Foreign Affair (2 page)

Chapter Two

When Niall was a boy in Limerick, Ireland the girls never paid attention to them. They couldn't be bothered with his tall and lanky frame and the same mop of black hair that every other boy had in Limerick. And the other boys in his Catholic school would make fun of him for being poor and his mother never being able to afford new clothes after his father, a bookie, died under "mysterious circumstances". He wore hand-me-downs from his older brother, so everything fit awkwardly and was faded and falling apart. He would sometimes walk past the looming graffiti on the walls of the old houses in his neighborhood and see the tourists walking around the neighborhood on tours to see the "real" Limerick. The American girls sparkled every time. Their hair whipping around their faces in the Irish wind, but totally carefree and beautiful. He used to dream about those girls everyday and knew one day he would have one to kiss and touch and run his fingers through their beautiful hair. So looking at Kate cheekily smiling over her cocktail glass at him, he was thanking his lucky stars.

Kate's apartment in Old Town, Chicago was something like he had never seen before. Huge and airy. Hardwood floors and coordinating colors in each room. But the best part was seeing everything she filled her apartment with. Books and art and little things that made him realize it was like looking into her mind. She opened a bottle of whiskey and brought it out onto the patio with them. He didn't know if it was him or the whiskey making her cheeks rosy and warm.

"So you're from Limerick and moved to Dublin for college?"

Niall shook his head. "Well I had to work first. I couldn't afford college right away."

Kate seemed undisturbed by this information, that he was poor and had to work for it. "And have you tried that move on all of the Irish girls?"

He laughed softly. "Actually you are the first. I just couldn't stop looking at you and had to talk to you."

"Were you always like this?"

Raised his eyebrows with a smile. "Charming? Seducing women who are on dates with other men?"

Niall laughed. "No. I didn't have a girlfriend until I was 18 and moved to Dublin. I was a totally different person."

Kate smirked, "And what you said to James, about being the man to make me fall in love, is that true?"

"Well I certainly hope so, love. It won't be from lack of trying."

Kate blushed. No man had ever made her blush like that and the feeling was addictive. She wanted more of it immediately. Niall reached out to take her hand and turned it over to press light kisses on her wrist.

"You know, I didn't see you smile genuinely the entire time I saw you, until you smiled at me. I saw that and I had to kiss you."

At that moment Kate realized he was right. Once he kissed her earlier that night, she hadn't stopped laughing and smiling with him. "I'm glad you did. I was a little bored with the whole thing, as you saw."

Niall shrugged, his thumb now tracing light circles on the wrist that he kissed. "You are a smart girl, you would have figured out how to get away sooner or later."

"Why are you in the States," she asked, trying to get out from under the flattery he was heaping onto her.

"Traveling around with me mates, you saw them earlier."

"And how long are you here?"

"It was supposed to be a week. Should I stay longer, Kate?" She bit her bottom lip at this question and finished the small bit of whiskey left in her glass.

She stood and set her drink down turning to the door back into the apartment. Looking over her shoulder with a mischievous smile she reached behind her to undo the long zipper at the back of her neck until the dress fell off her shoulders and pooled at her feet revealing a delicate black lace bra and matching panties.

"I don't know Niall. What do you think?"

Niall's palms itched to run all over her perfect, milky skin. She must feel like rose petals, he already knew she smelled like them. Kate continued walking in her heels and lingerie to the other room and Niall immediately strode to her, wrapping his arms around her and whispering in her ear "you must have known I was looking forward to unzipping that dress tonight. That's not very nice to take that away from me." Kate rested her head back on his shoulder, swooning and the feel of him pressed to her.

But she couldn't resist taunting him. "Oh but you ruined my date. It's only fair."

He pressed kisses and licks into the side of her neck. "But I wouldn't have ruined the date had you been polite and asked me for my name. Now I am going to make sure that you and your neighbors remember my name, since you'll be screaming it all night."

Niall walked her to the bed so her thighs touched the edge. His hands ran over her skin as he kissed her shoulder before unsnapping her bra and letting it fall to her side. He was tall enough to see the tops of her perfect breasts over her shoulder. Soft, with pink nipples standing at attention for him to reach around and pinch.

"When I first saw you I thought to myself how beautiful you were and to let it go. But I couldn't stop staring."

"I know," she said with a smile reaching behind her to put her fingers in his hair. "I could feel you staring."

Niall pressed a hand to her back to bend her over the edge of the bed and knelt down to slide the last bit of material concealing her from him. He let out a groan when he saw the wet skin peeking out at him. Sliding a single finger through the wetness she breathed softly.

"Already wet for me, Katarina? Stand up so I can look at you." Kate stood and turned to face him. His eyes ran all over her body as she bit a lip. Niall put a hand to his heart.

"Trying to kill me, are you?" Kate smiled at sat on the bed spreading her legs just enough to give him a different view of where she ached. Curling a finger she beckoned him closer. She looked up at him as she pulled his shirt from his pants and he followed her lead taking off his jacket and unbuttoning his shirt, throwing them to the side. She pulled off his belt and unbuttoned his pants, too eager to get them off before she had to have a feel of his thickness.

A feeling seemed to shift, moving from a slow exploration to a need that had to be filled immediately. Niall couldn’t stop touching her. He pushed down his pants, stepped out of them, and lifted her off the bed as if she weighed nothing. Kate’s legs wrapped around his waist, feeling his impressive thickness against her. He turned and pressed her back against the wall.

“Please, Niall. Please,” she begged frantically in between his deep kisses. Reaching between them he slid his cock against the wet skin of her pussy. All the while she whispered please into his mouth.

“I am going to fuck you hard, because I think you need it,” he said looking down between them and his thumb grazing her clit. “And I need it.”

Kate seemed to be in a trance. But she did need that from him. Her eyes rolling shut. “Yes. Please fuck me.”

She moaned when he finally entered her. Giving her a minute of stillness to get used to his size when his entire length was inside of her.

“Fuck, Kate, you feel incredible,” he said starting to drive his length into her forcefully. His fingers dug into her thighs to keep her lifted but also because he would do anything to be closer to her. He felt her chest staring to slick with sweat between her breasts as she slid against him.

He had to see her. See where he entered her and watched her face while she came. He pushed her off the wall and carried her back to the bed, laying her down at the edge so he could stand and increase his punishing speed.

Kate couldn’t focus on his muscular chest or large arms that carried her around the room. She could only focus on the delicious feeling of him fucking her. He knew what she needed, she needed to stop thinking so much. Niall reached down and put a finger into her mouth that she sucked automatically, as if it was natural. Running her tongue under it and lightly sucking like she would other parts of him if given the chance. Then he took his wet finger and pressed it against her swollen clit, rubbing back and forth.

Kate screwed her eyes shut at the pleasure coming from two spots and wrapped her legs around him again to pull him closer. “Oh God, I’m so close,” she breathed. Niall felt her get tighter around him, holding himself on the edge of coming to wait for her.

“Look at me when you come. You stay with me.” Kate opened her eyes and nodded, catching his gaze before feeling her climax release.

Her mouth opened into what would seem like a silent scream before a moan escaped “Oh I’m coming. I’m coming,” she chanted as if it was a prayer that would get her into heaven. Niall kept up the speed as waves crashed over her, but he couldn’t hold back anymore feeling her come around him.

“Oh fuck, love, I’m going to come,” he moaned before emptying himself deep inside her. Niall kissed her ankles and rubbed the smooth skin of her calves before looking at her face. Unlike many one night stands were one person looked regretful as soon as they came, Kate had a giant smile on her face, her hair fanned out around her like a halo.

“Knowing you’re that good, I’m going to be needing to do that again very soon, Niall,” she said huskily.

Niall laughed. “Well there are other things I am good at,” he said with a wink.

Chapter Three

Kate slowly woke up in bed and felt a warmth around her. Niall sleeping beside her. His face was relaxed and serene, a bit of hair falling over his closed eye. She remembered how he fell on the bed next to her and lightly drew circles on her skin with his fingers before kissing down her and landing at her pussy. He made her come against his tongue that time. All the while moaning about how good she tasted, all smooth and softness. He couldn’t hold himself back from fucking her again after that. Anything to make her moan and scream.

When they came again he pulled her back against his chest wrapping an arm around her waist and smelling the gardenias in her shampoo. He never wanted to leave her bed and Kate didn’t want him to either. A strong difference from any of the other men she had a one night stand with.

He sleepily told her about Ireland at her request. She told him about the pressure her mother put on her to get married and why she went out with James to begin with.

“Do you want to get married,” he asked.

Kate laughed softly. “Not to him. Not to anyone my mom thinks is appropriate. One day.”

As she drifted to sleep she could have sworn she heard him confirm “one day,” in a whisper.

Usually with one night stands, Kate was pushing them out the door. But she didn’t want to do that with Niall. She felt so relaxed and herself without him. He would be a man that would be easy for her to love. She sat up and brushed his cheek with the back of her hand, feeling the stubble that had started to come in.

Niall’s face slid into a smile and with his eyes closed. “You’re awake, are you,” he asked before opening his eyes and grabbing her wrist to slide her hand over his mouth and kiss her palm. Kate was breathless at the intimate move and never realized how sexy something so simple could be.

“You’re so beautiful in the morning, you know that,” he said. She seemed to be even more beautiful than last night. Her auburn hair rumpled and smudged eyeliner. He saw the red marks on her hips where he must have gripped too tight at some point, but he felt possessive of that. Like he was marking her as his, even for a night.

Kate couldn’t bring herself to push him out of her bed and by that same token out of her life. She found herself momentarily wondering how should get him to stay longer than the week he had promised. So she didn’t resist him when he pulled her to straddle his lap. She was still drowsy and soft. The morning light coming in the window made her look almost angelic. Niall brushed where she was already wet for him with his knuckles.

“God, are you ever not wet and ready for me?” Kate smiled at that. He sat up to kiss her shoulder.

“A testament to how good you are,” she said with a wink.

“Are you too sore for me,” he asked rubbing slow circles around her clit.

Kate moaned. “Oh God. No, I’m not.” He kissed her softly.

“What if I just want to do this and give you all of the pleasure I have to give?” She bit her lip and shook her head.

“No I want to feel you in me again.” He growled softly lifting her to kneeling and positioned himself at her opening. Kate held onto his shoulders as she slowly lowered herself back onto him. She was sore from last night. He wrung every orgasm she could give from her, but she couldn’t resist feeling him deep inside her one more time before he left.

She moved her hips in slow, lazy circles when his full length was inside of her. Their chests pressed together and feeling his hot breath on her neck. This wasn’t sex that she was used to with a one night stand. This was the kind of sex usually reserved for a lover. But even in the morning light, with a small hangover she couldn’t ignore the adoration he looked at her with or the soft ways in which in touched her.

“God you’re so deep like this. And so warm and perfect,” he said kissing a line down her neck and tracing her spine with his fingertips. “I won’t last long.”

Kate smirked at the effect she seemed to be having on him and leaned back to give him a view of her. Supporting herself with one hand on his thigh her other hand felt down her stomach to her swollen and wet clit making the same lazy circles to match the ones with her hips. His eyes intently stared at that hand and he groaned.

“You like watching me touch myself,” she said with a smile.

“Fuck yes I like watching you touch yourself. God you could make a man want to live here just so he could see this every morning.

He reached to take one of her pink nipples between his fingers and rolled them just to the point where she felt the bite of pain. But with everything else going on, it just made the pleasure that much more intense. She bit her lip again.

“I’m going to come Niall. God you feel so good in me.” His hands gently guided her hips.

“Come, love. Give that to me.” He felt Kate tighten around him and pulled her to him again, feeling her moans and kisses on his shoulder. Her fingers dug into his back right before she came. When he felt her orgasm he flipped her to lay on her back, driving into her again to reach his own climax.

When he came deep inside her again, he stayed inside her kissing her face, not wanting to let her out from under him. Kate caught her breath and ran her fingertips up his back.

“I should, uh, make some coffee or something,” she said suddenly feeling awkward about the emotion of what just happened. She had only met this guy last night for God’s sake. He was just visiting and not going to be here for awhile. She had never felt so attached to someone so quickly.

He slipped out of her, leaving her feel empty before rolling out from under hip and grabbing a black silk robe from the armchair in the corner and wrapping it around her. She stopped to look back at him, tilting her head to the door.

“Coming?”

***

A few minutes later the smell of coffee wafted from the kitchen and Kate stood leaning a hip on the counter reading something on her phone. Niall stopped to watch her relaxed in the morning. Swollen lips and burn on her chest from his scruff. He saw her nipples pressed against the thin fabric of her robe and knew all he had to do was open it up and find her naked. Such a swift move and he could be inside of her again.

“I know what we can do today,” he said with a smile.

“Hmm?” Kate hummed before looking up at him and admiring his body in the daylight. His black pants slung low on his hips and he wasn’t wearing a shirt. She could get used to this view every morning. She held out a mug of coffee for him.

“No thanks. I never got a taste for the stuff. I said I know what we can do today.”

“Oh God, sorry. I didn’t know,” she said looking embarrassed. “We’re doing something today?”

He had a new twinkle in his eye like he just made the perfect plan.

“Yes we are.”

“Does that something involve breakfast? I’m starving.”

Taking an apple from the bowl in the center of the counter, he leaned one elbow on the counter across from her and smiled. “It could. But you’re going to marry me today.”

Kate choked on her coffee. “Yeah right, Niall,” she said sarcastically.

He just kept his relaxed facade and smiled at her as if he just said the most normal thing in the world.

“You aren’t serious, are you?”

“I am serious. Why not?”

Kate’s eyes narrowed at him “Why not? Oh I don’t know because I just met you last night. You’re not from the same country so that would be a nightmare. Why would we?”

Niall shrugged. “Because it makes sense.”

Kate looked at him searching his face for signs of the end of this joke. She turned to the sink to pour out her coffee wanting to leave this situation. “I had a feeling you were crazy last night. Now I know you’re crazy.” He came up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist, brushing her hair to one side so he could kiss her neck.

“People get married like this all the time. You’ve heard of Vegas, right?”

Kate rolled her eyes. “Yes and those people get annulments.”

“My parents were married after two weeks and were happy until the day he died. Think about it, Kate.” He kissed up her neck and slipped one hand under her robe to feel her. “I can be very persuasive.”

Kate’s head rolled back to his shoulder. “There’s nothing to think about.”

“Yes there is,” he said between kisses. “I don’t want to leave and you want to get out from the pressure your mother is putting on you. It’s perfect.”

Kate turned to face him and whispered “but I don’t really know you, Niall.”

He shrugged. “You know the highlights and anything else you can learn. But I don’t think I was imagining what was happening just now. It was like you were pleading me not to go without saying anything at all, love.”

Kate knew he was right. There was something more to what happened this morning than just a one night stand. “What if it doesn’t work,” she asked pressing her palms into his chest.

“Then it doesn’t work. You get to tell your mother marriage isn’t for you and start a new life. Marriages break up for not working even when the two people have known each other longer than a day.”

Kate’s upper teeth sawed on her lip, lost in thought. She looked so lovely standing there in the thin robe, in his arms he couldn’t help but kiss her sweetly. Her lips soft and relenting against his. He broke the kiss and lightly kissed her nose looking at her face with her eyes closed.

“Say yes, Kate.”

Kate blinked her eyes open. For a beat he knew she was going to say no and push him out the door. But she smiled instead and said “Yes, Niall. Let’s go get married.”

He let out a breath in relief before kissing her more forcefully this time. Unable to take his hands off of her.