by Various
Lavonne faked a smile. “If you’re trying to motivate me, it’s really not necessary.”
“We’ll see.”
He stood up, pocketed the envelope of money, and left. Glancing back over his shoulder, he noticed Keane nod at his henchman. They were going to try to follow him. Lavonne smiled to himself. If they thought they were going to use him to find Walsh they had another thing coming.
Not going to happen, buddy. This is my kill.
* * * *
Adrian and Seth were in the kitchen hunting for food, when Adrian spotted the clock on the cooker and noticed it was near one in the afternoon. He was starting to lose all sense of time, as well as all sense of the outside world. Was that a good thing, or a bad thing, he wondered?
“We’re almost out of milk.” Seth grabbed a box of cereal and dipped into it, eating it directly from the box. “I’ll have a cup of tea and then go get some fresh supplies.”
Adrian plugged the kettle in and then leaned against the work surface. “Is it far?”
Seth shook his head. “I’ll be gone forty minutes, maybe less.” He had that assessing look in his eyes. “Can I trust you two to stay inside and out of view?”
“Yes, of course.” He was trying to picture where they were in Wales. He’d visited Cardiff, but he didn’t know this area at all. How far away was the nearest town?
Seth lifted three cups out of a cupboard and opened the tea caddy. He glanced back at Adrian while he did so. “Should I be apologizing to you, about Lily?”
Adrian was surprised, and amused. He resisted the urge to chuckle, and stared at Seth, deadpan. Shrugging, he waited expectantly. After a moment, Seth put the tea caddy down and raised his hands, a tea bag rather comically clutched between the fingers of one hand. “Look mate, I’m sorry, it just sort of happened.”
Adrian laughed. “I’m kidding…although I have to say it is good of you to apologize.” He smiled. Seth relaxed, visibly. He really had been worried. “It’s not the sort of thing that anyone can orchestrate,” he added. “It just happened. As you said, it took all three of us to agree to it. Lily was up for it, I enjoyed it, and if it hadn’t been for your presence it might never have happened.”
“It would have happened,” Seth responded. “She was ready for you when she arrived at your office.” He shook his head. “Man, was she ever ready.”
Adrian paused before replying to that one. “I’m not going to lie, I do wish I had been the one who opened the door, but things might have taken a very different turn. As my secretary is always telling me, we have to believe in fate sometimes, especially when it deals us out such a bloody good hand as this one.”
“Agreed.” There was respect in Seth’s eyes.
“I’d be climbing the walls here if it wasn’t for Lily, what with the case pending.”
Seth nodded.
The black clouds on his horizon crowded in again. “I don’t want to regret agreeing to give evidence, but I have to say, it’s doing my head in right now.”
“It’s natural. Think about how you’d feel if you hadn’t come forward. You’d still be at his beck and call, and that would only escalate once he got a hold on you.”
“That’s true.”
Seth had been with witnesses before, many times. This kind of stress would be something he’d be familiar with.
“Thanks.”
“Any time, really. If you want to talk, I’m here.”
“There is something I’m curious about. Why did you change the location? Not that I’m complaining, mind you. This place is great, very comfortable. I’m just curious.”
“The attempt,” Seth answered, simply, eyes downcast. “Just wanted to be doubly sure.”
Silence hung between them for a moment, and then Adrian reached out and put his hand on Seth’s shoulder. “I appreciate everything you’ve done for my safety, mine and Lily’s.”
Seth gave a lopsided smile. “It’s my job.”
Lily wandered in. She was wearing one of the T-shirts Seth had offered, socks, and not a lot else. As she joined them she looked the pair of them over, a bemused smile took up residence on her face. “I’m not interrupting a special moment between you two, am I?”
Seth frowned. “Huh?”
“You two seemed to be getting so much closer…should I be jealous?” Her eyes rounded and then she winked. “I mean, you will still need me at bedtime, right?”
“No way, you can’t be serious.” Seth laughed. “I don’t mind sharing, but it’s this I’m after.” He spanked her firmly on the bottom, and Lily jolted and then moaned, audibly, eyelids lowering.
“Whereas me, on the other hand…” Adrian said, adopting a deadpan expression again. He waited until they both looked his way. Lily looked fascinated, Seth wary. “I’ve always wondered what it would feel like, to make another man come.”
Seth looked seriously disturbed, and then Adrian laughed.
Seth reached again for the cereal packet, shaking his head. “You’ve got a seriously warped sense of humor. You’re ganging up on me, the pair of you.”
The clouds had gone again, at least for the time being, and Adrian preferred it that way.
* * * *
The shower cubicle in Adrian’s en-suite bathroom was large, which was just as well. Lily stood just outside of the fall of water with her back against the tiled wall. Steam filled the cubicle—steam, and the sound of her sighs of approval.
Adrian was facing her, the spray from the shower beating against his back. With his palms alternately cupped and splayed, he soaped her breasts—slowly, luxuriously—and he’d been doing it for at least a minute. Lily was in heaven.
Seth had gone to get milk and bread and once he’d left them, Adrian led her to the shower. First he’d shampooed her hair, carefully, silently. Lily was still in a haze of pleasure from what had gone before, and she felt languid and cherished as he washed her. With intricate care, he’d soaped her hands and arms, his cock half-risen as he did so. His hair was plastered to his head, and it made him look even leaner, the line of his jaw constantly drawing her hand to it. He stared at her as if learning every inch of her body, and now his attention to her breasts had turned into an erotic massage of which she had never known the like. Watchful and responsive to her sighs, he had sensitized her breasts to the extreme, kneading them gently and then tweaking the nut hard nipples, alternating between the two. Lily sighed with ecstasy.
“When I first said I’d give evidence, I never imagined I would be doing something like this while in witness protection.”
She rested her hands on his shoulder for balance, looking deep into his eyes. “No, I never even thought that we’d be able to get this intimate on our first date, let alone spend so much time together.”
He nodded happily. “I didn’t dare think about it beyond the first meeting. I just wanted that to go well, hoping that we could experience a bit of what we’d had online.”
“This is even better.” She nodded down at where his hands were squeezing her. “That’s so, so good,” she added, breathlessly. “I actually think you could make me come like that.”
“You reckon?” Holding his gaze with hers, he stroked her breasts for a moment longer, and then kissed her, long and slow, before continuing. “That’s good to know, but I really want to be inside you when you come.”
Lily’s pussy fluttered with expectation, and then he bent down to take one nipple in his mouth, his hands cupping both breasts as he did so.
“Are you sure your dodgy knee is up to it?” She managed to get the words out while she clenched her hands to stay focused. Her nipples were so hard they stung and the one he was licking burned as he sucked on it and then grazed it with his teeth, sending a jagged riff from her breasts to her centre and back again. Her clit pounded, and she blinked into the steam as she rested her head back against the tiled wall, barely able to stand.
“It’s fine, and I’m more than ready.” Adrian lifted his head and moved his hand, stroking his entire palm
up and down the mound of her pussy, kneading it as he did so. “Believe me, I am so ready. All those weeks of foreplay, the anticipation.” He shook his head. “Watching you with Seth is such a turn on. The only thing that has stopped me going completely insane last night and this morning is the fact that you are so damn good with your mouth and your hands.” His fingers made their way inside her, and she could see he was barely holding back as he thrust one finger into her sex, his erection long and hard against her hip. “But now I need to fuck you, badly.”
Lily moaned.
“I want to be inside you when you come,” he repeated.
“In that case you better get us back to the bed, quickly.” She gasped when he thrust another finger inside her. “Especially if you are going to continue doing that.”
His eyes seemed to light, and his grin was wicked. With one hand claiming her pussy, he plucked her nipple with the other, pulling on it until she cursed, loudly.
She reached for the shower faucet, and turned it off. “I’m not kidding! On the bed, quickly.”
Adrian laughed when she staggered out of the cubicle, grabbing his hand as she went. He lifted a towel as they passed the rail, but when he went to dry her off she flung herself on the bed on her back.
“Hurry,” she said.
But Adrian paused and he nodded down at her groin. “Show me.”
He was standing at the edge of the bed, her viewpoint placing him right between her thighs, right where he’d told her he’d stand in all those raunchy chats they’d shared. Moaning, she lifted her feet, planting them on the bed, opening her legs as she did so, baring her pussy to him.
“Touch yourself; I want to see it, long to see it.” His cock was rigid and tapping against his belly. He stroked himself, one hand riding up and down, rhythmic and purposeful on his cock.
With her fingers, she splayed her pussy, moving over its slick surface. Her folds were engorged and hot, and her clit beat wildly, so swollen and expectant that when she touched it her back arched against the bed. “Please, Adrian.”
“Please what?”
“Please. I want you, now.”
“Ah, ah, ah,” he teased, wagging a finger at her, eyes warm and filled with desire and affection. “I am going to fuck you, believe me. But I’m living the dream, lady, all the things you put in my head. I’m living out the promise. Make yourself come, I want to see it. Then you’ll get the rest.”
Knees lifted, urgency swamping her, she rubbed herself quickly for relief. It didn’t take long, not in her current state. With her clit captured between two fingers, she squeezed it then rolled back and forth until she climaxed, her body feverish because of the way he was watching her, so obviously wanting her and ready to go.
He strode to the bedside cabinet, where Seth had left a box of condoms, and quickly pulled one out and on. Then he was there, between her legs, his sheathed cock pressed upright between the lips of her pussy.
Lily’s head thrashed against the pillows, her hips lifting against the rigid shaft, her clit thrumming with sensation. “I want you, want you so badly.”
“Music to my ears, lover.” He maneuvered his cock to her opening and drove inside in one swift, possessive movement.
It took her breath away, making her spine stretch. Her thighs locked around his hips, heels against the back of his legs, her body clamping onto him, inside and out.
He threw back his head, neck corded, bellowing unreservedly as he rode her. “Oh, that is so bloody good.”
Delighted, Lily met him and matched him. Her lips parted each time he thrust inside her, her breath caught on each move. He locked eyes with her, nodding. With her hands on his upper arms, she looked deep into his eyes, loving the way he was.
“Long time coming, love,” he said, stroking her damp hair back across the pillows. “This has been a long time coming.”
It surely had been, and they were frantic in their union, their hips rising together in time, each of them urging the other on. “Faster,” she said, embracing his cock over and over, joyous laughter escaping her lips, “harder.”
There was such a look of pride in his eyes that her chest ached. “Oh, Adrian…”
“Right here, love, I’m right here.” His voice wrapped around her like an embrace, taking her to the edge. With her arms and legs locked tight around him, she came, her body pulsating with heat and energy.
Grinding deep, his cock jerked and then he stilled, silent in his moment of release. Holding the position for as long as he could, he kissed the tip of her nose, before rolling away onto the bed next to her. His fingers meshed with hers, and he took her hand to his lips, kissing it.
She had all but melted into the bed, her limbs like jelly, and she was about to comment on that fact, when he got up and went into the bathroom and was back a minute later, reaching for another condom.
“Blimey,” she said, rising up onto her elbows to observe, “you’re still hard.”
“Like I said, I’ve been waiting, and I developed a whole head of steam these past weeks.” He grinned. “Now I’ve started, I could work my way through this whole box of condoms.”
“You really can go again, straight away?” Lily was astonished.
“Uhuh, I can usually manage twice, sometimes three rounds.” The new condom was on. “Can you take more?”
Laughing huskily, she reached out to him. She had two men, and apparently one of them could go all night. It never rained but it poured. “I think so, but I may never walk again.”
That was when the door creaked open.
“I can’t turn my back for a moment,” Seth said, taking off the baseball cap he was wearing and throwing it onto the bed next to them. “You’re insatiable.”
“Hey, it’s my turn now,” Adrian murmured, resuming his former position and thrusting hard between Lily’s thighs again.
Lily savored the look Seth was giving her, a thorough once up-and-down with an appreciative grin.
“Are you going to join us?” she asked.
“Hell no, I thought I might try this watching thing, see what all the fuss is about.” He waved his hand. “Carry on.” Humor filled his eyes, and Lily laughed softly, mellow and wildly aroused all at once, drugged by the experience.
This time Adrian was less hurried, and his slow, almost lazy thrusts made her melt all over again. When he bent his head to kiss her throat, she saw how Seth had changed, how his expression had darkened to brooding. Glancing lower, she saw he was hard inside his jeans.
He moved closer, watching.
She growled, clutching at Adrian, decadent in her excess, eyes closing as another orgasm rolled over her. Adrian’s mouth was on her neck, and when Seth’s mouth closed over hers, the pair of them kissing her as she peaked, she was in heaven, and she wanted it to last and last.
Chapter Eleven
“Day four in the Big Brother witness protection house,” Adrian said, faking a reality show voiceover, “and the lovely Laidbacklady Lily grows more ravishing by the moment, keeping both Seth and Adrian in a constant state of arousal.”
He munched on a piece of toast, watching as Lily rolled on the sofa, giggling. The way her eyes sparkled made him feel good. Even Seth was smiling. It hadn’t slipped his notice that Seth rarely smiled in that genuine way, except when it was about Lily.
“That’s great. Can you do other impersonations?” Lily asked.
“Keep the curtains closed and stay away from the windows,” he said, mimicking Seth.
Lily laughed again, and Seth’s eyebrows shot up.
“You’re crazy,” Lily said, reaching for her tea.
“In a good way or a bad way?” They kept asking each other that question.
“A good way, of course.” She looked cozy on the sofa. She’d pulled a velvet cover over her legs, and clutched her breakfast mug in both hands to warm her. “It is a bit like Big Brother, isn’t it? Day three, and the housemates don’t know what bloody time of day it is, but they eat breakfast, because they just got up and they w
ere hungry.” Flashing a smile his way, she sat quietly for a moment and then sighed, loudly. “It’s way different to the normal routine, for me at any rate. What would your average day be like?”
Adrian relished her question. “Well…there’s this woman who I like to talk dirty with, online…”
“No!” She laughed again, and looked at him fondly, as if she liked the joke. “I mean the rest, the bits that I don’t know about.” She really did want to fill the missing pieces of the picture. “What would you be doing now?”
“Right about now,” he glanced at his watch, “my secretary, Cassandra, would be breaking the endless cycle of figures with a cup of green tea and a large bowl of muesli.”
Seth coughed. “You’re a health freak? Damn, I missed that on the info sheet.”
They had info sheets? “Me no. I’ll pretty much eat anything. Cassandra, yes. She’s like this 1970’s super-efficient health freak, into yoga and the whole thing. She frets that I don’t eat breakfast, and—like I said—I will eat anything that’s put in front of me.”
“This is the grandmother lady who thinks you should get out and meet women?” A teasing, curious smile lit Lily up again.
“The very one.” He paused, remembering the time he had shared that with her, thinking about the times they had shared on line. It also made him think about Cassandra, who he cared about a great deal—thinking about the actual nuts and bolts of what went on when he was pulled out of his life. Looking Seth’s way, he knew he had to ask. “Will Cassandra know? I mean, will someone have explained it to her, and my brother. Will they understand what’s happened to me?” He wasn’t sure he wanted them to know, they’d only worry, but the question kept bugging him.
Seth nodded. “Normally you’d have had time to alert them yourself, but the way things panned out, members of my department would have moved in and checked out the office. Your next of kin and secretary’s details were already on file.”
