“Ok,” Alicia replied. “God, what a day. I just want to get my life back,” Alicia said.
“Look, I know it sucks, but you are going to have to just relax a bit. This is the situation; we have to deal with it.”
Alicia scowled at Joe. His back was turned so he didn’t see it. How could he be so damn calm? He had just killed three people. Granted they were all trying to kill him, but shouldn’t that rattle his cage a bit? The fact that he was not at all shaken up was a bit unnerving to her. She was both repelled and drawn to this man.
Even though he scared her she found herself wanting to cling to him and to do whatever he said. She doubted that he would ever do anything to hurt her, but even that she was not entirely sure of. He was dangerous and his strength was intimidating. Everything he did from the way he stood, to the tone of his voice, his style, and the way he walked screamed at the world that he was not someone to be messed with.
And it was damn sexy.
She had always had a thing for bad boys, and she was starting to realize that she might have just met the crème de la crème of bad boys.
As she lay there thinking of the day’s events she started to realize that she was exhausted too. Her eyes began to get heavy and before she knew it she was drifting off to sleep.
Chapter 5
The sounds of the footsteps were soft and eerie. He for a second thought that they were just part of his dream he was having. He was dreaming that he was running outside, but he wasn’t sure what he was running from. His feet were hitting the pavement harder and harder as if he was trying to get away from something, but he couldn’t for the life of him figure out what it was.
Was something chasing him? Was he running after something else? He didn’t know, but as he looked up at the beautiful sunny sky he had to think that whatever he was running from was really not that bad. It was nothing that he could not deal with. He knew who he was after all.
Alicia was beside him. He now heard two pair of footsteps. As he glanced over at her beautiful face she smiled at him and gave him one of those sexy winks she did that just drove him wild. There was something special about this woman. He was starting to feel something for her, something he swore to himself that he would never let himself feel.
But he couldn’t help it. She was everything he had ever wanted in the perfect woman that he held in his mind’s eye. He used to think that there was no such thing, but after today he was not so sure. There had to be a perfect ideal that he held in his mind and his heart. He knew it because he was starting to think that he’d found her.
But he couldn’t. No. He had to protect this girl and get her out of his life. He was obligated to keep her safe until then, but could he really be with someone? Was it too late for him?
He thought for a moment that he might be able to, especially now. He was unlikely to ever be able to go back to doing the work he did, at least not for the same crime family who now wanted him dead. He was tired of it anyway. He had enjoyed it for a while, but he really didn’t want to do it anymore. This was actually a perfect way out.
But he hated that he had dragged Alicia through it. She was such a sweet girl and she didn’t deserve this. But they would never stop. Their reach was far and wide along the coast. They would never really be able to hide from them. He had not even begun to meet all of the outsourced guys the Carliss’ had under their thumb.
He didn’t know what to do. Joe had always been proud of his ability to think of the right thing to do and to be able to make snap decisions. It had saved his life on several occasions. Today was a perfect point of that. But he was at a loss. For perhaps the first time in his life he was uncertain. He did not allow himself to be scared, at least not for his own safety. That was the kind of thing that would get you killed. Fear was immobilizing and it would make you second guess what you were doing.
But it wasn’t just about him this time; he had to think about Alicia. She had gotten mixed up in this mess and he felt responsible. Why the hell hadn’t he just taken her home first instead of going to the drop? It was a rookie mistake and he had known better. He was tired and had endured a momentary lapse in judgment. It had been stupid and it had been lazy. Now they were both paying the price for it.
Joe did not often make mistakes, but when he did he was man enough to admit them. But it was unlike him to dwell over a slip up. But he was not able to let this one go. He was starting to admit to himself how much he was really starting to like this girl. It was an interesting feeling and one he was not at all accustomed to. He was not sure he would ever forgive himself if something bad happened to this innocent girl because of a stupid mistake he made. That was inexcusable.
He was going to fix it. He was starting to develop an idea of what they needed to do to get out of this jam. The Carliss crew was never going to stop looking for them. Alfred’s eldest son Carmine was probably going to take over as head boss of the family if his father did not recover from the gunshot wound, which was very unlikely. Joe hated Carmine. He was ten times more ruthless than his dad and twice as smart too. He was tenacious beyond anything that he had ever seen and the man would stop at nothing to make sure that both Joe and Alicia were dead.
Something was wrong.
His eyes bounced open and he saw a flash of movement. Joe’s body leapt into action with lightning fast reflexes, grabbing the gun that had been only inches from putting a bullet in his brain and slamming it against the wall. In the darkness he did not recognize the attacker who was wearing a ski mask and dressed in black from head to toe, but he was big and strong as hell.
As Joe continued to pound the gun against the wall to weaken the assailant’s grip the masked man held on with a strength that could have been possessed by the Devil himself. Joe was using both hands now to try to knock the weapon loose and pry it from his grip, but the man was insanely strong.
There were not many men who were as strong or stronger than Joe that he had ever encountered, and he had always said if he ever did meet someone like that he was not sure he would want to fight them, especially if you added a good dose of madness to that equation.
Well, here he was face to face with that man.
Joe saw the shine coming towards his face just in time as he raised his right hand up and caught the wrist that was now holding a large Bowie knife. The blade was only inches from his face and coming closer and closer.
Joe was now in an all-out power struggle against the maniac and he felt that the other man was starting to gain the upper hand.
“Joe!” Alicia yelled jumping out of the bed, having been awakened by the sudden struggle taking place at the foot of the bed.
Joe tried not to let her screams distract him. Instead he used her voice to propel him farther harder. He had to protect her.
Joe leaned his head back and cocked it like a gun. Swiftly and with expert precision he brought it forward and smashed it hard against the bridge of the attacker’s nose. He felt the nose soften, collapsing under the force of his hard cranium smashing into it like a bike wreck.
The man groaned in great pain and Joe felt his grip weaken slightly, but he stubbornly held on.
Alicia turned the lamp on beside the bed just then as she curled up in a ball on the bed. Joe could see in his peripheral the fear and the confusion that she was experiencing and he wished he could make it instantly disappear. In the light he could now see that his attacker was indeed a huge man possibly outweighing him by thirty pounds.
The ski mask was seeping through with moisture on the nose, some blood trickling out of the nostril holes. Joe used this to spur him on as he smashed his head harder and harder time and time again into his nose. The man dropped the gun and swept Joe’s legs out from under him.
Joe hit the floor flat on his back hard knocking the wind out of him. The man was now free of his grasp as he brought his huge leg down towards Joe’s chest. Joe quickly rolled out of the way allowing the man’s huge boot to crash against the floor. Using this distraction Joe kicked outward h
ard connecting solidly with his knee and breaking the bones there.
The man cried out in pain as he slumped to the ground clutching his knee. Joe saw the gun lying on the ground beside him and he picked it up quickly and backhanded the assailant upside the head with the butt of the pistol, crushing solidly against his temple. The man’s eyes rolled up in his head and he slumped to the ground. Unconscious.
“Is he dead?” Alicia asked.
“I don’t know. Maybe. We have to get out of here. If he found us his friends won’t be far behind.”
Joe staggered to his feet exhausted from the ordeal and ripped the ski mask off the man lying passed out on the floor at his feet.
“Roland Dean. Just as I thought,” Joe said.
“Who is that?” Alicia asked.
“He’s a hit man who does some jobs for the mafia. He is big, strong, and crazy as hell. They figured he would be able to take us out quietly and since he is outsourced he doesn’t work for the mob per se and would be much harder to trace back to them.”
It took them less than five minutes to pack.
Chapter 6
She was awakened by the sounds of the shower running and she darted upright in the bed, almost falling out of it. She was so tired of hotel beds.
“Careful,” Joe said. He was standing at the door of the bathroom, naked. His muscular body was the most beautiful thing that she had ever seen. Alicia ran her tongue over her lips seductively, feeling the urge deep within her loins. She wanted this beast of a man and she wasn’t sure she could live another second until she did.
Joe’s eyes were locked on hers, inviting the seduction. She felt every cell in her body getting turned on full blast and before she knew it she was following him into the bathroom and stepping into the shower.
The water was hot against, her skin. The steam filling the small bathroom, somehow revving up her own engines even higher as she stood there looking at this immaculate physique right in front of her. Joe was staring at her body as well, a sexy smile spreading across his face. His features were so chiseled that he might have made a career as a male model, if he softened his image up a bit.
But she preferred him this way. He was so rugged and strong, every inch of him a piece of finely toned muscle.
Suddenly Joe grabbed her and pulled her close to him, his mouth was on hers hard. His strong lips were pressing against hers, his tongue darting in and out of her mouth with surgical precision hitting her tongue and drawing it out of its cage.
She felt Joe’s member against her stomach below. It was thick and smooth with a large head. She instinctively grabbed it in her hand and began to massage him, up and down. He moaned as his passionate kisses became more and more intense. She wanted him inside of her right now. She was not sure she could stand another second without it.
She was so wet. She was not sure she had ever been this wet before and her insides were sensitive beyond anything she had ever known. As if reading her mind Joe swiftly inserted two of his fingers inside of her, just edging up to the knuckles of his long, thick fingers. She gasped as his fingers touched her. She felt small vibrations of pleasure starting at her groin and moving out over the rest of her body in a huge wave of sweet intensity.
“Oh, God!” Alicia said. She felt like she was on the verge of a release. So soon? She did not know anyone who had ever made her come so soon. It had never happened before. She had never been hornier than she was at that exact moment before. It was an overwhelming need that went far beyond desire and animal lust. She needed to have Joe’s huge thing inside of her. She felt that the pleasure and the total lack of self-control right then would drive her insane and she was not sure she would be able to return from it.
As if sensing that she was absolutely could not wait another second, the pain was too unbearable—Joe hoisted her body up and gently lowered her on to him. His huge fleshy, member penetrated her tight slit slowly as his strong arms gently lowered her whole body down with perfect control.
He was fully inside of her now. Alicia felt her body explode as the climax hit her.
“AHHH!” She could not hold back the gasp of intense pleasure. He had barely entered her, but he had triggered the finish that had been building up inside of her.
Joe waited until the aftershocks subsided and then he began to thrust hard and deep inside of her. Her overly sensitive mound of moistness was aching to be set free from the onslaught of pain/pleasures. Alicia could hardly breathe as Joe set about to methodically bring on another round of shockwaves of lust ripping through her body like bullets.
With every thrust she felt her body stretching to the highest capacity that she was able and then back a bit to her normal state. This give and take felt like some wickedly twisted and wonderful tug of war. It was the back and forth motion that she was not able to get enough of.
She was going to finish again soon. She knew it. Alicia wrapped her arms and legs tightly around Joe’s big body and held on for dear life as he set about to pump her harder and harder. He was hitting her against the back of her inner wall now, but not hard enough to hurt. Somehow he naturally knew exactly how much to do to keep her at the height of pleasure.
“OH GOD!” Alicia groaned as another round of climax roared through her groin, sending tingles of pleasure up into her stomach and back down again as if she were on the most amazing roller coaster that had ever been invented.
Joe hoisted her off him right then and flipped her around. Before she knew what he was going to do he was firmly pushing her head down so that she was now almost touching her fingertips to the bottom of the shower, but her ass was held high up in the air.
He entered her swiftly, going even deeper than he was able to before. She felt almost like she had another mini finale, but not quite there. Each and every thrust felt that way. Was it possible that she could come a third time? No man had ever been able to get her off that many times in a row. But if anyone could, it would have been this man.
“Oh, that’s it baby. God, you are so tight,” Joe said as he grabbed her hair and pulled it harder, just to balance out the pumping away at her bottom that he was focused on.
Alicia found that this sent a shock of lust and desire rolling into her body and she found herself pumping back just as hard in perfect harmony and time to Joe’s thrusts. He was so deeply inside of her.
When she first saw his member she was not sure that she could even fit it inside of her, but he had slowly let her get used to it and made sure. It felt like he was getting harder inside of her right now and the seal was getting tighter. How much harder could he get?
Joe grabbed her then behind her knees and scooped her body up so that he was hugging her, holding her in midair against him with her back still facing him while he continued to hump her silly. He was so strong. She had never been taken or dominated this way before and she was not sure that she could have ever enjoyed regular sex with any other guy ever again. This might be the best that she would ever have the opportunity to have.
“Oh, it’s almost there!” Joe said.
“Oh, yes. Give it to me!” Alicia heard herself saying. She had never been this vocal during sex before and it was way out of character for her. But it felt good. That was the amazing thing about being with a bad boy; they gave you permission to be bad too. And she was loving every second of it.
“AARGGHH!” Joe groaned loudly.
She felt him release deeply inside of her, spilling lots of his sweetness deeply.
Her own third climax came just a few seconds later and it was the most intense one so far. She felt the scream about to spew from her mouth like some kind of a mountain lion roar, but when it tried to expel she found that she was too in shock and out of breath to even make a sound as her body allowed the climax to happen.
Alicia leaned her head back against his burly chest and waited with pure delight as her body quivered and shook under the passionate aftershocks of her final come.
Her body was now completely spent.
Chap
ter 7
“This is what we have to do,” Joe said as he stared over the large cliff into the ocean beneath. The drop off from the Pacific Coast highway was a beautiful sight, but it could also be terrifying if you happened to be unlucky enough to send your bike careening over the edge sometime. It happened a few times a year.
“Are you serious?” Alicia asked.
“As a heart attack. There is no other way,” Joe said.
“I just can’t do that. I have a life,” Alicia said.
“I’m sorry. I dragged you into this mess. It’s all my fault, but this is the way it has to be,” Joe said.
Alicia stepped close to him, her warm, soft body brushing against his as she ran her fingers through his hair. He loved it so much when she did that. She stared deeply into his eyes. He let his gaze linger there, allowing the moment to be shared and enjoyed as she leaned forward and brushed her sweet lips against his.
“It’s ok; I’m glad I met you and I wouldn’t change that for the world. This is not your fault. I got out of that bike. You told me to stay put.”
“Well, you are stubborn aren’t you?” Joe teased.
Alicia smiled. “You love that about me don’t you?”
“Actually, yea. I do.”
Alicia lowered her gaze and then looked out at the ocean. “It’s crazy. I was just starting to get my life on track. I thought after I ran away from my drunk mom and her dirt bag live in boyfriend two years ago that everything was going to be ok. I moved out here and started working odd jobs waitressing and made a few friends. One of them let me room with them. I’m going to miss her and our house. It was nice. She’s a good friend. I just started school and everything was going so well…”
Tears began to roll out of Alicia’s eyes. Joe tried not to look at it because he could already feel his heart breaking as she went through the list of things that she was going to have to give up. It was rough, and he knew that, but it wasn’t until somebody spilled their life out to you that you began to realize who they are. Alicia had people in the world who were going to miss her; she had things in life she wanted to do and accomplish. She had hopes and dreams.
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