NINE
LEO
If looks could kill, the sharp daggers Estella threw my way would have taken me out.
Graham laughed along with me as we mused over Jack’s golf simulator, his eyes growing glassier with each heavy pour of whisky I added to his glass. Winning him over hadn’t taken much. A few jokes at my expense and a delve into some movie nostalgia had him acting like we were firm friends.
A shame that I intended to upend his life, but in all fairness, Estella belonged to me first.
Heck, I’d help him find some other woman if needs be. I’m not a monster.
Estella sat on the sofa next to her mother, chatting and nursing a single cosmopolitan. Mostly, she focused on Graham and I, trying to intercept my generous whisky top ups.
Drunken Graham was part one of the plan .
Part two came in the form of waiting until the parents retired to bed, and jamming Estella onto the sofa between Graham and I while we put on some shitty eighties film he’d been banging on about.
‘This is nice,’ I said to Estella, the heat from her thigh pressing against mine as I nudged closer to her. ‘Reminds me of old times.’
‘She never lets me watch this,’ Graham slurred, his eyes losing focus while he stared at the screen. The whisky doing its job.
‘You knock yourself out man.’
Estella rolled her eyes before muttering under her breath. ‘Stop pretending like you like him.’
‘Perhaps I do like him. I’m not totally devoid of charm, you know?’
‘There’s plenty you’re devoid of,’ she hissed.
‘I’ve got some things you’re desperately devoid of.’ I raised a brow before glancing down at my lap.
Estella’s eyes widened at my brazen response. Graham hadn’t heard. His head lolled back against the sofa, already dipping in and out of consciousness.
‘Why don’t we let sleeping beauty nap and head up to the roof? It’s a clear night and the stars are out.’
‘Absolutely not,’ she whispered. ‘I’m not leaving Graham.’
Grabbing the throw from the back of the sofa, I pressed it over all three of our laps. Estella inched closer to Graham, laying her head on his shoulder and staring at the screen .
Pretending I didn’t exist wouldn’t make me go away.
Minutes passed, the film droning on. I stole glances at Estella, still hardly believing she sat right next to me. Her eyes dipped as the movie continued, the softness of Graham’s sleeping breaths lulling her to join him.
Operation seduce Estella began in earnest.
It pained me to wait until her breathing settled, until her body relaxed fully, going loose.
My proximity to her had me on edge, like an animal caught in the headlights of an oncoming train. Our collision totally unavoidable. Albeit, I was more like an idiotic beast who’d cut my own Achilles’ heels and threw myself at her feet.
Still, there was no letting her go. No, I had to show her all I’d learned in her absence. The man I’d become for her.
Excitement coursed through me as I inched closer to her, my hand slipping under the blanket and tracing over her silken thigh. Dark lashes twitched against her pink cheeks, her legs parting like a good girl.
‘That’s it, my love, let me in,’ I murmured near her ear, studying her face for any reaction.
Her soft skin soothed my soul with each delightful stroke I stole. I revelled in the warmth, in the sweet scent of her hair.
‘Such perfection.’ I kept whispering to her, working my fingers up beneath the hem of her distractingly short dress.
My sleeping beauty’s lips parted as I pressed my fingers against the hot gusset of her panties. My dick throbbed, desperate to make contact with her.
Not yet.
First, I make her crave me. Then I make her unable to live without me.
And it all starts with petting her needy pussy.
Heat surrounded my hand from the tight space between her thighs but I daren’t move her any further.
Working in tiny circles, I teased at her panties until she grew wet against them, her breaths becoming more ragged by the moment.
‘Such a wet little thing,’ I crooned into her ear, leaning in to lick her neck.
Need fuelled me, daring to pull her panties to the side and slide my fingers into her hot, wet flesh. Estella’s clit swelled by the second, engorging until it pulsed. A light sheen gathered on her chest with each swirl of my fingers, excitement gripping my spine in a rush of pure desire.
Estella’s thighs split wider, her body turning away from Graham and toward me. The small movement egging me on.
I needed her to realise that I sent those rippling feelings through her. That it wasn’t upon Graham’s fingers that she sighed.
Spreading her, I stuck two fingers deep inside her cunt.
She woke with a start, and I slammed my other hand over her mouth, holding her pinned either end .
‘If you scream, your boyfriend will wake up to see your step-brother knuckle deep inside your wetness.’
Her groggy eyes pinged wide.
Inch by inch, I withdrew my fingers to the tips before sliding them right back in. There was no hiding the way her pupils dilated and her inner muscles contracted around my digits.
‘God I’ve missed this,’ I moaned, letting my hand slip from her mouth and down to her neck, gripping her tightly into place.
Her eyes flew to Graham. No help from his corner, he remained out for the count.
‘We’ve never done this,’ she said through gritted teeth, not daring to try to escape.
‘In my head I’ve lived a thousand lives between these thighs, Estella. I’ve worshipped until you’ve strangled me with your thighs. I’ve lapped until you sprinkle me with your desire. I’ve lost hours making you moan and swear and beg. I’ve spent years in my room, imagining this very moment.’
‘Leo,’ she whimpered, a gasp stealing any further words as I curled my fingers upward and made her see stars.
‘I’ve done unspeakable fucking things to every inch of you in my dreams. Tortured this luscious body in ways you couldn’t even imagine when that bore fucks you.’
‘We can’t…’ she panted, her pulse quickening where I gripped her throat.
‘Tell me to stop.’ Our breath mingled and I tried to swallow down every sweet pant. I wanted to kiss her until her lips grew bruised and blistered, but I refrained. I needed her to want me as desperately as I wanted her.
She didn’t plead for the fingering to end. Instead, she made more space between her thighs so I could fuck her deeper.
‘Such a dirty little thing,’ I muttered. ‘Can you honestly tell me you haven’t closed your eyes and imagined me right here?’
Estella’s eyes rolled back, her cheeks flushing a deep pink.
‘Tell me,’ I demanded, my voice rising. ‘To stop.’
‘I don’t want to…’
Her words sent a shiver of delight through me.
She didn’t want me to stop.
That’s all I needed.
All sense left her pretty head as she moaned, her thighs trembling as she neared her peak.
And as much as I wanted to push her further, to steal her away and swallow her delight-filled cries, I had to stop.
I didn’t want to withdraw my fingers, I wanted to stay inside her for good. To hold her there, her pulse thumping beneath my touch and her cunt clenching around me. Nothing in life meant more to me than convincing Estella that my love for her transcended any of the reasoning not to be together.
Estella whimpered, her chest rising until she was right on the verge. I stole my fingers from her at the last moment, shoving them into her mouth as she spluttered and choked.
Rage filled her eyes as I pinned her.
‘Do you taste how badly you want this, Estella? You can pretend all you like, but when you get tired of fucking that lump you call a boyfriend, you know where I am. If he won’t finish the job, come find me. I will satisfy you.’
She pulled back, her wet lips opening as she glowered. ‘He can satisfy me. I will never come to you.’
‘No, Starshine? But you’ll come for me won’t you? If I hadn’t stopped you’d be bucking against my palm, filling it with your slutty cream.’
I drank in her steely rage, thankful for any emotion that exceeded the mundane.
And I left her, dripping on the sofa next to her passed out boyfriend.