Prologue
A huge celebration was waiting for Monica and Nick at one of the nicest hotel reception halls in Los Angeles. It is their ten year wedding anniversary! Even with all the struggles they went through, they still made it!
After a year of traveling after college, and working at another firm for another year to learn the in’s and out’s of owning a firm, Monica was well adjusted in her architecture firm that she literally built from the ground up! Monica had changed her major three years into college, from archeology to architecture. And, she was still able to start her own firm at a young age.
When Nick graduated college, four years before Monica, he wanted to follow the same steps that Monica had discussed with him while she was still in school. However, when he began at the firm, he signed a ten year contract, with the promise of becoming a partner one day. At the time of Monica and Nick’s anniversary, he had two years left on his contract. Nick tried to get out of the contract, but because he kept winning case after case, the actual partners had decided it was a good idea to keep Nick where he was, winning cases!
After a nice romantic dinner for two, Monica and Nick finally arrive at the reception hall. They walk through the glass double doors to a loud, “SURPRISE!” Everyone they invited, friends and family alike, are there.
While Monica is mingling with the guests, and thanking them for being there, Nick walks up, grabs Monica gently by the arm and leads her to the dance floor. With his arms around Monica’s waist, and her arms around Nick’s neck, they stare happily into each other’s eyes during several slow dances.
Many more dances have gone by before they finally decide it was time for the anniversary cake as well as making toasts to the happy couple.
Nick decides he should go first. As he stands up, tapping the wine glass with silver cutlery, he speaks loudly to the guests. “We want to thank you all for coming to our little shin-dig this evening,” Nick pauses with a laugh as the guests all join in the laughter. “Okay, so, here it goes!” Nick begins again as he gazes at his loving wife, Monica, then back up to the guests. “Monica and I are here with you tonight to celebrate a great and wonderful ten years together, so far!” Nick reaches down to grab Monica’s hand, stands her up next to him, embarrassing Monica, then continues his speech. “I have spent the most wonderful, exciting and very fun ten years with this very special woman, my wife, Monica Rochelle Carlson-De Conti! We started as high school sweethearts, and yes, we may have split up before college, but I knew in my heart that Monica was the woman for me! I knew from the moment I laid eyes on her, that this would be the woman I could spend the rest of my life with! And so far, it’s been true!” Nick laughs as he leans down to Monica’s hand for a kiss, then finishes his speech. “Monica has helped mold me, and build me up to become the man I am today. So, I stand here, with you as my witnesses, and continue to vow my ever-lasting love to this woman, yet again! So, here’s to another ten years, and hopefully many more with the woman of my very dreams! Monica, I love you, cherish everything you are and may the next years be as wonderful and exciting as the past years have been! Monica, I loved you then, I love you now, and I will love you forever! Happy Anniversary my love! Cheers!”
“Cheers!” the crowd shouts in forte.
“Cheers to you, my love! I love you!” Monica tells Nick as she leans up to kiss him as passionately as she had the day they got married.
The following morning, Monica opens her eyes to see that Nick is laying next to her, staring at her with a huge smile on his face. “Un..Nick? Sweetheart? What do you have going on in that brain of yours?”
“Oh, nothing!” Nick replies with a chuckle before saying, “Happy Anniversary again, my love!” The smile on Nick’s face grew more as the words came out of his mouth. “And, I was thinking!” He leans toward Monica, softly kissing her shoulder, down her arm, then back up.
Monica’s head goes back, with the thought that Nick is starting their morning off right, “Oh, and what is it that you’re thinking about!” She breathes deep, as he continues kissing every visible inch of her skin. Monica finds herself wrapping her arms around Nick, inviting him to continue what he is doing. Feeling Nick’s hands slowly moving up and down her body, gently. Then feeling his lips softly moving from her shoulder to her breast as his hand moves up her body, enticing her with every touch. “Baby….what are you doing?” Monica asks him, feeling breathless with Nick’s mouth suddenly wrapping around her breast, sucking hard, then soft. Then, Nick’s tongue moves slowly around her nipple, teasing slightly.
“Baby,” Nick whispers, “can I?”
Breathing heavily, Monica asks in return, “can you what?”
Nick slowly moves himself on top of Monica as he whispers again, “can I make love to you, please!”
Without hesitation, Monica moans out the words, “YES, please!”
Later that same evening, after hours of making love to his wife, Nick walks up behind Monica in the kitchen, lays his hands gently on her shoulders, leans in to kiss her soft skin, then asks, “Baby, why don’t you meet me for lunch tomorrow? Let’s say, around 11:30?”
Monica turns to face Nick, wraps her arms around him and answers, “We haven’t done that in a long time!” She leans up to kiss him while his hands are moving up and down her body again.
“No, we haven’t! And, I really think it’s high time we start doing it again! What do you say?” Nick questions as he leans into Monica’s neck to kiss her softly and delicately. “I’ve missed our lunches, haven’t you?” Nick whispers as he continues to kiss her down her neck, slightly moving her top off her shoulder.
As Monica’s head rolls back from Nick’s delicate touch, she whispers with deep breaths in return, “Yeah, it has been a long time!” She pulls her head forward to kiss Nick hard, wanting more of what he gave her earlier that day.
As Nick’s lips still brush across Monica’s skin, his breath becomes heavy, as though he wants to pick her up to the counter and shove himself inside of her again. But, he whispers heavily, “so, what do you think? Lunch, tomorrow?”
“Yes!” Monica breathes out heavily as she jumps onto his waist.
After feeling Monica’s legs wrap around his waist, he sits her on the counter, pulling her panties off from under her long t-shirt then tosses them across the kitchen. Nick thrusts himself inside of Monica while his hands are all over her body and his lips are pressed passionately to hers. He can’t help himself but to pound into her over and over as he moves his lips from hers down to her neck, then kisses his way down between her breasts. Then, with more thrusting inside of her, he wraps his mouth around her breast once again and sucks so hard, he hears Monica groan.
“OH, yes, Baby, YES! Please…don’t…stop!” Monica’s breaths come out loud and erratic, feeling her ecstasy rise from the feel of him inside of her. She felt the motion of him moving in and out of her, first slow, then hard, over and over! “She screams out, “YES! Don’t stop!”
Nick loves hearing the screams from his wife. The louder she screams for him, the harder he wants to shove himself inside of her. The faster he moves inside of her, the more he wants to holler for her, “Oh, Monica! Yes, take me in, take all of me in!” With his final thrust inside of her, he feels her climax at the same time as he is. “Oh..Monica!” Nick’s breaths slow after emptying himself inside of her.
After Nick pulls himself out of Monica and pulls his pants back up, he smiles at his wife with admiration. “So, does this mean we are on for lunch tomorrow?” Nick finishes his question with a chuckle.
“Oh, I really hate it when you do that to me! Anything to get me to agree with you, huh?” Monica laughs as she slaps Nick in the shoulder playfully. “Yeah, we’re on for lunch tomorrow! I’ll let my assistant know to move a couple meetings since my afternoon is clear.”
As Nick clinches his shoulder from Monica’s slaps, his laughter becomes loud as he grabs her around the waist to simply kiss her. “Not to just get what I want, I love making love to you! You know that! I remember a time when we couldn’t keep our hands off each other!”
Monica pulls away from Nick, walks toward the bedroom, giving Nick that look of enticement once again. “Yeah, I remember those days, most definitely!” When she sees Nick narrowing his eyes to her, she walks faster toward the bedroom, inviting him to chase her.
“Hey, I’m not done talking to you!” Nick shouts out.
“Really? Well, I guess you know where to find me! Now, don’t you?” Monica laughs out as she gets into the bedroom and jumps on the bed, waiting for Nick to come in behind her.
As Nick steps into the bedroom, he sees that Monica is laying on the bed with her t-shirt hiked up to just below her breasts, wearing no panties. “Oh, now that’s how it’s gonna be, is it?” Nick climbs on the bed after dropping his pants to the floor. “I like this!” He breathes out heavily as he slowly pushes himself inside of her, yet again!
The following afternoon, Monica finishes up with a meeting with her investors when she realizes the time. “Oh shit! I’m gonna be late for lunch with Nick!” Monica steps out of her office to her assistant, “Hey Carly, can you please text my husband and let him know I am on my way!”
Without a word from Carly, she grabs her phone and begins to text Nick.
Due to the lunch rush, it takes Monica thirty-five minutes to get from her office to Nick’s office, clear on the other side of the city. Once she finally reaches the parking garage at Nick’s office, she is really glad that his building offers valet parking. She pulls up to the valet, rushes to get out of the car, and realizes they know her when they tell her, “Good afternoon, Mrs. De Conti!”
Monica smiles at the valet and rushes to the elevator. Nick’s office is on the fifteenth floor, so it stops at every floor before finally reaching Nick’s. Once the elevator stops, she steps out, feeling out of breath, and sees Nick standing ahead of her talking to a couple people. “Hi baby, are you ready for lunch?”
“Oh, Monica, there you are! Baby, you know Steve and Travis!” Nick begins as he moves his hand from person to person, “and this,” Nick’s hand slaps down on someone’s shoulder, “this is Sam! Sam, this is my wife, Monica!” Nick leans down to kiss her as his arm squeezes around her.
Monica greets Sam with a smile as she reaches her hand out to him, “Hi Sam! It’s nice to meet you!” Monica notices that Sam is looking at her with puzzled eyes.
“It’s nice to meet you as well…” Sam starts hesitantly. With confusion he says, “can I ask you a question?”
With a smile on her face, Monica replies, “of course!”
As Sam’s hand is on his chin, he questions, “have we met before? I only ask because you look like someone I met briefly back home, a long time ago!”
Monica did not see anything familiar about Sam, so she answered simply, “no, I don’t think so! Where are you from?”
As Sam places his hand into his pocket of his black pin-striped slacks, a smile grows on his face as he replies. “Oh, Miami! I could really swear that we’ve met before!”
Monica lets out a chuckle before she explains, “Oh, no, I haven’t been to Miami in…oh…I would say fifteen years. My friends and I used to vacation there during Spring Break, but not anymore! Sorry!” She looks up at Nick and places her hand to his chest, “Baby, are you ready?”
As Sam snaps his fingers quickly, he snaps out. “That’s it! It was Spring Break of 2000….no…2007, right? You and three of your friends! I was the one that explained about Club Myth, remember?”
Monica’s face froze as her jaw dropped slowly, “Wait…What?” Monica waits for Sam to repeat himself, when she realizes exactly who Sam is. “Hotel lobby Sam….that Sam!” Monica utters out with a panic. Tears start rolling down Monica’s face as memories flashback before her eyes. Her purse drops to the floor before she runs to the bathroom and begins sobbing incessantly!
