Seducing the Professor (11 page)

Armed with her laptop, the manufactured chips and a sour attitude, she got in the rental
after breakfast and headed out to Silver Star Stud Ranch.

Lo and behold whose car was parked in front of the house
, but the glorious Gloria’s?  Alexandra’s heart cracked and she winced at the pain that tore through her.  She blinked the burning tears back and drove directly to the stables.

Samuel came to meet her and assisted carrying all the boxes to the designated lab area.
The specialized computer that Wade sent for the monitoring and analyzing of the chip would be set up in Samuel’s office for future use.

The whiny, syrupy, sweet voice of Gloria reached them the moment they entered the stable and Alexandra’s steps faltered.

“Your arms are so strong!  Oeh! You make me feel as light as a feather.  Hmm.”

They were in the middle of the passage in front of the second stable.  Paul held her high against his chest, his arm around her back and the other under her legs.  She held his face between her hands and he was kissing her.  Alexandra’s heart shattered into pieces.  The kiss was so steamy, they did not even notice them and Samuel glanced worriedly at the silent woman by his side.

She pulled her shoulders back and strode forward, making sure to avoid any contact with the kissing couple and nearly ran into Samuel’s office.  An excited whinny reached her ears as she passed the second last stall.  She threw the bags she carried down in Samuel’s office and ran to the stall, kneeling and wrapping her arms around the excited colt.  The tears running down her cheeks hidden in his soft fur.  She felt Blossom nuzzling her neck and she lifted her head. She smiled into the warm eyes of the mare and rubbed her nose.  She cleared her throat and laughed at the colt jumping in front of her.

“He has grown up so nicely, Blossom! You must be so proud!”

Her voice was soft and raspy from the tears and lump in her throat. 

“Oh … goodness, we did not realize there was someone here!”

Alexandra grunted, but ignored the comment and kept her back turned to the couple and Samuel that now stood in the stall entrance.  She cursed and willed them to walk away.  She started examining the colt’s teeth and gums and he stood quietly allowing her to probe him.  She pressed over his nose and frowned when she felt his glands were slightly swollen in his neck.

“Samuel, please bring me my stethoscope.”

She examined the glands behind his ears and they too were swollen.

“Are you feeling a little sick, baby?  Hmm?
”

Samuel handed her the stethoscope and she quickly listened to his lungs and heartbeat. She frowned and turned to Yellow Blossom, examining her as well, but was relieved that she showed no signs of swelling.

“Phone Brett, Samuel. Ask him to bring his mobile MRI scanner with.”

She turned, but kept her eyes lowered and squeezed past Samuel.

“Alexandra.  What is wrong?”

She stopped, took a deep breath and turned to face Paul.  Her eyes lifted to his and she caught her breath at the hard, angry glare in his.

“Please Shuttle, don’t let us keep you and your … lady.  As soon as Brett gets here and we have the answers, he will supply you with a full report.”

She swung around and walked away drawing on all her strength not to fall apart from seeing him with his arm around the glorious Gloria.

Paul cursed and looked down.  He stepped back irritably when he realized Gloria had stepped in under his arm and it appeared as if he was holding her.  He was already annoyed when she appeared out of the blue and jumped in his arms under the pretense of a mouse scare.

It was a damn stable!  What did she expect?  Grabbing his face and kissing him, angered him to no end and when he heard Alexandra’s voice every nerve in his body came alive.  Her anger and clear annoyance proof that she witnessed Gloria in his arms and the kiss.  He cursed again.

It took another thirty minutes before he managed to get rid of Gloria and he immediately stomped to the stable.  Anger slammed against his chest when he found Brett and Alexandra nearly wrapped around each other working the MRI.

“What the hell is going on in here?”

They startled, but Alexandra ignored him and continued to feed the cord they were battling with through a narrow slot.  Brett had his arms
around her, stabilizing the platform where the colt was standing on.

“We’re battling to get this damn cord through, without spooking the colt.  He is already becoming agitated.”

Paul walked closer and around the unit.  He took a pair of pliers from the wall unit and grabbed the edge of the cord just as Alexandra managed to push it through.  He pulled it through and took the connector Alexandra held out to him.  His annoyance growing that she remained within Brett’s circle of arms.

He quickly fixed the connector to the
end of the cord and found the plug and pushed it in.  The MRI purred to life.  He moved back and took hold of the platform and glared at Brett.

“You can let go now.”

Brett let go and stood upright.  Alexandra straightened and leaned closer to the monitor on the side of the MRI.  She frowned and shook her head.  She continued to ignore Paul and his anger boiled slowly higher and higher.

“Brett, come look here.  See this shadow there … it appears to be a tumor, but there!  Did you see that!  How did … you have to get all the water troughs tested. Immediately!”

“Is it what I think it is?”

“It’s a larva
e.  I just don’t know what kind, but with the swelling in the glands, it is clearly not just in the intestines and stomach. This one is in the bloodstream.  If we can identify what they are we can inoculate all the horses.  We have to be fast.  Certain larvae if it is heavy can be fatal.”

Paul cursed and assisted Brett with the foal as soon as Alexandra took a blood sample.  She walked to the lab directly and started analyzing the sample.  While the sample matured in the little oven and the analyzer whizzed with the other sample, she started analyzing the samples Samuel started bringing in from the water troughs.  The ones from the streams and dams were separated and color coded.

Hours later the lab was buzzing with all the machines running and Alexandra knew there was nothing further to do than wait.  She grabbed her bag and keys and walked to the rental parked outside the stable.

The lights inside the house were still on and she knew
Samuel, Brett and Paul were busy marking all the water sites on the Ranch to ensure they tested all of them.  She got in the car and drove off.  Her phone rang just as she got into bed after a hot shower.  She picked it up and hesitated noticing it was Paul.  She sighed and answered the phone.

“Hello.”

“Where are you?”

“At the hotel.”

The silence that followed sizzled with his anger and she winced.  The line went dead.  She gaped at the phone.

“Damn you Paul Shuttle!  You
and your damn glorious Gloria!”

She just slumbered off when a loud banging on the door woke her.  She got such a fright she nearly fell off the bed.

“Open this door, Alexandra!”

She sat gaping at the door in the dark.  Was the man daft!  He was making such a ruckus he probably had every guest in the hotel awake already.  He banged on the door again and rattled the door handle.

“Alexandra!”

She ran to the door and stood in front of it with her hands on her hips.

“Are you crazy?  You’ve just woken up all the guests!”

“Open this door!”

“Go away!  I am tired and want to sleep!”

He rattled and banged on the door again.

“Paul!  For goodness sake, please stop that!”

“If you don’t open the
door right this minute, I am going to kick it down.”

“Okay! Alright!”

She mumbled as she unlocked the door. She threw it open and stood glaring at him with her legs spread and her arms crossed.  He stormed inside, picked her up and slammed the door closed behind him.  She flew through the air when he threw her on the bed and she gasped for breath.  The next moment he was naked on top of her and he plunged inside her depths, her oversized tee-shirt ripped off over her head.

She cried with shock at the unexpectedness of it, but also at the ease with which her body accepted him.  She struggled immediately and pushed against his chest.

“Get off me, you oaf!  What’s the matter?  Did glorious Gloria not satisfy your rampant desires?  No Paul!  I said get off me!”

He ignored her and p
ressed her deeper into the bed forcing her channel to stretch and accept more of him.  His breathing was haggard and his eyes glittered in the dark.

“Gloria is not a patch on you, Blondie.”

She screeched and hit him against his shoulder with her fists.  He grabbed her hands and pulled them over her head and held them down with one of his.  He took her chin between his fingers and turned her face to his.  He cursed when it was too dark and he reached over to switch on the bedside lamp.

Light flooded the room in soft hues and his eyes bored into hers.  She struggled and tried to throw him off her body.  He laughed and she glared at him when she felt him swell even bigger inside her with her continued struggles.

“Let me go!”

He looked into her eyes and pulled his shaft back, nearly all the way and the
n plunged back hard.  Her eyes widened and she gasped.  He kept her eyes captive and started to thrust, hard and fast, driving his shaft with ruthless direction upward inside her. He felt the quiver of her muscles around his shaft, the panting of her breath against his chest and he stopped.

“Tell me now to let you go.”

Alexandra drew tortured breaths into her lungs, her whole body was on fire.  Her channel throbbed and the pressure inside her gripped her ruthlessly.

“Go …
ttoo ... hell!”

His eyes darkened and he slowly lowered his hand to circle her nipple and she bit her lip.  He flicked his thumb over the nipple and her breath hissed in her throat. 

“You are going to come for me, Alexandra … and when we get home … you will keep coming until I decide when you’ve had enough.”

“No … you are … crazy!  
Ahhh!”

He leaned down and p
ulled her nipple in his mouth and suckled.  He swopped from the one to the other and she cried.  He started to thrust, hard and fast.  Alexandra felt her whole body burst into flames and arched her back.  She screamed, the climax gripping her so hard she could not breathe.  Her organs stopped and all she felt was the clamping of her muscles around Paul’s plunging shaft.  Desperately clawing through her release.  He plunged hard and then shouted, throwing his head back as he followed her with a shattering climax of his own.

It took a while for them to get their breaths back.  Paul let her hands go and lifted on his elbows, looking down at her.  She glared at him and pushed against his chest.

“Get off me!”

He sighed and the anger he tore into the room with, returned fully.  He withdrew from her and got up.  He walked the bathroom and cleaned himself up.  He returned and threw a cloth at her.

“Get dressed.”

He started dressing and hesitated when she pulled the sheet up to cover her, glowering at him.  He snapped his jeans shut and straightened to his full height.

“Be warned, Alexandra.  I will carry you out of here buck naked.  I have had it with this damned attitude of yours!  You have a lot of explaining to do and I have run out of patience!”

“Me! Of all the gall!  I am not going with you!  I do not need to stay at the Ranch to do my job.”

He picked his shirt up from the floor and pulled it over his head.  He ran his hands though his hair and walked towards her.  She sat up straighter, clutching the sheet against her.  He ripped the sheet from her hands and picked her up in his arms.  He turned and headed to the door.

“PAUL!  Stop!  You are crazy!”

He ignored her and opened the door, he stepped into the hallway and she grabbed him around his neck, hiding her face in his throat. He kept walking.

“Please, honey!  Don’t do this to me!”

“Will you get dressed and go back home with me?”

“I don’t need to stay … No …
” He kept walking.  “YES!  Yes!  Please go back to the room!”

He stopped and looked down at her.  Her face buried in his neck.  He sighed.

“Look at me Alexandra.”

She lifted her head and looked at him.  Her blue eyes swimming in tears.

“You are coming home and you are going to stay there until … well … we’ll sort that out later.  I don’t want to have to look for you here again.  Is that clear?”

“Yes.”

He turned around and walked back into her room, kicking the door closed behind him.  He lowered her legs to the floor, but held her tight against him.  He fisted his hand in the hair at the nape of her neck and twisted her head back.  His lips covered hers and he kissed her deeply, immediately going deep and drinking from her as if starved.  He ended the kiss and released her.  She swung around and headed for the bathroom.  She took some time to get her emotions under control before she walked back into the room.  Paul was busy packing her clothes in her suitcase.

She grabbed clean underwear and pulled on jeans and a check shirt with sneakers.  The trip back to the Ranch was done in silence.  Each of them immersed in their own thoughts.

At the Ranch, Paul carried her luggage directly up the stairs and turned to his room.  Alexandra stopped and glowered at him.  He could not take over and make decisions on her behalf!

“I want to stay in my own room.”

“Not an option.”  He did not even stop or turn around.

“Paul!  I am not going to stay in your room!”

He ignored her and disappeared into his room down the passage.  She stood glaring after him at the top of the stairs.  He appeared in the doorway.

“It is late.  Do you really want to aggravate me any further tonight?”

She clamped her lips together and folded her arms over her chest.

“You are not listening to me.  I am not staying in your room!  I am sure Gloria would be quite upset if she arrived here and found me there.”

The expletive that echoed down the passage made her flinch and then she turned and ran down the stairs.  He caught her the moment she took the last step and threw her over his shoulder.  He marched back up the stairs and whacked her so hard on her bum when she struggled, she got tears in her eyes.

He put her down in the center of his room after he kicked the door closed behind him.  He turned away and started to undress.  He speared her a glare when she did not move.

“Get naked, Alexandra.  I told you, I am not done with you yet.”

She scowled at him.

“You are totally demented if you for one moment believe I will spread my legs for you again!  You made it very clear this morning that sweet Gloria is now the new flavor!”

He folded his clothes away neatly and turned to her.  She slapped his hands away when he reached for the buttons of her shirt.

“Leave me alone!”

He lost his pat
ience and took the two edges of the shirt at the top and ripped the shirt open, buttons flying everywhere.  Her bra followed and when she headed for the bathroom he picked her up and threw her on the bed.  Before she even settled on it, he had her jeans and sneakers off.  She panted and pulled up against the headboard. 

“You are a jackass, Paul Shuttle!  A medieval jackass!”

“Well then, let me not disappoint you.”

He grabbed her leg and pulled her to the middle of the bed.  She struggled and aim
ed a kick at him with her other foot, but he grabbed it too and flipped her over on her stomach.  She screeched and cursed him when he tore her panties and pulled them off.  He lifted her hips and the next moment she cried in shock and froze.

Paul’s mouth settled over her sheath and he pushed his tongue inside her wet heat.  The heat that rushed through her nearly incinerated her.  She clawed at the sheets and took deep choppy breaths.  He
r core throbbed with every sweep of his tongue deep inside her.

“
Nooo … you … ohlordohlordohlord!”

She felt boneless and when he flipped her on her back again she did not even think to struggle.  He lowered his head between her thighs again and slowly licked up and down her clit.  He pushed his shoulders under her legs and his hands closed around her breasts, gently kneading, caressing and flicking over her nipples.  His tongue stroking her clit relentlessly.  He licked a long slow path over her outer lips, all the way down and then back up, slipping inside on the way back.  Alexandra keened helplessly, the feelings he generated with his wicked tongue and finge
rs engulfing her so that she felt as if a volcano has come alive inside her.