Winds of Fortune (6 page)

Allie grinned. “For now, cheese. I’ll tell you the rest later.”

Deo kissed her. “Coming up.”

“Hurry.” Allie staked out a spot on the low brick wall edging the sidewalk in front of the restaurant.

Deo grinned. “Count on it.”

*

“Hey,” Carre shouted above the din, tugging on Bri’s arm as they edged through the crowd. “There’s Allie.”

“Huh? Where?” Bri slowed and followed Carre’s gaze. She stiffened when she saw Deo Camara settle down behind Allie and slide a leg on either side of Allie’s smaller frame. Allie snugged her ass back into Deo’s crotch while Deo dangled a piece of pizza in front of Allie’s mouth. Bri grunted when Allie chased it with her tongue. “Cute.”

Carre gave Bri a look. “What’s with you? Jealous?”

Bri stared. “Jeez, babe. No. Come on.” She saw the fire in Carre’s eyes and knew better than to blow her off. Allie had always been a sore spot between them, ever since Bri had been a jerk the year before and almost slept with her.
Almost.
Well, she’d been in bed with her, and she’d been naked, and she’d let Allie touch…

“Fuck,” Bri breathed, not blaming Carre for being sensitive about it. And just what
was
she feeling right now anyhow that made her want to punch Deo for licking the sauce off the corner of Allie’s mouth like she was doing at the moment? “I like Allie. She’s my friend, and besides, she’s my partner.”

“I know that,” Carre said, pulling Bri closer to the building across the narrow twisty street from where Allie sat wrapped up in Deo’s arms. “What I don’t know is why you’re getting twitchy about her and Deo.” She stuck her hand under the bottom of Bri’s T-shirt and rubbed her back. “What’s that about?”

“Allie has a crazy streak, you know?” Bri said, working it out in her head while she watched Allie run her fingernails up and down the inside of Deo’s leg. “Sometimes I think she does stuff so she doesn’t have to think about how she’s feeling.”

“Baby,” Carre said reasonably. “Maybe she just wants to get laid.”

Bri grinned and kissed Carre nice and slow and deep. “Could be. I’d say she’s gonna get her wish.”

“And you’re okay with that?”

“Not my department.” Bri turned Carre until her back was against the building and kissed her again, teasing her with her tongue until Carre rubbed against her and moaned. “
That’s
my department.”

“Yeah,” Carre said breathlessly. “And you should maybe take care of it. Soon.”

“Top of my list.” Bri grabbed Carre’s hand and pulled her into the street in the direction of their apartment. She didn’t glance over at Allie. Not her department.

*

Deo fumbled her key into the lock while Allie practically climbed up her back, rubbing against her ass and licking the back of her neck. “One more minute. Just hold on one more minute, and I’ll take care of that charge you’ve got running through your circuits.”

“You’ve had me wound up all night,” Allie murmured, wrapping her arms around Deo’s middle from behind and cleaving to her as they stumbled inside Deo’s condo. “You have your work cut out for you.”

“That’s okay.” Deo tossed her keys onto a small table by the door and threw her shirt after them. Her skin tingled and even the T-shirt chaffed her sensitive nipples. “I love my work.” She twisted enough to free herself from Allie’s grasp and grabbed her arm. “Come on. The bedroom’s upstairs. Let’s see what I can do about taking care of you.”

“What time is it—one?”

“About,” Deo muttered, hurriedly twisting the rheostat on the switch inside her bedroom door until the light was barely a glow. “Gotta be somewhere?”

“Nope.” Allie gave Deo a playful shove and then another, until Deo hit the bed and fell onto it. Allie dropped on top of her and writhed against her. “You might have enough time to take the edge off by morning, at least.”

Deo grabbed Allie’s ass, thrust up her hips, and flipped Allie over. She circled her crotch against Allie’s while holding Allie’s arms against the bed with her fingers clamped around each of Allie’s wrists. “Is that some kind of challenge?”

“Uh-uh. Just a warning to let you know what you’re in for.” Allie raised her head and clamped her teeth onto the side of Deo’s neck, sucking until Deo groaned. “I’d really really like it if you fucked me.”

“That could be arranged.” Deo rubbed her cheek over Allie’s breast until the nipple stood up beneath Allie’s stretchy top. She grasped it in her teeth and shook her head while she pumped her crotch into Allie. She kept up the rhythm with her mouth and her hips, harder and faster until Allie twisted and shook beneath her.

“Oh God I’m hot,” Allie gasped. “You have
got
to fuck me. I’m not kidding.”

“Would you like a little something extra when I do?”

Allie scraped her nails down the back of Deo’s thin T-shirt. “Will it be good for you too?”

Surprised again, Deo kissed her softly. “Yeah. I’d like it.”

“Then fill me up,” Allie whispered, her mouth against Deo’s ear, “with something nice and thick.”

Deo’s stomach rolled, and for a fleeting second she was afraid she might come just thinking about pushing inside her. She was breathing so fast she could hardly talk. By the time she struggled upright to get ready, Allie was already pulling off her clothes. “I need a minute.”

“I’ve waited this long.” Naked, Allie rubbed her own breasts, arching her back and moaning. “I’m so wet.”

“Take it easy,” Deo said as she shucked her pants and underwear and opened the bedside table. “Don’t get too far ahead of me.”

“I can come more than once.”

The words went through Deo like a shot. Her hands were shaking so badly she fumbled while sliding the thin leather straps of the harness over her legs. “There’s a condom in the top drawer there. Get it for me.” While Allie leaned over to retrieve the safe, Deo swung around and propped her back against the pillows, half-sitting with her legs stretched out on the bed.

“Mmm, that’s nice,” Allie murmured, tearing the foil open as she knelt on the bed. She smiled up at Deo. “Nice and big.”

“Too big?” Deo steadied the cock with one hand as Allie rolled the condom down on it. The pressure made her clit ache. “Because I’ve got a smaller—”

Allie laughed. “Oh no. This is perfect.” As if to prove it, she swung one leg over Deo’s hips and lowered herself until just the broad, round tip disappeared. Her head snapped back and she whimpered quietly. “Oh my God, that feels so good.”

Deo struggled not to move when every instinct cried out for her to pump her hips. She clasped Allie’s waist with both hands, helping to support her as she slowly took more and more of Deo inside her. “You look beautiful like this.”

Lids half closed, Allie smiled unsteadily. “I need to come and I’m really really trying not to.”

“You do whatever you need to do,” Deo groaned. “If you have to come, do it.”

“Oh I will.” Allie shivered. “Once I get you inside of me and start to move, I won’t be able to stop it.”

“I want you to feel so good.” Deo lifted her hips slowly, pushing inside just a little bit at a time. When Allie’s eyes closed and she sagged forward, catching herself with both hands on Deo’s shoulders, Deo stilled. “Okay? You okay?”

Mutely, Allie nodded, her hips gliding back and forth in Deo’s lap.

Deo cupped both of Allie’s breasts and squeezed. “You go ahead now. You ride me any way you want to. Ride me until you come.”

“Uh-huh.” Allie’s belly undulated as she forced Deo deeper. “Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I will. I will.” She pumped hard twice and her eyes opened wide. “Touch my clit. Can you touch my clit?”

“Good?” Deo said, watching Allie’s face twist with pleasure as she massaged her with her thumb.

“I’m coming already. Uh, I’m coming.”

“You’re beautiful. You’re so beautiful.” Deo thrust her hips in time to Allie’s cries, feeling the push and pull between her legs as Allie climaxed hard on her. Slowing when Allie finally slumped forward into her arms, she kissed her hair and her face. Allie trembled, making small broken sounds of pleasure. “It’s okay, baby. It’s okay. You’re so beautiful.”

“Don’t move,” Allie murmured, rocking her hips slowly with Deo still inside her. “I’ll come again in just a second.”

Deo caught her breath. Allie was so raw and sensual and vulnerable she wanted to cry. She stroked her back and her shoulders and kissed her gently until Allie released a soft cry and shuddered with another orgasm. Deo groaned. “Oh yeah.”

“I’ll say.” Allie lifted her hips and let Deo slip out, then curled on her side with her cheek on Deo’s chest. She caressed Deo’s breasts and stomach. “You’re very patient. That’s nice.”

“I could watch you like that all night.” Deo drew a deep breath and let it out, feeling strangely content. She hadn’t come, but the pent up urgency that had plagued her for hours had dwindled away effortlessly as Allie had climaxed. It happened that way fairly often for her. Satisfying a woman satisfied
her
in some deep way that she’d never really bothered to analyze. It just was. She was lucky that was so, because there were plenty of times when the woman she was with showed no particular interest in her pleasure. Their lack of reciprocation never really bothered her. But Allie had not been selfish. She had given her a gift. She’d given her trust and allowed Deo to witness her need. Deo was more than satisfied. She was honored. “You are mind-blowingly sexy.”

“Oh yeah?” Allie propped herself up on an elbow and kissed the tip of Deo’s chin. “Well, I wasn’t doing it all by myself. Believe me, the way you look at me, the way you touch me, sets me on fire.”

“Then let’s feed the flames because…” Deo kissed Allie’s neck, then her breasts, then her nipple, “I want to hear you come again.”

Allie laughed. “Maybe. I need a little bit more time to catch my breath.” She pushed herself down on the bed and started to unbuckle the leather strap around Deo’s hips. “And while I’m recovering, I know just how to occupy myself.”

Deo lifted up so Allie could free her and then spread her legs as Allie settled between them. She closed her eyes and stroked Allie’s hair, her mind clear and mercifully free of memory or regret. She whispered a silent
thank you
as Allie took her into her mouth.

*

“What are you doing to me,” Bri moaned.

Carre kissed her as she languorously stroked between Bri’s trembling thighs. “I’m making you feel as good as you just made me feel.”

“I’m going to explode, babe.” Bri twisted in Carre’s arms, her mouth against Carre’s neck as every fiber in her body tightened. “Feels so good. I’m gonna…oh yeah I’m gonna—”

“Mmm.
You
feel so good.” Carre relaxed her grip on Bri’s turgid clit and vibrated her fingers lightly. “Too good to let it end now.”

“I gotta, babe,” Bri pleaded desperately. “Really, I’m hurtin’. I gotta.”

Carre sucked on Bri’s lower lip and teased her tongue in and out of Bri’s mouth. “I love when you get like this. So hard. So freakin’ wet.” She grasped Bri’s hair and tilted her head back so she could nip down the center of her throat. “I love to make you come.”

Bri choked trying to catch her breath. “Please I’m right there, babe. If you just, oh God… oh God…”

“I know, baby,” Carre whispered, stroking again, too slowly and too lightly to make Bri come. “I know what you need.”

Bri tried to keep her eyes open but the terrible wanting in her belly was too much to hold. “I love you so much.”

“I love you.”

“No one else,” Bri gasped, her body shaking with a series of bone wracking shudders.

“I know baby,” Carre whispered, milking her in long firm strokes. “You come now, baby. You come.”

Bri’s eyes rolled back in her head and she clutched Carre as if she were drowning and Carre was all that stood between her and oblivion. “
Fuck!
”

Laughing, Carre wrapped her legs around Bri and held her sweat-streaked face to her breast. “God, you are so sexy.”

“Trying to kill me,” Bri muttered, still quaking. “Think maybe you
did
kill me.”

“You know I have to go back to school in six weeks.” Carre caressed Bri’s shoulders. “I don’t want you to forget who you belong to.”

Bri opened her eyes and struggled to focus. Her vision was still blurry but clear enough for her to make out the scared look on Carre’s face. Bri’s heart plummeted when she realized that she was the cause of that fear. “I’ve only ever loved you. The only thing I’m gonna do while you’re gone is count the minutes until you come back.” She pushed herself up on both arms and waited until Carre looked into her face. “I’m only ever going to love you.”

“Me too.” Carre wrapped her arms around Bri’s shoulders and pulled her down until Bri’s body covered hers. She pressed her face to Bri’s neck. “Only ever you.”

*

“I’m awake,” Tory said as the bedroom door opened and a sliver of light slanted in from the hall. “You can turn the light on.”

“That’s okay,” Reese replied. “I’ll just…should I come to bed?”

Tory closed her eyes for an instant, the swift pain of the unthinkable question making her breathless. She pushed the sheets aside, making room. “Of course.”