Worth The Risk_A Lesbian Romance

by K M Leach

  CHAPTER SIX

  "Thank fuck for that! I could eat a horse, I'm that hungry!"

  Both Bonnie and Lucy jumped at the intruding voice, the moment gone in an instant, leaving Bonnie silently cursing the young woman in the back seat and Lucy confused and unsure of what had just happened between her and her best friend.

  They entered the busy establishment and found a table next to the dance floor, which was filled with dozens of men and women line dancing. "This place is crazy," Lexi said, squealing in delight.

  Bonnie and Lucy agreed that the atmosphere of the place was very country, but fun and they found themselves getting immersed into the activity and vibes of the people around them. The waitress came to their table and took their drinks and food order. Their conversation was relaxed and the moment of uncertain awkwardness in the car before Lexi had interrupted them was gone. Bonnie only ordered a beer to have with her burger, but Lexi and Lucy ordered several shots to go with their brews. "Are you sure you don't mind driving the rest of the way?"

  "You have driven all the way so far, Lucy. It's only fair that I drive the last few hours. Have a good time and have a couple for me. Besides, I've only just recovered from last nights little bender," Bonnie responded with a wink.

  Lucy grinned wide as the waitress returned with their drinks and passed a shot to Lexi. "Bottom's up," she said before slamming the clear liquid down and then taking a large drink of her beer. Bonnie loved this wild and carefree side of Lucy that she had dubbed 'let loose Lucy' and she loved that she always emerged when they went away together. Their food arrived and they ate, drank and enjoyed each others company. Nobody sensed that they were being watched, but they were.

  Zephyr had noticed the three women as soon as they had entered his hunting ground and he instantly knew that they were out of towners. He avoided messing with the locals to avoid bringing attention to his extracurricular activities. They were by far the most enticing morsels in the establishment so far and he decided that he would get his hands on either the Blonde or the Brunette by the end of the night if he could manage it. With any luck they would be separated at some point and he would be able to make his move. He had dismissed the woman with the blue hair because he sensed that she was more aware of her surroundings than the other two. He knew the look of someone who had had a hard life and that young woman had lived, despite her age.

  As he continued to watch them, he noticed that the brunette hadn't consumed any more alcohol after her beer with dinner. Must be the designated driver, he thought to himself. So that leaves the blonde, he concluded, pinpointing his intended victim. Who had just dragged a reluctant, but laughing brunette onto the dance floor.

  CHAPTER SEVEN

  "Stop fighting me, Bonnie and come dance! This line dancing looks like a blast! How hard can it be?"

  Bonnie could never deny Lucy anything and if making a complete fool of herself in front of dozens of complete strangers who danced the complicated steps with ease was what the blonde wanted, she would do it. Heat ran up her arm from Lucy's hand that gripped her tightly and dragged her towards the dance floor. Lucy was beyond tipsy and a little wobbly as she started to follow the cowboy in front of her. The problem was that she refused to release Bonnie's hand and they both ended up on the floor, as their feet tangled together. Bonnie landed on the varnished wooden floor with a loud 'oomph' as her breath was knocked out of her lungs, followed by Lucy who promptly fell right on top of her. Now the feel of Lucy had her stopping breathing altogether as she looked into Lucy's shining, bright eyes.

  "I guess I should have let go of your hand, huh?," she said with a laugh and a lopsided smile which made Bonnie completely melt. Lucy reached up and ran a finger over the brunette's lips.

  Bonnie's lungs burned to take a breath and Lucy didn't seem to be in a hurry to get off her so she could fill her lungs with some much need oxygen. Besides, half of the line dancers were now looking curiously at the two city slickers that were sprawled on top of one another in the middle of the dance floor. "Can't breathe," Bonnie managed to vocalise and she watched as the blonde came back to reality.

  "Oh shit, sorry," Lucy said and pushed up on her arms, allowing Bonnie to take in a lungful of air. Bonnie's body reacted as Lucy's lower half pressed harder against her, she suppressed a moan and closed her eyes. Oh God, this is too much. She tortures me relentlessly without even realising it!

  A hand came down beside Lucy's head, offering the inebriated woman a help up. Lucy laughed and gave Bonnie a kiss on the nose before grabbing the offered hand and getting pulled up. The cowboy then helped Bonnie stand as well. "You alright, little lady? You hit the deck hard."

  Bonnie nodded, "I'm fine. Thank you," she managed to get out. He tapped his hat before heading off.

  "Hey, Bonnie. Watch me!" She looked up at the sound of Lucy's high volumed cry. She saw Lucy climbing onto the mechanical bull in the corner, much to the delight of the patrons surrounding it.

  She's going to hurt herself trying to ride that damn thing, Bonnie thought as she frantically tried to make her way through the crowd to encourage her friend to get down.

  Letting out a whoop and a 'Yeehah' Lucy began to ride the bull with surprising effectiveness despite her intoxication and Bonnie found herself transfixed by the sight of Lucy moving with the bulls jerking movements. She was flung off a moment later, giving everyone an eyeful of her underwear as her dress bunched up around her waist when she hit the mats. There were whistles and catcalls of appreciation and Bonnie rushed forward and helped her friend up, giving the people closest to her a scowl. Lucy didn't seem concerned at all that she had flashed half the people in the place and she raised her hand in the air as if in victory and giggled. "I bet you didn't think I could do it," she said, looking at Bonnie with glassy eyes and a smile of triumph.

  "Well, you certainly showed me," Bonnie muttered. I have to get us out of here. "Time to go, I think. I will hit the restroom and then we are gone."

  "Aww, come on! Just a little bit longer. Come on, dance with me." Lucy grabbed Bonnie's hands and started to spin them around until she stumbled, the brunette just managing to keep them both upright.

  Bonnie reached up and gripped Lucy's face and made her drunk friend look at her. "It's... time... to... go."

  She noticed that Lucy was looking a little pale as she nodded in understanding. She leaned forward resting her forehead against Bonnie's. "I don't feel so good. I'm going to go out and get some fresh air. Meet you at the car?"

  "Will you be all right?"

  "Yeah, I'll be fine once I get some air," Lucy patted Bonnie's arm reassuringly before weaving her way through the crowd towards the exit.

  Bonnie hurried back to the table where Lexi was grinning like a Cheshire cat. "That Lucy is a wild woman!" she remarked.

  Bonnie rolled her eyes. "Yeah, we need to get going. I'm just going to pay the bill, go to the bathroom and get my wild friend home."

  Lexi stopped Bonnie as she went to reach into her pocket. "I've already taken care of the check. It was the least I could do," she said helping Bonnie into her jacket and handing her Lucy's as well. "I have decided to stick around here for a few days, so you are good to go and take care of your girl."

  "Are you sure?"

  "Yeah, go on. And thanks again," Lexi said, giving her a quick hug before stepping back. Bonnie gave the young girl a smile before turning towards the restrooms. She didn't want Lucy waiting outside for her too long. "Oh, and Bonnie." She turned at Lexi's voice.

  "Yeah."

  "Tell Lucy how you feel about her," she said sagely, before giving the brunette a wink and walking towards the exit.

  Zephyr knew his patience would pay off as he watched the drunk blonde head unsteadily towards the door. Time to catch my mouse, he thought as he slinked after the blonde who had just stepped outside. Ready or not, here I come....

  CHAPTER EIGHT

  Lucy wiped her mouth with her forearm after vomiting between a couple of cars in the dark parking lot. She had
n't heard someone approach her from behind and she jumped up from her hunched over position when a hand gripped her shoulder. "You all right, little darlin'?"

  She turned around to face the man and nodded, "Yeah. I just had a couple of shots too many, I think. I had to get out of there and get some fresh air. I am fine now, thank you." She couldn't see the man's face clearly beneath his cowboy hat and with it being so dark. The fact that his hand was still on her shoulder made her feel uncomfortable and her stomach twisted and churned with anxiety as if in warning. "I think I need to walk around a little more so I'm not sick again."

  "Well, you are fine, I'll give you that," he said running his hand down her bare arm. Lucy's eyes darted around the darkened parking lot looking for anyone else as she moved several steps backwards away from the man that stood before her.

  "I need to walk and meet my friend. She'll be waiting for me at the car."

  "Now, now, not so fast. I just wanna talk to you, is all. I was watching you in there with your friends. And you looked mighty fine riding that bull. Oh yeah. I think you love to ride."

  Panic was setting in now and Lucy started to walk a little faster as she manoeuvred through the parked vehicles. Her stomach clenched with fear and bile rose in her throat causing her to hold onto the hood of a pickup as she vomited once more. Lucy's head swam with dizziness and her grip on the car was the only thing keeping her upright.

  Zephyr seized the opportunity and grabbed the blonde by the waist as soon as she had finished retching and hoisted her up onto the hood of the car opposite the pickup.

  Lucy pushed the man hard in the chest, "Get off me! Let go."

  The man backhanded the blonde across the side of her face, stunning her. Zephyr grabbed Lucy by the neck and pulled her head forward, "If you don't fight me, I won't hurt you," he growled at her menacingly. "It will be over before you know it and it will feel good once we get going, I promise." His hands slid up Lucy's thighs pushing up her dress. "You are so fucking gorgeous and after your performance on the bull, I know you are just gagging for it."

  "No! Get off me. Don't you fucking touch me!" Lucy cried out as she slapped and grabbed at the mans hands as he gripped and pulled at her underwear beneath her dress. "My friend Bonnie is going to be looking for me!"

  "Fuck Bonnie. Now stop fighting me or I'll hurt you until you are unable to fight anymore." He tugged again at her panties and she heard the rip and Lucy lashed out hitting him in the jaw, her other hand knocking off his hat.

  Zephyr growled and hit her again, this time with a closed fist his ring causing a small cut to open just below her eye and blood to run down her face. "I'll teach you to fucking hit me, Bitch!" He pulled her swiftly off the hood and turned her around pushing her face into the cold steel of the bonnet.

  "Please don't.. No... please don't hurt me," Lucy pleaded struggling to find her voice as she cried and fought off unconsciousness from the blow. Oh God, please have someone find me. Please have Bonnie looking for me, she prayed as she felt him pushing her dress up and he forcefully finished tearing her underwear off one handed as the other hand held her firmly in place. As she heard him fumbling with his belt, Lucy took a big breath through her crying, panic and fear and cried out Bonnie's name as loud as she could manage.

  CHAPTER NINE

  Bonnie had reached the car and Lucy wasn't there. She swept her eyes around the huge parking lot looking for any sign of her friend and cursing the lack of lighting. She started moving down the rows of parked vehicles, systematically thinking that perhaps Lucy had passed out. She heard something a few rows over, a thump and what sounded like a woman's voice. She headed in that direction and moments later when she heard a distinct pleading cry of her name, Bonnie broke into a run, pulling out the small butterfly knife that she always carried on her person as she went.

  Her heart jumped into her throat when she saw Lucy pushed face down against the car thrashing and trying desperately to free herself from the man holding her down. He was cursing at Lucy as he continued to fumble with his pants, her squirming and thrashing making his job harder.

  Fury burned inside Bonnie as she approached the man and slashed at his side with her knife. He cried out with the shock and pain from her attack and clutched at his side and stumbled several steps backwards looking for who had interrupted him. His eyes blazed angrily as Bonnie stepped between Lucy and her attacker. "Fucking bitch! You'll pay for that and for interrupting our fun. I'm going to kill you both now," he snarled.

  Bonnie held her knife out, "When a woman is saying no and is fighting and crying like that, she isn't having any fucking fun!" Bonnie reached behind her to touch her friend and she felt like crying when Lucy flinched and whimpered. Bonnie wasn't even sure if the blonde was aware that he wasn't holding her down anymore. "Lucy? Baby, it's me," Bonnie said in a soothing calm voice, but never taking her eyes off of the man in front of her. She didn't understand why he was still here. "Lucy, it's Bonnie. Say something."

  "Bonnie?" She felt Lucy move and stand unsteadily beside her.

  Bonnie unclipped her keys from her pants beltloop and held them out, "I need you to take my keys and get in the car. Can you do that?" She recognised the look in the man's eye as he calculated the odds of taking Bonnie out moments before he lunged at her. She jumped back and swished her knife out in front of her and he only narrowly missed getting cut again.

  "Bonnie!" Lucy cried out.

  "Get into the car, Lucy! Run, don't look back...... and honk when you are inside."

  She wanted Lucy to get a head start. She needed her safe and sound before she ran to the car as well. She heard Lucy's sandals on the gravel as she did what Bonnie asked. He lunged again, this time throwing his leg out and hitting her in the knee. It only just connected, but it hurt like hell. She managed to stab him in the thigh causing him to yell in anger, before she started to crumble, her knee giving out and he came at her again. Bonnie didn't fight the downward momentum and tumbled so that she fell onto her back. She got the reaction she wanted. He thought that he had the upper hand as he stood above her with triumph in his eyes. Bonnie lashed out with her uninjured leg and struck him hard in the groin. His breath whooshed and his eyes bugged out in surprise and pain as he bent over and held his hands over his privates.

  Bonnie scrambled to her feet trying to ignore the pain in her knee when she heard Lucy honk the horn three times in quick succession. She ran as fast as she could manage towards the car. Bonnie cursed under her breath when she heard him pursuing her. He's fucking crazy! I got him with the knife twice. What will it take to get rid of this guy? Bonnie heard him gaining on her because her knee was slowing her down, but the car was close now. Just a little further. "Open the door!" Lucy leaned over and opened the passenger side door and Bonnie dove inside. "Drive, Lucy!"

  Zephyr pumped his legs, his anger fueling him on. He was within reach of the brunette when she dove into the car. He lunged forward in one last ditch attempt to stop and silence his prey, but was instead hit with the open passenger side door as the car sped forward, wheels spinning in the gravel. Zephyr was launched into the air and collided hard into another parked car. He saw nothing but the fading headlights moments before losing consciousness.

  CHAPTER TEN

  Bonnie had only just managed to get her legs free of the door when Lucy hit her pursuer causing the door to slam shut from the impact. She looked behind her and saw the man crumple to the floor, before turning in the seat as Lucy sped erratically through the parking lot towards the interstate.

  "Jesus! Lucy, be careful!," Bonnie yelled when her car swiped another vehicle coming into the parking lot and then narrowly missed an oncoming tanker by mere inches.

  Lucy didn't say a word and Bonnie looked at her to see tears streaming down her cheeks, mingling with the blood that dribbled out of a cut just below her eye. The honking of another car had Bonnie realising that if they didn't pull over soon they would both end up dead, because Lucy was in no fit condition to drive. Bonnie reached out and to
uched Lucy's leg, "It's okay, Lucy. Slow down and pull over so I can drive."

  The car came to a grinding halt on the shoulder of the road. Bonnie leaned over and turned off the ignition. Lucy's hands still gripped the steering wheel tightly as she looked straight ahead out the windscreen while she continued to cry. Bonnie looked down at the knife she still clutched in her hand and the blood that stained it. She couldn't believe what she had just seen and done. If she had just been a few minutes longer he would have.......... Bonnie closed her eyes and shook her head. Don't think about that. Just talk to Lucy and make sure she is okay. She heard Lucy's voice through the silence. "I'm sorry."

  Bonnie turned towards Lucy and came face to face with sad, withdrawn, whisky coloured eyes. "No. It's my fault.... I should have gone with you.... I... If...I.... God."