The Geary Series Boxed Set (26 page)

Lilly was lost in her thoughts as she drew the soft charcoal lines on the paper in front of her. She loved to draw and get lost in the sweeping strokes, she wasn’t sure where she was going with the picture. Her head was still fuzzy from being drugged and she wanted to disappear for a while.

She had bought her apartment on sight when she saw the morning room. It was full of light for most of the day and she immediately wanted to live there when she went to view it. Drawing and painting had always been a passion for her, but her parents had made a point of telling her it was a waste of time. She had converted the morning room into a studio but still called it her morning room.

“You shouldn’t be out of bed Lilly.” Elijah called from the other side of the room.

His voice made Lilly jump, and she had forgotten that he had slept on the sofa since they had left the hospital a day ago. Elijah stood in the doorway with two mugs, and she could see the steam circling out of the tops. Elijah appraised the view of Lilly, sitting on a tall wooden stool in what looked like an oversized t-shirt and nothing else. He could see the curve of her breast and the slight rising of the t-shirt material indicating her nipples were half awake. If she weren't in recovery, he would have taken her there and then.

“I couldn’t sleep as I’ve slept so much in the last two days. Drawing helps me relax. Is that coffee?” Lilly said, looking over hopefully to see if they did have coffee in them.

Elijah raised them higher so she couldn’t see, she thought he was teasing her but he just wanted her to stretch up and then her t-shirt would rise. Her legs were glorious and he wanted the best view without being obvious.

Lilly squinted her eyes slightly and let out a low whistle.

“That’s not a t-shirt you’re wearing is it? I haven’t got my contacts in, but you look beautiful. Come closer.” She said, shifting her body off the stool, but she was too slow. Elijah placed the mugs on the nearby table and disappeared. He returned with his shirt on. He had forgotten about wearing a shirt when he made the coffee as he was so comfortable in her home. As he came back into the room and saw that she had helped herself to one of the mugs he felt relieved that he didn’t have to explain himself.

“Spill, Elijah, why did you become shy all of a sudden, it is only nipples after all.” She asked.

He wasn’t going to get away with it. He desperately didn’t want to talk about it, not yet. He was thankful that she had poor eyesight.

“I don’t know what you mean Lilly.” he said, trying for vagueness, it was a long shot.

“Yes you do, but I will drop it for now. Do you wax your chest? There wasn’t a hair on you.” Lilly asked him. Damn he thought her eyesight was bad, he cursed himself for not dressing before he brought in the coffee.

“I don’t have a hairy chest.” Elijah said and smoothed his hands down his chest to prove a point.

“Rubbish, your hairy arms and five o’clock shadow at 9am indicates me you are a hairy man. As I said, I will drop it but let me just say you have some amazing ink on your chest and I would like to see it.” She said, she knew he was hiding something, but she wouldn’t push him, if he wanted her to know he would tell her.

Lilly felt comfortable in her t-shirt but thought that it was inappropriate to be wearing so little. He was a handsome man and she was attracted to him. Her skimpy t-shirt was giving away that her breasts were awake and aching to be touched. She felt betrayed by her body after all that she had gone through over the last few days. Feeling aroused by the sight of a half naked Elijah was enough to set a nun on fire with want.

She wasn’t about to sleep with the boss, she already regretted the intimacy that they had already shared and wanted to move away it.  Shuffling off the seat, she placed the coffee cup on the side table next to her pencils and moved away from Elijah.

“I’m going to get showered and changed, make yourself at home, I won’t be long.” She uttered her final words trailing off as she caught the look in Elijah’s eyes as she mentioned the word shower. They turned predatory and he licked his lips as his eyes fleetingly looked at her bare legs and back to her face via her breasts.

He was envisioning her naked in the shower, she knew it and he knew she had guessed where his thoughts had leapt to.

Elijah stalked towards her in three steps and wrapped his arm around her waist. His lips were on hers on a flash and she let out a muffled squeak as he pressed his hips into hers.

“I haven’t had a shower yet either, we could save some water and shower together.” He mumbled in a low voice over her lips. He continued to peck at her lips as Lilly thought this over. Shower sex. She had never indulged in such activity and as inviting as it sounded she had to be strong and say no.

“I don’t think that is a good idea Elijah, you are going to be my boss, so sex for us is off the menu.” She declared even though internally she was crying at the missed opportunity to see his naked body and a second look at that ink.

“On the other hand, maybe we should, I want to see that tattoo you have close up.” She said to him, she watched as his playful smile turned thin and he dropped his arm that held her.

“It is probably best if we don’t mix business with pleasure, not the best idea I have had.” He muttered and walked back to the sofa he had come from when she mentioned shower.

“Oh, ok then, no problem,” she said trying not to show her disappointment “I guess the wedding invitation is rescinded now as well. Not that you have asked me yet.” Lilly asked.

“Well, now, we don’t need to be too hasty, I still would like you to be my date, but just not get naked.” Elijah said, he couldn’t believe what he was saying to her, he was saying that he didn’t want sex, slippery wet sex at that with this goddess of a woman. He needed to get his head checked.

He wasn’t ready for her barrage of questions. No matter how much he trusted her, he wasn’t ready to talk yet.

“Wow, you know how to charm the ladies Elijah, however did you lose your virginity with moves like that?” She joked.

“Well, there was the head girl at my school at the end of year dance, she didn’t need persuading, trust me and I was a fumbling idiot.” He looked at her smirking at him and he groaned “that was a rhetorical question wasn’t it?” He asked and put his head in his hands. Why did this woman make him into a jabbering fool?

“I will leave you with the thoughts of school dances and lost virginity as I jump in the shower. There is another one next to the kitchen if you wanted to get one at the same time. Once I am showered, I can make us some breakfast, like a good host.” She said and picked up her coffee mug and walked out of the studio she had designed.

Elijah watched as she left, well mainly the hem of the t-shirt to see how much it moved and whether he would get a glimpse of the top of those glorious legs of hers. He craned his neck as she glided through the doorway and out of sight. He was attracted to her and he wanted to take care of her. He hardly knew her, but he felt such a fierce need to protect Lilly. He wondered how she felt about him other than curiosity about his chest. No other woman had commented on his smooth chest and incredibly hairy everything else. That might have to do with the fact that the women he’d been dating and the women he tried to woo he didn’t fuck. Either way no other woman had seen his chest for very long and if they did, they didn’t pass comment on it. He hadn’t dated a woman since he’d had the tattoo done. It had taken several sessions of hours on end lying in the chair as Zed worked on his chest piece. It started just under his collarbone and drifted down towards his waist. One side of the tattoo, the dragon’s tail wrapped about his ribs and ended on his back.

He was delighted with the tattoo and hadn’t felt an awful lot of pain. It was now complete and had healed nicely. The itchy, irritating part had recently passed and he was grateful that he no longer had to take care of the skin.

Zed was glad he had a placid client to work with and talked to Elijah about putting the tattoo in a trade magazine. Elijah was flattered at the offer but politely declined, this was personal and he didn’t want it out in the public eye.

He had sat on the sofa so long that the coffee he just swallowed from the mug was stone cold. As he wasn’t going to be having sex this morning, he made his way to Lilly’s other bathroom and showered.

Lilly stood in the shower, absentmindedly caressing her breasts and she thought about Elijah and the heated kiss they had shared in his office. He brought out a passion that she loved and she wanted more of it. He was gorgeous and she wanted him, but also didn’t want to be seen as a bartender who slept with the boss. Pinching her right nipple her left hand dropped between her legs and her fingers found their way to her folds and she gently rubbed as she closed her eyes. Thinking of the scene that could have played out in his office she thought about Elijah taking her over the desk, pulling her knickers to the side and thrusting in repeatedly until she came hard. She thought about his hand that would be at her neck holding her down while his other hand would be spanking her bottom as he watched himself disappear inside her.

Lilly rubbed harder and faster until she cried out in her release. She was grateful for her vivid imagination, and it had helped relieve stress on more than one occasion recently. They had all involved Elijah, even before the passionate encounter in his office. Each time she imagined him taking her, in charge but gentle and considerate. He would always instigate the meeting and she would be overcome with lust for him.

“Are you ok in there?” Elijah called from the other side of the door.

Lilly stumbled a bit as she came out of her daze, he must have heard her call out her orgasm. She didn’t think she was that loud.

“Yes, Elijah I’m fine, I just thought I saw a spider.” She lied and praised herself for thinking on her feet.

“I have been with a few women Lilly and you called out in ecstasy, you don’t fool me. I was checking that you didn’t need any help for a second round.” He said and chuckled at his directness, he knew what he was doing and wished he could see her face to see the blush that would undoubtedly be there.

“No need Elijah, thanks for the offer, you’re very generous but I honestly did think I saw a spider.” She lied again, praying that he didn’t ask her what she was thinking about when she had her orgasm, seeing as he wasn’t buying her excuse of calling out. She repeated the lie because she was too embarrassed to admit the truth.

Lilly walked back into the morning room fully dressed to find Elijah sprawled on the sofa reading one of her books. She walked over and snatched the book out of his hands and placed it on the floor. Elijah looked at her and growled slightly and reached for the book again.

“Ouch,” he said, “what was that for?” he asked.

Lilly slapped the back of his hand a second time when he reached for her book, and he glared at her hand and grabbed the hairbrush that was in it. Lilly watched as the hairbrush sailed through the air across the room and land with a clatter in the corner. She knew she had gone a little too far, but he was reading her favourite book, Little Women and she didn’t want him to bend the spine or fold the corners over.

“That’s my favourite book,” she said and turned her back to him while she sat on the edge of the sofa. She could feel the warmth of his thigh against her bottom and wriggled a little to get a little bit more comfortable and a little closer to him.

“You could have fooled me, it’s pristine, looks like you’d never opened it.”

“That’s how I like them to be.” She said a little too haughtily and folded her arms.

Being so near to Elijah, Lilly felt the heat cover her body, she had orgasmed within the last thirty minutes and she was ready to go again. She wanted him but had no idea if he truly wanted her or was just flirting and fooling around. She sat there and sulked for a few minutes, neither of them saying a word. She could feel him moving from his quiet laughter at her pouting. She turned and went to slap his thigh, but he caught her wrist and pulled her so that she was flush on top of him. Lilly struggled to move on top of him, but he had his legs entwined with hers and she couldn’t move.

Her lips were so close to his she could feel his warm breath on her cheek. Closing her eyes to absorb his heat, she felt Elijah’s lips on her neck, slowing kissing the skin just under her ear. Lilly groaned her approval and pressed closer still into his body. Elijah wrapped his arm around her waist and switched them around so that she lay beneath him. Instinctively she parted her legs to allow Elijah to settle himself and get comfortable.

Elijah looked down on Lilly’s face and admired her beauty, she was stunning and he wanted her badly. He was sure that she could feel how much he wanted her, but he didn’t care, he was about to demonstrate how much he wanted her.

Leaning in, Elijah kissed Lilly deeply, she was ready for him and opened her mouth to welcome his tongue. That first touch of his warm wet tongue sent a shiver straight between her legs and she raised her hips slightly and circled them once into Elijah’s hips. She wanted him too and right now.

Elijah slid his right hand down and he carried on kissing Lilly deeply and found his way under her t-shirt to her right breast. She gasped as he pinched her nipple through her bra and pulled her face to the side to catch her breath.

Opening her eyes her unfocussed eyes saw a shadow move in the room.

“Move off me Elijah,” she said and tried to shove him off her but he was a dead weight and he was not moving.

“Not a chance, I want to take my time with you.”

“Get off me Elijah there is someone else here, I just saw a shadow move past the door.”

“Don’t be ridiculous, we would have heard them, even over your moaning.”

Lilly slapped his arm and pinched his ribs to get him to move. He reluctantly moved off her and rolled off the sofa and onto the floor with a groan.

“This is not what I had in mind Lilly, come down here and join me.” He invited with a slow smile that made her melt.

“Just let me go and check out the place first.” Lilly said.

Elijah got up from his flat out position and stood upright, stretching up and giving her a wonderful view of his toned V muscle and a peek at his tattoo up close. Reaching out her hand to touch the red ink she found that he was no longer within touching distance. Frowning she looked up and saw that his face had clouded over. Had she upset him? She wasn’t sure.

“I’ll go and check the place out for you while you stay in here.” Elijah announced and stalked off out of the room.

Looking around she wondered about the drugs she had been forced to take and what kind of damage they had done to her. She had never taken drugs before and was not used to feeling this groggy, even after drinking large quantities of vodka. Sitting there in a daze she hadn’t noticed Elijah come back into the room and sitting down next to her. It wasn’t until she felt his hand in hers that she came back to her senses.

“Where were you sweetheart, I called your name a few times?” He asked gently.

“I don’t know, I must have spaced out, I’m feeling a bit tired. Maybe I should take a nap.” She said and got up, she soon fell back down on the sofa again with a thud.

“Lilly, your body, needs to recover, all that exertion in the shower has worn you out,” he said and winked at her.

Lilly didn’t have time to slap him as he had lifted her up in his arms and asked for directions to her bedroom. She circled her arms around his neck and didn’t complain at the sheer laziness of her not walking the twenty or so steps to the bedroom. She rather liked being carried, and it seemed chivalrous of him to carry her.

As he carried her over to the side of the bed, he pulled the duvet back and laid her down, pulling the covers back up over her.

“Elijah was there anyone here?” she asked sleepily.

“No, sweetheart, there was no one that I could find. I’ll go and leave you to sleep.” Elijah told her.

Lilly grabbed his hand, she was worried that there was someone there and that they were going to drug her again. She felt nervous being left on her own so soon.

“Stay with me Elijah, just until I fall asleep, we’re fully clothed, just crawl in behind me and hold me until I fall asleep.”

Elijah was not about to argue with her, he wanted nothing more than to wrap her in his arms while she fell asleep. To him it was the most-comforting thing in the world and he craved it every night he lay there alone looking at the ceiling of his bedroom.

“Ok, Lilly but no funny business, keep your hands to yourself.” He mock scolded. Lilly grinned back while she watched him circle around the bed and climb in the other side. Elijah turned her over onto her other side and pulled her in close so that her head was lying on his chest. Lilly tucked one arm into his side and wrapped the other around his waist. She felt comfortable and safe, a feeling she hadn’t experienced ever in her life before. She was becoming addicted to being with Elijah.