About noon, his phone beeped again, signalling incoming WhatsApp message. He thought it was going to be Jet again - being a worrywart that he was - and he glanced at it quickly to see the sender's name.
"Mia S"
He opened his screen hastily, smiled at her texts, and typed his reply.
He would dump everything for any chance to go out with her.
Next he texted James.
"Poor bugger," Lee chuckled.
Afterwards, he called Jet. His older brother sulkily answered the call,
"Great, now you are not ignoring me."
"I've told you I'm fine," Lee shrugged.
"What do you want? You'd only call this awesome brother when you wanted something." Jet snapped, but there was a trace of relief in his voice.
"Are you free tonight?" Lee ignored him and asked.
"Not really. ER duty again. My weekend sucks.", an exasperated sigh from the other side.
"Go out with me? And with Mia and James? She wants to celebrate her getting recommended into the board of directors. Kusa Resto again. 7.30."
"....", there was silence, "Wait up. I'll call you back."
Jet hung up the call straight away, leaving Lee dumbly stared at his phone for a while. Soon, his phone rang. It was Jet,
"Done. I've found someone who can fill in my shift," A trace of amused pride and expectation in his voice, "See you tonight."
"Can they seriously do that?" Lee was flabbergasted. He reminded himself to never be a patient at Jet's hospital.
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Mia was certainly chirpier than usual, and the four of them celebrated with some champagne, and more sake and good food. She brightly narrated and half-boastfully told the men about her achievements at work and how she was going to be flown into Dusseldorf the following week to review her new contract and shares arrangement for the enterprise she had been pouring her sweat and blood into.
Lee was just happy for her as he adoringly stared at her radiant face and happy gestures. He couldn't help but also feel proud.
"This is the woman I have fallen for. She is everything I could have dreamed of"
The night went pretty quickly, and Lee could see Mia's eyes getting mistier - the aftereffect of their bouts of drinking. Mia then slowly leaned her head onto his right shoulder, causing Lee to stiffened, not daring to make a single move.
James and Jet grinned at each other when they saw this - themselves pretty tipsy already. In fact, the most sober one was probably Lee - as he was just content watching Mia all night, hardly refilling his glass.
As the night came to an end, Lee decided he would accompany Mia to her home. He didn't feel comfortable letting her catch a taxi on her own in her hazy condition. The woman could still speak coherently, but her cheeks had grown so much pinker. Mia did not refuse his offer, nodding her consent while still laying her head on his shoulder.
After Mia paid their bill - she insisted it to be her treat for dragging them out to celebrate with her, she went to the washroom to freshen herself up. While she was away, James slipped something inside Lee's coat pocket.
He gave Lee a knowing grin while lifting one of his eyebrows.
Then Jet also slipped something into Lee's coat pocket as well, giving him a thumbs-up. Then they both bolted while continually smirking at him as they walked away, finally leaving him sitting at the table alone.
Lee blinked and looked into his coat's pocket and his eyes widened, the tips of his ears were hot. He knew it was not because of the alcohol.
Inside were some condoms.
When Mia returned to the table and noticed Jet and James gone, she asked about them briefly before finally also deciding to leave.
Lee could not look at her straight in the face.
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Lee couldn't believe that it was not his usual dream when Mia invited him inside her apartment. And he was as stiff as a wooden block when Mia actually pecked him on his right cheek, as soon as they passed her front door.
He just stood behind the door, staring at Mia who took as step backwards after she landed her lips on his cheek. The latter was clearly very amused at his reaction.
"Oh my poor heart... ."
"So...~, are you just going to stay there?" Mia's lips curled as she lowered her voice - a trace of seduction clearly heard.
"OH MY POOR HEART!!"
Lee shifted his body, fidgeting a little bit. His fists clenched and unclenched nervously. God knew how much he wanted to just paste himself onto this woman; and that it was taking him all his willpower and more, to hold himself back,
"I...," Lee stammered, glancing at her more-enthralling-than-usual face and the floor, then to her face again, "You... are clearly tipsy."
Mia raised her eyebrows and stepped forward, reaching him again in close distance.
Lee could feel her warm breath as she tiptoed and whispered into his ears, "Sober enough to know what I want at this moment...-,"
She withdrew her head and looked at his eyes with her bright translucent orbs for a few seconds. She then shifted her gaze down - her soft long eyelashes hooded her eyes. She traced her index finger through the man's bobbing adam's apple, down to his shirt's collar, pulling at it
"Oh, soul, please don't fly away yet."
Then she looked up again, her lustrous pupils boring into Lee's own. She drawled teasingly,
"...Lee...~~."
His last brittle chain of self-restraint snapped. He reached behind Mia's head to pull her closer, and his lips met hers in a hunger that he had never felt before. His other hand was tightly wrapped around her waist, afraid that this was just her little game. He couldn't let her get away now.
Mia's delighted laugh trembled inside his mouth when she responded to his kiss; her tongue teased his teeth, the inside of his mouth, and battled with his own when he also tried to explore her.
Lee's mind was blank. Only this woman existed; only her voice was heard; only her scent, her small sighs, her warm breath.
Everything that he was, was hers. How he really wanted to make her, his as well.
Only when they were completely out of breath, they reluctantly pulled their lips away from each other, only for both to hungrily devoured one another again in the next instant. Eyes closed, breaths quickened, their fingers roaming on each other's body, pulling each other's clothes that were their barrier.
They did not make it to the bedroom, instead they stumbled onto the floor. Lee's arms were still wrapped around her as they fell, their clothes already haphazardly strewn on various spots on the floor - the reminder of their vigorous battle earlier in their individual efforts to get closer to another's burning skin.
Mia's back was on display, and Lee planted small kisses on her skin, making her tremble slightly when he tickled her with his lips. His fingers touched her softly, tracing the curves of her shoulder, her spine, down to her back - the two deep dimples above her hips. Everything about her enchanted him.
He gently pulled to turn her body to face him, and he caught her lips once more. As Lee broke away from his latest kiss of many - to catch his breath - he hazily looked into her eyes. Her gaze penetrated into his own - clear, translucent, soft; and Lee desperately wished that the tenderness he saw in her beautiful pupils was real and was really meant for him. He felt his soul gradually fading into those dark bottomless depth that were her eyes.
Mia sighed as he then ran his finger from the top of her forehead, tracing her facial profile; her face nudging lazily against his palm. He buried his head at the curve of her neck, planting soft kisses there and lightly teased her earlobes with his tongue, while his fingers continued to trace down her body, through her collar bones, down to her two perfectly round breasts. As he lingered longer there, Mia arched her back, planting herself closer to him, demanding him to embrace her more. His palm grew hot against the sensation.
"She is burning me; she is devouring me completely with her entire existence."
"She owns me."
"I was hers to take, am hers, will always be hers."
Lee's palm teased her breasts more, sometimes his fingers also lightly pinched her now perked nipples, causing her to tremble. Then his fingers traced down to her navel, her hips, and her legs. Then he carressed the inner of her thighs, cautiously but continuing to reach her most private parts of her body,
She gave him a soft smile, then she seemed to be thinking about something and stiffened - a conflicted guilty look on her face.
That almost caused Lee's heart to halt. Surely this couldn't suddenly stop now? Every part of him was already aching for her. Mia sighed as she put her palm on his cheek,
"I forgot, I haven't been on the pill lately... ."
Lee perked up and was excited as his brain very rapidly thought of what James and Jet had slipped in his coat.
"Bless those two bastards."
He pulled away from Mia and scrambled to reach his coat which was laying by the front door - being the first piece of clothing that they had thrown away. He pulled a packet of condom from inside, and showed it to Mia in a triumphant grin.
Mia blankly looked at him, the condom, and the very excited Little Lee between his legs. She threw her head back and let out a crisp amused laugh. She then looked at him from the floor where she was still laying, her index finger curled, beckoning him to come close. Her smile was devilish.
Lee probably moved faster than a cheetah and quickly pressed himself on her again after slipping the condom on.
Mia lifted her left leg, and with her toe, she touched Lee's right hip, running her curled toe down to his thigh. The corner of her lips were faintly lifted in a smirk, teasing, knowing completely that she had him completely at her mercy. Lee pulled her leg and held it against his hip, then reached her back with his left hand, pulling her body to be closely plastered to his own, feeling the softness of her chest against his hard one. He finally found comfort as he pushed his throbbing member, finally finding his long-sought solace inside her, relishing in her tightness. Soon, the comfort gradually turned to indiscernible hunger as he rode her whole exquisiteness, Mia's body herself arched to meet his every surging wave and his every conquest.
He plundered and tried to continuously conquer her body with his every thrust.
He wanted to take everything that was hers, like the way she had taken everything that was his.
Lee found himself constantly at the brink of release with every thrust, but Mia's lust-fueled contented moans on his ears kept his constraint. He wanted to please her. He wanted to pleasure her forever.
And then Lee felt her body stiffened, and soon she shuddered, her thighs clamping his hips tightly, her legs wrapped around his back as she held him tighter inside. She trembled in her release. Lee planted kisses on her lips, and her forehead, muttering her name over and over again - wanting to remember her for all eternity.
Then she whispered softly behind his left ear in a small sighing mewing sound that tickled his heart and soul,
"Lee.... ."
He held her tighter as he finally had his release, his body arching while still holding her close. His world became bright and sparkling. And only she existed.