After the fire was down to embers, Massimo said, âI think itâs time for bed.â
It was still early, around 8 PM⦠but I was tired from hiking all afternoon, and the brandy had made me sleepy. I agreed without a fight.
Massimo led the way into one of the smaller bedrooms. The only light now was what little moonlight filtered through the trees outside. And without the fire to warm me, I was quickly growing cold.
âIf you need anything, Iâll be right next door,â he said, then started to walk out.
I pulled back the covers and felt the sheets. âThe bedâs fucking freezing,â I complained.
He looked back at me. âWell, the other option is sleeping next to me again, and neither of us wants that, soâ¦â
âGreat,â I muttered.
âJust wear a full set of clothes to bed. Youâll warm up soon enough.â
He waited for me to say something else. When I didnât, he added, âGoodnight,â and then walked out.
I could hear the floorboards creaking under his heavy footsteps as he went into the next room.
I sat on the edge of the bed and pulled off my boots. I would have loved to have taken a shower, but I was not going to suffer through the icy cold water, so that option was out.
I crawled under the freezing sheets and lay there, trying to will the bed to get warm.
Didnât work.
And now that I was lying down, I started to get bothered by the tightness of my clothes.
The yoga pants and sports bra were fine when I was up and about, but now they felt like they were constricting me⦠like they were made of rubber bands and were pressing into my skin.
I liked comfort when I slept, and this wasnât it.
I had a choice: comfortable and cold, or uncomfortable with a tiny bit of warmth.
I chose comfortable and cold.
I got out of bed and quickly stripped down to my thong. Once my sports bra was off, I put my t-shirt back on for what little heat it still offered and got back under the covers.
The ice-cold, freezing covers.
As I lay there shivering, I tried to distract myself by thinking about what had happened since dinner.
More than anything, I thought back to Massimoâs apology for getting me into this mess.
Nobody in my entire life had ever said they were sorry.
Nonaâs number one rule in life was Never apologize for anything.
Her mafia goons? They didnât apologize to me for shit.
The nuns in the convent had been even worse. If they fucked up, they blamed me for it instead.
Nobody else in my life had ever apologized.
None of my friends, none of the guys Iâd ever slept with â
â¦but Massimo had.
That affected me in a way I couldnât explain.
Iâ¦
I almost felt like I wanted to cry.
It was probably just the brandy.
Or maybe the talk of how Massimoâs mother and father had died.
I could still hear the pain in his voice.
Grief was to be expected with his father. After all, it had been â what, a year? Maybe less?
But when he talked about his mother, it was like sheâd died only a short time ago, too.
Heâd sounded so sad, it made me want to cry even more.
So when heâd told me he was sorryâ¦
It meant something to me.
A memory came back to me: the one time in my life Nona had ever said she was sorry.
I was six years old⦠right after it happened.
I remember Nona took me in her arms and rocked me.
Her voice was so sadâ¦
Iâm so sorry, my sweet girl⦠Iâm so sorryâ¦
I felt myself spiraling down into darkness and grief.
I tried to push it out of my mind â
But I couldnât.
I felt the first warnings of a panic attack coming on.
I tried to concentrate on my breathing â
But it just made it worse.
I tried concentrating on the noises around me â
But all I heard was the creak of wood and the sighing of the wind outside.
I felt totally and completely aloneâ¦
And I couldnât bear it.
I would rather die than be alone.
I slipped out of bed and walked down the hall to Massimoâs room.
I opened the door. I didnât bother to knock because I didnât want him to tell me to go away.
âMassimo?â
Moonlight shone through his window, and I could both see and hear him shift under the covers as he looked over at me.
âWhat?â he asked, obviously annoyed.
âCan I get in bed with you?â I asked, my voice trembling.
âWhy?â he snapped.
I didnât want to tell him the real reason, so I just went with the obvious.
âIâm cold.â
I could feel his eyes roving over me in the moonlight.
âPut on some pants,â he said.
âItâs uncomfortable to sleep in.â
âSo go to the other bedroom and grab an extra blanket.â
âItâs still freezing.â
He was angry. âLucia â â
âLook, I just â Iâm scared, okay? I donât want to be alone.â I paused. âAND Iâm freezing.â
He sighed, obviously irritated. âNo bullshit, alright? No flirting, no grab-ass, no rubbing up against me â none of that. Got it?â
At first I said, âOkay, yeah, whatever â â
But the words stung.
I was trying to get away from horrible memories â from a feeling of crushing loneliness â
And he thought it was all about him. Cuz he was just so hawt â
My anger temporarily overwhelmed my fear and sadness.
âYou know what?â I snapped. âNever mind.â
I turned to go â
âLucia,â he growled, his voice dark.
I stopped, my hand on the doorknob.
Iâd never heard him use that tone of voice before.
Deep and angry⦠with an edge of something darker underneath.
It made my heart skip a beatâ¦
And not necessarily in a bad way.
ââ¦what,â I whispered.
âGet in the fucking bed.â
My heart didnât just skip a beat this timeâ¦
It hammered in my chest.
I padded over nervously and slipped under the covers.
Still cold as fucking ice, though.
âCan I⦠can I get up next to you?â I asked.
âNo. Stay there.â
I didnât say anythingâ¦
But as the cold seeped deeper into my body, my teeth started chattering. No joke.
âYouâre doing that on purpose,â he snarled.
âIâm not,â I said as my teeth clacked.
Then my body started shaking.
Massimo groaned, then said, âAlright. FINE.â
I hurriedly scooted underneath the covers and pressed my body up against his.
His back was turned to me, and I pressed my own back to his.
He was only wearing his boxers again, and my ass and legs pressed against a lot of his bare skin.
Plus his astoundingly perfect ass.
AHHHHHHHH.
My teeth stopped chattering and my body stopped trembling.
âYou really are like a furnace,â I said as my entire body relaxed from the heat.
âMrm,â he grunted.
We lay like that for a while⦠and I thought about what heâd said in front of the fire.
And I started to feel a little weepy again.
I thought about saying Thank you for saying youâre sorry, but it felt a little weird⦠bringing up that specific thing from an hour beforeâ¦
So I did the next best thing I could think of.
âIâm⦠sorry about your uncle. And your mom. And your dad.â
It came out a little stilted.
I guess that was to be expected. When I said that nobody had ever apologized to me before, the flip side was that Iâd never apologized to anybody, either.
I guess I wasnât apologizing, though, so much as offering sympathy.
He lay there in silence for a few seconds.
Then he said, ââ¦thank you. And like I said, Iâm sorry I put you in the middle of all this.â
âItâs okay,â I said, then immediately realized that wasnât exactly true. âI mean, itâs not okay â it sucks â but itâs not your fault. I mean, it is your fault, but⦠you didnât mean to.â
That did not come out the way Iâd wanted.
His voice turned sarcastic. âThank you for understanding.â
As I warmed up, I began noticing more and more the gorgeous swell of his ass pressed against my body.
From there, I started thinking about him swinging the ax.
His arm muscles swellingâ¦
His chest bulgingâ¦
His back muscles ripplingâ¦
And I thought about the big, firm, solid shape along his thigh under his jeans.
Oh God â
I tried to distract myself by talking.
âWhat do you thinkâs going to happen?â
He sounded puzzled. âWhat do you mean?â
âI mean⦠do you think your uncleâs looking for you? For us?â
âI donât know. But we canât take any chances.â
âWhatâs going to happen with my grandmother?â
âIâm going to get you back home to her safely.â
I frowned. âBut⦠somethingâs got to be going on. Otherwise, youâd be taking me to her now instead of us hiding out in the woods.â
âYou saw the mercenaries in that boat that was chasing us.â
âYeah, but â why would they still be hanging around? Unless â â
âItâs going to be fine. Weâre just using an abundance of caution, thatâs all.â
I smirked in the darkness. âYouâre an abundantly cautious person, arenât you.â
âNot always, no.â
âI find that hard to believe.â
âBelieve whatever you want.â
My backside was nice and toasty now⦠but my front was cold, so I turned around.
I guess you could say I was the big spoon, and he was the little spoonâ¦
Except he was the most gigantic âlittle spoonâ there had ever been, and I was a tiny âbig spoonâ next to him.
But I could feel his ass pressed right up against my pelvis.
Oh Godâ¦
I wanted SO MUCH to grab itâ¦
I contented myself with lifting my shirt so I could press my cold stomach against his warm back.
âLucia,â he said in a pissed-off voice.
âWhat?â I asked defensively, although I knew what he was about to say.
âI said no bullshit.â
âThis isnât bullshit â Iâm just trying to get warm.â
âYou lifted up your shirt.â
âMy tits are still covered!â I snapped.
âAnd theyâre pressed against my back!â
âOhhhh, Iâm so sorry I have body parts.â
âYou know what? This isnât working out. Go back to your room.â
Back in my room, it was freezing â
And there were bad memories.
Memories I would do anything to escape.
âNo,â I said defiantly.
He jerked around so he could glare at me. âGet OUT.â
At this point I couldnât exactly back down, so I said, âYou wanna be alone so bad, you go get in the other bed. This oneâs warm.â
âThose twin beds are tiny â this one is barely big enough for me â â
âWhatever,â I said angrily, and turned my back towards him. âThere, my tits arenât up against you anymore â happy?â
âNo. Get out. NOW.â
âWhy donât YOU fuck OFF.â
And thatâs when he scared the shit out of me.
He jumped up out of bed and ripped the sheets off of me.
âI said GET OUT!â
But heâd made a mistake.
In the moonlight from the window, I could see everything.
He had a hard-on â
And God what a hard-on it was.
It was still contained within his black underwear, but it was jutting off to the side â and it was so big and long that it was pulling the waistband of his boxers away from his body.
âHoly shit,â I exclaimed â then laughed. âSo THATâS what this is all about.â
âWhat WHATâS all about?!â
I snorted. âYouâre turned on and hard as a rock â and youâre too much of a pussy to do anything about it.â
Wrong thing to say.
That set him off big-time.
He scowled like he was going to murder me â
Then grabbed my right ankle and effortlessly yanked me to the edge of the bed.
He moved me so fast that I felt the friction burn of the sheets against my skin.
Not gonna lie, being manhandled like that made me feel warmth somewhere else, too â
But I was pissed off and a little afraid, so I lashed out instead.
I kicked out my left leg and screamed, âI HATE YOU!â
Unluckily for me, my foot connected with his stomach.
I would have said âunluckily for him,â but he probably barely felt it. It was like kicking a slightly softer version of a brick wall.
It was very unlucky for me, though, because it enraged him further.
He jerked my right ankle over the left and flipped me onto my stomach.
I scrambled to get away from him â
But my ass was sticking up in the air â
And he smacked it.
This wasnât him spanking me when I was over his shoulder at the university, telling me to shut up.
This was him slapping my ass â
HARD.
âAAAAH!â I screamed.
It hurt â
But it also hurt SO good.
Something deep between my legs vibrated.
I wasnât just turned on by the adrenaline and the sensation, though â
I was turned on that heâd actually done something.
I looked over my shoulder at him.
He seemed a little shocked by what heâd doneâ¦
But he was staring at my ass like he was a starving man and it was a big olâ piece of cake.
Part of what I said next came out of my being turned onâ¦
But it also came from those memories of him humiliating me in front of all those university students.
âThatâs all youâre gonna do, huh,â I said, my voice dripping with contempt.
That snapped him out of his reverie.
He glared at me, his eyes blazing with hatred. âYouâre a little fucking brat.â
âAnd youâre a fucking coward.â
I swear I could see sparks of rage in his eyes.
But he didnât do anything.
So I pressed my upper body down on the bedâ¦
Which just poked my ass up in the air even more.
My t-shirt had long since slid halfway down my back, and I only had on my thong â which meant he could see all of me.
He drank me in with his eyes. He was breathing heavily â I could see his chest heaving in the moonlight.
âI know you want me⦠but youâre too afraid of an old woman to take what you want,â I sneered.
âFUCK YOU,â he growled.
âWell, you wonât,â I said matter-of-factly.
He narrowed his eyes. âI told you, you couldnât handle my cock.â
âSo do something else⦠pussy.â
That did it.
He reared back his hand and spanked me again â hard.
âOH!â I cried out â this time more from pleasure than pain.
I turned back to look at him and hissed, âI hate you.â
âIâll bet you do,â he snarled as he took my ass cheeks in both his handsâ¦
And started kneading them.
Squeezing them.
Clutching them.
Oh fuckâ¦
I was getting so turned onâ¦
And I wanted more.
Luckily, I seemed to have found the phrase that made him give it to me.
And at the moment, it was the Godâs honest truth.
âI hate you,â I sneered.
SMACK!
âOh!â I cried out as my forehead dropped to the mattress. âI HATE you!â
SMACK!
âOH! I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU â â
Smack! Smack! Smack!
The spankings were lighter this time â
And only one hand.
With the other, he was grabbing and cupping and squeezing my ass cheeks.
âI so fucking hate youâ¦â I gasped.
I felt him move the string of my thong aside a couple of inches.
My eyes widened as I tensed for what came next â
But instead, there was the lightest touch imaginableâ¦
The softest brush of one fingertip along the lips of my pussy.
âOhhhhhhhhh,â I groaned as he caressed me between my legs.
I was already dripping wet⦠I knew I was⦠and I could feel him spreading my wetness along my skin.
âI hate youâ¦â I whisperedâ¦
Thatâs when I felt his finger part me and slowly sink inside.
âOH!â I cried out.
His oversized finger was actually bigger than some of the guyâs cocks Iâd had inside me.
Not nearly enough to fill me upâ¦
But definitely enough to make me feel good.
And then he made me feel better.
He began to curl his finger downward, over and overâ¦
Stroking my g-spot.
I gripped the sheets in my fists.
âUnnnnnhhhhh,â I moaned.
âTouch yourself,â he said, his voice hoarse.
ââ¦w-what?â I gasped.
âTouch your clit,â he ordered, his voice dark and smoky.
I panted as I reached up between my legs with my right hand, moved aside my thong, and began to rub my clit.
âOh fuckâ¦â I moaned as he continued to stroke my g-spot.
Suddenly his finger pulled out of my pussy.
âAw man, now I really hate you,â I snarled.
Iâd been feeling so good â it had been so hot â
And then I heard a wet slurping sound.
I glanced over my shoulder to see him pulling two fingers out of his mouth â
Which he immediately slid inside me.
âOH GOD!â I cried out.
One of his fingers had been bigger than some of the guys Iâd slept withâ¦
But two of his fingers were thicker than all but a few of the guys Iâd fucked.
And none of them had been able to magically curl their cocks to stroke my g-spot at the same time.
I whimpered as his fingers filled me up and stroked that delicious place inside me.
âOh god, I hate youâ¦â I whispered.
âTouch yourself,â he commanded.
I went back to rubbing myself.
I was so wet now that my juices were dripping down onto my fingersâ¦
And I was so turned on that I could rub myself faster and harder.
I moaned in ecstasy as I felt an amazing pressure build up inside of me.
Iâd squirted before â but always on my own. Never with a guy.
This felt totally different⦠like I was slightly out of control⦠like he was the one in charge of my body, and I just had to hang on for the ride.
The muscles in my belly and thighs started to tighten as I approached orgasm â
And then he pulled out of me again.
Half of the pleasure went out of me like a tire deflating.
âOh, come ON!â I yelled, angry as hell â
And then I felt his hands on my ass.
His fingers were grabbing the strands of my thong â
Rrrrrrrip.
He tore it to pieces.
I felt it slide wetly over my skin as he pulled it off me and cast it aside.
âWHAT THE FUCK, DUDE?!â I shouted as I raised my head â
But one massive hand pushed me back down on the mattress.
âYOU FUCKING â â I yelled â
And then I felt his thick fingers slide back inside me and start stroking my spot again.
âOh fuckâ¦â I moaned.
And then something else happened.
Something hot and soft and very wet touched delicately between my ass cheeks.
My eyes nearly bugged out of my head.
âUm â Massimo â â
âTouch yourself,â he growled.
âBut â â
âTOUCH YOURSELF.â
I began touching my clit half-heartedly. I was too distracted by what was going to come next â
And then it did.
His tongue gently touched my assholeâ¦
Circled me softly⦠gentlyâ¦
And then eased inside me.
Hotâ¦
Softâ¦
Wetâ¦
Oh fuck.
My eyes rolled back in my head as I groaned.
âOhhhhhhhh⦠oh, I fucking hate youâ¦â I whimpered.
His tongue withdrew to the soft, wet tip â
Then plunged inside me.
âOh FUCK I hate youâ¦â I groaned as I began to rub my clit harder.
All the while, he was stroking my g-spot as his two fingers completely filled me up.
Then his tongue began to â
How do I put this?
Thereâs really no other way to say it:
He began fucking my ass with his tongue.
His face slammed against my ass cheeksâ¦
And his tongue plunged deep inside me.
Iâd tried anal once. It had been with the guy Iâd seen the longest.
Once had been enough.
Painful and not fun.
But thisâ¦
His tongue was so soft and wet that there wasnât any painâ¦
Just pure pleasure.
And his fingertips stroking my g-spot â
And the girth of his fingers filling up my pussy â
All while I rubbed my clit â
As his face slapped against my ass and his tongue tickled deep inside me.
I was building up to an epic orgasm â I could feel it.
I was going higher, higher, higher as his tongue slammed into me, and his fingers stroked me, and he completely filled up my pussy â
And suddenly I was coming.
And not in a way Iâd ever felt before.
I squirted â that gushing release â
But at the same time I had a clitoral orgasm, sweet and throbbing â
But something else happened, too.
I think maybe I had an anal orgasm.
Maybe it was just the extra sensation while he was fucking my ass with his tongue, and it all kind of combined together in one swirling cloud of pleasure â
But either way, it was fucking awesome.
My ass started quivering and trembling as pleasure filled every bit of me below the waist.
I screamed as I came, jetting out a stream of fluid I knew was splashing his chest and soaking the sheets beneath me â
And I didnât care.
All I cared about was the overwhelming pleasure slamming through me from head to toe.
Iâd never felt anything like that before. Never.
Not by myselfâ¦
And certainly not with a guy.
Then it became too much â oversensitive and almost painful â
âSTOP!â I shrieked.
His tongue immediately stopped.
His fingers quit stroking me and slowly withdrew from my pussy.
I lay there on the bed, my face sideways, my cheek smashed into the sheet, as I panted and moaned.
Aftershocks pulsed through meâ¦
My legs trembled uncontrollablyâ¦
And my brain was mush. I wouldnât have been able to remember my own name if youâd asked me.
ââ¦I⦠fucking⦠hate⦠youâ¦â
Although the way I said it, it was like I LOVE you.
Not that I did.
Love him, I mean.
That would be fuckinâ crazy.
I just⦠said it like that.
And as I lay there panting and trying to get my brain functioning again, I heard the sound of cloth dropping to the floorâ¦
And a sentence that both insanely turned me onâ¦
And made me a little afraid, too.
âAlright,â Massimo growled in his deep voice. âNow youâre ready for my cock.â