Chapter 65
“So what happened after that, what happened to her?” Emily looked on curiously at Ethan, more invested than she should be, but Ethan looked unwilling to say anymore. Since the incident, he had refused to think about it, much more talk about it. It was hard to stay in touch with his feelings, a moment where he felt the most the vulnerable but it backfired, everything backfired in his face and it was his fault, he had made the wrong choices.
“Ethan” Emily called while he stayed silent, staring intensely at the floor and then he looked back at her with glassy eyes, tear filled but he was more than willing to not let them drop.
“I really loved her you know” he said “She was refreshing, aloof and I thought she felt the same but when she told me the no strings attached stuff after we had sex, I felt devastated because I really did care for her and then Anita came into my room filling my head with all sorts of things about Amelia, and I believed her when I shouldn’t have”
“Things like what?”
“That she probably didn’t love me and was just using me to make Jackson jealous, which was quite believable because I knew Jackson liked her too, they were best friends but I thought she chose me” Ethan kept explaining, his eyes still downcast but the tears never flowed even though his voice cracked every now and then.
“So what happened to her?”
“She died, took some drugs. I didn’t want to learn the details” Ethan said, looking up now with his eyes transfixed on Emily. “She wasn’t the most mentally stable person in the room, her parents were going through a messy divorce and she was pretty much hooked on drugs already, so her seeing Anita walk out of my room must have set her on a terrible path”
They both stayed silent, the heaviness of Ethan’s words settling amongst them. Emily knew her next question but she wasn’t sure she could ask, judging from the state of things that moment, but she stayed quiet, pulling Ethan closer to her in a tight hug and that was when the tears began to flow.
“It’s okay” she told him, holding him tightly as his body rocked with the tears flowing down his face and it was the first time he cried, it was the first time he ever got in touch with those feelings of Amelia dying because he had always refused to come to terms with those feelings.
Ethan looked at her, suddenly overwhelmed with his feelings for her and in the way she held him, patted his back and that moment the way she looked into his eyes, holding the stare and he wondered if the intensity he felt came from just him, he was scared to approach it. She loved his brother he knew, but he needed her to love him too.
“Can I kiss you?” he asked, and the room was filled with some sort of electric silence, heavy with the weight of Ethan’s unreturned feelings. Emily stood before him, eyes trained him, her gaze now filled with compassion that Ethan refused to translate to pity. His request had left him vulnerable, his heart laid bare before her. As the seconds stretched out into an eternity, his desire hung in the air, an invisible thread pulsating with the possibility of something more.
“Emily” he murmured one more time, his voice still laced with longing and nervous anticipation “Kiss me, Emily”
“Please” he added.
Her breath caught in her throat, he could see the battle within her, torn between her affection for Jackson and the responsibility she held towards him, she was still his wife after all. But after what felt like an eternity, she pulled him close, a flicker of curiosity dancing in her eyes. Closing the distance between them, Emily’s hands trembled slightly as she reached for his, their fingers intertwining in a delicate embrace. The air stifled with anticipation as they drew closer to each other, he was drawn to her and he couldn’t help it. In that moment that felt suspended in time to Ethan, their lips finally touched.
It felt gentle, tender at first, a revelation of emotions and desires buried beneath layers of restraint. The taste of vulnerability mingled with the sweetness of Emily’s lips, creating an intoxicating blend that enveloped them both. As the kiss deepened between them, a surge of emotions cascaded between Ethan and Emily alike, a fusion of passion, tenderness and soon he grasped at her bra clasp, and tugging it off without a struggle while Emily gasped into his mouth.
“Ethan-” she breathed but Ethan saw it as an avenue to invade her lips with his tongue, massaging the insides with a longing that had encompassed him for the longest time, and soon enough he pulled at the delicate string that held her evening dress together and she let him. With every step further that he took, the invisible barrier that lay between them crumbled dissolving the boundaries that the contract marriage had confined them.
He stopped for a second to pull his shirt over his head and Emily took that opportunity to run her eyes through his strong biceps and she traced her hands through them, looking back at him to find the longing that lay within in the way he looked at her, the desirous way that he looked at her.
Without many words, Ethan pulled her back closer to him, his hands roaming her bare back and skin and the goose bumps rose on Emily’s skin as she felt his touch on her skin. He pushed her head back slightly and bit her flesh, fully enveloped in the sound that escaped her lips. He wanted to make her feel that way, feel pleasures within her soul that she had never felt before, to completely envelop her so that she looked at no one else but him.Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.
He slowly led her to the sofa, and he laid her down softly waiting for her to stop him but he didn’t. Her lustful eyes never left his. He followed suit, placing himself conveniently between her thighs as he grabbed them sensually, her soft skin melting in his hands.
Emily felt hot all over, Ethan’s hands all over her skin ignited feelings in her that she didn’t believe existed. Her skin crawled with desire as Ethan’s hands roamed every nook and cranny of her body, trailing kisses in spots in places she never believed would make her hot, especially between her legs. After Ethan had placed himself conveniently between her legs, he gave her look that asks a thousand questions that needs words and Emily understood perfectly and she responded with a careful nod, her eyes still never leaving his.
He had brought her this far and he might as well take her through to the end, her husband Ethan.