Danny was explaining that he was just leaving. “I was gonna sleep on the sofa since she was so upset earlier. Now that you’re here, I won’t need to worry about her.” He paused and looked Donnie in the eye. “Let me just make one thing clear to you. If you hurt her, you will regret it. And I will spend the rest of my life making sure she forgets she ever knew anyone named Donnie Wahlberg. Do you understand me?”
Marina took that moment to back away and slip back into her room. She closed the door and got in bed. She was a little shocked. Even if Donnie didn’t understand what Danny was saying, she did. She didn’t have long to think about it. She heard Danny leave and then she heard the door to her bedroom open. And it was just like it had been. She could feel his eyes on her. She was never so grateful to always sleep with the lights on…she sat up and turned to look at him. Neither of them said anything. She uncovered her legs and he carefully looked at every inch of her. He started taking off his shoes. He took two steps toward her and stopped.
“Marina,” he finally said, “I’ve missed you. A lot. I don’t trust myself tonight. So I need for you to either get dressed now. Or you need to let me in your bed.” His gaze was locked with hers. And she wasn’t moving. She wasn’t even looking like she wanted to move. “If you let me in your bed, I don’t think I will be able to stop touching you. And you won’t be getting out of bed for days. I want to make love to you and I want to fuck you.” He paused again and looked around. Her bedroom looked just like he thought it would

“So…” the sound of her voice made him harder than he already was. “it would be a bad idea for me to come kiss you before I made my decision about this?” She was easing her legs off the bed and it was clear she was going to walk over and do just that. When she got about a foot away from him, she reached and got a pair of jeans off the chair and pulled them on. “Is this better?” she asked.

He took in the jeans sitting low on her hips and the tank top with no bra. “At least there’s less access now…but I’m still pretty tempted. Maybe we should go in the other room? You know, somewhere where I can’t see you AND the bed….”
She laughed and walked past him. “Some things never change Donnie.” When he didn’t move, she added, “Come on. We have a lot to talk about. There are some things you need to know about me.”
“Give me just a minute. I need to borrow your bathroom.”
She went and made them something to drink and tried not to think about what he might be doing in her bathroom. In actuality, he wasn’t doing what he intended to do when he went in there. The bathroom smelled like her. Her shampoo, her parfume, her lotion. He made a mental note of all the things he saw that she used. He used the toilet and washed his face and hands and decided to go face Marina.
He found her in the kitchen. She had her back to him and it looked like she was playing with her phone. Before tonight, he had never seen her with her hair up. He couldn’t help himself. He walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her and started kissing the back of her neck. She immediately leaned back into him and tilted her head so he could have better access. He wasn’t even sure how his hands had gotten under her shirt and on her breasts, but she really didn’t seem to mind. He lifted her tank top over her head and dropped it on the floor as she turned around and kissed him. He picked her up and sat her on the counter and made his way from her lips to her neck and then her breasts. She had been beautiful before, but whatever workout routine Danny had her doing had toned every inch of her to perfection.
Marina was trying to think. “Donnie. Oh God. I need to talk to you. Really I do.”
“We can talk later. Right now I want to get you out of these jeans.” He took off his shirt. He put his hands on either side of her face and kissed her again. She felt so good against him. And she was reaching for the button on his jeans. He stopped kissing her for a minute just to enjoy the moment that she had chosen to give in and make love to him.
She pushed him away from her and hopped off the counter so she could pull his jeans and briefs down. He stepped out of them. He thought he would lose it when he saw her unconsciously lick her lips and moan at the sight of him naked. She unfastened her own jeans. He couldn’t help her. He was working on just standing still. “Donnie, I’m going to make love to you tonight. But not until you know at least one thing about me.” She slid her jeans down and stepped out of them and her panties.

“What is it you want me to know,” he said as she stepped back in front of him and put her hands on his chest.
“My name.” She kissed him. “It’s Marina Royce Walker.” She kissed him again and he was lost to her. She could have told him that she was a serial killer and he wouldn’t have been able to process it.
“Okay. Enough talk. We’re going to bed. It’s late.” He kissed her again and pulled her against him. He wrapped her legs around his waist and carried her back to the bedroom.
He spent the next several hours making love to Marina. Over and over. She was better than any fantasy he ever had. There were things he did to her and things he asked her to do that she had obviously never done and she was a little hesitant, but she was willing to try it. When he thought that he was finally so exhausted that he couldn’t possibly do more than breathe for at least the next hour, she put her hand on his stomach and said “Just one more time?” to him and climbed on top of him. It was just one more time, but she went so very slow and was obviously enjoying setting the pace. After about twenty minutes, he decided he had to hear her scream one more time. He rolled and put her back on the bottom and pulled out of her. He crawled back down the bed and began a very leisurely but complete show of oral sex on her. He could see that he had been too rough with her earlier. She was going to have some bruises. And she was going to be all kinds of sore. It was a good thing he knew ways to relieve some of that soreness. After bringing her to orgasm twice orally, he moved back up and slid back inside her. He had never felt anything like this for anyone. “Marina, open your eyes.” She opened her eyes and he smiled. She was frustrated that he was inside her but not moving. He kissed her again and started to move while he was kissing her. In minutes she was clinging to him with all her strength as she screamed his name and spasmed around him causing him to have one last orgasm as well.

He was too spent to move. He couldn’t even pull out of her. And he didn’t want to. So he just stayed where he was and relaxed. He was trying to figure out if he could convince her to marry him. He was never going to be without her. He had looked for her his whole life. ‘Marina Wahlberg,’ he thought to himself. ‘She won’t even have to change her initials.’ He smiled. Then he remembered what she had told him earlier. He propped himself up on his elbows. “Marina,” he said to make sure she was still awake. “Did you say your name is Marina Royce Walker?” She nodded reluctantly. “Like Royce Hall Royce?” She nodded again. “So…your father is James Royce? The James Royce that is the 2nd most wealthy man in America behind Bill Gates?”
She laughed at him. “You are just now realizing all that?”
“Apparently.” She kept laughing. “I am so fucked. Your dad is gonna kill me, isn’t he? No, he’ll have me killed for having sex with his daughter.” He found the strength to roll over onto his back.
She rolled to her side and propped up on one elbow and looked at him. “Dad isn’t going to kill you.” Donnie looked at her skeptically. “He want’s me to be happy. He actually tried to get me to sleep with you when we were in LA.”
“I might live after all! It would have been awesome to have been with you in LA. But I don’t think it would have been as good as last night. You know me better now. You trust me now.”
She laid her head on his chest and was almost asleep when he said “I want to take you to meet my boys.” Her heart nearly stopped. She knew with her heart that he cared about her, but him wanting to introduce her to his kids was the proof her mind needed to know how he felt. The thing about it that really blew her mind was the fact that she wanted to meet them too.
“When do you want to leave?”
He laughed. “This weekend I’m staying here in this apartment with you. But next weekend, the boys are supposed to come stay with me. Any chance you are not on call?”
“I am not on call next weekend.” She fell asleep with a smile on her face.

She was awakened by Donnie several hours later. He was picking her up and taking her to the bathroom. He sat her down once in the bathroom and gave her a few minutes of privacy. Then she opened the door and joined him in her Jacuzzi tub. He noticed that she was moving a little slower than usual. “I figured you could use a hot bath to help ease some of the soreness out of those muscles that you’ve been neglecting in Danny’s workout routine.”
She laughed. “Well, I didn’t think you’d mind him helping me with my exercise routine, but I had no idea you were willing to share that part of our relationship with another man….” she teased.
“Danny has done a fine job helping you with your workout, but I’ll die before I ever let another man touch you like I did last night.” She was relaxed and leaned back against him. He loved the view. He kissed the side of her neck and ran his hands over her breasts. “I’m sorry I bruised you and made you so sore last night.” He smiled. “But you’re so damn sex-rated…” She started laughing and he joined her. When she stopped laughing, he got down to the business of washing her hair and they both got cleaned up. She almost cried when she realized that it hurt too much for Donnie to be inside her. “Baby, it’s ok. There are other things I can do to make you feel good. And help ease the soreness.” She was still sitting across his legs on her knees facing him. It was stretching those sore muscles.
“Really?” she asked, instantly perked up.
He couldn’t help laughing. “Why didn’t you tell me you were so sex crazed? I’d have tried harder to seduce you in LA.”
“I didn’t know. I was never all that interested in sex before. It was just another thing on my to do list for the day.” She was looking down. He used his fingers to tilt her face back up to look at him. Once she was looking at him, he kissed her. After a few minutes, she groaned and pulled away. “Do you have any idea how frustrating it its to want you this much and not be able to have you?” He just looked at her. “I’m sorry.” She groaned again and got out of the tub. He quickly followed and grabbed her arm. “Marina, don’t ever apologize to me for wanting me.” He grabbed a towel and wrapped it around her. “The fact that you are willing to share something that special with me makes me feel like the luckiest man alive.” He grabbed a towel for himself. “Now go have a seat somewhere. I have some pampering to do today.”

“Pampering?” she asked.
“Yes, pampering. Starting with your feet.” She grabbed her hair brush and headed to the living room. He collected the things he wanted to use and followed her. He stopped and pulled on his jeans before joining her in the living room. She had put on her robe and was still brushing her hair. “First, we dry your hair.” She was amused that he remembered how much she hated having her hair dry naturally. “Now it’s pedicure and manicure time. But you only get a choice between two colors: Purple and Teal.”
She smiled. “Purple? It’s not purple. It has a name. Look on the bottle.”
He did just that. He read it aloud. “Daddy’s Little Girl? Seriously?” He laughed. He proceeded to massage her feet and calves and then paint her toenails. Then he started on her hands. She was shocked that he did such a good job.
“I don’t even want to know why you are so good at that. I usually have to completely redo my nails 2 or 3 times because I get polish everywhere.”
“Maybe I learned to do it because I know women like it? Maybe once this is all dry, I might show you some of the other things I learned how to do because women like it?”
“You are so full of …” she was interrupted by him leaning up and kissing her. Once he was sure she was totally distracted by his kiss, he stopped and stood up.
“What were you saying about me again?” he asked.
“Just that you’ve got some serious mad skills.” She watched him walk around her place and look at things. He liked the way she decorated. Her things were nice without being ostentatious. He started laughing after a few minutes walking around. “What is so funny?” she asked.
“So… if your dad is James Royce, aren’t you like his only living relative?”
“Yeah, why?”
“So basically you’ve got a lot of money? You work by choice, not by need for a paycheck?”
She answered slowly, realizing he was just really starting to process who she was. “Yes. I do have money. Yes, I work because I love what I do. I pretty much donate my pay back to the hospital in one way or another.” There were a few minutes of silence from him as he browsed her DVD collection. “So, are you mad at me for not telling you sooner?”
He laughed again and walked over to her and sat back down in the floor in front of her. “If anyone could ever understand not telling someone something like this, it would be me. I love our fans, but sometimes it’s nice to be able to meet someone who doesn’t know who I am. That was part of what drew my attention to you to begin with. You acted like you didn’t know me when I came to the hospital. I was just a guy that was scared to be having a test and you and your coworker made me feel like it wasn’t a big deal.” She didn’t take compliments well and looked away. “And you were cute. What‘s really funny is that a couple of people were cautioning me about you. They said you might just be after my money.” They both started laughing.

Marina’s cell phone rang interrupting them. “Can you get that for me?” she said.
“Sure, where is it?”
“On the kitchen counter…I think I dropped it there last night for some reason.”
He was smirking at her until he saw the name on the caller ID. “Shit. It’s your dad.”
“Well answer it. He can’t kill you through the phone.” She laughed at him.
He answered the phone and after a few minutes, Donnie and her dad were talking like old friends. She admired him for being able to hold his own with her dad. A lot of men were intimidated by him. He intimidated them on purpose. When he finally got off the phone, Marina’s nails were all dry and she was really wanting to find something to eat. “Your dad is coming over to pick us up & take us out to dinner later. He said to dress casual. Hope it’s okay that I agreed to go…”
“Of course it is. He’s been wanting to meet you. What time is it now?”
He checked the time on her clock. “It’s a little after 1.”
“Dad always does dinner at 6.” she walked up to him and put her arms around his neck. “Whatever will we do with the few hours until then?”
“Well, I’m not sure what you have in mind, but I wasn’t done pampering you yet.” He had a big grin on his face.
“More??? What did I do to deserve this? And what kind of pampering do I get now?”
He pulled her arms from around his neck & kissed her palms. “Go lay on the bed. Face down. You need a massage.”
“Yes! I get my own private back rub….” she laughed and ran for the bed.   He followed and gave her a very thorough massage that ended up with him making love to her again but in very slow motion until her muscles stretched back out.  It took a while, but it was more than worth it.  Then there was a quick nap followed by a really short shower and then she was still rushed to be ready by the time her dad showed up.  She introduced her dad to her boyfriend.  There was some small talk and then they left for dinner.