A Wedding Affair (The Wedding Affair) (60 page)

“Look Aria it was just
an idea, nothing set in stone, and I do love your home, it is a wonderful place to raise children, I mean you grew up there right?” He touches my cheek and I smile back I don’t want to argue here.

“I think we need to be just us for a
bit longer before we start a family” Oh heaven and hell why did Tristan see all of this and I didn’t?

“Ian this is a lot to take in, I think it would be a wonderful investment property, what if we purchased it and rented it, this area is booming?”

He looks s at me with a conciliatory smile as he ponders the notion. “That is not a half bad idea the colleges and hospitals near here would keep it rented between students and faculty or the medical professionals.”

I calm and see his reservations in his face and I know he wants to li
ve here, but do I want to leave my family home? I am immediately reminded how when I was with Tristan I wanted for nothing, and now that I am dealing with my decision, my choice, I am grasping at what I want to hold onto.

“Aria you’re right this is a big s
tep and we need to think what is right for us when we marry, lets grab some dinner and relax, it was just an idea please don’t think anything else.” He enfolds me in his arms again he knows I am mad and what does Aria do when she is mad…run, I leave, I vacate, I escape, I get the hell out, I learned from Tristan he has ran away his whole life from the time he was 13 till we finally broke up two years ago.

“
I love you Aria, we can stay at your family home, we can live in a box I don’t care I just want to be with you.”

Thank you Ian, I’m starved how about you?”

“I think I need to take my fiancée out for pizza” I kiss him

“Yes please”

He takes my hand we walk back down the dangerous stairs.

Well you two what do you think” I looks at me and smiles as he knows I
hate this place or any place that is not my home.

“I think we are going to pass, we are happy in Ohio City in our old Victorian house”

“I would be too, gosh high ceilings, old mill work who would leave that” I like Gloria even more. We say good bye Gloria and we head across the street to Presti’s as some food and wine are in order.

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Well
Presti’s Pizza and Bakery is guaranteed to put a smile on even the most discerning and I have a feeling that Ian is glad I smiling again instead of being mad at him for bringing me to look at a townhome. Gosh in New York yes in Chicago of course but here in my home town I want to be in my family home.

A word about Presti’s food, their pizza is phenomenal, their bakery is old world all made by hands
and they have been doing it like that for years as this place goes back a hundred years.

The specialty’s they
are known for like sfogliatelle they are these heavenly pastry’s that look like a clam but sweet and delicious with a custard filling, ok now I’m happy we came here, we came, we saw, we eat.

We settle in a both by the window as Dean Martin croons in the b
ackground about
his Evening in Roma
I calm with a glass of Chianti, Ian and I share a pizza margarita and we sit back and enjoy our leisurely meal in little Italy, the wine is just what I needed to calm my nerves, I am now more relaxed and I think that Ian and I need to have a nice peaceful chat, I have a feeling that he is walking on eggshells with me because of my affair and his stalking me, gosh are we a pair or what?

“Aria are you feel
ing better?” I am working on my second glass of Chianti and I am feasting on the best pizza, the cheese that is gooey, the sauce is perfection and the crust is crispy the way I like it, I relax and mellow out.

“Ian I have to say this is the most time we have spent together since we got engaged”

“I was thinking the same thing, I miss you a lot when I am at work and you are at the store” his tone is consolatory but I got a feeling he is hurt too.

“I know I work a lot I always have I feel guilty if I’m not at work”
and once I say the words I see how working so much is not going to work for Ian and I.

“What made you leave today and come see me in class?” I show him my engagement ring

“This” he looks at me and his shy smile melts my heart

“Well I’m glad to see I got my monies wort
h” I smile at his sarcastic remark and I should tell him what working is for me.

“Ian
you know I have always put in long hours, and for the better part of two years I have been married to the store”

“I am beginning to see that” his short snip-it is rather cunning.

“Does it anger you?” I ask I have to know

“Aria I could never be angry for what you have worked so hard to build, your ambition is intimidating I sometimes feel it’s my competition”

“Ian you have no competition, you win hands down, you know that right?”

“Well I guess I do now, I just tread lig
htly and like I said Aria I love you and that means taking you anyway I can and fitting into your life as best I can” I get up and come and sit next to him

I kiss him as I hold his face in my hands and I don’t care that we are in public and there are peopl
e watching us.

“Ian you are my life now, the store, my career none of that comes close to what I have w
ith you, do you understand that? When you asked me to marry you everything else went on the back burner that is what saying yes to you means to me”

Ian
puts his right arm around me and kisses me soundly with reverence and a possessiveness that I have wanted from him. I almost feel as if he could cry right about now and that is why I broke it off with Tristan I can’t hurt him the way Tristan hurt me and look what Tristan did he bought a ring and is marrying that slut-bag-ugly-whore.

“Aria the things you do to me, the things you do for me, sometimes I kick myself that I don’t deserve you since I was the one who didn’t get my life in order and make you mine t
wenty years ago that I have to live with being number two or three or four in your life and just blend into the background of your vibrate career, active lifestyle and daily activities”

“Ian when you put this ring on my finger
and made me yours you are now my number one priority, my number one concern please believe me when I say this I love you I have always loved you”

“It took me twenty years Aria to come back and get you and make you mine and I am a selfish man I want you at home when I get home, I want
to wake with you in my arms and I want to put you asleep at night” he kisses my forehead and we sit in the red leather booth feeding each other pizza and getting to a better place in our relationship.

“I have to confess attention is something I am not use
to, please be patient with me and I will learn to be more concerning of your caring gestures”

“I’m so happy we shared today”

“Let’s promise to make” I kiss the sauce from the corner of his mouth

“You gotta deal professor”

We box up the cannoli and sfogialtelle and the two people who still are finding each other head home to continue this conversation between the sheets.

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We get home and it’s almost ten o’clock Ian throws his keys down and grabs my hand and heads up stairs he is a man with a plan as I clearly see he has a hidden agenda. He leads me into the bedroom, he lets my hand go and he takes his t-shirt off and tosses it on the bedside chair, he removes his jeans and he is standing gloriously in just his black silk boxers. He looks at me and he is licking his lips he is challenging me? Or daring me? Ok I’m up for it.

I drop my jacket I kick my shoes off into the corner and drop my blouse to the floor and shuffle out of
my jeans I am in my pale pink lacey panties and matching bra. I am holding my stance as I look at him teasingly shifting my hips from side to side and with condescending intent we both look at one another and the game is on.

“Ian
what are you doing?”

“
I am going to make love to you” I have to admit I love the professor when he has a plan and right now he has the best laid plan I have ever heard.

“This I gotta see
” I take him up on his challenge as I slowly take down my bun and unravel my braid as my hair falls over my shoulders and down my back.

“
Now take off your panties and throw them at me!” We are probably ten feet away from each other.  I drop my panties than bunch them up in a tight ball and with all my might I fire them at him almost hitting him in his face. He catches them and puts them to his nose and inhales deeply.

“My dear bride to be, you are as ever intoxicating”
I am a bit shocked professor is being naughty tonight. 

“Now take off your bra and drop it to the floor before I reach you”
he drops his boxers, which catches my attention because “A” he is hard and “B” this is never Ian. I remember what he asked me to do as I put my hands behind me to undo my bra and he walks towards me with his long legs taking two steps at a time until he has his arms around me and I can’t move.

“Not
quick enough, I got you now!” he picks me up and I can’t move, he has a grip on me with my arms behind me, tantalizing as this is, he holds me close and his growing erection is at my belly just begging for me,
this is so hot
.

He takes me over to the bed and lays me down with my head at the foot of the bed,
he stands at the foot of the bed and pulls my head off slightly as it hangs off slightly my hair falls to the floor and the head of his ever present erection is at my lips and I am so turned right now I will probably come before he does.

As he runs his
hand up and down his growing erection from root to tip he puts the head to my lips, I kiss him and open my mouth as I take him all the way sucking and running my tongue up and down his shaft and he is rock hard, the feeling this way is erotic, as the blood rushes to my head and my cheeks grown flush I hold him and tantalize him and make him damn sure he never forgets this as I work him over, he hold my face in his hands and he runs his finger through my hair as I sheath him, tantalizing  and taunting him I make him fall apart before me. I can feel he is going to come, as I milk him in a motion that sets him off he is holding onto my head as he yells out

“
Aria fuck!” he stills and he jerks as he slides down my throat backwards. I have to say the last time I did this I was 19 in a bar and I believe tequila and a lime was involved, this is way more intoxicating. I drop my head back he pulls out and joins me on the bed.

“Aria as ever your o
ral composition if Ivy league” He kisses me as he hovers over me and I want to play with him tonight he is still the teacher that I got take home and I am going to take full advantage of it.

“Well I gave it that old Harvard try?”
He laughs and hugs me tightly, it is our little joke because Ian went to Yale.

“
Do you know how beautiful you are? How intoxicating you are to me?” he takes my hands and holds them above my head and he runs kisses from my forehead down the side of my face past my neck as he makes his way down paying attention to my ear lobe as he sucks on it and I love when he does that, he moves his warm mouth to my breast where he sucks on my nipples and the feeling is mind-blowing. He lies between my legs and he makes love to me, we get lost in each other and afterwards we both move to the head of the bed and lay against the mounds of pillows that run the length of the bed. Ian is on his back and I have my chin on his chest running my finger across his chest in a slow rhythm.

“Aria you make me happy” he leans down and kisses me
, we have sweet sex, we have a nice little life before us, I guess I will get use to it.

“Ian I don’t want us to leave this house” I say it because out of all that has gone down over the past
month I am not budging on this, this is my family home and I want to stay here.

“Aria I got a feeling that has been bothering you” he runs his hand down my back and adjust the pillows behind his head.

“Ian this is why I moved back home here, I don’t want to leave here, this house is all I have ever known and I want us to stay here” I am stern and tell him my wishes, he can challenge me but I am not budging on this.

“So you never want to move from here?”

“No, I want to stay here and raise a family, and grow older here, only here”

“There you go with the family again, do you want kids right away?”
his voice is laced in concern

“You know how old I am, the longer we wait the more of a risk there is, and don’t
you want to still be young enough to enjoy them?” He looks very stern at me like I am making him decide.

“Look at our schedules, look at your career, is all of that going on the back burner to start a family?”