“Sanmi, please I need a room!” The man said urgently to the guy at the counter after scanning the faces of the people who are inside. The guy tossed him a key urgently with a raised brow.
“I will explain later, Let’s go,” he said to Tanya then turned back to the guy who was looking at her curiously “I am not here, Sanmi,” he said to the guy meaningfully.
The guy nodded without a sound, giving Tanya a respectful nod.
The room was a simple one according to Tanya’s standards. It was a far fetch from what her management team would have ever thought of getting for her. It consists of a bed, a table and a chair and a cable tv set up facing the bed. The toilet/slash bathroom door was open and Tanya could see how small it looked.
“Two people would need to stand or walk sideways in there for them to fit or crawl in fact,” she thought in amusement as she envisioned someone crawling on the probably grimy floor just so.
Tanya sat heavily on the chair as she thought of what had just happened. Something she wouldn’t have thought would happen to her when she woke up that morning.
“Today had been the day for the unexpected, from Martinez’s betrayal to this,” she said to herself as she remembered what had made her be at the spot where he had met her earlier. “I can’t believe I almost got killed” she muttered to herself then she looked up at the guy, who was looking down at the street from the window, standing sideways so as not to be visible from the street in case someone was monitoring him as well.
“I almost got killed because of a stranger today, someone I do not even know. My God!” She rubbed her hands over her face. “Do you think they are still after us? Could they have given up and gone back to….” She flung her hands. “To whatever it was that criminals do when they are not terrorizing people and making living a hell”
“I am sure they wouldn’t stop for a while but let’s just hope they didn’t discover this place ″ the guy said matter-of-factly without looking back at her.
Her panic kicked in again “You me…you mean they can still discover us here? You mean we can still be dead by morning? That I can still be dead by this time tomorrow? ″ she struggled for breath as her panic increased.
“Well…. let’s just…” he looked back as he heard a thump behind him and he rushed to her as he saw that her eyes had rolled back in her head and she was struggling to breathe.
“Hey, hey,” he said, taking her face in his hands. He looked deeply into her widened eyes.
“Hey, breathe, breathe, there you go. Slow does it” he crooned to her.
“I..I..ca…I can’t die now, I can’t” she started hyperventilating.
He has no experience with hysterics in females and he thought of what he could do to distract her mind from the impending danger as the only other thing he tried to avoid more than he avoids female hysterics was having a female faint at his feet. And she very much seemed like she would do that if he didn’t think fast about a way to diffuse the situation, as hard as he thought only one thing came to mind that he felt could use to distract her.
He kissed her!
Tanya’s eyes flew open as she felt electricity go through her from the fusion of their lips to her tingling toes. Her heart rate decreased and then increased again for a different reason.
She trailed her hands up his arms, to his neck, and then to his shoulder, and then she held his face as she moved back from the kiss. Her eyes trained on his bobbing Adam’s apple.
He looked shaken by the kids as well as he looked away from her “Listen, I know I shouldn’t have done that. I am…”
“What is your name?” Tanya whispered.
“What?”
“I should at least know the name of the man I would probably die with, don’t you think? I am Tanya. I would shake your hand but mine is not so steady right now, my whole system isn’t”
“Tanya. That is a beautiful name” he said after giving her a long look. “I am Ayo, Ayodele”
“Hi, Ayodele, be sincere with me, okay? Who were those men chasing you tonight? Chasing us, I should say. Are you a criminal that I should beware of or an unsavoury character?”
He smiled cynically “Would you believe me if I said I am not?”
Ayodele felt like her look was penetrating his soul, so direct and full of meaning as it was when she muttered “I would believe you because I knew that you wouldn’t lie to me right now”
Ayodele sobered up and his eyes glistened as he remembered what he had seen that night. “No, I am not a criminal. I just witnessed my friend being murdered tonight, that happened to be my crime” he stated, humbled by the compassion and grief in her eyes for someone she doesn’t even know. He shrugged like it didn’t matter so she would stop looking so sad but he was unaware that the tears in his eyes were increasing.
“Men,” she thought “When will they learn that tears are not demeaning?”
Ayodele wanted to hide his face from her as he felt a tear plop on his face then another, then another but she wouldn’t allow him.
“Don’t hide from me, Ayo, You love him, what is there to be ashamed of in that?” Tanya said as she proceeded to do something her family, her friends, her fiance, and her teams would never have believed that she could do in a million years.
She dragged his face back to hers, kissing him soundly. Pushing her tongue into his mouth as she tore at his shirt.
“Whoa! Whoa! Hold on a sec” Ayodele protested and moved back a bit to clear his head as he looked at her eyes and saw a frenzied look in her eyes. She didn’t let him go. She seemed like someone who needed a kind of validation “Are you sure about this?” He asked.
“Why not, we’d probably be dead soon anyway” Tanya tried to reply flippantly but her voice caught on the last statement.
She looked into his eyes determinedly “Have sex with me. Make me forget about it all. Make me feel alive this moment”
"Wow! What is this? What is going on?" Ayodele thought fleetingly as the bundle of energy in his arms came on to him with fervour. Ayo had always prided himself as a man's man through and he wasn't about to complain about his luck.It wasn't every day that a man goes from narrowly escaping death to ending up in the arms of a crazily beautiful woman, all in the space of an hour.He was bowled over with the hint of desperation in the way she was tearing at him yet he matched her fervour without backing down. Buttons flew as they tried to get a better hold of each other.They rolled on the bed, one trying to take control and the other not seceding. The temperature in the room heightened and the staccato whirring from the ceiling fan was barely sufficient as steam rises off them.Ayodele swore as his tight belt made it impossible for her to unbutton his fly. He sat up, capturing her mouth in a steaming kiss as he hurriedly unbuckled his belt.Tanya packed back her hair away from her face
He moved to the sink to fill the glass."Well, I hate to put anything to waste. Anything at all, especially when that thing could be useful," she said, licking her lips like she was tasting it."Damn, you really would enjoy that, won't you?" He said as he moved back to the bed to offer her the water."Hmmm hmmm," she purred. Looking at him seductively from beneath her lashes as she stretched her hands slowly to take the glass from him."You are thirsty, ain't you? He asked."You bet, very thirsty" she replied with a hot look that made Ayo almost lose it."We have to get some water in you then"He moved the water out of her reach and drank it, keeping some in his mouth as he climbed the bed. He captured her mouth in his, slowly trickling the water into her mouth.Tanya felt like she would explode. She had no idea that a man could ever make her feel like this. She moaned into his mouth as the water that had been warmed from his mouth made her feel like she is taking him in her mouth "I
Ayodele growled silently “Damn, she just had to say it,” he thought as his anger rose and he flung his hands as he faced her again. “A quick fuck? That was what I was? Wow, how nice of you, empress, to choose me, this peasant for this amazing task” he said sarcastically. “Are you satisfied with my performance or you would like a recap while you think of the man you are about to work down the aisle with, in fact, why don’t we extend this arrangement to after your wedding too? I mean, a woman with your appetite wouldn’t be satisfied with an impotent man in her bed” he said, deliberately being mean to cover the hurt he felt growing in him at that moment. She looked at him like he was crazy “Who said anything about him being impotent?” Then she laughed in a demeaning manner, at least that was how she sounded to him as she turned to face him forgetting that she was still totally naked all the way down except for her bra which she had put on or maybe she just didn’t care. “Awwn, poor Ayo
“Are you really at this moment comparing my stamina to that of your hubby-to-be? Madam? And as far as I can remember, it seemed like you found me lacking too” he repeated, trailing his hands down her arms, then he repeated the routine slowly, diverting her attention from his hands as he kissed her sensitive ear lobe. He palmed her breast so suddenly that she gasped. “I am not….aargh…comparing anything. Definitely……..hmm…...not finding you lacking in any way” she arched her back into him as his bulge thickened and she could feel it nudging her ass. “Your stamina is…..eerr..nice enough” He gave a short laugh “And the insult continues. Nice enough? Should I show you again just how nice enough my stamina could be then?” He turned her swiftly to face him and the ferocious look she saw in his eyes made her breath back up. She remembered vaguely hearing somewhere that a man felt threatened when their prowess is underestimated and they just want to prove themselves. This sure could be noth
Ayo collapsed on her and he felt her body shaking violently. At first, he thought it was from her orgasm but then the shaking continued. He rolled off her on his back, staring at the ceiling for a while to get his strength back. “That….that…was beyond nice,” he said to her but she didn’t respond. He looked sideways at her and saw that her body was still shaking. “Tanya?” No response He rose on his elbow and turned her over with his other hand. She was crying! “What happened? Tanya. Did I hurt you? I am so sorry. Was I too rough with you?” He asked anxiously. She looked up at the compassion in his eyes and her tears increased as she started sobbing more loudly. Ayo gathered her in his arms rocking her as she seemed to want to compose herself yet the tears kept coming. He kissed her forehead, her cheeks, then her nose as he rocked her with worry on his face as she continued crying like she had a lot bottled inside. “I am so sorry, I am sorry” he repeated as he rocked her gentl
Tanya quickly opened the door forgetting her almost naked state. She ran to him, fluttering her hands around his face. "Oh, my God! Oh my, I am so sorry. I wasn't expecting you there. I. Oh God, your head!" She patted his face and his head. The pain that exploded in Ayodele's head made him remember the cartoonish stars that rotate around Tom's head in Tom and Jerry's cartoon movies that his cousin loved so much. He closed his eyes to steady himself as he gingerly touched the side of his head to check if blood was coming out or not. The way he felt at the moment made it seem like the head had split into two. "Damn," he thought when he removed his hand from his head and he saw a little blood on his hand. Nothing to worry about though but he couldn't help but be amused at the way Tanya's eyes widened when she saw the red moisture on his hand. "Oh, my. You are bleeding" she exclaimed. He wanted to tell her that it was nothing to worry about but then he thought of how this could work
Princess Tanya Darlington had never been good with bearing her thoughts to others as she had come to realize earlier in her life that most people don’t care anyway. The majority of them are just looking for the tidbit they can get about her just so they could trend online or so they could brag among their friends that they know her or something they could use against her in the future. So she had learned to be very guarded about what she said to others. To filter her words before uttering them and to check and recheck every action internally before doing it in public or anybody’s presence. Stressful it might seem to others but that was the norm for Tanya. She had gotten so used to it that she doesn’t give it much thought. Just as the moon and the stars are, That was how constant the realization had been in her mind that nobody would know what she doesn’t want them to know. She had thought of and believed in having a soulmate. Someone you could share everything with, who wouldn’t ju
She had been so furious and believed there was nothing anyone could tell her to make her go back on her decision. She had also realized just how less efficient she had become in managing her own life and going through the motions every other person goes through. She gave up trying to call a cab after hailing the first two, one of whom asked for her autograph and proceeded to tell her how he had been a die-hard fan and how she was his fantasy woman. She had told him to leave and ran back to Martinez’s street, the latter still nowhere in sight. The other had asked her outright if she would like him to show her a good time. She had given up and had to call her manager at the end of the day to call her driver when she realized that she didn’t even have her driver’s number. Her manager had always dealt with that part. “So much for a day free of whites, managers, and cameras,” she thought to herself as her silent driver whisked her to her residence at her insistence that he drove fast.