"Dad, what a pleasant surprise! To what do we owe it?"

"Your mother mentioned about your birthday party when we talked on the phone. And I decided I could spend a couple of days with you."

"What a lovely, idea! Thank you, Brad!" Mrs. Moyer could not hide her joy. "Are you hungry? We were just about to have dinner."

"No, Patty. I'm tired of the road. I'm thinking of staying at a hotel and resting."

"Dad, you're not going to a hotel! You will stay with us. Right, Mom?" Leo looked at his mother.

"Of course! I'm going to prepare a room for you," she said and immediately headed for the stairs leading to the second floor of the house, where the bedrooms were.

"Dad, thank you for coming! You have no idea how much this means to me!"

"I am glad, son," answered Brad. "So, Leo, Elizabeth... You two are together again?" he asked, moving his gaze at me.

I stood speechless. All my efforts during these months to forget about this man have just gone to hell. To hear his voice again- low, hoarse, devilishly sexy... pronouncing my name... To see him in person again... brought back that sense of sin that I was trying to bury.

"No, not yet," Leo answered his question, and with excitement in his voice continued. "But it could happen soon! We just kissed."

Bradford looked at me again, repeating, "You kissed..."

"Leoooo." Mrs. Moyer's voice, calling out from the second floor pierced the heated atmosphere.

"I am coming, Mom!" Leo answered, then turned to me. "You already know each other," after that, he turned to his father. "So it won't be awkward to leave you alone for a while, will it? I need to help my mom."

"Leo, no..." My words barely came out of my mouth. But Leo didn't hear me and went upstairs.

"How are you, Elizabeth?" Bradford asked me after there were only two of us left in the room.

"I... I better go," I said as I made my way to the door, trying to get as far away from him as possible.

"Elizabeth, wait!"

He took my hand and pulled me close to him. Our lips almost touched. I could feel his breath. My stomach was clenched into a ball, and my whole body was shaking.

"Brad, please, don't! Don't touch me!"

"I miss you, Elizabeth!" he said as he was looking into my eyes.

"Brad, please!"

Tears began to run down my face. It hurt. He was so close to me, and at the same time, I had no right to have him.

He stroked my face with his hands and wiped my tears with his fingers. Then rested his forehead on mine. One breath separated us. One breath. And a guilty conscience.

"We are at Leo's house. Don't do this! Don't do this to me!"

I couldn't stay there even a second longer. I was too weak. My craving for this man was stronger. Stronger than anything...

"Let me go!" I pushed him out and ran through the front door.

I ran as if I were being chased by a wild animal. I ran until I got home.

MEANWHILE

"What's going on, dad? I heard the door," Leo asked his father as he was entering the living room.

"Elizabeth left."

"Did she say something?"

"No."

"Strange... I will call her later. Let's have dinner now."

"Okay, let's eat," Bradford finished anxiously.

"You look worried."

"No. I am just tired. Don't worry."

BACK TO ELIZABETH POV

Later that night

After I got home from Leo's house, I went straight to bed. It was raining outside. Thunder pierced the night sky. The storm outside suited the weather inside me.

How would I cope? How could I stay away from him when he was so close.

I wanted to fall asleep. And to wake up when he's gone.

The vibration of my phone interrupted my thoughts. I received a text message from an unknown number.

"I'm sorry for my behavior earlier. I shouldn't."

"Brad?"

"I thought I could hold back," he continued to type. "But whenever I'm around you, I am going insane..."

"I miss you, too."

I didn't get an answer for the next few seconds.

"Brad?"

"Maybe you shouldn't have said that."

"Would it have been easier if I hadn't said it?"

"Nothing is easy ever since I met you... I want you, Elizabeth."

I didn't answer anything. What could I answer? I also wanted him, more than anything in the world.

"Elizabeth? Are you there?"

"Why are you doing this to me?"

"Because I'm crazy about you."

"Don't..."

"Elizabeth, undress for me."

"Brad, we shouldn't go there."

"I need to see your body."

To hear those words again brought back the craving for the pleasure that only he could give me.

"If I do it, promise me this will be our 'goodbye'."

"I promise. Now show me. Show me yourself."

I turned on the camera and speaker and leaned my phone against the wall.
I began to take off my clothes slowly, looking at the camera as if he was standing in front of me.

"Damn, Elizabeth... Keep going. I want to see everything. Every part of you."

"What do you want me to do?" I asked him as I slowly ran my hands over my bare breast.

"I want to see your fingers in you."

Since the last time I saw him, all I was dreaming about was to do this. I put my fingers in me and at the same time, I kept my eyes on the camera.

"Yeah, baby. I so missed seeing this."

"I so missed doing it for you."

"Get your fingers out and lick them. I want you to taste how delicious you are."

I took my fingers out and put them in my mouth. I started sucking them. And I liked it. Because I knew how much pleasure I was giving to him, doing it.

"Did you buy any toys?"

"Um..." Strange, but I was kind of embarrassed by his question.

"Tell me, Elizabeth."

"I... I bought a vibrator..."

"Good. That's my girl. Take it."

I took the vibrator out of my nightstand.

"Oh, Elizabeth. You have no idea how bad I want to put that thing in you."

"Well, you'll be watching me doing it."

"Do it."

I placed the vibrator between my legs and began to move it on my sensitive spot but without putting it in.

"You know exactly what I want."

Yeah, I knew exactly what he wanted.

"Do you like it?"

"The only thing I might like more is if I am doing that."

"Do you want me to put it in?"

"Not yet. Keep doing that."

And I kept doing it. I could live my whole life doing what this man wanted me to do.

"Fuck, Elizabeth. I will finish even before you."

"Show me. I want to watch you, too."

He turned on his camera. I watched his hand moving around his cock. I started moving the vibrator inside me in the same rhythm. His arousal was making me even more aroused.

"Brad!" I started to moan loudly.

"Keep going, baby!" he answered in a voice full of ecstasy.

I felt an orgasm all over my body. And I was seeing his orgasm in his eyes as well. We both reached the end in perfect unison.

"You have no idea how much I needed this, Elizabeth!"

At the same moment, I heard a knock coming from the phone.

"What was that?" I asked him.

"Someone is knocking on the door. Good thing it wasn't a few seconds ago."

"Aand... back to reality," I muttered. "It's probably Leo... Damn it! Go and open the door. And don't text me or call me again!"

I turned off my phone and in a strange combination of guilt and pleasure, I fell asleep.

MEANWHILE

Bradford opened the door.

"Patty?"

"I was wondering if you are still awake..."

"Yes, I am."

"Well, would you like to go downstairs with me and have a drink? We haven't seen each other in how many... 15 years?"

"Of course. I am coming."

They both went down to the living room. Patricia poured them glasses of whiskey.

"So, a Spa Hotel, ah?"

"Yes, I finally managed to open this hotel."

"Yeah... owning your own hotel was your dream."

"You remember that?"

"Of course, I do."

"And you were dreaming about your own restaurant. What happened with your dream?"

"Leo happened. Don't get me wrong. He is the best thing that has ever happened to me. Thanks to you."

"Yes, I guess something nice came out of our relationship after all."

"For me, every minute of our few-hours relationship was good. If we can call it a relationship at all. I was secretly in love with you for 3 years. And you considered me as your best friend. And almost every night you were telling me about your various conquests..."

"I didn't know, Patty."

"Do you think that if I had had the courage to confess my feelings to you earlier, something could have come out between us?"

"I guess we'll never know..."

"Yeah... we'll never know... I haven't told you before, but I want to thank you. Thank you for your support in raising Leo. The distance between us is big, yet you are a part of his life."

"No need to thank me, Patty. He is my son, too." Bradford paused for a moment. "Although I'm probably the worst father in the world..."