Mr. Blue Eyes: Wild Night Dreaming 1 (4 page)

The week she had lost her virginity to a
virtual stranger…

* * *

CARLA did not really stay in Mykonos. She had
stayed in Tourlos, a town half-an hour away from the bigger town of
Mykonos. She was there to finish a thesis, and Gia and Adelpha, one
of their other childhood friends, would have been her companions.
Instead, Adelpha had gotten sick, while Gia had found another
excuse not to come, too.

Now she wondered if Adelpha had really been
sick. She remembered how they looked when she had come back, the
excited looks on their shining faces as they threw questions at her
as soon as her parents left them alone in her room.

She disappointed them by lying.

“
No, nothing happened. I met him, and
things didn’t go as planned, and he left.”

“
You’re kidding! We did not pay him that
much so he could leave you unsatisfied!” Adelpha exclaimed.

“
Is he as handsome and as sexy as he was
in Skype?” Gia had asked.

She, at least, gave them that. He was more
than handsome. He was more than sexy. He was everything a woman
could want in a lover.

He was perfect.

And he was now Thera’s boyfriend.

C
arla had to focus on
the now and not on what happened between her and Jake, or Tom,
then. So she focused on Gia.

“Thera doesn’t know,” she repeated. “He
hasn’t told her anything about his background. I can imagine why,
though I don’t really know his reasons. But Thera is our friend so
I mean to talk to him about it when I get a chance.”

Gia turned from a frenetic fan to an enraged
friend in a second. “You mean he might just be playing with
her?”

She shook her head. “He might not be. We
can’t be sure. But, when you think about it, it isn’t easy to tell
your girlfriend that you worked as a male escort before you broke
out and becomes rich.”

“But Thera has to know!” Gia said. “He can’t
treat our friend like that. He has to be honest. She is the nicest
person on this living earth!”

And once again, Gia was ready to rush. Carla
moaned with exasperation as she held her back again.

“Wait, you cyclone! As much as I hate saying
this, it’s not our place to reveal it to her. At least not until
I’ve confronted him and gave him the chance to explain
himself.”

Gia thought for a minute. “That’s fair. After
all, he may have a very good reason for not telling her, right? I
mean, he’s not a bad person, right? You said he had been a
gentleman and he treated you well in Mykonos.”

Oh yes, he’s been gentle
, Carla
thought.

Then she blinked and she shook her head, and
the white-washed houses, beautiful in the sunlight from the balcony
of the rented house where she stayed and where they made love all
day and all night, vanished from her mind. But the feeling of his
skin against her heated skin, of his manhood as it slid wetly and
easily inside and out of her, and how the sensations magnified when
she closed her eyes against the site outside the window and his
sweaty, beautiful face, remained a bit longer.

Oh my God… how am I going to survive
this?

When she looked at the suddenly quiet Gia,
her friend’s eyes were focused on her. And she looked worried. She
pulled at her until they were both sitting on the edge of her
bed.

“Tom Sawyer in your home! Whoever saw this
coming? What will Adelpha say?! And most of all, how do you
feel?”

She gulped. “How do you think do I feel? He
is Thera’s boyfriend!”

And on her friend’s mind, something clicked.
“Oh no! You lied to us, didn’t you? Something happened between you
and him!” She gasped. “He was your first man!”

“Shhh! Gia! Please!”

Gia’s eyes were bulging as her hands closed
on her gaping mouth. Those eyes told it all.

She, Carla, and their friend, Thera, had
shared the skills of one man!

“Not really,” she countered. “She said that
they haven’t slept together yet. I got them separate rooms. She
said they both didn’t want to rush things.” She winced. “This is
unbelievable. I can believe that of Thera, but of Tom Sawyer?”

“Uh-uh.” Gia’s shaking head contradicted her.
“I can believe that of you, who are the most disciplined person I
know. But Thera… she will never play, but if she is in love she
will succumb at the first instant. I can’t believe they never had
sex!”

“So you mean…?”

“It must be the guy. Either he’s a twin, or
he really has changed.”

“Remember, he’s not a male escort anymore.
Adelpha said he dropped out of the website shortly after I met him
in Mykonos, so he is out of practice since then. He doesn’t need to
make things happen anymore. And… he really must love Thera. I can
imagine Thera saying something like wanting to wait until the
perfect moment – you know her – and him giving her what she
wished.”

Gia sighed deeply. “I can imagine Thera
saying something like that, too. Though with a man like that, it’s
a stupid thing to say.”

Suddenly, they were both giggling.

“What happened with you and him? Adelpha said
that he must give you time because you had no clue about our plan
for you, and that you will not give in at first.”

Her eyes widened. “Bitches, both of you!” she
exclaimed, but she wasn’t angry.

Jake had been true to form. He did not leave
right away after she said she had no intention of doing anything
with him, and she was there because of her thesis, and that she
only wanted… well… to find out how a woman feels when she was being
romanced. It wasn’t like no one pursued her at home, but it was
hard to act with someone she knew from childhood. Both Gia and
Adelpha knew her hang ups.

A friend of a friend of Adelpha’s cousin was
the source of a reputable website that offered escorting services
by very select men. It was where Adelpha found Tom Sawyer, and he
was the most sought-after escort there because he was, according to
the forum where clients leave feedbacks anonymously, easily the
most handsome and gallant.

Then Adelpha read an announcement that he was
going to visit Greece on a Spring Break and the website was asking
for takers. She took a chance and contacted him to give her friend
an “experience” that would wake her up to the pleasures of men. She
didn’t know how they had made him agree because there must have
been a lot of offers. She couldn’t believe it was only because
Adelpha had showed him a picture of her. Well, Adelpha was the only
daughter of wealthy enterprising parents, so she could have paid
him dearly for him to agree.

And he did that. He “romanced” her. They went
to restaurants and they walked by the harbor, hand in hand. They
swam on the beach. They each bought souvenirs.

She fell on the second day.

And the days of that week had been the most
beautiful days of her life, ruining her for the men that came to
her life after that.

But she didn’t mind. She hadn’t minded.

Until now.

“I can’t believe you lied to us and we both
believed you,” Gia said, her face in total confusion. “No.
Actually, we didn’t believe you – until he sent the payment
back.”

Carla stared at her friend. “What? Why would
he do that?”

“I don’t know. But shortly after you came
back here, he asked Adelpha for an account number to send the money
back. And she gave him an account, thinking he would only send a
part of it because he was not able to make you do the deed, you
know? But then he sent all of it back.”

Carla’s heart was thudding like crazy. “Why
would he do that?” He did everything. They did everything.

Gia was staring back at her. “Well, it could
be because he hated the week with you… which is unlikely. Or… he
liked it so much that he wanted to give it meaning… so he sent the
payment back.”

Carla was speechless.

“
S
o what do we do
now?” Gia asked with wide eyes.

Carla had to make an effort to focus again at
the issue at hand. “Now, we go back downstairs like everything is
fine and you don’t say a word to Thera until I say so. And you wipe
off that look on your face or she will know that something is going
on. Please?”

Gia grinned with comical guilt. “I can’t
really blame you for your confusion right now, Carla,” she said.
“He is a god, isn’t he? So much better up close! And he might have
fallen for you, too, two years ago. I wonder why he hadn’t made an
effort to find you?”

She was at that exact moment thinking about
what Jake had said a while ago… that he went back to Mykonos and
had looked her up. And she glared at Gia. “Focus! He is Thera’s
boyfriend. We can’t forget that. Okay?”

“Right,” Carla said sheepishly.

Before Carla could say anything more, a knock
on the door startled both of them. She stood up to open it, giving
a warning look at Gia behind her back as she walked to the
door.

To her utter surprise, it was Jake who was
standing outside her door and not Thera. His eyes were very
serious.

“Can I come in? I think we need to talk.”

She frowned, but she stepped back to let him
in before Thera saw them and asked what was going on. “Thera?”

“I told her I’ll come up and put my
swim-shorts so that we can go swimming,” he answered. He looked at
Gia, who had also stood up and was all red and flushed again. “I
gather by her reaction when she saw me that she knew about Mykonos,
too. So there’s no secret between the three of us here?”

Gia tried to answer but all that came out of
her mouth was unintelligible blabber.

“Gia, go down and keep Thera busy until we
come down, okay?” Carla asked her. “Please calm down. She cannot
know… yet.”

“Yes, ma’am!” Gia said. And then was out of
the room before she could further embarrass herself, disappearing
with a speed incredible for her size. And she had the presence of
mind to close the door behind her.

And then, she was alone with Jake, inside her
bedroom, with the huge bed just one or two step away.

Carla was looking down at the floor as she
felt her body heating up uncontrollably. He was moving, getting
closer. Alright, he had invaded her personal space now. His hand
reached and lifted her chin, and she found herself staring at those
magnetic blue eyes, so close. His lips so close. His whisper was so
low that she strained to hear his words, while everything else
faded.

“Do you know how many times I imagined this
moment? I almost gave up. I thought I’ll never see you again,
angel.”

She closed her eyes, the move involuntary.
That was what he called her in Mykonos, in that exact tone. So
tender, affectionate, loving. His breath caressed the soft skin of
her lips and shivers tortured her body. She knew that he felt that.
Any movement of a woman’s body that spoke of desire, he must all
know. He started to move closer.

Loud laughter came from downstairs, so loud
that it reached her room. She suddenly realized what they were
doing and she pulled herself away, taking three steps back. He
watched her with a clouded, confused gaze. They were both breathing
heavily.

Damn… it’s still there.
She was right
in thinking he did desire her then. It wasn’t just an act. She
could see the lust in his eyes and it about undid her. They were
supposed to be talking about Thera. And she had to focus on
that.

“Why haven’t you told Thera the truth?” she
asked in a voice she had to fight to get steady.

He continued to stare at her with those twin
blues, then he turned and walked to her bed and sat there on the
edge, facing her.

Great… now I’ll have images of him on my
bed as well… as if the others weren’t enough
… she thought
painfully.

He started to explain in a much steadier
voice than hers.

“I met Thera in a party. It was a different
party, not like the ones I used to attend when I was still an
escort on that website. It was about six months ago, I think, and I
was there as I am now, a software programmer and a businessman, and
no one there knew about my past occupation. If anyone had known,
they didn’t let me know anyway. Though I sometimes think it’s the
reason why I get investments from wealthy husbands, though I don’t
remember the wives.”

She shook her head and rolled her eyes. “I
only want to know about Thera, please.”

He grinned before he got serious again. “I
remember seeing her wearing a long white evening-gown, and I was
impressed and mentioned this to someone. That someone introduced us
and when I started talking to her, I found out that she is Greek. I
remember telling her that I met this other Greek woman somewhere
and I told her your name. It was a long shot. Of course there were
many islands and it’s stupid to assume that just because both of
you are of the same nationality, you will know each other. And of
course, she doesn’t know the name. But not because she doesn’t know
you.” He shook his head as he smiled. “After everything you’ve told
me about yourself, it was ironic of the situation that I hadn’t
known about your real name.”

Carla sputtered in indignation.

“
B
ut I didn’t… I
hadn’t—“

“It’s alright, angel. I understand. A woman
will never divulge her true name to a male prostitute if she can
help it, lest the name be mentioned in another group.”

She gaped back at him. She couldn’t know what
to say.

He smiled. “I enjoyed my time with you. Very
much. I… escort. I don’t… to tell the truth, I only agree to
escorting. I don’t service sex, never did as a male escort. I had
agreed to bridal showers mostly. But not to sex with any one of my
clients… except you.”

“Why did you come, then?” she asked,
unbelieving.

“Oh, woman, don’t you know how you look? One
look at your picture and I was saying yes to your friend’s request.
I had to clear it up with my boss. He had already chosen a more
lucrative client for me and had to cancel. Anyway, not divulging
your name was smart. You couldn’t have known that I wasn’t, truly,
a prostitute. Even if male escorts are considered the same.”