Chapter 20
20
RAE
T rembling fingers danced along his stomach, his ab muscles flexing and tensing in response. At the edge of his shorts, I traced along the fabric, too timid to dip beneath. What we did earlier was him touching me; this, me daring to touch him, was intimidating since I’d never done anything like this before.
“I don’t know what to do, just that I want to,” I admitted. Heat filled my cheeks. I’d only touched one dick in my life, and it resulted in him crying out in pain. Apparently, jerking wasn’t to be taken literally.
“Want some help?” His voice had deepened, a low rumble that sent my heart racing.
My hair shifted along his skin with my nod.
“I love how innocent you are,” he hummed in approval. “I like playing teacher.”
Wetness seeped into my panties. Apparently my body liked that idea too. I squeezed my thighs together to ease the building throb.
“First, you have to grab me.” Taking my hand in his, he dipped both beneath the elastic band. Heat infused my skin. Okay, so cocks are heaters. Good to know.
Using our hands as one, he trailed my index finger up and down his length. His grip flexed around me as a heavy breath pushed over the top of my head.
“Just like that,” he encouraged. “I like a little teasing.” I could hear the smile in his voice. Angling my face up, I smiled in return. His lids were heavy as he watched our hands move beneath his shorts. Daring another few fingers, I gently wrapped around him and tightened. “Fucking hell,” he groaned.
Dropping my hand, he tugged at his shorts until they rested just below my fingers.
“That’s better.” Lust-filled eyes met mine. He licked his lips and bit the lower one. “Only I’ve done this in my bed, and I’d much prefer your hand wrapped around me than my own.”
Pride spread in my chest. Embodied by the knowledge that I was doing okay, I slowly moved my hand up and down, keeping my grip snug.
Alec groaned and closed his eyes. “Tighter.” I obeyed. “Faster,” he breathed.
A small bead of precum slipped from the thick head. My gaze zeroed in, my tongue tingling for a taste. But that would put me leaning over him, possibly making him feel trapped.
“Alec.” My voice cracked from the dryness in my throat. “I want….” I couldn’t get the words out. They felt filthy and uncomfortable.
“What do you want, Sunshine?” His voice deep with command.
“To taste.” I shook my head. That sounded like I wanted a bite. “I want to feel you in my mouth.”
He cursed and flexed his hips, thrusting into my hand. “Thought you’d never ask. Slide off the bed and kneel.”
I moved as if the sheets were on fire. Careful to not crawl over him, I moved down the bed and slipped off the end. A cowhide rug tickled my knees and shins as I kneeled and waited.
Legs spread, Alec sat at the edge of the bed, his shorts gone. Gloriously naked. I tilted my head and took in his face. Reaching out, he gripped my chin and smiled.
Hands fisted at my side, I waited for direction. That grip moved from my chin into my hair and fisted at the base. A gleam winked in his gaze as he pulled me closer to his twitching cock until my lips hovered over the tip.
“Is this what you wanted, Sunshine?” With another harsh tug, my lips were pushed apart by the soft head. He groaned and dropped his head back. “My cock looks good between your perfect little lips.” Without warning, he flexed, pushing himself farther into my willing mouth, hitting the back of my throat.
I gagged and tried to back up, but that hold in my hair stopped me.
“Breathe through your nose.” He pulled back before thrusting in again just as deep. This time I prepared myself for the intrusion and stopped myself from gagging around his thick dick. “That’s it. Fuck, Rae, do you know how many times I jacked off to this image of you on your knees, my cock deep in your throat?”
Tears slipped down my cheeks, and saliva dripped out of my open mouth, dribbling down my chin, but I didn’t care. All that mattered was that look of pure desire on his handsome, striking face—because of me.
“Hold on, baby. I’m going to fuck your mouth, then flip you over on this bed and fuck your pussy until you scream for me.”
I shivered in anticipation, the building pulse between my thighs painful.
Gripping my head with both hands, he shifted for a better angle and plunged in and out, fucking my mouth like he promised. His stomach tapped the end of my nose with each forceful thrust. Remembering a trick I read in a book once, I swallowed, constricting my throat around the head of his cock.
“Fuck,” he roared and pulled back, popping his slick and swollen cock from between my lips.
Before I could protest, he hauled me upright and tossed me onto the bed. My stomach and chest bounced on the mattress. A sting bit into my skin when he literally ripped my underwear off my hips. Twisting, I rested a burning cheek on the comforter and closed my eyes, focusing on every place his callused hands caressed.
Skimming up my inner thighs, he pushed my legs wide and stepped between them. My labored breaths pushed against the bed and fanned back onto my face.
Rough hands gripped my hips and angled my ass so it stuck in the air. He squeezed each cheek, his hold tight enough to mingle pleasure and pain. I sucked in a tight breath when he spread my cheeks apart. I wiggled, embarrassed.
“Tell me, have you ever played with your ass?” His voice was a soothing rumble, yet the words ignited dark and dirty thoughts. I didn’t answer, not wanting him to know the truth. What did that make me if I said yes?
After dipping a finger through my wet center, he circled around that tight hole. “Ever shove a plug up there, felt the tightness as you fucked yourself with another toy?”
I shuddered so hard my entire body shook. He had to stop or I’d orgasm before he even got inside me.
“I think you have, my dirty little sunshine.” His laugh was dark, humorless, making my insides tremble. “Not tonight, but back at your place with your collection of naughty toys.” He slipped that finger inside to the knuckle. A groan rumbled through the room. “I think I’d like that a lot.”
A pitiful whimper rattled in my chest when his finger disappeared. Fuck, I was a dirty girl.
His dirty girl. I wouldn’t want this with anyone else, wouldn’t feel comfortable being this exposed. But this was Alec— my Alec. And he could do whatever the hell he wanted with my body, and I’d beg for more.
A firm grip on my hip was the only warning before he slammed into me from behind, pushing all the way until his hips hit my ass cheeks. I turned my face to the comforter and bit the cotton fabric to keep from screaming.
“I can’t hear you.” A crack rang out before the sting of pain radiated along my right ass cheek. Mouth open, I turned, lifting as much as I could to gape at him. “I told you I wanted to hear you scream.”
The bastard spanked me.
And I liked it.
Fuck, there was no coming back from him.
Forever beautifully and thoroughly tainted by his hands, words, and passion.
I couldn’t bring myself to care.
The loud ring of a phone roused me from a deep sleep.
“What?” Alec’s voice sounded as gruff and out of it as I felt.
I turned and placed the other cheek on the soft sheets to face where he now sat up, phone pressed to his ear. The dark sheet pooled around his body when he leaned to the edge of the bed. I squeezed my eyes shut when he flipped on the side lamp, brightening the room and nearly blinding me. When I could see without dark spots, I blinked and found Alec sitting on the edge of the bed, his back to me.
“You’re kidding me. Please tell me this is a sick joke, Charlie.”
My stomach dropped. Charlie? Shit. Shit. Shit. Something bad happened, I just knew it, but who was there that I cared about who could’ve been harmed?
“Yeah, okay.” A pause as he listened. A balled fist slammed into the mattress and twisted in the comforter. “Yeah, when we get there. We’ll leave at first light.”
I leaned back to check the clock’s red numbers.
Four o’clock in the morning. First light was only in an hour and a half. I fell back onto the pillow and rubbed at my temples as Alec finished the call.
Only when his massive torso fell beside mine did I turn his way. Hands tucked beneath my cheeks, I lay on my side and blinked up at him, waiting.
“There’s been another murder.”
“Okay,” I whispered.
He shot me a quick look before turning his focus back to the phone between his hands.
“Who was it?” I cleared my throat. “I don’t have anyone left who I care about. Maybe it wasn’t related to me?—”
“Your boss. The new victim is your boss.” Everything stilled. Even my lungs forgot how to function. “Rae, breathe.” I stared wild-eyed at Alec, not understanding a single word. “Sunshine, you’re okay. You’re safe. Breathe for me.” Fingertips caressed along my jaw and down my neck in soothing strokes, easing some suffocating panic. Just enough for a sliver of air to slip inside.
“My boss?” I searched his face. “That doesn’t make sense. I don’t really like her. She’s just a boss, not a friend. Why would this person hurt her?” My words were quick, my breaths more like wheezes.
Alec blanched. Running a hand through his bedhead hair, he tossed the illuminated phone to the bed. “Do you really want to know Charlie’s assumption?”
“Yes.” Zero hesitation in my response. “I need to know why. Why her? Fuck, why me!”
“I don’t know that last part yet. But I will. I promise you, Rae, I’ll find this bastard and make him pay for clouding your life, for forcing you into hiding to keep others safe.” Pushing off the mattress, he slid off the bed and stretched his arms overhead. “There’s no way I’ll get back to sleep after that.”
“Why, Alec?” I demanded. Sitting up, I allowed the sheet to slip around my waist. “Why does Charlie think he went after her?”
“Rae,” he groaned. “Just drop it.”
“No, tell me, damnit. I deserve to know.”
“He tortured her.” I stilled, only able to blink as he continued. “Charlie thinks he went after her because you didn’t show up for work.”
“I didn’t show up for work, so he killed her?” I said dumbfounded.
“To find you, Rae, except she didn’t know where you went. Only Charlie, Sherry, and I knew where I was taking you.”
I let out the held breath that burned my lungs. “To find me.”
“It’s the only theory why the torture make sense. Which brings up another concern.”
Like a child, I covered my ears with both palms. “I don’t want to hear any more.”
Gentle hands grasped my wrists and pulled them to my lap. “You need to hear this, Rae. Look at me.” Unable to fight the command in his tone, I turned my wet eyes upward. “It means he’s looking for you. He’s done tormenting you by killing those you love. Now he’s coming for you.”
Releasing me, he paced the room. Naked. Paced naked. If things weren’t so dire, I’d appreciate the way his thighs flexed and shifted with each powerful step. The way his ass bunched and his dick slapped?—
“You’re staying here. I’ll go.” I shook my head to clear the zoned-out trance. “I don’t want you anywhere near that town until we find this bastard.”
“No.”
He shot me a hard look without pausing. “You’re safe here.”
“And you’re not there. So no. If you go, I go.” His lips parted, but I held up a hand. “If you leave me here, then I’ll just hitchhike or call a car or something like that to get back to Sweetcreek. If you go, I go. That simple.”