Carolyn let her eyes roam Annelie's face, traveling from her full lips, as the other woman repeated the question, to the huge blue eyes that examined her with a guarded expression. Unable to resist, Carolyn raised a hand and cupped Annelie's chin. "I'm not sure," she tried to explain. "I just know I find you so beautiful, inside and out. I've never met anyone like you."
Softly sliding her fingertip along the amor arch of Annelie's upper lip, she discovered a faint tremor. Annelie was not indifferent to her.
***
Annelie felt the soft touch against her lips, and it started a fire inside her she was unprepared for. Carolyn was sitting too close, looking breathtakingly beautiful with her damp hair loose around her shoulders. The robe revealed slightly freckled skin just below her neck, and the left sleeve fell back along her arm as she cupped Annelie's chin. Just like in the photo.
"So you don't know what you want, and yet you touch me this way," Annelie breathed, fighting to stay in control. This was quickly leading toward disaster. "You're playing with fire, Carolyn."
"Am I? How?" the actress whispered.
Unable to reply, Annelie turned her head and pressed her lips against Carolyn's palm. A soft intake of breath escaped the other woman as Annelie placed her own hand over Carolyn's, urging the soft palm closer to her lips before placing a trail of kisses on the sensitive skin inside the actress's arm.
Carolyn leaned in closer, hooking her arm around Annelie's neck. "Annie," she whispered. "I'm trembling."
Feelings rampaged. Alarm bells echoed madly inside her head. Everything she knew and had learned told Annelie to stop.
Carolyn was looking at her with stormy gray eyes, her lips slightly parted. "I'm all wrong, I know," she continued in a low, throaty voice. "Still…" She leaned in farther, closing the distance between their lips until she was little more than a breath away.
Annelie knew she ought to pull back, but she simply couldn't resist. Closing her eyes, she wrapped an arm around Carolyn's waist. "You want me to kiss you?" she said huskily, her voice barely audible.
Not waiting for a reply, she leaned down and pressed her lips against Carolyn's. Afterwards she knew she might have been able to kiss her and then pull back, if only Carolyn had not moaned softly and whimpered Annelie's name into her mouth.
"Annie…"
Parting her lips, Carolyn wordlessly invited Annelie to explore further.
Annelie resisted for a fraction of a second before plunging her tongue into the warm darkness, finding its counterpart and caressing it over and over. Carolyn whimpered again, returning the kiss feverishly. Her soft, yielding body trembled in Annelie's arms, and Annelie felt like she was drowning in the sweetness. Her hands roamed Carolyn's back, tugging at the robe as if they had a mind of their own.
Soon the actress's shoulders were naked and accessible to her mouth. Annelie wasted little time, letting her lips and tongue explore the warm skin. Carolyn cupped Annelie's head and held her as if afraid to let her go.
Annelie finally sat up, gazing at the disheveled woman beneath her on the couch. Somehow the robe had opened fully, and she could not stop looking.
"Bedroom?" Carolyn managed, her voice husky and filled with desire. "Bedroom, please, Annie?"
Unable to stop the madness, Annelie pulled Carolyn to her feet. "Come." She guided the other woman to her room.
At the foot of the bed, Annelie pushed the robe off Carolyn completely. Standing there naked, she looked young, vulnerable, and almost frightened. Annelie took her into her arms and kissed her again, suddenly wanting nothing other than to reassure her. "Carolyn, open your mouth…let me in…" she whispered against the wine-colored lips beneath hers.
***
Carolyn's head was spinning. Trustingly she opened her mouth, allowing Annelie to deepen the kiss. She felt the bed at the back of her legs and gave in to the urge to lie down and just let everything happen.
Annelie helped her get comfortable and then stood gazing down at her reclining form for a moment. Suddenly aware of the age difference, of the unmistakable signs of her forty-five years, Carolyn blushed.
"You're exquisite," Annelie murmured.
"Please undress," Carolyn said, her voice trembling.
With hesitant hands, Annelie unbuttoned her slacks and let them fall to the floor. She pulled the T-shirt over her head and stood dressed in a whisper-thin satin tank top and skimpy panties that left very little to the imagination. Keeping her underwear on, she joined Carolyn on the bed.
"Don't be scared," she said, placing small kisses on Carolyn's forehead, along her nose, down to her lips.
"I'm not. Just feeling clumsy and, I guess…a little shy."
"We can stop."
Carolyn's heart almost quit beating. She was more turned on than she had been in a very long time, if ever. Now her heart was racing, and the moisture pooling between her legs was going to make it embarrassingly clear to Annelie just how much she wanted her.
"No, please…Annelie…" Carolyn reached out and was rewarded when Annelie parted her legs, settling between them.
"Hold on to me," she suggested. "There, that's it." Leaning down, Annelie unceremoniously took a rigid nipple in her mouth, sucking it in between her teeth. She flicked her tongue over it repeatedly, making Carolyn moan aloud and arch her back. "So this is what you like, what you want," she murmured around the pebbled surface before letting it go.
"Yes…" Carolyn's voice betrayed her when Annelie pushed herself closer between her legs.
"Oh, Carolyn, you're so ready for me…so ready to be touched," Annelie whispered, sneaking a hand between her thighs. "Like this?"
She pushed her fingers along swollen, drenched folds. "Oh, yes, just like this." Rubbing Carolyn's aching clitoris, she began to rock against her.
Feeling tender fingers enter her, Carolyn knew it would not take long before she was completely lost to sensation. She pulled her knees up and circled Annelie's hips. Wrapping her arms around that beautiful neck, she cried out softly as their lips met in a profound kiss.
"Oh…oh, God, Annie…oh…"
***
The sound of that famous voice giving in to passion, the feeling of Carolyn surrendering in her arms, made Annelie hold her breath as heat surged through her. The way Carolyn clung to her, calling her Annie in a longing tone of voice, almost broke her heart.
"Now, now…" Carolyn whimpered, and her inner muscles began to contract, pulling Annelie's fingers deeper inside.
"I've got you. I've got you, Carolyn," Annelie whispered as one long shudder after another gripped the woman she held. Rocking against the convulsing woman, Annelie felt the fire between her own legs erupt and spread to her stomach and down her thighs. "Carolyn…" She hid her face in the other woman's hair, knowing her own orgasm was close. "Carolyn!"
Still holding on tight to Annelie, the actress whispered huskily in her ear. "Oh, you're amazing. You take my breath away. Never before…" Carolyn's voice faded. "Don't let go."
Annelie shivered and rolled over on her side, pulling Carolyn with her. Sensing the deep need and pent-up desire in the other woman, she knew it was going to be a long, passionate night.
***
Dawn was breaking, but the woman standing on the large balcony dressed in only a robe did not care about the spectacular sunrise. Tears streamed down her cheeks, and her shoulders shook as she cried soundlessly.
Annelie had made love to Carolyn all night, taking her from one height to another, making her sob from a pleasure so intense it seemed to border on pain. Annelie had never fully undressed, nor had she allowed Carolyn to touch her intimately. It was impossible for her to let her guard down.