Chapter 2 2

As we danced to the music, swaying with the air and the beat, his hands slipped to mine; he grabbed my waist with one and my hand with the other. I walked carefully, remembering the movements and following Raymond's lead, a skilled dancer.

As we laughed and sang along with the joyous beats and tone of the songs, the music became louder. It had been one week since Raymond and I had departed for our honeymoon, which we all needed, and dancing to music late at night kept us alive, among other things.

"You are a lovely dancer," he said into my ear as a slower song was sung and played on a solo guitar.

"I'm just following my master over here," I kissed his lips, grateful that he didn't let me disgrace myself in front of the people. He turned me around and slow danced to this song. His breath seized as my head fell on his shoulder, and he held me lovingly as I felt the stability I craved, yet only with him could I experience it, that strange, insane emotion.

"I never want to be apart from you," he said quietly in my ear as I smiled and gazed at him. The song finished, but we stayed since we felt like the only ones there.

As the streetlights went out, the night sky darkened, and Raymond had some thoughts of his own. He seized my hand in his and ran across the forest, saying nothing. As we rushed toward it, the wind pressed into my face, and there it was: a waterfall.

He started pulling his shirt off while he pushed me to do the same, and as his shorts slid down, he looked over at me, his body sparkling in the moonlight.

"Come on," he said as he walked into the water, noticing its natural radiance and how clean it appeared. As he returned my gaze and hurried to me, I undressed. His hands swooped up and threw me into the hot water. As he kissed my forehead, my naked legs curled around his body. My hands moved to his hair, pulling at each individual strand to smooth it out. As I placed my head on his shoulder, his smile increased.

"The water feels magical", I let out as Raymond rushed his hand against my dripping skin, his eyes lingered along each bump and centimeter of skin which made me feel that tingly feeling that lingered ever since I realized this man was the one.

"I think it's you with the magic, and I think the moon agrees with me", he hinted as the moon gleamed against me as I was pushed up against the creeks edge and Raymond held me safely.

My lips swooped for his. His hands tickled my hair as his lips sank into mine. This kiss was intense as he forced his tongue into my lips, allowing it to explore my mouth. As his kiss faded, his tongue explored every nook and corner of my mouth. I had to break away from him because of a tiny split in a branch. As I pushed Raymond down so his bulk didn't tower over the water, a flashlight shined ahead, and I prayed the person didn't see our clothes laying there.

My suspicions were correct as the security guard flashed his light over the silky serenade of the water he smiled and went about his way. I held Raymond down as I checked to make sure the coast was clear.

"Too-good Victoria breaking rule-", he taunted me as I crashed his lips with mine, not letting him finish that last sentence. I interrupted his sentence as he kissed me back surprised and taken aback by my movements.

"I wouldn't say that if you want any of this tonight", I whispered against the serene night sky in the midst of a forest. I placed his hand against my ass as he groped it softly causing me to gasp.

"Let's get out of here before he comes back, besides I think our bed will be a better spot for a little fun", I hinted as he immediately pulled me out of the water and began eagerly putting his shorts and shirt on. His shirt was completely soaked as it is and as he pulled the dress down me, I felt this tight dress sticking to my skin and the water didn't help.

All of a sudden a flashlight was pointed in our direction, and a man stood nearly a couple yards away from us. Raymond took my hand and began running away from the security guard as he ran after us. Raymond let go of my hand as we began running for our lives, something about it felt good, made me feel alive. I had that kick of adrenaline as I needed to keep up with Raymond's fast pace of action.

"Hey get back here", the man screamed as his monotone voice echoed through the trees but I kept going.

My skin crashed with wind as I felt my feet prick against the sharp edges of twigs and rocks, but as my heart sung aloud for me to stop running I kept going.

I felt that sense of fun missing from my childhood as I spent every moment working to get far away from my dad, it never ended up working.

I ran with the wind as it blew into my hair, and my legs felt numb and as I saw the beach nothing but relief fled over me. Raymond continued running to the beach house Raymond had bought.

I chased after him as we both stopped I let out a gushing laugh as he opened the gate for me to come into the house.

"What's so funny?", he said as he handed me a glass of water and opened the door for me to enter the house.

"I understand what I had been missing, I had never felt so alive and I just had adrenaline rushing through me and I-" I rambled on while Raymond listened to my comments. He raced up to me as soon as he spotted that active light in my eyes. As my legs wrapped around him and he leaned up against the wall, his crave-worthy kiss kept my heart pumping.

His tongue probed my mouth, allowing him to go anywhere he pleased, while his hands slipped up my dress. As I felt the perspiration from each of us brush up against each other, his kiss made me melt into him.

He pushed me up against the wall not holding onto my legs as his eyes ogled my body. His hands sophisticatedly moved to the seams of my dress and tear it into 2 pieces.

"Hey I liked that dress", he tossed it to the side as he picked me back up and started kissing my cold and sweaty nipples that were hard to the touch. His lips aggravated them as his saliva looped around them and his mouth did a number on them making me forget all about the torn up dress that laid next to me.

"You'll like this a whole lot more", he grabbed onto my back tightly and we made our way upstairs as my hands wrapped around his back and he kissed my shoulder.

Raymond's POV

Her soft head rested against my breast as she slept so peacefully, and as the moon shone down on her, I watched as her body shined beneath the moon's rays. She was the most beautiful person I'd ever encountered on the inside and out, and her actions spoke louder than her words, as she was prepared to go to any length for me because I was her.

As she lay there silently searching about, her silky brown hair streaked on my chest. She was the most beautiful person I had ever met, but her personality was out of this world; she could make a whole room smile and I knew she had a hard time letting down her guard, but I have never met anyone who cared for me, the real me, minus the money, the house, the clothes, the company; she loved me for me and I know that feeling will never be replaced.

She is the love of my life and I am so grateful to know her but to cherish her, to provide for her yet she doesn't let me do it as much as I like. She had a sense of mind, she had access to all of this money and yet she only spent it on her college tuition and when Avery begged her too.

She doesn't know about how much influence she has over me, yet she's never used it. Her options are to resort to using coupons and cash-back systems something I had never used before. She always ends up surprising me each new day I learn something new about my angel. The fact she prefers lilacs over any flower, she doesn't like bananas, she loves romance novels and so much more, I never saw myself getting this close to someone and them knowing every crack every crevice of me but when she is around she makes me feel like I had known her forever, and something about that stuck with me.

I kissed her bare forehead moving the hair out of her face, she nestled back into the crook of my neck as she shifted her body.

I loved her with every fiber in my body and at the end of the day she saved me, but with her she saved herself, she's the strongest person I've ever met but yet she keeps it together so well. I had to protect her from the pain, I was her visor now a blocker from the pain she didn't need to know about. She didn't need to know, especially since they would ask her questions and questions she didn't have answers too, she couldn't see the falling world ahead of her, I wouldn't allow her too. Rumor after rumor was released and all I could see was her face if she saw, I needed to keep her away from it.

The pain she didn't need to know about was why we would be leaving tomorrow. I wanted to keep her away from the pain, I knew she would have and that's why we would be staying longer, to escape the media. I had to make sure she was safe and my life started with hers, she made me feel alive, she made me feel love something I thought I was incapable of feeling. I couldn't let her see the lies painted by the gossip channels, I couldn't let her see any of it. It pained me she couldn't know, but I did it all for her.

Victoria's POV

The sun shined against the window sill as I felt my comfy pillow adjusting himself under me. I peaked my head up at his magical eyes which were currently closed. I peeled his arm that lounged across me away from my body as I sneakily crept out of the bed. I grabbed one of Raymond's work shirts from the closet and crept downstairs to make breakfast.

I set out the flour as I twiddled with the many buttons I buttoned up leaving the first two unbuttoned. My mind begged for some music to tone down the silence and so I inserted vinyl in listening to the slow music that rotated on the track.

As I looked down the corridor and saw my clothes ripped in two from the night before, I remembered how quickly he awakened with a single touch, kiss, or twist.

As Raymond made his way downstairs, I put on the news while preparing the creamy pancakes in front of me. I flipped a pancake and placed it onto a plate, then switched off the heat since the stack of pancakes towered above the pots and pans that hung.

His hands wrapped around my waist as he leaned in kissing my earlobe as I smirked against him. He suddenly let go and grabbed the remote, he switched it off and came back with a slight grin of some sort.

"Hey I wanted to watch that, they were going to show the highlight weddings today I wanted to see if we made it.", I interjected as Raymond shooed the remote away and went back to swaying to the music. His hands rested on my waist as he went back to my ear and kept kissing away.

"These are delicious," he said, eating the majority of the pancakes while licking my syrup-covered fingers.

"Thank you," I replied as I took Raymond's and my plate, but he stopped me and pulled it from my grasp, going to the kitchen sink.

"Phase 2 of our honeymoon starts tonight, so pack your bags", he announced as he kissed my soft lips, divulging in his lips. His kisses always surprised me he was such a gentle kisser but at the best times he knew just how to push me over the edge with just his lips.

"Where are we off to?", As he turned his back and placed his hands on my body, I put my arms around him.