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of the
elevator back into darkness, I can hardly make out the door in front of me. 
When Thomas opens the door, my eyes widen in amazement.
    The roof is lit up with a web
of fairy lights.  There is a small table with two chairs.  Next to it is a
table full of the most exquisite finger food.  There is also wine and champagne
to suit every taste.  A huge daybed with blankets and pillows fill part of the
roof.  Soft music plays in the background and drowns out the sounds of the city
below. 
    “Are you having a party?” I
ask, astonished.
    He laughs:  “Yes, we are
having a party.  I will be the host and you, my dear, my only guest.  Are you
hungry?”
    “Famished,” I say as he leads
me to the table.  I cannot stop looking around at the amazing scene surrounding
me.
    We make us each a plate and
Thomas pours some champagne into two flutes. 
    As we sit down at the table,
I ask:  “When did you put all this together?  It definitely could not have been
during the few minutes I was waiting in the car.  Or do you always have it at
the ready?”
    “No, this is usually a bare
roof with just a couple of tables and chairs for the smokers and other workers
who need some fresh air.  I have a very competent assistant called Eileen.  She
has taken over the mother role in my life and when I told her I wanted to do
something romantic for you, she put all of this together.  Of course most of it
was my idea!” He laughs.
    “I think Eileen wants to see
me married so she does not have to leave her soap operas during the evening to
accompany me to all my business functions.  See, I told you my life has
revolved around work.  But now I have you filling every corner of my mundane
life and making it exciting and worth living.”
    He leans over and we kiss
with only the sound of the music in the background.
    “Anna, I think I am falling
in love with you.”
    He draws away from me a bit. 
I see him watching me but the declaration came so sudden that, for what feels
like a lifetime, I am unable to react.
    “I’m sorry.  I know we
haven’t known each other for a long time.  I know you have been burnt by love
in the past.  But I can tell you I have never felt like this about anyone.  I
am a businessman.  When I make a decision, I don’t procrastinate about it.  I
don’t worry about what convention says.  I met you, I get to know you a little
better each day and the one thing I know is that I do not want you to leave my
life ever again.  So yes, I am quite sure that I am falling in love with you.”
    “Thomas, I do not know if
what I am feeling is love.  I just know that I think of you constantly and that
I can hardly wait for the time I am in your arms each day.  I have never found
it so hard to concentrate on my job as I have been lately.  I think I might be
falling in love with you too.  But I am scared.  You know a little bit about my
past but there is still so much I have not had a chance to tell you.  It is
difficult for me to trust men.  But you are so different from anyone I know. 
With you, I feel safe; I feel like I can just be myself and give myself to you
without having to hold back.  And that I have never felt before.”
    He gets up and pulls me up
from my chair.  He picks me up and carries me over to the daybed, where he lays
me down without once breaking eye contact.
    Thomas puts both his hands
under my shirt.  He takes it off in one smooth movement.  When my shirt is off,
he gently pushes me back onto the pillows.  He rolls on top of me and starts
kissing my neck.  His feather light kisses send shivers down my spine.  He
starts licking downwards while his hands are already exploring the rest of me. 
His hands start moving up as his mouth approaches my breasts.  Just before he
takes a nipple into his mouth, he looks up at me and cups both my breasts with
his warm hands.
    “Go on.  Please don’t stop,”
I beg him, remembering the last time he went down on me.
    He licks my right