Walk on the Striped Side

by Jessie Lane

  Elena gave a groan of pleasure before tipping her head back a little farther towards him. He loved to see her so unguarded. Dead on her feet with dark circles under her eyes, probably head fucked beyond belief from roasting people alive on their mission, yet there in that moment, she was the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen. Who needed the frou-frou pageant queens of the world when he could have one feisty Amazon with a spine of steel?

  Gage rinsed the shampoo out of her hair and then massaged conditioner in. Once he’d rinsed that out as well, he grabbed his bar of soap and rolled it between his hands until he had a nice foam of suds. Reaching around to her front, he placed his hands on her lower abdomen before starting to rub small circles into her smooth, slick skin.

  As much as he would love to stand there and pet her body all night, he didn’t want to take the chance of accidentally getting himself too excited—neither one of them were in any condition to have sex—so he kept his strokes short though somewhat reverent as he glided his hands across her body while cleaning her. He had to add more soap to his hands several times as he washed her breasts, legs and back, but his mate was putty in his hands by the time he was done cleaning her.

  By some miracle, he got her to stand on her own in her half-asleep state long enough for him to quickly and efficiently wash himself. When he was done, he turned the water off, carried her out of the shower, and grabbed a clean towel on the way to his room. He managed to get them both dried off without her falling flat on her face and then finally tucked her into his bed where she belonged.

  Gage slid beneath his sheets and curled himself around his mate who was already dead asleep on her side, facing away from him. Wrapping his arms around his woman, he closed his eyes and thanked God that he was holding her instead of being devoid of her presence as he had been for years.

  He briefly remembered that the old Army handcuffs he’d used to keep her at his side were still in one of the cargo pockets of his pants. His sleepy brain wondered if he would need them again tomorrow in case she tried to leave him, however as sleep claimed him, the thought drifted away.

  ***

  A hand slid slowly from between his pecs downwards until it stopped over his belly button. His breath hitched in anticipation and then he felt lips kiss the skin just above his pants. He looked down at Elena just in time to hiss in pleasure as she swiped her tongue from one hip bone to the other across his skin. She was teasing him by refusing to open his jeans and take his rock hard cock out so he could put it in that pretty, little mouth of hers. Having her lips wrapped around him was his second favorite thing in the world. If she’d hurry the fuck up and stop playing around, he could get to his favorite thing. Her tight, little pussy.

  Gage reached down and grabbed some of her hair in one of his fists. “Stop playing with me, baby. Take my dick out and get it nice and wet because I’m going to fuck you so fast and hard tonight that you’ll feel sore and think about me all day tomorrow.”

  Her lips curled up in big, smug smile that warned him she wouldn’t be the only one with reminders of their love making tomorrow. Her deft fingers unbuttoned his jeans and slowly slid his zipper down, parting the flaps wide so that his cock sprang up between them. Sticking her tongue out, she ran it from the base all the way ‘til she made a circle around his tip before sucking him in for a brief second.

  Her mouth released him with a slight pop and then she murmured, “I love it that you never wear any underwear. It makes it so easy for me to play with you whenever I want.”

  He was going to give her a good pop on the ass for torturing him like this. “Babe, I see your lips are moving, but they’re not moving where I want them to be, which is on my dick. Can you fix that please so I can get to fucking you already?”

  Elena shook her head. “I can’t. You have to wake up now.”

  He tightened his grip in her hair until her eyes went a little glassy from the small prick of pleasurable pain it gave her. “I promise you, love, I can’t get anymore ‘awake’ than I already am. So if you’ll just drop your face a bit, open up that pretty mouth of yours and stay still, I’ll do all the work for you. All you have to do is suck, I swear.” He thrust his hips up at her face in his eagerness.

  She shook her head again as a devilishly shark-like smile spread wide across her face. “Wake up now, Garfield…”

  ***

  It was the click of the handcuff’s ratchets closing that woke him. He didn’t panic or wake up fighting, though, because there was only one other scent in that room with him. Elena. He knew he wasn’t in danger, physically at least. Mentally… there was no guarantee because who knew what the woman was up to.

  Opening his eyes, he saw a very smug looking Elena sitting on top of him, straddling his waist. The room was lit by pale morning light behind her, meaning they must have been asleep for some time. To be honest, he’d still like to be asleep, but both he and his beast were far too curious as to what their mate was doing to gripe about it.

  His arms were in an unnatural sleeping position for him, which was up by his head. He moved his eyes from his mate to look behind him at the headboard and found her handcuffs looped through one of the low, horizontal, wooden slats and then attached to both of his wrists. Did the crazy woman actually think these weak little cuffs could hold him?

  He looked back to his mate for answers and found that she was now smiling broadly at him with a teasing glint in her eye. The look told him two things. One, she knew the handcuffs wouldn’t hold him if he wanted to be free, and two, she was feeling playful.

  Well, cats do like to play…

  CHAPTER-TWENTY-FOUR

  Elena

  “What are you doing, mate?” His voice was warm and gruff from sleep, and the sound of it sent a shiver down Elena’s back.

  The man looked delicious enough to lick from head to toe right now. Tied up to his own bed, no shirt, just smooth skin ready for her to touch. To tease. And that wasn’t even the best part. She rocked her hips forward so that the lips of her sex glided over his semi-erect cock. No, the best part was that Gage hadn’t dressed them last night after their shower. He’d let both of them fall into bed buck ass naked. A first for them since they’d started seeing each other again.

  She snorted to herself at that thought. Seeing each other again? What a funny way to put a hostage and kidnapping situation. Somehow, though, he’d done exactly what she had been so determined that she wouldn’t let him do; that sneaky feline had wormed his way back into her heart. Elena was ready to admit her feelings for him, just like she’d been ready to do two years ago on that horrible night she’d heard Gage call her a ‘piece of ass’ through his bedroom door.

  Only, as she’d woken up to his partial stiffy poking into her backside, she’d decided she was going to take the reins in this situation. Gage would get what he wanted, which was her, as soon as she got what she wanted, the explanation. Yeah, the annoying man had said she’d have to figure it out, yet she didn’t want to wait for that. She was going to do the next best thing.

  Elena was going to seduce the answer out of him.

  Gage had been holding off the physical act of sex until she was ready to admit she still loved him. Elena had withheld those words and emotions because of a broken heart and his lack of an explanation. Now that he’d somehow managed to mend her heart a little, she wanted that damned explanation before she’d allow things to get any messier, like calling this a relationship.

  Thank God the man slept like the dead when he was exhausted because it had given her the chance to slip out of bed and snoop around his room a little. Elena had grabbed the handcuffs she’d seen him put in his cargo pant’s pocket, but decided handcuffs alone weren’t enough to help her drive him wild. That’s when her eyes had landed on the nightstand. Lots of people kept naughty toys in their nightstands.

  Only it hadn’t been naughty toys she’d found. He’d put something so much better than naughty in there. Gage had his Heckler & Koch MK 23 stored there—the very same gun they�
��d met over in the first place—along with all the loose cat toys she’d left behind in his house. It was like a drawer full of memories.

  Elena had almost choked up when she’d seen it all, yet then her eyes had landed on that one cat toy, and that’s when she had known she’d found the most perfect—and unexpected—tool to use. She was going to sexually torture the man, who’d driven her crazy, with a feathered wand.

  It was downright devious and mean—cruel even—but in her defense, she’d warned him back in that meeting room at the bar the day before. Elena didn’t get mad, she got evil. And he’d pushed her to this by not answering her questions. So, therefore, in her mind, he’d had this coming to him all along. Gage was just lucky that she intended to get him off while she was torturing him.

  She’d placed the feathered wand behind her on the bed between his spread legs to keep it out of his sight until she was ready to use it. Now she just had to get her big, ol’ kitty worked up.

  He was watching her with the rapt attention of an apex predator, taking in every minute movement she made as she settled on top of him, bracing her hands on his abdomen. Using a fingertip from each hand, Elena started tracing figure eights into his skin without breaking eye contact.

  “Does my kitty like to play games?”

  His chest rumbled with a purr. “What kind of games?”

  “Naughty ones,” she whispered.

  Gage bucked his hips underneath her and she gasped at the feel of his hardening cock rubbing against her folds. “Baby, I can show you things I’ve learned over the years that you wouldn’t dream up in your wildest fantasies. You want to play naughty games? We can play a new game every night. I’ll be the most attentive teacher you’ve ever had. All you’ve got to do is tell me what I want to hear and we can start right now. Ever heard of hide and seek?”

  Elena snorted. “And what will you be hiding?”

  A big smile stretched across his face. “First my fingers, then my tongue and finally my dick. I’ll hide all three things inside of you repeatedly until you find an orgasm. The fun part will be that I’ll blindfold you and you’ll have no idea where I plan to hide until I’m working my way in there. We’d have to see if we can hide all of my cock in your mouth, though, because I’m not sure it’ll fit. But that’s okay because you have two other holes if it doesn’t.”

  Her mouth dropped open in shock and he winked at her expression.

  “You’re a dirty old man, aren’t you?”

  Elena started to lean forward to kiss him, but he bared his teeth at her and growled, “Wait.”

  Jerking back a little at his reaction, she asked him in confusion, “What?”

  “Have you brushed your teeth yet? I’m not sure I can take another blast of your nuclear breath.”

  Elena barked out a loud laugh. “Learned your lesson the first time, did you?”

  Gage nodded. “You know, I was thinking that the Army could use you as a weapon. If they bottled that shit and found a way to reproduce it, they could use it as a chemical agent. Any enemy they unleashed that on would run crying in the opposite direction.”

  She playfully slapped his chest. “I brushed my teeth, you jerk.”

  Her hand on his chest vibrated from his purr. “Then come here and kiss me, woman.”

  She ran her hands up his body until she cradled his face in her hands and brought her lips to lightly skim across his. “How about we play my game first?”

  “What game is this?” he quietly asked, his lips brushing against hers with every word.

  Elena grabbed his cell phone off the top of his nightstand and started pushing buttons, explaining as she set things up. “We’re going to see if I can make you come in ten minutes while you’re lying there. If I can, then I get to ask you any question and you have to answer honestly. If you don’t, then you can ask me anything you want and I’ll answer honestly.”

  She turned the front of the phone around to show him the times set up there. “Ready to play?”

  His face was a blank mask. “Any question and you promise to answer honestly?”

  “Yes.”

  “Game on,” he whispered back.

  Elena started the timer and put the phone down on the bed beside them then she went back to giving Gage light, fluttery kisses. Teasing little touches of her mouth that quickly frustrated him. He tried to kiss her deeply, however she pulled back and slid down his body until her mouth hovered over one of his nipples. Elena kept her eyes on his as she snaked out the tip of her tongue and lightly licked the little, flat brown disc, causing him to hiss. She felt his cock jump at the touch where it was trapped between them and smiled.

  “Don’t get smug, Amazon. There’s no way you’re going to make me come in time.”

  Elena gave him a confident smile and licked his nipple again. And then again. And then she covered the small peak with her mouth and sucked hard enough to leave a hickey, slightly bruising his entire nipple. Gage threw his head back on the pillow and growled loudly as she continued to suck on his nipple. He bucked his hips against her and his length rubbed against her clit, causing her to groan.

  Getting impatient, Gage grunted, “Why don’t you suck on something else now, Mate?”

  She looked up and gave him a devious smirk before moving her mouth over to his other nipple. He hissed long and hard when she bit it this time before licking him in slow, languid circles. The handcuffs rattled against the wooden headboard slat and Elena knew that his patience was rapidly disappearing.

  Keeping up with her plan to drive him crazy, she moved her mouth in small increments down his chest, dropping kisses along his skin. The teasing torture seemed to be working because Gage’s body was practically vibrating with impatience. Taking her time to circle her tongue around his belly button and then grabbing his cock with her hand so that she could oh so slowly run her tongue down the little hair trail that led to his groin.

  Moving her hand lazily up and down his length, she placed a small kiss on the tip. He thrust his hips up so that his cock bumped her closed lips in a desperate hint of what he wanted. She couldn’t give it to him yet, though, not this time around in their game. Just another minute or so and the timer would go off, letting Gage win the first round. She had to drive him insane between now and then, so she took that time to pepper light kisses all over his throbbing length without ever quite giving him what he wanted.

  When the chime of the timer went off, he snarled in agitation as she let go of his manhood and straddled his hips again. His teeth were on display with his snarl, and his fangs were starting to drop down in length.

  “You did that on purpose!” he accused her.

  “Is that your question?”

  Shaking his head fervently, he replied, “You’re not getting off that easy, woman. You want to torture me? I’ll torture you right back with the very thing you’ve been avoiding telling me. Do you love me?”

  It was now or never. Was it wrong for a part of her to still wish for never?

  As Elena stared into Gage’s fevered eyes, she knew she couldn’t deny him anymore. All she could do was hope that this would turn out for the best because she couldn’t live through another heart break.

  Leaning forward, she placed her hands on either side of his head and skimmed her nose against his in a loving caress and then gave him a light peck on the lips. Pulling back enough to regain eye contact with him, she whispered her answer, “Yes.”

  He surprised her when he heaved an obvious sigh of relief and let his head drop back onto the pillow. She hadn’t realized just how worried he was about that answer. When he re-opened his eyes, they held a different kind of glint. Determination.

  “Say the words, Amazon.”

  She had something to do before she could say those words. Reaching back over to his phone, she set the timer again. “One more round of our game if you want those words, tiger.”

  Gage growled in displeasure over her answer, yet the sound quickly turned into a hiss as Elena skipped all the previous
foreplay and went back to what she’d been doing before, licking his cock. She didn’t lick it for long, just enough to tease him from base to tip a few times before she sucked him into the warm cavern of her mouth. Her objective was different this time. Instead of drawing it out, she wanted to speed it up so that she could use her secret weapon to winning this round.

  Gage’s hips writhed under her hands as she gave him slow, strong sucks. When she pulled off him with an audible ‘pop,’ his tip was leaking and he was demanding she give him more. So she did.

  Maneuvering her body to straddle his once again, she quickly reached over to the nightstand and snagged the condom she’d left lying there. Ripping open the little foil package, she took the condom out and rolled it down Gage’s length so fast that it was a miracle she hadn’t accidentally ripped the damn thing.

  God, she was so ready for this. For him.

  Elena took his throbbing shaft and placed it at her entrance and then slid herself slowly down until she felt his balls resting against her bottom. He was so thick that the girth of him was stretching her until she wondered if he would be too much for her to take. Thankfully, after sitting there for a few seconds, her muscles relaxed a little and she knew that she’d be able to ride him like a woman possessed and not suffer any repercussions from it.

  Gage groaned loudly, letting her know that she felt as good to him as he did to her. She’d love to drag this out and torture him again, however she couldn’t lose sight of what she was trying to do to him.

  He was still worked up from her teasing him with the licks and kisses as she picked herself up onto her knees and kept rising until just the head of him was inside of her, and then she dropped back down hard and fast. Their bodies slapped together loudly at the contact and the erotic sound of their sex only made her wetter for him.