Torn between two

Chapter 6

Dunya’s POV

After heading home from the beach, I decided to take a long and relaxing shower to calm my nerves. I started thinking about Daniel and how he reacted. Who is he to tell me who I can and cannot date? I’m a grown ass woman, and I can decide what to do. Ugh.

Even though I haven’t had the best of luck with men, I know what I’m doing. I’m not naïve. But did I over react? I mean, I guess he was being nice and concerned about my safety. I don’t even know Elijah that well, to know his intentions. For all I know he could be dangerous.

No, what am I talking about? He was so nice and caring, and he didn’t take advantage of me, when he clearly had the chance. No.

To be honest with myself, Daniel being so solicitous was kind of hot. He is hot. Oh my god, how hot! I remember him on the beach and our almost kiss. I touch my lips in lust, thinking of his on mine. His strong muscular body on top of me, holding me, squeezing me close to him. Suddenly I feel a shiver go down my spine and I can feel the heat between my legs and my n*****s hardening by just the thought of him. Without even realizing it, my hand roams down to my stomach and to my core.

Ohh God, a cold shower it is!

I manage to clear my thoughts and get ready for my date. Elijah! I’m going to focus on him! One dreamy guy at a time! I want to look good for our date!

I straitened my hair once again, and put on a black skater dress, which has a few buttons going down from the front to just below my chest. It’s simple, but sexy. And it’s loose just enough to hide my bloated stomach beneath it. I knew that pita bread I ate on my way home, was going to come back and haunt me!

I did my winged eyeliner and mascara, and put-on wine-red lipstick. I check myself in the mirror once again and notice my neck is bare. Wait a minute. I could swear, I had a trail of hickeys on my neck and collar bone this morning. That’s odd. Usually, they take days to heal. I shrug and continue getting ready.

It’s 7.45 pm when I hear a knock on the door. He’s early! I quickly run to open it and the first thing I see is a large bouquet of blood red roses. Oh my god. I love roses!

“Hi beautiful” Elijah says with a grin on his face while lowering the bouquet. “These are for you”

“Hi” I manage to mumble feeling my cheek turn red. “Thank you! I love roses!” I continue and grab on to them.

“I figured” he continues with a grin and looks at my tattoo. D’uhh. It’s obvious.

“Wait just a sec, I’m almost done.” I rush inside to find something to put the roses on. I find a bucket and fill it with water and put them in. I don’t hear the door closing, that’s odd. Didn’t he come in? I return to the door, seeing he’s still waiting outside. I go to him for a hug and a quick kiss on the cheek. As I’m walking back in, he grabs my hand and pulls me back to him.

“You’re not doing that again” he grins putting his hands on my hips and gently squeezing.

“Doing what?” I manage to ask confused when he pulls me in for a kiss. I kiss him back passionately, running my fingers through his hair. My heart starts to flutter rapidly under his touch. His citrusy smell fills my nose and mind. He suddenly stops leaving me flustered and wanting for more.

“That’s better” he says with his famous smile. I feel my cheeks burning red.

“That’s the second kiss you’ve stolen from me.” I manage to say to him quietly.

“Second of many” He winks “You didn’t seem to mind it though.” He smirks again.

I blush and give him a shy smile.

“Let me grab my things.” I say as I go back inside. I quickly put on my black high heels, grab my purse and touch up on my lips. I look outside, the suns already set, so I grab my jean jacket just in case, you never know of this Greek weather. Phone, keys check.

I smile as I see Elijah, still outside of my door, leaning on the wall. As I walk out closing the door, he eyes me from head to toe and whistles.

“You look stunning!” He smiles as he grabs my hand. “Thank you” I blush crimson read. “Where are we going?” I manage to mumble as I feel my cheeks burning up.

“I told you, it’s a surprise. You’ll see when we get there.” I follow him downstairs and out of the door. He runs to his car and opens the door for me. “My lady” he says while holding his hand out.

His car is a matte black Lamborghini, I mean I don´t know a lot of cars, but I do know these babies are not cheap. He’s rich. My mind goes back to Daniel and his mock on Elijah. “His Highness”. I shrug, it was nothing. I think.

I take Elijah’s hand and get inside. The interior is beautiful, it’s all white leather, with white gold details. He climbs in and we take off. I have no idea where we are going, as I’m still new to town. But when we arrive and get out of the car (while Elijah of course opened the door for me) and realized immediately where we were; a carnival.

Elijah grinned at me as he took my hand. He led me to the carnival entrance and bought us tickets.

“So, what do you think?” He asked playfully.

“I think” I smiled as I looked around and back at him “that this is going to be a good first date”

He smiled at me and looked satisfied with my answer. While we walked around, looking for the first ride to go on, my phone started ringing; it was Layla. Bad timing, so I just hung up. Beep, beep, beep, notification after another. I rolled my eyes to silence my phone, but it rang again.

“It’s okay, you can answer.” He said while still holding my hand. “I’m sorry, I’ll tell her to stop.” I replied apologetically.

“Hi Layla, kind of a bad timing. I’ll call you later!” I answered my phone and spat out annoyed.

“What are you doing?” she asked quickly.

“I’m on a date, and we’re about to go on a ride. So, really, I’ll call you later”

“Wait, are you at the carnival? So are we!” She shrieked and I had to hold the phone away from my ear. “We’ll find you!” and with that she hung up the phone.

What just happened? Did she say “so are we”? As in her and Daniel? No... I can’t see him right now, I totally over reacted earlier, and I’m on a date. This isn’t happening... I thought to myself still looking at my phone confused.

“Is everything okay?” Elijah asked squeezing my hand.

“Yeah, it was just my new friend.” I manage to mumble. “Let’s get on this one” I say and lead him towards the ride.

Third person POV

Layla ran through the carnival, holding his hand whilst dragging him along, looking for Dunya and Elijah. They had an important mission; don’t let Dunya and Elijah out of sight and maybe ruin their date. She knew she couldn’t exactly stop their date, but she sure as hell would make it difficult for them.

Dunya and Elijah were holding hands and chatting about random things, they were having fun with each other. Dunya loved carnivals, it was the only place, she had fond memories of from her childhood. Her adoptive mother Maria would take her and her brother Markus, there every time the carnival was in town. It was their special tradition and get away from their boring life.

Elijah bought her cotton candy; it was as if he knew how to read her mind. That’s just it, he could do that, but he didn’t need to. It was written all over her face, when they walked by the booth. She jumped up and down like a little kid with excitement, when he bought the biggest kind. And it was all that he wanted, to make his date happy. It was like his life´s mission; to make her smile.

As soon as Layla saw them, she rushed to her new friend.

“Dunya! There you are! We’ve been looking everywhere for you!” Layla said hugging her.

Dunya felt horrified, they found her, Daniel would see the two of them on a date. Who knows what will he do this time? But where was he? She looked around and felt kind of disappointed as she didn´t see him. All she could see was Layla and a tall handsome man by her side. He was 6’4, muscular, with blond messy hair and was looking at Layla dreamily.

All Dunya could think about was, how come she’s suddenly surrounded by these God like people and wasn´t the God she wanted there.

“Dunya, this is the love of my life Eric.” She introduced them and Layla shook his hand shyly.

“Hi. I’m Dunya and this is Elijah. We’re on a date.” she managed to mumble, emphasizing on the word date to Layla. Elijah and Eric shook hands, keeping a straight face, but both of them looked irked for some reason Dunya couldn´t understand.

“Oh, us too! Eric just came for a visit from the states” Layla says playfully. “We should totally make this a double date! It will be so fun!”

“Umm... If it’s okay with Elijah.” Dunya says carefully looking at Elijah, not wanting to hurt her new friends' feelings, but also hoping Elijah would say that he wants her all to himself. Elijah doesn’t get the chance to say anything, when Layla suddenly grabs Dunya’s other hand and leads her to the next ride. Elijah just follows with a resentful look on his face.

Elijah and Dunya manage to run away from Layla and Eric between rides, but somehow, they manage to find them every time. Luckily most of the rides are two seated, so they can at least enjoy each other's company then.

The only ride left, is the Ferris wheel, and Dunya practically drags Elijah there so they can get on the ride by themselves.

“I’m sorry she barged in like this. I couldn’t say no, she’s been nothing but nice to me” she says apologetically to Elijah. He smiles while dreamily staring at her.

“No need for apologies, I can see you’re a good friend.” he says bringing her hand close to his mouth and kisses it gently, sending shivers down her spine.

“Note to self though, next date, is going to be somewhere more private.” He chuckles.

“So, there’s a next date?” She asks shyly.

“Of course, why wouldn’t there be?” He asks confused. He thought, he’d make it pretty obvious by now that he´s more than interested.

“Just making sure.” She replies with a smile. They’re on the top of the ride and Dunya looks around excitedly, trying to hide her blushing face. “It’s really breath taking up here.” she says while looking over the cart.

“It really is” Elijah replies looking directly at her, making her blush more. He grabs her chin, lifting it up for a kiss and she doesn’t stop him. She wants to enjoy this moment to the fullest. This date was perfect, besides the fact that they were not alone there. She knew she could trust him; he was a gentleman and treating her like a princess.

Their kiss was hot and steamy, Elijah pulled her closer, grabbing her thigh and squeezing it, making Dunya feel shivers all over her body. She didn’t want him to stop, even though she was running out of breath. Elijah was once again, leaving a trail of kisses on her neck, suddenly tensing and stopping there.

She looked at him confused, why did he stop again? He took her hand in his and kissed the back of her hand and gave her a smile. He was being a gentleman, and she appreciated it, even though wanted much more.

After the ride, Dunya went to the bathroom and Layla followed her.

“Are you mad?” Layla asked worriedly.

“No, of course not” Dunya answered with a smile. “Why would I be? We’re having fun.”

“Because we intruded on your date?” she asked.

“Not at all, I mean of course I would’ve liked to have my first date to be, you know, with him alone. But it’s just as fun this way” she answered assuring Layla. “Besides, I’m glad it’s not Danny that’s here with you” she chuckled.

“Oh yeah, he told me about your conversation. He’s really sorry for meddling. It’s just the way he is, superprotective over everyone.” Layla said with a smirk on her face.

“I get that, and I know I over reacted. I just see red, when people don’t think I can handle myself.” Dunya says shyly. “Where is he anyway?”

“He had to go see someone back at the states” Layla says trying to read her new friends' emotions.

“Ohh, a girlfriend?” Dunya asks too eagerly and clearly disappointed. He was gone already. She thought she´d get to see him more.

“No, not a girlfriend.” she smirks. “Why’d you ask?” Layla asks furrowing her brow, almost wiggling it in a suggestive manner.

“No reason, just wondering” Dunya says trying to cover her curiosity.

“He definitely doesn’t have a girlfriend” Layla winks at Dunya, making her blush. “Don’t worry, he’ll be back in few days” she continues.

“No... I don’t care, I’m not worried.” She tries to mumble as Layla walks out of the bathroom grinning.

*

Elijah heard Dunya’s stomach grumble and took her to the food kiosk to buy her something to eat. He didn’t even realize that maybe she would be hungry, he himself doesn´t have to worry about such things. They sat down and he watched as Dunya ate her burger. He had to tell her, that he ate earlier, so she wouldn’t question why he wasn’t eating with her. They went to different game booths and Elijah being the gentleman, won her a fluffy unicorn, the biggest there was.

Layla felt like she failed the mission she set for herself, she tried to intervene as much as she could, but that boy was smooth. Buying her stuff, winning her big prices. At least she got something out of Dunya, she was clearly interested in her big brother.

It was getting late, since they’d been there for 3 hours already. Dunya’s first workday was tomorrow, so, she and Elijah headed back to her place, after saying their goodbyes to Layla and Eric. Elijah drove to the front of the building and looked at her. She looked gorgeous and so happy.

She was sad that the date had to end so quickly, but glad that it was the first of many. Elijah kept staring at her, with his eyes full of lust; Dunya’s dress’s top button had opened accidently, revealing a lace ribbon, going over her breast. He couldn’t control himself any longer, he had to have her.

He pushed his seat backwards and picked her up like she weights nothing, placing her on his lap straddling him. His sudden change of demeanor took her by surprise, but she got on board quickly. He grabbed her hair gently and pulled her close to him, and kissed her with fire in his eyes.

Their tongues twisting, turning and tasting each other, like it was their life’s mission. Dunya could feel his manhood poking her thighs and it sent shivers down her spine. Just by the thought of it, made her panties soak. She ran her fingers through his hair wanting more. He slid his fingers under her dress grabbing and squeezing her thighs as his hand went along. With his other hand, he opened a few more buttons of her dress, revealing her big breasts.

He kissed and licked his way down to them, and squeezed them in his hand, making her moan. She had started to move her hips over his hardened manhood. He wanted her; he would take her right here. She leaned back a little, to make him an easier access to her breasts, and just as he was about to rip her bra, her back hit the steering wheel making the horn honk.

He stopped. He didn’t want their first time to be like this, in a car, where anyone could see them. She shook her head embarrassed and climbed back to her seat, buttoning her dress back up, her breathing hectic.

“I don’t want our first time to be in a car” he managed to mumble looking at her. He was right and she knew it too, but she still felt disappointed.

“Yeah, I know, me neither.” she smiled at him.

After they both calmed down he walked her inside and they said their goodbyes with a hug and a gentle kiss.