Malice Masterpieces

by K'Anne Meinel

  “Thank you,” she told her daughter as Kit explained how they had shopped for it first thing at Wal-Mart and then went to shop for the groceries. She glanced at Alice with the thank you still on her lips and blinked back the tears at her generosity.

  “Can I go out and watch the boats?” Kit asked after they had everything set up and it was apparent that Kathy wasn’t going to let her play with the new toy.

  “Yes but stay on this side of the gate,” Kathy told her. “Where we can see you okay?”

  As she left, closing the patio door carefully behind her Kathy turned to Alice, “Thank you, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your help.”

  Alice shrugged it away. “Don’t worry about it; I knew you were worrying about your work, will you be able to access it from this?” She knew she would but wanted to talk to her anyway, she enjoyed talking to her.

  “Yes, in fact I might be faster; we just have to set up the internet.”

  “Just don’t answer any of his emails and it should keep it clean, I’d run a scan on any new work just to be safe in case he somehow managed to encode them…” Alice warned.

  “Do you think he’d do that?” Kathy asked alarmed.

  “He sent you a Trojan virus, he’d do almost anything.”

  Remembering that and the fact that he could have followed them from Portland and then remembering the strange little beep she asked, “Did you two come home earlier at all?”

  Alice shook her head as she looked at her questioningly.

  “There was a strange little beeping noise that came from that panel there on the wall and then I saw a light flashing too, it all went out before I could get to it. It was a while before you two came home so that’s why I asked.”

  Alice nodded as she looked for and found the portable phone, punching in a number she asked, “Hey Hernando, it’s Ms. Weaver, did I have any guests today?” she listened carefully and nodded before saying, “Thank you, no that’s all, bye.”

  Kathy looked at her alarmed and waited to hear what she had to say. When she didn’t say anything right away she asked anxiously, “Well?”

  Alice looked at her and said, “Well what?” but she knew.

  “Did you have any guests while you were out?”

  “No,” Alice looked her straight in the eye as she lied to her. There was no point in telling her that a black Mercedes with a man in it had inquired at the gate. She had thought it would take him longer but Eli Watson had resources and she better do something about that and now. “It was a wrong number kind of thing,” she said with a smile. “Do you think she’s okay out there?” she asked as she got up off the chair and looked out at Kit watching the boats come and go. “I’d like to get some work done,” she indicated her alcove.

  “She should be fine, and if I sit like this I can set up the rest of the computer and watch her,” Kathy answered, relieved that no one had found them yet and totally distracted from that topic of conversation.

  Alice went up the short flight of steps to the alcove, if she stood up on her chair she could see over the computers and down into the living room but it hid her completely and yet she could hear the clackety clack of Kathy’s fingers typing away on the laptop as she finished setting it up for her work. She herself had all her computers on standby, set one for actual work to find some numbers she needed after several days away and one she had searching for more intimate information on one Eli Watson going even more in depth than she had before. She found the same safety checks on and expertly avoided his traps that were set to spring from the very information she sought about him. She delved deeper and found his personal computer, set up her own tracer and type of key logger, doubling back on his own software that was designed to be a Trojan horse, she just had to wait for him to log on and click on the wrong button and she would be into his system without him being aware of it. It all took time and meticulous care using a third party server so she couldn’t be traced but she had been at it a while and doing multi-tasking with her stocks and bonds that she didn’t realize the passage of time until she heard Kathy call to Kit to come in the house.

  She heard Kit come into the condo and slam the patio door slider shut and head for the steps. She closed the screens on everything she had on Eli going and analyzed what the numbers looked like on some investments. By the time the child stampeded up the stairs it looked like Alice was hard at work.

  “Whatcha doin?” Kit asked from the doorway and Alice looked up.

  “I’m working,” Alice answered honestly.

  “Kit, let her work,” Kathy called. “You get a puzzle or something to play with or read a book.”

  Kit looked guilty and went into her bedroom and Alice went back to work.

  That night Kathy was feeling better all the way around, good food, good conversation, she had managed to set the lap top up and get a lot of work done already. Alice had put Kit to bed with a story about dragons and came back downstairs to pour them both a glass of wine and they chatted.

  “Do you think he will find me?” Kathy finally asked and felt the relaxed atmosphere change.

  “What if he does, there is not a lot he can do about you staying with me,” Alice dismissed. Some of what she had found out about him though concerned her deeply; he was a very dangerous man. No one had ever brought charges but there were things that told her otherwise, things he would not like being made public. She hoped several of the traps she had set on the internet would be sprung soon so she would have access to his computers and other information. She wanted to go back to Portland and take a look at his house though. Something, some inner instinct told her there would be a lot to learn about her adversary there.

  “You don’t know what he’s capable of, he has a lot of resources, look what he did to my house! He bugged it!” Kathy said alarmed.

  Alice smiled, a smile that gave an odd appearance to her good looks. “He doesn’t know me though does he, he doesn’t know what I’m capable of,” she leaned over and grabbed Kathy’s hand to calm her, began caressing it. “I don’t want you to worry anymore, I’m investigating him, we will see if we can find something to use against him, to get him to leave you alone.”

  “What do you mean you’re investigating him?” Kathy asked alarmed, the look on Alice’s face made her a little uneasy as well as the topic.

  “Kathy, relax,” she could feel the tension in her hands that she was caressing. “I investigate people before I do business with them, there are ways and means of determining if they are a good investment. I don’t just throw money around with or at people I don’t know. It gives me information that is vital to my business dealings. I can also find out things about people that will give me insight. That’s all I’m doing,” for now she added as she felt Kathy relax a little.

  “So it isn’t illegal?” Kathy asked naively.

  Alice didn’t hesitate because hesitating would give Kathy the wrong impression. “Some of it might be considered,” here she paused to formulate her words, “Inappropriate.” She laughed internally at the under phrasing of that. “But I’m not selling the information; I’m using it for myself.”

  This seemed to be what Kathy needed to hear but then to Alice she knew people heard what they wanted to hear anyway. She felt her relax further. “I can’t thank you enough for the gift of the laptop; I got a lot done today.”

  Alice smiled ‘so did I’ she thought savagely. “I was pleased to buy one, they are fun aren’t they?”

  “I’ll pay you back…” she began but Alice cut her off.

  “You will not, it’s my gift to you!” she said rather sharply and pulling Kathy’s hands into her lap she leaned in and kissed her arguing mouth to shut her up.

  Kathy was so surprised she couldn’t say a word; her breath was caught in her throat at the unexpectedness of the kiss. She liked it though, immediately and thoroughly, the warmth of Alice’s lips, the taste of her on her own lips, the smell of her perfume. Alice released her hands so she could move up her arms and embrace h
er. Kathy did the same, touching the expensive blouse that Alice was wearing, wondering if it was satin or silk, and feeling the smooth texture, the firm body underneath it.

  Alice moved forward a few inches, her chest coming in contact with Kathy’s more ample one as she embraced the brunette, feeling her against her as she deepened the kiss. She completely mastered Kathy’s lips, licking them, sucking on them gently, encouraging her tongue to enter her mouth and entwine with her own. Their breathing became heated in the exchange of saliva, the warmth of their skin increased in the moments they shared this awesome set of kisses. Finally though, before another step was taken Alice pulled back slowly, reluctantly, and looked into Kathy’s warm brown eyes, the same eyes her daughter had inherited.

  “Are you okay?” she asked tenderly.

  Kathy nodded dumbly, she wasn’t sure she could speak, never had she been kissed like that, no man and certainly no woman had ever made her feel like that, it had been so thorough, so absolute, and so exciting. She swallowed a couple of time to get the saliva working in the right way so she could speak. “I liked that,” she finally managed to say and then wanted to kick herself for sounding so uncouth, so unsophisticated to the attractive and cultured Alice.

  Alice smiled warmly, she too had enjoyed it. She sat closer to where she had just hovered over Kathy, using her body against Kathy; she still held her but now sat closely next to her on the couch. Gently she pushed back some of Kathy’s shoulder length hair from her face from where it had come loose. She had noticed that Kathy repeatedly pushed it back behind her ears, an endearing habit, but she could use a makeover and a decent haircut. She probably went to the ten dollar special places and that was a crime as far as Alice could tell. She looked at her thoroughly from so close and in that moment her heart was lost, it had been lost at the plea for help, at the help she had given her, at the pixie like daughter she had spawned, but now, in this moment she wanted to help, to protect, to revenge against the man who would hurt this delightful woman. She hadn’t felt like this before and she wondered if it was possible for her to feel love, something she knew she hadn’t felt before. Lust yes, love no. She had loved and tolerated her sister; she had tolerated her parents, but love in the physical and mental sense together? No.

  “We should probably get you up to bed, it’s getting late,” she said quietly as her thoughts went rapidly through her head.

  “Did I do something wrong?” Kathy asked wondering if her lack of something was turning off this attractive blonde.

  Alice was quick to assure her, “No, not at all, I liked it too but I thought perhaps with the sunshine and all the work you did today you might be getting tired.”

  Kathy slowly shook her head as she leaned in and initiated the next kiss. Alice let her which surprised her as Kathy explored her lips, copied things she had done to the brunette, licking, sucking, and gently biting even, things meant to stimulate, things meant to entice, and things meant to arouse. Alice felt herself becoming stimulated at Kathy’s ministrations, her nipples had hardened already, she could feel the wetness forming between her legs, the additional saliva pouring out of the ducts in her mouth, her stomach was fluttering as the need and want built. She hadn’t had someone affect her like this in a long time, if ever. She was enjoying it immensely and knew she would have to take control eventually or risk more than she knew. It was a risk to fall in love with this woman, it was a risk to show this side of her, but since she had called Alice had been feeling something building between them.

  Alice had been answering kiss with kiss but slowly she turned the tides again as they meshed kiss upon kiss, lick upon lick, nibble, suck, and rub with only their lips, slowly she began to use her body again against Kathy, pushing her slightly and surely against the back of the couch as they made out. She gently began to raise one of her jean clad legs and rub it against Kathy’s being sure to avoid her sore knee. She pulled back slightly to look at Kathy who had her eyes closed and looked oh so doable. She used that second to ascertain things as her hands began to wander. She swung her leg across Kathy’s lap and mounted her, straddling both sides of her hips, still being careful not to touch the damaged knee she cradled Kathy’s face in her hands as she looked down into the surprised and delighted face of the brunette. Kathy’s hands fell to her hips and easily slipped around to her buttocks, feeling the softness of her designer jeans and the taunt little toushy beneath them. Alice smiled at the gesture as she leaned down to continue her kissing letting Kathy feel her ass and guide it onto her lap.

  Kathy didn’t know where she got the nerve but she instinctively knew to gently part her legs, causing Alice’s to part as well. The heat as their hips came together, the center between them was radiating through both of their sets of clothes. Alice groaned slightly into the deep kiss she was giving Kathy, her tongue probing deeply, swirling around with Kathy’s own nubile muscle. They were both enjoying the feel of Alice’s body rubbing slightly up and down against Kathy’s, the heat building between them. Neither realized the passage of time as their body’s generated heat and became wet in anticipation for what was to come, what was now inevitable, what needed to be finished. Kathy thought again that she had done something wrong as Alice slowed it down and pulled back gently, raining kisses along her jawline and into her neck sucking slightly before pulling back, breathing hard. “What’s wrong?” she asked bewildered.

  Alice smiled. “Nothing,” she whispered. “Nothing at all.” She carefully got off of Kathy and then the couch and held out a hand, Kathy was still dumbfounded that she had stopped and not comprehending very quickly but Alice glanced up at the overhanging loft where her bedroom was located and full knowledge of what she wanted finally crashed in on Kathy’s psyche. Her brain no longer numb with desire, she smiled that desire instead. She rose from the couch and allowed Alice to help her to the first set of stairs and then stood there as Alice checked the door to the front, the garage, and then quickly the patio doors, turning out lights as she went before rejoining her at the steps and helping her up the first set.

  “Do you want to use the bathroom?” Alice asked solicitously.

  Kathy nodded, now she felt a little awkward but she knew she wanted to see where this would go, to know what it was like to make love to a woman, to this woman. She knew she wanted this woman very much. She felt foolish and yet brave enough to continue. She hobbled into the bathroom.

  Alice watched her go and close the door. She hurried up the stairs to the up master bathroom and washed hurriedly so she could be waiting for Kathy when she came out of the bathroom. She heard the toilet flush and the water running, silence for a moment and she assumed that Kathy was drying her hands before she came limping out of the bathroom. Kathy smiled at her tremulously, unsure and yet she wanted to continue, she glanced up the second set of stairs to the loft.

  Alice took her in her arms for a moment, giving her a loving hug. “Are you sure?” she whispered.

  Kathy smiled, their heights were nearly equal with the heels on Alice’s boots, the petite blonde was so sincere and sweet, and she hesitantly nodded. She had her doubts, what if Alice was disappointed in her, what if she couldn’t do it at the last moment, what if she was horrible in bed?

  Alice could see all her doubts and dismissed them as she gently kissed her after she nodded, there was a taste of the passion that had risen between them before and Kathy was the one to make a move towards the stairs. Alice smiled and helped her up them.

  The loft was lovely, it was large; covering the kitchen area, the powder room, and the dining area it overlooked the living room with its second story ceiling. Large shutters closed off the spaces of the half wall where windows would have gone but looked out over the living room. Dominating the bedroom was a king sized bed. It didn’t surprise Kathy to see everything neat and clean. Another door led off the bedroom to what she could glimpse and see was a bathroom with large windows overlooking the garage. Between the doors stood two large sets of louvered doors with mirrors and she agai
n assumed it was for closets. She didn’t get a lot of time to look around because Alice took her in her arms and began kissing her as passionately as she had as they made out on the couch. Alice quite took her breath away as she slowly danced her across the floor to the bed.

  Gently, ever cognicent of Kathy’s hurt knee Alice sat her on the bed. Slowly she unbuttoned Kathy’s shirt and took it off her. Not to be outdone Kathy began tugging at the beautiful blouse that Alice was wearing and Alice helped her remove it from her torso. She stood there unembarrassed in a form fitting lace and satin bra well aware of her fine figure as she looked down on Kathy who looked at her in awe. Gently she kissed her again as she pushed her slowly onto the bed. She fumbled at the snap of Kathy’s shorts and unzipped them as well, freeing her to plunge her hand in if she so desired, she wanted to but also wanted Kathy’s first time to be memorable, loving, and something she would want to repeat time and again. She intended to make Kathy her lover, she intended to keep her more than the week they had planned to stay here, she was liking the idea of her staying much longer more and more as the time had passed between them and she got to know her and daughter better. She knew it was more than lust that she was feeling for this woman. As a result, this time, this first time was important to both of them. She wanted Kathy desperately, she wanted to make hard and passionate love to her unmercifully but she wasn’t ready for such passion, such intensity, instead she schooled herself to introduce her to her passions slowly and gently. It took a great deal of concentration on Alice’s part but she was up to the challenge, it was too important to her at this juncture in her life.

  She stepped back before she climbed on top of Kathy’s body, it looked so tempting, so inviting that she wanted to fling herself atop and ravish it. Kathy’s eyes were bright in anticipation, desire plainly written on her face. Alice began tugging at Kathy’s shorts, slowly pulling them off her hips; Kathy arched her butt off the bed and gave Alice a fine view of what was to come as she tugged them over the curves. Gently so as not to touch the hurt knee she maneuvered them past the ‘no touch zone’ and pulled them rapidly from her long legs. Clad only in panties and a matching bra one part of Alice’s brain registered that they were bargain basement underwear and so inappropriate on her lover’s beautiful body, another part recognized the fine figure she was going to enjoy enormously as she made love to her. Her skin was very white despite the small amount of sun she had gotten that day. As she began to lie back down on top of her lover Kathy pulled back from her elbow prone position and said, “Uh uh uh,” and indicated that she wanted to remove Alice’s jeans as she reached for the button holding them closed.