Surrender: The Greek Affair Series Book One (11 page)

Hope tries to understand why he wants her, so she allows him to hold her hand in public. They are savouring the surroundings, the azure sea with the sun reflecting from it, listening to the frivolity of the ball games on the beach, watching the children make holes and castles in the sand and their mothers fussing over them. She allows the heat of the sun and the heat of Jason’s eyes to take over. She tells herself once again that she has to enjoy this, not just in bed but out of bed too.

Pétro gets back and he rattles off what fresh fish is available. This is an island with a substantial fishing industry and seafood is a guarantee to be the best. She notices on the menu that there is a collection of
Laderá
dishes (vegetables cooked in olive oil); fresh vegetables cooked with fresh herbs, fresh tomatoes and the best olive oil. She wants some of that and they order. A salad arrives, in season aromatic tomatoes, fresh onions, capers, cucumber, capsicum, with lots of very good Greek olive oil and crushed
paximádi
(local rusk) through it. It is delicious and they get stuck into it while they wait for the fish to arrive. In the meantime two plates of
Laderá
arrive as well, black eyed string beans and
melitzánes
(eggplants), cooked with fresh onions, tomato and parsley and aromatic olive oil. The oil and fresh tomato sauce that is part of the dish is what crusty bread is dipped into, and they all do it. Eating is a communal enterprise on Greek tables, the food is like a smorgasbord. All dishes are brought to the table and each person helps themselves. The meal has many courses laid out in front of you. It is a feast!

All three are hungry. It is late, about 3pm and they eat with gusto. At some stage a huge fish arrives with an oil, lemon and oregano sauce to pour on top. Fresh grilled fish is served with the head left intact. Hope is eating the fish, cleaning the head and bones, dipping into the lemon/oil/oregano sauce and she can feel that she has made a mess. She realises that her face is full of food, like a three year old. She looks up and Jason is looking at her with a smile. He reaches over and wipes the side of her mouth and her chin with his thumb and proceeds to lick it. She suddenly feels embarrassed. Why does she feel embarrassed?

“Guys, we need a rest from the heat, ok?” Says Pétro pretending he did not notice the mouth wiping moment. They all agree. It’s much too hot and it’s time to get out of the heat and relax, so that they can get together tonight.

Hope is exhausted, having had just a couple of hours of sleep. “I’m very tired, need to sleep a couple of hours, what about you Jason?”

“Me too, it would be nice to lay down for a bit.”

The bill is paid and neither of the men will hear of her paying. She feels very blessed to have these friends! They pack up their beach gear, brush as much sand off as possible, so that they don’t carry it in the car and they go. They are quiet in the car, with soft music via Jason’s iPod; they are all sun-tired, heat-tired, late-night tired and for Hope and Jason, sex-tired. They drop Pétro off and Hope and Jason find their way back to her place. She has now taken it for granted that Jason will spend the weekend with her, as he does not need to be back in the barracks till Monday morning.

As they walk in the house Jason moves to the kitchen and Hope goes to the bathroom to drop off the beach gear, and suddenly in her sleep deprived brain a light bulb comes on. Her heart sinks as she remembers she did not take her pill that morning. It must be taken at the same time every day she was told. “Oh god, what the hell am I doing?” She sighs to herself and she opens the cabinet and quickly takes one.

Chapter Ten

Hope goes looking for Jason and finds him looking in the freezer. She looks at him and asks. “Shall I shower first?” and he ignores her question.

Instead she can hear his voice while he is still looking in the freezer. “I found vanilla ice cream. Have you ever had vanilla ice cream with salt?”

She looks at him with a puzzled look on her face. “No.”

He takes out the ice cream from the freezer, he looks at her with a lascivious grin. He then slowly approaches her, takes her by the hand and goes to the kitchen drawer, where he takes out a spoon. He then leads her into the bedroom, and as she intuitively predicts what he is about to do, her heart flutters. Her blood starts pumping hard, and instantaneously she feels the rush of her need.

How can she resist this perfect creature who is interested in fucking her in all the ways he knows, most of which she has never experienced? He pulls her into the bedroom, and stands looking at her as he scoops out ice cream and licks the spoon. “Get undressed!” He orders, she obliges.

She takes her shorts off and her top and dispenses with the salty bikini. Her skin is very sensitive from the sun and the sea, and she’s well aware that she is getting a deep suntan, whilst her breasts are as white as milk.

“Lie down!” He orders again and she does what he commands, naked and exposed with her skin full of salt and feeling tingly, She’s completely smitten at this moment and fully aroused; she feels as if she’ll come the minute he touches her. She has never been so aroused by anyone before.

“I’m going to have dessert. Do you want some?” He pushes his shorts off himself, he is naked, his erection is ready for her and she thinks, “God, he is so gorgeous. What did I do to deserve him?”.

“I want you,” she whispers to him

“Oh you will have me,
hará mou
(my joy), you will have me. I’m all yours, but I need to lick you sweet and salty first.”

She lies back on the bed completely naked, he gets on the bed between her thighs and spreads them apart making her feel even more exposed and vulnerable. He kneels between her thighs looking at her with wild eyes and a smile that is positively predatory. His movements are measured and calculated. He is not in a hurry and her body has started to tremble. He takes a small dollop of ice cream and puts it in the valley of her breasts.

“Oh my god.” She yelps. It’s cold. It’s making her skin almost foreign to her; a new very arousing sensation, and he has not even touched her yet. The ice cream softens and he bends over and starts licking it off her. He puts another dollop on her belly and licks that, travelling down as he licks. She doesn’t know herself anymore. Who is this woman that can feel so aroused? Whose skin is hot and cold all at the same time? She’s trembling and has no idea what to do, as she lies there, twitching all over.

“Keep still,
kardoúla mou
, (my little heart) keep still, I have to taste all of you with ice cream.”

And he moves further down and suddenly she has cold ice cream on her clitoris and it feels wild. This can’t be real. And he is not real. This is all a figment of her imagination, and she tries to still her racing pulse as her chest is about to explode. As is her libido. He licks it all off from her body’s most intimate parts and then he puts a spoonful in his mouth and he takes her mouth. He feeds her ice cream from his tongue. Then, he puts the ice cream bucket down on the side table and starts to lick her on every available part of her body. Salt, ice-cream, sweat and lust, all in one serving. They are sticky and stuck together, from all these ingredients, and his cock is now hovering over her.

“Please.” she pleads

“Do you want this or this?” he asks first pointing to himself and then to his penis.

“I want both. I want the cock that’s attached to you.”

“Are you sure?” he continues to tease her

“Are you going to keep ignoring me in public?”

“Are you punishing me?”

“No it’s not punishment. Just trying to define what we are doing together.”

“We are having sex.”

He continues to look at her. What does she say now, while he has her like this? She looks into his face. He has a dark look now and his beautiful green eyes are hooded. She tries to forget her body’s need and her need for him and waits, as she has no idea what he is going to do and this is a new look in his face she can’t quite understand.

“Is that what we’re doing? Just having sex! Ok, let’s see how that works for you.” And he slams into her with so much force and aggression she cries out. He starts pounding in to her. This is fucking, not making love, and she knows she has annoyed and hurt him. In fact, she sees a side of him she does not like. He picks up his pace. But gone is the gentle lover she had known last night, and this morning and the lover who was eating ice cream off her ever so gently, a few minutes ago. He is hurting her. It’s not just rough sex, but there is revenge in what he is doing, and he has suddenly lost her and her libido.

“Stop!” she calls with a raised voice pushing him away. He leaves her body and falls to her side on his back, covering his face with his one arm.

Hope waits a minute, as she knows she has to make up for what she has said to him. She climbs on top of him and straddles him. She takes his arm off his face.

“Look at me. I’m sorry, I’m scared and apprehensive, so help me, please. Help me to understand why you prefer me to any other gorgeous younger woman.” She holds the side of his beautiful face and bends over and kisses him softly. He responds by sucking her lips and searching for her, tongue. As they become lost in each other’s mouths, she can feel his erection rising against her.

She raises herself and takes him slowly inside her. They both moan and are lost in their want for each other and forget everything else. They look at each other’s eyes and their breathing becomes ragged. He takes her by the hips and they start to move at a slow, even pace together.

“I want you
kardoúla mou
, (my little heart) not another woman. I want to be inside YOUR body.” And with those words she comes apart and climaxes around him, as he feels her contracting muscles inside her. Holding on to her he lets go, spilling inside her, calling her name. She can feel his body’s spasms and she falls on top of him.

They lie together, like this, with him inside her. He is semi-erect and he whispers into her ear. “You are who I want to do this with. I wanted you the minute I saw you. I was not sure if you would have me; you’re beautiful and mysterious. I could see and feel me in you, even then.” And he starts to move again and his erection becomes full in a few seconds.

“Again.” she looks at him in wonder

“
Kardoúla mou
, (my little heart) I can’t get enough of you. Can you understand this?”

And with these words, he makes love to her slowly and with reverence, like no one else ever has before and she is his; for now at least she is his. They both realise at the same moment that their very souls have come together.

Chapter Eleven

Jason wakes, opens his eyes and sees Hope sleeping beside him. He is in awe of the feelings he has for this woman. He feels as if he has known her forever (and maybe he has), and at last they have been given a chance to be truly together. He has tried to make sense of his feelings, but he can’t understand why he feels this way about her. He just knows he wants to be with her. He wants to make love to her, wake up with her in his arms. He wants to know about her and her life, but he is also aware he has a long, hard road ahead of him. She does not give much away. He also knows she is scared, as if someone has brutalised her emotionally. He wants to make her believe in him, to believe that he would never hurt her, that he would always look after her. He wants to start his life with this woman next to him. He is not under any illusions that it will be easy but he is willing to fight hard for her. Now he wants a cigarette to soothe the turmoil inside him, but he also knows she hates him smoking, and for her he will give it up. He wants two cigarettes, damn it!

He looks at her as she lies next to him and she seems so peaceful, yet he knows she is not peaceful. She has demons and he wants to know what they are, so he can help her get rid of them. He has never wanted anything or anyone as much as he wants this woman. He will go anywhere with her, anywhere she wants to be, he will be there for her. She has to understand that. He has a lot of things to sort out with her, but he knows he has to take this a little slower, as he might just frighten her away. She is already skittish and she is finding it hard to believe that he wants her this much.