Post by Admin on May 29, 2015 15:59:33 GMT -5
Sunday Night
David looked at Maddie with accusing eyes. “I repeat, why the hell would the Space Cowboy be sending you flowers?” David was filled with icy anger and red hot jealousy. The thought that Maddie was still in touch with that arrogant bastard, Sam Crawford made him feel like a fool. In his mind’s eye David saw himself wiping the smug look off the astronaut’s handsome face with a wicked left hook. He willed himself to calm down and hear Maddie’s answer before he jumped to conclusions.
Maddie didn’t have an answer. She was as surprised as David to see Sam’s signature on the card that had come with the flowers. The last time she had seen Sam was when she had dropped him off at her house the night that she had first been intimate with David. She hadn’t heard from him since. Oh she remembered the note Sam had left with David which had annoyed her at the time. Why hadn’t he been man enough to tell her goodbye in person? But in the week that followed she hadn’t given Sam another thought – and now he sends flowers? “I have no idea.” She admitted staring at the card in her hand.
David ran his hands through his hair. He shook his head and stared at her with green ice chips. “What do you mean you don’t know?!” David’s voice was tight with anger. “You must have some idea.”
Maddie shrugged her shoulders which irritated David. Then his heart almost stopped. “Wait! Don’t tell me you’ve still been in talking with Buck Rogers since we’ve been doing – what we’ve been doing?” David’s hands were moving around in agitation. David was pacing back and forth as he interrogated Maddie.
Maddie shook her head. “No David I haven’t heard from him.” She told him truthfully.
David continued to pace around her foyer. “Well, I don’t understand. Why would he send you flowers out of the blue?”
She was getting annoyed with David’s grilling. “Maybe the same reason that he showed up at my house out of the blue.” Her voice was tinged with annoyance.
Another horrible thought raced through David’s jealous mind. “Maybe he’s still waiting for your answer!” David stared at her with reproachful eyes.
That thought had just entered Maddie’s mind at the same time that David had said it. She had never given Sam a definite answer about marrying him although from the tone of the note he had left with David it seemed he surmised that ‘yes’ wasn’t her answer; but maybe he needed to hear it from her lips. Maddie had no qualms about telling Sam to his face that she didn’t want to be his wife. Actually, since they had known each other for most of their lives she thought that telling him in person and explaining why she couldn’t marry him was the right thing to do. “Maybe.” Maddie admitted as she pushed a tendril of hair off her face.
“Maybe?” David roared stopping short, gazing at Maddie as if she had just sprouted horns, “is that all you can say?!” Maybe she was considering marrying Sam. David knew she had never given Sam a definite no for an answer. He felt his blood turn to ice.
Maddie narrowed her eyes in annoyance. “What do you want me to say Addison? I don’t know why he sent me flowers.” She looked pointedly at David who was standing with his accusing eyes and his jaw taut with anger; Maddie started to feel irritated toward him. Did he care that it was a man sending her flowers or that it was Sam sending her flowers; there seemed to be a competition between the two men with her as their trophy prize; at least Sam had put his cards on the table by proposing but David hadn’t even put himself in the game. How dare he interrogate her! “And why is it any of your concern who sends me flowers?” She lifted her chin, “or if I’ve talked with Sam?” There David the ball is in your court again. Tell me how you feel about me! Tell me that you’re jealous and that you love me! David had never admitted to her how he felt about her and in Maddie’s eyes he had never fought for her when it came to Sam. Maddie remembered that day in her office when she had almost begged him to tell her how he felt – and he hadn’t said a word. And then that night she had found David in her bed and one thing had led to another – and she still wasn’t sure of his feelings even after David had mumbled a quick “I love you.” as he entered her for the first time. But since then he hadn’t said a word about his feelings toward her or what he wanted out of this relationship. But Maddie needed to hear how he felt from his lips. Tell me David! She inwardly begged him. Maddie repeated her question. “Why is it your concern David?”
David looked at her with green glaciers. “Oh right. Guess this is none of my damn business too.” He remembered how Maddie had told him that it was none of his business when he had found out that Sam had proposed to her. Rage and hurt coursed through his body.
“Maybe you can make it your business.” She threw out but David didn’t hear her with the fury drumming in his ears.
“Sure slumming with a jerk like me is fine but Sam is the man you’re supposed to be with.” David was filled with hurt and disgust that he had actually thought she had admitted that she loved him. Maddie Hayes thought she was too good for a guy like him.
Maddie looked at David with sadness. He still wouldn’t tell her how he felt. She was suddenly filled with exhaustion over the charade that their relationship was. David wanted her to tell him everything while he admitted nothing. Maybe they weren’t meant to be together. This was much too hard for her. “Go home David.” Her voice was filled with resignation.
David’s ears roared with fury. “Oh sure guess maybe Sam’s coming over to finish what he didn’t finish that night!” He sneered nastily. “But bet he can’t make you come like I can. Can he?”
“You are vile!” Maddie told him as she put her two hands on his chest and began to push him toward the door. “You disgust me! You’re despicable! Get dressed and get out!”
David grabbed her hands and held them over her head. “Maybe I don’t want to go home.” He told her as he pushed her against the door, “maybe I’m not finished with you yet.” Suddenly, David needed to be inside of her. He needed to stake his claim and the only way he could think of doing it was with his lovemaking.
Maddie struggled against David’s grip but he was too strong for her, he pressed her against the door with his body still holding her hands over her head. “But I’m finished with you!” Maddie spat out. “And no it isn’t any of your business who sends me flowers. Go home.”
“You really are a bitch.” David’s voice was filled with wrath. And just a short time ago David had been convinced she was admitting that she was in love with him. He pushed that thought out of his head.
“And you really are a bastard.” Her eyes were blue orbs of anger. David loosened his grip on her arms and Maddie pulled free and quickly moved away from him. Suddenly, she was filled with disdain for David and for everything he wouldn’t say or maybe didn’t feel.
“Yeah fine. Go with the spaceman. He’s the kind of man you are supposed to be with anyway.” David threw out as he headed for the stairs to retrieve his clothes. His ardor had faded quickly; now he just wanted to get as far away from Maddie as possible.
She wanted to hurt him as much as he was hurting her with his silence. “Maybe I should say yes to Sam.” She yelled up the stairs after David.
A few seconds later David came back down pulling on his shirt and zippering his jeans. He glared at Maddie with green ice. “Yeah maybe you should.” He muttered as he slammed out of the house. Let her go with Sam. Those two posters deserved each other!
Maddie heard the car roar off down the road; she wrapped her arms around herherself trying to bring some warmth to her icy cold body. Morosely, she headed to the sofa where she pulled her feet under her and wrapped a blanket around her body as tears fell down her cheeks.
*****
Monday
The following day David was out of the office with Bert doing leg work and following up on various cases that the agency was working on. David and Maddie were giving Bert Viola more and more opportunities to work in the field as a detective and the short man was over the moon. Just being out in the field with Mr. Addison was heaven for him. Although David was giving him mostly one word answers to his questions that didn’t deter Bert who prattled on most of the day. David barely heard what Viola was saying his mind was on Maddie and Sam Crawford but he had chosen to be out in the field so he wouldn’t have to see Maddie and say things he might regret. He was hoping to calm down before he laid his eyes on her again.
******
Maddie knew that David had accompanied Bert out in the field so he wouldn’t have to see her. She was still hurt and angry but she missed seeing David and wanted to talk to him. Maybe she had been wrong to get upset with him over his reaction to the flowers. Was she wrong to want David to tell her how he felt about her? She wasn’t a mind reader and she needed to know where she stood with him and where their relationship was going. Maddie’s thoughts were interrupted by the ringing of the telephone. Agnes was at lunch so the phones rang directly into Maddie’s office. She picked up the phone with her mind still on David and for a second she didn’t recognize the voice of the caller.
“Maddie.”
“Sam.”
*****
All day long while David was out with Viola he couldn’t keep his mind on business. All he could see was Maddie’s eyes staring at him with hurt and anger. Maybe he had been wrong to accuse her of wanting to be with Sam but he had been so consumed by hurt and jealousy that he hadn’t even realized the words that had poured out of his mouth. The entire night after he had left Maddie he had tossed and turned and regretted leaving her but when he had finally woken up this morning after a couple of hours of sleep he didn’t want to face Maddie and perhaps hear her admit that she wanted Sam Crawford. His head told him that Maddie wanted nothing to do with Sam but his vulnerable heart wasn’t so sure. But now as he walked into Blue Moon he had made a decision. He was going to lay his heart on the line and tell Maddie how he felt – that he loved her with all his heart and that the thought of her with Sam or any other man made him see red with jealousy. He only hoped that she felt some shard of love for him. He remembered how she had cried out that she loved him in the heat of passion. Did she mean what she had said?? Deep down David believed that Maddie did love him but he wasn’t sure if she would allow herself to go with her emotions. But one way or the other David knew that it was time for him to be a man. He heard the words of the blonde in the jail cell from a couple of weeks ago - “Tell her you love her…” and this time he would.
Maddie had waited for David all day but now she was leaving to meet Sam for dinner. She hated to go out with Sam without telling David – she felt like she was doing something sneaky but since she had no way to reach David she would have to tell him after the fact. She had just picked up her purse and was heading to the door to leave when David whirled into her office like a tornado.
He smiled at her sheepishly. “I’m sorry Maddie.” He ruffled his hair. “I was wrong to say those things to you last night.” David shook his head. “I guess I was just jealous.”
Maddie was nervous. She didn’t want to fight with David but instinctively she knew that he wasn’t going to be happy when he discovered she was meeting Sam for dinner. She stood up. “You have nothing to be jealous of David.” Maddie told him sincerely, “Sam is just a friend.”
The words fell out of David’s mouth before he could stop them. “A man who you slept with and who asked you to marry him?” David raised his eyebrows. “I think that is more than a friend Maddie.”
“I’ve known Sam most of my life.” Maddie tried to explain. “You wouldn’t understand.”
Oh David thought he understood very well what Sam Crawford was up to but Maddie seemed blind to the spaceman’s plastic face. David didn’t want to fight with her so he just nodded. “Ok.” He decided to put Sam out of his mind. “So you ready to go?” David nodded to the purse Maddie had under her arm.
Maddie knew she was going to have to tell David of her plans. “I’m having dinner tonight.”
“Ok.” David nodded again. “I can eat. Where do you want to go?” He loosened his tie which made Maddie’s heart flutter. “Anywhere special?”
Sometimes that man was so thick Maddie fumed inwardly. “I have plans.” She admitted cautiously.
“Plans?” David was confused.
“I’m having dinner with him tonight.” Maddie blurted out as her fingers gripped her purse so tightly it almost hurt.
“With who?” David was momentarily confused.
“Sam.” She told him flatly. “I’m having dinner with Sam.” She nodded as if to say – there I said it.
For a moment David was at a loss for words. Then the hurt and jealousy ran through him like a runaway train. His eyes glinted dangerously. “Why the hell are you going out to dinner with the spaceman?” David was hurt, angry and confused. Maybe she was going to accept his proposal?
Maddie saw the emotions run over David’s face and wasn’t sure she was doing the right thing by seeing Sam but then she remembered that David still had never admitted why he didn’t want her to see Sam and just saying he was jealous wasn’t enough for her. “Sam wants his ring back.”
“Mail it to him.” David suggested his voice husky with anger.
“I can’t do that David.” She argued her eyes narrowed with annoyance. How dare he think that he can tell me what to do!
He pursed his lips and held out his hand. “Give it to me. I’ll give it back to him.”
Maddie shook her head. “Don’t be ridiculous.” She stated her voice coated with irritation.
“Me ridiculous?” David laughed bitterly.
Maddie just looked at him and then she snapped. “I don’t understand why you care so much!” Come on David tell me! Why are you jealous? Do you love me? Want me? What???
David’s throat closed up. Now it was his turn to just stare at Maddie. What could he say? Why he was so jealous? That he loved her? Wanted her? What??? He wouldn’t admit to anything now that she was going out with Sam Crawford.
“Thought so.” Maddie’s voice was filled with resignation and pain.
“Have fun at your dinner.” David sneered as he strutted out of Maddie’s office a dangerous smirk covering his face as he opened the door. He gave her a mocking two finger kiss then softly closed the door behind him softly.
*****
Sam walked into the restaurant prompt as usual and headed toward Maddie who had been seated already and was fortifying herself with a glass of Chablis. She smiled at Sam who bent down to kiss her then took his seat opposite her at the table. Sam was thinking how beautiful Maddie looked and was hoping that this dinner would end with the ring on her finger and not in his pocket. “You look beautiful.” He told her with his blue eyes filled with adoration. “As always.” He added smoothly.
Maddie smiled at Sam then without further ado she took his ring out of her purse and handed it back to him without a word.
Sam looked down at the engagement ring that Maddie had pushed into his hand. “I really don’t want it back Maddie.” He told her sincerely pushing the ring back into the palm of her hand.
Maddie shook her head. “Sam I can’t marry you.”
“You can’t or you won’t?” Sam asked flatly. He couldn’t understand why she wasn’t jumping at the chance to marry him. He was rich, successful and an astronaut!
“Is there a difference?” She couldn’t understand why he was so intent on marrying her. She hadn’t seen him in years and she knew that she was a different woman from the woman Sam remembered. That woman disappeared when she started working at Blue Moon and then fell for David Addison. Just the thought of David made her heart pound. Yes, Sam was perfect for her – on paper but she didn’t love him. Her heart wanted her loud, crude, jive talking partner and there seemed was nothing that she could do to change that.
Sam stared hard at her. “It’s that Addison jerk.” He shook his head unbelievingly.
“Don’t you dare call David a jerk!” Maddie defended the absent man she loved.
Sam laughed snidely. “He really has you under his spell.” He jeered at her with a derisive look in his eyes. “You can’t see that guys like him are just in it for the fun and games.” He waved his hand toward her. “How long do you think that you can keep his attention?” His laugh now was mean. “He seems the type to get bored quite easily.” His eyes were spiteful.
Maddie just sat there silently glaring at the man she thought she owed the truth to – but she realized that she owed him nothing. Sam was an ass. Why hadn’t she seen this side of him before? Maybe because she had never crossed him in all the years she had known him. “You don’t know anything about him.” She asserted fiercely.
“You think he’ll marry you?” Sam asked her bluntly. “I offered to give you my name and a family.” A sneer curled his lips. “What is he offering you? His big dick?”
“Go to hell.” Maddie jumped out of her seat. “You have no right to speak to me like that.” She threw her napkin on the table. “Fuck you Sam.”
“Don’t run back to me when he grows tired of you Maddie.” Sam’s voice was bitter and cruel. “I won’t be around to catch you when you fall.”
Maddie didn’t even bother to answer. She threw back her shoulders and walked out of the restaurant like the super model she once was.
****
David was like a cat on a hot tin roof when he got home to his place. He realized that he would go stark raving mad if he hung around there for a minute longer. When he walked into his favorite bar David was happy to see a familiar face even on this lonely Monday night. “Sharon!” He exclaimed as he strode over to the leggy red head. He and Sharon had boinked a few times but when she had met her present boyfriend they had reverted to friends.
David and Sharon spent the night lamenting about their complicated relationships. Fortified with tequila and needing a shoulder to cry on and a woman’s point of view, David told Sharon everything about this thing with Maddie Hayes. And in turn Sharon told David about her on again off again relationship with her boyfriend. A few hours later feeling slightly drunk and very tired David made a move to leave and was happy when Sharon offered to drive him home.
When Maddie got home she took a long bath then tried to get interested in a book she had been reading. She was hoping that David would show up at her house but as the hours passed Maddie knew that he wouldn’t show his face at her house that night. She realized that maybe he was afraid of finding Sam there. Maddie threw on her raincoat over her nightshirt and sneakers on her feet as she headed to the car and David.
Maddie couldn’t believe her eyes. Was that David in a car with another woman? Maddie turned off the motor and parked up the block where she could see David but he couldn’t see her. The car that David was in was parked under a street lamp so Maddie could clearly see what was going on in the car. Her heart was pounding in her chest as she watched David and a pretty red head talking and laughing together in the car. A white hot jealousy ran through Maddie and a blazing anger. She remembered Sam’s words of David being in it for the fun and games – and now seeing him with another woman Maddie didn’t know what to think. Her heart nearly stopped when David bent his head to the woman but Maddie was relieved that he had only given her a quick kiss on her cheek. She let out the breath she had been holding when David left the car and headed into his apartment complex alone. Maddie waited in the car until the woman drove away and then like the jealous woman she was she raced up the stairs to David’s apartment. She couldn’t go home to bed without confronting him about that woman. Were they lovers? Did he take her to bed that night? Maddie felt her heart splinter when she thought about David’s green eyes smiling down at another woman; and the thought of his hands touching someone else made her physically sick. Maddie had to actually stop and take cleansing breaths to calm her stomach. It wouldn’t due to throw up in David’s face although if he had been with another woman it would serve him right. She reached his door and banged on it forcefully.
David couldn’t imagine who was at his door so late at night. He recalled when Maddie had shown up at his place a couple of weeks ago but quickly brushed that thought aside; she was with Sam he thought sullenly. So much had happened in those two short weeks that it felt as if that night had happened years ago. David strode to the door as the knocking intensified. “Hold you horses!” He called out as he reached the door and pulled it open. At first David thought he was dreaming. Maddie stood there in the same raincoat and sneakers that she had been wearing on that night she had snuck away from Sam. A pang ran through David when he thought she had once again snuck away from that ass. “Maddie.”
She brushed past David and turned around to confront him with her hands on her hips. “Who was that woman David?” Her eyes shot blue bullets his way.
Was she spying on him? Wasn’t she supposed to be with Crawford? “I thought you were having dinner with the Rocket Man.” David sidestepped her question as he turned to walk down the steps into his apartment. She had nerve to question him when she had been out with another man.
“Who is she?” Maddie persisted as she followed him into the empty living room; she pulled on his arm so that he turned to face her.
“Why do you care so much Maddie?” He threw out at her. “And why aren’t you with Sammy boy?” She could see a hint of spite in David’s eyes. “Damn he really must be faster than a speeding bullet.”
“You’re an ass.” Maddie practically growled.
David nodded. “Yeah I have been. We’ve been doing what we’ve been doing.” David waved his hands around. “For what a week or so now and already you’ve had ‘dinner’ with two men.” He scratched his head. “But I can’t be with another woman?”
Maddie gasped. “So you admit you’ve been with her?”
“I admit nothing.” He lilted mockingly. “Sharon is just a friend.” David put emphasis on the word ‘friend’. “Like Sam.” He stared at Maddie with green heat. “If you can have your friends.” He drawled slowly, “then I can have mine.”
Maddie looked at David like he was a bug under her shoe. At that minute she hated him. Maybe Sam was right; sometimes David was a jerk. “Fine.” No way would she beg him to tell her about that woman.
“Fine.” He snapped with venom.
David stared at Maddie and suddenly he had the urge to rip off that damn coat and screw her until Sam was just a memory. His dick was throbbing in his pants as his fingers itched to touch her. How could she make him so angry yet so horny at the same time? Without hesitation, he pulled Maddie to him and ripped off her raincoat. “Are we friends Maddie?” He pushed her against the wall forcefully. “Cause I really want to be your friend baby.” He began to kiss her with hot devouring kisses.
As soon as David began to kiss her Maddie was lost in a fog of desire so strong she felt her knees almost buckle with the force of it. She loved how his unshaven felt so rough against her smooth skin; his scent intoxicated her with his musky manliness mixed with just a slight trace of his cologne and the way his body molded against hers made her blood boil. But suddenly images of David with that redhead moved through her filling her with fury. She struggled against David needing to put some distance between them before she succumbed to his sexual prowess but he was too strong and Maddie couldn’t tear free of his clutches so in her anger and frustration she clamped down with her teeth on his probing tongue.
David’s head sprung back as he stepped back away from her. “Ouch that hurt Maddie!” He complained then he put his finger in his mouth and came out with the tip of his finger covered in blood. He looked at his blood covered finger and shook his head. Then he turned blazing green eyes on her. “Now, now Maddie; friends don’t bite other friends.” He told her his tone was coldly derisive as he closed the gap between them and pushed her against the wall again; pressing his body against hers so that she couldn’t move.
Maddie was appalled at what she had just done and was momentarily stunned by her violence. But she was disgusted at herself for being turned on and furious at David that he could so easily arouse her. “We’re not friends David!”
“Then what are we baby?” David whispered softly as his hand pulled up the hem of her nightshirt and pressed his massive boner against her lacy panties. He heard Maddie catch her breath and knew that she wanted him too. All thoughts of Sam and that woman were erased as both felt their desires racing out of control. All they could think about was each other and the love and desire coursing through their bodies.
David moved his dick over Maddie’s loins teasingly as his injured tongue brushed against that spot on her neck leaving a trail of blood in its wake. “All I know is that no other woman makes my dick as hard as you do.” David moaned as slowly pulled down Maddie’s panties. He could feel her wetness and knew that she wanted him just as much as he wanted her.
“Not even that redhead in the car?” Maddie wanted to kick herself for asking about that woman but David just chuckled deep in his throat. “Sssh baby. It’s only you and me now.” His magic fingers brushed over her swollen nub like the wings of a butterfly causing Maddie to gasp with pleasure. She looked up into David’s green eyes which were filled with desire. Once again, Maddie was lost in a sea of passion; her body was burning for his touch even though she was still angry about finding him with that other woman. Why didn’t she have any backbone when it came to David? Why with just a touch or a look could he reduce her to a quivering mound of desire? God her lovebox was twitching as he almost raped her mouth with his demanding tongue. Her legs opened instinctively when she felt David pulling down her panties and she could think of nothing else but satisfying the itch between her thighs.
David heard the soft mewing sounds Maddie was making in the back of her throat and that made his dick twitch and get even harder if that was possible. “You want me don’t you? How hot do I make you Maddie?” He prodded as he moved his still pants covered boner against her dripping lovebox. “Tell me that no man makes you feel this way.” He demanded as he unzipped his jeans; desperately Maddie pulled David’s t-shirt over his head as he relieved her of her night shirt. He then bent down to take off her sneakers and socks as his tongue moved over her legs and inside of her thighs. Maddie gasped and opened her legs wider. “Oh David.” She moaned as her hands tangled in his hair.
David looked up at her with a smirk covering his face and his cheeks damp from her desire. “Tell me honey. How hot are you?” His green eyes blazed with lust and desire.
“Oh I love this.” Maddie squirmed as she pushed David’s head toward her lovebox. “You make me so hot David. You know that!” She gasped as she felt his tongue lightly brush over her swollen nub. “Oh yessss.” Maddie threw her head back against the wall as David pleasured her with his mouth; his hands were playing with her breasts as his talented tongue brought her to Heaven and beyond. Her orgasm was swift and powerful and she almost pulled out a tuft of David’s hair in her ecstasy as she screamed his name over and over.
David chuckled as he stood up, kicked off his jeans and pushed into her pulsating core with one hard push of his dick. He picked up her long leg and wrapped it around his waist. “I’m gonna fuck you so hard Sam will be just a memory.” David told her as he plunged in and out of her pulsing core until she fell into a second more intense orgasm; he continued to push deeper into her until his head almost exploded with the force of his own orgasm.
When they both recovered from their orgasms, Maddie and David just stared into each other’s eyes for a moment trying desperately to know what the other was thinking.
The idea that David had just made love to her after he had been with another woman made Maddie feel used and filled with shame and David felt similar feelings as he thought of Maddie with Sam; but neither was brave enough to voice their emotions.
David pulled away from Maddie with a smirking grin and she could see the sneer in his eyes. Instead of telling her his fears and admitting his feelings David always chose to hide between a wall of sarcasm and wit; and unfortunately this time was no different. “Bet the space cowboy can’t ride you like I can.” He snickered as his eyes glinted wickedly. When David was hurt, afraid or nervous his snideness was at full throttle. Half the time he didn’t even realize how offensive he was being.
Maddie hurriedly picked up her nightshirt and held it in front of her like a barrier. She hated this snide, smirking side of David. Sometimes she thought this side of him was his defense against being hurt but this time she just wasn’t sure. But at this moment she didn’t care what his reasons for acting like a jerk were; her back was up and she wanted to hurt him as much as he was hurting her. She haughtily tilted up her chin. “Guess you’ll never know.” She lifted her eyebrow mockingly then pulled her nightshirt over her head. “Now maybe I should head home. Sam might be waiting with his big rocket.”
Then Maddie pulled on her sneakers, picked up her raincoat and slammed the door behind her. David was left standing there with his mouth open feeling like a total and hopeless fool.
David looked at Maddie with accusing eyes. “I repeat, why the hell would the Space Cowboy be sending you flowers?” David was filled with icy anger and red hot jealousy. The thought that Maddie was still in touch with that arrogant bastard, Sam Crawford made him feel like a fool. In his mind’s eye David saw himself wiping the smug look off the astronaut’s handsome face with a wicked left hook. He willed himself to calm down and hear Maddie’s answer before he jumped to conclusions.
Maddie didn’t have an answer. She was as surprised as David to see Sam’s signature on the card that had come with the flowers. The last time she had seen Sam was when she had dropped him off at her house the night that she had first been intimate with David. She hadn’t heard from him since. Oh she remembered the note Sam had left with David which had annoyed her at the time. Why hadn’t he been man enough to tell her goodbye in person? But in the week that followed she hadn’t given Sam another thought – and now he sends flowers? “I have no idea.” She admitted staring at the card in her hand.
David ran his hands through his hair. He shook his head and stared at her with green ice chips. “What do you mean you don’t know?!” David’s voice was tight with anger. “You must have some idea.”
Maddie shrugged her shoulders which irritated David. Then his heart almost stopped. “Wait! Don’t tell me you’ve still been in talking with Buck Rogers since we’ve been doing – what we’ve been doing?” David’s hands were moving around in agitation. David was pacing back and forth as he interrogated Maddie.
Maddie shook her head. “No David I haven’t heard from him.” She told him truthfully.
David continued to pace around her foyer. “Well, I don’t understand. Why would he send you flowers out of the blue?”
She was getting annoyed with David’s grilling. “Maybe the same reason that he showed up at my house out of the blue.” Her voice was tinged with annoyance.
Another horrible thought raced through David’s jealous mind. “Maybe he’s still waiting for your answer!” David stared at her with reproachful eyes.
That thought had just entered Maddie’s mind at the same time that David had said it. She had never given Sam a definite answer about marrying him although from the tone of the note he had left with David it seemed he surmised that ‘yes’ wasn’t her answer; but maybe he needed to hear it from her lips. Maddie had no qualms about telling Sam to his face that she didn’t want to be his wife. Actually, since they had known each other for most of their lives she thought that telling him in person and explaining why she couldn’t marry him was the right thing to do. “Maybe.” Maddie admitted as she pushed a tendril of hair off her face.
“Maybe?” David roared stopping short, gazing at Maddie as if she had just sprouted horns, “is that all you can say?!” Maybe she was considering marrying Sam. David knew she had never given Sam a definite no for an answer. He felt his blood turn to ice.
Maddie narrowed her eyes in annoyance. “What do you want me to say Addison? I don’t know why he sent me flowers.” She looked pointedly at David who was standing with his accusing eyes and his jaw taut with anger; Maddie started to feel irritated toward him. Did he care that it was a man sending her flowers or that it was Sam sending her flowers; there seemed to be a competition between the two men with her as their trophy prize; at least Sam had put his cards on the table by proposing but David hadn’t even put himself in the game. How dare he interrogate her! “And why is it any of your concern who sends me flowers?” She lifted her chin, “or if I’ve talked with Sam?” There David the ball is in your court again. Tell me how you feel about me! Tell me that you’re jealous and that you love me! David had never admitted to her how he felt about her and in Maddie’s eyes he had never fought for her when it came to Sam. Maddie remembered that day in her office when she had almost begged him to tell her how he felt – and he hadn’t said a word. And then that night she had found David in her bed and one thing had led to another – and she still wasn’t sure of his feelings even after David had mumbled a quick “I love you.” as he entered her for the first time. But since then he hadn’t said a word about his feelings toward her or what he wanted out of this relationship. But Maddie needed to hear how he felt from his lips. Tell me David! She inwardly begged him. Maddie repeated her question. “Why is it your concern David?”
David looked at her with green glaciers. “Oh right. Guess this is none of my damn business too.” He remembered how Maddie had told him that it was none of his business when he had found out that Sam had proposed to her. Rage and hurt coursed through his body.
“Maybe you can make it your business.” She threw out but David didn’t hear her with the fury drumming in his ears.
“Sure slumming with a jerk like me is fine but Sam is the man you’re supposed to be with.” David was filled with hurt and disgust that he had actually thought she had admitted that she loved him. Maddie Hayes thought she was too good for a guy like him.
Maddie looked at David with sadness. He still wouldn’t tell her how he felt. She was suddenly filled with exhaustion over the charade that their relationship was. David wanted her to tell him everything while he admitted nothing. Maybe they weren’t meant to be together. This was much too hard for her. “Go home David.” Her voice was filled with resignation.
David’s ears roared with fury. “Oh sure guess maybe Sam’s coming over to finish what he didn’t finish that night!” He sneered nastily. “But bet he can’t make you come like I can. Can he?”
“You are vile!” Maddie told him as she put her two hands on his chest and began to push him toward the door. “You disgust me! You’re despicable! Get dressed and get out!”
David grabbed her hands and held them over her head. “Maybe I don’t want to go home.” He told her as he pushed her against the door, “maybe I’m not finished with you yet.” Suddenly, David needed to be inside of her. He needed to stake his claim and the only way he could think of doing it was with his lovemaking.
Maddie struggled against David’s grip but he was too strong for her, he pressed her against the door with his body still holding her hands over her head. “But I’m finished with you!” Maddie spat out. “And no it isn’t any of your business who sends me flowers. Go home.”
“You really are a bitch.” David’s voice was filled with wrath. And just a short time ago David had been convinced she was admitting that she was in love with him. He pushed that thought out of his head.
“And you really are a bastard.” Her eyes were blue orbs of anger. David loosened his grip on her arms and Maddie pulled free and quickly moved away from him. Suddenly, she was filled with disdain for David and for everything he wouldn’t say or maybe didn’t feel.
“Yeah fine. Go with the spaceman. He’s the kind of man you are supposed to be with anyway.” David threw out as he headed for the stairs to retrieve his clothes. His ardor had faded quickly; now he just wanted to get as far away from Maddie as possible.
She wanted to hurt him as much as he was hurting her with his silence. “Maybe I should say yes to Sam.” She yelled up the stairs after David.
A few seconds later David came back down pulling on his shirt and zippering his jeans. He glared at Maddie with green ice. “Yeah maybe you should.” He muttered as he slammed out of the house. Let her go with Sam. Those two posters deserved each other!
Maddie heard the car roar off down the road; she wrapped her arms around herherself trying to bring some warmth to her icy cold body. Morosely, she headed to the sofa where she pulled her feet under her and wrapped a blanket around her body as tears fell down her cheeks.
*****
Monday
The following day David was out of the office with Bert doing leg work and following up on various cases that the agency was working on. David and Maddie were giving Bert Viola more and more opportunities to work in the field as a detective and the short man was over the moon. Just being out in the field with Mr. Addison was heaven for him. Although David was giving him mostly one word answers to his questions that didn’t deter Bert who prattled on most of the day. David barely heard what Viola was saying his mind was on Maddie and Sam Crawford but he had chosen to be out in the field so he wouldn’t have to see Maddie and say things he might regret. He was hoping to calm down before he laid his eyes on her again.
******
Maddie knew that David had accompanied Bert out in the field so he wouldn’t have to see her. She was still hurt and angry but she missed seeing David and wanted to talk to him. Maybe she had been wrong to get upset with him over his reaction to the flowers. Was she wrong to want David to tell her how he felt about her? She wasn’t a mind reader and she needed to know where she stood with him and where their relationship was going. Maddie’s thoughts were interrupted by the ringing of the telephone. Agnes was at lunch so the phones rang directly into Maddie’s office. She picked up the phone with her mind still on David and for a second she didn’t recognize the voice of the caller.
“Maddie.”
“Sam.”
*****
All day long while David was out with Viola he couldn’t keep his mind on business. All he could see was Maddie’s eyes staring at him with hurt and anger. Maybe he had been wrong to accuse her of wanting to be with Sam but he had been so consumed by hurt and jealousy that he hadn’t even realized the words that had poured out of his mouth. The entire night after he had left Maddie he had tossed and turned and regretted leaving her but when he had finally woken up this morning after a couple of hours of sleep he didn’t want to face Maddie and perhaps hear her admit that she wanted Sam Crawford. His head told him that Maddie wanted nothing to do with Sam but his vulnerable heart wasn’t so sure. But now as he walked into Blue Moon he had made a decision. He was going to lay his heart on the line and tell Maddie how he felt – that he loved her with all his heart and that the thought of her with Sam or any other man made him see red with jealousy. He only hoped that she felt some shard of love for him. He remembered how she had cried out that she loved him in the heat of passion. Did she mean what she had said?? Deep down David believed that Maddie did love him but he wasn’t sure if she would allow herself to go with her emotions. But one way or the other David knew that it was time for him to be a man. He heard the words of the blonde in the jail cell from a couple of weeks ago - “Tell her you love her…” and this time he would.
Maddie had waited for David all day but now she was leaving to meet Sam for dinner. She hated to go out with Sam without telling David – she felt like she was doing something sneaky but since she had no way to reach David she would have to tell him after the fact. She had just picked up her purse and was heading to the door to leave when David whirled into her office like a tornado.
He smiled at her sheepishly. “I’m sorry Maddie.” He ruffled his hair. “I was wrong to say those things to you last night.” David shook his head. “I guess I was just jealous.”
Maddie was nervous. She didn’t want to fight with David but instinctively she knew that he wasn’t going to be happy when he discovered she was meeting Sam for dinner. She stood up. “You have nothing to be jealous of David.” Maddie told him sincerely, “Sam is just a friend.”
The words fell out of David’s mouth before he could stop them. “A man who you slept with and who asked you to marry him?” David raised his eyebrows. “I think that is more than a friend Maddie.”
“I’ve known Sam most of my life.” Maddie tried to explain. “You wouldn’t understand.”
Oh David thought he understood very well what Sam Crawford was up to but Maddie seemed blind to the spaceman’s plastic face. David didn’t want to fight with her so he just nodded. “Ok.” He decided to put Sam out of his mind. “So you ready to go?” David nodded to the purse Maddie had under her arm.
Maddie knew she was going to have to tell David of her plans. “I’m having dinner tonight.”
“Ok.” David nodded again. “I can eat. Where do you want to go?” He loosened his tie which made Maddie’s heart flutter. “Anywhere special?”
Sometimes that man was so thick Maddie fumed inwardly. “I have plans.” She admitted cautiously.
“Plans?” David was confused.
“I’m having dinner with him tonight.” Maddie blurted out as her fingers gripped her purse so tightly it almost hurt.
“With who?” David was momentarily confused.
“Sam.” She told him flatly. “I’m having dinner with Sam.” She nodded as if to say – there I said it.
For a moment David was at a loss for words. Then the hurt and jealousy ran through him like a runaway train. His eyes glinted dangerously. “Why the hell are you going out to dinner with the spaceman?” David was hurt, angry and confused. Maybe she was going to accept his proposal?
Maddie saw the emotions run over David’s face and wasn’t sure she was doing the right thing by seeing Sam but then she remembered that David still had never admitted why he didn’t want her to see Sam and just saying he was jealous wasn’t enough for her. “Sam wants his ring back.”
“Mail it to him.” David suggested his voice husky with anger.
“I can’t do that David.” She argued her eyes narrowed with annoyance. How dare he think that he can tell me what to do!
He pursed his lips and held out his hand. “Give it to me. I’ll give it back to him.”
Maddie shook her head. “Don’t be ridiculous.” She stated her voice coated with irritation.
“Me ridiculous?” David laughed bitterly.
Maddie just looked at him and then she snapped. “I don’t understand why you care so much!” Come on David tell me! Why are you jealous? Do you love me? Want me? What???
David’s throat closed up. Now it was his turn to just stare at Maddie. What could he say? Why he was so jealous? That he loved her? Wanted her? What??? He wouldn’t admit to anything now that she was going out with Sam Crawford.
“Thought so.” Maddie’s voice was filled with resignation and pain.
“Have fun at your dinner.” David sneered as he strutted out of Maddie’s office a dangerous smirk covering his face as he opened the door. He gave her a mocking two finger kiss then softly closed the door behind him softly.
*****
Sam walked into the restaurant prompt as usual and headed toward Maddie who had been seated already and was fortifying herself with a glass of Chablis. She smiled at Sam who bent down to kiss her then took his seat opposite her at the table. Sam was thinking how beautiful Maddie looked and was hoping that this dinner would end with the ring on her finger and not in his pocket. “You look beautiful.” He told her with his blue eyes filled with adoration. “As always.” He added smoothly.
Maddie smiled at Sam then without further ado she took his ring out of her purse and handed it back to him without a word.
Sam looked down at the engagement ring that Maddie had pushed into his hand. “I really don’t want it back Maddie.” He told her sincerely pushing the ring back into the palm of her hand.
Maddie shook her head. “Sam I can’t marry you.”
“You can’t or you won’t?” Sam asked flatly. He couldn’t understand why she wasn’t jumping at the chance to marry him. He was rich, successful and an astronaut!
“Is there a difference?” She couldn’t understand why he was so intent on marrying her. She hadn’t seen him in years and she knew that she was a different woman from the woman Sam remembered. That woman disappeared when she started working at Blue Moon and then fell for David Addison. Just the thought of David made her heart pound. Yes, Sam was perfect for her – on paper but she didn’t love him. Her heart wanted her loud, crude, jive talking partner and there seemed was nothing that she could do to change that.
Sam stared hard at her. “It’s that Addison jerk.” He shook his head unbelievingly.
“Don’t you dare call David a jerk!” Maddie defended the absent man she loved.
Sam laughed snidely. “He really has you under his spell.” He jeered at her with a derisive look in his eyes. “You can’t see that guys like him are just in it for the fun and games.” He waved his hand toward her. “How long do you think that you can keep his attention?” His laugh now was mean. “He seems the type to get bored quite easily.” His eyes were spiteful.
Maddie just sat there silently glaring at the man she thought she owed the truth to – but she realized that she owed him nothing. Sam was an ass. Why hadn’t she seen this side of him before? Maybe because she had never crossed him in all the years she had known him. “You don’t know anything about him.” She asserted fiercely.
“You think he’ll marry you?” Sam asked her bluntly. “I offered to give you my name and a family.” A sneer curled his lips. “What is he offering you? His big dick?”
“Go to hell.” Maddie jumped out of her seat. “You have no right to speak to me like that.” She threw her napkin on the table. “Fuck you Sam.”
“Don’t run back to me when he grows tired of you Maddie.” Sam’s voice was bitter and cruel. “I won’t be around to catch you when you fall.”
Maddie didn’t even bother to answer. She threw back her shoulders and walked out of the restaurant like the super model she once was.
****
David was like a cat on a hot tin roof when he got home to his place. He realized that he would go stark raving mad if he hung around there for a minute longer. When he walked into his favorite bar David was happy to see a familiar face even on this lonely Monday night. “Sharon!” He exclaimed as he strode over to the leggy red head. He and Sharon had boinked a few times but when she had met her present boyfriend they had reverted to friends.
David and Sharon spent the night lamenting about their complicated relationships. Fortified with tequila and needing a shoulder to cry on and a woman’s point of view, David told Sharon everything about this thing with Maddie Hayes. And in turn Sharon told David about her on again off again relationship with her boyfriend. A few hours later feeling slightly drunk and very tired David made a move to leave and was happy when Sharon offered to drive him home.
When Maddie got home she took a long bath then tried to get interested in a book she had been reading. She was hoping that David would show up at her house but as the hours passed Maddie knew that he wouldn’t show his face at her house that night. She realized that maybe he was afraid of finding Sam there. Maddie threw on her raincoat over her nightshirt and sneakers on her feet as she headed to the car and David.
Maddie couldn’t believe her eyes. Was that David in a car with another woman? Maddie turned off the motor and parked up the block where she could see David but he couldn’t see her. The car that David was in was parked under a street lamp so Maddie could clearly see what was going on in the car. Her heart was pounding in her chest as she watched David and a pretty red head talking and laughing together in the car. A white hot jealousy ran through Maddie and a blazing anger. She remembered Sam’s words of David being in it for the fun and games – and now seeing him with another woman Maddie didn’t know what to think. Her heart nearly stopped when David bent his head to the woman but Maddie was relieved that he had only given her a quick kiss on her cheek. She let out the breath she had been holding when David left the car and headed into his apartment complex alone. Maddie waited in the car until the woman drove away and then like the jealous woman she was she raced up the stairs to David’s apartment. She couldn’t go home to bed without confronting him about that woman. Were they lovers? Did he take her to bed that night? Maddie felt her heart splinter when she thought about David’s green eyes smiling down at another woman; and the thought of his hands touching someone else made her physically sick. Maddie had to actually stop and take cleansing breaths to calm her stomach. It wouldn’t due to throw up in David’s face although if he had been with another woman it would serve him right. She reached his door and banged on it forcefully.
David couldn’t imagine who was at his door so late at night. He recalled when Maddie had shown up at his place a couple of weeks ago but quickly brushed that thought aside; she was with Sam he thought sullenly. So much had happened in those two short weeks that it felt as if that night had happened years ago. David strode to the door as the knocking intensified. “Hold you horses!” He called out as he reached the door and pulled it open. At first David thought he was dreaming. Maddie stood there in the same raincoat and sneakers that she had been wearing on that night she had snuck away from Sam. A pang ran through David when he thought she had once again snuck away from that ass. “Maddie.”
She brushed past David and turned around to confront him with her hands on her hips. “Who was that woman David?” Her eyes shot blue bullets his way.
Was she spying on him? Wasn’t she supposed to be with Crawford? “I thought you were having dinner with the Rocket Man.” David sidestepped her question as he turned to walk down the steps into his apartment. She had nerve to question him when she had been out with another man.
“Who is she?” Maddie persisted as she followed him into the empty living room; she pulled on his arm so that he turned to face her.
“Why do you care so much Maddie?” He threw out at her. “And why aren’t you with Sammy boy?” She could see a hint of spite in David’s eyes. “Damn he really must be faster than a speeding bullet.”
“You’re an ass.” Maddie practically growled.
David nodded. “Yeah I have been. We’ve been doing what we’ve been doing.” David waved his hands around. “For what a week or so now and already you’ve had ‘dinner’ with two men.” He scratched his head. “But I can’t be with another woman?”
Maddie gasped. “So you admit you’ve been with her?”
“I admit nothing.” He lilted mockingly. “Sharon is just a friend.” David put emphasis on the word ‘friend’. “Like Sam.” He stared at Maddie with green heat. “If you can have your friends.” He drawled slowly, “then I can have mine.”
Maddie looked at David like he was a bug under her shoe. At that minute she hated him. Maybe Sam was right; sometimes David was a jerk. “Fine.” No way would she beg him to tell her about that woman.
“Fine.” He snapped with venom.
David stared at Maddie and suddenly he had the urge to rip off that damn coat and screw her until Sam was just a memory. His dick was throbbing in his pants as his fingers itched to touch her. How could she make him so angry yet so horny at the same time? Without hesitation, he pulled Maddie to him and ripped off her raincoat. “Are we friends Maddie?” He pushed her against the wall forcefully. “Cause I really want to be your friend baby.” He began to kiss her with hot devouring kisses.
As soon as David began to kiss her Maddie was lost in a fog of desire so strong she felt her knees almost buckle with the force of it. She loved how his unshaven felt so rough against her smooth skin; his scent intoxicated her with his musky manliness mixed with just a slight trace of his cologne and the way his body molded against hers made her blood boil. But suddenly images of David with that redhead moved through her filling her with fury. She struggled against David needing to put some distance between them before she succumbed to his sexual prowess but he was too strong and Maddie couldn’t tear free of his clutches so in her anger and frustration she clamped down with her teeth on his probing tongue.
David’s head sprung back as he stepped back away from her. “Ouch that hurt Maddie!” He complained then he put his finger in his mouth and came out with the tip of his finger covered in blood. He looked at his blood covered finger and shook his head. Then he turned blazing green eyes on her. “Now, now Maddie; friends don’t bite other friends.” He told her his tone was coldly derisive as he closed the gap between them and pushed her against the wall again; pressing his body against hers so that she couldn’t move.
Maddie was appalled at what she had just done and was momentarily stunned by her violence. But she was disgusted at herself for being turned on and furious at David that he could so easily arouse her. “We’re not friends David!”
“Then what are we baby?” David whispered softly as his hand pulled up the hem of her nightshirt and pressed his massive boner against her lacy panties. He heard Maddie catch her breath and knew that she wanted him too. All thoughts of Sam and that woman were erased as both felt their desires racing out of control. All they could think about was each other and the love and desire coursing through their bodies.
David moved his dick over Maddie’s loins teasingly as his injured tongue brushed against that spot on her neck leaving a trail of blood in its wake. “All I know is that no other woman makes my dick as hard as you do.” David moaned as slowly pulled down Maddie’s panties. He could feel her wetness and knew that she wanted him just as much as he wanted her.
“Not even that redhead in the car?” Maddie wanted to kick herself for asking about that woman but David just chuckled deep in his throat. “Sssh baby. It’s only you and me now.” His magic fingers brushed over her swollen nub like the wings of a butterfly causing Maddie to gasp with pleasure. She looked up into David’s green eyes which were filled with desire. Once again, Maddie was lost in a sea of passion; her body was burning for his touch even though she was still angry about finding him with that other woman. Why didn’t she have any backbone when it came to David? Why with just a touch or a look could he reduce her to a quivering mound of desire? God her lovebox was twitching as he almost raped her mouth with his demanding tongue. Her legs opened instinctively when she felt David pulling down her panties and she could think of nothing else but satisfying the itch between her thighs.
David heard the soft mewing sounds Maddie was making in the back of her throat and that made his dick twitch and get even harder if that was possible. “You want me don’t you? How hot do I make you Maddie?” He prodded as he moved his still pants covered boner against her dripping lovebox. “Tell me that no man makes you feel this way.” He demanded as he unzipped his jeans; desperately Maddie pulled David’s t-shirt over his head as he relieved her of her night shirt. He then bent down to take off her sneakers and socks as his tongue moved over her legs and inside of her thighs. Maddie gasped and opened her legs wider. “Oh David.” She moaned as her hands tangled in his hair.
David looked up at her with a smirk covering his face and his cheeks damp from her desire. “Tell me honey. How hot are you?” His green eyes blazed with lust and desire.
“Oh I love this.” Maddie squirmed as she pushed David’s head toward her lovebox. “You make me so hot David. You know that!” She gasped as she felt his tongue lightly brush over her swollen nub. “Oh yessss.” Maddie threw her head back against the wall as David pleasured her with his mouth; his hands were playing with her breasts as his talented tongue brought her to Heaven and beyond. Her orgasm was swift and powerful and she almost pulled out a tuft of David’s hair in her ecstasy as she screamed his name over and over.
David chuckled as he stood up, kicked off his jeans and pushed into her pulsating core with one hard push of his dick. He picked up her long leg and wrapped it around his waist. “I’m gonna fuck you so hard Sam will be just a memory.” David told her as he plunged in and out of her pulsing core until she fell into a second more intense orgasm; he continued to push deeper into her until his head almost exploded with the force of his own orgasm.
When they both recovered from their orgasms, Maddie and David just stared into each other’s eyes for a moment trying desperately to know what the other was thinking.
The idea that David had just made love to her after he had been with another woman made Maddie feel used and filled with shame and David felt similar feelings as he thought of Maddie with Sam; but neither was brave enough to voice their emotions.
David pulled away from Maddie with a smirking grin and she could see the sneer in his eyes. Instead of telling her his fears and admitting his feelings David always chose to hide between a wall of sarcasm and wit; and unfortunately this time was no different. “Bet the space cowboy can’t ride you like I can.” He snickered as his eyes glinted wickedly. When David was hurt, afraid or nervous his snideness was at full throttle. Half the time he didn’t even realize how offensive he was being.
Maddie hurriedly picked up her nightshirt and held it in front of her like a barrier. She hated this snide, smirking side of David. Sometimes she thought this side of him was his defense against being hurt but this time she just wasn’t sure. But at this moment she didn’t care what his reasons for acting like a jerk were; her back was up and she wanted to hurt him as much as he was hurting her. She haughtily tilted up her chin. “Guess you’ll never know.” She lifted her eyebrow mockingly then pulled her nightshirt over her head. “Now maybe I should head home. Sam might be waiting with his big rocket.”
Then Maddie pulled on her sneakers, picked up her raincoat and slammed the door behind her. David was left standing there with his mouth open feeling like a total and hopeless fool.
