"Oh God Antonio…yes! Yes…" Gabi moaned as she furiously took his mouth upon hers again, viciously attacking him. As he moaned against her warm lips he ran his hands feverishly over her body, pushing aside the fabric of her shirt to run his hands over her stomach.
"Gabi…Gabi…" He whispered the name as his mouth traveled over her neck, licking and sucking and tasting, pulling on the skin until it left flushed red spots on her warm honeyed flesh.
"Oh yes…yes…yes…YES!!!" She was unable to form any coherent thoughts other than the murmurs demanding him to continue this torturously delicious foreplay. She shifted positions on top of him, her knee aching from where it was pressed against the plastic arm of the chair. As she moved, she could feel his erection pressing into the side of her thigh and she rubbed against it, causing a quick increase in the movement of his lips on her shoulder.
She was on top of him, straddling him as he sat in the chair. With a wildly aroused look in her eye, she pulled away from him abruptly. Breathless and seductive, she looked at him as she breathed shallowly and leaned back against the hard wood of his desk behind her. As she stared at him, her fingers moved up to her shirt and she wrapped her fingers around the hem of it. Antonio saw what she was doing and moved his hands away to let her. He wanted to watch and he knew that she wanted him to watch, too, as she licked her lips and began to slowly lift her shirt up to reveal small, firm breasts covered by black lace, teasingly translucent and obscuring his vision only enough to make him crazy with need to see what he couldn't. Somehow he managed to hold off mauling her until she had completely remover the shirt, but it was mere seconds after she had discarded it that he moved forward, lacing his arms around her waist and pulling her chest up to his mouth. The cloth was left with no choice but to be pushed aside to make way for his darting tongue as it licked at an erect nipple. "Gabi…" Antonio moaned as he tried to unhook the bra, his fingers clumsy around her back.
Suddenly, a door opened behind them. Neither realized that they hadn't locked the door until Maria Evens' voice penetrated the lusty haze that they had been wrapped up in.
"Ant-" She began to say, then stopped horrified at the sight that lay in front of her. Her brother and sister in law in the midst of a wild sexual excursion. Quickly she backed away and slammed the door shut behind her. Gabi bolted off of Antonio and grabbed her shirt as he stood up quickly.
"My God…Maria…" Antonio groaned, unable to believe that his luck could actually be this horrible! "I…Gabi, I'm so sorry…will you wait for me in here? I have to…"
"Of course I will, go talk to Maria…try to explain…" Gabi said feebly but she wasn't even sure if there was an explanation. One minute she and Antonio had been talking, a perfectly innocent conversation and the next minute they had been pawing at each other with her on top of him in his chair…where they had managed to wind up after making a complete mess out of his desk. Papers were strewn everywhere and all of his pictures were scattered across the floor next to the desk.
"I will…Gabi…I'm sorry-"
"Don't apologize, Antonio. We both wanted this…"
His heart leapt at her words. Gabi had wanted this to happen, too! But
he would have time to think about that after he explained everything to
his sister.
"Maria? Wait!" Antonio called out to her as she walked quickly down the hall. He ran to catch up with her. "Maria, let me ex-"
"No…not right now, Antonio…please, just don't! You can call me later, when I've had some time to…to get over this, but not now." She said shakily, more upset for Ricardo and what this would do to him if he knew than for her own shock.
"Maria…"
"Later." And she took off again. Antonio could do nothing but turn and go back into his office, where he found Gabi curled up in his chair crying. Immediately he was by her side, taking her in his arms.
"My god, Antonio…what have we done? We said that we were going to get over this…we said that we wouldn't…"
"Shhh, don't cry Gabi. It's all right…this must have happened for a reason." For a reason. Because we are meant to be together. He thought, then pushed it aside. He needed to concentrate on Gabi now, what she needed from him not what he wanted. Realizing that he was very near to doing something else they might regret, Antonio stood up. Gabi, still wanting to be near him, followed. ''Everything happens for a reason.''
''A reason…yeah…there's a reason all right…to torture me! God…how could he be this cruel, Antonio? To make me fall so deeply in love and not be able to have you…" Gabi moaned as she tore herself away from him and sank back down onto the chair behind his desk, her head buried in her hands.
Antonio was still caught up on the last line she had spoken…she loved him. Gabi loved him…his heart soared. She didn't love Ricardo…she loved him.
"Gabi? Gabi…what do you mean?" Antonio asked slowly, kneeling down beside her. "You…you love me?"
"Antonio!" She was surprised by his disbelieving tone. "Of course I do…didn't you know that? It's not like I've never told you…"
"Yeah…in the cave in…believe me, I remember," he dipped his head shyly. "But I thought...I mean, you love Ricardo…you said so…over and over…"
"Oh…Antonio…I thought that was what you wanted to hear. You…" She sniffed back tears at the painful memories. "You said so many time that you wanted me to be happy with him, so I tried…I tried my best to love him like I loved you, but I couldn't. I hope you understand…he just doesn't make me feel the way that you do. I'm…I'm sorry…"
"Gabi, don't…I love you." Antonio said, pulling her close to him, he buried his face in her hair. "I love you, too."
"Look at us…" Gabi laughed softly as she stroked the back of his head. "We're a mess, aren't we?"
"Yeah." He smiled with her as he stood up and leaned against the desk, facing her. "So, what are we going to do now?"
"I don't know…Antonio…" She looked up at him with questioning eyes. "I want…I want to be with you. Not Ricardo." She said, hoping he would realize where she was headed with this. He did, immediately.
"I want to be with you, too, Gabi…" Immediately she tensed, sensing the impending 'but'.
"It's okay, Antonio. I understand…you want the priesthood more." She said, standing up and turning away from him in a useless attempt to hide her tears.
"Gabi…I love you. You know that…but we both have commitments. Me to the church and you to my brother. That doesn't mean I don't love you though." So typical of him, Gabi thought to herself. So very typical. Anger burned inside of her, anger at God, anger at Antonio, anger at herself. She turned around, tears quickly forgotten. Her onyx eyes blazed with fury.
"Don't say that, Antonio. Don't you dare say that. You can't keep throwing me around like this! Telling me you love me, and acting glad to hear that I love you, too. Then saying we can't be together? What do you want from me, Antonio? You want me to just love you and be satisfied knowing you love me and not doing anything about it?" Gabi was shouting loudly, and Antonio glanced around nervously, hoping her high tone wouldn't attract someone's attention to them.
"Gabi…calm down, Gabi-"
"No! I will not calm down! I know what you
want – you want me to sit around and wait for you to decide that you want
me. I know you'll never do that, Antonio. You love the priesthood too much
to ever leave it for me. Well, I refuse to waste my time like this!" Gabi
said, her face flushed in rage as she grabbed her purse and ran out, slamming
the door loudly behind her. Antonio's heart fell to the floor as he slumped
back down into the chair. He couldn't believe he had just screwed things
up so badly...