Patience Pt. 10

End of Part IX

"We can play before going back to bed." she said still giving me the sly grin. "You know kittens like to play after their naps." As she said that she stood up and held her hands out for me to grab.

As she said that, and the meaning of her words hit my brain I felt blood rushing to my groin area. I returned her cheeky grin and grabbed her hands and let her haul me up. After a few passionate kisses we were making our way to the bedroom.

***

Part X

I woke up the next morning to the alarm going off and after shutting it off went about my now normal routine of getting out of bed and out from under Belle while trying not to wake her up. Whether I succeeded or not I'm not sure, but Belle appeared to still be asleep as I went into the bathroom. After taking a leak and shaving I jumped into the shower.

After about a minute of being in the shower letting the hot water run over me the shower door suddenly opened startling me. I looked out to see Belle standing there wearing nothing but a towel wrapped around her and a shy grin on her face.

"Hi Robbie." she said sweetly. "Is there room in there for me too?!" Before I could answer I felt the blood rush to my penis. She obviously saw this because she said, "I see someone is willing to make room." She then dropped the towel before stepping into the shower with me and pulling the door shut. It was close quarters with two of us in the shower, but I wasn't about to complain.

I admired her body as the water quickly soaked her. She eyed my hardon and said, "I see someone want's some attention." before wrapping her hands around it and beginning to stroke. It took all my self-control to not blast my load all over her right then and there.

"Oh shit!" I cried out as I leaned into the shower wall. She gave me a sultry look as she continued to stroke my penis before licking her lips. She was clearly enjoying the control she had over me.

After a little more stroking I decided it was time for me to assert dome dominance. I reached around her arms and put two of my fingers into her pussy. Her eyes dilated and she had a sharp intake of breath as I started to finger her, and she let her hands off my penis.

"Obviously I'm not the only one who wants attention." I said in a low voice as she melted into the opposite wall of the shower. Her eyes were shut and her mouth open and she was slightly panting as I continued to finger her pussy.

After a few minutes of fingering her, she suddenly grabbed my hand and eyed me with a look of desire before saying, "Enough! I want you inside me now!"

I grinned before saying, "Ok little kitten." I took each of her wrists and held them against the walls as I moved close to her and went into her. I was slow and gentle at first as she returned to her look of pleasure as she moved her hips to match my movements.

I could feel her pussy getting tighter around my shaft as I quickened the pace and force of my thrusting. She was clearly enjoying what I was doing as she started panting harder and louder. I kept her wrists pinned to the wall as I continued to move in and out of her, but she didn't seem to mind since I wasn't pinning her to where she wouldn't have been able to move if she wanted to.

I slowed down and moved my mouth next to her ear and almost whispered, "Is this what you wanted kitten?"

She moaned again before saying, "Oh god yes don't stop!" I slowed my thrusts to a crawl to tease her and for a few minutes watched as she clearly delt with pent up arousal. Finally, after a few minutes of this she looked at me and pleaded, "Robbie please!" After a little more teasing I sped up my thrusts and it wasn't long before I felt her pussy tighten around my cock more as she started to moan out of control as her orgasm rolled through her body.

"Yes! Yes! That's it, don't stop, fuck me!" she screamed in the midst of her orgasm while I continued to pound her pussy. She slowly calmed down from the intense orgasm as I felt the pressure start to build in my cock. Knowing what was coming I pulled out and not a second too soon. I had pulled out of her and moved back a little when my cock exploded sending streams of cum all over the front of her body. Once she saw what was happening, she grabbed my cock with both hands again and helped finish the process stroking it until every drop of cum had been extracted.

After my orgasm we both stood still for a bit almost like we didn't know what to do next. At last, I said, "I guess we should clean up."

"Yeah." she said shyly.

The next part of this unexpected adventure was Belle and I washing each other which ended up being sensual enough for both of us to have another orgasm thereby extending the process and greatly amusing both of us. Once we finally got done, we both got out of the shower and as we started drying off, I said,

"Well, that's one way to make a shower more interesting. Have you always been like this sexually or is it just with me?"

"Well." she said, "Probably a little of both. Usually when you get up, I just roll over to your spot and go back to sleep but today I felt different."

"And by different you mean horny." I said chuckling.

"Hey, I didn't see you object!" she said.

"Yeah, like I'm going to argue when you open the shower door wearing only a towel and a look of feigned innocence." I said.

"I figured you wouldn't be able to resist." she said giving me a cheeky grin as she continued to towel off.

I laughed again saying, "What am I going to do with you?!"

She grinned again before saying, "Deal with me because you love me."

As we finished toweling off and made our way back into the bedroom I said, "You're right but remember turnabout is fair play." and we both laughed.

I pulled clothes out of my closet and started getting dressed. As I was putting my clothes on, I said, "Luckily I get up early or I'd be way behind right now." Again, we both laughed.

I noticed that as I got dressed that instead of getting dressed herself, Belle simply pulled on a skimpy cotton camisole top and a pair of panties and simply watched as I put my deodorant and cologne on and pulled my shirt on and buttoned it up. As I knotted my tie in front of the mirror, she came up beside me and cuddled up against me. After finishing my tie, I wrapped my arm around her as she nuzzled into my side.

"Mmm you smell so good." she said as I pulled her tight against me. "I wish we could stay like this all day."

"So do I, but unfortunately that won't pay the bills." I said as I turned to face her directly and wrapping my other arm around her and pulling her up against me again and kissing her on the top of her head. We kissed tenderly a few times before letting each other go.

"I'll see you tonight, Love." I said.

"I love you, Robbie." she said sweetly.

I stole one more kiss before saying, "I love you too." I headed out before I let her distract me any longer.

***

It was a little after 2 and I was back at my desk working on the increasing pile of data that needed to be input into the crime databases. As I finished one folder and was about to open another the phone on my desk rang.

Picking it up I said, "Anderson."

The chief's voice came through the speaker, "Rob can you join us up here in conference room 3?"

"Yes sir, I'll be right up." I replied. Hanging the phone up I couldn't help but feel a little irritation. Conference room 3 was the largest conference room at SBI headquarters and usually used for meetings with city officials and politicians or both at the same time. Meetings that I usually didn't particularly enjoy, especially when I had a mountain of data that needed to be input into the database. I sighed to myself as I picked up my coffee and headed to the elevator.

As I got to the door to conference room 3, I noticed it was open, but the lights were off. I slowly stepped in muttering to myself, "What the hell?" After I cleared the doorway by a few feet the lights suddenly came on and before I could even take in the sight, I heard a chorus of voices say,

"Suprise!" before the room erupted in applause.

The chief walked forward with his hand outstretched. "Happy birthday Rob." he said as I shook his hand. I glanced around to see a good portion of the SBI intel staff, and the large conference table filled with refreshments and a large cake. As I examined the table and shook a few other staff members hands and exchanged greetings, I saw a slight gold gleam out of the corner of my eye. I turned and saw the Admiral with his usual warm smile on his face and the sun glinting off the stars on his collar.

I moved over to him as quickly as politeness allowed. "Admiral, now this is a surprise!" I said as I shook his hand.

"Your chief was kind enough to invite me to this little celebration." the Admiral told me. "And I was looking for an excuse to take the afternoon off."

The chief appeared at his side and said, "I invited the Admiral on the condition that he not try to recruit you while he was here."

"I'm afraid you're too late sir." I said as we all chuckled. "The Admiral has already tried several times to get me to head up his intel division. And he's already succeeded in recruiting my girlfriend to be his accounting manager." Both men grinned as I felt a sharp poke in my left side. "Ow." I said as I turned to see Belle standing there with a big grin on her face.

I couldn't help but grin like goofy kid as I said, "Belle!" in an excited voice. As we wrapped our arms around her, I picked her up and spun us around a couple of times before putting her back down and kissing her. As we ended the kiss the room erupted in applause and we both looked around a little awkwardly almost forgetting everyone else was there.

Joe suddenly appeared right there with us with an amused smile on his face. "I see you two finally figured things out." Before I could respond he grabbed my arm and led me back to the table saying, "Come on lovebirds let's dig into this cake." As I sat down in front of the cake one of the other staffers was lighting the candles on the cake.

"Make a wish Rob." the Chief said. I did and blew out the candles and there was another round of applause. After blowing the candles out I grabbed the nearby knife and started cutting the large cake into slices. I gave the first slice to Belle who stood beside me watching eagerly. After passing around cake slices to just about everyone in the room I dug into my own slice

As I nibbled on my cake the cake tray was moved and a small pile of cards and gifts appeared. Knowing my love of reading and history of naval and crime history many of the gifts were books on those subjects along with a few gift cards.

A little over an hour later as many of the people had already left leaving mainly me, Joe, the Admiral, Belle, and the Chief and we were cleaning up from the party. As I was bagging up trash the Chief came up to me and said,

"I know you're not big on celebrating your birthday, but I thought we could all use a break from the normal routine."

"That is true." I admitted. "But I did enjoy this. I'm not sure how I'll feel about it later especially when someone is pestering me to come to bed while I'm trying to catch up, but I'll worry about that then." I added giving a not-so-subtle glance in Belle's direction.

"Ha ha." Belle said. "Someone has to make sure you don't work yourself to death." Everyone chuckled as we finished the last of the cleaning up and made our way out of the conference room. I told Joe I'd see him back at our desks before walking with my bags of gifts with Belle towards the parking deck. After putting the bags in the back of the Denali I turned to Belle and said,

"Thanks for coming. While I'm not big on celebrating my birthday this was nice and I'm glad you came."

"When the Admiral called and invited me there's no way I'd miss it." Belle said sweetly.

I wrapped my arms around her and kissed her a couple of times before saying, "I'll see you tonight."

***

I got home a couple of hours later and found Belle cleaning the kitchen. Instead of poking her in the side as I usually would I just stood back and watched until she turned and saw me startling her slightly.

"Oh hi!" she said slightly startled. "I was just cleaning up in here. I was going to start cooking soon."

After a quick embrace and kiss I grabbed a soda from the fridge and said, "Let's sit outside for a bit. It's cooled off quite a bit from earlier."

"Ok." she said mirroring my moves and grabbing a drink from the fridge and following me out the door to the front porch.

"Ooh you're right it's much nicer out here now." Belle said as we settled into the deck chairs. After a couple of minutes of small talk Belle gave me a curious look and said, "Robbie, how long have you loved me?"

"Well." I said. "It wasn't love at first sight, but it was definitely attraction at first sight. Love quickly followed though as we got to know each other. By the end of our first semester, I knew I loved you and always would."

Belle smiled before saying, "Now I know why you never really dated when we were in school. You know a couple of my friends were definitely interested in you."

"Yes, I know." I said. "Jamie in particular made her intentions very clear."

Belle laughed saying, "Oh yeah, she always said she wanted to, how did she put it, jump your bones, I think. Then again she was always a bit loose with men."

"Oh, I know." I said. "How else could one interpret her wearing the shortest black skirt she could squeeze into and literally throw herself at me at some of those parties?"

"She finally said you must either be blind, gay, or just plain stupid." Belle said. "She later said you must have been after someone else."

"She's one for four." I said making Belle and I chuckle.

"Yet you did eventually date other girls." Belle said pensively. "Ralph mentioned someone named Kelsey when we went to his restaurant."

"Well, it had been years since we had seen each other or even talked that much." I said. "After leaving the Navy and all its deployments I wanted to see about dating again now that I had a more stable home life. I also wanted to see if I could feel the same about another woman besides you."

Belle stared at me with a curious expression on her face as she said, "And what did you find out?"

Wanting to see where this was going, I didn't answer the question but instead said, "Don't tell me you're jealous of a woman I dated when we weren't even in contact with each other."

"No." she said rather matter of fact like but with a look on her face that said otherwise. "I'm more upset with myself for being so oblivious about you and the fact that it could have led to me losing you." Again, I could see that she was being genuine.

I took her hand in mine before saying, "To answer your question dating other women told me that while I could love them that I would never love them as much as I love you. Kelsey is a great woman, and I did love her, and she'll make some lucky man a great husband, but she had one uncontrollable flaw. She wasn't you. As hard as I tried, I couldn't help but compare her to you. I ended it at that point knowing it wasn't fair to her to keep her in a relationship that would end up going nowhere."

Silence followed that where Belle watched me thoughtfully. I finally asked, "So what about you? What made you realize you loved me?"

"Well." Belle started slowly. "There wasn't an exact moment per se it was more like a slow realization. I think it started way back when you left for the Navy. Like I told you the other day Derek and I broke up right after you left, and I hated that you weren't around to comfort me. The few times we saw each other over the next 12 years or so I would get this feeling I couldn't quite put my finger on or maybe I didn't want to put my finger on. I had my mind stupidly set on that you were a friend and nothing more."

Belle continued, "I think I got used to my schoolgirl crushes on 'bad boys' as you call them and thought that's what love was. I knew I felt something when we came back into each other's lives, and you didn't hesitate to help me. Any other guy I had been with would have basically said 'tough luck.'"

"Like that guy Joey did in our junior year leaving you to your own devices after you got lit and passed out at one of his buddies parties." I interjected.

"Oh god, I almost forgot about him." Belle said. "I think he just wanted my pussy."

"I could have told you that." I said. "In fact, I think I did, but you didn't want to hear it. If I remember right, he had a girlfriend at the time." Belle nodded at this, and I couldn't help but scoff.

"What do you expect from college kids?" Belle asked.

"What do I expect?" I said. "I expect people to be loyal to their romantic partners. If you want to be with someone, be with them, if not end it and move on. My parents were married for 32 years when my dad died and while there were ups and downs their loyalty to each other and their children never wavered."

Looking at Belle as I finished saying that she looked a bit taken aback. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to go off on a tirade, it's just loyalty is a big thing to me. I give loyalty when it's deserved, and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the same in return."

Belle took my free hand and rubbed it softly as she said, "It's ok, I know how you feel. You're probably the most loyal person I know. You've certainly been more loyal to me than I deserve after all these years."

"That's part of being loyal." I explained. "Being there through good and bad."

Belle nodded before saying, "Back to your original question my feelings for you were confirmed little by little over the next several weeks. The feeling got stronger and stronger the more you did for me especially after you cared for me after I got smashed on your scotch. I realized that nobody I had been with showed me the level of care and compassion that you have. It took a while for me to realize that what I was feeling was love because my definition of it was so different after so many bad relationships."

"Is that when you decided to start teasing me?" I asked with a grin.

"I was not teasing you." she said with mock incredulousness. "I can't help it if you've got a dirty mind."

Laughing I said, "Bull shit you weren't teasing me. Wearing that tight fitting nightshirt to bed and then snuggling right up against me with no bra on. Those sun dresses you wear that show off your legs perfectly. You're beautiful and have clearly learned how to use it."

She gave me a sly smirk before saying, "Aww you think I'm beautiful."

"Don't act all innocent." I said. "You know you're beautiful."

She looked at me again with the same look of mock incredulousness and said, "Don't you act all innocent either. You clearly know how to tease too. All those lingering touches and smoldering gazes and perfect hugs."

"Why don't we agree that we both had way too much fun teasing and playing with each other?" I said.

She gave me a cute innocent smile before saying, "Ok."

Where the conversation would have gone from there is unknown because at that moment a black sedan pulled up in front of the house. We watched as gentlemen in a suit got out and made his way up the sidewalk to where we were on the porch. I stood up and made my way to meet him.

"Robert Anderson?" he asked in a matter-of-fact voice.

"That's right." I said. "What can I do for you?"

"This is for you." he said as he handed me an envelope. "You're being subpoenaed for deposition by the counsel of Chad Erickson."

As he turned to head back to his car I said, "Tell your boss if he wants to communicate with me in the future he can do so through my attorney, William Wells."

He turned quickly and said, "As you wish." before getting in his car and driving off.