Once upon a Time

Chapter Seventeen:

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Their gaze were locked for quite a while and he didn't make any move to look away. He liked what he was looking at very well. For a minute there his gaze flickered to her lips and he swallowed thickly. That drew her attention away from his eyes and she imitated him, staring at his lips, moving inches towards him.

He told himself a thousand times that he should look away but he couldn't do it. No matter how hard he tried, he found himself leaning towards her.

The door slammed shut and Daniel cursed silently. He made sure to see who it was before stepping away from his wife.

"Henry, a pleasure seeing you again." Daniel couldn't hide the smirk that found its way his face.

"Is everything alright?" Henry asked trying to hide his amusement. He had obviously seen the whole thing to have that smile on his face. Clarissa nodded finding her way around her table to have a sit.

"Why wouldn't it be?" Daniel replied with a little enthusiasm than Henry expected. Henry raised a brow before shrugging. That previous smile slipping into his face again. "Oh and I'll have this." Daniel grabbed the file from her table making sure to flash her a smile before turning and walking out through the door.

"So," Henry now sat before her. "What was that about?" He watched her as she avoided his stare feigning activity arranging the files on the table.

She asked, "What was what about?"

"If I didn't barge in you guys would have probably kissed,"

"Since when did you start talking rubbish too." She took a sit and started writing something down.

"I don't know, I am just saying things as they are?" He said before laughing again.

"You know you are being too hard on your self. Do you want to live a miserable horny and deserted life?" She abruptly stopped.

"I am not horny," She blurted out.

"Says the woman who was almost desperate to get a kiss, c'mon, let's be real here- seduce him."

"What?!" She blurted out immediately.

"It's a win-win situation. You're horny, he's a man, seduce him. Although it wouldn't take too much time. He doesn't seem like one to-"

"Henry f*****g Prize!" She cut him short and he burst out in laughter.

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He yawned and turned lazily on the bed. It was yet another morning only that he was far from ready to get up yet.

"Put out the lights Rissa!" He stated to no one in particular cause when he turned, she was no where to be found.

"Rissa?" He finally groaned and got off the bed, clearly irritated that the morning hadn't played out how he wanted it.

"Curses!" He stood up and stretched all the way walking to the toilet. He opened the door of the bathroom lazily hoping to take a piss. It took him a little time to realize his mistake. A nude woman in the shower, curtains opened.

His eyes tried to take in every detail simultaneously, forgetting decency. He scanned, scoped with just a few blinks. It was then she felt it. The uncomfortable gesture of someone ogling her. She turned on instinct....and screamed.

Thank God the room was sound proof, her scream was something else but his legs couldn't still get out of place.

"Get out!" She flung the curtains together but she could still feel him staring. Again, she screamed.

"Okay, okay I'm moving alright!" His legs finally moved him because his brains were satisfied with knowledge already.

Like they said, knowledge is power, is time, is money. He smiled to himself muttering; "nothing more would make a beautiful morning."

Indeed!

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His towel hung loose on his waist as he reached for his white sleeve. He planned on looking extra sexy if he wanted to make her puddle at his feet so fast. He just couldn't get what happened this morning out of his head. He shook his head laughing within himself. He sure had seen a lot of things and he was no longer irritated about the morning.

She blinked several times when she noticed the situation she was going to fall into any moment from then. She shook her head trying to get the 'after' image out of her head. Should she tell him?

"Daniel-" Her voice trailed silent like she never said anything. She groaned. If she mistakenly looks and it falls it'll be two never ending embarrassment in one morning.

"Oh holy Mary help me!" She bit her lip in contemplation.

"I never thought my dear wife to be somebody that talks to herself by the minute." She froze.

Wait what?!

"Is something wrong?" He felt a smile creep into his face.

"Your towel.....is slipping off." She never looked, she dared not!

"Oh that?" Please don't tell me he knows. "Are you disturbed?" He stated, honestly trying to get out a reaction.

She scoffed nervously. "Why would I be, I might have seen better."

Wrong word! Wrong statement!

Wrong word! Wrong statement!

Fucking wrong sentence!!

"Oh really? So if I drop it, you won't look away?"

"Don't!" She shrieked. "I mean, you can't make funny jokes like that!" She blurted out.

"And who said I was joking?"

"Me?" She suggested as she threw her comb to the vanity table scared that he was prepared to do something stupid already. "I mean you wouldn't, right?"

"Look," he taunted. Was he Serious?! "If you're not scared, you'll look."

"I'm not scared."

It was 89.75°, she remembered taking a cold shower this morning. She turned slowly to look at him, meeting his gaze half way.

"Maybe you aren't. Still, you've shown me yours and it's only appropriate that I show you mine don't you think?" His gripped firmed around the towel ready to pull it off.

She looked away, cheeks red. Then she heard his laughter, his mocking laughter.

So she turned back to see why, he was till on his towel that means he never took it off.

"You'd think I would do it?"

She chose to retort but nothing came forth from her mouth.

"I knew you couldn't handle it virgin!" He taunted.

He did not just pull that string!

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"Aren't they coming down for breakfast soon?" Audora shrugged at her mother's question. They should be down by now but no, they decided it would be proper to do their honey moon upstairs forgetting that parents can be curious sometimes.

Kara, as curious as she was, stood up but Audora gripped her hand before staring up the stairs.

"Relax mother, I will call them out." She told her mother giving Darius a knowing look which earned her a nod before getting up.

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Their lips locked in a firm kiss.

Seduce him, she remembered. "I hope you'll recognize when someone is trying to make a move on you. It takes two to tangle remember that."

She didn't know where this courage came from but that courage earned her a make out with Daniel. It was like a dream come true. That touch she always dreamed about, that lips she ever thought of kissing. She felt him sweep her own vanity table to place her on top. She moaned when he gained entrance pass her lips, gripping his hair softly yet firmly.

Have you ever felt what if means to be in heaven. His hands weaved through her gown as he exposed her thigh all together. She arched into him as he nibbled on neck before seeking her lips once more.

She jerked away at the impact on the door but he held on tight.

"Forget it, breakfast can come later." she wanted to comply.

"Daniel, are you in there? I'm coming in." Clarissa jumped down from the table to arrange herself before taking her purse.

Didn't she enjoy it as much as he did? He thought. It was just in the spark of moment then. If she wouldn't turned and give him a smile at least.

She turned to see that look in his eyes that definitely mentioned that he didn't intend to offend her by his touch.

He didn't need to say the word, she knew she had made a mistake. She walked away from him and just about reaching the door, Audora pushed it open. Staring at the lady with the long face and the dressing room that had her brother standing in just a towel, she understood. But before she could say anything, Clarissa had walked through the door.

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