form.
“Ashley’s coming home, Amanda. Don’t you ever try to manipulate me or control me again, or there will be consequences,” she fell meekly into a hot surrender slumber. Unprepared, she groaned out loud over and over as he slammed his body into her again and again. Finally, he moaned and Amanda slid her hand underneath their bodies to feel his scrotum tighten and throb as it emptied everything she wanted deep into her body. She felt his solid shaft explode and release his seed into her centre, claiming her as his own territory once again, and Amanda didn’t mind one bit. Eyes closed, defeated, she smiled.
Such a bastard… such a bastard… she thought. But she loved him all the same.
Much later, she walked down the stairs, sore and gently swaying from the drink.
Luke looked at her. “Have fun?”
She didn’t reply.
“He’s asleep, Luke.”
“What?”
“This is all going to go wrong. It’s already wrong and it’s going to get worse.”
Luke said nothing, but eventually he nodded. A single solitary nod. “So, what are you going to do to stop him?”
It was a rhetorical question, since right there and then, neither one felt able to do a thing about Brandon.
“I’ve never seen him like this before…” said Amanda. “He’s so… dangerous…” and a little while later, Luke nodded again. It was a single nod, but to Amanda it spoke volumes. Everything was changing. They knew it, and they didn’t know what to do about it.
Eight
Cody spent a lot of time fighting with himself in the wipe clean décor of his First Lodge room. He cussed himself for a while for letting Ashley go when he should have insisted she stayed with him. Then he cussed himself for being so double minded about his women. Joanna’s text message lodged a speck of hesitation into his mind at the very moment when he had wanted to feel Ashley’s naked warmth beside him, the sweet taste of her kisses, the softness of her skin, and the joy of looking into her eyes as he entered her body. And then there was Joanna, who had never committed to him but she had given her body to Cody and taken his readily. Sexy Joanna, the woman who pleasured him and gave him what he needed, and who he enjoyed watching when she closed her eyes in climax, her face flushed and her brunette hair taking on that ruffled, just-been-screwing look. Joanna was good in bed. And her text had pleaded for him to not do anything hasty.
“I miss you Cody. Don’t end this. Not like this.”
Words which were a stumbling block to his desire for Ashley. Man, Joanna was good, but Ashley was something different altogether. He compared being with Joanna like eating delicious gourmet fast food. It was a gourmet burger with all the trimmings and then some, the finest cheese, the best Aberdeen Angus beef. It was a great experience, but it was still fast food all the same, no matter how much it hit the spot. Ashley was no career woman. She was not a literary agent with the power to make him a star. She was no supermodel, but damn she had more than that. She had style, sparkle, and a real beauty all over her. Genuine beauty in her face and a special beauty which emanated from deep within. He enjoyed Joanna. He liked her, but he couldn’t decide how to reply to her text. Back in her London office he had been so sure they were finished. But the text tripped him up. But how could he go back to her? Joanna was excitement, enjoyment, and sensual indulgence, but Ashley offered depth, exploration, fulfilment, and an unknown and possibly amazing future which excited him every time he thought about it. If only Ashley had stayed with him Joanna’s text wouldn’t have bothered him at all. For a half hour he sat thinking about the ‘arrangement’ with Joanna and the vast, beautiful unknowns ahead of him and Ashley. He did know that sex with Ashley was beyond enjoyment. Their mating had sometimes seemed beyond words. It was like a metaphor for something beyond them. It
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