I was soaked in sweat when I came through the front door, after having spent virtually two-hours outdoors running.
The smell of fried eggs, cheese, corn beef mixed with onions, lettuce and green pepper took over the entire space as I walked into the kitchen.
Diana was busy with both hands, holding the frying pan with one hand, whilst starring the mixed content in the pan with the other hand.
She looked small in my pajamas top, reaching down to the middle of her thighs where her bare smooth legs continued to the wooden tiled floor.
She looked over her shoulder and smiled at me and I smiled back.
"Do you mind helping out with the coffee?" she pleaded and I nodded in reply, as I gulp down the one liter bottle water I took from the refrigerator.
"Kuga."
"Yes Diana." "thanks"
"You are welcome; to what do I owe the honor, lady?"
"Thanks for being such a gentleman, thanks for not taking advantage and salvaging the situation. Thanks for simply being there for me yesterday."
"Aha, glad to have you back Diana. But sorry I am not a gentleman, it took me every ounce of strength and resolve to hold back the edges. Next time we may not be so lucky."
"Perhaps I should try harder next time" she interjected gloomily.
"And I will probably take you up on that… how do you feel this morning?"
"A little sore, but I think I will pull through, thanks."
"I am going into the garden for a swim".
"Really, I didn't know you have a pool here".
"Nah, just a little stream running through the garden. The previous owner altered it somehow to create a creek."
Diana was now stuffing the hot salad mix in-between slices of bread making sandwiches.
"I am done here?" she said as she handed to me one big sandwich resting tantalizingly on the plate.
'The lady is not giving up, is she kuga?'.
'No spooky, she wants to ride it all the way to end.'
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With steaming mugs of coffee and plates of sandwiches in hand, we walked into the warming embrace of the morning sunlight in the cool garden.
I found the rare moment magical, and I savored it as a feeling of promnesia momentarily held me captive.
Such are the ways of the feminine energy; it brings color to a lonely world.
"It feels great to have you here Diana. Who would have thought a day before, that I will have the 'great iron fist' as a guest in my house?".
"Great iron fist?". Diana asked with a puzzle look.
"Oh! you don't know about the alias your staff branded you?"
"Head it a couple of times at the office, but I didn't know I have fist as strong as iron. Diana said faking innocence in a coy smile, causing me to laugh at the mockery.
"I am thinking of having a meeting with the board. I have an incoming project from a new client, but as it stands now I feel skeptical about working with Wodmax, and I don't want to risk it anymore. This could be a chance for us to start something new Kuga, I believe you have a registered company on the side" Diana said.
"Why do you believe that?"
"I have always seen it in your eyes Kuga, you will always be your own boss even if you are working for someone. it's that hunger I saw in you that made me want to have you on the board," She replied.
"DedRox LTD"
"It sounds familiar, oh wait, don't tell me you have anything to do with that company."
"Just a recommendation Diana, it's one of the best we have around here. Highly skilled architects and engineers for your kind of projects."
"Well, what about if we simply register our own company, high the best team, and pick up these projects?"
"I am not interested Diana; I guess I love being a desk guy."
"You are so unpredictable Kuga, one moment you show great ambition, in the next you act like a monk."
"And who told you monks aren't ambitious. We are all ambitious Diana, is the question about what we chose to pursue".
"So, what are you pursuing Kuga? how far are you willing to go with the Wodmax conundrum? Why not simply exit and start something new? Something that will give you room to operate on your terms. I bring in the projects, then you run them. Take your time to think about it Kuga."
"Bad time to exit from Wodmax, Diana".
"You are an employee, not a board member, there is no price on your head, nothing can stop you if you choose to quit. Soon the hammer will drop Kuga, and I want to be ready when it did…"
We ate quietly for a while savoring the bright colors, fragrances intermingled with the buzzing, chipping and whistling of birds and insects, the smell of lemon and noni so strong in the cool morning air.
Enjoying each other's company, Diana led the conversation most of the time, switching subjects. I could sense her trying to find a way into the mundane, and personal stuff.
"I am having a great time" she finally said grinning, showing manicured even set of white teeth, and moist full pink lips.
I was lost in thought for a while as I recollect episodes of our little drama the evening before.
Diana caught me starring and look away blushing, forcing her attention back to her half eaten sandwich on the plate.
Avoiding eye contact with me she said "Sorry I interrupted your call with Ruby yester night. I guess I should have knock before entering."
"Don't worry about it Diana."
"You still haven't told me about what you have going on with the lady."
"Nothing serious Diana, will you believe me if I tell you we only met some few days ago during lunchtime at the cafeteria?"
"And you both hit it off, from what I observed so far. The lady is coming onto you hard, I admire her gallantry."
"Yeah, I guess that's partially the reason why I like vibing with her," I replied.
"And what is the other reason why you vibe with her?" Diana asked without an expression on her face.
"Do you really want to do this, Diana? Spent time asking me about things you don't want to hear?"
Diana look at me intently when I said this, and the look lingers for a while, perhaps for a long while. I couldn't tell for how long as the inevitable stared us on the face.
This is not a question about love or lust, feelings and emotions.
None of this things wouldn't find a place in the burning cravings, and yearnings our bodies exude.
The sensual energy we sparked the day before isn't going anywhere until we do something about it.
"Can we go for that swim now? I think my body can contain this heat any longer" Diana broke the silence.
Clumsily we clear the table and walked back inside as she proceeded to the kitchen with the empty plates and I climb upstairs, to pick up some few items.
I probably have a way to help ease the building tension between us.
"Are you ready for this?" I asked the now tensed woman, when we re-converged at the hall. There was anticipation in her eyes.
"Is your call Kuga" she said nervously.
"Okay, let's go".
It was mid-morning, but the thick clouds filtered the direct heat from the sun.
"How deep is the water Kuga?"
"Six feet."
"I am five-three Kuga, and I never took a swimming lesson."
"I will be with you every step of the way" I said as I spread the yoga mat on the soft grass by the side of the pool along with the baby oil.
"I don't see a gym around, yet you look trim and shapely built" She said… as she eyed my stature hungrily from top to down.
"My body, the floor, and gravity is the only gym I will ever need. Nothing much though, just two hundred push-ups and hundred squats each day before I take my bath morning and evening. And fifty knuckle push-ups to curb the edge, whenever I have a hard-on", I replied and she giggled.
"You mean yesterday you have a knuckle push ups to put the edges to sleep?"
"Yeah Diana, and for the first time it didn't work. It was still on by the time I hit fifty and I had to strenuously work my way up to hundred, but the results remained the same".
Diana cackles at this and commented, "Oh, I didn't know you are so spoiled Kuga" she laughed again, gliding towards me like a lioness stalking its prey…. her unblinking eyes held mine.
"What is going on in that head of yours err Kuga."
"Oh, I don't think you want to know, woman."
"Why don't you try me."
"Well, sit on the mat please, and simply follow my lead okay…. It's purely exercise, feel free to tell me if you're feeling uncomfortable, okay?"
"okay" she answered and swallowed hard with anticipation.
Good for her, anticipation is the first door to this sensual game.
"Let's free you off those sagging pajamas" I said as I removed each button revealing her heaving cleavage where beads of perspiration were beginning to form.
"What are you doing to me?" she asked in a rasping tone, the sound of her breath was all I needed to know I was on the right track.
Sssh, I cross one finger gently over her lips… "whatever you are feeling right now, stick with it and dwell in the pleasure, she nodded absently as her eyes begun to turn hazy, another good sign.
When I was done unbuttoning all the way down, the roundness of her perfect full breast was partially showing. I watched as beads of sweat trickles down from her cleavage all the way down to her navel, and my head whirl at the prurient sight.
"Now come to me, Diana." I invited stretching out my legs towards her in my sitting posture on the yoga mat.
"hop on my thighs, and draw your body closer to me".
She sat astride on my thighs in only her bikini, and wrapped her legs behind my waist as our bodies made contact and I finally help her shrug out of the pajamas.
"You can wrap your hands around me or touch me in a way you like, but no kissing." She bites her lips at this comment, and I knew her lips were aching to be kissed.
She wrapped her hands around me, her warm soft breasts pressing against my chest as I felt her nipples stood erect at the contact… and she whispered "oh, what are you doing to me Kuga".
"Sssh,." I poured the baby oil on her shoulders and let it slide down following the contours of her back down to her soft buttocks on my thighs. I have an erection but it was well restrained in the tight boxes I wore.
I could feel her pulsating need pressed on my restrained groin as I begun to rob the oil evenly across her back, feeling the bones under the soft skin. She wiggled and moan.
I massaged her back from the shoulder and spine all the way down to the hips and buttocks.
Then I began from her narrow waist upward her body, breaking contact to have access to her belly and breast.
I deliberately avoided her tempting erect nipples, and focus on the plumb softness surrounding them so much so that when I finally brushed over them, she quivers and tilted her head upwards locking gazes with me parting her natural pink lips, perhaps yearning for a kiss, her need so evident, her arousal so tempting and wanting as her fluids drench us both at the base where our pelvic glide on contact.
I could hear her sweet moans, music to my ears, as I wiggled with her, the sensations were so intoxicating. I have to be careful, I want to get her there without flipping off the edge.
"kissed me Kuga, please kissed me…" that was all I needed to hear to know she was getting very close.
I drink the passion from her tempting lips, while caressing her hard nipples with my oiled slick palms.
She applied pressure on my pelvic rocking back and forth, spasming and whimpering.
From the warmth of her mouth, I bent and took one sensitive bud of her breast and nibbled on it softly, while playing the other nipple like a guitar with all five fingers, and she started convulsing and gasping till she collapses on me satiated.
That was quick. That's what happens when there is so much sensual suspense. perhaps she has not been with a man for a long time.
And like that we sat there silent as though our faculty of speech has vanished.
Then she broke the silence; "You are still aroused?" she queried.
"Yeah Diana"
"How come? I thought we came together".
"Yep, I came with you without ejaculating, that's the difference"
"How is that even possible?" she countered.
"Oh yeah it is". Diana seem to take offence at this.
"Why, you don't desire me?". I was taken aback by this reaction.
"What did you see happened lady?... can't you see I was with you all the way? just because I didn't stick it in you and come inside you doesn't mean I don't desire you. all I cared about was to give us pleasure without ruining whatever it is we have going on here".
"And I do enjoy every bit of it Kuga, it's just that I felt I am on the losing side. I am drench wet and aching for you although I had an orgasm, and I am not ready to be your sex slave."
"Where is this coming from, Diana?"
"You tell me Kuga, what do you feel about me?"
"Sorry Diana, but I am not in the feeling business."
Diana looked at me flabbergasted at this comment.
"What have I gotten myself into?" she cried and headed towards the house.
"Diana please wait; can we just talk about this like two adults?"
"No Kuga! Stay away from me, you played me. You are just like the rest of them".
And once they go down that road, trust me you don't want to argue with them.
'spooky what do we do now?'
'I don't know kuga'.
"Damn you spooky, so much for having my back…"