by Gabi Moore
“Do it then, if you really want to,” he whispered.
This isn’t what I did. I was a killer. A tough-as-nails mafia queen bee who fought blood and guts for every last scrap of respect she had in the organization. Pulling the trigger was the easiest thing in the world for me. But I couldn’t do it.
“Kill me, Evie, if that’s what you want. Pull that trigger if you know you feel nothing for me, if what happened that night was just meaningless. Go ahead. If you’re really not curious to see where this goes, to see where we go…”
I couldn’t stop my hands from shaking. I was coming down, and the ache in my head became a scream. But I couldn’t lower the weapon. The muscles in my arm had frozen.
“I know that you got the paternity tests …that’s how they found you Evie. I know you wanted to find out who the father was, and that’s why you’re in danger now. Let me help you. They want to pit us against one another. They want us to fight. But I saw you that night… you’re not really a killer at all, are you…?”
Though I held on with all my might, two fat tears escaped when I blinked hard and I stood there shaking, feeling them roll down my cold face and onto my cheeks.
“I never… I never got the results back from the clinic,” I said. The more I held in the shaking the more it seemed to morph into sobs in my chest. His hand rose up, curled around the barrel of the gun and gently pushed it aside.
“I’m the father, Evie,” he said quietly, pushing my arms down and to the ground so all the tension fell away. I couldn’t hold it in any longer. Big sobs wracked through me and I began to cry. The gun fell from my hands and thudded into the wet ground below.
He leapt forward and wrapped his arms around me.
“I just want to protect you,” he said. Hot tears streaming down my face, I pulled away and shoved him hard against his chest. I couldn’t do this.
“I don’t need your protection,” I spat. I must have been out of my mind. Maybe it was pregnancy hormones, or it was the stress of the situation, but no way in hell was I going to go gaga over some guy I barely knew.
I picked up the gun again, shook my head to clear it and wiped down my face with the back of my arm. I turned to hike down the path.
“Where are you going?”
“Away from you,” I hissed.
“Evie, you can’t go,” he cried after me.
I turned to smile at him.
“I can’t? And what are you going to do about it?”
To my astonishment, he smiled as well. But his smile wasn’t sarcastic. Wasn’t hard like mine. And scared.
“If you would stop trying to kill me, and quit running away every chance you get, maybe we could actually help each other out here” he said.
“I already told you, clearly I don’t need anyone’s help.”
“Evie, you’re pregnant. If you want to keep that baby, it’s going to be harder and harder to run.”
I said nothing.
“What, you don’t think they’re after us right this instant? They’re not going to stop, Evie. Not till they have both our heads on spikes. We have a better chance of survival if we work together…”
I hated how right he thought he probably was. I hated that maybe I thought he was right too.
“The only way out of this is to take down the organization. Completely,” he said. “And now’s our chance. Little Joey has no clue what he’s doing. If you know something, Evie, now’s the time to share it.”
I was frozen to the ground. The forest around us was dense, wet and creepy looking. I wasn’t in any position to argue.
“Ok, fine, whatever.”
“You said you felt it too, that night, right?”
“I don’t want to talk about that right now, Jack.”
“Well, I felt it too Evie. I haven’t been the same since… I don’t know what that stuff is but I’ve been having so many strange ideas, so many thoughts…”
I tried hard not to look too interested.
“I said, I don’t want to talk about that right now. We have to get to civilization soon and then come up with some kind of plan. I’m not telling you a damn thing till then.”
He gave a little smile.
“Sure.”
“I’m not some damsel in distress, Jack, I’m serious. Don’t look at me like that.”
“Never said you were.”
“And just because I’m pregnant it doesn’t mean I’m going to just fall madly in love with you now and…”
He raised his eyebrow at me.
“Just because it’s your kid it doesn’t mean that we’re… that I owe you anything and we’re just going to screw each other right here in the bushes,” I yelled.
He broke into a full grin.
“Of course, not, no way! You don’t owe me anything, Evie.” He held both his hands up in defense. Then he looked down at the ground.
“But I guess I was kind of hoping you’d …want to,” he said quietly.
I felt that tight knot between my legs thump with anticipation. No. Don’t be an idiot Evie.
“Oh, give me a break,” I scoffed and moved to brush past him. “We have a lot of walking to do, let’s go,” I said, but as I moved past him he reached out his arm and caught my elbow, swiveled me round and in an instant he had me pinned to him, locking our lips together.
I resisted a little, but almost instantly melted into him, like our bodies were drawn to each other’s like magnets. It felt so good to kiss him again that I couldn’t suppress a moan, couldn’t stop from weakening at my knees and falling into a deep, passionate kiss with him. Both his firm hands rose up around me to anchor me closer to him, and at that moment it felt useless to fight, useless to insult him or kick and scream or play tough anymore. His body felt hard and warm under his shirt, and he had the smell of wet earth and grass on him.
“Just so you know, this doesn’t mean anything,” I mumbled as he rolled his sweet lips over mine. I could taste him smiling.
“No, of course not, you don’t need me, you don’t need anyone… and of course you don’t need this,” he said and pressed his hard body against mine. His cock felt like a third leg packed into his pants, and my hips tilted and rubbed against him of their own accord, like nothing but what he had in there would put me out of my aching misery. The spot between my legs was burning deliciously, wet with just the thought of what we were about to do. I had fucked him so many times in my dreams, so many times in my lonely moments, and now it was really happening.
I ran excited hands down the length of his body as he laced his fingers in my hair and pulled back to look at me.
“You’re beautiful, Evie,” he mumbled, tracing delicate thumbs along the contours of my cheekbones.
I couldn’t bear to look into his eyes. I was afraid of what I’d see there. Afraid of that deep, delicious blackness that had haunted my every waking and sleeping moment for the last four months. I lost control when I stared into those eyes. And I didn’t know if I was ready to lose control again.
I tore at the buttons of his shirt, urgently pulling at the zip of his trousers and pushing him back into a tree. He was twice my size and could have done whatever he wanted to me, but he hung back, gentle, watching me with satisfaction all over his gorgeous face. He lifted his hands a little overhead as I worked frantically at his belt, and when his thick, juicy cock flopped hard out of his pants, I couldn’t help but groan again.
He smelt so fucking good.
It was the scent of adventure – of hard work and masculine sweat and forest and underneath it all something so deliciously dirty it instantly turned me up a notch. It was like I could draw in energy from the heat of his body, energy that powered me up and made me want more… and more.
His hands moved over me and made short work of my now-tattered dressing gown, letting it crumple to the ground along with his own shirt. Naked skin to naked skin, I pressed back into him again, feeling the warm heft of his cock pushing into my belly. Underneath my hands he seemed like the tree itself,
his feet spread and rooted firmly into the ground, supporting a body that seemed unmovable, sturdy.
We were both naked now, the heat between our skin and the air between our searching lips almost steaming. Just the thought that we were actually doing this was enough to drive me wild. A damp, desperate spot hummed right at the center of my clit, making me arch my back and curl my hips into him again and again.
We were two animals in the wild, about to fuck. We had just fought for our lives, fled into the woods and now there was nothing in the world except our naked bodies, the darkness, and the unbearable hunger stirring in both of us.
I wrapped my fingers around his swollen cock and stroked, sending a tight ripple all through his abdomen. When I lifted then lowered my body down over him again, it was to stroke those wet, silky folds over his length. He had the most beautiful fucking cock. Thick and solid, it was a tree stump in my hands. I glided my aching body slowly over the veined surface, stroking myself into a frenzy, loving how much pleasure he could give me with so little movement. I loved that no matter how much wetness I doused him with, there was still so much it dribbled down the inside of my thigh.
His cock tucked inside that cleft between my thighs, and I leaned in for another deep kiss, but this time his tongue was more insistent, more urgent as it locked and wrapped over mine. His hands snaked up my bare back, up my neck and settled on my scalp, taking soft fistfuls of my hair.
“Turn around,” he said low under his breath, and before I could respond he had clasped my hips and swiveled me round so that I was facing the tree and he was behind me. Usually I was the dominant one, usually I would be barking orders and giving directions …but who was I anymore? What did any of that even mean now, when the rest of the world didn’t exist, and the only thing was this man with me, right now, this man and his immense cock and his calm, assertive voice and his hands, steadying themselves against my hips as I arched up to offer myself to him…?
He smoothed appreciative hands over my ass cheeks. I could hear him breathing. Even in the darkness, I could make out the tiny shapes and of the brittle bark under my clutching fingertips, like tiny tiles in a mosaic only made to look like a tree. I anchored my feet and bent forward, submitting. Nobody could stop us now. What happened here was truly our secret.
Squeezing his hands tight round my waist, he guided me backwards onto his dick and pressed into me, one deep, fluid movement that opened me all at once.
Oh fuck.
I gasped and let my head fall forward. That delectable stretch deep inside me was what I had dreamt about for months. And it was even better than I remembered. His hips paused when they came to meet my body, giving me a moment to breath into him, to adjust my throbbing breath to accommodate that deep, complete thrust that dug right to the core of me.
Shuddering, I spread my legs wider to him. I wanted more. I wanted everything he had to give. And with the next thrust he gave it to me. There was no foreplay. Hadn’t the last four months been foreplay for this very moment? No, now was the time for hard, brutal, animal fucking. Now was the time to hold onto that tree for dear life and be pounded until I couldn’t stand up properly.
My soft belly hung gently down to the ground. I was already plump with his baby, but I wanted even more of his cum. I wanted to be filled to bursting, wanted every part of me to be his, marked, laced in every last sticky drop of that thick juice that I could eke out of him. He drew back his hips and slammed his stiff cock into me, then again, then again, immediately sinking into a dark, bestial rhythm that my drenched pussy was happy to take.
With each slap he growled and reached deeper inside me. Each time his balls came banging into my poor exposed cunt, it sent a ripple of pleasure through me that reverberated over my whole body, tinkling out through my fingertips and toes. Every atom of my being was switched on to him. His slick cock was a piston thumping into me, and together we made a delicious engine, a fuck machine about to launch the both of us into the stratosphere.
He fucked me so hard and so deep he lifted my hips up with each thrust, bringing me to my tip toes at the apex. I leaned back and let my weight fall onto him, letting gravity deliver me onto that engorged pole that somehow found a way to cram into me so deep my clit was brushing against his balls.
I couldn’t speak. I didn’t need to. My pussy was singing, opening joyfully to whatever his powerful body dished out, locked in place by his hands entirely circling my waist. I was impaled on him. Our bodies collided into one another with enough passion that it felt like violence. Like a dare. Like we both had one night left in this earthly realm and we were both committed to using up every last shred of our flesh-bound bodies to fuck our hearts out.
The branches and leaves overhead shook quietly in the night air, swish swish swish as he fucked me. I crawled my hands up the tree to stand more upright, to pull him in deeper and propped up on his thrusting cock. When the sweat-slick skin of my back met the sweat-slick skin of his chest, I felt his body twitch inside me. He was close to coming. He stopped, gave a few more powerful thrusts, stopped again. His breath was jagged and irregular. He squeezed down hard on my waist, embracing me close to him.
Then he stopped completely. I felt him swell and move, no part inside me left untouched by that gorgeous fat cock, no part not stretched, opened, adored by him. Just the thought was enough to race me up to the edge of my own orgasm. We both froze, bodies bolted hard together, nothing moving except those sweet, twitching ripples inside as we felt over one another’s most secret, most vulnerable places. The wind blew and I heard his breath slow with mine as we fucked liked this for a few moments, only those most inner parts of ourselves moving, nothing existing for us at that moment except the exquisite pulse of my pussy against him as he struggled to hold off.
I wanted to make him cum.
Taking a deep breath, I rolled through my belly, stroking him inside with long, internal muscles, squeezing the head of his engorged manhood and feeling it twitch in response. When we came together, it felt like falling. Like hurtling from some great height down into a bottomless void. It came on low and slow, so gloriously painful was the release that I felt him falter behind me, felt his grip loosen as the waves of his orgasm pummeled through him.
It was more than coming together. It was the same orgasm. It was though I had a cock, and felt it jerking and pulsing inside me, and he knew exactly what that cock was doing to me because he felt it, firsthand, as though he had penetrated me so deeply he could feel my experience as his own. Even the trees swaying overhead seemed in on it.
By the time we had both calmed down and stretched back out again on the floor, our bodies and minds cooling, it was well past sundown. I was staring straight up, ignoring him completely, but my arms were at my side and one of my pinky fingers stroked the edge of his hand lovingly. I wanted him to understand. It was all I could muster for him now. I had lived my life as a stony woman, locked up in the need to survive, to fight, to hate. I wanted him to know that thawing would be hard for me. In fact, that little pinky finger caressing him slightly was almost more erotic than everything we had just done together.
He extended his finger and stroked me in return. I sighed loudly, the air from my lungs going white as it floated up to the sky mottled with black tree tops. He leaned in closer, but not too close.
“We have to keep moving,” he said.
I nodded in the darkness.
“But I have to know, Evie. What is this big secret that could destroy the whole organization?”
I turned to face him, propped myself up on my elbows and cleared my throat.
Chapter 16 - Joseph
Loyalty, that’s the damn problem. None of these fuckers understand vision. They can’t conceive of anything bigger than themselves, they don’t understand legacy, or allegiance. My father ran this shithole into the ground so hard these fools now wouldn’t know a good idea if it came up and punched them in the face. But fuck it. I had to remind myself that if my esteemed colleagues didn’t have what
it took, then I didn’t want them anyway. I needed men with balls. Men with follow through. And irritatingly, I was pretty low on those at the moment.
I was dropping capos like flies on the new territories, and morale was low. They had been pampered and coddled on the old regime, but no more. And it was getting to the point where I almost didn’t even have anyone else to send after Evie and her fuckboy John or Jack or whatever his damn name was.
“At my old job,” Janie said, “what they would do is, like, have employee of the month, you know? So the one that did the best got a little bonus and they put their picture up on the wall. Maybe you could do something like that?”
Janie was Melissa’s newest friend and whore-in-training, maybe a distant cousin, I had already forgotten. I slowly raised my eyebrow at her and gave her the dirtiest look I could muster.
“How the fuck is that gonna help me, Janie?” I hissed at her. “We’re dealing with hardened criminals here, baby, not fucking MacDonald’s employees.”
She kept her head down and focused on slicing and bagging tiny packets of fine, white powder on the smooth table before us. It wasn’t much of a harem, sure, but I was working on it. I hated to admit it, but Evie was the last quality female this wreck of an organization had seen. It was all gold diggers and junkies for now.
Janie looked hurt, and carried on weighing and bagging.
“Jeez, just saying.”
“Well, don’t just say, OK? How about shut the fuck up instead, OK?”
“Anyway, it wasn’t at McDonald’s it was at Wendy’s,” she said under her breath.
I brought my fist down hard onto the table, sending the scale rattling and a fine mist of powder bounced into the air and settled again. Both girls jumped in their skin, their whitened fingertips freezing above their work.
“Do you think I pay you bitches to give me advice on how to run my organization?”
They quietly started working again.
“In fact, there’s my problem right there – I’m too soft. I pay you too damn much and put up with too much of your shit. You think you can just sit here and mouth off and that’s just fine?”