Free After the Rain (The Twisted Fate Series Book 1) by Unknown Page A

again.”
    Marcus thought about it; maybe she was right. She was like a little exotic creature. A sweet that he’d never tasted before but somehow had a craving for. A treat that was wrapped up in brightly-colored paper with a bow around it. He felt like a kid at Easter with that first chocolate – desperate to rip off the paper and dive in face first.
    “Fine,” Marcus said, peeling off his shirt and tossing it to the ground. “Let’s do it.”
    “Good. Good. Let’s go for it. Whoo-hoo.” Stormy clapped her hands and readied herself. He couldn’t help but notice how her breasts shook a little as she moved. She was obviously very comfortable with her body. It showed – and it made her even sexier.
    “Yes, let’s do it.” Marcus was loosening his belt now and pulling his pants down.
    “Abso-mundo,” Stormy agreed, appearing fired up and ready to go. She jumped from side to side, almost like a cheerleader with pom-poms. “It doesn’t have to be long or a whole big thing. Just a quick wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am and then it’s out of our systems.”
    “You’re right! No big deal. Just a quickie.” Marcus had pulled his clothes off and was also completely naked now. He couldn’t help but notice how Stormy’s eyes moved over his body, lower and lower, and settled on his…
    “Mmmm,” she actually mumbled it out loud.
    “Mmm, what?” He felt a bit sheepish now, under the intensity of her gaze.
    “Mmm, not bad!” Stormy replied.
    “You too,” Marcus responded awkwardly. Although what he really wanted to say was, the most amazing thing I ’ve ever seen . But as he gazed at her, and she gazed back, as they looked from each other’s eyes to naked body parts and back again, the whole thing started to feel very awkward. The silence stretched between them, and neither one made a move. This thing started to feel like a doctor looking at a patient.
    “Okay,” Stormy said a little less enthusiastically, shuffling from side to side. “So, let’s do it.” She fist pumped the air. “Yee-ha! Lets go!”
    “Yes! Okay. Let’s go for it,” Marcus responded enthusiastically, almost as if he were trying to convince himself.
    Except no-one moved. They both stood dead still.
    “I can’t just do it , just like this. We need to… you know, kiss first or something,” Marcus finally said, painfully aware that although there was a beautiful naked woman in front of him, his body was simply not responding in the way it should have been.
    “Okay.” Stormy moved closer to Marcus. She tilted her head to the left to go in for a kiss – just as Marcus did the same thing.
    “Sorry,” he mumbled as they bumped noses, and tilted his head to the opposite side. But Stormy did the same.
    “Um… you go left, and I’ll go right,” Marcus said, pointing in the different directions.
    “Don’t tell me which way to go, what happens if I like right?”
    “Okay, whatever, then go right and I’ll go left.” Marcus was getting frustrated now. This wasn’t exactly how he’d imagined them having sex. It felt wrong.
    “I didn’t say I wanted to go right, I just said that maybe I wanted to.” Stormy placed her hands on her hips again in that defiant pose that he was becoming quite familiar with. It was her signature move.
    Marcus sighed. “This is not working, is it?”
    He looked her in the eye and he could see the relief. “No, it’s not.”
    Admitting defeat, they both turned away from each other and went back to their wet, sticky clothes.

    After pulling the wet stripper dress back on, Stormy walked over to the bed and sat down. Something about what had just happened left her feeling very uncomfortable.
    She couldn’t put her finger on it. But it hadn’t felt good, offering herself up to him like that and then him not jumping her. Mind you, in that moment, she hadn’t exactly wanted to jump his bones, either. Goddess, that had been a total disaster. Luckily she wasn’t prudish with her body, or she might have