"Get back here stupid, I will marry you." She smiled and he turned back and grabbed her. He carried her in his arms and crushed his lips on hers. It was not a kiss like the others, it was different, it was new, it held a lot of promises she knew would not be broken this time around.
"I love you Alisha Adams, soon to be Mrs Legend" he said and slid the ring over her finger.
"I love you too Leo." She said and allowed him kiss her. They were deep into the kiss and it was when her robe came free and fell to the ground that she knew what he had in mind.
"Wait" she stopped him and he wondered what he had done wrong, or if she didn't want him as much as he wanted her.
"What now?" he asked anxious to make her moan.
"One, it's been too long, that I don't want to have it on the couch but on the bed, two after tonight, there won't be anything intimate between us until the night of the wedding." She was serious and meant the latter.
"Yes mi lady" he smiled and grabbed her waist. He planted a quick kiss on her lips, before going to lock the door for the night and then he carried her up the stairs to her room. The next time he would have her in bed, it would be their room, their bed and as his wife.
Thinking about it, he was going to remodel the room again, so it would be different and hold a promise of something new.
He would worry about that later, but for now, he just wanted to make love to this woman, his woman.
He placed Alisha on the bed and stared at her naked body, "you are so beautiful," he said with so much expression that she couldn't doubt the authenticity of what he had said.
"Fuck, I love you so much," he added. As he undressed and joined her on the bed, he leaned over her and took her mouth. He kissed her slowly this time, he wanted to make up for the lost time they had been apart.
He didn't mind her instructions on no sex until the wedding, he could get the wedding arranged in a week.
He massaged her breasts as his lips returned to her mouth. She was his woman and he wasn't going to let go of her until she was sore and begged him to stop.
He moved his mouth to the lobe of her ear and gently circled his tongue. He moved his mouth to her shoulders; she could feel his warm breath stirring the fine hairs of her neck.
He took his mouth back to her lips and his kiss overwhelmed her senses. Her passion rose and equaled his as inexorably as a moth draws to a flame.
As they kissed, all she could think about was having this man by her side every day. He lifted her wrists to kiss the palms of each hand.
He went to her mouth again and possessed it. As he possessed her mouth, his hand caressed her breast until they trembled and grew hard with desire. With a little moan, Leonardo's mouth moved down to tease the nipples with his tongue and teeth.
As she lay naked beneath him, Leonardo looked down at her, drinking in the softly rounded hills and velvet valleys of her body.
He lay back down beside her and gathered her into his arms. "I love you Alisha Adams, my soon to be Mrs Legend."
He nuzzled her ear. His mouth was feathering across her cheek, making her tingle in the most amazing places.
He drew her towards him until she was molded into his body, her soft, pliant flesh the perfect compliment for his hard, muscular planes. His hand smoothed over her hips and thighs, coming to rest on the warm, silken valley between.
She gasped as his fingers stroked gently and surely, firing her passion until she thought she would die from wanting him.
"Legend" she moaned. His hands and mouth seemed to be everywhere, on her lips, her throat, her breast, and then lower again where they stroked the fire of her passion until it became too much for her to bear.
She strained upwards, urgently seeking the relief his body promised. "Leo, please make love to me" she said in a voice that sounded strange in her own ears.
His hands griped her shoulders and quickly, eagerly, he entered into her, his tortured groan speaking of her need, as well as his own.
He filled her aching void slowly, drawing out each glorious moment of their union. Then gently his strokes became faster, harder, and intense until the small knot within her grew to the point of explosion.
Alisha cried out when they reached the peak, her body shivering with a ragged, convulsion force as the passion consumed them both, leaving them out of energy. But refilled.
They did not speak for a while; they lay in each other's arms, Alisha's head on his chest, feeling satisfied and complete.
She drank in his scent as she slowly drifted into sleep. This was where she wanted to be. In his arms.
Alisha woke up the next morning to an empty bed, she went to the bathroom to urinate, then she brushed her teeth and went down stairs, Leonardo was in the kitchen making breakfast.
"Why did you get up? It was supposed to be breakfast in bed." She smiled as he came towards her and gave her a kiss on her temple.
"Well then, I'll just go back to bed" she stole a grape from the ones he had washed and placed in a plate.
"If you go back to bed, we will defile your so called no sex until wedding night nonsense, of course I won't mind, but I love to respect the desires of my woman." He said and tossed the pancake in the nonstick pan.
"I'll rather stay back for breakfast here." She said and sat by the grapes. He rolled his eyes at her and took away the grapes from her, he didn't want her to fill her stomach with grapes and then be unable to eat the pancakes he was getting ready.
"Chocolate or syrup?" he asked her which she wanted on her pancakes.
"None" she said as she made coffee for them.
Later that day, they had gone to pay her father a visit and tell him they were getting married. They deliberated on a date, and agreed on two weeks from that time.
Alisha would have loved it to be in a month or two, but Leonardo said there was no need wasting time, they were going to hire two event planners to get the work done and every details covered.
She had spoken to Leonardo all morning; it had been a long call, he had made her face time with him while she dressed up and had breakfast, and she had reminded him of their appointment with the event planners at 11am.
Alisha was running late for the appointment. She had been so busy trying to finish up some orders. When she arrived, Leonardo wasn't there yet but the event planners were. They had a little chit chat over cups of coffee while Alisha tried to reach Leonardo.
He wasn't taking her calls, and even when she had called his secretary on the office line, she didn't take the call either.
"Maybe he is making out with his secretary on his office desk." A voice said in her head and she shook it off. She knew it would take her a while to trust Leonardo again, but she didn't have to weary herself with unreasonable thoughts and imaginations of him cheating on her.
She had wanted to cancel the meeting and head back to the bakery but the event planners had encouraged her to stay while they focused on details regarding the bride, and later they could reschedule for couples details.
Alisha had agreed and dumped her coffee for juice, when the discussion started she was still moody, but mid way into the discussion and she wasn't feeling like Leo was absent, she was glad they could have some girls time.
At the end of the meeting, they had chosen a date for the bridal shopping, tasting and selection. Alisha was mentally drained at the end, so instead of heading back to the bakery, she stopped by to pick up dinner from an Italian restaurant so she could head home, shower, eat and sleep.
When she got to her favorite Italian restaurant, she was told it was closed for the night, as some business men had reserved the entire restaurant for the night.
Feeling disappointed, she turned and went to her car. She was about to start the engine while deciding where else she could get a good dinner, when a server from the restaurant knocked gently on her car glass.
"I'm so sorry, but your presence is needed briefly inside the restaurant." He said politely. Alisha had second thoughts, but she went in with him.
He led her to a table of unfamiliar faces, they were rich looking businessmen, when she got closer, Leonardo got up to receive her.
"Gentle men, meet my fiancée, baker Alisha Adams of Alisha Bakery" he flashed her a smile as he introduced her with pride.
She replied to the greetings of the three other business men and one woman, as they each gave her peck on her cheeks.
"Join us, we will be done in no time." Leonardo said drawing a chair out for her.
"I would like to defer, I had quite a long day and I would rather retire now" she excused herself while she shot Leonardo a dagger stare, before he excused himself and led her out.
"I'm so sorry for ditching on you earlier today, I promise to stop by your house after this meeting" she didn't let him kiss her, instead she gave him a frown that made it clear that she was mad at him.
After she left and he went back to his meeting, she didn't bother looking for where else to grab dinner, she simply went home and soaked herself in a bath. When she was done, she sat by the television set, watching Netflix and eating prawn crackers and soda.
She knew it was an unhealthy dinner, but she didn't feel like cooking, the knock on the door woke her up, she had slept off after eating the last of her snacks. She put off the television and went to the door, she was certain it was Leonardo.
He really was the one at the door. He came in with dinner for her, but she was no longer hungry, she asked him to pack it into the refrigerator and leave, since all she wanted to do was go to bed.
"I know you are mad at me baby, there is an office emergency at one of our branch, I was so busy I lost track of time, I need to be out of town tomorrow." He held her hand as he spoke, expecting a reaction from her.
"How long?"
"Four day max."
"Am I supposed to halt the planning?"
"No baby, it's all about do, do whatever you want dear, I trust your decision," he gave her a card to take care of all the wedding expenses she would need to make, he was also able to convince her to spend the night with her, and then he would leave quite early for his flight.
She didn't need to remind him that there was no sex happening between them, because she was already asleep by the time he was done showering, and as soon as he hit the bed, he also fell asleep, but he didn't miss cuddling her.
Alisha developed a fever in the middle of the night.