His hand left my aching breast to tangle in the strands of my hair. He wrenched me back ruthlessly then burried his tongue between my parted lips. The gasp that escaped me at his unexpected assault smothered by his consuming kiss. We tongue wrestled a bit before he deliberately wrenched us apart again.
Breathing hard he stared at me for the longest time before resolutely setting me back to rest against his heaving chest. I settled back down grumpily knowing that we had to clear the air once and for all.
"Over the years," Eric started hoarsely before stopping to clear his throat. "Over the years," he began again as his incaltricent hand resumed its insatiable plucking at my aching nipple. I bit back a whimper and strained not to react... or flinch.
"Nikki would keep on feeding that lie. I would find you in her arms, her lips fused to yours at the most surprising moments," he whispered huskily. "That was the double edged sword in all this. It stung to watch you in her arms. Yet the sight was strangely erotic too."
I voiced my innocence over those incidents immediately, "I was caught on surprise on those occasions too. I just thought she couldn't help her infatuation with me at times. I didn't know she was being purposefully manipulative. I didn't encourage her advances... and didn't enjoy it either."
I wasn't sure if he even heard me or simply didn't care for my explanation for he continued on along the same veins. "I used to boil up with jealousy thinking of you naked in her arms. That was why I started to take you with me on every interstate and international trip, keep you with me over weekends either working the whole time on jobs I deliberately commited a tight deadline for or arranging and attending charity events with me. I went so far as to make sure Nikki was always away, purposefully accepting assignments that would have her departing for unknown destinations furtherest away from you."
I lifted my head then to stare at him amazed at his own brand of complicated duplicity.
Nikki and Eric were more alike than I thought.
