Sitting in a cold room agonizing over the exact curvature of his lips, should they be more angular and hard or more giving and soft? His eyes should be a piercing blue that could cause a woman to lose her very thoughts. His body should be hard yet soft enough to give when she curled up next to his heat on a cold wintry night like tonight.
Macayla, Mac to all her friends, sat pondering the image in her head. She could see him perfectly, as she had always been able to do since their first encounter. His image had haunted her for the past four years. The last time she had seen him was at their wedding reception. Two men had come in black suits to give him orders to be ready to leave within the hour, to parts unknown. Mac had been crushed but she had done her best to put up a brave face for Colin. She didn’t want him to see her cry in pain like that. He had told her that he would be back before she ever got a chance to miss him and he would make up their wedding night to her as soon as he came back home. His parting kiss had left her aching and hurting.
The only reason she was sure he was still alive was because she still continued to get his paycheck deposited in to their account, by the government. No one had ever come to her door to tell her he was missing or hurt or killed so she took the continual paychecks as her sign that he was okay where ever he was. Mac knew he was a solider but she wasn’t sure exactly what he did and he never talked about it. Tomorrow would be their five-year anniversary. She had never received word from him in all that time and once more she would celebrate it alone here at home. Tonight she was trying once more to work on her romance novel about Colin, but without the proper experience she found it difficult to put any true feeling and meaning behind her words. The Playboy and Hustler movies she had watched just weren’t enough to give a physical and emotional understanding behind the words. She had been faithful to Colin for five years and she planned on being faithful to him until either he returned to her whole or she received a flag on her front door step. Her heart constricted at the second thought. Before she could begin to feel too sorry for herself Mac decided to take a relaxing bubble bath and curl up on the satin sheets she had bought for the first anniversary and laid out on the King sized bed every year after that in hopes Colin would return to her and they could finally begin their life together. ****** How could she? He was in a rage after being told that she had been screwing his best friend while he was away fighting for his country’s freedom. She had pledged her self to him before God and witnesses that she would be loyal and faithful, and the instant he had turned his back his “best friend” and his wife had backstabbed him. Some friend! Some wife! He knew he should stay away until he got his emotions under better control, but he wanted to end this farce before he was embarrassed even farther. He had looked forward to his wedding night almost five years ago, he had known then that his wife was a virgin and he would be her first and last lover. It both aroused and scared him to know that. To know he was going to be the only man to ever touch her lush body intimately aroused him but to take her innocence away scared him, he had never had a virgin before and it scared him to think he might cause her pain. She had told him not to worry it couldn’t be that bad he only smiled at that. She had been in her early twenties when he had left her there in the reception hall saddened, well apparently not saddened enough for her to keep to her vows. He had thought of her the whole time he was off helping to save his country. He had thought of getting to love and hold and caress her silky skin and taste her too. He had seen her naked before they were married and he had even convinced her one time to let him take a picture of her naked so he could keep it in his wallet for times when he would be called away. She had shyly agreed, he had spent many nights looking at the picture and imagining her wrapping her long lush legs around his hips as he drove into her over and over giving them both the ultimate in pleasure. Now, he thought, she doesn’t wrap her legs around me but around another man. His mind was racing with ways to get even with her, he had no intention of sinking to her level and breaking his marriage vows he had held them up for five long lonely years there was no way he would break them now just for revenge. A dark smile crossed his lips and his blue eyes glittered with a way in which he could finally have his wife and get his revenge on her as well. ****** Mac had soaked in the tub until the water had turned chilly then she had turned the shower on to rinse off the last of the soapy suds that clung to her body. She had lost weight since she had been married. She had lost a lot of her voluptuous-ness and had ended up trading in her curves for a more slender figure. Her breasts where still full, and rounded, her hips, thighs, and butt where much smaller and not as soft as they had been the last time Colin had touched her. She wondered vaguely if he would approve of her changes or even find her desirable anymore. She sighed at her wandering thoughts and slid on to the sheets still naked and damp from her bath. ****** Colin let himself into the house, everything was so quiet, no lights where on suggesting that Macayla had already gone to bed. He had never really been able to call her Mac, it was a guys name and she with her soft curves was anything but a guy. Colin crept down the hallway to the master bedroom where the bathroom light still shone in to the room, softly lighting up the bed, where Macayla laid, naked with her dark hair fanned out across her back, Colin’s groin tightened at the sight. She had made this too easy for him to do. He striped out of his clothes and tossed them on the floor as quickly and quietly as possible. He got in to the big bed and felt the satiny cool fabric rub against his heated flesh. He could have groaned at the feeling of a real bed and real sheets, but he resisted the urge to do so since he didn’t want to wake up his victim until later. Before Colin could reach for Mac she rolled over and opened her legs as if she knew he was there. Her prone body on the bed was too much for him. He knew she was no longer a virgin so he didn’t worry about hurting her anymore. He rubbed his fingers over her soft pink petals of femininity, and felt her get wet like she used to do when he would touch her like this. Colin slipped in between her legs and felt her body give under him as he slammed in to her body and began to devour her lips with his. Mac woke up instantly and tried to fight her attacker off, until she realized it was Colin, she looked at his face contorted in a look that showed both pleasure and pain. She was in pain but she couldn’t seem to get him to stop or slow down long enough for her to get used to him being inside her. Her virgin flesh had ripped and even now he was causing her pain unlike any she had known. His own body stiffened once he realized what had just happened, and he called himself ten kinds of a fool for believing the rumors. She crawled out from under him and scurried to the bathroom to slam the door and cry out her frustration and pain alone. This was not the man she had married five years ago the man she had married was not rough and selfish like the one laying on her bed. He had hurt her physically and emotionally. Mac had never known Colin to be anything but careful with her even when they wrestled in the living room he had been careful not to pin her too hard or rough her up too much. He had always been considerate of her body’s needs and wants, even though they hadn’t actually made love they had spent many hours exploring each other’s bodies hungry for every touch caress and taste. Colin couldn’t believe it; he had been told she had been seeing his best friend on the sly while he was away. And yet she had been untouched, he had felt her inner tissues rip under his thrusts as he had slammed in to her fragile body. He had felt her cry and whimper but once he was buried inside her like that he had lost all thought and feeling. By no means was she his first woman, but she was his first virgin and his last one too. He couldn’t believe that she had still been untouched. He felt like the lowliest of men right then he had taken her like an animal on the sheets with no regard for her pleasure or needs, he had climaxed but it was a hollow empty feeling he felt not a feeling that a man should have after making love to the woman he loved. Colin could hear Mac crying in the bathroom and it tugged at his heart to know that she was in there crying because of him. He had hurt her and now he had to hope she would let him try to fix it. Mac was so busy crying on the floor she never heard the bathroom door open or Colin walking over to her; but she felt him touch her and she cringed away from him. Colin groaned and slid his arms under her to pick her up. She was much smaller and lighter now than she had been five years ago, he preferred her body to be softer and fuller, but if she was happy then so was he. She pushed against him and tried to wriggle away but he just tightened his hold on her, not wanting to drop her. He took her back to their bed where he gently laid her down on the bed and pulled the covers up over her chilly naked flesh. He went back in to the bathroom and got a wet washcloth and a small hand towel. When he came back she was curled up in a tight ball on the bed looking like a doe caught in the headlights. He gently pulled the covers down her body and saw the small flecks of blood on the inside of her thighs. He groaned in pain at the way he had taken her so brutally, and so unfeeling. He gently wiped away the marks on her thighs and moved up to sooth the ripped flesh with the cool cloth. She lay there unmoving and barely breathing. He dried her skin and returned the towels back to the bathroom. Colin got back into bed with Mac and pulled her stiff body up next to his. She didn’t fight him she just laid there stiff and unmoving; it tore at his heart like nothing else in the world could have. Colin rubbed her back gently and whispered in her ear “I am so sorry. Macayla will you let me make it up to you. Please.” She heard the soft pleading in his voice but she couldn’t get past the way he had just treated her. How dare he force her, rip her and then ask her to let him touch her again. He had to be dreaming. Mac began to struggle against his hold. Colin rolled her over on to her back and pinned her body under his and pressed up to look down in to her face. Colin saw the tears running down her cheeks and the stubborn set of her chin. Mac finally quit struggling against his hold when she realized that he wasn’t going to let her go. She turned her face away from him and continued to cry some more. She knew he didn’t like to see her cry, but she was still raw and sore from his abuse to her body and emotions. At that moment in time she didn’t give a damn if she upset him she was hurting, she wanted him to hurt too because he had done this to her. Colin rolled over on to his back and took Mac with him and wrapped his legs around hers to help pin her to his body. He could feel the shuddering and crying as she tried to compose her self. He knew and understood her intolerance of weakness especially in herself. She rarely cried and only when provoked did she let the floodgates open like this. “Macayla?” “Just go away and leave me alone.” Her voice was muffled slightly by his chest. “No, never. Will you let me explain?” “Why? So you can apologize for losing it after five years and that you didn’t mean it and that you won’t ever use my body that way again…you’re right you won’t I want a divorce I will not be married to a man who would treat me this way. You aren’t the man I fell madly in love with and married.” Her voice was whisper soft but razor sharp. “You can’t have a divorce. And I had been told you where sleeping with Jack, so you weren’t suppose to be a virgin anymore.” “Jack??!! You thought I was sleeping with your best friend?” The furry Colin heard in her voice made him smile. “You self absorbed bastard. How could you think such a thing I married you and I remained faithful to you all five years you have been gone.” Mac pushed against his chest and tried to move off of his coaxing warm body. Colin just tightened his arms and legs around her refusing her even an inch of movement. “Go to sleep little one, we’ll talk in the morning. You have my word I won’t touch you like that until after we talk…deal?” “Your word is it? You really are an arrogant bastard I want nothing to do with you…so if you’ll let me go I’ll sleep in the extra bedroom tonight and leave as soon as I can get my bags packed.” “Like hell you’ll leave, you belong to me. We both need to rest and rationally talk this over. I made a grave mistake let me make it up to you. Sleep with me tonight and tomorrow we can decide what we will do with our marriage.” Mac struggled against his grip some more and realized he wasn’t going to let her go she settled down and began to drift off into slumber once more in his arms as she had done hundreds of times before. Colin allowed his body to relax under hers as he felt sleep take over her softening body. ****** Colin awoke with a start. Mac was gone. Then he heard a soft rummaging noise in the bathroom. He quickly and quietly got out of bed and stalked over to the connecting bathroom door. Leaning against the jamb he watched Mac pack her stuff in to a little piece of baby blue satin and lace bag, he remembered giving it to her because it reminded him of her so much, very soft and beautiful but strong enough to endure. Mac turned and gazed up at him with diamond tears streaming down her face. She mumbled something he didn’t hear. Stretching out to cover the doorway and pinning her into the small bathroom. “Please move so I can finish quickly and be out of your way.” “No.” it was barely spoken but carried a thread of steel in it just the same.