He tied off the bandage and snipped the end with the scissors. “That’s right. I will not let any of those men harm you. Not if I can stop it.”
“Oh right, so you’re my hero savior now are you? Because I don’t need anyone to save…” But before I could finish my sentence, Nick kissed me. It wasn’t the same as before, this time his lips were softer, yet more urgent. I could feel my body responding immediately, my pulse quickening.
He lifted my blood soaked t-shirt over my head.
This time, I didn’t stop him.
Chapter 12
This was the worst possible time to have sex. I’d been shot and was still in pain, even though the numbing lotion was working its magic and the pain had almost disappeared. A biker gang was hot in pursuit with revenge on their minds, and yet, I could think of nothing else I wanted to do right at this moment than lose myself in Nicks embrace. His touch was making me forget all about the bad stuff.
He lifted me up and I wrapped my arms around his neck and my legs around his waist. I pulled him closer to me so I could feel his lips press harder against mine. We walked backwards to his bed and almost fell onto his smooth velvet blanket. I could barely feel my shoulder now and wasn’t sure if it was the lotion or my lust.
He was on top of me, his hands exploring my body as they slid over my bare chest, his mouth still on mine. I’d never kissed someone before that had made me as hot as I was right now. Maybe I was so messed up that they only time I could truly lose myself was in impossible situations. A warm shiver ran up my spine as his hand grazed the side of my hip.
Soft kisses planted on my lips, then my chin, settling on my neck just below my earlobe. I moaned and grabbed his hair, tangling my fingers in it, as his tongue swirled in tiny circles.
His fingers were circling my breasts now, his palm gently gliding over my hardening nipples. God, I wanted him to taste them, suck on them, bite them gently. Or perhaps not so gently. I didn’t care anymore.
His voice was husky and deep as he whispered my name against my skin. His warm breath sending my core into a throbbing, aching mess. I gripped his hair harder, arching my back closer to his body. I needed to feel his flesh against mine. Moving my hands lower, feverishly clawing at his clothing, I ripped the shirt he was wearing.
The tear caused us both to startle and he pulled away as he looked at me. His dark blue eyes piercing mine with intensity. Then he continued ripping his own shirt away until it was a ragged mess. My hands flew to his chest, gliding over the muscles, the small tuft of hair.
“Are you okay?” he asked. I was more than okay.
I undid my jeans, pushing them down and kicking them away. His gaze travelled over my body and he murmured, his fingers curling under my underwear and then pulling them down over my thighs, stopping at my ankles. He didn’t take them further, instead twisting them around my feet until I couldn’t move them apart.
“So gorgeous. Such a beauty.”
My fingers moved lower, tugging at his trousers, searching for the fastening. He grabbed my hand and pushed it back onto the bed beside me, his lips hovering close to mine again. With his other hand, he undid his pants and they fell to his knees before he kicked them off.
I could feel his hardness against my thigh and I parted my legs as far as I could. I wanted him to fall in between and take me now. Take me hard. But he wasn’t in any hurry.
His gaze lowered to my breasts and he pushed me up the bed until his mouth could reach each nipple, hungrily taking them in his mouth one by one, swirling them around like candy and sucking them until I couldn’t bare it any longer.
“Oh god.” I moaned. “I want you now.” I clawed his back, trying to pull him back up. I could feel my nails scratch into his flesh but he wasn’t stopping. Instead, he grazed his teeth over my hardened nipples.
“You like that?”
“Yes,” I said, breathlessly.
“What about this?” His warm strong fingers slid over my stomach and grazed against my clit. I gasped at the sudden jolt of electricity that pulsed through me.
He trailed his kisses lower, his warm lips leaving me wanting him hard and fast. The heat inside of me was ablaze with desire. I reached down feeling for his manhood; wanting to touch his cock, letting it slide through my fingers, perhaps taste him. But he wasn’t having any of it. He grabbed my hand and held it tight to the bed as he kissed lower.
His tongue flicked at my clit, swiping up and down. I groaned and closed my eyes letting this man do whatever he wanted to me. I spread my thighs further, giving him better access to my secret parts. I almost wasn’t prepared when he slipped a finger inside me.
“You’re wet,” he said, slipping a second finger inside me. “You like this.”
“Oh, oh, yeah,” I mumbled, not caring what he was saying. His tongue flicked my clit again and then he began to suck the swollen nub between his lips as he continued to move his fingers in and out of me. “Oh, my, oh, oh.”
I was about to climax when he pulled away. “I want to see your face when you come. I want to see you.”
“Okay,” I whispered, pulling him closer so I could kiss him.
He reached bedside the bed and pulled out a pair of handcuffs. “Do you trust me?”
“Not in the slightest,” I said breathlessly, lifting my good arm to the bed head. He clipped my hand in one side and then fastened the steel to the bedpost.
“Pity we couldn’t do both. You are so fucking gorgeous. So sweet, so delicious.”
“If you don’t take me right now, I’m going to scream.”
“Promise?” His hardness hovered between my thighs; I was throbbing with need, desperate to feel him inside me. I arched my back as his smooth cock delved into my depths.
“Oh. Yes!”
Nick took his time, his hardness sinking into me over and over. Slow, fast. Deep, shallow. He reefed away the underwear that still tied my ankles and grabbed my hips, tilting them closer so he could reach my g-spot with his magnificent cock.
I licked my lips as his hands continued to explore the rest of me. Caressing my breasts, squeezing my ass. Then he was back above me, his tongue exploring my mouth.
All I could do was lie back and take this wonderful assault. This was what good sex was supposed to be like. Sudden, urgent, delirious.
My stomach began to tighten and the fire inside me was spreading fast. All he had to do was continue what he was already doing. He must have sensed how close I was as he sped up, grinding his pelvis against my clit with each thrust. This guy was good.
I began to shake, the sensations exploding throughout my body in one giant climax. I cried out, thrashing against the bed as the orgasm pulsed through me.
He continued to fuck me, riding the waves of my pleasure until at last he groaned, pulled out, and sprayed his sticky seed on my stomach.
I lay there, gasping for air, as he rolled to my side. We both stared at the ceiling, still not sure what just happened. This wasn’t my usual mojo. I don’t know what came over me, but I knew I wanted to do it again.
It was that reason I had to get out of here. If my body was beginning to crave his touch, then I had to run. Fast. “Are you going to let me go now?” I pulled on the handcuffs, rattling them against the post.
“I need to give you something first.”
“Didn’t you already give me something?” I grinned.
He shook his head and smiled. “I’ve never met anyone like you.” He curled a strand of my hair behind my ear. “You look like an angel, so sweet.”
“Looks can be deceiving.”
“Looks are always deceiving.” He stood up and grabbed another towel from the bathroom, cleaning his seed from my stomach and throwing the towel aside.
I rattled the handcuffs against the bedpost again to hurry him along.
He watched me for a moment, admiring my spent nakedness and then turned to the message board above his desk. He pulled it away from the wall.
Behind the board was a wall safe. An old fa
shioned one with a knob rather than a keypad.
I watched him carefully. Turned three times to the left. Stopped on three. Twice around to the right onto one. A quick turn to eight, then back to one. The safe opened.
Inside were four neatly stacked bundles of money. I guessed around ten grand apiece, which meant forty grand altogether. There was also a pistol and some ammo. Nick picked up a stack and pulled three grand out of it, then shut the safe back up.
“I’m going to fix this,” he said. “Once I pay them, they’ll leave you alone.”
“You don’t have to do that.”
“Of course I do.”
“Can you let me go first?”
He looked thoughtful, as if contemplating my request, but then shook his head. “I can’t trust that you’ll stay here and stay safe. I don’t want you going back out there and facing them. You don’t know what they might do.”
“You can’t leave me here.”
“I’ll be back soon.”
“Nick. Unlock me, right now.”
He picked up the keys to the handcuffs and set them down on the desk. “I promise. As soon as this is over, I’ll set you free. I’m doing it to keep you safe.”
“Nick!”
He walked out of the room and shut the door behind him. Damn it!
Chapter 13
Pulling the cuffs hard against the bedpost didn’t work. All it did was bring back the throbbing in my shoulder. The damn numbing lotion obviously didn’t last long which was especially inconvenient when I was trying to use force to break a wooden post and free myself.
I lay back down, planning how I was going to get the handcuff keys and unlock myself. The desk was too far way to reach easily, even so, I stretched out my body trying to use my leg to reach it, but it was useless. With my injured arm, I threw the bed sheets toward it, hoping to snag them and pull the keys closer. They just ended up tangling on the floor and now I was uncovered.
I couldn’t wait for Nick to return. What if he never did? There was a strong chance of that since those bikers where unlikely to be up for a pleasant chat and negotiation with him, especially since they’d have no idea who he was. They’d be mad as hell and would shoot first and ask questions later. And they wouldn’t give up easily. I knew that to be true.
A crash downstairs of the front door bursting in made me jump. My heart pounded. Double Damn it. I searched the room for an escape as slow footsteps made their way up the stairs. There was only one set of footsteps. One person I could deal with. Maybe. They stopped when they reached the landing, probably listening for any sound. The light to the bedroom was on and even though the door was closed, Nick hadn’t locked me in. Not that a lock would have stopped whoever was outside anyway.
The footsteps started up again, walking slowly toward my door. I turned to my side to cover my nakedness some, looking as demure and innocent as I could as the doorknob began to turn.
Colt walked in. His hair was unkempt and it looked like he’d had less sleep than I’d had. Maybe he’d had none. He wasn’t surprised to see me naked on the bed. In fact he seemed amused by the situation.
“Ain’t karma a bitch,” he said. “You leave me tied up back at the motel and then I find you got left that way here. Kind of ironic, don’t you think?”
I smiled sweetly. “Life is full of irony.”
He chuckled and scanned the room, nodding toward the safe on the wall. “You better know the combination; otherwise you’ll be in a lot of pain very soon.” His gaze travelled over the bandage on my shoulder. “Well, more pain than you already are, anyways. Unless you get off on the pain. Yeah, that might be your deal.”
“I know the combination.”
He walked over to the bed and sat down beside me, tracing his finger over my cheek and down my body. “That’s good, because it’d be such a shame to waste a body like this.” He leaned down and bit my nipple. Not hard, but certainly not gentle either. “Like candy from a beauty.” He laughed.
I smiled sweetly. “I’ll give you the combination if you give me the handcuff keys.”
“You want me to free you, do you? And why would I do that?”
“Because you’re such a fine upstanding member of the community who wouldn’t dare leave a lady in distress or danger.”
He laughed. “There ain’t no fine folk in this room. We both know what we are, but okay, I’ll agree to your deal, but safe combo first, then I’ll give you the keys.”
I lay back, parting my legs slightly so he couldn’t help looking there, then gave him the combination. “You got that, did you?”
“Sure did. You ain’t that distracting.”
“That isn’t what you said last night.” I ran my tongue over my lips.
He grinned and turned to the safe, entering the combination. It opened first try. “Well there you go. And here was I thinking you’d give me the wrong numbers and I’d have to rough you up. I was looking forward to that.” He picked up the bundles of cash. “This’ll make the boys very happy.” He stuffed the cash into his shirt and then closed the safe leaving the gun inside.
“Deals a deal.” I said, pointing to the keys.
He shrugged. “Why not? It’s more that you did for me, but then again, you knew I’d escape.”
“Of course I did.”
He threw the keys to the end of the bed. I could reach them with my toes.
“You and me could have had a lot of fun if the circumstances were different.” He walked over to the bed and leaned down, kissing me, his warm tongue parting my lips. It took all my willpower to not bite his tongue right off. “So tasty,” he said. He stood up and walked to the doorway, giving me a wink before disappearing.
As soon as he was out of sight, I grabbed the keys with my toes and unlocked the cuffs. My wrist had a bright red mark around it and was throbbing slightly. I rubbed it as I moved swiftly off the bed and raced toward the safe. I entered the combination and grabbed the gun, filling it with ammo. I had six shots which would be enough, even though I hoped I didn’t have to use any.
My clothes were wrecked. I stuffed them in by backpack then opened Nick’s closet. Not much would fit me, but I found a dark colored jumper and some sweat pants. Not the most glamorous of attire, but it was warm and I could move easily in it. It’d have to do. I put on my boots, the leather jacket, and grabbed my backpack and phone and bounded down the stairs after Colt.
I tried to ignore the deepening throb in my injured shoulder.
Chapter 14
I heard a single gunshot in the distance, but nothing more. It came from my left but closer to the road. I couldn’t investigate that right now. I shivered into the jacket, probably a combination of shock and the cold night air. I’d have to hurry. I checked Colt’s location on my phone. The GPS icon still showed, he didn’t know I could track him. Fool.
Luckily for me he wasn’t hurrying. I could catch him if I ran, although I knew my chances of a successful ambush relied on stealth and surprise.
I jumped over branches and ducked around trees, alternating watching Colt’s location, and my terrain so I didn’t knock myself out on a low hanging branch. That was all I needed. I wondered how Colt would have found the house. I guess it wasn’t too much of a stretch, after all I’d stumbled across it.
According to the GPS, he was just ahead. I slowed my pace so I could sneak quietly.
Something made him stop. Had he detected me already?
I moved forward until he was in view. He leaned against a tree trunk and pulled his phone out of his pocket, flicking through the icons. I moved closer. He chuckled and then pressed the screen. His location on my phone blinked out, but I didn’t need it anymore, I could see him clearly now. I let it slip in my bag.
I lifted the gun in the air as I advanced.
“You’ve been following me,” he said, a sly grin on those sexy lips.
“Can’t keep away from you.”
“Nice jacket.”
“You’ve got good taste.” There was no way I w
as giving it back to him.
“So, I guess you want the money back.” He put his phone away and looked straight at me.
Keeping the gun pointed at him, I nodded.
“What about we split it. Half, half. Seems fair to me.”
“Since I have the loaded gun, I would say that gives me the advantage. I’ll take all of it.”
“I won’t give up chasing you.”
“You will if you have a bullet through your head.” I flicked the safety off.
“Aww, I already have a dagger through my heart.”
I smirked. “I hope that isn’t because of me. We barely know each other.”
“We know each other intimately. I know what it takes to make you tremble, remember?”
“Maybe I was faking.”
“Were you?”
I smiled. “No. You’re good enough, but I need more.”
“You need someone with money, you mean.”
“Which you don’t have anymore, so hand it over.”
He reached into his shirt and pulled out the four stacks of bills. He sighed heavily. “We still have the money from your boyfriend. But will it be enough to make the boys happy? I can’t guarantee that.”
“You took the three grand from Nick?”
“He was trying to make a deal. Fool.”
“Where is he?”
He shrugged. “How should I know?”
“Is he alive?”
He shrugged again. Damn it. The last thing I wanted was for Nick to be hurt; although I couldn’t be sure anything had really happened to him. I didn’t trust anything Colt and his friends said.
“Here.” I counted off an extra two thousand dollars. “The three you took from Nick and this extra for your trouble.”
“Two more.”
“One.” I handed over the three grand total. “Now you have double what you started with.”
He took the cash stuffing it back into his shirt. “Might see you around.”
“Unlikely.”
“Pleasure,” he said as he peeled himself away from the tree. He gave me a wink and turned his back on me as he walked away. He called back over his shoulder, something about me having a sexy ass, but my heart was beating too hard to hear properly.
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