Let It Burn

by Dee Ellis

  Well, fuck. The power was out? Padding to the window, I peered out into the rain and saw a few other houses as dark as hers. Come to think of it, in my hurry over here, only a few places had been lit up on her block. The bodega, which I knew had a backup generator, a gas station. The block had been rather dark in the pouring rain.

  Relief sharp and intense flooded me as I put two and two together. Finn had mentioned a few power outages, but I had been so angry I hadn’t paid much attention. That had been around the time Levi got hurt, so I had to figure the power had been out all this time. Charli didn’t have a land line yet, something I had wondered about this weekend.

  With no power, the pouring rain and her phone dead from hours of us talking, Charli had passed out waiting for me. Not knowing I had ever suggested not coming like I promised. No running away, no petty pouting, no games being played.

  My girl knew I said I would be here, so she just waited for me to come home. Which explained her radio silence, the lack of argument on her part when I had suggested staying at the station. Well, shit.

  Peering at her beautiful, peaceful face, I was flooded with emotions. I created something out of nothing when all the while, my girl was waiting for me. Trusting and expecting me to be there because she wanted me there. Sliding into the bed behind her, I moved close behind her. Pressing my face to the back of her neck, my arms framed her over her head and around her waist.

  I breathed deep, realizing I had something good right here. Charli knew I was grumpy, knew I had been upset to miss her today at the library and a shitty day yesterday. Still, she had asked me to come see her. Because she wanted to see me. Wanted any time I could give her. Even if I was grumpy or exhausted and basically worthless. Charli just wanted me there with her.

  For a long time, I held her, knowing I might have to leave if a call came in for work. I would take all the time I could get with her.

  Whether it was days of laughing and watching crappy TV while she fed me. Or hours of my head between her legs as I made her come just to watch her, hear her pleasure. Even if it was just a few moments in this big bed, holding her and smelling her shampoo and sweet skin. Just enough time to be reminded I had her now.

  That’s what Charli had wanted, too. Grumpy or dirty or exhausted or not, she just needed the reminder of us. I would give that to her any time she wanted it.

  “Cage?” Charli murmured after I felt her stirring; moving closer into me and letting my arms tighten.

  “Yeah baby. I’m here. Go back to sleep it’s early.” My lips pressed to the warm, velvety skin at the back of her neck.

  “Mmm, I missed you so much. What time is it? My phone died, but you never texted back.” Charli shuddered in my arms as her ass settled back against my hardening cock and I groaned.

  “Power went out. Still out. It’s after four. I did text you back, baby. For hours. I thought that you...” Hooking her arm around the one braced over her front, she dropped her head to kiss at my hands.

  “Stop it. I was waiting for you. I was miserable for days, Cage. Nothing has me wanting to run yet, baby. Mmm, you feel good. How long can you stay?” Again she shimmied her hips, my groan muffled in her thick hair.

  “Long as you want, Sugar. Just need to go if I get calls. I missed you too, baby. Fuck it feels so good to hold you again. This shit is tough, Charli.” When she made a soft sound and kissed my hand again, need clawed up my spine.

  “Course it is. If it wasn’t it wouldn’t be so great. Time apart, feeling shit we don’t feel ready for, wouldn’t matter otherwise. It all matters. Means its real.” Lying there I realized at some point, things had shifted between us. Now I was scared of losing her while Charli was soothing me, convincing me this was good and we were letting it happen.

  “Sugar, you are so fucking perfect. I needed to hear that. Need to feel you right now.” My arms closed tighter around her and she snuggled back, obliging.

  “Mmm, right here, baby. Not going anywhere. Need you too much, need to feel this way too much to let fucking fear ruin it.” For hours I had been certain I was in for a fight to keep her; instead Charli was giving me what I needed by fighting with me. Being scared with me.

  Fuck if I didn’t need her too. It had never been about just wanting her and I had never pretended as such. Feeling the panic and fear all night that just when it got good she might run, made that plain.

  The glimpse of how good we had been this weekend was enough proof for me. I needed her in my life, and like she had said earlier she had altered me in just a week.

  It was scary for someone else to have such control over you. Before her, I had rules and I followed them. I never let any of the women before her have any control at all. I got what I wanted and gave as little as I could. I would give Charli anything she could ever want of me; as long as that never included letting her run away.

  “Cage...” Charli pressed back, my head tipping into the pillow as my lips moved at the sensitive skin of her neck.

  “Yeah, baby?”

  I had spent almost three days learning her body; the spot at the curve of her shoulder that if I bit just right, had her whimpering, the way her nipples peaked stiff when I palmed them, rougher the better. The way her thighs trembled when I found that sparrow and spent too much time kissing it instead of suckling at her sweet pussy.

  “I need you.” Right in the chest with that one, shit. My cock felt it too.

  “Mmm, you got me, Sugar. Any time you want me. Fuck I missed how you feel,” My hands were restless now, shoving her shirt out of my way to expose all her perfect creamy skin, “you’re so sexy, baby. I love your body.” Lazily my fingertips traced the soft curves that drove me crazy, as if learning them all over again.

  Keeping her back to me, I tangled one hand in her thick hair, yanking her head back to cover her mouth with mine. My hands whispered over her skin; cupping her breasts, palming the pert pink nipples and growling as they hardened to my touch. Kneading and caressing the softness of those perfect tits, my cock pressed against her full ass, begging for her.

  Charli taunted me, rocking slowly against me. My boxers grew tight fast. My fingers traced the sparrow at her hip slowly before shoving between her legs. Charli whimpered as her hips bucked, my large hand cupping her hot little pussy. Fuck I loved how wet she got for me. So I told her what she did to me.

  “Fuck, baby I missed this little pussy,” My fingers stroked the swollen lips, wet and slick for me, “I love how wet you get for me. Turns me the fuck on.”

  Charli gave me that sound that drove me fucking crazy, her hips rocking slow against my hand. As my fingers slid over the slick folds, spreading her gently, my teeth bit at that spot on her neck. Growling when she cried my name out, I did it again, sucking at her flesh as my finger found the swollen nub aching for my touch.

  Rubbing at it roughly, my other hand tugged and rubbed at her nipples as she trembled in my arms. My cock throbbed against her ass and her rocking against it wasn’t near good enough.

  Charli lifted her arms around my neck, fingers rough in my hair as she tilted her head and then she was kissing me. Her tongue licked at my lips then she was caressing mine, tongues and teeth eating at my mouth. Charli bit at my bottom lip and whimpered when I sunk two fingers into her soaked pussy.

  “Oh shit,” Her hands yanked at my hair and I bit at her mouth, “I love your hands. Cage...oh baby...yes. Please make me come.” What could I do but obey that command?

  As my fingers pumped into her tightness, a growl ripping through me at how her heat trembled around my touch, her hips bucked wildly. My girl needed it and I wanted to give it to her.

  Fucking her pussy with fingers that curled just right to hit her spot, my thumb circled her swollen clit. I kissed her lazily, feeding off the sweetness of her mouth, having missed her taste and the bite of her teeth at my own lips.

  Charli’s hips rocked into my hand, her cries and heavy breathing filling the room. Feeling her tighten as her core pulsed around my fingers, I flicked
harder at her clit, needing to feel her come almost more than I wanted to come myself.

  “Jesus fuck, baby I need to hear you come for me. Tell me who this pussy belongs to. I need to hear it from your lips tonight, Sugar.” I had to hear she was mine, even though I knew it deep in my bones.

  “Cage...baby I’m yours. Every part of me. Shit...it’s so good baby!” Then her hips bowed away from me and I could feel her coiling as her orgasm took hold of her.

  “Yeah baby, come for me Sugar. Fuck you’re so beautiful when you come. Just like that baby. Fuck your pretty little pussy is so tight. I’m gonna need it wrapped around me, Sugar.” It was hard to pump into her as she came hard, her body trembling violently against me.

  Charli twisted at the waist, slamming her lips against mine. I was intoxicated by the sweetness of her, growling when her soft tits pressed against my chest. When she pressed her lips to my chest, teeth nipping at my skin, I was captivated. Those stormy gray eyes watched me back. Her fingers hooked in the waist band of my boxers and before I could wonder what she was doing, my cock was out.

  Hard as steel and already dripping needy drops. Charli sat up on her knees, ass in the air, her hand circling my cock. My hips bucked as her thumb slid over the tip, spreading my precum before she bent her head, sucking it off her fingers.

  “Oh shit,” I grabbed a handful of her ass, the other tangling in her thick hair, “fuck I want your mouth around my cock.” Charli seemed more than happy to oblige.

  As I watched in fascination, her tongue came out, tracing the underside of my cock. Swirling around it, her hands cupped my balls. I let out a guttural noise, sounding like a fucking animal. Watching me, she pressed a dainty kiss to the head then in one move, sucked me inside.

  Jesus fuck, her mouth felt almost as good as her velvet pussy. Almost. With my fingers digging into her plump ass, I tugged at her head roughly, wanting to see her take me down her throat. I missed the feel of being inside her, any part of her, and it had been days.

  “Fuck baby, I love your mouth. Looks so good wrapped around my cock.” Charli made a mewling sound, taking me deeper and I was lost to the feel of her mouth sucking at me.

  As she worked my cock, my hand dug into her ass then slapped. Because I knew she loved the sting of pain when she was so hot. When my fingers slipped down between her legs, I had my proof. Her pussy was soaked.

  Slipping my fingers between her swollen lips, I wiggled them over her clit. Then pumped two inside her, matching the rhythm of her mouth at my pulsing cock. Her pussy clenched around me and I groaned, needing to be inside her.

  Charli had other plans, one hand pumping the base of my cock as her mouth sucked, tongue swirling, her cheeks hollowing out. The other hand was rolling my balls and I gritted my teeth.

  “Baby. I want to fuck you. I’m gonna come you keep that up.” I actually saw her filthy mouth curve into a smile as she sucked me to the back of her throat.

  “Oh fuck...yeah suck my cock. God damn baby. Let me come in your mouth. You want to taste me, Sugar?” Charli hummed around me and I growled, my hand fisting her thick hair.

  A few more bobs of her head and I was warning her with a slap at her ass. One last chance before I went off in her mouth. Charli just sucked me to the back of her throat and I exploded. I saw stars, my hand bruising her ass it dug in so hard. Jesus, fuck.

  The minute I recovered, I pumped my fingers a few times and she came again, soaking my fingers with her pleasure. Shit I was never going to get enough of making her come. I was hard in seconds, feeling her shuddering from her orgasm and I had to be inside her.

  Before she came down, I flipped her back to my front again, one hand wrapping around her throat. The other hand gripped her knee and brought it back over my hip, giving me perfect access to her.

  Shifting my hips a little, I pressed the swollen head to her wet pussy and we both groaned. My fist clenched tight around the base as I drug my cock from the tight pucker of her ass to the swollen, throbbing clit, soaking it in her juices.

  Charli was breathless and panting, face pressed into my neck, teeth sunk into my skin, marking me. I fucking loved when she did that because I knew she did it just for that reason. To leave marks, visible proof that I belonged to her. It made me feral with possessiveness and I thrust my hips, sinking deep inside her.

  “Oh fuck,” I growled, long and loud into her skin, sinking my teeth into her shoulder, “your pussy feels like heaven. Fuck it’s so tight baby, always so wet for me. I love how good you feel wrapped around me, Sugar.” Charli moaned as I settled deep inside her, refusing to move for so long my body ached from the stillness.

  “Oh god...please. Cage, baby...please I need you to fuck me.” That was all I needed to make me lose my control.

  “Hold on to me baby, I’m taking you hard.” My hips slammed into her ass over and over, my cock sinking all the way into her tightness before I slid completely out. Long, deep strokes that left her shuddering around me, hands clawing at my wrist where my fingers gently clutched at her throat.

  Fuck I loved her. Burying my face in her thick, sweet scented hair, I fucked her hard and held her close. I needed to feel her around me, to know she was mine. Her pussy really was like heaven and as I sunk into it again and again, I knew I could never get enough.

  I was insatiable, addicted to her. To the smell of her arousal, the taste of her sweetness, the feel of her tight heat closing around me, refusing to let me go. I would never get enough of her.

  My arms gathered her close as I whispered filthy things at her skin as I thrust harder and harder into her. Charli liked it rough, I had been excited to learn, a little hair pulling, a little smack on her sexy ass. I was gentle with her too, but tonight I needed this. Needed to fuck her hard and fast and leave no doubt she was mine.

  “Mine. You’re mine,” I murmured against her ear as I pounded into her, “all of you, baby. You’re mine, Charli. Come for me again. Come with my cock deep inside that sweet little pussy. Fuck I love being inside you when I make you come. Be my good girl and let me know who you belong to.” Like a good girl, she obeyed, fingers digging into the arm holding her tight to my chest.

  “Cage! Fuck I’m coming, baby. Please...come inside me baby.”

  “Fuck yes. Just like that, Sugar. Fuck, Charli!” When her pussy clenched with her orgasm, sucking at my cock, I dug my fingers into her ass as I joined her, emptying myself inside her.

  Pleasure burned through me until I was certain I could burn the entire place down. My body shuddered with release as I clutched my girl tightly to me, as if refusing to let the moment end. To let her go at all. Charli seemed all too pleased to let me have this, to let me have her any way I wanted.

  I had never felt so damn complete, all the empty spaces of me filled up with her. With how she made me feel and what she made me want.

  For a long time after we lay like that, bodies still joined as if we were accepting this thing at last. All weekend we had enjoyed it; it had been too easy like she said but even if every day was like that last few, I still wanted it. I still wanted her.

  “Mmm, I can’t feel anything. But I feel everything.” Charli’s voice was raw and gravely and my cock started to answer to it again.

  “Abso-fucking-lutely.” I noticed suddenly the green glow of her clock flashing, announcing the power was back on.

  We were both sweaty and filthy but I wouldn’t let her go. I don’t know how long I stayed holding her, letting the fear I had felt all night wash away. I had never felt like that before. Not when Krista had dumped me and I had to watch her sample any dick she could get inside her. Not when I watched a fresh fucked Ariel leaving my best friends place.

  Tonight for a few hours, I had thought this woman I had just found was running away. Running away when I didn’t have a choice to chase after her.

  It had sobered me and I knew I couldn’t lose her. I needed her like I needed to fight fires. Both made me feel alive and I wouldn’t give them up.

  Sometime
later, Charli rolled us over and pressed her tiny hands to my chest, taking me inside her again. Pressing her close, watching her stormy eyes and swallowing her sexy sounds, I fucked her slow.

  My hands dug gently into her ass, lifting her on my cock again and again. But refusing to let her move more than a few inches away, needing the press of her body. I thrust deep, watching her moan, watching her eyes storm and flash with love that she wouldn’t say, but that I could see. That I could feel.

  I dipped my head just enough to suckle at her tits, loving the sounds she gave me as I drove deep inside her. Her fingers wove through my hair and her eyes never left mine, not even when she came again, moaning long and loud.

  After a shower that was more loving than I think she expected, I carried her back to bed. It was late and I wanted her to rest, but I knew I couldn’t sleep. I got dressed, the rain still pouring down outside.

  Watching her snuggle into the bed, I climbed on facing her, tucking her in as I combed through her damp hair. Jesus fuck she was beautiful.

  Her eyes were so open and warm now, unlike those first days where her shutters were up, keeping me out. Now she let me into all of her and I would never get used to how beautiful that was. We were quiet and I think she knew I had been raw when I got here, but she didn’t ask. I didn’t want to talk about it.

  “Baby I got to go,” My heart ached to leave her but my pager had gone off just as she started to fall asleep against my chest, “call at work. Can I see you today?” Charli nodded and snuggled closer, pouting into my t-shirt.

  “Yes. Of course. I want to see you always, baby. Go to work. Be careful,” She sobered, waking up a little, “I get scared when I hear the sirens.” I thought of her every single time we headed out on a call now. I had her to come home to, so fuck yes I was careful.

  “Always, baby. You get some sleep okay. Give me some Sugar.” After a long, sweet kiss that soothed any remaining aches away, I broke away.