Pleasure Island (12 page)

‘Her Highness told me that he’d proposed to you.’

‘Crazy, eh?’

‘You said no, though.’

Nikki faltered. ‘Well, not in so many words.’

Matt broke away from her. ‘You said yes?’

‘No!’ she exclaimed.

Matt looked at her, aghast. ‘You are tempted, though, aren’t you?’

Nikki denied the accusation vehemently.

‘So why didn’t you decline?’ he pressed her.

‘He caught me by surprise,’ she replied. ‘I didn’t know what to say.’

Matt looked hurt, but didn’t say anything. The pair lapsed into a vaguely uneasy silence as they circled around and slowly made their way back towards the palace. Nikki longed to put his mind at ease and tell him that she had no interest in the Earl, and yet she found herself holding back for reasons that she couldn’t quite fathom. What was wrong with her? She had no real interest in the Earl’s offer, so why didn’t she simply refuse it outright? Yet the longer the silence continued, the more awkward it became, so that by the time she did eventually broach the subject once more, she wasn’t sure that Matt believed her.

As they re-entered the palace grounds, Nikki tried her best to assuage his concerns. ‘Please try and forget about it. Honestly, I don’t like the man and there’s no way I’d choose him above you.’

Matt smiled, rather sadly and hugged her. ‘I’m sorry, it’s me who’s being silly. It’s none of my business.’

‘What if I want it to be?’ she said.

‘What do you mean?’

Before Nikki had the chance to respond to his question, Roxanna and the Earl, who were still lounging around beside the pool, hailed them. The Earl summoned Matt and ordered drinks for himself and the two women. Matt bowed obediently and disappeared into the palace.

Nikki watched him all the way. She made up her mind there and then that the next opportunity she had, she would tell him exactly how she felt about him. She owed it to them both. 

Chapter Twelve
Temptation

Nikki barely had time to sit down before the Earl broached the subject once more. ‘So, have you had time to think about my offer?’

She spoke lightly. ‘Come on, be serious – it’d never work out between us.’

‘What makes you say that?’

‘For a start, I hardly know you.’

‘That’s easily rectified. Come and spend some time with me at the hall.’

‘I couldn’t.’

‘Why not? Roxanna tells me you’re – what’s that wonderful phrase? – “between jobs”, at the moment.’

‘That’s all going to change with the article I write about my visit here,’ Nikki said.

‘Will I feature in it?’ the Earl asked.

‘Would you mind if you did?’

‘I don’t care either way.’

Matt returned with the trio’s drinks and served them. Then he hovered within earshot in case anyone wished to order anything else.

‘So,’ the Earl said to Nikki. ‘If you are going to write about me, would I be the hero or the villain? Every good tale needs both.’

‘It’s an article, not a story,’ she replied.

‘Say it was a story.’

‘I’m not sure,’ Nikki said. ‘Which do you think you are?’

Declining to answer, the Earl gulped down his drink and instructed Matt to fetch him another. ‘What you need is to see me in a better light. I’m well aware that what you’ve witnessed so far probably doesn’t reflect that well on me. I can be a one-woman man, though; all I need is to find the right woman.’

‘And you think that’s me?’ Nikki said.

‘Nikki, I know it’s you. You have poise, you have class, you have style, you have grace. I adore you.’

Matt returned with the drink just in time to hear this little speech. Though he didn’t say anything, Nikki saw his jaw tighten. She decided it was time to set the record straight.

‘Look, let’s get one thing clear,’ Nikki said to the Earl. ‘I don’t love you, I never have and I never will. How could I? You don’t want a wife, you want a plaything – and that isn’t going to be me.’

As she finished speaking, she glanced over at Matt. Acting the part of the obedient servant, he stared resolutely ahead, but Nikki was sure she saw the corners of his mouth twitch upwards as he struggled not to smirk.

The Earl noticed the unspoken communication between the pair and, in that instant, he realised he had a rival in Matt Darnley; he knew that mere words were no longer enough to tempt Nikki. Somehow, he would have to show her that he wasn’t the debauched creature she took him for. The only question was, how?

Fortunately for the Earl, the opportunity presented itself sooner than he could have hoped for, as Celine and Grace turned up. The two girls were overjoyed to see him and joined him on his sun lounger, snuggling up on either side of him. As Grace kissed him, Celine smacked him playfully. ‘Why didn’t you tell us you were coming?’

‘It was a last-minute thing,’ he said.

Grace broke off from nibbling his left ear. ‘No matter, you’re here now. Let’s make up for lost time.’

The next second, Grace shed her bikini top. Celine quickly followed suit and the duo proceeded to rub their breasts against his body. When he didn’t respond, Grace admonished him. ‘Hey, what’s the matter?’ She feigned a hurt look. ‘Don’t you love us any more?’

Everything about the way that the two girls had greeted the Earl confirmed all of Nikki’s worst suspicions about him. She didn’t say anything. She didn’t need to.

He tried, as tactfully as possible, to push the girls away from him. ‘No, I’m afraid I must decline your most generous offer.’

Grace and Celine both laughed.

‘I’m being serious,’ he said.

Grace pouted. ‘That’s no fun.’

‘It’s the way it is, I’m afraid. You see, I’m in love.’

‘Who is she?’ Celine asked, her voice full of excitement.

The Earl raised his glass in Nikki’s direction and toasted her. Celine and Grace stared at her in disbelief.

‘Seriously?’ Grace said.

‘Absolutely.’

‘Congratulations,’ Celine said to Nikki.

‘This calls for champagne all round,’ Grace announced, and promptly told Matt to fetch them a bottle so they could celebrate.

‘I hate to put a dampener on things, but you might want to hang fire,’ Nikki said. ‘I haven’t accepted.’

Grace seemed to approve. ‘Ooh, playing hard to get, eh? Good girl.’

‘Miss Foster seems to think that I’m unable to change my wicked, wicked ways,’ the Earl explained.

‘I think she’s right.’ Celine laughed.

Matt returned with the champagne in an ice bucket, and placed it down on the table nearest to the sun lounger on which the Earl and the two girls lay.

‘I beg to differ,’ the Earl replied. ‘I think you underestimate me, Celine. I’m more than capable of reforming.’

‘Really?’ Celine said, the doubt clear in her voice for all to hear. ‘That sounds like a challenge.’

Anticipating the redhead’s next move, the Earl glanced at Nikki. ‘What do you reckon, Ms Foster? Do you think I’ll be able to resist the advances of these two delightful ladies?’

Recalling how thrilling she had found the sight of Celine and Grace pleasuring one another the previous evening, Nikki replied quite confidently, ‘I wouldn’t have thought so.’

‘Are you sure?’

Nikki glared at the Earl. The pair appeared to have reached an impasse.

Celine picked up the bottle of champagne. ‘Ah well, doesn’t look like we’ll be needing this, then. Shame to let good champagne go to waste, though, isn’t it?’

With that, she stood up, lifted the bottle high above her head, tilted it, and began to drizzle the pale-golden liquid all over her statuesque body. The tiny droplets seemed to sparkle as they washed over her lips, neck, breasts, stomach and thighs. When the bottle was half empty, Celine nodded to Grace, who got off the lounger, enabling her friend to straddle the Earl.

‘Lick it off me,’ she commanded him.

The Earl shook his head. Celine wiggled her bottom, pressing her groin against his cock. ‘I can feel that you want to.’

Much to her disappointment, once again he declined.

‘Maybe I can tempt him,’ Grace said.

Celine climbed off the Earl to make way for her friend, and before taking her place, Grace slipped out of her bikini bottoms. She then sat down on the Earl, resting her beautiful pussy against his crotch.

Kneeling down, Celine offered her lips to her friend. Grace kissed them eagerly. As the redhead broke away, she raised the champagne bottle once more, only this time she poured the alcohol over Grace’s tits, gesturing to the Earl that he should indulge. Though his self-control was being tested to the limit, yet again he said no.

Celine had no such hesitation and, as the last of the champagne cascaded over the model’s breasts, she licked it off, teasing her tongue around her friend’s nipples as she did so. The two girls then kissed passionately. As they embraced and Grace leant slightly forward, Nikki caught a glimpse of the Earl’s crotch and couldn’t help but notice his cock growing even harder. Grace must have felt it stiffening, for she reached down and back to rub it. The Earl permitted her to do so for a moment, but then took hold of her wrist and moved her hand away.

Grace broke off from kissing Celine and rounded on him. ‘What’s wrong with you?’

‘I told you, I’m a changed man.’

Now Celine reached towards the front of the Earl’s shorts and began to massage him, her eyes sparkling. ‘Not
that
changed.’

Popping open the button that fastened the shorts, Celine lowered the zip. She reached inside and pulled out all ten inches of the Earl’s impressive prick and handed it to Grace as a gift.

He cast an apologetic glance in Nikki’s direction. ‘I am only human.’

Nikki shrugged.

Grace ran her fingers down the Earl’s shaft. She then took hold of it and started to wank him off. His breathing became noticeably shallower as Grace played with him. By now, his cock was standing to attention impressively. Grace slid backwards on the lounger, then leant down and licked his hard-on.

So as not to miss out on the fun, Celine took hold of his balls in one hand and began to knead them. She squeezed them softly, until they too grew hard. Grace was about to take his cock in her mouth when he pulled away from her, sat up, and refastened his shorts. Celine and Grace both looked surprised.

‘What have you done to him, Nikki?’ Celine asked, shaking her head in disbelief.

‘I’m staying out of this,’ Nikki replied. ‘It’s got nothing to do with me.’

‘That’s where you’re wrong,’ the Earl said. ‘It has everything to do with you. How many men do you think would be able to resist what I’ve just experienced?’

‘Not many,’ Nikki admitted.

‘You know I only did so for your sake, don’t you?’

Nikki stood up. ‘I hate to disappoint you, but I’m not interested.’

‘And why’s that?’

‘Because I like someone else,’ she said.

‘Like?’ He snorted. ‘That doesn’t sound very certain to me.’

‘No, maybe not certain,’ Nikki admitted, ‘but it’s impossible to be sure at the start of a relationship. And I don’t believe that you fall for people just like that. Not the way you say. Feelings take time to grow.’

‘And yours are already directed elsewhere?’

‘Yes.’

‘We’ll see,’ the Earl drawled.

Nikki’s eyes narrowed. ‘What’s that supposed to mean?’

‘That I’m not going to give up without a fight.’ Well aware that Matt had been watching the proceedings closely throughout, the Earl took hold of Nikki’s hand, raised it to his lips, kissed it, and whispered threateningly, ‘It’s only fair to warn you – I always get what I want in the end.’

Nikki tore her hand away. ‘Really? Well, maybe it’s about time someone said no to you. It might do you good.’

The look on the Earl’s face told her that he didn’t agree; however, he said nothing. Nikki decided it was time to take her leave of him. As she made her way back into the palace, she beckoned Matt to follow her.

Watching them as they went, the Earl quizzed Roxanna. ‘What is it with that pair?’

‘I don’t know,’ Roxanna replied. ‘But I’m going to find out.’ The princess got up off her lounger and followed Nikki and Matt into the palace.

Glancing around, the Earl found Grace and Celine still waiting expectantly for him. He scratched his chin and wondered if he wasn’t being slightly foolish in passing up the opportunity; his raging hard-on hadn’t abated in the slightest. What the hell, he thought, now that Nikki was out of sight. Lying back on his lounger, he pulled Celine and Grace into his arms once more, one on either side of him. The trio then began to kiss, and as they did so, Celine and Grace took hold of the Earl’s cock and resumed playing with him.

Celine tried to remove her friend’s hand so she could sit astride him.

‘Oh no you don’t,’ Grace reprimanded her. ‘You’ve already had your fun this morning.’

Celine gave in graciously and allowed Grace to straddle the Earl. She positioned her pussy directly over the tip of his mighty cock. He grinned at her. She then lowered herself onto him, until she had swallowed him between her thighs. With around eight inches nestling in her pussy, Grace had to wait a second or so before taking the final two. When she eventually did so, she closed her eyes and sighed. She had almost forgotten what an incredible feeling it was to have a cock of that size filling her pussy.

As Grace stayed motionless, just revelling in the sensation, Celine started to rub her friend’s clit. The model gasped delightedly, opened her eyes, and the two girls kissed. Flexing her thighs, Grace began to ride the Earl. The combination of his monster length and Celine’s digit had her writhing around within a matter of moments, and she came with a howl of pleasure.

Rather than ease her rhythm, Grace bounced up and down even more energetically, causing the Earl to catch his breath. Though Celine was eager to continue to pleasure her friend, he had other ideas. Taking Celine by the wrist, he beckoned her to sit on his face. Relishing the idea, Celine straddled his mouth. As her pussy opened against his lips, the Earl began to lick her out.

With the three of them locked in a feedback loop of pleasure, it didn’t take long for them all to reach a climax. With the Earl’s tongue lapping lasciviously at her cunt, Celine came first. She clamped her thighs tight around his face. He loved it and licked all the harder until her come was coating his lips and tongue.

The Earl came next, his cock bursting inside Grace, filling her with his hot seed. As Grace sensed him spunking away inside her, she came too, sinking down even further onto his crotch as she did so, swallowing his dick deep inside her.

When the three of them were finally spent, they took a dip in the pool to cool off. Feeling somewhat guilty, the Earl swore Celine and Grace to secrecy; he still had his sights set on Nikki, despite his inability to resist temptation.