Chapter One (31 page)

partnership. It’s been all work and no play for me.”

Bobby is part of my past now. I don’t dwell on him anymore.

She laughed. “You complaining?”

I’m trying to start a new life finally. Have some new

“Hell no. It’s what I wanted. Career first has always experiences, new adventures.”

been my goal.”

“I’d like to be part of that.”

“And now?”

She sucked in a long breath. “I’d like that too.”

“Now I’ve made myself a success, worked my ass off Whoa, that had been difficult. And at the same time, to get here, so I’m ready to relax a little.”

effortless. Being with Jack was like sitting with an old friend.

Admittedly, she was impressed. A self made man, one Talking to him about Bobby had been easier than she’d thought who made no apologies for his goal of success. She admired it would be.

that. “Congratulations for making it to the top.”

“Everything that happens to us in our past shapes our He shrugged. “Senior partnership is the top, but they future, who we are, what we become. We never really lose it,”

tell me that’s pretty close to being in the bag. I’m not worried.”

he said, standing and holding out his hand. “Let’s walk a little

“Confident, are you?”

more.”

“A little,” he said with a grin. “So tell me about you.”

They passed the fountains and moved into the hedge

“I’m thirty-three, have a house in mid town. Married maze on the far side. She liked this. A little spooky in the dark, my high school sweetheart, who died five years ago of cancer.”

but kind of sexy, knowing they were all alone out here. He put His smile died and he reached for her hand. “I’m so his arm around her bare shoulder and held her close against his sorry, Callie. I didn’t know.”

side as they walked. Oh yeah, she liked the feel and heat of his

“It’s okay. I loved Bobby. He was a wonderful man.

body against hers. Too long. Much too long since she’d felt a But he wanted me to go on living and not die with him. So I man against her, since she inhaled the crisp, clean scent of soap have been. I bought the coffee shop, started small and worked on a man’s skin, felt a man’s hand holding hers. She inhaled to my way up. I work hard at it, don’t make millions, but enough stave off the tears.

to pay the mortgage on the house and buy groceries. It’s a good

“You doing okay over there?” he asked as they strolled life.”

through the maze.

“And you do this all by yourself?”

“Fine.”

“Yeah.”

“You went quiet on me.”

“No kids?”

“Sorry. Just enjoying the night.” She looked up at him.

“No. We were going to have them, just ran out of time.”

“And the company.”

“I’m sorry.”

He paused and turned to her, cupping her cheeks in his hands.

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She stopped breathing, trying to remember the last time explore his body. God, she wanted to get naked with him, but she’d been kissed, because he sure as hell was going to kiss that wasn’t possible out here.

her. Years. Centuries. Too long to remember what it felt like to She smoothed her hands over his shoulders and down have a man’s mouth on hers.

his arms, her mouth leaving his to explore his jaw, his neck, Oh, God, he was going to kiss her. Every nerve ending breathing in the crisp, musky scent of him. He moved his hand in her body stood poised and ready, and she knew lightning over her back and down, palming her ass and pushing her was going to strike.

against his hard on.

“Callie. I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time.”

His rigid length rocked against her sex, making her He bent and brushed his lips against hers, the movement so soft quest to explore him even more desperate. She leaned back, and achingly tender she almost moaned. Then he pressed his searched his face, supremely satisfied by the raw desire she mouth to hers and there it was again. That electrical charge that saw in his eyes.

tingled her clit as if he were flicking it with his tongue.

“I want you Callie. Goddamn I want you right here.”

Dayum. She did moan this time, her eyelids flitting She’d never heard sweeter words spoken. Bobby had closed so she could focus on every sensation. He pulled her never wanted to do anything like this, preferring his sex into his arms and wrapped her into an embrace, fitting his indoors and in their bedroom. Oh, she loved him and mouth over hers and taking over, sliding his tongue inside and capitulated, but a part of her had always missed satisfying her sweeping against hers.

baser cravings. She’d never even told Bobby about her secret Possession. That’s what it was. He was taking her, fantasies.

claiming her. Oh, baby and was she ever ready to give it up.

Now, maybe she’d finally be able to tap into them.

Everything, whatever he wanted, was his for the taking. Right Hallelujah!

here as a matter of fact. Just the thought of it made her go wet Until she heard whispers and laughter. She froze. Jack between her legs, her clit quivering with need. She pressed closed his eyes for a second, then shook his head.

against his leg and he pushed it between hers, allowing her clit

“Son of a bitch,” he whispered.

to make contact with his thigh. She whimpered, he groaned and She smiled, laying her head on his chest while she tried she damn near flooded his leg.

to gather her wits. Someone else was in the gardens just ahead.

Then gentle, getting-to-know-you calm kisses gave way

“Guess we’re not alone anymore,” she said, tilting her to something more primal, elemental, as they began to touch head back to search Jack’s face.

each other, their kisses becoming harder, more passionate. She

“Guess not. Goddammit, I’m sorry Callie.”

didn’t care where they were or who might see them. She She laughed. “It’s okay.” Thought disappointed, she needed to feel Jack’s hands on her, needed to touch him, to was heartened to know he wasn’t afraid to take her right there in the gardens. And he would have if they hadn’t been 146

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interrupted. Her body still thrummed with sexual vibrations Would he jerk her away from the scene, embarrassed on and that was a heady enough feeling for now. She’d have her her behalf? Or would he do what she secretly, fervently moment with Jack soon.

prayed? Would he stand there and watch?

“I need to walk this off,” he said, adjusting the crotch of She tilted her head back and met his inquisitive gaze.

his tux.

Jack caught Callie’s sharp intake of breath, wondering She smirked and walked along side him through the if she was appalled at what was going on in the gazebo. But maze, listening to the sounds of a couple at the other end.

when he saw her eyes, her parted lips, the way her breasts rose Whispers, mostly. And deep sensual laughter.

and fell with her panting breaths, he knew. She was turned on

“What do you think they’re doing out there?” she by what she saw.

whispered.

“You want to watch.” He stated it, didn’t ask. Knew he

“Not sure. Let’s sneak up on them and find out.” He didn’t even need to ask.

grabbed her hand and they tiptoed to the end of the maze of She nodded, turning her head to stare at the couple in bushes.

the gazebo.

Tucked inside a quiet, dark corner was a small, white Goddamn. Callie was a voyeur. His cock rushed with gazebo. Thickly laced lattice on three sides offered privacy arousal, hardening, throbbing with the need to slide inside her from anyone wanting to know what was going on inside, but cunt and fuck her while they watched the other couple.

from the sounds the couple made, Callie had a pretty good As if Callie wasn’t already the most beautiful woman in idea. Her heart thumped a mad rhythm as Jack pulled her to the his eyes, his estimation of her had just risen even more. A right side of the bushes. She realized from that vantage point woman who shared his love of adventure? Not only would she they could see the man and woman seated on the bench in the have fucked him in the maze, she also wanted to stay there and gazebo.

watch the other couple have sex.

The woman’s long blonde hair cascaded down her Christ, was it his lucky day or what? The woman of his naked back, the top of her dress pulled down to her waist. She dreams had the same sexual fantasies as him. What more could couldn’t see the man’s face, only a thick head of dark hair. His a man want in a woman?

mouth was latched around one of the woman’s nipples, his He positioned her in front of him, giving her an ample fingers plucking at the other.

view of the goings on inside the gazebo. His cock brushed Raw desire shot through Callie, her deepest, darkest against the full curve of her buttocks and he didn’t even try to fantasy come to life right in front of her eyes. She gasped, a hide his hard on. Instead, he brushed forward, rocking against sudden urge to lift her dress and massage her pussy nearly her, wrapping his arm around her waist to pull her against him.

overwhelming. But she remembered she wasn’t alone. Jack He could hear her breathing. Deep inhalations as she was with her, seeing what she saw.

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now. The woman in the gazebo had dropped to her knees to pretty fast that I really got off on voyeurism. I’d jack off more unbuckle the guy’s belt, taking her sweet time unzipping his to watching other people fuck than to the memory of any girl I pants. When she took his cock out, Jack was impressed. Well fucked.”

endowed son of a bitch, too. The woman wrapped her lips He figured he owed her a revelation since she’d been so around the head, stroking the shaft as she sucked him.

honest with him.

Jack smoothed his hands over Callie’s shoulders, She shuddered and he tightened his grip around her running his fingers down her arms. “You’re a voyeur, Callie.”

waist.

“Yes.”

“Jack,” she whispered, her voice a whimpering plea.

“I like to watch, too.”

Having her back turned to him, not being able to read her She didn’t look at him. “You do?”

expression, meant he had to rely on the feel of her body, the

“Yeah. I love watching people fuck. Makes my dick sounds she made, to tell him what she wanted. And he knew.

hard.” He couldn’t believe they had made such a fast leap in

“Yeah, baby. I know what you need. You want it out their relationship. His first thought when they had come upon here?”

the couple in the gazebo was to be a gentleman and steer Callie

“Yes. Oh, yeah I want it right here.”

away. Then she’d gasped, and instinct told him it hadn’t been a He caressed her arms, smoothing his palms over her gasp of shock or outrage, but one of excitement. He was glad shoulders, leaning into her neck to inhale her fragrance. She his instincts had been right.

wore no perfume, but he caught the scent of something sweet.

“When I was fifteen I walked in on another girl having Vanilla, maybe. He licked the smooth column of her neck and sex in the gym with her boyfriend. Instead of running out, I she tilted her head to the side to give him access, not once stood there and watched,” she said. “It made my pussy wet, turning her attention away from the couple in the gazebo.

right there on the spot. My clit was tingling so bad I knew I had Though he could tell Callie was tuned into every one of to get off right away. I hid in the locker room doorway and his movements, she was also visually entranced by the other masturbated while they fucked. I came when they came. And couple. He didn’t mind at all. Watching the way the scene then I masturbated about that scene over and over again for turned her on was a heady experience. He’d never met a months. It was the hottest thing I’d ever seen.”

woman like her, so completely uninhibited, the way she

“Goddamn, Callie.” He couldn’t believe she’d told him clutched the side of his thighs, digging her nails into the fabric that. He loved her refreshing honesty. She wasn’t coy or of his tux.

playing innocent with him. He’d never met a woman like her.

Damn, he wanted to be naked with her, wanted to feel

“In high school, my buddies and I used to chip in and rent a the sharp scrape of her nails along his bare skin. He’d bet she motel room with girls and fuck all night long. Since there was was a wildcat when aroused.

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The woman in the gazebo was really going to town on Concentrating on her, he buried his face in her hair.

her man’s dick now, making long, fast movements with her

“Tell me what they’re doing.”

mouth, taking the length of his shaft and nearly swallowing it

“She’s standing now,” Callie said, her voice coming out before leaning back until only the head remained grasped in a breathy whisper as Jack continued to pull and pluck at her between her greedy lips.

nipples. “He’s lifting the hem of her dress.”

“She gives good head,” Jack said in Callie’s ear.

Jack withdrew his hand and caressed Callie’s ribcage,

“Yes.”

traveling a slow path over the curve of her hip.

“You like sucking cock, Callie?”

“She’s turned away from him now and bending from

“Yes. It’s been a long time.”

the waist while he lifts the dress over her back.”

His balls quivered at the thought of being the first man

“Mmm,” he said, finding the hem of Callie’s dress and to feel her full lips since her husband. But not now. Now he fisting it in his hand. He felt the muscles of Callie’s thigh tense.

wanted to pleasure her, to make sure she got off while she