The desire that I had held back all these years was wanting to come out as his hands were moving all around me and my body was aching for his touch. “Please, Marc! I want you.” I said shamelessly raising my hands to his chest unable to disguise the weakening emotion and turning my lips to water. I couldn't help it.With almost like an animal growl he dragged my resistant body against his and I no longer pretended to repel his advances. My arms tightened around his neck, so that my fingers were buried in his hair and I pressed my body close to his holding nothing back, in my newly acknowledged love for him. “Carmen I want you!” He groaned trailing his lips sensually over the soft skin off my shoulders and pulling away from the shoulder strap, with an unsteady hand and kissing my mouth with his own like a starving man suddenly presented with a feast. “ Marc Marc! please love me! “ “Your dress helps me with it,” Marc muttered huskily struggling for a moment with the zip and finally removing it as it slid around my ankle.Momentarily, I felt a tinge of fear in my emotions. I realized that this was a purely physical attraction on Marc's part and then there was no future in it for me . Well at least I would have this to remember, I thought defiantly no longer willing to listen to the instructions given by my good senses. My hands trembled slightly as I opened his shirt buttons, sliding my arms around his lean muscle body and pressing my mouth softy against his naked chest. “Carmen you are so beautiful! I had not remembered, just how beautiful. Let me look at you Carmen,” Marc murmured huskily pushing me gently away from his body and bending to place his lips on my hardened nipples; his thick black hair brushing my soft skin and sending shivers of desire through my body . His other hand moving sensually on the other breast and then he moved his mouth to the other kissing it, sucking it sensually and I arched forward wanting more. I could feel his standing hardness close to me. He continued fondling my breast and I was lost in the sensual pleasure he was giving me.After a while he started kissing my lips again and Carmen opened my lips as he kissed our tongues touching lightly, tasting inflaming. My heart thundered as he stroked my thigh and his mouth sought my nipples again, licking and caressing them with his tongue. His kisses moves lower and lower, making me arch my back and cry out as I trembled with need and longing which I had long forgotten. I pushed my body against his rising to meet his caressing hand as he slid between my thighs and lifted my dress and found my moist center. My body shook with pleasure as he stroked and caressed his kisses moving lower and then he pressed his face against the damp mound, his tongue licking delicately until I whimpered. It was heavenly."Marc..." I shrieked his name as I hit her orgasm.“Marc are you there?" The knocking on the study door shattered my dream and with a shocked gasp, I pulled myself out of his arm. “The door it's Ria! “ “Let her wait,” Marc muttered his voice husky with emotions. With a groan, he pulled me tightly in his arms once again. “The door is locked.” his voice trailed way as he began to caress my neck with his lips moving his expert hands over my once familiar body and I was clinging to him wanting for more. He was nibbling me neck sensually and I was falling into the deep ecstacy but the knocks were too disturbing. “You must answer,” I whispered desperately, as the knocking persisted and Marc continued to kiss my mouth with his own. “I know you are in the study Marc you must come! Your guest are leaving please come! “ Ria called in low urgent tones sounding very close to tears as she added: Marc, Drakes' parents are very angry. Please Marc !” With a low grown Marc pulled himself from my arm. One moment Ria ask them to wait a moment . I will be with you. Go!” He said loudly as there was no moment from the hallway.” I will follow. " We heard the sounds of walking feet on the hall tiles, as Ria returned to the drawing-room and Marc began to fumble with his shirt buttons with his hands and when I tried to help. “No I can manage," he said in a strained tone holding off his hand in a dismissive gesture, as I tried to help him . For a moment I stood there, without moving, hurt by his apparent rejection. “Carmen I cannot manage”, he muttered. “you will have to help me. But put on your dress first please, otherwise I do not think that I shall be able to leave this room. “The eyes which he raised to my own was still dark with passion and I felt the familiar weakness run through my body. “Please, Carmen don't look at me that way!” “I am coming, “I said softly pulling my disheveled dress quickly over my slim body, hot color flooding my cheeks, as I felt the intensity of his gaze. Carefully avoiding his eyes I fastened his shirt buttons smoothing his labels and brushing his shoulders carefully. “Your face is still bleeding and you don't look very well. Are you sure you want to go out without getting cleaned?.” “There is blood on your face also and on your shoulders and your breast,” he said softly trailing his fingers gently from one area to the next causing me to tremble uncontrollably beneath his touch. “ I must go!” He said then straightening away his suit and successfully hiding any indication of his feelings. “ My guest must accept my face as it is and it will at least provide an explanation for my continued absence.”After Marc had left the room, I stood for a moment in silence thinking about the things which happened a few minutes ago, bitterly regretting that it ended because of Ria's interruption. I was in no doubt about the outcome of our lovemaking, had Ria not intervened at the right time it would have been a very difficult situation for me. I would never be able to bring me out of his charms and want more of him. It was true that Marc appeared to desire my body as much as he had ever done, but his opinion of my personality formed, so all those years ago had not at all altered one iota. All his gentle feelings were spent on his family and also on Bella Costa, I acknowledged painfully. I must go before he decides to return to the room I decided swiftly. There was no future for me here and the sooner I accepted the fact the better and nothing would ever make him believe that he was the only love I ever had or wanted. His suspicions had never been true but he had never given me the benefit of doubt. He had always put the worst possible doubt on my actions. Perhaps the gap in our upbringing and the lifestyle had been too wide to bridge ; The only true point of contact between them had been our mutual physical attraction. Automatically I began to clean myself with Marc's handkerchiefs, which I still held in my hands and rubbed fiercely at the visible blood strains that were there in my dress. Fortunately, the corridor was deserted as I left Marc’s study but I felt a distinct rumbling in my limbs when I heard voices coming from the drawing-room. I had no wish to meet the accusing stare of the guest or experience the mocking look of hatred in Bella Costa’s face that evening. I placed my feet carefully on the lower steps of the staircase, as I walked slowly and wondered what would the servants think if they see me at that moment. There was still no moment from the drawing-room and with a gasp of relief, I reached the upper landing hurrying to my room and bolting the door in silence. what I would do if Marc came and knocked at the door. I kept away those thoughts aside. A bath was obviously the next essential thing that I needed to relax. Immediately I pulled away from my dress and went to the washroom and I had almost fallen asleep in the crazing warmth of the water. Suicide by drowning was not my agenda so I decided to clean myself thoroughly. I wrinkled my nose distastefully and began to rub my body briskly with the loofa until it glowed. Then I stood for a moment in front of the full-length mirror in the bathroom, gazing at the slim figure reflected within. My body was as it had always been there was nothing in the reflection to remind me of Marc's demanding lovemaking, only the bruises on her upper arm and they had been made by Carl, I acknowledged with the barely suppressed shudder. Still pulling a bathrobe around my slender body, I turned off the bathroom light and walked across the cool tiles towards the welcoming bed. I laid down on the bed and relaxed my body. I closed my eyes and started thinking about Tio, but another face persisted to come out in my mind as if he wanted to be seen. Slowly they blended, those faces so alike, so dear to me and I wanted to hold on to that forever.