Dangerous Beauty: Part One: Destiny (9 page)

Nathan didn’t know what to say. It really wasn’t often that he found himself in a situation like this. Actually, he’s never really found himself in a situation like this before.
Okay
, he thought nodding his head.
Turns out the woman I have just confessed my love for is a…umm.
What the hell was he supposed to say to that? He could see she was waiting for his response so he settled for, “I still love you?”

Carter shot up from the ground. “Nathan! Didn’t you just hear a word I said!” she screamed.

Nathan got up from the ground and stood, towering over her small body. Jesus Christ! He couldn’t believe someone so small could be so lethal, he also couldn’t believe that he was turned on by the fact that she was so lethal…well yes he could, he knew he had issues.

“Carter, what is it that you want me to say?” He asked calmly to her as he looked down at her shocked face.

“That I’m a fucking psycho. I don’t know! I just told you I’m a killer!” she yelled while she paced back and forth in front of him.

Nathan chuckled. “Baby, that’s probably not something you want to yell out here in public.”

“Nathan!” she screamed.

Nathan rolled his eyes. “Carter, I don’t know what you want from me. You killed the men that murdered your father, they deserved it,” he said with a shrug.

Carter frowned and shook her head. “That’s not the point, I just told that I killed those men in cold blood. Jesus, I practically turned the one upstairs inside out and I didn’t even give a shit. I’d do it again in a heartbeat!”

“Good! The bastards deserved it. They came into
your
house and killed
your
family, when you get a hold of those other assholes Kent and Patrick, I’m going to make sure I have a front row seat to the damn show!” Nathan yelled.

Carter stared at him in disbelief. “So, you still love me after everything I just told you?”

“Yes!” Nathan yelled. He was confused, he didn’t get this woman. Didn’t he just tell her that he loved her? It’s not like he said that shit to women every day, or that he had ever said it to a woman
ever
.

Carter still couldn’t believe it. “But—”

“But nothing, Carter,” Nathan said cutting her off before she started questioning him again. “I already know what you’re going to say, and yes it’s true you are a killer, and some may consider you to be psychotic, but I don’t give a fuck, so am I. That’s just the fucked up world we live in. Why would I stand here and criticize you for something I would have done? Shit, for something I have done way more times then you have. The Salerno family is the Mafia, honey. I learned how to kill a man a long time ago.”

“Mafia?” She whispered.

“Yes, Carter” Nathan replied.

“And you’ve…killed a man before?”

A man
? Damn, it’d been a long time since Nathan could say that. He looked in her eyes and saw her shock and confusion, and he was determined not to freak her out too much. He didn’t want her to run from him. He couldn’t imagine how difficult it’d been for her facing the world alone for five years. Not only did she face the world alone, she’d resisted her true nature and pretended to be someone she wasn’t. Nathan couldn’t even put into words how much he admired her for that. He’d tried to do that and failed miserably. He didn’t even make it a full year in college before he went back home to work for his father full time. He excelled exceptionally at killing men he didn’t particularly care for, but he didn’t want to tell her that. She wasn’t ready to hear it yet. He decided he’d better talk about something other than his rapidly increasing body count.

Nathan sighed. “If I knew who killed my mother I would have done worse.” Nathan saw shock and sadness flash through her eyes. “Yes, my mother was murdered. It happened in Manhattan, and my mother and I were staying in a hotel. My father and mother took me out to dinner, where their main goal was to tell me that they were getting a divorce. I was shocked, but that was because I thought they had already gotten one. While they were talking to me they started to fight, and my mother went upstairs to the room. I stayed and talked with my father about visiting him in Manhattan more, since he would never be coming back to the house. After we talked one of his bodyguards took me up to my mother. She wasn’t in the living room so I checked her bedroom. I wanted to make sure my father hadn’t hurt her too badly at dinner. When I walked in her bedroom I heard the shower running so I went to the bathroom and right when I walked in the door I slipped and fell. It was blood. I looked around and the entire floor was covered in it. I looked in the corner and that’s where my mother’s body laid broken, beaten with scars from head to foot, it was like someone had just taken a knife and sliced her everywhere over and over again.” Nathan’s eyes glistened with tears.

“I could tell that she suffered, that she screamed and no one heard her, and it killed me. I sat in that room staring at her dead body in complete silence for hours before my father sent one of his men to check on us.” Nathan moved closer to Carter. “I still see it sometimes, when I close my eyes. The scene plays in my head like a movie, and I didn’t cry either, when I saw her, haven’t shed a tear, until now,” he said as a single tear fell from his stormy gray eyes.

He cupped her face. “Carter, stop trying to convince me that I don’t love you.” He reached for her hand. “Give me your hand.” Carter did as he asked and he pulled her closer to him. “Do you feel that?”

She did. She felt it from the moment they locked eyes earlier that day. It was an undeniable magnetism drawing her to him. It made her heart beat quicken and her body shudder involuntarily. Carter couldn’t resist it, she was powerless against it.

“Every time I look at you, every time we touch, every time we kiss, I feel it. I’ve never felt so drawn to one person in my entire life, Carter. What else does one call this feeling that is consuming us? What else, but love? I love you.”

Carter stood in silence stunned by the truth she saw in his eyes. He really loved her, she couldn’t believe it. Her bubby was standing right in front of her telling her that he loved her. This is what she wished for when she was freaking thirteen years old. But she wouldn’t tell him that.

Carter stared at him a moment longer before she grabbed his face and slammed her mouth against his, desperate for his kiss. She heard him groan and when her lips parted and his tongue entered her mouth, caressing and tasting her as he deepened their kiss. She needed more. She needed to be closer to him, so she pressed her body against his and threw her arms around his neck.

She was so lost in their ravenous kiss, she had barely noticed when Nathan lifted her from the ground and lowered them both back to a sitting position on the beach with her straddling his lap. She wrapped her legs tightly around his waist to pull him closer and he growled against her lips. She moaned when his big strong hands moved between them and he cupped her breasts squeezing them through her shirt.

He really had an obsession with her chest.

His mouth left hers and made its way to her neck kissing and sucking, while continuing his masterful assault on her breasts. A wave of sensation rushed through her. She tried to catch her breath but it was pointless. Never has she felt such an overwhelming desire to give herself to a man. Her hand moved to his beautiful, thick, blond hair, and her body began to grind against his. She wanted him, right then, and right there.

Carter pulled Nathan back from her neck and he looked at her, face flushed, and his grey eyes filled with desire, matching her own. She pressed her forehead against his.

“Make love to me, Nathan,” she whispered against his lips.

Nathan gripped her hips, stilling her movements. She could see he was battling with himself about whether or not this was the time or place for them to make love. But honestly, Carter would be more than happy to make love to Nathan on the beach under the starry summer night sky. She pleaded with him silently even as she felt his grip tightening on her hips. She knew that he wanted this too. She could feel his erection pressing against her behind. She moved her hips again and Nathan took a sharp breath. She could only move a little because of the hold he had on her hips, but she knew that it was enough, so she moved again, brushing her behind against his hardening member. Nathan groaned and Carter tried to hide a smile.

“Stop,” he growled against her lips.

“Make love to me, Nathan, please.” She started showering him with soft kisses. She kissed every part of his face and his neck before she returned to his lips for another deep passionate kiss.

She felt him shift under her, and one of his hands left her hip while his other arm wrapped around her tight. By the time she broke the kiss, Nathan was walking toward the parking lot with her still in his arms, and her legs wrapped tightly around his waist.

“Nathan, what the hell?”

He just chuckled. “What?” he asked against her mouth, she felt his smile.

“Where are we going? I want you to make love to me,” she said giving him a confused look.

He placed a soft kiss on her lips and smirked. “I promise you I will, just not here. I want you in a bed where I can take my time and enjoy exploring every part of your beautiful body,” he said, his voice was deep and smooth and so sexy.

“But we can’t go to my house. Jenna doesn’t like company,” Carter whined.

He let out another soft laugh. “We’re going to the beach house. That’s where I’m staying.”

Carter paused. “Do you mean Kyle’s beach house where you and four other guys are staying?”

“Yep,” Nathan replied casually.

Carter shook her head firmly and frowned. “Uh, uh, hell no, Nathan. They don’t know who I am, and that we…well, you know, know each other. And we’re about to…” Heat rushed to her cheeks as she thought about what she and Nathan were going to do when they got to Kyle’s beach house. “What will I do in the morning when I leave? I can’t walk passed them. I am not a walk of shame type of girl, Nathan. I’ll look like a big ol’ hoe!”

Nathan burst into laughter, he couldn’t hold it back.

Carter blushed furiously and looked away from Nathan. “It’s not funny, Nathan. I’m serious,” she pouted.

“I’m sorry, baby,” he said kissing her cheek, still laughing.

Carter frowned. “No, you’re not, you asshole.”

Nathan chuckled. “Yes I am, and you’re not a hoe. They’re all going to find out eventually, it might as well be sooner rather than later. And who the hell said you were leaving in the morning? Once I get you in my bed you’re not leaving till I do,” he said confidently with a shrug.

“Nathan, I can’t spend all my time in bed with you,” Carter said.

They made it to the car and Nathan pinned her against the door and put his lips close to hers.

“We won’t be in bed all the time. There’s also the shower, the Jacuzzi tub, the pool, and the balcony too,” he said, smiling against her mouth.

Carter smiled and moved her hips against him. “I still have a job, Nathan, and a Jenna that I have to take care of. There are many things that I can’t leave unattended.”

Nathan shrugged. “Fuck the job. Quit. Give me your bank information, I’ll make sure you have what you need, more than you need, whatever you want. And as for your Jenna, who I’m assuming is the tall redhead from the garden, — she may not be as tall as I think you
are
small, what are you like 5’4? Anyway, I’m getting off track. You and your Jenna can spend as much time together as you want, shopping, spas, all that shit women like to do. I don’t care, as long as you come back to me when you’re finished.” Nathan smiled. He told his mother that when he found Carter he would keep her forever. He was ready for it all. He knew exactly where this relationship was going, and he wasn’t going to pretend or fight what he knew was inevitable. He wasn’t going to let her fight it either. He knew he wanted Carter, and he’ll never stop wanting her, she was his, and Nathan takes care of what’s his.

Carter frowned and shook her head. “No, Nathan, I can’t just quit my job. I need money and that’s what normal people do when they need money, they work. I’m not going to let you give me money.”

Nathan looked into her eyes. “There you go with that, ‘
let you
’ again. Carter, you will soon find out what kind of man I am. No one
lets
me do anything, I just do it, and if you won’t give me your account information I’ll get it myself. I was just hoping you would give me the information freely, but I see this one will be a fight,” he shrugged then kissed her lips and her neck and whispered against her skin. “And just so you know, I
will
win.” He would win, she just didn’t know it yet.

Carter shook her head no, even as she let her head fall back giving him more access to her neck. He smiled smugly against her skin.

Nathan was going to devour her when they got to the beach house. He was fighting so hard to maintain self-control and not crash, but he didn’t know how much longer he could control himself. He came to the conclusion that if they crashed it would be her fault. She hadn’t stopped touching him since they got in the car, not to mention she’d been rocking her sexy hips against him for the better part of the night, and that had already been driving him to the edge of insanity. And now she decided it was a good idea to jump into his lap while he drove. He was trying to focus on driving, but she kept kissing his neck. Not saying he didn’t love it, but he was sure that he would crash if she kept rocking her body up against his the way she was right now.

“Carter, baby, you’ve got to stop moving your hips like that or we’re going to wreck,” Nathan pleaded huskily. This woman was going to make him lose his mind.

He felt Carter’s smile against his neck, “I can’t stop moving, Nathan, it feels too good,” she moaned.

Jesus Christ, she’s going to kill us!

Needless to say, he was relieved when the beach house finally came into view. They made it without dying. Once he turned off the ignition, he grabbed her face and kissed her hard. Carter let out a glorious moan into his mouth and continued grinding her hips. God, if she didn’t stop right now he was going to come in his pants, which is really not something he wanted to do. He grabbed her hips to still her movement. She made a sound of protest and he gave her a quick kiss.

“Carter, we need to go inside, now.”

Carter quickly rolled over to the passenger side of the car and opened the door. By the time she was out of the car, Nathan was already on her side. Grabbing her waist he picked her up until they were face to face. Her arms automatically went around his neck and her legs locked around his waist as her mouth latched on to his neck. With a loud groan, Nathan walked them up the pathway to the front door. God, he hoped the door was unlocked.

Relieved that the door was unlocked, Nathan walked in the house happy to see the lights were out. Assuming that meant the guys retired to their rooms for the evening, he decided to indulge a little before the long walk to his bedroom.

Nathan pinned Carter against the wall with his body. He tore her shirt down the middle, pushed both ends to the side, and took a moment to appreciate the beauty of her bountiful breasts. He couldn’t suppress his growl when he noticed her gorgeous dark nipples through her white lace bra. He couldn’t help himself, he latched his mouth on to one lace covered breast and sucked hard while he slipped his hand into her shorts.

Carter gasped. “Oh! Oh! God…Nathan!”

His hands were in her panties. Carter cried out the moment he pressed his palm against her sex. She was already so close, so very, very close. Nathan thrust two long masterful fingers inside of her and she tossed her head back and bit down on her bottom lip, trying hard to contain her cries of pleasure. She panted and moaned and moved her hips against his hand. She was going to cum, and it was going to be so incredible! The first orgasm a man had ever given her!

“Umm… I really don’t know how to say this, but…”

“Dammit, Lucca! What the hell? Why’d you stop ‘em?” Mickey yelled, glaring at Lucca.

“Oh my God!” Carter screamed, grabbing the ends of her ripped shirt and covering herself.

Nathan pulled his hand out of Carter’s shorts, dropped his head back and sighed. “Shit,” he said feeling his excitement slip away.

“I had to Mickey, they needed to know they weren’t in here alone,” Lucca yelled.

Nathan looked over to the dining room table where Mickey, Kyle, Lucca, and Dante were sitting with beers in hand and cards scattered around the table. Mickey had a smirk on his asshole face. Dante had his head hung forward and his face buried in his hands chuckling, while he shook his head back and forth. Lucca looked at Nathan with an apologetic smile, while Kyle sat and stared with wide eyes, in shock, at what he had just witnessed.

Nathan slid Carter down the wall and she scrambled to hide behind him. She gripped his shirt, burying her face in his back and chanting oh my god, over and over again. Nathan made a mental note to ask Kyle for a key to the balcony entrance connected to his room in the morning.

“That was hands down
the
hottest shit I have ever seen in my life!” Mickey said through a laugh.

Carter gripped Nathan’s shirt tighter.

Lucca slapped Mickey in the back of the head. “Shut the hell up, Mick!”

Mickey laughed. “Ow! You ass. What did I say wrong? You know it’s the truth.”

Nathan narrowed his eyes on Mickey. “Goodnight,” Nathan said through clenched teeth and reached behind his back to grab Carter’s hand.

“Hold up, Nate,” Kyle called out as he leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms over his chest.

Nathan’s jaw clenched as he looked at Kyle with cold gray eyes. “Yes, Kyle?” he growled.

Kyle shifted in his seat a bit, but maintained his composure. “Mitchell called for you about four times tonight. He said it was urgent, you might want to give him a call.”

Nathan snorted. “I’m not giving Mitchell shit. What the hell is he calling me for?”

“Do you think it’s because of the meeting we had with Reeves?” Mickey asked.

Nathan felt Carter’s grip on his hand tighten and he winced. She was much stronger than she looked, he would have to make a note of that.

He looked at her frowning. “Ow,” he said as he looked down at their hands and then back to her face, pleading with her silently for her to loosen her grip. She just stared at him with cold questioning eyes. “What?” he asked.

“Andrew Reeves?”

Nathan frowned. “Yes. You know him?”

She nodded. Her jaw tightened and her eyes remained cold as her grip tightened around his hand. “Jesus, baby, you’re squeezing the life out of my hand.”

She blinked and released his hand, and Nathan immediately began to massage out the pain.

“I’m sorry, I just wasn’t aware that you and Reeves were acquaintances,” she said with a frown.

Nathan frowned and shook his head. “We’re not, at least not for the time being. I cut off business ties with him for now,” Nathan stated. “How is it exactly that you know Reeves again?” Nathan asked looking at Carter inquisitively.

Carter stared at him blankly. “Again? I never told you how I know him, Nathan.”

“Yeah, but I believe you were about to, if I’m remembering correctly,” Nathan said.

Carter quirked an eyebrow then nodded. “Reeves and I have a… complicated history.”

“Hold up, hold up,” Dante said getting everyone to turn their attention to him. “You cut off business ties with Reeves? And what meeting are you referring to? Oh and…” He looked at Carter. “Huh?”

Carter shrugged her shoulders and smirked.

“Nate and I went to Brooklyn. Reeves wasn’t sending his money with Fred and Angelo sent Nate to fix the situation, which he did, permanently. He even got a little extra spending money,” Mickey said smiling broadly.

“It’s about damn time. What did Angelo say about it?” Kyle asked.

“Haven’t spoken to him about it yet, but it doesn’t matter. When he gave me more power he told me that he trusted my judgment. I am the future boss, I know who I do and don’t want to do business with.” Nathan looked back to Carter. “Complicated history? How so?”

Carter cocked her head to the side. “Huh?”

“You and Reeves, complicated history,” Nathan replied.

Carter smiled innocently. “Oh that, it’s not important,” she said with a nonchalant wave of her hand.

“It is,” Nathan said narrowing his eyes on her.

Carter shook her head. “It’s not.”

“Yeah, I’m pretty sure it is.”

“No it’s not.”

“It is.”

“Not important Nathan. Now, let’s go to bed.” Carter looked over to the guys and waved. “Goodnight gentleman, I apologize for the little show earlier. Love you to pieces Kyle.” She grabbed Nathan’s hand and started walking for the stairs, only to be jerked back into Nathan’s hard body.

Carter blew her hair out of her face and punched him in the arm. “What the hell you asshole?” she exclaimed.

Nathan returned her glare. “Just tell me your relationship with Reeves. Carter, this doesn’t have to be a fight,” he demanded.

Carter snorted and put her hands on her hips letting her shirt fall open to expose her breast, and smirked. “Well isn’t that fortunate for you Nathan, because I have a very strong feeling that our fights are not going to be like normal couples,” she said.

Nathan’s jaw ticked. “Carter,” he growled in warning.

“Fine!” she yelled. “You do business with Andrew right? So I suppose you’ve seen the long scar on his face?” She ran her finger down the side of her face.

Nathan’s shook his head in disbelief. “That was you?” he exclaimed before he broke out in a loud laughter. Andrew was so full of shit.

Carter rolled her eyes, smiled, and shook her head. “Idiot,” she muttered.

“How the hell did that happen?” Nathan asked

Carter shrugged. “It happened on my sixteenth birthday when I was gifted with a trip to one of my father’s meetings before we took a trip to the Bahamas. He made me wait outside for him to finish, then Andrew’s perverted ass pulled up to the house they were meeting in. Long story short he told me I was sexy, I told him to fuck off, he got rough, and then I cut his face. I have a bit of an anger…” she cleared her throat, “anger management issue, but I’m trying to better myself. Anyway, he yelled and called me a bitch, and I told him to be happy I didn’t cut off his fingers. He swung at me and I was about to kill him until my dad ran out and picked me up over his shoulder and put me in the car. I didn’t tell him why I did what I did because I made it up in my mind that I wanted to kill that son of a bitch myself, and if I would have told my dad, Reeves would be dead,” Carter smirked as she crossed her arms over her chest. “I’d love to see that bastard again, see how he reacts to seeing that I’m still alive.”

Nathan took in a long deep breath. He knew he was fucked up for getting turned on, but he didn’t give a shit, she was sexy as hell. There was something immensely sexy about the devious look in her eyes, plus her shirt was wide open showing off her big beautiful breasts. The only thing he could think about now was getting her upstairs and in his bed. Nathan came to the conclusion in his head that that was all her fault.

Carter chuckled. “Is this turning you on?” she laughed and shook her head. “You’re such a freak…Ahh!” Carter screamed as Nathan threw her over his shoulder and started running up the stairs toward his room. “Goodnight guys,” Carter yelled from the top of the stairs.

“Goodnight,” the guys said laughing at the couple as they left the room.

“God, she is the hottest thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” Mickey sighed sitting back in his chair.

Lucca rolled his eyes. “Isn’t anyone going to address what was said here?” Lucca asked them wondering why the guys weren’t saying anything about Carter’s story about Andrew Reeves.

“No. Obviously Nathan knows something about the girl that we don’t, and he still trusts her, and we trust him. I’m sure he’ll fill us in tomorrow or from the looks of it a couple of days from now, or whenever they decide to come out of that room,” Dante said with a chuckle.

Kyle stood up from the table and stretched. “Well that was more than enough excitement for me tonight. I’m off to bed, fellas,” he said as he turned to head toward the stairs. The others all agreed and followed.

***

Nathan had wasted no time when he finally got her up to his room. When they walked through his door he tossed her on the bed. He threw her shorts and tattered shirt across the room and unhooked her bra, tossing it to the side as well, then he quickly removed his own clothes. Nathan stood at the head of the bed, his tanned muscular body on full display for Carter to admire. Nathan seemed to be admiring her as well, his eyes traveled up and down her body as he licked his lips.

Carter swallowed hard. He was big, very big…She wasn’t sure if he’d fit. But he didn’t look worried, he just looked really, really sexy.

She didn’t know what he was going to do to her at first, but when he walked to the bed, dropped to his knees on the floor, and pulled her naked body in front of his face, she soon found out. Carter lost her mind when Nathan put his talented tongue on the part of her body where no tongue had ever been before. She had only had sex with one guy before Nathan, and he never did this. Carter was lost. God, it felt so amazing. She was so close. Her loud moans became screams as she pressed closer to his face.

“Na-Nathan, I-I-I’m gonna…”

Carter struggled to catch her breath. She clawed at the sheets with one hand, and gripped Nathan’s hair with the other. Her back arched and her eyes closed tight as an orgasm ripped through her body like a forceful tidal wave. She screamed her release as she rode out the most powerful orgasm she had ever had in her life.

Wow! That was just…wow.

Carter couldn’t stop the satisfied smile that graced her lips. She laced her fingers in Nathan’s hair as he began to move up her body leaving a path of soft kisses until he finally reached her neck.

“Mmm baby, you taste incredible” he said against her skin.

She lay in bed with him panting while Nathan’s incredible mouth moved against her neck and his hard member nudged at her opening.

***

Nathan had never wanted anyone more than he wanted Carter Steele. He had very strong feelings for her, and he wanted their first time together to be perfect. He didn’t want this to be just sex, like it was with the previous women in his life. He wanted to make love to her, just like she asked him to on the beach. Nathan had never made love to a woman before, he had fucked, but never made love. Sex to Nathan had always been just that, sex, nothing more than an itch that needed to be scratched every once in a while. But not with Carter. He wanted to worship every part of her. He wanted her to feel his love for her in his touch, his kiss.

Nathan looked in her expressive eyes and saw everything he needed to see. She felt the same. She loved him too. She cradled his body between her legs as he slowly pushed himself inside of her eliciting simultaneous moans from both him and her.