He reached inside the cup of her bra and found a nipple as his lips slid down to her neck. He took it between his fingers and twisted and rolled and pulled on it as she moaned softly. She pressed her head back into the tree and moaned. Her pussy was pulsing along with her pounding heart and she began to move her hips, thrusting them forward and grinding herself against the hard bulge trapped inside of his pants.
Damien moved back up to her mouth and let his tongue slowly and softly traces the delicate edges of her lips. His touch had gone from urgent to feather soft and his tongue licked her full lips slowly and deliberately. It was sexy and erotic and Paige’s panties and pants were soaked through with her desire for him now. She held her own tongue still until he was finished. When he once again crushed his lips to hers, she finally let her tongue plunge into his wet mouth and explore.
He sucked on it and now used two hands to pleasure both of her nipples at the same time. She was moaning into his mouth and if he hadn’t been covering hers with his, she would have cried out. He knew just how much pressure to apply to keep from crossing that line from pleasure into outright pain. He’s so good at this...or maybe they’re just so good at this together.
He reached up with one hand and wrapped it up in her hair. He tugged on it while he used his other hand to work the zipper and button of her pants. Once he’d gotten them open she felt his fingers working their way down over the delicate skin of her lower abdomen. His hand dove beneath the waistband of her panties and Paige opened her stance as she felt his fingers nudging against her swollen, sensitive clit. He began stroking it softly while he again nibbled his way across her neck, and drew her skin into his mouth. He held it gently with his teeth while his tongue swiped across it.
Paige felt like she was losing her mind between the combination of his lips and teeth and his fingers in her wet pussy. She reached up and put her hands on the back of his head and urged him down. Her breasts were aching to be sucked. Damien complied, moving his face down while reaching around and unclasping her bra at the same time. As soon as the bra was out of the way he sucked one of her large dark nipples into his mouth. Paige cried out and held his head tightly, urging him on.
He bit softly on her nipple and tugged against it with his teeth. He slowly ran his tongue across the skin surrounding it, and then he moved his head over and let his mouth find the other one, giving it the same treatment. She was pulling and tugging on his hair, pressing him into her as he licked and sucked. Then a small cry escaped from her lips when the fingers down inside of her pants found their way up inside of her pussy. He already knew where that sweet spot was, the one that made her come in an instant. He began rubbing and moving his fingers around inside of her and within a few short seconds Paige felt her body go rigid against the rough bark of the tree.
Her eyes squeezed tightly shut and she let the spasms take over as they coursed through her body making her shake and jerk. She pressed into his hand, not wanting the waves of the orgasm to end. He continued sucking her nipples and fingered her through the climax. She was panting when she finally relaxed and only then did Damien pull his face up and look at her. His eyes were intense and she could see the lust in them.
Paige dropped her mouth to his neck and began to suck and lick with fervor. She pulled at the bottom of his shirt and Damien ripped it off over his head, allowing her access to his hard, muscular chest. She dragged her tongue hungrily down from his neck to his chest, biting and kissing and sucking along the way. She made her way down to his hard stomach and dropped to her knees on the wet grass in front of him. She pressed her mouth against the hard bulge in his jeans and kissed him. He groaned and fisted his hands at his sides as her hands went for the waistband and began to unbutton and unzip.
She lowered the zipper enough to allow his beautiful cock to spring free of its confines. It was rock hard and pulsing as she darted her tongue out and raked it across his swollen head. She pulled the pants and boxers out of her way then and wrapped her hand around the shaft near the bottom of it, giving it a little squeeze. He groaned again and reached down to take her hair in his hands again.
He gently pressed her face forward, silently begging her to take him in her mouth. She looked up at his face and met that intense gaze. It sent a shudder through her. His lips were parted as he watched her and his breaths were slow and heavy. His hard chest heaved up and down and the light from the stars shone across the colorful tattoos that adorned his sexy body. Paige thought she’d never seen a more beautiful sight.
She felt his body shiver when she finally took him into her mouth. She began right away devouring him hungrily, sliding her lips up and down the shaft while she licked and sucked. Damien was moaning from some place deep in his chest and the tugging on her hair became more violent. She let her saliva pool on the head of his cock and then used her tongue to spread it all over his shaft. She slipped her mouth over him until her nose was pressed into his flesh and his cock was pressing hard into the back of her throat. She would pull her head up then with a long, sexy suck and then plunge right back down on it again. She took him all the way into her throat and let the muscles there contract around him. The noises he was making now were primal and they went right through her. She worked him that way until his cock began to swell and twitch in her mouth. That was when he pulled her off and said,
“No baby, not yet.” She reached out with her tongue and gave him one last loving lick before he reached down and took her under her arms and pulled her to her feet. Once again he pressed her into the tree. Paige thought he was going to enter her. She was ready. But instead, Damien dropped to his knees and pulled her pants and panties down with him as he did.
He nuzzled his face into her lower abdomen as he did and when he got her pants to her ankles, he let his hands work their way back up her calves, massaging them gently until he got to the backs of her thighs. He pushed her forward then and buried his face in her pussy. He slid his hands up and grasped both of her cheeks to hold her in place as he began to lick across her soaking wet lips. He groaned again, loudly and suddenly it was as if the last vestiges of his self-control were gone and there was nothing left standing between him and pleasure and pain. He began to bite and suck at the sensitive skin of her upper thighs, first on one side and then on the other until his face landed back between her legs once again. She used his hair to pull his face into her and she ground her hips down into him. He spread her lips with his tongue and sucked her clit into his mouth. Paige was crying out as he sucked and licked her bringing her back to the precipitous of another orgasm.
Her legs nearly buckled underneath her as he curled his experienced tongue around her clit as he sucked voraciously. Noises were coming from his throat and she could feel the vibrations of them against her flesh. This time when the orgasm ripped through her, she screamed. She didn’t give any thought to whether or not the sound would carry. There was no holding it back.
The tree was cutting into her but that was only adding to the thrill of what they were doing. She slammed herself back harder into it as she came on his lips and tongue. Her body trembled furiously as the remnants of the climax continued to ripple from her core. Every nerve in her body was focused on that. Damien continued to bring her to heights she’d never been before.
When she finally opened her eyes, Damien’s face was close to hers. He looked like he was waiting for her to recover from her orgasm and once her eyes were opened, he wasted no time in taking her hips into his hands and letting his cock slide up into her. He lifted her up off her feet and held her against the tree as he raised and lowered her up and down on his cock. He had his teeth clenched and every sculpted muscle in his body was taut and rippling. Paige used the leverage of her thighs pressed into him to take each pounding stroke as deep as she could.
His eyes seemed to suddenly focus on the curve of her neck that was exposed and he lunged his head forward and bit down. She cried out but never lost her stride as she hurtled towards yet another orgasm. Damien grunted and his
body stiffened as he reached his own climax. He held her still for a moment and then he pulled her in close, wrapping her legs around him and gently rocking them both, riding out the passion until they were both on the verge of collapse.
Chapter 12
Damien woke up with a start the next morning. Paige was wrapped around him and he immediately processed that she was safe and they were still in Roxi’s home. Something was needling at him in the back of his brain however. When it finally came to the surface the pain and the anger of it all returned once more. Kevin is his father. Jackson forced everyone involved to pretend like Damien was his son. Damien wondered who else knew the truth. He also wondered what he would say to Kevin when they came face to face.
He untangled Paige’s long limbs from his; letting his lips skim the side of her face as he did. She was so exhausted that she didn’t flinch as he laid her on her side and slipped out of bed. He stood next to the bed and looked down at her. She’s gorgeous and he felt more connected to her than he had anyone else in his life, ever. He felt desire welling up inside of him again, but he didn’t want to wake her. Instead, he gathered his clothes quietly and went into the bathroom to shower.
As the water cascaded down across his back he tried to come to grips with all that had happened. He knew for certain that the only good thing that had come of his life was Paige and he wasn’t about to lose her. She’d been able to see through his rough exterior and all of his defenses. She was the only person in his life besides his Uncle Kevin who really knew him. She made him want to be the man that she saw when she looked at him.
As far as Kevin went, Damien didn’t know what he was supposed to do. Was he supposed to be angry? Was he supposed to be relieved? The fact that the man he’d thought was his father all along was bordering on being absent of all conscience made him less angry at Kevin than he may have been otherwise. Being told that Jackson wasn’t his father was definitely a relief. But that still didn’t relieve Kevin of his responsibility here. He had a responsibility to tell Damien that he was his father...didn’t he?
Damien shut off the shower and as he dried his body he thought about all of the times in the past ten years he’d wanted to defy Jackson and leave. He didn’t because the one time he’d actually tried, Jackson had looked him in the eye and stuck a knife into his side. Damien let his fingers brush against the scar. Kevin was there that day. Jackson had nearly killed him for interfering. Damien was sure that if Kevin had tried to tell anyone Damien was his son...if he had made Jackson lose face with the men he controlled...Kevin would be dead. So how could he really hold that against him?
Once he was dressed he went back into the bedroom and looked at Paige again. She’d turned on her side and her hair was fanned out across the pillow underneath her. He felt the tug again. He was going to have to leave the bedroom, or he was going to have to wake her up. He’d never been so incredibly attracted to a woman in his life. He opened the bedroom door quietly and closed it gently behind him. When he got to the living room he found Crystal standing and looking out the window.
“Good morning,” she said when she saw him. She looked much better than she had the day before.
“Morning. Is Roxi here?”
“She and Jake left a bit ago. He was going to New York and she said she had a breakfast meeting in Providence. She told me to let you and Paige know she’d be at the club after that if either of you need anything.”
“Okay,” he started to walk towards the kitchen when she said,
“Damien...”
He stopped and looked at her. Paige looked a lot like her mother minus the rough edges. It was apparent when you looked at Crystal that her life hadn’t been easy. Damien wanted to do all he could to make sure that Paige was able to have a normal one after all of this. “Yes?”
“I didn’t know about you and your brother...but I did find photos of your mother when I lived with Jackson. She was a beautiful woman. When I asked Jackson who she was he told me the truth...he said that she was his first love. I never got over the loss of my husband so when Jackson told me that he’d fallen so deeply in love with her as a young man that there would always be a part of him that loved her, I understood. I asked him what happened to her and my mind keeps going back to what he said now.”
She paused for a long time and finally Damien asked, “What did he say?”
“He said that she was too good for him. He said that he was afraid that who he was then would taint her somehow and that was the only reason he let her go. I wish I would have realized it then...but I think he was trying to tell me what he was. That was around the time that my son was trying to tell me and I was refusing to believe him.”
“I’m sorry...why are you telling me this?” Damien asked her.
“I just thought that with all that is going on, it might help you to know that even Jackson with his soul as black as the night, saw the goodness in your mother. It reminds me of the way my daughter sees it in you. I wish he would have seen it in me...then maybe he would have let me go then too...”
“Crystal, it wasn’t Jackson’s choice to let my mother go. She had to barter part of her own soul to get away from him. We all do. That’s what it’s going to take for me too, I suppose.” He walked away then and went outside. The morning air felt good in his lungs. He could taste the salt from the ocean in the air. He pulled his throwaway phone out of his pocket and dialed the number of the person he most needed to talk to today.
“Hello?”
“Alex, it’s me.”
“Jesus Damien. You’ve made such a mess of things.”
“I know. I need to see you.”
“Fuck man. How am I supposed to do that? He’ll kill me too if he finds out I’ve been sneaking around meeting with you behind his back.”
“Alex...remember the way we used to be. You always had my back growing up. You never let anyone mess with me. I need you. I need my brother.”
“Shit. Meet me at the Pier in Providence at noon.”
“You’ll be alone?”
“I’m still your brother.”
“Thank you.”
“Shit.” Damien actually smiled when he hung up. Alex, like his father, can be the biggest ass in the world...but Damien knows that nobody left on this earth loves him the way that his brother does. He was taking a huge risk asking Alex to help him...but he was beginning to feel stir crazy and out of options. When he went back into the house he found Paige and her mother in the kitchen having coffee. Crystal excused herself as soon as he came inside. Damien poured himself a cup of the coffee and sat down with Paige. She smiled at him. Her smiles gave him strength.
“How are you doing this morning?” She asked him.
“Hanging in,” he said. The truth was that he still felt lie a complete mess inside, but Paige had her own demons to battle, he wasn’t going to keep putting his on her as well.
“Does Jackson know...about Kevin being your father?”
“Yeah, he’s always known. He chose to control the situation to his advantage as usual.” Paige shook her head. Jackson Paine really did think he was God.
“I wish I knew what to say to help you through this.”
Damien smiled. “You don’t have to say a word. I’m just really glad I had you to talk to about it or I might really lose my fucking mind.”
Paige laughed sadly and said, “In this family if you haven’t lost your mind yet...I think you’re doing okay.”
“True story,” Damien said with a grin.
“What are you going to do with that information?”
“I have an idea...but I’m not sure how you’ll feel about it.”
“As long as it doesn’t involve you getting hurt or killed, I’m willing to listen.”
“I called my brother.” Paige made a face and Damien smiled. “I know that you don’t like or trust Alex...with good reason. But, he’s my big brother and no matter what his faults he’s the one person left in my life who has always been there. I may be a fool but I don’t th
ink that Alex would hurt me. He talks a good game in front of Jackson...”
“Um...I’m sorry to interrupt, but the day he came to your apartment looking for the evidence...he seemed pretty serious when he told you that he would hurt you to get it.”
“He has a temper, but so do I. Think about it Paige...he had every opportunity to hurt or kill me that day and a lot of days in between. He stopped my father’s thugs from killing me yesterday. He’s programmed as my older brother to protect me and I still trust him. I hope that you trust me enough to understand that I need to do this.”
Paige sat silently and looked into his eyes for a long time like she was searching for something. Finally she said, “I do trust you Damien, implicitly. Please just remember that although you might not have Jackson’s DNA running through your body...Alex does.”
Damien nodded. “I won’t forget.”
Chapter 13
There was something that Damien needed to do before he met with his brother. At eleven a.m. he walked into Roxi’s club. The place wasn’t open yet so it was quiet. He found a blonde girl behind the bar doing inventory. “Hi, is Roxi around?”
“She’s upstairs in her office. Who are you?”
“I’m Damien, her cousin.” The bartender called up to the office and after a second she told Damien,
“Roxi says to go on up.”
Damien made his way up the narrow steps. He found Roxi behind her desk doing something on the computer. Her office was as immaculate as she always was. He wondered how deeply the control gene ran through their blood.
“Hey! Are you okay?”
“Yeah, I needed to talk to you about that letter.” She stopped what she was doing and focused her full attention on him. “Have you talked to your Dad since you gave it to me yesterday?”
“Yes, this morning. He asked me how you were. That’s why I wondered if you were okay. It all sounded a little ominous...but in this family, it usually is.”
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