Hummingbird (16 page)

Harry put the wallet back in to the dead man’s pocket, the dead man was also wearing a very expensive gold watch but Harry left this; it would be impossible to sell without the Fat Man hearing of it.

Harry looked at the item the shooter had placed on the dead man’s chest and Harry recognised the skill that it must have taken to make such a wonderful little sculpture and he was tempted to take it so that he could admire it often but Harry knew that the shooter had left it for a reason and so he took one more longing look at the tiny folded bird and then he too vanished in to the darkness of the night.

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Jack stepped out of the
shower and grabbed a towel, he walked down to the kitchen as he dried himself off and he wrapped the towel around his waist as he put on a pot of coffee.

Jack was not a morning person and it always took a while before he felt human. He checked the clock on the oven and saw that it was a little after 8am. He opened the door to the balcony and then returned the coffee machine, he drummed his fingers on the counter top whilst he waited for the coffee to filter through.

Jack heard a thump from the room above his head, he figured that Selena was getting up; moments later he heard the toilet in the en-suite flush and then he heard the shower start up.

Jack poured himself a mug when the machine beeped and he carried his steaming mug out on to the balcony, he snatched his cigarettes from the table before stepping out on to the wooden balcony; he could tell by the warmth already in the air that the day was going to be a scorcher.

Jack took a seat on one of several sun loungers, he lit a cigarette and enjoyed the peace and solitude that this place and this moment afforded him; he had lived a life full of violence, first in the Rangers and now with the Fat Man and as he sipped his coffee he thought about Selena’s question the previous evening: HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE YOU KILLED JACK?

‘Too many,’ Jack said aloud and he finished his cigarette and coffee before dragging himself bac
k in to the kitchen for a refill.

Jack poured two mugs this time, he could hear Selena’s heels clicking on the metal staircase and he carried the two mugs out on to the balcony and once more took a seat on one of the loungers.

‘Out here,’ he called and a few moments later Selena stepped out from the kitchen.

‘Morning,’ Selena said.

‘Morning, coffee, cigarette?’

‘Please.’

‘Stand there,’ Jack said and he indicated a spot just in front of his lounger and he smiled when Selena followed his command without a second’s thought.

Jack let his eyes roam down her body and back up again and he smiled up at her.

‘Take a seat Selena, how are you this morning? Sleep okay?’

‘Out like a light the minute my head touched the pillow, for some reason I must have been exhausted,’ Selena replied with a mischievous smile playing at the corners of her sculpted mouth.

Selena took a seat on the lounger to the left of Jack, sitting so that she was facing him, she let her knees fall open so that Jack would have the perfect view and the way his eyes settled on her crotch sent a tingle through Selena.

Jack chuckled as he lit her a cigarette and when she leaned forwards to take it her breasts almost fell out of the tight bikini top that she was wearing. Selena took the Marlboro and sat back and took a long drag on the cigarette, the nicotine hit her system and she sighed with contentment.

‘I know it’ll kill me one day but I do so fucking love my cigarettes.’

Jack laughed.

‘I always joke that my mom never raised no quitter.’

Selena chuckled, ‘I like that; I’ll have to use that line sometime.’

Selena sipped her coffee; it was hot and strong and the caffeine had an instant effect on her. Selena unconsciously adjusted the gusset of her bikini briefs, her delicate fingers held Jack’s gaze and Selena realised what she was doing.

‘Sorry,’ she said.

‘Don’t be. You look amazing in that bikini.’

‘Thank you.’

‘We’ll spend the day here today, this evening we’ll go out for a meal, I don’t feel like cooking.’

‘Whatever you say Jack.’ Selena flicked ash from the tip of her cigarette in to an ashtray that Jack had produced. ‘As long as it’s not Hemingway’s.’

Jack laughed.

‘I’m sure I can think of somewhere nicer.’

Jack finished his cigarette and reclined back on the lounger; the sun was now breaking above the treetops and he closed his eyes against the sun.

Moments later he heard Selena getting to her feet, he remained where he was, there was nowhere that she could go and the sun’s warmth felt good and he was beginning to doze when he felt hands pull at the towel that he had wrapped around his groin and he opened his left eye a little and saw Selena squatting at the side of his lounger, he watched as her fingers pulled the towel away from his groin and he saw her lick her lips.

Selena finished her cigarette and watched as Jack settled back on his lounger, his eyes drifted shut and she could see that he was beginning to doze. She stood up and walked to the edge of the balcony and looked out over the forest canopy.

This truly is a remarkable place
, she said to herself
. I love it here, I could stay here forever, I could live like this until the day I die
.

Selena turned around and looked down at Jack, she looked at his half naked body; the network of scars across his abdomen and chest, scars that she knew he had received
honouring his vow of duty to his country, he’d spoken of the scars only once before, years past, long before she had fucked everything up between them, Jack had told her how his unit had been ambushed, how four of his fellow Rangers were killed and several others, himself included, badly injured.

Selena also recalled the pride in his voice when he had told her how even though he and his fellow Rangers were all injured (those that weren’t already dead) that they had managed to kill the enemy and secure the area to await an air lift out of the desert.

Selena smiled as her eyes roamed across his broad shoulders and down his arms, arms that were taut with sinew and tendon to his hands, hands that were strong, his long graceful fingers and she realised that looking at him was getting her wet.

Jesus Selena, you’re like a bitch on heat
, she thought and then she smiled and walked back to the loungers, she squatted down beside Jack’s lounger right next to his towel-covered groin.

I want to see his cock
.

Selena looked at Jack’s
face to see if he was watching but he appeared to be in a doze and she gently pried the towel loose and peeled the folds back to reveal his manhood.

Even soft it’s a thing of beauty
, she said to herself and she licked her lips.
Am I really going to do this
?
Of course you are
, she added and she adjusted her position and leaned forwards over his groin; she’d tied her long hair back in a ponytail and Selena lowered her face, she wet her lips and tongue and licked the tip of her tongue across Jack’s hairless balls; she could see the trail of spittle she left behind and she watched as Jack’s balls tightened, she could see the sacs undulate beneath the skin and she licked again and smiled as his scrotum tightened up even more.

Selena looked up from Jack’s groin and checked to see if he was stirring but he seemed to be out of it.

Not for long
, Selena mused and she ran the back of her fingernails along the entirety of Jack’s cock, she watched as his cock began to fill with blood and she lowered her mouth to his scrotum and parted her lips and closed her mouth over his balls, she sucked them, her tongue swirling around the now-tight skin of his balls and Selena wrapped her fingers around his shaft, she stroked his cock, she could feel it growing in her hand and she studied the veins running along the underside of his cock and she tightened her grip on his cock and slowly eased his foreskin back down over his glans and she began to work her hand up and down his cock until he was rock hard.

Selena looked
up Jack’s body to his face and now she could see that he had a small smile on his face and even though his eyes were still closed she knew he was awake and Selena slipped her mouth from his balls, she moved position and quickly lowered her mouth over the end of his cock, she contracted her lips in to a tight O and pushed her face down towards the base of his cock until she felt his glans pressing at the back of her throat and she started to move her mouth up and down the entire length of his cock; on each upward movement she would constrict her lips tighter and on each downward push she would lessen the constriction until she had a rhythm going and she squeezed Jack’s testicles with her free hand and Jack grunted and his cock began to empty and Selena swallowed; she loved the taste of his semen and she worked every last drop from him before finally releasing his balls and cock and she lifted her face to see Jack smiling at her.

Selena had a
string of come snaking down her chin and she scooped it up with her baby finger and sucked her finger clean.

‘You look like the cat that got the cream,’ Selena said.

Jack chuckled, ‘I think you got the
cream
.’

Selena squeezed his cock one last time and a final bead of come seeped from the “eye” of his cock and she lowered her face to his groin, she kept her gaze on his as her tongue flickered out from between her lips and caught that last pearl and she snapped her tongue back between her lips and she wiped a finger across her bottom lip and smiled up at Jack.

‘I love you,’ she told him and she stood up.

Selena looked down at Jack, ‘I’m going to love you until the day I die, you don’t have to love me ba
ck, I’ll love enough for the both of us.’

Selena’s emotions got the better of her and tears welled in her eyes and she felt a single tear roll down her cheek, she quickly turned away and started for the door back in to the kitchen.

Jack’s voice halted her.

‘Stop Selena.’

Selena folded her arms below her breasts, her left hand holding her right elbow and her right hand gripping her left elbow tightly.

She heard Jack get to his feet and moments later he was right there at her back, she could feel his groin pressing against her ass; the thin black material of her bikini bottoms doing little to shield her from his warmth and Jack’s arms enveloped her, his hands gripping hers and he buried his face in to her hair and Selena fell back in to his strong embrace.

‘Loving you isn’t the problem Selena’ Jack breathed and she wept at his words, ‘I loved you from the moment I met you, that love is still there but it’s a shadow of what it once was, trusting you, that’s a different matter.’

‘I know,’ Selena sobbed, ‘I know.’
Selena turned around and pressed herself in to him and their arms were soon wrapped around one another, the intensity of their embrace threatened to unmoor her from reality and she looked up in to Jack’s sad eyes, ‘I want the chance to make you love me like you once did, will you give me that opportunity?’

Jack wiped a tear from Selena’s face.

‘I’ll try,’ Jack said softly and Selena smiled.

‘That’s good enough for me,’ Selena replied. ‘That’s good enough for me.’

             
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Even wearing the five inch
heeled sandals Jack still stood a good seven inches taller than Selena and she still had to turn her face up to him, and when she was barefoot he towered a foot over her and she has always liked how he was so much taller, she’d always felt protected in his arms or when they had walked hand in hand through the park, and right now as they stood together on the rooftop with Jack’s hand pressed against her lower back as she leant in to his side she felt that old familiar feeling of security.

They stood at one end of the pool (the deep end) and Selena marvelled at the attention to detail that Jack had put in to the design of this hidden Eden.

‘Come with me,’ Jack said and he turned from the pool and Selena followed him to a small metal cupboard mounted to the wall next to the rooftop’s entrance. Jack opened the cupboard by typing in a six figure code and he swung the door open and he told Selena to turn around.

‘Don’t move, just watch,’ he said and he pressed a red button on a control panel inside the cupboard.

Selena felt a rumbling deep beneath her feet and her mouth opened in a wide O.

‘Earthquake?’

‘No, just watch.’

Jack slipped his arm around her shoulders and Selena welcomed the
close proximity and she felt a spark shoot through her when his hand slipped down over her right shoulder and his fingers slid inside the right cup of bikini top, his palm felt cool against her hardening nipple.

‘What the!’ Selena said as the rumbling intensified and she heard the hiss of hydraulics and she saw steam venting from the very edge of the rooftop and to her amazement she watched as the rooftop extended out
high over the trees.