Love’n’Lust

Jenna’s wedding reception.

Jenna was sitting beside Jason, her husband while they chatted and giggled with each other on the stage set for the newly married couple.

Belle watched them been happy with each other and an unconscious smile appeared on her lips. Meanwhile Ben stared at her from where he sat far from her. They couldn’t sit together. Alex had come up with the idea that all of Jenna’s bridesmaids have a special seat near the stage and everyone agreed.

Belle was talking with one of her fellow bridesmaids when Randy came and squatted next to her.

“Ma’am,” Belle turned in her seat when she heard him.”Mr Larkson wants you to join him at his table.”

“What? Is that why he sent you?”

“Yes ma’am.”

“Tell him that I can’t come join him at his table!” She whispered loudly.

“…” Randy paused for a while before talking.”Ma’am, he asked me not to leave this place till you stand up to come meet him.”

“He said that?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

Belle looked in his direction and got a smile from him but she only rolled her eyes and took out her phone.

“We talked about this before now, didn’t we? I can’t sit with you!” she texted him, hoping he didn’t stubbornly ignore it.

“Should I come to you?”His reply had her looking at her phone and him from time to time.

“If you do that, everyone here would know about me and you.”

“Let them know then. I want that.” she looked up from her phone after reading his last reply. Giving herself a facepalm, she stood up from where she sat.

“Tell your boss to meet me outside the hall,” she told Randy who smiled victoriously.

While standing with her hands folded, Zina stared at her from a corner and thought she looked pretty in her peach-coloured flowing dress. She wanted to go to her and compliment her but saw Ben hug her from behind so she stayed back.

“My beautiful…” Ben kissed Belle behind her neck after he hugged her.

“I can’t believe you tonight, Ben.” She turned to him with a false frown.”What did I tell you some days ago? I’m supposed to be seated together with the other bridesmaids.”

“Don’t worry, Jenna wouldn’t mind that I stole you away. The MC was about to make them play some games.” Belle rolled her eyes for the hundredth time after he gave an excuse.

“So, you really can’t stay for some time without having me around?”

“I can’t believe myself either,” he chuckled at his own situation. Belle would have never believed it if she was told earlier that he could be this clingy. Just some time ago,  he would never accept to be in love but here he was longing to be with her.

“Well,” Belle bit her lips and brought her face to his. He didn’t miss his chance to kiss her swiftly. He heard her giggle.

“I want to kiss other places too, not just your lips.” He kissed her again, lifting her like a baby.

“Ben,” she gasped then laughed after.”What are you doing?”

“I want to take you somewhere,” he started towards the darker part of the wide field with her legs crossed around his waist; it was where some cars were parked because the parking spaces were full. More guests came that arranged for.

Zina wanted to follow them but then stopped. ‘He is with her, I guess I can take a break now.’ she told herself and went back into the event hall.

Ben made her sit on the decklid of a car’s boot. Pushing the lengthy dress all the way up to her thighs and pulling her closer to himself as he stood in between her legs, he planned to kiss her but she did it first. Holding his face with her fingers at the back of his neck, she kissed him more.

“Your lips are sweet like honey,” he praised.

“So, you like honey? I didn’t know that.” She laughed softly.

“Not very much, but I love your lips,” he gripped on her thighs, “And I love you.” He added and saw her smile which he had become addicted to.

“Why do you sound like you are drunk, are you?” Belle noticed how he dragged on his words.

“No, I’m not. Drunk in love maybe, but not from alcohol. I dare not be, not tonight.” His reply wasn’t very clear to her when he said it but she would understand later in the night.

His hands didn’t stop resting on her thighs till he wanted to take her hand in his. Rubbing on her knuckles, he smiled to himself calmly.

“What?” Belle had to ask. He lifted her right hand and kissed it first before lifting the left.

“I’m just thinking to myself how beautiful my ring will be on your finger.”

“Your ring? Did you get me a ring?” She asked clueless of what he planned to do.

“If I did, would you let me put it on your finger? This finger?” Ben’s heart started to throb beyond his control. What he was feeling, he hadn’t felt in years. The last time fear and anxiety took over him was the day his father introduced him to the board of the company he inherited.

He had feared that one of them might object to him taking over the company someday because they knew he was not legitimately his father’s son till his birth mother signed some papers. But none of that happened. Now, he was the most feared among the board members.Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

Years passed and that familiar feeling was back but even more intense. He was scared that she would say ‘no’ to him. He had been planning it all for a long time before he ever admitted his love for her.

“Hold on, Ben…” It now occurred to her that he was talking of her ring finger when he asked ‘this finger’, “O my god, is this a proposal? Are you proposing to me right now?” She started to blink repeatedly.

“No,” he let go of her hand and moved back some little distance before going on one knee.”Now, I’m proposing to you.”

“Will you be my wife?” Belle snorted sharply as her first reaction and it made him hold his breath.

“O my god, Ben.” She cursed with the said phrase in honest disbelief.”You just proposed, am I still seated inside the hall hallucinating?”

“No, you are not.” He licked his lips in an attempt to calm his heavy breathing but it didn’t help.

Belle took in a deep breath herself and after closing her eyes and opening them, she saw that he was still down on one knee in front of her. She laughed when she proved to herself that she wasn’t imagining things. It turned to tears in seconds. She bit her lips and inhaled one more time before speaking.

“Yes Ben, I’ll be your wife.” She told him and saw a wide grin break across his face in happiness.

He got up from his kneeling position and returned to where she still sat on the decklid of the car’s boot. Taking her left hand, he gently slid the ring into her fourth finger and kissed it afterward. Belle smiled with some tears still in her eyes. He kissed the back of her palm after her fingers, then went up her arm as she giggled. He kissed her neck briefly before lifting her face to his and placing a peck on her lips. After that, he hugged her; his arms around her waist, and he whispered to her left ear:

“Thank you.”

“Thank you? What for?”

“For saying yes. You have no idea how tensed I was just seconds ago.” Belle laughed out loud when he told her that.

“I noticed it,” she bit her lips and let her laughter calm down to a light chuckle.”What would you have done, if I had said no to you?”

She heard him exhale loudly before breaking their hug. He opened his mouth to speak but his words didn’t come quick.

“I honestly don’t know,” he laughed at himself.”I don’t know what I would have done but I know getting a no from you would have killed me…”

“So, you are telling me that I saved your life. Is that what you are saying?” Belle joked and laughed again till something else came to her mind.

“Is this one of the cars we came in?” She and but Ben shook his head.

“So what are we doing here then? What if the owner comes here for something, huh?”

“No one’s going to come,” he kissed her cleavage, then her neck. It made her tilt her head backward in pleasure.

Since she agreed to be one of Jenna’s bridesmaids, they haven’t had much time to spend together. With his lips caressing all over her upper body, from her shoulders to her breasts through the dress, Belle kept on exhaling intensely to his every touch.

Suddenly, Ben’s phone rang from one of his pockets but he ignored it at first. All he wanted was Belle, his whole being at the moment was inebriated by his want for her.

“Take it, Ben.” She stopped him from kissing her again.

“It can wait,” That was his reply.

“Ben, don’t be stubborn. Take it, and after that, we can go somewhere more secluded.”

He didn’t listen, he just continued with what he was doing till the phone stopped ringing. Belle didn’t mind if he fucked her there now, as long as the person didn’t call again, she would let him because then she would know that it wasn’t for an important reason that he was called.

He kissed her again. Belle felt his tongue play with hers in her mouth. It felt slightly chilly since they were outside but he was making her warm with his kiss. The moment felt so good, his kiss and touch making her want him to rip off all she was wearing. It was ruined when his phone rang again. Belle broke their liplock with an accompanying groan.

“The call’s coming again, take it so we can go.” She got impatient because he had just made her want him inside her badly but yet wasn’t giving himself to her.

Taking out his phone, he slid his fingers on the screen, placing it before his ear without checking to see who it was because it was his private line so it was either Zina or Randy, or maybe Jenna, but he knew it couldn’t be her, she wasn’t with her phone at the moment, so who?