His Indecent Desires
His Indecent Desires
Midpoint
HIS INDECENT DESIRES
(Volume 3 of ‘Bound and Shackled to the Billionaire’)
By Aphrodite Hunt
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright 2012 by Aphrodite Hunt
Cover art by Aphrodite Hunt
EROTICA BY APHRODITE HUNT
The ‘Bound and Shackled to the Billionaire’ series
His Indecent Proposition
His Indecent Demands
His Indecent Desires
The ‘Initiation’ series
Open Your Legs for Me
Blindfolded and Spread-eagled
Thighs Wide Apart
Teacher, Please Spread my Pussy
The Final Initiation
The Initiation: A Bundle of 5 Stories
The ‘Initiation 2’ series
Open Your Legs for my Family
Bend Over for my Family
Publicly Display Yourself for Me
Sex Slave at Sea
Paraded before the Billionaires
Sex Slave at the Auction
The ‘Initiation 3’ series
Sex Slave to the Dictator
‘The Royal Captive’ series
Prince Miro’s Capture
Prince Miro’s Submission
Prince Miro’s Enslavement
Prince Miro’s Punishment
Prince Miro’s Escape
Prince Miro’s Final Confrontation
The Royal Captive: Vol 1 to 3
The Royal Captive: Vol 4 to 6
The ‘Naughty Nymphomaniac’ series
I was a Naughty Nymphomaniac
Officer, Please Spread and Cuff Me
Gang Banged by the Chain Gang
Tempting the Hot Navy SEAL
The ‘Delicate Piercings’ series
Her First Clit Ring
Her First Clit Ring 2: Menage
Her First Clit Ring 3: Desensitization
The ‘Undercover’ series
Undercover: Exposing the Bad Doctor
Undercover: Stealing from the Sexy CEO
The ‘Alien’ series
Trapped with Sex-Starved Aliens
Trapped with Sex-Starved Aliens 2
Hot, Wet and Steamy (individual stories)
When He’s Inside You
My Stepson is a Naughty Stripper
The Gorgeous Naked Man in my Storm Shelter (Erotic Suspense)
WORKS BY ARTEMIS HUNT
EROTIC ROMANCES
The ‘Inhumanly Handsome, Humanly Flawed Alpha Male’ series
A Virgin Enslaved
The ‘Maid for the Billionaire Prince’ series
Mysterious Desire
Forbidden Desire
Infamous Desire
ROMANCES
The Body Snatcher Wears Lipstick
Snow White and the Alien
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HIS INDECENT DESIRES
1
Everything is going to be OK, Susan Chalmers repeats to herself for the hundredth time that evening. She is rocking herself on a sofa downstairs in the lounge – knees crossed, arms wrapped around her bent legs. For some reason, a song keeps intruding into her head.
Can’t help falling in love.
She doesn’t know why she can’t get those lyrics out of her head, especially the chorus, because they are most inappropriate in the current situation. Not to mention – in all probability – forever unrequited.
Channing has not returned from wherever he has gone to. Not that he tells me anything, his future Vice-President. She pictures him at the police station, giving the police a description of his volatile twin brother. He looks exactly me. Sure, go ahead and take a mug shot.
And yet . . . Channing might not have gone to the police about this.
So much she doesn’t know. So much she thinks he isn’t going to tell her. After all, what relationship does she have with him other than a purely business one? A mutually beneficial arrangement that lets him fuck her and do anything to her as he pleases, and in return, he gives her coveted promotion?
By next Friday. Easy peasy. Except that now . . . it’s complicated.
No, not really, the rational voice in her head tells her. Nothing has changed. So you were almost raped by his twin brother. But order has been restored. Here’s the calm after the chaos. Life goes on. The deal goes on.
Does it?
What if he doesn’t want to continue with her after this? What if this spanner in the works is bigger than she thinks it is, and he’s going to call the whole thing off?
“Sorry, Susan, but something came up. I’m not going to be able to promote you after all. You’re gonna have to make it on your own merit.”
She’s shocked that she’s even thinking of business after her ordeal. What kind of a woman thinks like this?
Footsteps sound outside the lounge and she looks up fearfully. A man appears at the doorway. For a moment, she freezes, and then she remembers.
“I’m security,” he says affably.
She’s wearing one of Channing’s bathrobes. Its sash is tightly strung around her waist, and underneath, she’s wearing a shift she found in the chamber of closets – the very one right outside his dungeon.
She doesn’t fully let down her guard. “What security company are you from?”
The man hesitates. Like Channing, his head wears a tight buzz cut. From the way he moves and carries himself, she thinks he has a military background.
“We’re not from any security company. We’re Channing’s old buddies.”
“From Iraq?”
“We served together, yeah.”
She licks her lips. So much she wants to ask him, and now is her chance. “Please tell me . . . what happened in Iraq? What does Channing’s brother mean when he says Channing left him for dead?”
The man once again seems reluctant. “It’s not in my place to tell you, Miss. Perhaps you better ask Channing himself.”
She expected this. His men seem loyal to him to a fault. As with Ms. Radcliffe. What is it about Channing that renders people to extremes, herself included? She still doesn’t know what she feels about him. Does she feel affection for him? Her skin certainly scorches at his touch, and last night, she had the most amazing dream about him. In her dream, he was kissing her as though they were a normal couple in a love-filled relationship, and when he looked at her, his eyes were burning with desire.
“Susan,” he was saying her name huskily. “Susan.”
Of course she woke up, and that was when she knew it was only a dream.
He doesn’t kiss.
She’s not without some degree of feminine guile however. Even in her current shaken state, she turns on the charm. (Or whatever charm she thinks she can rustle up.)
Her large eyes are pleading and scared as they gaze upon the man.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t know your name.”
“It’s Fred.”
“Fred.” She nurses the name like it’s her only lifeline. “Please, Fred, is there nothing you can tell me? I was very much involved. He tried to – ” she chokes out the word “ – rape me. Please . . . I need to know.”
Fred seems extremely ill at ease.
“Please,” she says again.
He creeps closer, stopping just a few feet away from her. He shuffles on his soles.
He says, “After the war . . . or after our tour of duty, rather . . . Channing Crawford, William Peterson and Derek Fulham decided to stay back and fortify Iraq, or so they claimed. They went East while the rest of our division went back to Baghdad. Channing was joined by his brother, Hugh, who wasn’t a soldier but flew in for the spoils. “
She listens with bated breath.
“No one quite knows what happened there, of course. But word among the vets was that Hugh was caught in a crossfire where they were. They got out, but he didn’t.”
“Where were they?” she ventures to ask.
Fred crinkles his brow. “It was somewhere called ‘Desert Rose’ in the local language.”
‘Desert Rose’. She savors the name. “Did they find gold like all the rumors said they did?”
“Gold was not the only thing they found.” He shakes his head. “I’ve said too much. Anything else you want to know, you’d best ask Channing yourself. Don’t tell him I told you anything.” He shoots her a warning glance.
“I won’t,” she promises. She deliberates for a while, and when he starts to move away, she quickly asks, “What sort of man is Channing?”
Fred raises his eyebrows as if to say, You are clearly his lover, and you don’t know?
Yes, she wants to whimper. I am clearly his physical lover in every sense, but I don’t have a fucking clue about the man.
Her expression must be one of angst and frustration because he takes pity on her.
He says, “Anyone can say anything about the man and what he did in ‘Desert Rose’ – and no one knows what he did for sure – but I would take a bullet for Channing Crawford any day. We were behind enemy lines when I took shrapnel in my leg. I couldn’t walk. We were surrounded by enemy soldiers. I thought I was done for.
“Channing came charging back for me, even though he was under a barrage of enemy fire. He lifted me onto his back and went out the same way he came, shooting at anything that moved. If it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t be standing here. I owe him my very life. I have a wife and three young kids. He gave me back to them.”
He takes a deep breath. “I’d kill anyone who tries to hurt him.”
His suddenly savage expression seems to say ‘And that includes you’.
2
Channing didn’t specify where she should sleep, so she goes back to the bedroom she boarded herself up in. And promptly falls asleep in her shift.
Her dreams are disturbing.
She is in the desert in front of a huge, baked brick citadel. Everything has a mild red tinge, as though she is watching the landscape through rose-tinted lenses. The citadel is large, forbidding and ancient. Its parapets are manned by dark shadows with rifle points sticking out of their backs.
She is wearing her sexy maid’s outfit – the one that allows her naked breasts to be lifted suggestively by its whalebone pushups and her bare pussy to be exposed beneath its flouncy black taffeta skirt. She walks towards the citadel as a mournful wind howls around her, whipping her brown tresses into a moving halo.
“Channing?” she calls.
She knows he is in there instinctively, in this citadel called ‘Desert Rose’. Is he in trouble? Is he being tortured?
The iron gates of the citadel are closed, but now an ancient mechanism cranks them open. She watches with trepidation as the gates whine open to reveal a yawning gloom.
The clouds of murkiness part. A figure walks out. It is clearly a man. As he strides towards her, she can make out his broad shoulders and large frame . . . and then his clean, handsome features. He wears a long sheikh’s robe – dazzling in all white. It is Channing and yet not Channing. His long wavy hair whips in the wind behind his well-shaped scalp. He resembles a biblical prophet.
He holds a flaming torch in his hand.
She wakes up, screaming. She bolts up in bed, her skin feverish and damp from sweat. A hand immediately reaches out and clasps her arm. She freezes.
“Susan?” It’s Channing’s voice in the dark. “It’s just me, Channing.”
“Channing?” Her voice is nervous, querulous. She can never be sure anymore. Their voices are the same.
“Yes.”
She hears sounds of movement and then the click of a switch. Partial light floods the bedroom. Channing is on his elbow beside her in bed, his close-cropped hair gleaming in the lamplight. He is naked from what she can see above the covers. His forehead is creased with concern.
“You OK?” he asks.
She’s not. She’s still spooked by her nightmare. She’s spooked by this entire house.
“Yes,” she lies, her heart beating rapidly. She can hear its thud-thud-thud in her ears amid the roaring of her blood.
“It’s only a nightmare,” he guesses correctly. “Go back to sleep. I’m right here.”
He turns to switch the light off and they are in the darkness once more. The moonlight in the window outside is a pale shadow of what she’s used to, as though the night too is bleached of all color. He settles down beside her. His large hands are surprisingly gentle as they wind themselves around her shoulders and ease her head onto his chest.
Her long hair is a fan across his pectorals and her left cheek is against his heart. She can hear his heart’s steady, comforting drumbeat. She slides her palm down to his waist and keeps it there. They are nestled against each other, like real lovers after a sexual interlude. His warmth seeps into every part of her body in contact with his skin.
She likes this. She wonders if his penis is erect, but she doesn’t want to spoil this wonderful newfound intimacy they are having. So she keeps mum about the hundred and one questions that spring to her lips about his twin brother and ‘Desert Rose’. But she’s not supposed to know about ‘Desert Rose’, so she’ll have to keep on having nightmares about it.
Or are they premonitions?
He says, his deep voice vibrating against her cheek, “I think we’re safe now.”
The mood in the room is still in limbo – magical and warm and so tenuous you can cut it with a knife. She’s so afraid to shake it, but she knows her curiosity will win out.
“You mean . . . you found him?”
“No. We can’t find him.” He sighs. He absently strokes her arm. Lover-style. “But the house is fortified more than ever before and we’ve got Fred and his mercs in and around it.”
“Mercs?”
“Mercenaries.”
Yes, of course. What else would Fred and his team be? She feels as though everything around her is surreal and she’s the hapless heroine in some espionage movie.
She whispers, “Why is he so angry with you?”
Silence. Dread pools in her chest. She’s ruined everything now and he’ll be angry with her for asking. He’ll leave her bed now and go back to his own bedroom, wherever it is.
Damn.
He finally says, “It’s a long story.” His voice is tired beyond measure.
She doesn’t say anything. She waits.
“Hugh was always extremely competitive. He wanted to be the best in everything. When he was a child, he wanted to be President. The first astronaut to go to Mars. The scientist who discovers the cure to cancer. And he had the brains to do it too.”
He pauses.
“Unfortunately, there was always something a little off about him. When he was a baby, he was dropped by our mother and he hit his head on the floor. He was always fretful after that. Crying all the time. He couldn’t sleep for long periods of time and he would
keep her awake at nights. She swore she wouldn’t have a baby again after us.”
She is speechless. He has never shared anything about himself with her, and this is a catharsis. She is almost afraid to breathe – afraid of upsetting this delicate moment with something as reality-based as breathing.
He continues, still stroking her arm, “As a result of his fall, our parents were always fretting and worrying about him. He got the lion’s share of attention when we were growing up. He was a sickly kid, prone to seizures and blackout spells. The doctors blamed it on that fall.”
He lapses into silence. The rise and fall of his chest is palpable against her cheek. She badly wants to kiss him, but she’s afraid of dissipating the mood. So she settles for running her palm over his chest instead, feeling the smooth planes of his well-defined pectoral muscles and the contours of his nipples. Oh maybe touching his nipples is a bad idea, because that would arouse him. Not that she doesn’t want to arouse him, but the way he is right now is so mellow and contemplative that she wants to remain in this microcosm of time forever.
He shifts beneath her and settles again in a slightly altered position. It’s a sweet, wonderfully unconscious movement. It means nothing to him but everything to her, because he’s finally getting truly comfortable with her.
He says, “He blames me for something I didn’t do. But then he always did blame me. He was always resentful of me and I have no idea why.”
“What did he blame you for?”
“We were in Iraq. There was chaos everywhere. Looting. Killing in the streets. We kept order. That was our job. Then we heard about what was happening someplace east of Bagdad. About women being raped en masse and drowned in swimming pools by a local warlord gone berserk in the last days of power. Peterson, Fulham and I went to investigate with ten men from our squadron. Hugh flew in for the ride as a civilian. What we found there – ”
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