Chapter 8 Coffee, Tea or Sex

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Coffee, Tea, or Sex
Chapter 8
Rating: NC-17 eventually
Author: Orli-bum
Beta: The most kind willys_digs
Banner by lotr_gal709
Summary: Viggo meets a waiter that offers him more than just what’s on the menu.
Warning: Some het in this chapter.
Disclaimer: Yes, fiction, duh!
Feedback: Is needed as always, it is food for the author’s soul

Chapter Listing: http://avia.silverbloom.net/mirror/viewstory.php?sid=13281

Chapter 8

Orlando lay quietly on the couch after Viggo shut the door. The tears still fell from his eyes as he agonized over the decision he had made and stood by. But why had it hurt so much? Why am I in so much pain if it was so bloody right? He brushed the tears out of his eyes and away from his face with the sleeve of his shirt.

He looked to the bottle of pain medication and reached over and grabbed it, his hands shook as he dumped a couple more pills in his hands and threw them into his mouth, tasting the bitterness of the medication upon his tongue. He just wanted to be numb for awhile, to go to sleep and sleep soundly and forget about the pain for just a little while.

Orlando felt severe pounding in his head hours later. He moaned as he shifted on the couch. He brought his hands up to his head and grimaced. The pounding was louder now and he opened his eyes and realized it was someone knocking loudly on his door.

‘It could be Viggo,’’ he thought as he struggled to sit up, grimacing as his ankle throbbed. ‘Now why would he come back after what I had told him.’

“Orlando!”

“Oh shit. Be right there Billy!” Orlando called out as he grabbed his crutches and stood shakily. He felt dizzy from the extra dose of pain medication and regretted now that he had even taken it. He hobbled over to the door and unlocked it, glad that Viggo had actually locked it on his way out.

“I’ve been knocking for ten minutes!” Billy huffed as he walked in past Orlando, looking around the room, expecting to see Viggo there.

Orlando shut the door and followed his friend back inside. “He’s not here if that’s who you’re looking for,” he said as he sat down on the couch. He raised his foot back up on the pillow and sighed as he lay back down.

”What happened?” Billy asked as he flopped down on the chair next to the couch.

“Nothing happened,” Orlando muttered as he closed his eyes tiredly.

“Something had to have happen Orlando I know you too well and I can see by the look in yours eyes you’ve been crying,” he pushed his friend for an honest answer.

Orlando licked his lips, still tasting the kiss, “He kissed me,” he said quietly.

“And…” Billy paused waiting for more.

“I told him I couldn’t become involved with him. He’s was married.”

“Good for you Lando,” he said in relief leaning back in the chair.

“No! Not good for me,” he answered angrily as he opened his eyes and looked towards his friend.

Billy looked at him in confusion. “I thought you had decided this was best?”

Orlando groaned and rubbed his eyes furiously. “I want him so much!” he cried out in frustration. “I wanted him to stay; it felt so good when he was kissing me it was almost out of my control. I can’t even believe it now that I had enough sense in me to stop him.”

“Then why didn’t you then if you wanted him so badly?” he asked trying not to anger his friend, but to get him to sort out his feelings.

Orlando thought back before he answered. “I never told you this Billy,” he said finally, “but my mom cheated on my dad, thus I was born. He died thinking I was his child. I thought it such a cruel thing to cheat on your spouse no matter how bad the marriage was or the circumstances. I was mad at her for doing it when I found out my dad wasn’t my dad, I vowed I would never do that to another person.”

“Wow!” Billy exhaled. “I never knew Lando. I’m sorry.”

“That’s what is making this so hard Billy. I made that vow and now I so desperately want to break it. If I had let him stay, I knew I would have let him fuck me through til next week! God I am so bloody confused,” he groaned.

“I wish I would have been able to stay with you there Orlando, at the hospital I mean, that way you never would have been in this situation in the first place.”

Orlando could only shake his head, “I really don’t think it would have mattered. Sooner or later, we would have ended up dealing with this. The attraction we feel is too strong. It would have been another time or another place but I know in my heart something would have happened eventually.”

“Is there anything I can do to help?” Billy asked feeling for his friend and needing to comfort him.

“No, not right now,” he replied. “I think right now I just need to get some sleep,” he replied yawning. “I might have taken more painkillers than I should have.”

“Are you going to be okay?” he asked immediately concerned.

“Yeah, thanks Billy, for coming over and checking on me,” he said with a small smile.

“Yeah sure, anytime. Umm, I was going to ask you about work? Are you going to be off a few days or what? They were asking me before I left tonight.”

“Well, I can’t serve anyone on a sprained ankle that’s for sure,” he laughed. “I was going to see if I could just answer the phone and take the take out orders. That should be easy enough.”

“Ill ask at work tomorrow and let you know alright?” he said as he bent down and kissed Orlando forehead.

“Thanks, I won’t be going anywhere, but you’ll have to drive me to and from work for a while, if that’s okay?”

“I think I can handle that,” he answered with a grin. “I’ll call tomorrow alrighty?”

“Lock the door on the way out, okay?” he yelled as Billy rounded the corner. He listened as he heard the lock catch and the door shut softly behind him.

‘God what a mess I’ve gotten myself in this time.’

~

Viggo sat quietly in his car for several minutes after he had left Orlando. He pondered over Orlando’s words of not wanting to be involved with a married man. He wondered if perhaps it had happened to him before and had ended badly. He could understand it though. ‘Well, “I’m trying to understand it,’ he contemplated.

He knew Orlando had feelings for him, he did return the kiss after all. But it was after Viggo had said he wanted him that Orlando had pushed him away. Maybe he had pushed too much too soon? He couldn’t help with that, Orlando was just so….irresistable. He had never felt so compelled to be with anyone before. He had hurt badly when Orlando had told him to leave. He shook his head in confusion and started the car up. He pulled out of the lot when his cell started to ring.

He grabbed it and noticed the caller, Chloe; he let out a deep sigh. God he did not want to answer it. “Hello,” he said as he flipped the phone open.

“Where are you Viggo?” the voice asked over the phone. “You were supposed to be home hours ago?”

“I was detained,” he said roughly, well he was, wasn’t he?

“At the hospital?” she asked.

“Uh, yeah it was busy tonight so I stayed longer,” he lied.

“I need you to come home Viggo,” she replied after a moments pause. “We need to talk.”

Viggo heard the coldness in her voice and he felt his heart clench in anxiety. “Has something happened?” he asked.

“I’ll talk to you when you get here,” she said and hung up the phone.

Viggo closed the phone slowly and sighed. ‘God I hoped she hasn’t called the hospital.’

She never called the hospital unless it was an emergency. How ironic is that statement. He was definitely not looking forward to the confrontation when he got home. He wondered for a moment if perhaps he should go back to the hospital and spend the night there. It would be safer after all.

But no, he decided, he needed to face the music now. So he drove home, running different scenarios over in his head as he did.

~

He opened the door quietly once he got home. Most the lights in the large house were turned off he noticed as he shut the door quietly behind him. He laid his keys on the table just inside the door.

“Chloe?” he called out and waited for a response. All he got in return was dead silence. He headed up the stairs thinking maybe she had went to bed since he had taken a while to get home. But then he realized even if she did, she still would be awake.

He walked down the hall to the bedroom and stood in the open doorway. Chloe sat at her vanity table brushing her hair. The bedroom lights turned to low.

“Hey,” he said quietly as he leaned against the door, watching her.

She continued to brush her hair as she looked at his reflection in the mirror.

“Um…you said you wanted to talk,” he said nervously as he walked into the room and took his jacket off and hung it neatly over the back of his valet.

“I think we should, don’t you?” she replied as she looked at him in the mirror.

Viggo pursed his lips together and sat down on the edge of the bed, sitting quietly.

“Where were you?” she asked finally setting the brush down.

“I told you, I worked late,” he said.

Chloe huffed. “The doctor that you replaced called and said you had left your medical bag in the emergency room.”

Viggo began to feel his heart beating harder inside his chest.

“You left there hours ago Viggo. Where the hell have you been?” she asked finally turning around to glare at him.

Viggo couldn’t look her in the eye. “I took one of the patients home,” he said quietly opting for a partial truth.

“What?” she asked surprised.

“One of the patients I treated tonight needed a ride, and I was just getting off. So I offered to take him home. He would have had to stay there for hours if I hadn’t.”

“Viggo, I cannot believe you did that. That is the most unprofessional thing I have ever heard of.”

“He wasn’t a stranger Chloe; he waited on us at the restaurant the other night. I thought it would be nice if he didn’t have to wait till 1 in the morning to get a ride home.”

Chloe stared hard at her husband. “That’s all it was?” she asked to be certain, still not totally believing him.

“Yes,” he answered as innocently as he could. “It wasn’t a big deal.”

“You could have called.”

“I know and I’m sorry, I should have, you’re right,” he said as he stood up and walked over to her. “Forgive me?” he asked as he lifted her up and wrapped his arms around her.

She smiled slightly. “I suppose, I guess my mind thought the worse.”

“The worse?” he asked with a grin.

“I thought maybe you were cheating on me,” she said quietly looking down. “You’ve been a little distant the last few days, even more than usual. It wasn’t like you.”

“I wasn’t sweetheart,” he said as he kissed the top of her head. He felt her relax in his arms in acceptance of his answer “Really,” he replied.

Chloe lifted her head up and leaned in for a kiss which Viggo knew he had to return. Viggo parted his lips and kissed her softly for a moment before releasing her.

“I’m going to go to bed,” she said trailing her hand down his chest. “You coming with me?” she whispered softly.

Viggo felt sick. “I will be, let me get cleaned up, get rid of that hospital smell,” he replied as he pulled away.

“Make it quick,” she smiled as she pulled her robe off to reveal one of her sexier nighties underneath.

“Yeah, I’ll be right back,” he said as he backed into the bathroom and shut the door quickly behind him.

Viggo took a deep breath and leaned against the door. He needed a shower, and not just because of the hospital smell. He could smell Orlando on him, and he felt the drip of sweat rolling off his forehead as he had told his lies.

He stripped his clothes off and took one last inhale of his shirt. His eyes closed as he thought of leaning over Orlando and kissing the side of his neck, those sweet lips that he had touched so briefly.

He knew what Chloe was expecting when he was done with his shower. He didn’t know if he would be able to have sex with her. He knew she expected it. He knew if he didn’t her mind would soon become suspicious again.

He stepped into the hot shower and let the water beat down upon his stressed body. He prayed a short prayer that she would be asleep by the time he was done. But he knew that it was in vain.

TBC…..

Comments

[jackieville.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, poor Orlando *sniff* I hope Viggo tells Chloe the truth soon for all of their sakes....I am so addicted to this story!!! Can't wait to see what happens next!!!

[dreamerswings42.livejournal.com]

Well let's see if Viggo can perform with Orlando on his mind! ;-) If Viggo's got cheating on his mind, his marriage is already over.... time to tell.

Great chapter, thanks.

[fictionbylouby.livejournal.com]

Great chapter xxxx

[sitaray.livejournal.com]

poor poor viggo! It's sad that he's not happy with chloe...he really needs to come clean.... And poor Orli...he's doing the right thing, and it still hurts so much :(