Ilona woke up and looked over at Ethan, remembering everything from the night before. Her insides started tingling, thinking about how he made her orgasm with his fingers, but was also left feeling confused about how he wouldn't do any more than that. She laid there staring at him while he slept, trying to figure him out. Maybe he was just being respectful she thought.

She rolled onto her back, and stared at the ceiling. She then rolled her head to the nightstand to see what time it was, and saw that she had another hour until the kids would be awake, she felt an arm wrap around her, and turned her head to the other side, and looked at Ethan.

"Morning." he said, in an appealing morning voice. He then pulled her towards him, face to face, their eyes met, staring at each other "Morning." she said softly.

"Are you still upset with me?" he asked quietly, while still looking at her.

"No, just trying to figure you out is all."

"It might be a little hard, I can't even figure myself out." The back of his hand started caressing her cheek, causing her to feel butterflies, and closed her eyes. The feeling of his touch sent a strong tingle down to her inner core, getting her worked up.

His lips softly touched hers, sending jolts throughout her body. She rested her hand on his cheek, kissing him a little more, and rolled on top of him, kissing him harder. His hands trailed her back softly, then tightly wrapped his arms around her. He wasn't sure what he was doing, but thought that it felt good waking up to a beautiful woman, knowing she wanted him. He rolled her onto her back, and continued kissing her. His cock was throbbing, and was fighting the urgencies of placing himself inside her. Grace kept popping up in his mind, and felt it wasn't fair to Ilona.

His kiss was sending electricity throughout her body, and couldn't take it any longer. Her panties were becoming soaked, and pulled away from his kiss to breathe. She was feeling frustrated, and started pushing him off her "Get off me."

He looked at her confused wondering what was wrong, pushed himself up, and saw hurt in her eyes "What did I do now?"

"Just get off me, you've got me all revved up, all wet, and you're not doing anything about it. Just being a big fucking tease is all."

The hurt in her voice pulled a string in his heart, he felt bad, guilty, and knew he wasn't being fair to her. He wanted it, but couldn't get his mind off Grace, he rolled off her, and onto his back, placing his hands on his face, thinking about what Grace said to him, and thought about his talk with Antonio.

His cock was hard, and throbbing like mad, with what happened in less than twelve hours, he was feeling full, and needed to do something about it. Between her getting him riled up in the kitchen, then again in the middle of the night, and now again, his cock was in dire need of a release, and feeling as if he had a bad case of blue balls. Feeling frustrated with himself, he deeply groaned. "Sorry." He turned to face her, and wrapped an arm around her.

Fuck he thought to himself, pulling her to him. He was going for it, and decided to put his feelings of Grace aside, thinking she didn't want him anyway "I do want you; I just don't want this to be a mistake." he said quietly, pulling her on top of him.

"Prove it then, if you're just going to be a tease, then let me go. I don't need all these feelings going through me, you keep getting me all horned up, and then you push me to the side like I'm some sort of a toy."

She sat up, straddling him, looked down at him, and saw him smirk. She grabbed the hem of her shirt, and pulled it up over her head, revealing her breasts, and a sound of excitement came out of his mouth, as he reached up to her breasts, fondling them.

Pushing himself up he pulled her in for a kiss, then rolled her onto her back while kissing her. The more they kissed the more energized he got, and pushed himself back up to pull his shirt off. He lowered himself back down, and started kissing her all over, licking up and down, in between her breasts, and latching his teeth onto each nipple.

His mouth moved back up to hers, kissing her while he slid his hand down below feeling her wetness. He groaned, and pulled his hand away to pull her bottoms down. His heart started beating faster the moment he saw her naked body lying beneath him, and closed his eyes for a minute to think, and to tell himself to quit thinking about Grace. Telling himself over and over, that she doesn't want him. He then took her legs, and placed them up over his shoulders, and lowered his mouth to her pussy, causing her to arch her back the moment she felt his tongue hit her clit.

He stroked his tongue along her clit, causing her to twitch, and to keep raising her hips up and down, while he licked her pussy. Her breathing was becoming faster, and clenched her hands onto the sheets tightly, when she felt an orgasm coming. Realizing her moans were getting louder, and didn't want anyone knowing what they were doing, she grabbed a pillow, and rested it over her face.

Her hips bucked up high, and began releasing her fluids. She pulled the pillow away from her face, and looked down at him. He looked up at her, and pulled away, wiping his face as he moved up to kiss her.

He quickly took off his pants, and dug into his back pocket, pulling out his wallet, looking for a condom, and became nervous when he couldn't find one. Shit he muttered, he then looked in another area of his wallet, and felt relieved when he found one. He dropped everything onto the floor, and quickly put on the condom.

He rolled back onto her, "Hurry up." she begged. "The kids will be awake soon." He closed his eyes, and thrusted slowly into her. Her insides were hot, and tight. His thrusts were slow, and deep, and she kept moaning out his name every time he hit a spot. Her legs tightly wrapped around him, when he thrusted harder, and deeper, and the sounds of enjoyment kept escaping her mouth. He lowered his lips to hers, kissing her roughly.

He felt her tightening around his cock, knew she was about to orgasm, and pushed himself up, thrusting faster. He let out a loud grunt, and released himself. She pulled him down against her, kissing him long and hard. Finally feeling relieved, and satisfied, she smiled while they kissed "That was exactly what I needed." she moaned, happily.

"Glad you enjoyed it." he smiled. He pulled out, and rolled onto his back, feeling relieved, and satisfied, but then felt guilty, like he betrayed Grace. He got up out of bed, and walked into the bathroom. Hoping to get whatever he was feeling, to go away. He stood in front of the mirror, with his hands pressing hard onto the sink, and stared at himself in the mirror. He heard a knock at the door, and cracked the door open a little, in case it was one of the kids.

"It's just me." He then opened the door further "I thought you might like your clothes." she says, handing them to him.

"Thanks." He reached his hand around her, cupping the back of her head and kissed her.

"I have to go check on the kids now." She left the room to go check on the kids, leaving him down in her room. After he showered, and cleaned up, he got dressed, and sat onto the edge of her bed, resting his head in his hands, feeling like shit. As much as he enjoyed the sex, he wasn't happy with himself. He wanted to see Grace, and talk to her. He wanted to know her true feelings towards him, and wanted to make sure that he could move on, as of now, he was hating himself.

******

For a couple days Ethan was a mess, and after sleeping with Ilona, he didn't know what to do. He had feelings towards her, thought the sex was great, but he also needed to talk to Grace and to get things cleared up between them. He kept trying to call her, and wouldn't take any of his calls. He kept driving by her house, and each time he drove by, she wasn't there.

Ethan sat at his dining room table holding his phone in his hand, and staring at it. Frustrated she wouldn't talk to him, and called Antonio asking for him to stop by, wanting to talk to him. While waiting for Antonio to show up, he cracked open a beer, and sat there thinking of Grace, and Ilona. Antonio walked into Ethan's house, and saw him leaning back in his chair. "What's going on loser?" Antonio asked, chuckling.

"I know I am." Ethan says sitting up, taking a drink of his beer, but then realized the bottle was empty, and got up to grab another beer "Beer?" he asked.

"Sure." Antonio figured he better have a beer with him, he could see he wasn't himself, and had a feeling that it had to do with Grace.

Ethan handed him a beer, and sat down "I'm a fucking mess."

"Why? What's going on?"

"Fuck, Antonio..." He started saying, and paused, while rolling the beer bottle in his hand "You know... life is a lot like a cock, soft, relaxed, and hanging free... then a woman comes along, and makes it hard."

Antonio set his beer down, and laughed "Yea I guess it is like that." He pressed his elbows on the table, and clasped his hands together, rubbing his lip with his thumb. Thinking of what to say to him, he could tell something happened. "OK, now what happened?"

"I came by the other day looking for you, I needed to talk to you about Grace, and to see if you and Sadie had talked to her... I haven't heard a word from her, and she's refusing to take my calls. The only time I sort of heard from her, was on Saturday. She sent me a message for me to come on over, that nobody was home. My dumbass went over there, and she wasn't there."

Antonio laughed, shaking his head "You seriously went over there?"

"What's so funny?"

"Dude, she said nobody was home, she lives by herself, and you still went over there?" Antonio couldn't help it, and continued to laugh.

"I'm glad you think it's funny, I now know what she meant after I had gone over there, and looked at the message she sent me, after that, was when I went over to your house."

"Ethan... what did I tell you? Let Grace be, I'm guessing she wants to see if you can find somebody else. From what you told me a couple weeks ago, about what she said to you, and now the other day, she wants you to leave her alone."

"I don't get it, I don't understand her at all, she keeps saying that, but she already came back once, and said that was it. Then she came and visited me at work. Why come to my work, be nice to me, then tell me that she wants me to move on? Makes no sense, I think she's in love with me, and is afraid to admit it. She's afraid of something, and refuses to tell me."

"Seriously Ethan, please let her go, let her come to you. I already told you, if you two are meant to be together, it will happen. You can't go around chasing something that doesn't want to be chased."

"All I want is answers."

"Give her time, and in the meantime do what you're doing. Looked like you, and Ilona got along pretty well the other night." Antonio smiled, and got up to grab another beer "Want another one?"

"I think I need something a little stronger."

Antonio grabbed him a beer anyway, and handed it to him "Maybe you need to just have a beer, and get with reality for a minute."

"Fine." Ethan opened the beer, slamming it all.

Antonio sat and watched him, shaking his head. This was the worst he has seen him, and couldn't believe how messed up Ethan was "What was that I saw that night, between you and Ilona?"

"I'm not sure." Ethan deadpanned.

"Looks to me something else was going on, and don't think I didn't notice the looks the next day. So, don't lie to yourself, you may lie to me, but don't lie to yourself."

"Who said anything happened?"

"You... Ilona's face that morning, not to mention Sadie went downstairs to let Ilona know that she could sleep in, that she had the kids, and saw that you weren't on the couch. She then heard noises coming from the bedroom." he smirked.

Ethan's heart stopped, the last thing he needed was for Sadie to know what they were doing "I'm such an ass, I don't deserve either one of them, I'm so confused... Dammit Antonio, I like them both, I have wanted Grace for years, and they are both drop dead gorgeous. They both make my heart skip a beat, and they both can take my shit. And then here I am, drowning my sorrows for one that I know is interested in me, and one that is pushing me away for whatever reason."

"I can't tell you what to do, but what I will tell you, is please don't string either one of them around, I've given you my thoughts, and advice, but it's still up to you... As for Grace, when she has stopped by the house, she seems OK, a little distant, but seems to be in good spirits."

Antonio left Ethan's hoping he made sense. He hated leaving him in the state of mind he was in, but he had to get to bed. The more Ethan thought about the situation he was in, the more he drank, until he passed out.

The next morning, he awoke early, and left for work, he didn't care what time it was, he just knew he needed to leave. He stopped at a 24-hour restaurant, and grabbed some breakfast. While sitting at his table waiting for his food to arrive, he saw a female that resembled Grace, saw that she was with another man, and tried figuring out who it was, and if it was her.

His food arrived, but couldn't help watching the woman sitting on the other side of the room from him. His eyes remained glued to her the entire time he ate, still unsure if it was her, but noticed that the backside of the woman looked a lot like her.

He saw her get up, and head towards the restroom. Wanting to see if it was her, he stood up, followed her back to the restroom, and stood against the wall waiting for her to come out.

The door opened, and a smile formed on his face "Grace." he said, quietly and happily. As well as relieved to finally run into her.

"What are you doing here Ethan?" She looked at him shocked, and with a hint of sadness in her eyes.

"We need to talk, and I wish you would finally talk to me, instead of ignoring me and my phone calls."

"Ethan it's for your own good, you need to move on, and let me go."

"That's not good enough, I need answers." he demanded, he reached out, cupped her cheek. She closed her eyes, and he noticed a tear stroll down her face.

She opened her eyes, and sighed "Please, I have to go. I'm here with my boss, and I cannot keep him waiting." She said hesitantly, pulling his hand away from her. She heard him sigh, and looked away from him "Please, just let me go."

"If you don't talk to me, I'm going to go and talk to Sadie, and tell her everything that happened between us." Grace's head snapped quickly towards him, looking at him scared. "You wouldn't."

"Oh, yes I will."

As much as she didn't want to talk to Ethan, she looked away, and debated with herself. She really didn't want Sadie to know, and thought it was bad enough Antonio knew "Fine, I'll come over later, and we'll talk, but don't think for one second, that you're getting anything from me."

Ok, some of this may and may not upset the Ilona fans, he's still in a rut, and likes them both.

My Grace fan readers might be upset, but again he's still trying to figure this all out without wanting to hurt either one .

Hope you enjoyed the chapter anyways. 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊