The Game of Love and Losers

TWENTY-SEVEN

I Want to Know What Love Is – Foreigner

Once safely in the warmth and privacy of her apartment, Dave  peeled of his soaked through jacket and was busy drying his hair with a towel Amanda had produced for him, she was in the bathroom changing out of her soaked pyjamas and returned to the living room with a pink fluffy bath robe and her damp hair wrapped in a white towel, Dave couldn't help noticing how much her bare legs showed from beneath the robe which reached just above her knees, it was doing strange things to his insides, because it all still felt a little surreal

"Why didn't you just come up and knock on my door, it would have saved us both from getting soaked" she pointed out teasingly

"I was going to, but then I wasn't sure it was a such a good idea, me just springing myself on you like this" Dave admitted looking a little sheepish

"Idiot" she murmured as she came over to him, her nearness sending a heat through his body that he was having trouble controlling as he thought about how they had kissed just fifteen minutes earlier, "You can spring yourself on me anytime" she said her voice unusually husky, yet inviting

"Well now I know that, I am sure I will" he returned a little playfully.

She now reached out putting the palm of her hand on his chest area her eyes remaining on his face, as she smiled up at him "Your shirt feels damp, perhaps you should take it off, I don't want you catching anything" she now kissed him lightly on the lips, but it was enough to tip him over the edge, and his mouth claimed hers again in a hungry demanding kiss.

Amanda kissed him back with the same urgency, whilst at the same time undoing the buttons on his blue shirt, pulling her mouth away from his, so she could help him remove his shirt, whilst kissing the tattooed eagle on his chest. His hands had slid up under her robe to discover she was wearing nothing underneath and they roamed heatedly over her smooth warm skin, his desire for her growing, as her mouth found his again and he let out a noise that sounded half growl and half moan "God Amanda do you know what you are doing to me!" he managed to get out in-between their kisses as he felt her hands now tugging at the button of his jeans, now she had successfully removed his shirt.

She pulled away from him a little, smiling suggestively, "No, but you can tell me in the bedroom where I think we should finish this" she then said as she unbuttoned his jeans

"I think that is a very good idea," he only too readily agreed, "in fact I will not only tell you, I will show you" he promised huskily, as he let her lead him into the room, no longer caring that there was no going back after tonight..... 

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"Are you sure you have never done this type of thing before?" Dave queried with a smirk, as later they lay in each other's arms, their passion for each other sated for the moment, He found it even more amusing that she blushed at his query, suddenly becoming a little coyer than she had done earlier in the night.

"Well, it's not the first time I have had sex," she admitted almost sounding regretful, as she kept her eyes on his bare chest, her finger idly drawing circles on it as she did so, "I mean there was Graham; but that was more about feeling it was the thing to do, because we were in a long term relationship with marriage at the end of it" she then explained, "but in all the times we did have sex, Graham was always the one who initiated it. I never felt the need to leap at him and kiss him, and want to take his clothes of, like I did with you, I don't know what got into me" she finished with a small laugh now looking up into his face.

"I guess I should be flattered then," Dave grinned squeezing her closer to him and kissing her on the head, "Actually I am a flattered and impressed" he then added making her giggle as she snuggled into him, her smile faded a little as a past concern came into her head. 

"Graham would imply I was useless in bed, that why he would cheat on me with other women"

"Graham is an asshole, and now I wished I had punched him harder" Dave replied grimly with a frown, but his expression softened as he looked at Amanda, not wanting the mention of her ex spoil things, "You are beautiful and fantastic, so his loss is my gain, and you don't know how happy that makes me"

"Do I make you happy Dave?" she needed the reassurance, whilst feeling her heart lift that she had this ability

"Yes" he replied smiling, "more than you can imagine"

"Good, because you are the only person who makes me feel happy too" Amanda returned, "I didn't understand what it was like to be truly happy before. All my life it was about pleasing other people, my parents, Graham, and his family, and I thought that was what it was all about. But being with you, I can be myself, and you accept me for who I am in a way no one else can. It's a kind of happiness I have never experienced before" she then tried to explain getting a little emotional

"Then I guess that applies to the both of us" Dave mused wryly

"I thought what I had with Shauna was love, but now I know it wasn't, and now we don't have to make do for the second best, not when we have each other" he realised happily "I just still can't believe you want to be with me, it all still seems too good to be true" he then admitted with a small sigh

Amanda now pulled herself up, so she was lying over him, her hazel eyes looking into his, letting him see the desire and warmth she felt for him.

"Well you better start believing it, because I plan to be with you a long time" she informed him meaningfully, and her lips found his once again just to make sure she could convince him

The End