Tortoise Tango

by Mary Wine

  Her face flushed but her body nagged her to be brazen and just yank her pajamas off. The sight of her bare coral nipples would end this conversation right quickly! “Just because you like something doesn’t mean you overindulge yourself.”

  “Give me your mother’s number. I think it’s time I introduced myself to her.”

  “That’s not a good idea.” Joe picked her cell phone up off the desk in response. His eyes made a brief scan of the screen before he began pushing commands into the little unit. Amber surged off the bed and made a grab for her phone.

  She had no idea what she’d been thinking. One huge arm clamped her to Joe’s side as he lifted her phone in the other hand and continued to search the memory for her mother’s number.

  “Give me that phone!”

  “Nope.” Joe shot her a determined look as he moved his hand to one side of her bottom. “If you want to let someone else into our relationship, honey, fine, but I have a few things to say about that too.”

  “I didn’t let her into our relationship.”

  Joe grinned at her and Amber hit his shoulder. “That doesn’t mean we are having a relationship either!”

  “Then why don’t you want me to talk to your mom?” He smacked her bottom and cupped it again. Amber squirmed but froze as she felt the unmistakable rise of his cock against her belly. It twitched and swelled as she felt her body hum with approval.

  “There it is.” Joe looked back at her phone and pressed the redial button. He was pushing the issue but it felt so important to understand why Amber wanted to keep any form of distance between them. There was something lurking in her eyes that looked like fear and fear had a way of building walls between people.

  “Forget it, Joe. My mom thinks I should jump into your bed and enjoy myself.”

  Joe cut the call and dropped the phone back onto the desk. His arm came around her body and pulled her closer.

  “Uh-oh, do I detect a son-in-law hunter?”

  “No, not even close.”

  Joe lifted her off her feet and swung her against his chest. He angled her through the doorway and down the hallway.

  Amber landed in the middle of the master bed. Her body instantly reminded her about their morning spent among the flannel sheets. Her face burned hotter as Joe studied her with his sharp eyes. That little grin appeared on her face again as she enjoyed the pure testosterone of the moment. A girl didn’t need to ask if a man liked what he saw when that same man carried her off to his bed!

  Her eyes suddenly noticed that Flamingo was in the corner of the room with a small space heater aimed at his shell.

  “Oh!!! First cantaloupe and now a space heater? Stop bribing my tortoise!”

  Joe grinned. It wasn’t a nice kind of grin, it was a victory expression that made her temper boil. Amber glared at her pet. “See if I cut up cucumbers for you tomorrow.” The reptile didn’t even blink. Instead Flamingo was completely at ease with his arms and legs hanging out of his shell. The posture meant he was warm and very happy. Looking back at Joe, Amber smirked.

  “You know, Flamingo isn’t housebroken.”

  Joe glared at Flamingo before raising one finger at the reptile. “You better be a good bunkmate, Frank. Now excuse me, I need to seduce your mama. All that sputtering you hear coming from her pretty red head says she’s hot and bothered.” Amber’s eyes bulged as Joe looked back at her.

  “I always check the details of a mission, baby. Bribing a tortoise isn’t the hardest task I’ve undertaken to ensure success. Now explain why you think your mom isn’t son-in-law hunting.”

  Sitting up, Amber curled her knees back and chewed on her lower lip as she considered Joe. Temptation tore her in half as she thought about the man in front of her. He was the kind of guy girls took chances on. “She thinks marriage is an institution designed to imprison a woman and reduce her to a possession. She burned her bra and kicked my father out of the house because he asked her to marry him. If I called up and told her I was getting married, she just might disown me. She thinks marriage forces a woman to live in monogamy against her natural need to find the strongest male.”

  “I am the strongest male, baby.” Joe’s eyes dropped to her nipples and the disobedient flesh rose into points for him. Satisfaction crossed his face before he looked back at her face. Relief crashed into Amber as she watched Joe take in every taboo idea she’d just voiced without flinching.

  “So I guess that line about her cursing her cheating boyfriend was just clever female thinking on your part?”

  “You heard that?” Amber hadn’t really thought too much about what Joe and his men had overheard, she’d just been grateful they had shown up.

  “It sounded almost too wild not to be true.”

  “Well, you might not want to know what parts were based on fact. My mom lives an open lifestyle.” Amber tried to swallow as Joe flung his shirt aside. The way the man’s chest made her feel was downright wrong. Normal thought patterns dissipated into a cloud of sexual fantasy.

  “Which part—the voodoo or the curse on you? And just why are you so worried about it? Your mom isn’t the one I’m interested in getting naked with.”

  “My mom isn’t happy about some of my personal religious choices.” Amber watched his face to see what effect that tidbit had.

  “She’ll have to learn to be open-minded and accept me the way I am too.” Joe dropped his jeans and Amber felt her retort die on her lips. He moved towards the bed in a stunning display of male power. The mattress bounced as he dropped onto it and pushed her back.

  “I did not agree to sleep with you again.” Her body had but Amber had to hold her lips in a tight line because she was having just a little too much fun baiting Joe. She did want to sleep with him. Excitement raced through her body but there was also an edge of fun to it. She could play with Joe and it made the sex so much more intimate.

  His fingers brushed one nipple and she groaned. Pleasure zipped down her body and caused her belly to twist into a knot. He lifted his dark eyes to stare into her as he moved those fingers back across her nipple once more.

  “Well, honey, if you want to leave…” His hand cupped her breast. “Knowing I’m laying here dreaming about you…” His lips landed on hers and thought melted into the lava flowing through her body. He thrust his tongue into her mouth as he took his time with the kiss. It was deep and warm and tasted completely male.

  Amber lifted her hands and laid them on the shoulders that her eyes couldn’t stay away from. She smoothed her fingertips along the ridges of hard muscle and let her tongue go searching for his. Joe’s hands covered her breasts as he gently squeezed them and rolled the nipples between his fingers. Hunger gnawed at her as he pressed one knee between her thighs.

  His cock was raging once again and Joe didn’t bother to wonder why. He wanted her and only her. The desire twisted around his brain, taking over every thought process he owned. The way she tasted made him edgy, the little mutters of pleasure coming from her lips bred possessiveness. Their topic of conversation should have turned him cold, instead all he thought about was getting back into the hot little passage that he could smell as he spread her thighs.

  “How are you feeling now, Amber?”

  Joe’s eyes were dark as they cut into hers. Male pride stared back at her as he nodded his head and dipped his mouth towards her breasts. Amber arched her back from sheer need as his lips closed around one beaded nipple. Pleasure snaked down her spine until it hit her passage. Fluid seeped down to the knee touching her sex as his mouth lingered over her breast. A whimper came from her lips as she twisted and yearned for more than the pressure of his knee. Joe wouldn’t give it to her while his pride smarted. Her temper didn’t arrive to help her any. Instead all she felt was the burning pull of complete intimacy.

  “I can’t think when you touch me. All I want is you. There has to be something wrong with me.”

  His head rose above hers and those eyes cut into hers once again. “Maybe, maybe not. Every time I
get a whiff of your skin, I get a little crazy too.” His hand traveled down her torso and through the curls on the top of her sex. “All I think about is discovering whether or not you’re wet for me.” One finger parted her folds and slipped into the heavy fluid seeping from her passage. His mouth hardened as her hips tipped up for that finger. “And then when I can smell your body, I go insane with the need to fuck you.”

  Joe thrust his finger into her passage and watched her eyes dilate with pleasure. Her hips lifted for the penetration as a little moan escaped her lips. His cock jerked as he pulled his finger back and rubbed it along her slit until he found the little bud at the top of her folds. Her juices coated his hand as he rubbed the little bundle of nerves and listened to her whimper with need.

  “Have you decided where you want to sleep yet, Amber? I don’t mind waiting for a while if you want to keep thinking.”

  His finger froze and his hip held her pelvis solidly on the surface of the bed. She was on the edge of release but Joe denied her the friction she craved. His eyes cut into hers as he refused to let her linger in half decisions. He wouldn’t give her sex without commitment.

  “I’m sleeping here.” He rolled over and she almost screamed. But his hands caught her body and took her with him. One hand gripped each hip as he lifted her above him. His back was on the mattress as Amber rose above him. Her knees landed on either side of his lean hips as his hands held her right above his cock. Joe lifted her until she was poised over his cock. He gently lowered her until the head of his cock nudged the folds of her body and slipped into her passage.

  “Show me how you like it, honey.” His eyes were cut with harsh victory as her body weight helped impale her on his cock. His hand gripped her hips to steady her but didn’t raise her off his cock. “Ride me.”

  Amber shivered at the raw face of her partner. His eyes were almost savage as she used her thighs to rise off his length and then push back onto him. His fingers cut into her hips as his hips thrust up from the surface of the bed but she controlled the rate of penetration. The control was empowering. She lifted her body and eased it slowly back onto his cock. His teeth bared but he didn’t order her to change the pace.

  “That’s it, baby, take me.”

  Amber couldn’t stop her body from doing just that. She needed the motion as badly as he did. She rose and fell as her body jerked with pleasure. Joe’s hands held her steady as she moved faster. His eyes fastened onto her breasts as she moved. The heat burning from his eyes made her bolder. Lifting her arms she cupped her own breasts and fingered the tight nipples.

  Joe bucked under her but his eyes were glued to her fingers as they rolled and pinched her nipples. One of his hands suddenly moved across her belly to the top of her sex. His eyes lifted to lock with hers. “Don’t stop.” This time his voice was thick with demand. His thumb found the nub at the top of her slit and rubbed the little button as she slid down his length.

  A ragged moan erupted from her throat as she rose and he rubbed her once more on the downward plunge.

  “Keep playing with those nipples, baby. I know you love it.”

  She didn’t care! Her body was a solid stream of heat and pleasure. Everything revolved around the plunge of her hips. Joe bucked beneath her as she rode him, his eyes watching her breasts while he used that thumb to rub her clit.

  “That’s it, baby. Come!” Amber tumbled into climax as her hips plunged down onto his cock. Her body gripped his length and contracted around the hard cock.

  “Yeah, baby, just like that.”

  Joe rose off the bed and rolled her over. His cock was still rock-hard as he pulled it out of her body. He piled three of the bed’s pillows in the center of the mattress before he lifted her and laid her facedown over them. His hands adjusted her body so that her bottom was raised into the air by the pillows.

  “Joe…”

  “Shh, baby…you know I think your bottom is sexy as hell.” One of his large hands smoothed over each cheek of her bottom as he moved behind her. “Fold your knees, baby.”

  Moving her legs, Amber took up her body weight with her thighs but her face flamed with a scarlet blush as she felt Joe rubbing her bottom again. She had never been on display before. She chewed on her lip as a little tingle of helplessness crossed her mind. With her head on the mattress she couldn’t see what Joe was doing, only feel it and that left her anticipating with a nervous edge that had her nerve endings twitching.

  “Tonight, we are playing command and compliance.”

  Amber surged off the bed but Joe was behind her and his ankles moved over hers as his hips thrust into her bottom keeping her thighs spread. He pushed her shoulders back down with one hand while his other one stroked her bottom again.

  “Ah…someone needs to understand the rules of our new game.” His hand slipped between her legs and rubbed her open slit. Pleasure shot into her belly as he found her clit and rubbed it before moving back along her open sex.

  “I don’t do bondage, Joe!”

  “Have you tried it?” His voice was thick with anticipation and Amber couldn’t hide the little pulse of excitement that raced through her. There was something about her current position that made her even hotter. His finger moved down her slit again as he leaned over her bent back. “Have you, baby?”

  Right next to her ear his voice sounded as darkly excited as she felt. “No.” His lips nipped her ear before trailing across her spine. He circled the opening to her body with his finger before rubbing her bottom again. A thin trail of fluid followed his hand and Amber shuddered as she realized how wet she was.

  “Good.” His body rose away from hers as he pulled his hand completely off her bottom. She was keenly aware of the lack of contact and her skin wailed at the loss.

  “Ever been spanked?”

  “No.” Her voice sounded far too excited. Amber didn’t recognize it. The nerve endings covering her bottom snapped to attention as Joe’s words sparked an image of his hand returning to smack her upraised cheeks.

  Instead the tip of his finger dipped into her pussy. Amber moaned as pleasure twisted the passage as it tried to contract around that single digit. All of her senses were alive with an intensity she’d never felt before. It was the idea of “what if” that made every touch so extreme. The head of his cock brushed against her thigh making her quiver with need.

  “It excites you doesn’t it, baby? The idea of what I might decide to do?” His finger moved deeper into her body and froze. “I could spank you or fuck you. Maybe both at the same time.” His finger left and Amber whimpered as her passage felt empty. “I could sink my cock into that wet pussy and just sit there too.”

  “No.”

  A low rumble of male laughter hit her ears as he dipped his finger into her passage again. This time he trailed it up to her back opening. Leaning back over her body, he licked her ear once again. “Ever had a man back here?”

  The idea was so forbidden, Amber just shook her head. But she couldn’t stop the little zings of pleasure that came from that finger as it circled and spread her own lubrication over her back entrance. Joe sat back up and the skin on her back felt chilled without his body.

  He spanked her. One blow hit her right cheek and stayed there as the sting traveled through her body. The hand left and Amber felt every nerve ending twist with excitement as she waited for the next blow to land.

  It had to be one of the most exciting moments she’d ever endured. Amber didn’t care about right or wrong. Joe spanked her left cheek and her passage contracted with the blow. The cries coming out of her mouth didn’t matter either. The only thing that mattered was the way Joe had of making her body transform into a mass of receptors that functioned only for pleasure.

  “You like that, baby, don’t you?”

  Amber shook her head as another slap landed on her raised bottom. “Not good enough, Amber. Tell me, baby.”

  “Yes! Yes, I like it.” His hand delivered two more blows before he leaned over her back again.
/>   “You like being spanked?”

  Amber whimpered as her body began to twist and contort with need. Joe cupped a breast as he covered her back and pinched the nipple with his fingers. Her bottom was on fire and her passage screamed for the hard cock teasing her thigh. “Joe, please!”

  “Easy, baby, I’ll take care of you.” He left her back and thrust into her body in one smooth motion. Amber cried as she was stretched around his length. The walls of her passage clenched as he pulled out and slammed back into her.

  “Tell me how you want it, Amber.” His voice was tight with his own need. Amber opened her eyes to see her fingers fisted into the bedding as she lifted her bottom for his next thrust.

  “Hard… Oh, Joe…spank me too!”

  He growled through his teeth and it made her scream. Amber pushed her bottom towards him as his hand landed on her with a hard slap. His cock rammed into her body as he slapped her bottom again. All the sensation coursed into her womb as his other hand reached around her hip to the top of her slit and the little nub sitting there. She burst into climax the second he touched her clit. The pleasure broke around the hard thrust of his cock as one more spank completed her rapture.

  Joe growled as she felt the hot splash of seed shoot into her. His hands curled around her hips as he pulled her back onto his cock. Her body pitched as she struggled to pull air into her lungs. Joe’s hands smoothed over her bottom as his hips made little thrusting motions and his cock twitched inside her passage.

  The bed rocked as Joe rolled over and lifted her off the pillows. His hand sent them flying off the bed as he pulled her against his body. His hands smoothed over her curves as he let their legs tangle.

  Amber fell asleep in his embrace. Joe indulged himself with rubbing her bottom before pulling a blanket over her cooling skin. Their legs tangled as he adjusted her body around his. His cock still twitched as the scent of her climax hit his nose. He could spend all night inside her body and not get enough. She was a potent combination of spunk and sex appeal that went straight to his head. It really didn’t matter why.