Chapter Two #3
He stared at her, shocked. Had she really just said that?
To him? He knew he should be angry, but instead, he turned his head to hide a smile.
This banter was familiar, and oddly, it quelled whatever distracting emotions had just been storming through him moments before.
He knew this part of the game—it was his game, no matter how much Kitten participated.
He spoke to the shower wall and tried to keep the amusement from his voice.
“Well, can it wait until I’m at least out of the shower?
” And because he couldn’t help himself, he added, “Unless you’re looking to climb in here and return last night’s favor?
” He hazarded a glance in her direction.
She blushed heatedly, but held herself high. “Actually? Sort of. I mean…no, but….” She huffed, “I would like to take a shower and since I’m practically crippled, I could use your fucking help. But not if you’re going to be an asshole about it.” She nodded, as if to say: There, I said it.
Caleb couldn’t resist laughing, his mood much improved, and he decided to let her antics amuse him.
It was much safer and less complicated. He knew his reaction was counter to the one he would have normally had, another day, another situation, another girl.
But right now, he was just fucking relieved to feel something similar to joy, instead of what he’d woke up to. He grabbed it and held on tight.
He opened the shower door and gave her his best and most salacious smile. “Well, come on in, then. I’ll try my best not to be an asshole.”
She didn’t smile back, opting instead to hold on to her anger. It was a sort of challenge to him and he accepted it, because one day her hate for him might keep her alive. She needed him, and he was determined to do what he could for her. He owed her at least that much.
He stepped backward into the shower as she approached.
Her head was down and her cheeks were tinted with pink, but also hues of purple, green, yellow and blue as she carefully maneuvered toward him.
Suddenly, flashes of her beaten and bleeding body, and of his own past, merged like one vision, like one person reliving a horrible memory.
Powerful emotion swept through him, and he was glad the steam of the shower and the sound of the water pounding against the walls hid it all.
Caleb blinked, fighting the thoughts and voices streaming through his brain. When Kitten reached out toward him, using his arm and shoulder as a brace, he only saw and thought about her.
“Jesus, it’s like a sauna in here,” said Kitten. She looked up, her expression strained. “Can you make it so it isn’t so hot?”
“I don’t know. Can you say please?” Caleb’s tone still held humor, but unease was creeping its way back in. The feeling of differentness between them hung heavy and dense in the air.
Kitten finally gave him the tiniest of smiles, just a quirk of her full lips, but her eyes were direct. “Pretty please, Caleb?” And instantly, she was the girl from the night before: seductive, predatory…Livvie.
Caleb slowly sucked in a breath and turned to adjust the water.
He didn’t realize his error until he heard her startled gasp and felt her hand on his back.
“Don’t touch it,” he growled and turned to face her.
Her eyes were wide, filled with both terror and horror, and her hand covered her mouth.
Caleb clenched his fists and she turned her face away from him.
It hurt, the idea she believed he would hit her with a closed fist. He strained to unfurl his fingers from his palm, but it became easier as he watched her relax with his progress.
When he finally stood in front of her, hands open at his sides, his face one of deliberate calm – she finally brought her hand down from her mouth and smoothed the fear and horror from her eyes.
She studied him warily, looking for a way to approach him without setting him off.
Cautiously, she reached for his hand. Her fingers brushed against his, silently asking permission.
He pulled his arm back slowly, a few inches, issuing his denial of the intimacy between them. He watched as she stared down toward her feet but inched forward and traced her index finger along Caleb’s wrist.
“Come on, Caleb,” she whispered softly. Her head remained down, allowing him the privacy of his reaction.
His skin crawled. If she weren’t so injured, he might have pushed her away. Instead, he let her keep coming. Two fingers touched him now; they trailed slowly from his wrist toward his hand. He allowed it. With a deep breath, he let her fingers find his and interlace. Caleb stared over her head.
His hand was lifted. He felt his fingers brush against Livvie’s ribs. And then her shoulder. And at last, her cheek.
Here.
They hurt me, here.
Caleb’s body swayed a little.
“Kiss me,” she whispered. It was an offer of distraction.
He took it.
Caleb’s chest rattled with the force of his sigh and his lips swept down to meet Livvie’s upturned face.
They moaned into each other’s mouths. Fuck!
Yes! He wanted nothing more than to hoist Livvie up into his arms, slam her against the shower wall, and fuck her until he forgot all of his frustration, anger, lust, and remorse.
Unlacing their fingers, Caleb reached for Livvie’s breasts with both hands and squeezed.
His touch was rough, needy, but she responded with equal intensity.
His thumbs traced her areolas. Her flesh puckered beneath his skilled touch.
The pebbled tips of her nipples dragged across the pads of his thumbs and she keened softly into Caleb’s ravenous mouth.
Livvie’s trembling hands found his waist. Her fingers gripped his hips and her fingernails dug into his sensitive flesh. It was Caleb’s turn to groan. His flesh was tender from the hot water, but he welcomed the pain, especially when it mingled with the pleasure. He wanted more. He wanted it all.
Caleb stepped forward. Livvie stepped back without breaking their feverish kiss.
It was a dance their bodies already knew.
She nipped at Caleb’s tongue, his lips, stunning him for short seconds before she slid her tongue along his.
With her back against the wall, Caleb took the opportunity to come closer, kiss harder.
His cock brushed her belly and he thrust against soft, slippery flesh.
“Ow!” Livvie cried. She broke the kiss and braced her arms around her body, bending slightly as she processed her pain.
Caleb instantly backed away. “Shit. I didn’t think,” he panted, clenching his hands with his arms by his side. “Are you okay?”
“Yeah,” she said, but didn’t sound it. “I’m okay, just give me a second.”
Caleb felt silly, hovering over her with his massive erection between them. What the fuck was he even thinking?!? He shouldn’t be doing this. He vacillated between what he should be doing and what he wanted to do. He should stop. “We need to stop.”
One of Livvie’s hands reached up and Caleb gave her his arm to use as a support. He wasn’t expecting it when her other hand wrapped around his cock and squeezed. Caleb groaned loudly.
“No,” she said. Her tone brooked no argument.
“I don’t want to stop. I don’t want to think.
I want to stay here and pretend nothing’s waiting for us when we get out.
” Livvie’s words seemed to touch something deep inside him, something he couldn’t touch on his own.
Of course, there was also the very physical touch of her palm against his cock.
He hissed through his gritted teeth. Her hand was wrapped tightly around him, her fingers not long enough to touch. She squeezed again. More pleasure. More pain.
“We can’t. I’ll hurt you,” Caleb said.
Livvie’s hand released him, just barely, and the sensation of blood rushing toward the head of his cock was almost enough to make him thrust into her hand. He moaned as her fingertips skimmed his hard flesh. “Well, I can see that, Caleb. Are they all…like this? I mean…are all men this big?”
Caleb put his hand over hers and held it still. “Don’t talk about other men right now, Livvie. Not when you have my dick in your hand.” He wasn’t jealous. He wasn’t the kind to care enough for jealousy. But her question reminded him how much he knew about other men and he didn’t fucking like it.
“Sorry,” she whispered and blushed. “I guess no one would like that, would they?”
Livvie smiled at Caleb cautiously, beautifully, despite the bruises.
My tough girl.
Livvie’s brown eyes still drew his interest, more than ever before.
As he let himself take his fill, her eyes seemed to do the same.
Her fingers twitched beneath his hand and against his cock.
He moaned and watched her pupils dilate, deepening the depths of her stare; he wondered if his did the same.
Caleb watched as her kitten tongue slid slowly across her bottom lip.
Slowly, the supple flesh disappeared into her mouth and he watched as she bit down.
He swallowed hard. “No,” he said, his voice hoarse, “especially when in this sort of position.” He smiled at her.
“Still, I assure you, my dick is very special.”
Livvie grinned. “I can’t believe…you had this in me.”
Caleb’s hips rocked forward at her words. His cock remembered fucking her in the ass – it recalled the tightness, and warmth, waiting inside her. He remembered her whimpers and sighs, the way she undulated against his chest when she came apart under him.
“I can’t. We can’t.” Caleb was surprised to hear the rasp in his voice. He wanted this bad and he was doing a poor job of hiding it.
Livvie stepped closer to him, until her head touched his chest. Caleb’s arms went around her, as if by instinct. “I want to make you come,” she whispered against his chest. Shyly. Seductively. Her hand still held him and she slid her hand up and down his length.
Caleb went up on his toes and groaned, unable to resist the delicious friction of her hand, but he fought the urge to thrust against the softness of her breasts as they met with the head of his cock.
“Keep doing that,” he rasped. He placed one hand against the wall behind Livvie, his arm extended as a reminder not to crush her. His other arm held her loosely against him. He noted her injured shoulder was braced against him, her hand on his tender, scalded hip.
She stroked him. He opened his mouth and silently drew breath to keep from moaning, his stomach tightening sharply.
Her touch felt inexperienced, disjointed – like heaven one second and an assault the next – but he was enjoying it.
She was touching him because she wanted to, and for no other reason.
What the fuck are you doing to me, Livvie?
The next minute, his mind went blank. Unable to resist, he rocked into her hand, his hips snapping forward to touch his cock against Livvie’s amazing fucking tits.
You’re ruining my life…
So soft. She was so fucking soft.
“Oh…god,” escaped his mouth, but Caleb didn’t give a shit. Against his chest, Livvie panted with her arousal and exertion. The fingers against Caleb’s hip tightened and pulled his hips closer and then pushed them back.
More. Oh fuck! Please, more.
“Harder Livvie, hold me harder,” he panted. Livvie complied, sending Caleb into a state of nirvana. He felt like he was going to burn from the inside out. “Don’t stop. Just like that.”
“Oh, god, Caleb. You’re so hard,” Livvie’s voice was pure lust. “I want you to come. I want to watch you come.” She tried to pull back, but Caleb held her closer.
He shook his head. “Don’t watch me, watch my cock. Watch it come all over you.”
Livvie’s hand tightened and sped up.
Caleb couldn’t hold it in any longer. With a cry, he rose up on his toes and came all over Livvie’s bountiful tits. As he panted and tried to keep from passing out, Caleb listened to Livvie squeal in shock.
“Oh. My. God!” She whispered and laughed. She looked down at her body, her expression priceless. “It’s all over the place. Eww. Caleb – it’s…sticky.”
Caleb laughed and watched as she poked at his semen and tried to wash it off.
He snickered. “It’s stickier when it’s wet,” he warned. He turned and reached for the soap. He stilled at the touch of her hand against his back. He sighed deeply. In the glow of his orgasm, he didn’t have the energy to argue or fight.
He tensed as she came closer. He shut his eyes while she traced the harsh white lines crisscrossing his back.
His skin was red from the heat of the water and he knew the scars were more pronounced because of it.
This wasn’t the first time anyone had seen his scars.
He wasn’t necessarily ashamed of them, and it wasn’t like he hid his body from lovers. But he never talked about it, not ever.
“What happened?” The whisper was so soft Caleb might have missed it if he didn’t know it was coming.
“Fucked up childhood,” he said tonelessly.
Livvie’s breath skated across his skin. She kissed his scars.