, silently asking her to say something else. “She
told me at the banquet. She said he was rough with her. He treated
her like a maid and a sex slave. Which I guess that was appropriate
since that is what we are….”
“Don’t say that, Norah. That isn’t what you are, not to me.”
“He didn’t care if she didn’t want to or if she wasn’t ready. If
he wanted it he took it. He put it where he wanted whenever he
wanted it.” Liam clenched his eyes shut knowing she was referring to
anal sex. It was something Liam had enjoyed before with a willing
partner, but knew it could be very painful if done rough and against
someone’s will. He had never even thought of bringing it up with
Norah. Not yet at least.
They were still getting to know each other in bed. But of
course that had all ended now. He didn’t say anything hoping she
would continue and she did. “She wanted to know about us. I told
her you had been patient with me. She said she hoped she would get
a chance with you, so she could have some of your patience.” She
stopped again, shaking her head.
“Norah, I would never,” he didn’t get to finish before she
started again. “I was jealous. I knew what she meant by having a
chance with you and I didn’t know how to handle it. We had never
been together like that, and I guess I worried you might want it like
Will did, or maybe you would just want to be with Jane.” She
touched his legs and ran her hands up and down them. “So I told her
we had never had sex. She didn’t believe me. She said Will had had
her the first night they were together. She seemed mad that I was
still a virgin.”
He wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her
to him.
“That’s why she left him. She hated him. He treated her
awful. I was afraid I had told her too much, and I guess I did. I think
she ran because of what I said.” He pressed his face in her back and
hair.
“Norah, no. This isn’t your fault. She left him because of the
way he treated her.” He kissed her head and shoulder. “I’m so sorry.
I just want to be with you, but you scare me. My feelings for you,
scare me.” She turned in the water to face him. She wrapped her
legs around his body and her arms around his neck. He pressed his
face in her neck.
“You can’t keep me locked up, Liam. I can’t be with you this
way, I mean really be with you.” She touched his chest and ran her
hands down to his length. He grunted in her neck as she stroked him.
She leaned up and put him inside her. She started moving her body
against his. He moaned against her.
“I’ve missed you so much, baby,” he whispered.
She leaned into him. “I love you,” she panted. He whimpered
in her neck. He couldn’t believe after everything he had done to this
woman, everything he had put her through, she still loved him. He
tried to make her hate him, then he tried to gain her respect and
trust. Then he wanted her to love him so badly, and she did. Even
when he locked her away, she loved him.
“I love you, too, Norah. I love you so much,” he panted as he
moved her faster. “Please don’t leave me,” he begged. They came
together and he held her tight as he filled her. “I’m won’t,” she said.
Chapter twelve
“We can’t do that anymore,” Liam said. Norah stood at the
end of the bed laying out her night clothes. He came up behind her
and ran his finger over her birth mark.
“Can’t do what? Sex in the tub? I liked it.” She leaned down
to put on her panties, and he his hand over her behind and laughed.
“No, that was very nice. I mean, unprotected. That was the
second time we have had unprotected sex. I hate condoms, but we
have to be safer.” He sat down on the bed and watched her get
dressed. “If I make you an appointment with a doctor for birth
control, will you go?” he asked.
“Of course. That’s why I’m here, to do what you tell me,” she
smiled.
“Please, don’t say it like that.” He covered his face with his
hands, and then looked back at her.
“I mean, I like hearing you say you’re willing to do what I tell
you, but just not right now.” After keeping her locked away, and
telling her over and over she belonged to him, he didn’t want to be
reminded of his actions.
“Yes, I’ll go. I want to be safe too,” she said. He nodded and
walked to her.
“Good. I’ll make an appointment for you in the morning.” He
kissed her forehead. “Will you sleep in my room tonight?” he asked.
She nodded, but lowered her eyes. He knew it would take a while for
her to completely forgive him. “I’ll have Rosa and Gerald move the
rest of your things tomorrow, if that is alright with you?” She nodded
and kept her eyes to the ground.
True to his word when Norah walked back up the stairs after
breakfast the next morning, Gerald and Rosa were moving her
things. She went to her bedroom and picked out something to wear
for the day and sat on the bed waiting for a safe time to take a
shower. Rosa came in and said something to her in Spanish and
laughed.
Norah didn’t understand her of course, but laid back on the
bed and ran her hands over the comforter.
“She said, I’ve never shared my room before.” Liam sat
beside her and ran his hands up her bare legs. “She said, you must
be very special if I want you to sleep in my bed with me.” He
continued his hand up her body moving her robe just a bit so he
could see her underwear. Norah stopped his hands from going any
further.
“What would Gerald think?” she said. Liam laughed and
lowered himself to her face.
“Why? Do you think Gerald wants you to share his room with
him? I don’t think Rosa would like that, or think you’re very special
anymore,” he kissed her neck and moved his hand to the top of her
underwear, pulling slightly at the waist band. She stopped his hand
again.
“I meant, if he came in here and saw us like this,” Liam untied
her robe and moved her night shirt up exposing her stomach. He
slowly lowered his lips and started kissing her bare skin.
“I would hope he would think I was a lucky man,” he
breathed in between kisses. “Most of the time, Gerald has a way of
knowing when it’s safe to enter a room and when it isn’t.” Just as he
extended his tongue to her navel, Gerald walked in. He leaned up
quickly, and Norah closed her robe. She covered her face with her
hands, and Liam smiled at Gerald.
“Excuse me, sir, I just came to get the rest of Miss Chandler’s
things,” he bowed and went to the closet. Norah playfully kicked
Liam in the back.
“Hey, I did say, most of the time, didn’t I?” He got up and
faced her. “I made you an appointment for later today, with Dr.
Goldrum. She’s supposed to be London’s best gynecologist. There
was a four month wait to see her, but I can be very persuading.” He
ran his finger over her foot.
“The appointment is at 2pm, I’ll have John take you. I have a
meeting so I will meet you there.” Norah sat up on the bed.
“Who’s John? And you’re going to let me go somewhere
without you?” she asked. He pulled her closer to him.
“John is one of my driver’s. Trig is my main driver, but John
has filled in for him on many occasions. He’s a former sniper for the
US Army, and like Trig, I trust him with my life.” He took a breath.
“But more importantly, I trust him with you. He will be your driver
now.” He kissed her forehead. “And don’t let it go to your head, it
isn’t like I’m not going to be there with you. I just can’t come home
first. It’s like the banquet, I will just meet you there.” He winked at
her. “Now get yourself ready, I have to go to work, and I have some
things I would like to give you before I go.” Norah moved to her
knees.
“We could shower together, it would save time, and conserve
water,” she gave him a sexy smile. Liam chuckled and touched her
face.
“If we showered together, I don’t think I would make it to
work today at all.”
Norah showered and dressed in black shorts and a red tank
top. She put on a little makeup, tamed her curls and sprayed her
vanilla body spray over her. She grabbed her bag and black sandals
and went downstairs. Liam stood by his desk in the study.
“I’m here! Did you time me?” she said as she sat in his desk
chair and put on her sandals.
“Funny you say that, because yes I did. It took you 34
minutes…..not bad, little one.” He turned to the desk and picked up a
little box and opened it. He turned back to her and handed her an
iPhone. She took it and just looked at him for an explanation. She
was sure one was coming.
“I don’t just want to tell you that I trust you, Norah. I want to
show you. I’m giving you this phone as a sign of how much I trust
you.”
“I have programmed in the house number, my cell number,
office number, and car number. I also added John and Trig’s cell
numbers as well. You have access to the internet, Facebook, your
email,” he paused and laughed a little. “You could probably launch a
space shuttle with this thing. I even transferred your iPod music.” He
touched her chin to make her look at him. “You can call whoever you
want, whenever you want. You can email whoever you want, and I
don’t need to read it before you send it out.” He kissed her forehead.
She looked back at the phone and ran her hand over the screen. It
instantly came on and had a password screen. She looked up at him.
“The password is ‘sweet Norah’, but you can change it if you want
to.” He turned away and picked up something else from the desk.
“And you don’t have to tell me what you change it to.” He turned
back to her and handed her a mini iPad. “This is also for you. It’s an
iPad. I bought you a mini so you could fit it in your purse,” he
laughed.
“I have pre-loaded it with some books and music for you.
There are games, recipes, email, and the internet, whatever. I put
some movies on there I think you might like as well. Again it can do
much more and I know I’m not doing a good job explaining it. But the
manual is here if you want it.” Norah looked up at him.
“I had one…..before,” she quickly lowered her eyes.
“Good then you know more than I do. I just use mine
whenever Steve tells me to do something, and Marcy usually has to
help me figure it out,” he laughed but he was sweating a little.
“Liam, thank you so much. This is all too much, way too
much. But thank you. Thank you seems so inadequate.” She touched
his arm, “Why are you so nervous?” she asked. He shifted his feet
and cleared his throat.
“I punished you unfairly for over a week, and I know these
presents don’t make up for my behavior. I know you are still upset
with me, and I understand that, I do.”
“But I want so badly for you to forgive me. So I took two
weeks off in October. I was hoping that when you went home to
