Alexander (14 page)

“
Heather, if you don’t mind, I’d like a word with you if you have a moment. I wanted to talk to you about the other day.” She felt her face flame. “Could you meet me in the office?”

She nodded and walked down the hall just in front of him. She knew he was going to tell her that they had to leave because she wasn’t keeping up her end of the bargain. When he closed the door behind him and she heard the lock click, she turned to face him.

“
If you’d just give me to the end of next week, I’m sure I can find us a place to live. Grandda has been looking into the government subsi—”

“
Please have a seat.” She sat while he walked to the front of his desk and leaned against it. “I wanted to tell you how sorry I am about what happened Wednesday.”

She looked up at him sharply. She’d expected him to be pissed, not apologize. When he smiled at her, she leaned back in the chair and looked up at him. “I don’t understand.” Her head was trying to make sense of what he’d just said.

“
I’m telling you I’m sorry. I should never have tried…you’d just gotten home from the hospital and I was pawing at you like an animal. I’m sorry for that.” He started pacing the room. “What I did was appalling. And I hope you can forgive me for it.”

She waited for him to continue. To do something that would make her see what he was about. No one apologized for something that was offered freely, especially not to someone like her.

“
So you don’t want to have sex with me.” He turned quickly at her statement. “Okay, but I need to find a way to pay for our staying—”

“
I want you. I want you so badly that I can’t sleep knowing that you’re just down the hall from me. I can’t think for wondering what you’re doing, what you’re wearing. Oh I want you all right. I don’t want to, but I do.” He sounded so pissed she felt her heart ache. “The problem is, what the hell am I supposed to do about it?”

Heather didn’t answer. She wasn’t sure what she could say to that anyway so she just let him rant. And rant he did.

“
I’ve spent my whole life with knowing that I could have any woman I wanted, where I wanted, and how I wanted. I never had to question why, I just did. Then you come along.” He started pacing again. “I don’t know what the hell I’m supposed to do with you. Fuck you surely, but then what?”

“
I didn’t ask you to do anything with me. I made you an offer and you didn’t have to accept it. If you want out of the bargain, then say so. I can go back to the shelter anytime I want.” She stood up and moved to the door. “In fact, that’s a perfect idea. Goodbye.”

She got the door opened, but it slammed shut before she had a chance to go out it. His body was pressed hard against her and she could feel every part of him. When he rocked his cock into her ass, she moaned. Then she tried to pull away. He wasn’t doing that to her again.

“
Don’t. Christ, don’t.” He rocked again, brought his hands around her waist, and cupped her breasts from behind. “Maybe if I can fuck you now, I can quit obsessing about you.”

His breath was hot against her neck. She wanted to pull away. His words hurt deeper than anything before, but he bit her then laved the wound with his tongue. When he lifted her shirt off her and tossed to the floor, she felt her pussy clench. Need raced along her body as fast as his tongue did over her skin.

“
Turn around. I need to taste you. Please, Heather, let me taste you.” She turned for him and as soon as her back was pressed against the door, he had her nipple in his mouth and was sucking it hard.

Heather wound her fingers in his hair. She wasn’t sure if she had been going to pull him away or to press him tighter against her. But when he slid his hand down the front of her pants, she nearly cried out.

“
You’re wet. And hot. I have to have you.” Before she could say anything, do any more than take her next breath, he was on his knees before her and pulling her pants off.

She wanted to stop him, to try and slow him down. They were in the office, not in the bedroom. When he yanked off her panties, she tried to press her legs together and turn, but he held her still with his hands at her hips. Before she could make another attempt to get away, he took her into his mouth. It was all she could do not to scream.

“
Please. You can’t do that. It’s not—” Her breath left her body in a hard moan.

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It was too late now. He knew the moment that he’d touched her it was too late. He had to have her and be damned what happened later.

She tasted of honey, sweet and spicy, warm and delicious. He lapped at her, taking in her cream almost as quickly as it flowed from her. Sliding his hand up her thigh, he showed her that he wanted her legs apart, needed to touch her while he drank from her.

She was tight. Even as wet as she was, he felt how small she was and he knew in that moment that she’d not been with a man for a long while. Sliding his fingers deep, he opened her with them, stretching her for him because he was going to have her. When Alex felt her legs begin to tremble and buckle, he guided her to the floor and continued to feast while he pulled his pants open and freed his cock. Sitting up, he marveled again at her perfection as he opened the condom with his teeth.

Her eyes were glazed, her lips swollen from her teeth as she bit them. Sliding the condom over his cock, he leaned up and took her hardened nipple into his mouth and suckled. Her moan ran along his skin like she’d caressed him.

“
Baby, I’m going to try and go slow, but you’re so tight I don’t know if I can. I’m sorry if I hurt you, but I need to be inside of you.” She nodded, her hands reaching for him even as his cock sat at the mouth of her pussy. “Christ, I’m sorry.”

He plunged forward. Her pussy wasn’t just tight; it was a vise around him. He couldn’t move she was strangling him so tight. He sat up to look down at her and wiped the tear from her cheek. She looked up at him then.

“
You…you’re inside of me.” Her voice was low and husky. He rocked gently and watched her eyes flutter closed for just a second. “Please, I don’t…you feel…”

She moved then. A small lift of her hips had him rocking deep again. When she did it again, he tried to hold her with his hips, but she wouldn’t stop. Not wanting to hurt her anymore, he leaned down to whisper in her ear and ended up nipping her neck as she wrapped her legs around him.

Alex couldn’t stop then. He moved deep again only to pull back and do it over again. Her sheath gripped him, and when he felt her climax begin, he knew that the moment she tumbled she was taking him with her. With her next rock up, he came, without much more warning than that he was throwing back his head and spilling himself deep within her. When the last of his tremors were finished, he dropped on her and tried to get his breathing and heart back to normal. It was several more minutes before he could move and then only to roll to his side.

Neither of them spoke. She laid there beside him and he could hear as her breath began to slow, but she said nothing. When she sat up and reached for her pants, he saw the tattoo on her lower back.

It was a rose, a deep red that was at the center of her spine. The blue ribbon he could see now was about two inches below her hips and seemed to say something. He rolled back toward her and read it. Colleen Heather Laird and two dates.

“
Who is she?” She looked over her shoulder at him when he’d asked. “Colleen, Heather, who is she?”

She stood before answering. “My grandmother.”

He waited for more, but she only continued to get dressed. He didn’t know why he thought she should be willing to share this with him, but it pissed him off when she didn’t.

“
Heather, I was…” He realized she was pissed as well and picked up his own shirt. “This was your idea. You’re the one that offered your body as payment.” He knew it hurt her as soon as she turned toward him. He started to reach for her to apologize once again when she jerked back.

“
Don’t.” She took a step back. “You’re right of course. I’m sorry. If you’ll excuse me—”

“
Heather, I didn’t mean to—”

“
Mr. James, I would very much appreciate it if you’d just let me pass. I have to check on my son and there are things in the oven that I must attend to.”

It was the “Mr. James,” he decided. Had she called him Alex or even Alexander, he might have been all right. He grabbed her so quickly and had her pressed against the door again that he even surprised himself. But he was pissed now, beyond anything he’d been this far.

“
You just had my cock inside of you. Calling me Mr. James is no longer an option. And I’ll decide when we’re finished, not you.” He gave her a shake. “Tonight you’ll be in my bed where I told you and every night until this is over, understand?”

She looked up at him, her eyes dark now with anger. She jerked her arm away from his and turned her back to him. He heard the small sob, but before he could react or say something to her, she had the door opened and was out.

Alex staggered to the chair and sat down hard. Putting his head in his hands, he looked down at the floor and at the empty condom wrapper. He’d taken her on the floor, taken her without regard to where they were because he’d wanted her. He looked up and closed his eyes. He wasn’t even sure she’d enjoyed it.

Alex was still sitting in the chair when his cell phone rang. He groaned when he recognized the tone; it was his sister. He thought about letting it go to voicemail, but knew that if he did she’d just come over or better yet, call her husband and have him come and find him. He answered it on the fourth ring.

“
Hey, I was wondering if I could borrow Heather for a few hours. I need to clean out my closet and I was going to see if she wanted any of the stuff.”

“
I’m not her keeper. You want to ask her shit like that then you call her, not me.” He closed his eyes when she hissed at her end. “I’m sorry. I’m having a…Listen, call her on the house phone. I don’t know where she’s at, but somebody is bound to know where she’s gone.”

“
Okay. But I deserve to know what the fuck that was about. Did you and her have a fight?”

He scrubbed his hand over his face. He knew his sister well enough to know that she was like a dog with a bone once she got something in her teeth. He could hang up on her and she’d come over and badger him or he could try to change the subject. Since that had never worked before, he was sure it wouldn’t now. He thought his best plan was to simply tell her it was none of her business, but that too had never worked before so he just sighed and gave in.

“
We had a fight. More like I had a fight and she took it. I was a prick and I took my shitty mood out on her.” A
fter I fucked her on the floor
, but he didn’t add that part.

“
So you were your usual charming self and now she’s…fuck, Alex, you had sex with her, didn’t you?”

“
How the hell did you figure that out from—damn it, Wills, that is none of your business. Damn it all to hell and back. Why can’t you just leave things alone? I fucked up, all right. Is that what you want to here? She was there and I wanted her, so I took.”

She was quiet for several seconds, long enough for him to realize what he’d said to his sister was true. He’d not cared a bit for what she’d wanted, only thought that he’d get her out of his system and make himself feel better.

“
Is she all right?” Wills asked quietly. “Do you need me to come over and talk to her for you?”

“
No. No, I screwed up. I’m the one who needs to fix this. I’m sorry I blew up on you.” Her laugh made him smile.

“
No worries, big brother. But the next time Jared and I have a fight, you have to take my side. Deal?” She laughed again. “Of course, that could more than likely be the end of the day, but hey, you never know.”

He laughed again. “Thanks, sis. I love you.” He closed his phone and went to find his jacket. It was time to see about his picture.

~Chapter
15~

Mik listened to the idiot on the other end go on about what Alexander had been up to for the past twenty-four hours. The only thing that he’d failed to report on was the frequency of his bathroom breaks and the color and consistency of his stool when he had. Mik was about to hang up when he heard what he’d been looking for.

“
The woman is there full-time now. Some broad. She comes and goes out of the house everyday at the same time. Seems she and the kid have a routine that is like clockwork.”

“
Who is she, do you know?” He picked up the pictures he’d had the fool take the other day and tried to figure out which woman it might be.

“
Nah, don’t know her name. She’s real pretty. Tall and skinny, though. Long blondish-brown hair that she keeps pulled back in one of them braided ponytails. Her and the boy, I think they’re related. She gives him a hug and a big ol’ kiss everyday at the bus stop.”

Mik picked up the picture of a woman out of focus and the boy from before. He couldn’t tell shit from the pictures, but he would suppose she was pretty. He hoped she was something to Alexander. He was running out of time.

He had to get this job finished. He had no idea why he did, but it felt imperative that he get his money and get out of the country. Since the death of Wells, he’d been trying to figure out how to get the money moved from the accounts he’d tagged to his own account. So far all he’d managed to do was look at the other accounts and nothing more. He knew he could get them moved, but didn’t have the know-how, just the resources to do it. That’s were Alexander was going to help.