Stryker (5 page)

We got home an hour later and I headed to the kitchen for
something to eat. I was fucking starving. I made myself a turkey and Swiss on
seven grain and grabbed a beer. She reached for a premade salad and joined me
at the table.

“Gabe, I mean Stryker,
are
you
going to be mad at me forever? I said I was sorry. I don’t know what else I can
say.” That fiery spirit of hers was rearing its head. That’s the shit that got
her into trouble in the first damn place. Nadia is a sweet, loving girl but she
has a stubborn streak a mile long.

“What exactly are you sorry for Nadia? Are you sorry that
you left me without warning? That you shit on everything that I’ve done and try
to do for us?”

“I didn’t mean to…”

I finished my sandwich and got up from the table leaving
her there alone. The night had gone to shit for me already and I wasn’t in the
mood for more bullshit.

“Won’t you at least talk to me? Just hear me out that’s all
I ask.”

“You mean like you did for me? I don’t think so. I don’t
think you understand what it is that you’ve done. I chose you as my wife, you.
I’ve spent my life trying to be honorable and to be a standup guy. In one
afternoon you stripped me bare and left me to bleed out. Until you understand
what the fuck that means we have nothing to talk about. I’m going upstairs I’ll
meet you in the guestroom in five minutes don’t be late.”

“Why can’t I sleep in our bed?”

“You didn’t mind sleeping elsewhere for the past two weeks.
You don’t get into my bed again until I say so.” Let her make of that what she
will. I didn’t expect her to disobey me as I went upstairs and took a hot
shower to wash away the day.

She wasn’t in the room when I went in looking for her.

“Nadia?”

She didn’t answer me and she was nowhere in sight, upstairs
or down. My heart started to thump until I remembered that she couldn’t escape.
There was no way for her to get off the grounds without me.

I saw soft light coming from the outside pool area and
that’s where I found her. She was sitting with her head resting on her bent
knees her head facing away from me. I felt a pang of sadness seeing her there
like that, so lost and alone. I pushed the feeling aside forcefully, this was
just another way of disobeying me. The continuous struggle we’ve had in the
last few months, of her fighting me every step of the way.

“Didn’t you hear me calling you?”

“I’m not sleeping in that bed again. I’ll rather stay out
here until the sun comes up.”

“Get in the house…Now.” She turned furious eyes my way but
her fury was no match for mine. Her problem is that she wanted to hash things
out now on her terms and because I wasn’t willing to play along, she decided to
play the spoilt brat. Well that was too damn bad. Whether she wanted to or not,
we were going to do things my way. No more equality bullshit, she didn’t know
what to do with it. I treated her as my equal and what did she do? She fucked
our happiness away over bullshit. Now she could deal with me on my terms or not
at all. I was pissed enough to throw that ultimatum out at her but not yet.
There was still a whole lot left to do before I went there.

“Inside now.”

She got up in a huff and brushed pass me into the house. I
followed on her heels all the way up the stairs until we reached the guestroom.
She stood there not moving and not looking at me, but that was okay. I didn’t
need her to look at me for what I had in mind.

“Get them off.” She glared at me as her hands moved to the
buttons of her blouse. She took her time disrobing, as I stood there naked, my
cock hard and ready. It would serve her right if I took her without preparing
her first, but no. Tonight with my anger somewhat cooler than the night before,
I didn’t have it in me to be that rough with her again. I waited until she was
through before walking over to her. Brushing her hair off her neck I started
with soft kisses behind her ear. My fingers traced the outside of her breast as
I licked and sucked on the skin of her neck. I felt tension leave her body
slowly as I ever so gently lifted her lips to mine. Soft nibbles from her lips
to her ears and back again. I laid her on the bed coming down fully on top of
her my hands caressing her body until I came to her heat.

“Open.” She opened her legs for my fingers as I plunged
them into her crooking them forward. Searching for that spot inside her that
makes her go wild. She came with my mouth on her nipple and my fingers buried
deep.

“Take me into your mouth.”

I laid back and pulled her over me pushing her head down
until she licked me. With my hands buried in her hair I watched her take me in
deeper.

“Bite.” She bit down lightly the way I taught her I like.

“Look at me.” Her eyes met mine as she bobbed her head up
and down on my cock making me harder, getting me ready to take her.

“Enough.” I pulled her off and laid her down beside me
covering her body. Taking my cock in hand I led it into her slowly taking my
time. Her eyes looked into mine as I slipped deeper and deeper inside her. Our
bodies moved together in our favorite dance as I kissed her once more. I
couldn’t hold back the love and the passion that I felt for her. Couldn’t
resist soft touches to her face as I brushed back her hair from her forehead.
Her body clenched in orgasm as her nails scraped down my back. I took my time
and loved her rekindling the bond that we once shared before all the madness.

I pulled out before I came because I wanted the night to
last. I wanted to stay inside her all night, to wipe away the pain of the last
tow weeks. Making my way down her body I lifted her to my mouth and sank my
tongue into her while my thumb and forefinger massaged her clit.

“Ohhh…” Her body arched sending her heat harder against my
mouth and my tongue deeper inside. Her silk walls caressed my tongue as I
sucked her honeyed juices from her body. When she was pass the point of no
return, her hands reaching for me, only then did I climb back up her body only
this time I turned her over onto her stomach and with her body flat against the
mattress entered her from behind. Straddling her hips I sent my cock home
pulling her ass aback for deeper penetration.

“You’re so deep.” Her voice was breathy and soft.

“I know take it.” Leaning over her back I bit into her neck
hard enough to leave a mark before making my way across her shoulders and down
her back leaving more of the same as I went.

“Lift up.” I helped her to her kneed, my hand in her back
pressing her down into the bed until she was just the way I wanted her. Chest
low on the bed and her beautiful ass cocked in the air her pussy at just the
right angle to take me deep. I sped up my motions plunging in hard and fast as
my hands roamed her body. Wetting my thumb in my mouth I ever so gently pushed
them into her newly awakened ass making her clench down around me. My cock
worked its way in and out of her depths knocking against her cervix and into
her womb where I meant to empty my seed. My head exploded as her pussy
tightened around me and she screamed out my name as we fell off the precipice
together. I waited until we both calmed down before leaving her body and with
one final kiss against her spine I covered her with a sheet and left the room.

“Goodnight.”

“Night.”

I heard the tears in her voice but I didn’t let them waylay
me, I had to see this through no matter what.

The rest of the week went pretty much the same. Every
morning I’d leave her to go to work and every night after dinner I’d take her.
I added new dimensions to our lovemaking. Things she’d never wanted to try
before, things that I knew she’d enjoy if only she’d give them a chance. She
didn’t say anything but she didn’t have to her body did all the talking for her
and the way she came, the way she accepted my dick was all the words I needed.
One good thing had come out of this whole mess we now shared even more than we
had before. There were no longer any taboos, if I wanted to fuck her in the
pool outside beneath the sky I did. If I got the urge in the kitchen I laid her
across the counter and took her. Once the night before we were to leave for the
ranch I bent her over the kitchen sink and ate her pussy to orgasm before
fucking her against the wall.

Never will I go back to the way things had been.

The plane touched down in Houston early the next morning.
She had spent the time reading a magazine while I did some last minute work.
I’d set my security team on the job of finding out just who it was that had
made those calls to her and whatever else had been going on. I haven’t said
anything to her about what I’m doing but I wasn’t going to let it go. This
person had taken something from me, from us, something that we will never get
back.

Her excitement grew as we drove through the winding country
roads on the way to our land. Once we got pass the oil fields with their rigs
climbing into the air, the scenery gave away to wide open fields, cattle
grazing in the distance and every once in a while a lone cowboy riding the
range. It felt like a different time here, like we’d taken a step back in time.
That’s what appealed to her old world sensibilities I’m sure.

“I’ll meet you down at the stables when you’re dressed.” I
left her in the bedroom we shared after changing into jeans and a cotton button
down with my riding boots and headed down the stairs. The fresh air and the
blue skies overhead went a long way to easing some of my own tension. I didn’t
feel that need of having to be on the alert here. It was as if we’d left the
worries of the city behind. Here there were only wide-open spaces that went on
forever. It gave a man ideas about certain things. I’d chosen this place for
this reason. It was the one place out of all the many I owned where I knew we
could both relax and unwind. Although my anger wasn’t burning as bright as it
had been in the beginning there was still a lingering resentment. The one thing
I was sure of was that I would never let her go. I loved her too much for that,
but how we went on from here would depend on the outcome of this weekend. Apart
from our sexual encounters nothing much else had passed between us. She’d tried
more than once to bring up the issue but each time I’d shut her down. I hadn’t
been quite ready to talk, not without the threat of all that anger spewing out
and causing more damage that was already done.

I had the stable master saddle up her favorite horse while
I saw to my own. I’ll look over the place later as I usually did when we came here
but I had no worries. The foreman did a good job of running things and as with
all my investments I kept an eye on what was mine.

She was there ten minutes later looking fashionably chic in
suede riding pants in brown with a cream silk top. Her legs pushed into Hermes
riding boots to match. She does like her fashion. The thought made me smile.

“Ready?”

“As I’ll ever be.”

We started off at a canter before speeding things up as we
put the horses through their paces racing across the field. Our destination was
the little stream that ran through the back of the property. It was a beautiful
spot with old acacia trees and prairie grass with dots of purple and pink
prairie roses that turned the pasture into a picturesque landscape that caught
the eye and soothed the senses. At least that’s how Nadia describes it. To me
it was just a beautiful plot of land with bits of color but what the hell do I
know? I hadn’t asked the housekeeper Rosa to pack us a picnic lunch. That
wasn’t the purpose of this ride and I didn’t want to show my hand too soon. If
I did that she might get the wrong idea and start thinking that everything was
okay, that all was forgiven.

I stopped under one of the sprawling trees where we could
be alone to talk. I’d had the whole week to get some of my anger under control.
Just having her back home where she belonged had gone a long way to smoothing
out some of the rough edges, but like I said there were still some things that
needed ironing out. Things that I hadn’t been ready to address until now.

“We’ll stop here.” I alighted and walked over to help her
off her horse. I took her down slowly, her front rubbing against mine our eyes
connected. I felt that jolt to my system; the gut wrenching lust that only this
one woman in the whole world invoked in me. We walked beneath the tree and I
sat with my back to the tree drawing her down between my thighs. She rested
back with her head on my shoulder and my arm around her shoulder.

I didn’t speak for a long time, just enjoyed the feeling of
her in my arms, the way we used to be. This was our spot, our place. We’ve
spent many a day under this tree making memories.

“Are you comfortable?”

“Yes, very.” She snuggled closer.

“Why did you leave me?”
 
I got right to it, there was no need to beat around the bush after all;
she knew what this trip was about.

She took a quick intake of breath and looked up at me with
wide frightened eyes. I guess there was still a lot of bite to my words.

“I didn’t leave you Gabe, not really. I was just scared…”

“Scared of what? What is it that you’re afraid of?”

“That you stopped loving me.” Her voice had gone soft and
her shoulders hunched. I lifted her chin so that I could look into her eyes.

“Why would you think that Nadia?”

“Because she said that you two were in love, that you wanted
to be together. I know you’re disappointed about the baby…”

“Who is this she?”

“I’m not sure but I’ve been thinking it might’ve be
Sabrina. She was so convincing on the phone and it hurt to hear her say the
things she said. I just wanted to get away from it all for a while. I’m sorry I
didn’t tell you, I was just so mad at you for wanting her and not me.”

“Stop. So this person calls you and you just accepted her
word that I was cheating on you. And even after I told you that there was no
truth to it you still took her word over mine. Do you not see what’s wrong with
that? How insulting that is to me? We’re married you’re my wife. I swore to
protect you but you never gave me that chance, you just ran. That’s not how marriage
is supposed to work. If there’s no trust then we really have nothing do we? You
can’t have love without trust and I refuse to live my life like that.”

“What are you saying?” Her hand fisted in the front of my
shirt. I looked down at her, studying her beautiful face and the worry I saw
there tore at me.

“I’m saying that you were wrong, that instead of standing
and fighting you gave up. You didn’t even fight Nadia, even if you thought
there was some truth to what this person was saying you didn’t give us a
chance, give me a chance. You just cut and run; that doesn’t say much for our
marriage now does it?” She started tearing up and there was a slight tremble in
her body.

“Please don’t leave me Gabe. I’ll do better. I promise just
please…I was confused that’s all.”

I let it rest for a minute as I thought of her words. She
was afraid. I guess I don’t understand how women think in these situations. All
I know is that if some asshole had told me the same thing about her, I’d have
fought for my wife, for my life with her. She’d run. That’s the thing that ate
away at me. She’d just taken off without a word and she’d done it so easily.

“What’s to stop you from doing it again?”

She sat up straight taking my face between her hands.

“I won’t ever. I promise I’ve learned my lesson, just
please Gabe... I love you more than anything in the world. I know that now I
won’t forget again I promise.”

“I want you to come to me if something like this should
ever happen again. No more running away. Do you have any idea what that did to
me? You punished me for something I was not guilty of, you made a fool of me
for the world to see.”

“I’m so sorry…”

“Yes I know so you’ve said, but that’s just not enough. You
didn’t think babe, didn’t use your head and what’s worse you let someone else
come between us. All it takes is a well-placed lie for you to believe someone
else’s word over mine. It’s going to take me a long time to get over that.”

We kept quiet for a while after that, both of us lost in
our own thoughts. I needed her to see, to understand that we could never be in
that place again.

“If you ever do something like this again I’ll leave you
without a second thought. I love you you’re the only woman I’ve ever said that
to but I’ll be damned if I’ll go through that shit again.”

“Does that mean that you’ll give me another chance?” Now
there was new hope in her eyes.

“I guess so.”

“Does that mean that…?” Her face heated up and she lowered
her head.

“What?” I lifted her chin so I could see her eyes again.

“That um, you know, that we’ll go back to the way things
were.”

“I’m not quite sure what you mean.”

“In bed.” She really reddened this time and buried her face
in my chest.

“No.”

“
Good.”

Her voice was soft and shy; huh, I knew she’d like it.