Pretty Wicked (8 page)

Sticky heat pooled between my legs and any
last remaining resolve melted away. ‘Do it,’ I whispered, my voice
quivering, barely audible.

In a flash he had whirled me away to the
back of a wooden shed. He put me against it, the rough wood against
my back, and dropped to his knees. Before I knew it he had slipped
his hands into the slits at the sides of the costume and pulled my
panties down my legs.

He lifted one foot out of them and spreading
my legs moved his mouth toward my freshly shaven pussy, and for one
second I looked down and made a mental picture of him, precious and
breathtakingly handsome, his curling eyelashes long against his
cheek—I had forgotten how long they were—and then the shock of his
mouth attaching itself between my legs drove all thought from my
mind. I laid my palms, the fingers spread out, on the rough wooden
panels behind me and tried not to scream.

Sweet heaven!

I wanted to cry, moan and curl my legs. I
had never felt more alive. His tongue moved between the folds,
tasting, eating, sucking and then he lifted his head. And for the
first time in my life I tasted sexual frustration. He pulled my
panties back on and, standing up, pulled me away from the shed. We
walked through the garden, and the house, and out of the front
door.

‘
Don’t we have to tell
anyone?’ I whispered.

‘
I’ll call Mysha
later.’

‘
What about this
dress?’

‘
Later,’ he said
briefly.

We almost ran to the car and Miko drove away
fast. My heart was thudding hard with excitement and my breaths
were shallow. A left, then a right, meadows on either side,
farmhouses in the distance, fields of cows, and another country
lane later, we arrived at a kissing gate. It was the end of a dirt
track, a place where we had been going all along. It was getting
dark. Behind the gate the field was full of tall, silken, golden
grass.

‘
Come on,’ he said, and
opened his door.

I got out quickly. The blood was singing in
my ears. I did not have to ask what we were doing here in this
deserted place. I saw it in the glimmer in his eyes, felt it in my
bones. We were here to finish what we had started in that garden.
He came around to my side and taking my hand took me to the front
of the car. Picking me up by the waist he sat me on the bonnet of
the car and pushed me back on it.

The metal was hot against my back. He pulled
my panties off and opening my legs buried his face between them
with a growl. This time it was not a taste he wanted. He ate me
like a starving man. My fingers gripped his hair hard as I stared
at the darkening sky and gave in to pure pleasure. My climax rushed
upon me packed with explosives. I clenched his head with my thighs
and screamed. My legs were still trembling when he flipped me over
so I was lying on my front on the hot bonnet. And I was ready for
it.

I wanted to be taken, hard and rough.

He spread my legs wide apart.

‘
You’ve been driving me
crazy all night,’ he said harshly.

Putting one hand on my lower belly he tilted
me upward so that I was now standing on my toes, my ass arched up
into the air. The back flap of the dress was thrown over my body.
He placed his palm on my ass and a ripple of desire tore through
me, like strong wind through blades of grass.

‘
You like
that?’

‘
Yes.’ My body was begging
to be filled up by him.

‘
Good. Then open your legs
wider.’

‘
I can’t,’ I said. I was
already standing on my toes.

He kicked gently at one leg and suddenly I
was helplessly sprawled open on the hood of the car, no longer in
control. I let the other leg go too and splayed out my legs as far
as I could go—into the widest V I could imagine as he stood apart
and watched me. Savoring my complete submission to his will on the
hot bonnet of a rented car.

He put his hands on the insides of my thighs
and pulling them further apart he drew in and licked the wet core
between my legs. I wriggled when he took his mouth away. ‘I love
seeing you like this. With your legs wide open and ready for me.
Keep them spread open.’ His breath fanned my fully opened sex,
inflaming me.

‘
Go on,’ I
urged.

‘
What do you want,
Lexi?’

‘
You.’

‘
Me? You’ll have to be
more specific than that.’

‘
I want you to take
me.’

‘
Take you? Talk dirty with
me, Lexi.’

‘
I want that dirty big
cock of yours inside my pussy. Right now. Fuck me, you
bastard.’

As soon as the words had left me I felt a
rush of wind and his hot, hard flesh pushed into my ready wetness
in one burning thrust. The feeling was so intense tears sprang to
my eyes. I clenched my fists and cried out his name.

‘
Is this what you wanted?’
he asked harshly.

‘
Yes,’ I
groaned.

For one long second he didn’t move.

‘
Don’t stop,’ I whimpered
and clenched my muscles around him.

Holding my hips, he pounded me so deep and
hard until I was nearly sobbing with the intense pleasure. His
ownership of my body was so absolute that I felt bereaved every
time his cock withdrew from my body. My cries filled the still
sultry evening air.

Suddenly he grabbed my hair and pulled my
head back so I was looking into his eyes. And what I saw there
rocked me to my core. The ferocity of his passion. Shocking. He
gazed at me as if he was trying to convey something important
through his eyes alone.

His voice ragged and thick with emotion, he
said, ‘I’m going to come now.’

And he did while staring into my dazed,
lust-filled eyes. I watched his eyes change as pleasure ripped
through him, and his body buckled into mine, but his eyes never
left me. He wanted to look at me in his moment of greatest
pleasure. When it was all over he let go of my hair and collapsed
onto my body.

For a while we both lay unmoving and panting
hard. An owl hooted somewhere in the distance. Otherwise it was
exceptionally quiet. It reminded me of another time when I had
looked up at the sky and seen stars. Another time with him. I
didn’t know what to say. What to do? The experience had been so
intense, I was robbed of all normal conversation. Nothing had ever
felt this good. I had never felt more satiated or more totally
possessed.

I felt his hand gently turn me over.

‘
Hell, you feel like
heaven.’ Beside me, he was all muscle and spent desire. He traced
the line of my cheek and my lips and then he claimed my mouth in a
long, drugging kiss. My nipples were straining against the black
net.

Slowly, as he kissed me, his hand moved to
my sex. His thumb entered me while his fingers worked my clit. I
opened my mouth and he slipped his tongue into it. The kiss became
fierce and possessive, his fingers more furious, and his other hand
rubbed over my nipple igniting a new ache.

When my hips began to shudder he lifted his
mouth away from mine, and resting on his elbow watched me intently.
He wanted to see what I looked like when I flew into the abyss. So
he watched that first shudder, the uncontrollable bowing of my body
that followed as my lips parted in a gasp that became a long cry of
pleasure.

He kissed my earlobe.

‘
That tickles,’ I
complained, giggling, childish, a rare thing. I lay in his embrace
and realized that it was the first time I felt…happy.

He stared at me, then suddenly wrapped his
strong arms around me and crushed me against his lean body so hard
my breasts yearned for the moment to last forever. It felt so good.
But it would end in four days. I wriggled free and sat up.

‘
We should be going,’ I
said, not meeting his eyes. I slid off the hood and, finding my
panties on the ground, pulled them back on. There was a used condom
lying discarded nearby, and I averted my eyes. Strange, I had been
so caught up with what was happening to me I had not even asked for
or thought about one.

I looked up and Miko was lying on the hood
looking at me expressionlessly. ‘Ready?’ he asked.

I nodded and he jumped off with lithe grace.
I looked around me as he pulled on his pants. We did not speak much
on the way over to mine. He parked the car on a street a hundred
yards away from my building.

I licked my lips. ‘You’re coming in?’

He turned to me. ‘We need to talk,
Lexi.’

I felt a tingle of fear run up my spine.
‘Talk?’

‘
Talk.’

‘
What about?’

He gave a reluctant sigh and opened his
door. ‘Come on.’

We had only taken a few steps when we were
suddenly in the middle of a summer shower.

‘
Get back in the car. I’ll
drop you off at the entrance and find another parking
space.’

‘
No, let’s make a dash for
it.’

‘
You sure?’

I laughed and started running. I was
breathless and panting hard by the time I turned the corner. A man
was standing near the main door of my building. He turned and I
came to an abrupt stop. It was Nigel. He was standing in the rain,
his hands pushed deep into the pockets of his jacket, and he was
staring at me. His eyes flicked over to Miko and hardened.

I could see me through his eyes. Running in
the rain dressed in a black net dress with hardly enough sequins to
keep my modesty upright. Surely, he could see that I had slept with
the other man. I colored guiltily. I had couriered his ring back to
him and tried to call him, but it had gone straight to answer
machine and I’d had to leave an awkward message.

Beside me I felt Miko become tense. We
walked up to him and Nigel stared at me with hard, accusing
eyes.

‘
Can we talk alone,
Lexi?’

I opened my mouth to say ‘Of course’, but
Miko answered for me. ‘No,’ he bit out harshly. My mouth dropped
open and Nigel looked astonished. Poor Nigel. How dare Miko
interfere in my affairs? This had nothing to do with him. I turned
angrily toward Miko.

He was bristling with hostility. This was a
new Miko. I had never seen him as anything but patient. No matter
what I did he had never lost his temper with me. Yet here he was,
furious for no reason at all. This side of Miko was shocking.

‘
Excuse me?’ Nigel grated,
provoked into anger.

‘
You heard me. Anything
you have to say to her you can say in my presence.’ Miko’s voice
was calm and unemotional.

‘
Fuck you. Who the fuck do
you think you are? You just came on the scene. I’ve been in love
with Lexi for a year.’

‘
Oh yeah? I’ve been in
love with her for seven years.’ He turned toward me. ‘And for the
record, her name is not Lexi. It’s Sky. Sky Johnson.’

My mouth dropped open. ‘What did you
say?’

~~~~~

Y
ou know how they say that time can go slower or even stop.
Well, time stopped for me at that moment. I stared at Miko as if I
was watching a three-dimensional movie. I watched the rain splash
on his head and run down his hair and face. Watched the way his
beautiful eyes looked with water running over them. Nigel was
saying something, but I couldn’t make it out.

‘
Lexi,’ he called
louder.

I tore my eyes away from Miko and looked at
him. He looked at me with hurt eyes. The kind of eyes puppies will
treat you to when you scold them. He was begging me to deny that
the year we had spent together was not a wasted lie.

‘
I’m so sorry,’ I
whispered.

He shook his head as if disgusted with me or
him or both, and without a word stalked away.

‘
Come on, let’s get you
inside,’ Miko said, taking my arm. He took the keys from my
unresisting fingers and opened the door. Inside, the foyer seemed
cold and I began to shiver. I wrapped my arms tightly around my
body and felt Miko’s eyes on me, but I refused to look at
him.

I had not left any windows open, and inside
my tiny flat it was stuffy and hot. Miko ran the shower and helped
me to undress as if I was a child. He put me into the shower and
slid the door closed. I felt frozen with shock. The hot water
sluiced down on me and the strange feeling of numbness went away. I
got out of the shower, toweled myself dry, and after slipping into
my fluffy bathrobe went into the living room. Miko had hitched a
towel around his hips and was making tea. He had also opened a
couple of windows to let in some fresh air.

He looked up at me, bare-chested, his hair
still damp. ‘I made us some tea.’

I walked up to him. He looked unbearably
beautiful. I felt like such a fool. I turned away from him and
would have put some distance between us if he had not caught my
hand and whirled me around. He put his fingertips to my mouth. They
tasted of rain. His gaze was haunted.

I felt that tarnished ache in my heart
again. Somewhere in this story was a lie. I was not the hunter. I
was the prey, after all.

‘
You can change absolutely
everything about you, but never your eyes. Nobody has eyes like
yours. I drowned in them seven years ago.’

My heart did a little helpless flip. The
tears that were threatening spilled over. Blast it.

‘
Don’t cry, Sky. I can’t
bear to see you cry.’

‘
You didn’t just happen to
acquire the firm I was working for, did you?’