he pushed hard and deep into her, so hard she was thrown back against the wall but it was the final thrust, and she cried out loud as he exploded inside her, that rush of warmth as he released himself flooding through her, sending her stomach reeling as she reached her own climax, that beautiful white-hot tingle taking over, until both their bodies had no other option left but to give in to the exhaustion.
Unwrapping her legs from around him she closed her eyes as he left her body, holding her close as their breathing returned to normal, her heart still beating hard as his fingers gently stroked her back.
‘Baby, baby, baby… you kill me. You fucking kill me,’ Dominic breathed, resting his forehead against hers, stroking her cheek with his thumb as the water continued to rain down on them.
‘So, stranger. What do we do now?’ she smiled, reaching out to turn the shower off. But she didn’t want this game to end just yet. The night was young, and she wasn’t ready to re-enter real-life.
He smiled, kissing her slowly, his tongue flicking over the roof of her mouth as it touched hers, bringing her damp skin out in goosebumps as he pulled her close. ‘We party. You up for that?’
She smiled too, running her hands up and down his strong, toned arms. ‘Yeah. I’m up for that.’
Another kiss, another million flips of her stomach as his mouth moved against hers, warm and hard and beautiful.
‘India…’
She shook her head, putting her fingers to his lips to silence him. ‘Strangers, remember? Tonight we don’t know each other, that’s what you said. Tonight we’re forgetting. Okay?’
He nodded, letting his hand run down her back, resting it in that oh-so-sexy place at the very base of her spine. ‘Tonight, we’re forgetting.’
She smiled again, taking him in her hand as she moved her mouth close to his. ‘But, before we go anywhere, handsome, I want to give you something that I don’t want you to forget.’
And as she slowly sank to her knees, Dominic closed his eyes, stopped worrying about the future, and concentrated very hard on the fact that the most beautiful woman in Hollywood was about to take him to heaven and back. Again.
***
‘Jimmy called me, Kenny. Earlier tonight. He called me.’ Charley proceeded to tell Kenny what Jimmy had said, feeling like a weight had been lifted off her shoulders just by being able to tell someone, because what he’d told her had all but terrified her. ‘What does he mean by that, Kenny? You all take care?’
Kenny downed a large mouthful of beer, an urge to get completely wasted suddenly sounding like a really good idea, because, not only was this news something that he didn’t particularly want to have to deal with, but he knew that – right now – India and Dominic would be fucking each other senseless somewhere. He’d seen them, watched them, even from outside on the terrace. He’d seen them run off, hand-in-hand, laughing like kids on one hot prom date.
‘Kenny?’
‘Sorry, Charley… I was just thinking.’
Charley looked at him. ‘About India?’
Kenny sat back in his chair, pushing a hand through his black hair as he looked around at the people and the couples and the partying. Yeah, partying seemed like a really good idea right now.
‘It’s always about fucking India,’ Kenny sighed, sitting upright again as he caught sight of Dominic and India walking over to the bar, arms wrapped around each other. She leant into him as he smiled at the bartender, laughing at something Dominic said, and Kenny felt his stomach do that dip it always did whenever he saw her with somebody new. He’d never stop that from happening now, he knew that. He was just learning to live with it. He turned his attention back to Charley. ‘You should go home, Charley. You should go talk to Vince.’
‘What is there to talk about, Kenny?’
‘Jesus, Charley! Will you just go and fight for him? Huh? You’ve got something I would fucking kill for, do you know that? Okay, we made another stupid mistake, but this time it doesn’t have to mean the end of a relationship. Vince still loves you, and you still love him, don’t you?’
She looked at Kenny, a little taken aback by his reaction. ‘Yeah. Of course I do.’
‘Then go home and start trying to make it work. Don’t make the same mistake I did all those years ago, Charley. Don’t let the only person you’ve ever really