*

Emilia spent the whole ride home smiling and buzzing with excitement. The first thing she had done when they got in the car, was ask Cassian to read the slightly smeared number off her breast and save it into her phone.

She had never met anyone like Amy, and Mark was so nice and friendly, and manly. She had been thinking about them all the way back, what they were doing, if they were home already, if Amy was bent over their bed, being spanked by her handsome husband. By the time they got home, her knickers were soaked through and she was more aroused than she’d been in years.

The after party had been exhilarating, she had pushed her boundaries and in doing so she had discovered that this wasn't just about sex. It was about finding an emotional connection, something personal, and she wondered if she might have found that tonight.

Cassian unlocked the front door and pushed it wide, waving his arm theatrically for Emilia to walk through.

‘My lady,’ he said.

Emilia stepped over the threshold and dipped a brief curtsy in Cassian’s direction as he followed her across.

‘Would you care to join me in the bedroom, kind stranger?’ she said.

‘Why certainly, Miss. It would be my pleasure.’

‘Oh, I’m confident the pleasure will be all mine,’ she said and winked.

Cassian ran towards her and she screamed and started up the stairs. He kicked the front door shut and gave chase, running up behind her and through the open bedroom door where he leapt on top of her, pinning her down with his powerful arms.

She looked small beneath him, and so different in her mask. More like a stranger than his wife, and it was turning him on more than he cared to admit.

He kissed her, pinning her arms above her head as he did so, and she writhed in response.

‘Oh sir, please. Let me go, don't have your wicked way with me.’

He shook his head at her, laughing and let go of her arms, sitting back up on the bed.

Concerned and a little frustrated, Emilia propped herself up on her elbows beside him.

‘What’s wrong?’

Cassian looked at her and shrugged. ‘If this doesn’t happen how you want it to, will this be enough?’

‘How we want it to,’ said Emilia. ‘I want you to want this.’

‘I do want this,’ he reached out and placed his hand on top of hers. ‘But I need to know that if it never becomes a reality, that this is good enough.’

Emilia’s eyes grew wide as she looked at him with an incredulous gaze of love and kindness, and nodded her head slowly.

‘Cass, every morning I wake up next to you and I look at you and I think to myself, how did I get this lucky?’

Cassian smiled and squeezed her hand as she continued.

‘It’s like, my heart is full and it’s full because of you, but it’s got room to grow. When people have children, they don’t halve the love they have for their partner to accommodate their child, their heart grows and it gets bigger and bigger, the more you love. That’s how I feel, I want my heart to grow so I can love more, but my heart is already full.’

Cassian looked down then nodded.

‘You are really good at this,’ he said, laughing.

Emilia raised her eyebrows, and smiled. ‘I know, right?’

‘When we were in that room tonight, I wouldn’t have stopped you.’

‘I know,’ said Emilia.

‘And that little blonde girl? She was hot.’