Chapter4

#Chapter4

Janet opened her door, hearing the sudden knock late that night around midnight. Jason and Alyssa had gone to their room and hadn’t been seen since. She was curious as to who was knocking on her door this late, but she had a clue. Her heart knew, her body knew. Janet peeked through the curtains she installed a few weeks ago due to peepers and prowlers. Antonio stood there in a tee shirt and some sweat pants.

She sighed opening the glass door. /"Antonio what…/" He cut her off with a mind-blowing kiss that sent her walking backward into the penthouse right onto the counters of the kitchen before she could breathe. /"What are you doing here, Antonio?/" She asked as he touched her cheeks, still needing the contact.

/"I needed to see you. We need to talk,/" he replied.

She scoffed. /"You call this talking?/"

They both smiled then laughed softly. /"I like to make an entrance. Besides, you didn’t stop me./" Janet backed away for a moment closing her robe back together. /"I suppose it was a test to know if you still reacted to me like you used to./"

/"A few weeks won’t change that,/" Janet replied, defensively.

/"I couldn’t be so sure. You’ve been so closed off from me and once we agreed to go further, shit happened./" His eyes glanced over at Jason peeking through the guest bedroom, making sure his sister was fine, and then softly closed the door once he knew it was Antonio. /"Didn’t take you long to give my old room away./"

Janet turned back to see what he saw. /"The terms were you were going to stay until the case was closed and if you haven’t noticed the killer is dead so…my brother needed a place to stay./"

Antonio nodded. /"Yeah, I know./"

/"How was the doctor’s office? How is Julissa?/" Janet asked, fixing them both a drink.

/"She’s fine. Stressed. And Gerald is fine. He was at her house when I left./" Antonio replied, walking behind her as she poured the glasses. His hands caressed her butt, pulling her closer to his hard erection. She gasped feeling his hardness against her ass. /"I don’t want to talk about them./" His hands explored the inside of her robe finding her braless and her nipples already hard from her reaction to him. The silk robe rubbed sensually against her sensitive buds, enticing what she knew to be euphoria, but she wouldn’t give in just yet.

Janet hesitantly removed his hands but did not push him away. /"It’s been a lot happening since we talked last. I didn’t think it appropriate to bring up our relationship problems. I wanted to give you your space to make a decision based on what you wanted. Julissa is having your baby and she needs you more than I do./" She walked out from his warmth and hardness to gather some composure once she turned to hand him a drink.

/"Oh, so that is what that is about?/"

/"What?/" She turned back to him to hear his theory.

Antonio set the drink back on the counter. /"You are trying to push me away like before. You asked me to be completely honest with you, Janet, and I am. I’m here and I told Julissa we are parents and I will treat her as such. My child comes first, therefore, her needs will render my own./"

/"Well, see, there you go./" She began to walk out of the kitchen until Antonio grabbed her hand, pulling her back close to him.

/"Not so fast. You didn’t let me finish. Just because she is an important person in my life, now, that doesn’t mean you can’t be either, Janet. I’m adjustable. I want you with me. I want to be with you. There shouldn’t be a choice between the two. I thought you understood that./"

She gave in for a moment with a sigh, placing her hands on his chest. /"I do understand./" But that didn’t stop her from trying to run from him, using the baby with someone else as an excuse.

/"Then stop running from me. You asked me to be completely honest with you and I am, but you aren’t being honest with me, Janet./" He held her hand on his chest, holding her there, keeping her from running. /"Tell me what you want./"

Her lips quivered as he leaned down whispering in her ear and she could’ve sworn her vagina flooded between her legs. He had that much of an effect on her. Her hand already burned through his shirt. Feeling his pecks was a mistake. Letting him in the door was a mistake. His dark brown eyes consumed her, fully engulfed her into a world of lust and love.

/"I want you to focus, Antonio. I want you to think clearly. You know you get distracted when I’m around./" She replied, low, trying to keep her voice composed.

Antonio only smirked. /"Yes, well, I suppose I can’t help that, but you won’t get in my way when it comes to Julissa so stop thinking you are doing so. You said it yourself that you were more than welcoming when it came down to Melissa’s child. Are you going to disown me because I have a child with Julissa?/"

/"No, of course not./" She blurted.

/"Then, what is the problem?/" He pulled her back close to him, as she walked back hitting the refrigerator. Now there was nowhere for her to run. He grabbed both of her hands lifting them above her head so now her breasts were peeking through the robe. /"What do you want, Janet?/" He stressed the word you as he leaned in close to her, causing her to shudder. /"If you want me to leave, then tell me./" His hand caressed her thigh causing her to lose all train of thought. /"If you want me to stay, then tell me./" His teeth scraped her bottom lip causing her to moan softly.

This wasn’t the Antonio she was ready to walk out on a year ago. He was claiming what was his and not allowing her to make excuses as she did before. That got them in this mess in the first place. She remembered when she told him there was no them after they had a passionate night at her brother’s building. She was lying. There was definitely a /"them/". She was too afraid of holding him back, too afraid of what love would do to her, seeing firsthand what the curse could do—good and bad.

/"I want you to stay./" She whispered, her head leaning back into the fridge, giving in to what both her heart and body wanted. /"I need you to make love to me./"

Antonio leaned in kissing her neck. His right hand started to knead her right nipple. His warm hands stroked her bare flesh. The left hand worked its way up her inner thigh with the slightest touch that sent her spiraling out of control. His hand found her creamy center. She gasped, pulling her arms down from the previous spot he placed them, placing her arms around him to hold on as his fingers entered her.

His kisses on her neck slowly descended until he found the other breast with his tongue, swirling and licking. His thumb flicked her clit and sent her over the edge.

/"Shit./" She moaned as her head fell back on the fridge as she gave herself to him—all of herself to him.

Antonio smirked, placing his free hand on her lips. /"Shhh. You don’t want your brother walking in here seeing what you are doing./" He teased, as he began a fast pace inside her walls, his pointer finger hit her g-spot over and over and his thumb went faster on her clit.

/"Take me to my room./" She struggled to say as a moan overtook her.

Antonio lifted her off the ground, throwing her over his shoulder like a damsel in distress, walking her to her room. The door didn’t even fully close before he was on her again, pressing her against the door, ripping her robe apart to expose her naked body. He wanted to examine more and take what was his, but she never gave him the chance. She, in a desperate attempt to have him fill her completely, pulled down his pants. She pulled him back against her, lips hot and melting into his, positioning her body dangerously close, lifting her legs around his waist.

/"Stop running from me./" He whispered in her ear as he eased her down the length of his shaft. She let out a loud moan as her walls clenched. That weightless euphoria was there again as if the curse had been lifted and she was finally free. /"Tell me. Say you will stop running from me./"

He thrust forward sending her into an ecstasy only he could provide. The door rattled under her butt as it pressed hard against it, but he didn’t let up. /"Say it./" He bit down on her collar bone enough to make it pleasurable, enough to give him what he wanted.

/"I.../" She cursed as she held his shoulders tight. Her toes started to curl and the airy, floating feeling began letting them both know she was close to cumming. /"Fuck…don’t stop. I’m so close…/"

He slowed his pace disappointing her until she looked at him in his eyes. /"Say it then./"

/"I’m done running from you./"

His pace picked up again as he growled in response. She was becoming wetter by the thrust and hotter by the second. Her muscles clenched around him and if he didn’t have control over himself he would’ve come with her, but he didn’t. He grabbed her hand above her and grounded himself enough to not think about how great she felt or the moans she made.

Her thighs clenched around him, holding him hostage until she was panting. Eyes closed and mouth opened with the last moan as he slowed his pace. She felt the plush bed on her back now as she opened her eyes, feeling Antonio withdraw. He was looking at her with so much love in his eyes it made her smile.

/"What?/" she asked.

/"I’m in love with you, Janet and I don’t think you understand what that means for me. I’m not sure when it happened, but I am./" He placed his hands on her rib cage, teasing her breasts that were so openly in the air. He retreated after a few minutes of composing himself and pulled his shirt off.

/"You told me once you didn’t believe in curses. Has that changed?/"

He glanced at her, then looked away not knowing what to say. He still didn’t or wouldn’t to be exact. Those things were just fate, pure choices. The universe didn’t rule anything they did or feel, but yet he did feel some kind of pull to Janet he never felt before. He just assumed it was his dick leading the way, but he now realized it was his heart all along.

/"I suppose I do. Being in denial for so long about my feelings I guess I just assumed I was like every other man obsessed with you./"

She sat up to kiss his shoulder, standing on her knees. /"Those men want what we have, but will never have it. They are obsessed with the thought of me, not me at all./" She turned him around. /"I want to be honest with you. I’m terrified. I thought my brother and his love were dead so I thought the same would happen to us. I wanted to protect you from it and perhaps myself too. I still haven’t gotten over how great this feels./"

/"Then, why run from it?/"

/"Because what happens when it stops? What happens when the feelings go away? What will I be left with?/"

Antonio grabbed her face pulling her into a mind-blowing kiss. He gently put her down on the bed as he mounted on top of her. /"I’m not leaving you this time. So whatever fears you have, you will just have to work them out with me./"

She laughed, a tear falling from her eyes as he inserted himself back into her waiting channel. This time the pace was passionate and caressing. He took his time, kissing her senseless and making love to her like she deserved—skin to skin.