Long, Lonely Nights (23 page)

He searched until he found her G-spot and stroked it until she was wild with need. He licked and sucked at her clit until her pussy muscles contracted around his fingers. When he knew she was nearly there, he stroked her sweet spot and sucked hard on her clit until she exploded around him. She squeezed him with her pussy and her legs until he thought he might lose his breath. He barely managed to throw a pillow over her face to muffle her screams of ecstasy. All he needed was for Riley to come crashing inside with him between her legs. As it was, he had already screwed up by being here in the first place.

She lay panting and spasming beneath him. He began to get up from the bed, but she sat up with him and grabbed the waistband of his shorts.

“You’re not going anywhere yet. You aren’t finished,” she said.

“Tina, I don’t think you realize what you’re saying.”

“I know what I’m saying. I want you inside me. Now.”

Logan groaned when she reached down and squeezed his cock. It jerked in her hand.

“I don’t have a condom with me.”

“There are condoms in the bedside table.” Tina wasn’t leaving him alone.

She licked his nipple and then sucked on it never letting go of his cock the entire time. Logan wasn’t sure what to do. He wanted her. Fuck, did he want her, but he also knew she was probably going to regret this in the morning. When she nipped at his nipple, he couldn’t take it anymore. He reached across her and opened the drawer to find an unopened box of condoms. He tore it open and fished out one. He pulled away from her long enough to slip out of his shorts and boxers and slip on the condom. She immediately ran her tongue around the head of his sheathed cock and then sucked it down her throat until he nearly came right then and there.

Tina’s tongue continued to play with him as her fingers raked gently around his balls. She alternated between squeezing them and rolling them in her hand. She set a rhythm that drove him higher and higher. He felt the burning in his balls and at the base of his spine. He was going to come and never get inside of her if he wasn’t careful. He pulled back from her and pushed her down on the bed. He shoved between her legs and entered her in one quick thrust. She hissed out a “yes” when he reached the end of her. She squeezed him inside her.

When her hands came up to run along his chest, he grabbed her by the wrists and pinned them above her head. She raised questioning eyes to him, but he only shook his head and began a long slow rhythm designed to tease them both.

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Tina drew in a deep breath to slow her breathing down. He was killing her with his teasing. She tried to force him to increase the rhythm of his thrusts, but it didn’t work. Now she met each thrust with one of her own until their mutual pounding began to speed up. The ringing in her ears kept her on the edge of passing out. She needed him faster, harder. But, she couldn’t put it into words. He’d think she was some kind of freak. She wailed out her frustration and fought against his hold on her wrists.

Logan’s hand held both of them pinned to the bed. The other hand held one leg back and up as he drilled into her with more and more force. She reveled at the strength he began to show in each thrust. She threw back her head trying to draw in more oxygen. She was so close. A few more thrusts and she would come. Just a few more, she kept thinking. When he pulled out and roller her over, she nearly screamed in frustration. Instead, he pulled her to all fours and entered her from behind.

Logan went deeper this way, and she had more room to push back against him with each thrust. He reached around and pinched at her nipples. She groaned as she grew closer to her climax. She reached hard for it, and the harder she reached the farther it seemed to be. Finally, she couldn’t take it anymore and begged him to fuck her.

“Please, harder! I need you harder.”

He rewarded her with harder and faster and just as she began to feel the burn, he reached around beneath her and pinched her clit. She exploded around him and screamed into her pillow, remembering at the last minute that Riley would be outside somewhere watching for the intruder. A few strokes later, Logan spurted inside her. She squeezed at him with her pussy trying to squeeze every last drop from him. He groaned and collapsed against her. When she pushed with her elbows, he rolled to one side but carried her with him until she was lying on her back across his chest.

“You okay?” he asked after awhile of panting.

“Yeah, I’m good.”

She struggled to catch her breath as well. Her heart beat hard in her chest. She was sure she could feel it with her hand.

Logan carefully pulled out of her and rolled off the bed. He disappeared into the bathroom and returned a few seconds later after disposing of the condom. He sat on the edge of the bed and started putting his boxers back on. Tina didn’t want him to go.

“Wait. Do you have to go? I don’t want to sleep alone,” she said.

“I don’t think it’s a good idea for us to sleep together.”

“Just for now. Please.”

Logan sighed and climbed into bed with her. He wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her back against his body. She felt safe and cared for. It had been a long time since she felt this way. Even before the attack, she hadn’t found anyone she felt comfortable sleeping with on a routine basis. Sex was one thing, but the act of sleeping with someone was far more intimate as far as she was concerned.

With Logan, the intimacy felt right. They fit together. And it was all wrong, too. For all the reasons she had already told herself and Jenna. They couldn’t mean anything to each other. She wasn’t the type of woman he was used to and probably needed. Plus, she had embarrassed herself by demanding what she needed from him. Men didn’t like to be told what to do, especially during sex. He wouldn’t be repeating anything with her. She was almost sure of that.

After what seemed like minutes, she fell asleep in his arms.

The next morning, she rose before the alarm to find him gone. All that was left was the indention of where his head had been. She rolled over and sniffed at the pillow. She could make out the scent of his shampoo and that earthy male scent that was just him. She lay there in it for a few minutes, then when the alarm went off. She got out of bed and turned it off. She made the bed and proceeded to get ready for work.

When she made it downstairs, she found the living room and kitchen empty with coffee ready in the pot. There wasn’t even a note. She had her answer. He already regretted having had sex with her. It hurt worse than she thought it would. She swallowed and forced herself to drink her coffee. She would need it to get through work today. She wasn’t hungry and skipped breakfast. Instead, she gathered her things for work, locked up the house and drove to work. She was adult enough to handle the situation. She just needed some time to do it was all.

By eight fifteen, she was well into her workflow when Jenna rapped on her door.

“Hi, Tina. How are you doing this morning?”

“Fine, fine. Just got an early start. How about you?” she asked.

“I’m okay. It looks like you slept better. That’s good. Having someone watch out for you must have helped,” she said.

“Yeah, I guess so.” Tina nearly missed that Jenna was wearing long sleeves.

“Jenna, come in and shut the door.”

“What?” She asked and closed the door behind her. “What’s wrong?”

“Let me see your arms, Jenna.”

“Tina, it’s not bad. He caught me when I was going to the store last night.”

“So show them to me.”

Jenna sighed and rolled up one of the sleeves. There were several angry looking bruises on her lower arm and again on the upper flesh as well. Jenna rolled her sleeve back down and sank into the chair across the desk from Tina.

“How did it happen?” Tina asked.

“I needed milk for my coffee this morning. I forgot it earlier. I made it to the car, but he was there waiting for me, I guess. He grabbed me and asked me why I wouldn’t go out with him anymore. I didn’t want to make him mad, so I just told him I didn’t feel like going out anymore right now.” She sighed and crossed her legs.

“He didn’t believe me. He shook me by the arms, and I think he might have hit me, but my neighbor and his wife came out to get in their car to go somewhere. He let go of me, I jumped in the car, and left.”

“Jenna, you’re getting a restraining order against him today. I mean it.”

“I am. I’ve already left a message at my lawyer’s office for him to call me.”

Tina relaxed. “Good.”

“How did you get that red mark on your neck?” Jenna asked innocently.

“Huh? What red mark?” Tina grabbed her purse off the floor and pulled out a mirror. She checked her neck, and sure enough, there was a small red mark on the side near her ear.

“Um, I don’t know. Must have been how I slept.”

“Uh huh. I’m buying that,” she said.

“It’s nothing, Jenna. Don’t make it into something it isn’t.”

“What isn’t it then?” she asked.

“It was just sex. I had a nightmare. He came to see about me. That’s all. One thing led to another and…well. We had sex.” Tina huffed out a breath. “It didn’t mean anything.”

“How do you know it didn’t?”

“Because, he didn’t bother sticking around to talk about it this morning. He was gone when I got up,” Tina admitted.

“Maybe he is just as confused about it as you are.”

“I’m not confused. I know it didn’t mean anything. I just wish he’d been man enough to stick around, is all.”

“Honey, he cares about you, or he wouldn’t be going to all this trouble to keep you safe.”

“Caring about me doesn’t mean he had to have sex with me. He didn’t have to do that.” Tina slammed closed a book she had been reading.

“Look, I need to get to work on a project I’m working on for research. We need to talk more about this. How about lunch today?” Jenna asked.

“Can we make it for tomorrow instead? I need to get this new account up and going, and I plan on working through lunch.” Tina rubbed her hand over her face.

“Sure. I’ll bring you something back, how about that?”

“Don’t bother. I’m not really hungry.”

“You’ve lost weight already. You really don’t need to lose anymore, Tina.”

“Oh, I’ve just lost a couple of pounds. I’ll put them back on again in no time. I’m fine, really I am. I’ll grab something out of vending when I get hungry.”

Jenna shrugged and left with the promise to check in with her after lunch. Tina nearly collapsed once the door was closed again. What was she going to do? She was a basket case over her next-door neighbor, she had a stalker trying to rape and kill her, and her best friend was being harassed by her ex-boyfriend. The one thing she could do was make sure she got that restraining order against the bastard.

Lunchtime came and went. At two in the afternoon, she chased Jenna down in the office library. “Did you talk to you lawyer?”

“Yeah and he is going to draw up the paperwork and file the papers for me. By Friday, Todd should be served with papers.”

“Good. You can stay with me Friday, and we’ll both have a bodyguard,” Tina said.

“Sounds good to me. How about making it a party. I’ll bring chips and dips, and movies. You can provide the beverages and TV.”

“Sounds like a plan,” Tina agreed. Now all she had to do was tell Logan.

She had no desire to go home that afternoon, so when five o’clock came, she continued working. At a quarter of six, her cell phone rang. She expected it to be Jenna, but it wasn’t. It was Logan.