Battle of Wills (COMPLETED)

Hayden cursed the shiver that scurried up his spine even while enveloped in the steamy shower. Thoughts chased through his mind of surrendering to Natalie’s demands and just talk with her. Then she would go away, happy that she’d won once more and he’d be right back at square one. His nervousness at their first meeting and the subsequent screen test left her with the wrong impression that he was too shy to be assertive. No, he clenched his jaw, no more being treated with her disregard for his feelings. Better to take the enemy by surprise.

Without warning, Hayden’s legs collapsed under him, fog Nag Natalie to release him or hurt him. Operating under the notion she wouldn’t want to physically hurt him, he sat down in the cramped tub and stretched his long legs between her spread feet. The water barely sprayed him, Natalie’s back absorbing most of the water.

Fidgeting, he wiggled into the most comfortable spot possible, then lounged against the back of the tub and fixed bright, intense eyes on the apex of Natalie’s thighs. No longer caring, he stared and allowed his body to freely respond to the sight. A tingling danced through his groin and tightened his lower abdomen. His tongue flicked over his lips while his heart picked up its tempo and his stomach rolled in wild anticipation. Inch by inch, Hayden allowed animalistic desires to rise, drowning the civilized man’s attempt to do the right thing.

Head motionless, he lifted only his eyes and inspected the small, but pert breasts. Idly, he noticed her chest lift them in ever increasing pants. His eyes took in the curves and slopes, the way her nipples lifted upward as if begging to be suckled. Images raced through his mind as he watched them pebble under his steady scrutiny.

In no hurry, he let his eyes slowly wander down, noting the dip in the waist, the slight flare of her hips, the taut surface of her stomach. He returned to that elusive, shadowed spot, hidden from him by a small thatch of hair. He imagined touching it, stroking it until liquid desire drizzled down her inner thigh. In that fantasy her eyes locked onto what part of him could ignite that wet fire into an explosion that would rock her into blessed oblivion before she drifted languorously back to earth.

It was all too easy to conjure the pictures now. He allowed the ravenous hankering for her to grow, never taking his eyes off where that sweet spot hid.

Natalie forgot to breathe as she watched his eyes study her, a myriad of hungry emotions flashing across his handsome face. Legs once sturdy now shook with the effort it took to stand. Confidence so prominent fled in the face of his overwhelming assault, retreat a t a possibility. Never had anyone looked at her body with such craving lust. Flustered, she sought for safety in her usual bossiness.

“S…stop it,” her voice trembled, the demand strangled by his attack on her senses. Squeezing her eyes shut, she attempted to concentrate and keep control of her body, but his eyes touched her as if they were his hands and the urge to press her thighs together to assuage the insistent buzzing threatened to overtake her.

Left with no choice, Natalie dropped, straddling Hayden just above his knees forcing his eyes to hers. To his immense satisfaction, she was visibly agitated, her face flushed, her lips parted to suck in more oxygen.

“Previously, any naked girl in my shower I invited in. You, as usual, think you can do as you please where I’m concerned,” he grated, enjoying her discomfiture. “Now that I’m looking at you as a real woman you don’t know what to do. So, itheither sit here all night or you speak your piece and get out.”

Natalie swallowed the huge lump that kept lodging in her throat and looked into heavy-lidded eyes that cased her to bite her lip. It was like the time she had stepped into deep water when she thought she had still been in the shallows. In over her head, she searched for understanding.

“It’s always been the s…s…safest thing to do,” she stammered, her eyes pleading for understanding. Licking the water droplets from her lips she tripped over her explanation. “O…otherwise, the p…press s…starts rumors. You saw how they t…treated us last t…time, even w…without anything g…g…going on b…between us.”

Hayden cocked his head to the side a second before his hands seized her and hauled her forward.

“P…please, Hayden, d…don’t be mad at me,” Natalie begged, hands frantically clasping his shoulders for balance. “I can’t s…stand you being mad at me like this.”

He pulled her up his thighs, lifting her slightly above him so he could look up at her.

“Nothing going on between us?”

Natalie’s brown eyes dilated, the pupils expanding at the first brush of his solid length between her legs.

“H…Hayden,” her fingers bit into his shoulder.

Firm hands gripped her hips and pushed downward, the head of him slipping into a hot, slick, welcoming core. Natalie gasped aloud, her fingernails digging into his skin, but not fighting his invasion.

“I’d say there’s quite a bit going on between us,” Hayden growled, his large hands curving around her hips for better purchase. With more force he pushed her down and felt her thighs widen, granting him entrance, her walls grasping and enticing him into the very heart of her.