“Grant,” he sighed, his gaze still on the doorway she’d left open. “Man. We’re fucked.”
“Yeah, I know.” I wanted to laugh at the expression on his face. I’d never seen David look terrified before, not until now.
“She’s trouble, mate. A distraction. We don’t need that.” He looked at me, his vulnerability a shock.
“Whoa! You have it bad, huh?” I couldn’t believe it, but I could. “She is beautiful.”
“Pure. A fighter. Beautiful, yeah, but so much more than that.” His eyes said it all, he couldn’t resist her anymore.
I wanted to not only laugh but laugh hysterically. This was hilarious. At the same time, it told me that all my instincts about Toni were right. She was the one. That one. The one we’d been waiting for.
“We have to take down Avery Winslow. She can’t go on like this much longer and we’ve had one explosion from his lackeys’ carelessness. I don’t want that to happen again. Let’s go talk to the chief. It’s time to put our groundwork into play.”
I looked back at him steadily, that next step not only dangerous, but it could mean the end of our careers.
“The chief is in this fully, right?” I hadn’t worked so hard to overcome my past, to build my life to what it was, just to end up in jail.
“There’s a risk this might blow up on all of us, Grant, but it has to be done. Are you ready for that?” His penetrating look told me he knew I was ready for whatever came; he just wanted to hear it from me.
“Yeah, I’m ready, David. Fully committed.” We bumped knuckles and left the office, heading straight for the chief.
We passed Eric as an officer took him through the release process. The boy looked relieved but angry. I didn’t blame him. This was all turning into one giant fuckup and if I knew anything about politics, David and I would somehow catch the blame if it all blew up on us. I didn’t want that to happen, but who knew how our crazy idea would turn out?
Eric sent me a glance, a smile that quickly faded into an angry scowl. We weren’t winning brownie points there then. Damn! I didn’t really want to make him distrust us, but so far we’d done little to encourage anything but distrust.
Nothing would happen tonight, it would be a few days yet, but we had to get our boss’s go ahead before we moved forward. Maybe we’d have some time to get to know Toni a little better before we tumbled over the precipice into hell? I lived in hope.
The chief looked grim as we walked into the office but I think he knew the score. It was time to stop fucking around.
7
Toni
Eric maintained a façade of bitter silence, anger pouring from him in waves until we pulled into the concrete driveway in front of our new home. He was behaving as I expected any teenage boy would after being arrested for something that was supposed to be over. I’d asked him if he wanted anything before we left and he’d shaken his head sullenly.
He’d slid into his seat, his large, masculine hands covering his face. The boy I’d once held was now taller than me, his hands once so tiny, now as large as platters. I didn’t know what to do for him, especially with my own brain a tornado of confusion. I wanted to hold him, but I knew he’d only shrug me off.
I moved when a sob broke from between the hands covering his face, pulling him to me over the space separating us.
“Come here, Eric. It’s okay, baby brother.” He sobbed into my neck, words coming out as little more than broken syllables. He was my little brother all over again, and all I could do was try to soothe away the tears, as I had always done.
“It’s okay, Eric, come on, baby. Please stop crying, before I join you!” I gave a bark of laughter as I wiped a tear away. He pulled away, his own shoulders shaking with laughter.
“Too late, sis!” He laughed as his thumb came up to wipe another tear away. “This is rough, isn’t it?”
“Yeah, just a bit. We can do it though.” I didn’t know how but we’d get through it. All we had was each other.
“I can’t seem to stay out of trouble, even when I’m not in trouble. I swear, Toni, as soon as this program is over, I’m going to get a job and make this all right again. I know it won’t be much, I’m still a kid, but I’ll do my best.” He looked so grown up again, mature and concerned about his sister, that it broke my heart.
“Baby, I’m fine. You do whatever it takes to get to college, you hear me? All I care about is that you get the opportunity. You have plans, and you need to focus on them. Don’t let this drag you down, you hear me?” I stared into his eyes, my hands on each side of his face.
He gave me a watery smile and nodded in agreement. “Okay, sis, but I’d still like to get a job to help out, you know? At least let me do that. I can get my own clothes and whatever I need then.”
A job would keep him focused, I hoped. Maybe it was a good idea.
“We’ll talk about it when you finish the program, alright?” I pulled my bag out of the backseat and got out of the car. “Come on, I think it’s hot fudge sundae time!”
I wiggled my eyebrows at him and when he laughed it melted my heart. He’d always had the sweetest laugh.
He plugged his phone into the speakers, our joint Christmas gift to each other last year. The most awesome speakers we’d ever had. He put on an R and B song that we both adored, though it probably wasn’t appropriate, and I proceeded to make Mom’s homemade fudge sauce recipe, both of us relaxed, dancing, and singing into spoons. You’d never know an hour before we’d both been distraught.
Eric put ice cream into bowls carefully so each portion formed a ball, the way we both liked it, and crushed some peanuts to top it all. We ate with glee, the hour late but not caring. He was young and would bounce back, and I had work in the morning, but Eric needed this. He needed something to soothe him.
He was still a kid, after all.
“You know, for all the bad, Toni, you really do make it all worth trying for.” He didn’t look at me when he said those heart-melting words.
“What?” I asked in a whisper, tearing up.
“You gave up your life for me when you didn’t have to. You could have let the foster system take me, or some unknown relative. You took the responsibility on when you absolutely didn’t have to. I wouldn’t do any of those things, you know?” He stuck his spoon in his ice cream, letting it slide off before he looked at me with sad eyes.
“The charges you mean?”
“Yeah, the charges. There’s no way I would ever do anything to get in trouble, not on purpose, not knowing what you’ve given up for me. I couldn’t do that to you.” His voice broke but he hid his tears by looking the other way.
I took his hand, not wanting him to necessarily turn to me and let me see his tears, he was a growing boy trying to be a man after all. I just wanted to give him some comfort.
“Baby brother, I’ve never doubted you. Not once.” I put the promise in my voice.
“That’s part of it too, you know? You trust me; we only have each other. I wish you had somebody to share your life with, but right now, we only have each other.” He squeezed my hand back before he grinned. “But I saw Grant checking you out once or twice. I think he’s in to you!”
He gave me a teasing grin and bent over to give me a kissy face as I leaned away.
“Stop that! Oh God, that’s so gross! Stop it! Eric!” He was tickling my ribs now, making me scream with laughter.
“You’ll be screaming that at Grant if he keeps giving you those looks.” He went back to his side and gave me a serious face before he broke into a girly voice, teasing me once again. “Oh, Grant, don’t stop, don’t stop!”
We were both howling with laughter when he stopped. We couldn’t stop for quite a while, but when we finally did I gave him a sober look.
“Would it really be okay with you if I started dating?” I hadn’t before because I didn’t want to introduce someone into his life that would probably only leave.
“I think you need to start dating, Toni! Be normal for a
while! I’ll be at college soon and out of your hair. Find somebody to love, sis!”
“Hmph, well, if you’re just going to abandon me, I suppose I might as well.” I gave him a smile and went back to my melting ice cream.
We soon finished our late-night treat and Eric said he was going to shower and get to bed. He went off and I put the dishes in the dishwasher after rinsing them. I wanted to sit with him longer but I thought he was probably alright. Shook up, but alright. I hoped.
I went to my own room, heading to my bathroom. That’s when I started to shake. When I was alone, where there were no witnesses to my weakness. It was hard to be strong on your own. I tried to brush away the tears, the self-pity, but it just overwhelmed me even more. I managed to turn the shower on and step in before a sob broke free. I slid down the black tiles to the floor of the standalone shower stall.
Letting the water wash away my tears, I sobbed away the fear, the sense of failure, defeat, and helplessness. I’d offered my body for help. I’d almost lost my brother again. The world had gone completely insane. I’d gone right into psycho-land with the world.
I could still feel how David’s strong hands felt down the back of my jeans. I could still feel how he cupped my ass and pulled me tightly to his erection. He’d been so hard against my softness. The tears started to ebb as I remembered the sensation. So hard, so wonderful to grind against. And his lips.
I sighed as my hands slid between my thighs, finding that little button there, the one that remembered him so well. Now that I wasn’t overwhelmed with him, I could process how he’d made me feel. Hot, swollen, needy. He’d been what I needed.
I had been so close to coming on him, my legs wrapped around his waist, just from his kiss, the way he held me! What would real sex with him be like?
I had to bite my lip to hold back a moan as my fingers danced on my clit, the memory of how he smelled filling my head. The way his teeth had clasped my lip just before he released it and swiped the spot with his tongue.
Fuck, he’d felt so good. My head fell back against the wall as I remembered it all. Then Grant had come in. I couldn’t stop then; I hadn’t been able to let David go. If I was honest with myself, I’d wanted more. I’d wanted Grant behind me, stroking me, offering my breasts to David’s talented lips.
The images flooded my brain as my fingers played at the tiny center of my pleasure. I decided to be daring then and slid my other hand up to a hard nipple. I’d loved how it felt to press them into his chest, the friction it had caused. I’d loved all of it.
I gasped as my fingers closed around the point of flesh, the thought of Grant doing the same as David drove into me a thought too far. I couldn’t stop it!
I’d wanted to make it last, to think about it over and over, but one of them was heady stuff, and both of them at the same time was just too much. I shook there on the floor, my body released to pleasure at last.
It lasted so long I let out a moan of wonder. When it was over, I was almost too drained to stand up. My legs shook and I had to brace myself against the wall for a moment.
I finished my shower and went to bed.
I was exhausted, wrung out, and as I looked over at the house next door, I knew I was still going to have to pay a price. I’d made the offer in desperation but it had turned into something else in that small room. It had become an offer of so much more than just a quick fuck for a favor. I had a feeling I might have offered David my entire being and he, well, I think he’d accepted. I really was fucked.
Grant
We went to her house the next day after work. David had been like a caged bear all day, and I wouldn’t have been surprised to hear him growl, but he hadn’t so far. He hadn’t said what was on his mind, he didn’t have to.
Toni was on my mind too.
I’d seen her face when I walked in on her and David. What she didn’t know was I’d been there from the moment David pinned her to the wall. I’d been hard instantly, just from the total immersion in pleasure I saw on her face. She’d given in to her body’s demands with an abandon I’d never witnessed before and it was a huge turn on.
She wasn’t just beautiful though, it wasn’t just a physical attraction to her and her body, it was an attraction to the woman that lived in that body. She was so ready for what we had to offer her; she just had to get her head around it. What we wanted was far more than just sex, and I think she knew it, even if she hadn’t admitted any of it to herself yet.
When we pulled onto our driveway that evening, David didn’t head to the house, he headed straight for Toni’s.
She answered the knock at her backdoor in moments. She’d obviously been in the kitchen. The front of her sweatshirt was wet. Maybe she’d been cleaning?
“What’s up, guys? Eric’s in the shower, if that’s who you’re here to see. Please, though, I think he’s been through enough in the last few weeks. You’d better not be here to arrest him again!” Her eyes went to each of us, that momma bear on clear display again. That’s my girl!
“No, we just, uh...” For once, I saw David speechless. I stared at him, holding back a laugh as he reached behind his head to rub at his neck. “We wanted to see you, Toni.”
She looked stunned and then resigned. “Come in.”
She held the door open and I shut it as we walked in.
She was beautiful, even with her makeup worn away by the day, in a sweatshirt and yoga pants that certainly suited her. Not many women could wear them as well as she did. Her long legs were on display and I wanted my turn at feeling the muscular thighs gripping me. I had to turn away before she saw just how much I wanted it. I went to the table in the small kitchen and took a seat, uninvited.
I let David handle the first few steps, for now I was happy in the role of backup.
“What can I do for you?” she asked from the counter, her body hiding a bottle of wine, her stance sending a signal to stay away.
“You could offer us a drink, maybe? We’re here to make amends, Toni. Please.”
Straightforward and to the point, that’s my David. I hid a grin behind my hand as I watched them.
“Really? You aren’t coming to arrest me for… last night?” Her left eyebrow quirked into a dark arch over dark eyes, something I found terribly adorable.
“Why would I? What? No!” He moved to stand in front of her, leaning forward a little. He used that move to intimidate people he questioned in the field, but now it was a sign that he wanted to be close to her. “Look, Toni… I…”
That’s when he did it, he moved in for the kill.
Rather than speaking another word, David pulled her slim body to his, and I saw her arms come around his neck, her body instantly pliant. Oh yes, she was ready for this. More than ready.
I was content enough to sit back and watch, but David gestured with one hand that I should come to them. I went to her, moving in behind her. David stopped kissing her and turned her face to mine. Her eyes were glazed, distant, but full of her desire. I took her lips with mine, the heat from her mouth almost too hot.
“Grant...” she whispered, but it was against my lips, a touch that teased me to only want more of her.
She was ours in an instant.
Just like that she succumbed, her reservations melted, and we were a unit. I inhaled her scent through my nose as I kissed her, my tongue coming out to tease her lips open. I wanted to taste the deepest part of her. I wanted to taste all of her.
My head was spinning by the time David pulled her face back to his. Toni settled against me, her firm ass pressing into me in the most tantalizing way. I held her hips, pressing into her as David took her attention. Her hand came back to grasp at me, to pull me harder to her body, telling me David hadn’t taken all her attention after all.
I bent my head down, inhaling the clean scent of her hair as my hands moved up, under her thick shirt to find her skin bare of lace or cloth. Her skin was warm, silky, tempting, as I moved up. Her breasts were firm, standing proudly from her chest without the
aid of a bra. I hesitated just at the delicate skin that formed the bottom of her breasts and took a moment to let her protest, if she so desired. I could feel the heat from the bottom of her ripe breasts, and my fingers ached to go higher, to cup her in my palms.
My fingers slid up, catching the taut peaks of her nipples. I grazed them with the sensitive tips of my fingers, a move that made her shiver hard as she gasped against David’s lips. I bent my head forward as I moved one hand down, down to the front of those oh so revealing black yoga pants.
“You’re so wet, Toni.” I breathed into her ear from behind as my fingers found the one spot I knew would make her surrender complete. She sank into me then, her fingers still clasping at David’s neck frantically. “Let us give you what you need.”
I heard a quiet mewling sound, a sound of need and pleasure, and pressed deeper between her folds, deeper circling her clit in a dance. It was the sound of a woman on the edge.
Her thighs gripped my hand, as she inhaled sharply, rapidly. David’s hands grasped at her ass, letting her know his rock hard dick was waiting for her, not letting her forget him, a move that reminded her there were still two of us. My fingers tightened on her left nipple as he did so and I heard the most incredible sound: the sound of Toni coming apart.
I felt the urge to thrust into her covered ass, to ease some of the pressure on my own cock with a pleasurable stroke between her soft mounds, but she pushed her ass into me before I could. Her body quivered in my arms, her own arms locked around David’s neck. She gave muffled cries of pleasure, cries that nearly tore me in two with my own desire.
“That’s it, baby. Let go. Fuck, I want you so much.” I let my lips trail down from her ear, down to the spot where her neck met her shoulder. I bit gently, a move that earned me another thrust against my cock. “You have to stop doing that, Toni, or I’m going to fuck you in your kitchen.”
She didn’t stop. Instead, she tortured me by writhing her hips as she rode the waves of pleasure. I let her have her way as I fought with myself. I wanted nothing more than to pull those pants down over her ass, reveal the soft flesh to my gaze, and slide between her thighs, straight into what I knew had to be a very hot pussy.
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