by Laura Wylde
“I know, Kayla. I don’t know what to say. I wish I could explain it to you.”
“I wish you could too. I think there are a lot of things that could be talked through, but neither one of us needs to, huh? You just left, and that’s what happened.”
“It wasn’t that simple.”
“I know, Dad made you leave, but that doesn’t mean you had to go.”
“I really did, Kayla. If I had stayed… It would have been bad, let’s keep it at that.”
“What happened that was so bad that you can’t tell me after all this time? It was ten years ago, Baron. Don’t you think that I at least have the right to know?”
“I want to tell you, but then again, I don’t want you thinking ill of your father. He has done things that I think would shock you.”
“You’d be surprised. I know what my dad is capable of.”
He stopped, and I could tell that he was on the verge of telling me. Baron had always been straight forward, and I was convinced that it had to be pretty bad for him to be refusing to tell me. It didn’t make sense. What had my father done to him to make him act this way? He obviously wasn’t afraid of him, though. Baron just went to the precinct earlier to talk to him. There was something that I just wasn’t understanding, and I wanted to know what it was.
“He tried to kill me. That night that he found us. He had a couple of his deputies with him, one close-lined me as I was getting out of the house, and I woke up strapped to a tree. They were going to kill me, Kayla, so I had to defend myself.”
It didn’t make sense. I replayed it in my head and after the third time, it still didn’t make any sense. I didn’t know what he was talking about. Who did he have to defend himself against, my dad?
“So, what happened?”
“I got out of there and never looked back. Your dad didn’t chase me off, Kayla, he tried to kill me, and I wasn’t going to let him try again, no matter how much I loved you. I knew that if I pushed it, it was just going to make it harder on you, and I knew that he was going to be hard enough. He was always so harsh, but you weren’t ready to leave.”
“I would have if you would have come back a week later. Like I said before, my dad is capable of many things. Which of the deputies was it?”
He shrugged. “I don’t remember their names.”
“Come on, you knew them all by first-name basis. They arrested you enough.”
“Not these two. I don’t know who they were. They could have been new or from another county. I really don’t know. I didn’t stay around to find out all of the particulars. I was in the middle of something.”
I didn’t know what to say. I knew that Dad was certainly capable of murder, but to think that it was the reason that Baron had left me all that time ago-- I didn’t know what to think about it all. It made me realize that Dad had destroyed all of my life back then. I knew he had done some things, horrible, unspeakable things that he forced me to do, but I would have never thought that he would do something like that to Baron.
I took another shot and closed my eyes to the burn. I liked it at the moment. It reminded me that I was still alive, still here, no matter what had happened. His story was bringing up painful memories of the past that I didn’t want to have. There were some things that didn’t need to be drudged up again. It was bad enough the first time around.
“I’m sorry that happened to you. I wish I would have known or you would have told me you were leaving. I would have gone with you. Dad changed after that night, and he really got a little crazy for a while. I wasn’t able to leave the house for almost a month. He wanted to make sure that you were really gone. He searched for you night after night once he was released from the hospital.”
I should have told Baron the rest, but I didn’t want to think about it. That would be for another conversation, if ever.
“It’s not your fault. You didn’t know Mike was like that. How would you have? Everyone thought he was such a great guy.”
I wouldn’t have gone that far, but he was well liked in the community. I knew that it was because the community didn’t know who it actually was that ran the justice in their town.
“Yeah, I know that everyone sees him as this great person. He really isn’t. He never was. He was mean to my mom before she died, and he was cheating on her before she killed herself. There are some things that he has done that are unforgivable.”
“Then why do you stay here, Kayla? I don’t get why you are working for him. What would make you want to stay?”
That was a good question, an even better one if he knew the whole story. There was a reason that I stayed, though it wasn’t hard facts, more that it was just a feeling that I had inside. I don’t know what kept me in Shady Way, but something did. Maybe I had been waiting for someone to come back.
“I don’t know. I just did.” I was never going to tell him that I had waited all this time for him. I didn’t want to put myself out there like that.
“Would you still leave?”
I wasn’t expecting that question, and I didn’t have an answer right off the bat. I wanted to tell him that I would, but this job was all that I had. I had worked hard to get where I was, to prove myself to everyone that was around me. Would I be able to give it all up on a whim? This was my hometown, had been my whole life and though I’d said I would have left, possibly would have when I was younger, I couldn’t imagine living anywhere else but here now.
“I don’t know. This place grows on ya. I like helping people. I like being a cop.”
“But what about your dad?”
“I don’t work with him all that much. He oversees it all. I don’t live with him, so he doesn’t affect me like he used to. He doesn’t have a say anymore.”
“It seems like he did today.”
I waved him off. “You just don’t get it, Baron. You never did. You have to know how to handle him and know when it isn’t worth it. He was right about some things. I was going down a path that was going to lead to nowhere. It was a good thing that I straightened up. People respect me now. I help people.”
I felt like I had to justify why I stayed, even though it was a valid question that I would have asked myself as well. It was hard to see why I had stayed, but I had gotten some things out of it. I had gotten purpose when I didn’t have any. For the longest time, Baron was my purpose, and then he left. Everything didn’t seem the same, and I was looking for a way to make it right. Policing seemed the way to go, plus I was pushed in that direction. The town was short on deputies when a couple quit unexpectedly, and that’s when I came on board.
“I always knew you would.”
There was a silence as we stood on either side of a line. I wanted to believe that Baron understood, but he didn’t. I also knew that Baron could never stay here. No matter how much we cared about each other, it was impossible if I stayed and he left. It would be just like last time, though I wouldn’t be as crushed as I once was.
“I always knew that you would come back one day, Baron.”
“I didn’t. I didn’t think I would ever step foot in this place again. But if you’re never going to leave, then I guess I didn’t have a choice.”
He moved closer, and I didn’t stop him when he leaned in for a kiss. I’d wanted this kiss for a long time. I knew that it was coming, but I was never really prepared for Baron. He was the sort of man that made everything feel so much better than it was supposed to. This was just a kiss, his lips on mine, and somehow, I was craving him in between my legs. It wasn’t something that I could stop from happening. All I could do was go with it, pushing my tongue into his mouth as he growled at me in a low tone.
The sound alone made me flood the rest of the way, and I was already ready for him. It never took long before, but this was ridiculously fast. All he had to do was look at me in that way, and I was lost. I don’t know what I was supposed to do without him. I’d lived so long without his touch, but now I remembered far too clearly how good it felt. Baron always did have me over a barrel.
When I was in Baron’s arms, there was nothing else in the world but me and him. It had always been that way, and some things never changed. Some things never needed to change.
Chapter 10
Baron
I’d thought about Kayla in my arms again, dreamed about it even, but the fact of the matter was, I hadn’t prepared myself for how good she was going to feel. I wanted to pretend like this was just how it was always supposed to end, but I didn’t know if that was true.
“God, I needed you back in my arms, Kayla. You still feel the same as before, perfect.”
She whimpered as my hands touched her chest and stomach, moving down to her hips and then her thighs. I had to open her legs up because she wasn’t paying attention to that. She was paying attention to my hands and what I wanted to do to her, but she wasn’t as in tuned as she used to be. Before she would have been raising up to meet my hand and get her pleasure started sooner. This time, it was like she was just taking what I gave her, not requesting another more or different. This wasn’t the woman that I was used to. Kayla wasn’t as eager.
Her body shook as I covered her mound with my palm and squeezed a little. She gasped, and I loved the sound of it. She always sounded so damn good to me. Kayla responded like she was highly turned on or that she hadn’t done this for a while. She had the best reaction to my touch, and it only made me want to touch her even more. There was just something about her that was driving me insane, and I wasn’t sure what to do about it. I wanted her badly, and I knew that when I took off her clothes and really got to touch her, Kayla was going to be more than ready for me. She always had been in the past.
“You’re so damn hot, Kayla. I can feel the heat coming off of you. Has it been a while?”
A time flew through my head, an answer that I didn’t expect. It couldn’t be true. Had she waited all this time for me, never feeling another man’s touch? I really liked to think that it was true. The idea that I was the only one that had ever pleasured her made me even more ready to be back inside of her. It was going to feel like the first time again.
“It’s been a while. Yeah, you can say that.”
I chuckled because she didn’t know that I knew. She wasn’t going to admit it, not yet, but I felt like I was going to have to make her admit it soon. She needed to say out loud how much she missed me and what we meant to each other. Kayla was holding back, but I simply wasn’t going to let her.
My hands went to the waistband of her slacks, and I tried to tug them down, but the button was still done up. I was becoming too hard and too horny. I jerked on the pants when they didn’t come undone as quickly as I would have liked them to. I needed her right fucking now, and I was close to ripping her pants to shreds. I could smell her need as well, permeating the air and driving me absolutely crazy. Kayla never did know how much I had to hold myself back with her. I had to try my best to hold in all of the desire that threatened to take over because I didn’t want to scare her. I knew that she wouldn’t be hard to convince, not really, so I didn’t worry about it all that much.
When I finally got her pants and then her panties off, she was just as wet as I would have dreamed she would be. It was always a special part of her that I liked so much. She was always so ready for me, and I was so ready to bury myself inside of her. My pants were about to split wide open if I didn’t get out of them quickly.
Surging a finger inside of her, she cried out, and I groaned from how tight she was. Her walls pressed against my digit, and I could only imagine how good she was going to feel when I got inside of her. My anticipation was getting too high. There was no way that I was going to be able to control myself right now. I had to have her, and if I didn’t get inside of her pretty quickly, I was going to lose it in a way that I would have never guessed possible.
“So damn tight, Kayla. It feels like it has been a long damn time.”
She pushed my hand away and tried to sit up. I kissed her before she could say anything, already knowing that she had defensive thoughts. Kayla was emotional, so was I, but those emotions were going to be made better by my sliding deep and slamming home. It wasn’t going to make me want to stop. She was indecisive, and I had to change her mind before I lost the perfect chance again.
Picking her up while I kissed her, I carried her towards the bed and laid her down gently. She was naked from the bottom down and I removed her shirt and bra to see every inch of her. It was just how I remembered, with her hips a little rounder and a little more to the top of her. She looked like more of a woman now and my mouth went down to her jiggling tits that I’d always loved so much. They always felt so good rolling around in my mouth, and this time was no different. It was just like before, no matter how badly I wanted to end it, I knew that I had to prolong it and give her the pleasure that I’d given her before, no matter how badly my head was messed with this time.
Moving down her body, it wasn’t long before she knew where I was going, and her hips rose up. “I don’t think I can, Baron. I don’t want your tongue. I want your dick inside of me when I come the first time.”
Her pretty red lips forming the words was one of the hottest things I’d seen in a long time. It just sounded so naughty and dirty when she was saying it like that, and I shivered from the way it made me feel. This woman was driving me wild, and she wasn’t even trying to. I knew how Kayla felt and what she wanted. She’d always been so impatient when it came to fucking, especially the first time of the night. She always wanted it right now, and it was intense and soul-shattering. But I wasn’t going to be able to last long if we did it this way. I had to fight the whines and her whispered naughty words. I couldn’t let her take me from my mission, no matter how badly I wanted her to.
I pried her legs apart. Kayla wasn’t going to help at all. She’d always fought it, claiming that it was too intense for her, but the taste of her coming in my mouth was all that I could think about at the moment, and I just had to have her. It was the only way that I was ever going to be able to think straight again. “I need to taste you first, Kayla. It’s been too long.
No matter how much I wanted to pretend like all of this was just sex, it had always been more to me with her. This time though, I was going to convince Kayla to come with me, using the one weapon I knew that she was going to be unable to refuse. Her appetite had always been the easiest part of knowing Kayla. It was almost as voracious as mine.
The sound of her calling my name as my head moved in between her thighs and my tongue slid between her lower lips was more than I could stand. My heart was pounding so loud that it drowned out the noise, and I was thankful for that. It was all I could do to hold her in place, the taste of her running through my system in a way that made the world fall apart.
I started to move faster, knowing that every second I could lick and suck on her would bring her closer to pleasure and get me inside of her quicker. I had no intentions on stopping until I was balls deep, and she was coming around my cock. Problem was, I wanted her to come in my mouth first, before I was able to dive in.
It didn’t take long, her legs fighting for freedom and my hands holding her in place without much effort on my part. She wanted to get free so badly, but when she came for the first time, she clung to my head with her thighs like she was going to pull it off. There was no denying to me or to herself that it felt good, really good from the sound of it.
Her fluid was copious and as sweet as I remembered. I continued to flick and suck on her clit. Kayla acted like it was impossible for her to take it and pushed me back hard enough that I finally let her have her way. I watched her legs close up and move towards her stomach.
I loved the way she looked, still writhing in a way because of the pleasure still coursing through her. How could there be a better scene than that, knowing that I had done it? I rushed to take my shirt off, forgetting why I was keeping it on to begin with. I was caught in the moment and I wasn’t thinking.
Pulling her legs apart, I slid in deeply and listened to her moan in the sweetest way possible. I loved the way she sounded when I was inside of her, and the feel was enough to send me over the edge quickly. I had to have more. I had to be so deep inside of her that I wasn’t able to go any further. I just had to have all of her.
Kayla cried out as I started to move quicker. I wasn’t going to last long, and I wanted to make sure she was given enough pleasure. I wouldn’t be done with just once, but pleasing her was my top priority, even as my balls ached to release in her.
I was getting close, and her nails tore into my shoulders. I growled at her, but Kayla wasn’t listening to a thing I had to say. She was in her own little space, and I wasn’t a part of it. I wanted more, and she wasn’t going to be able to take it.
More for me was quickly approaching, and I couldn’t help the feelings coming over me. I was so close to coming, but I bit my cheek, holding out to hear her scream my name just one more time. It was all I could hope for and when she finally started to tighten up around me, I couldn’t hold back anymore.
Groaning loudly, I felt my seed push deep, and it was only then that her eyes popped open and she looked at me with terror on her face. I don’t know what that was all about, but she was not happy with me.
Pushing me off of her, she ran towards the bathroom and I was left staring after her, trying to figure out what the hell had just happened. Had I done something wrong?
“Are you okay?”
She didn’t answer me, but when I tried the door, I could hear the water on in the sink. What was she doing in there? I was ready for to fuck some more, so I hoped that she didn’t take that long. I needed her now, and I had waited long enough. I didn’t want to wait anymore.