Carson had gotten the message from Kelli and had heeded her every word. It wasn’t every day a woman he was dating went to a family dinner with her mafia boss father and sent him a text that people were coming to kill him.

 

He ended up in a cheap hotel on the outskirts of the city, and he waited until he got a call from Kelli. He told her where he was, but he wondered how smart that was. She could be followed or she could just be turning him in. Blood is thicker than water; he grew up knowing that, and since he’d never had any blood to test that theory, he was going to have to just take for granted that it was true.

 

The knock on the door had him drawing his gun although he shouldn’t have. The type of people who were supposed to be looking for him wouldn’t be knocking on the door. They’d just bust in, do what they wanted, and then leave, but not before taking some piece of him for proof that he was killed. He knew the procedure. Hell, that was his procedure.

 

He opened the door and found Kelli looking like a shaking leaf. Pulling her inside, he scanned the parking lot briefly to see if anyone was out there.

 

“No one followed me because I doubt they know I’m gone. I threw my phone away before I got here because you never know who’s tracking my phone.” She held on to him so tight that he could feel her shivering like he himself was shivering.

 

“It’s okay, honey. What happened?” He tried to wrap her in a hug to warm her up.

 

“I’m so sorry,” she said as she pulled him down to kiss her. Whatever he’d been expecting it hadn’t been this.

 

“Sorry about what?” he asked as he watched what she was doing to him.

 

She was pulling his shirt out of his pants and unbuckling his jeans. It didn’t appear that she was even trying to answer him and that surprised him. Sex with them was always great, but it felt like she was using it as an apology, and she had nothing to apologize for. He stopped her flurry of hands and kisses and looked into her eyes.

 

“I’ve had a shitty night, and I just want to feel good. It’s getting late so I’ll spend the night here. We can talk about whatever you want to talk about when we’re done. I just need… I need you, now.”

 

He could tell that it took a lot for her to get those words out of her mouth, so he knew her desires were strong and real. Doing what was best for her was his top priority if for no other reason than if it weren’t for her he’d probably be dead at this moment.

 

“Alright, Kelli. Whatever you need, if I’m able, I’ll give it to you.”

 

“Thank you,” she said as he let her have her way with him.

 

He wanted to help her with her clothes, but she seemed not to want his help and shooed him away each time he tried. Eventually she had both of their clothes off, and she’d done it with such speed and passion she was almost out of breath. He didn’t know what this was about, but what he did know was his cock was standing at attention, waiting to find out what she wanted to do next.

 

She pulled him by his hand over to the bed as she lay back on the bed with her legs spread.

 

This wasn’t what he thought she was gearing up for, but he was more than ready to service her if that’s what she wanted right now. “Do you want me to kiss your pussy?” He wanted her to tell him what she wanted because she was acting so different than she normally did.

 

“Yes,” she said as she rolled her hips like it wouldn’t take much for her to go over the top. This was one of the sexiest situations he’d ever witnessed. It could have been just that his mortality has been threatened or that his heart beat hadn’t gone down in a few hours, but he wanted to make this night last for as long as it could. The daylight would bring its own problems.

 

He leaned down on the bed and slid his hands under her body taking a butt cheek in each hand so he could spread her wide and devour her. She was whimpering before he’d even got his mouth on her, and she was so wet her pussy glistened. Her sweet aroma was always so faint but not now. Her smell tickled his nose and made his mouth water with the need to taste her. Was she in the mood to be teased and cajoled? Not really, but maybe that’s what she really needed. A quick release was always pleasurable, but you could get those by yourself. He wanted to thank her, please her, and feel what he really wanted to say through his mouth.

 

She placed her hand on the back of his head and brought him to her. He grazed her sex softly with his lips and moved his head from side to side opening her up to him so he could get to the needy flesh that needed soothed.

 

“Don’t tease me, Carson,” she whispered.

 

“Just lay back and let me enjoy this. You’ve had a rough day so let me make it better.” He hadn’t taken his eyes off her face since she lay down. She had picked her head up to make her requests, but she must have taken his advice and decided to just go with the flow because she lay her head back like she was going to try to relax.

 

The shivering he’d noticed when she was at the door had subsided, and he hoped it was because she now felt the arousal starting to grow within her body. The anticipation he was building was hopefully one of the things that was going to make this better for her and in turn better for him.

 

His touch was a little firmer so she was getting a good bit of stimulation but not enough to send her over the edge. Licking from her opening up to the bundle of nerves and then sucking that bud into his mouth is what he’d been doing for the last few minutes. Judging how fast or slow he should be going by the rhythm of her breathing, his hands palmed her breasts and squeezed her nipples as he tried to make this a full body connection.

 

One last lick down to taste the sweet nectar she was producing for him was all he was going to do for her. She needed this to be drawn out, and he’d done that. Now his sweet woman deserved to come hard. Making it up to the top of her cleft the last time, he sucked her clit into his mouth and kissed it like it was a little tongue. Kelli seemed to really like that as she drew her legs back and up so he’d have more than enough room. She fucked her hips up to his mouth and murmured the unknown language of passion. What she was saying he didn’t know, but it made his cock harder than stone.

 

He’d never heard her get as loud during sex as he had when she finally broke and her orgasm over took her. It was a good thing he had a strong neck because it was like she was trying to break it. He held on while she arched up onto his mouth and enjoyed the ride. It took a while for her to finish, and he lightened his touch during the aftershocks of her pleasure.

 

“Your turn,” she said as she pushed him off her and then stood up by the bed.

 

“You want me to lay down now?”

 

She looked like a sated kitten, and he absolutely loved it. He considered this a job well done. Carson had wanted to comfort the woman who helped him and was left shaking by his door as she ran across town from what he didn’t know but that she had come to him left him wanting to do something for her.

 

“Yes,” she said sounding much more confident and comfortable. This was the Kelli he knew, and he was glad to see her back to normal.

 

Laying down for her wasn’t a problem, and he wondered what she had planned. Not that he was picky. He’d love his cock in her mouth or sliding into the pussy he’d just tasted.

 

She settled on her knees and placed kisses from his groin to his neck. It looked like she was going to try her hand at the art of teasing. He loved having it all drawn out, but he liked a quick nut as well. With this woman, he liked whatever she did, but the light sucking kisses she was anointing his body with were building him up even more. When she got to his face she just stared down at him like she wanted him to say something or she wanted to get something off her chest. He had a cock as hard as a rock but this was her show and if she wanted to say something he was willing to listen.

 

“What?” he said and was surprised when she smiled big at him.

 

“You are always so patient. I wanted to see how long it would take you to say something.” She said as she straddled him.

 

“So we’re playing games now?”

 

“You weren’t playing with me with all those slow licks and long pauses?” she countered, and he had to laugh. This woman knew how to sneak a bit of revenge into her game, and although it was crazy he loved it.

 

“I was trying to increase your pleasure by prolonging it. You came like an animal on my tongue. I would think you would be happy instead of trying to tease and torture me.”

 

“I think you like it like that. You know a lot about my body, but I’ve been studying what you like as well.”

 

“Good to hear.” He moved his hands to her ass because although he was a patient person and liked to prolong his sexual climax, eating her out had been enough of a tease for him. If she was trying to see what his limit was then she didn’t have much to do; he was primed and ready for her.

 

“Oh, now you want me to go a bit more quickly? Do you want me to sit down on this? Take you inside me?”

 

He nodded as he watched her reach down and position his cock right at her entrance. She jerked his cock a few times like she was testing it, but they both knew he was hard enough to crack rocks with his cock, and her cool hand felt like heaven on his heat.

 

All this talking must have excited her because her nipples had hardened and reddened making him want to suck them into his mouth. She inserted him into her moist heat and slowly moved down so that his member had disappeared into her. Trying to stay relaxed was difficult when all he wanted to do was to fuck up into her. The squeeze around his dick was driving him crazy, and he knew she realized it. Someone must have been doing exercises for their insides because her grip was nice and strong.

 

He wanted to do something so he sat up and latched on to her nipple sucking hard without any build up. This was a bit new for him. Frustration wasn’t something that happened to him. He loved sex and had it regularly, but he knew from experience that women got off on different things so he didn’t mind going at their speed, but with Kelli he felt greedy. He wanted her the way he wanted her which was fast and hard. Thinking of that, he remembered their first play session in the alley way which revved him up even higher.

 

Moving to the other tit, he sucked that nipple into his mouth biting down a little. That’s when she started trying to move a little. That’s the game she wanted to play, huh? Great that was one of his favorites. He brought his hand to her long hair and wrapped it around his hand and upper arm like a rope. She grunted, and that made his cock even harder. Pulling her hair a bit caused her to lean her head back and exposed her neck. Looking up at her in that position was like waving red at a bull. He didn’t know if he was going to be able to contain himself as he leaned back and brought both of his hands to her ass.

 

“I gave you a chance to be on top baby, but you lost out. I need to fuck you, and I can’t wait.” He brought her up and slammed her down on his cock making them both make needy noises. “Fuck, you feel good.”

 

Watching her face had always been a top priority but now he couldn’t think of anything but his throbbing dick. It felt like it had a mind of its own, and it wanted to be relieved. Gripping her ass and using it as handles as he worked her up and down his shaft like one of those Pocket Pussy’s he’d seen when he was in Sal’s Adult Mart had him huffing and puffing like the fox in that children’s story.

 

He’d never understood why people yell out incoherent and unintelligible things in the heat of passion but he found the answer right then. They couldn’t help it. He tried to hold back the stream of nonsensical bullshit that was escaping from him as the jets of fluid pulsed out of his cock, but it just was unstoppable. When it was over he was overwhelmed. He heard Kelli turning the corner on her second climax and was glad to know that she’d gotten off as well because while that was always his priority, just then he’d pretty much forgotten all about it and was totally on the selfish train.

 

“That was fantastic,” Kelli said sounding amazed.

 

“What? The fact that I was so wrapped up in your body that I almost forgot to take care of you? I’m glad you found your pleasure in that, but being a good lover means you come first.”

 

“I did come first. You pleasured me before I even started with you. I’m saying that was fantastic because you let go this time. I could tell you were caught up in it, like I always am. That’s a great feeling to have your lover so into your body and how you’re making them feel. Isn’t it? I wouldn’t know that feeling from you, until today. So I’m saying that I loved it. It wasn’t about being selfish watching the pleasure take over your face and the words tripping out of your mouth was sexy and powerful.” She hugged him. “Thanks.”

 

He watched her climb off of him like she was a cowgirl and he realized they’d not used a condom. There wasn’t a time in his life that he’d had sex without one. Just watching her get off him and feeling the warm juices from both of their bodies mixing was sexier than he realized it would be. She strolled to the bathroom to get cloths to clean them up, and he stood up to walk in the bathroom with her.

 

She looked happy and flushed prettily when he met her in there.

 

“This is for you,” she said handing him a warm towel.

 

They both looked at each other as they cleaned off, but the problems that had led them to this cheap hotel were now filling the silence in the room. The sex had eased their bodies, but if the look on her face was any indication of her thoughts then both of their minds seemed to be running everywhere.

 

He set his cloth down and so did she before they returned to the bed. Laying down, he patted the bed like she always did when she wanted him to snuggle with her.

 

She was only still for a few minutes before she sighed deeply. “I guess we should talk about what happened.”

 

“Okay.” He didn’t know what had happened, but since she’d come to him ready for release, she couldn’t know the reason that had brought him to town.

 

“I think my father is going to try to kill you, and it’s my fault.” Her eyes watered, and she tried to hold them back. He knew she wasn’t a crier, so he knew this was big for her.

 

“Just tell me what happened.” His mind whirled trying to figure all this out, and he was thinking of plans but without all the information it was useless.

 

“I went to dinner with my family like I told you I do every month, but before I could even get settled I was called to my father’s office. Argo and my uncle were there but there were also a lot of other men there. Some I knew only by sight, and others I didn’t know at all. My family knows that I don’t like the crime portion of their activities, so I usually am nowhere around meetings and things like this, but tonight was different.”

 

Carson wished he’d brought some alcohol along with him or that this was a better establishment that served drinks because he could see that this story was hard on Kelli and what he’d found was that there were times when a good, hard drink could help. Since he didn’t have that, he went for rubbing her back to soothe and comfort her.

 

“Keep going. I’m right here.” He didn’t know what else to say, but he wanted to get to the bottom of her text and why they were here tonight.

 

“It was like I was a criminal. I was seated in the middle of the room and then all these accusations came. I know it’s because my father found out I was entertaining a man in my house.” She looked over at him, and he was glad to see her eyes had cleared up. There was more anger in them then sadness. “It was hard moving out because my Papa likes to have control of everyone and everything around him. Some of it is my fault because I take the money and the comfort that comes with the money, but that money has strings.”

 

“You’ve grown up that way. No one blames you for that.”

 

“But now he’s trying to kill you. He said you were using me to get to Argo and had been sent here to kill my favorite cousin. I know he likes to keep everyone in line, and he’s not above using deception to do it, but that’s just going a bit too far.” She glanced over, and he could barely meet her eyes. “Isn’t that crazy?”

 

“I’m sure it seems crazy.” Carson had come to the place where the rubber meets the road, and he had to make a choice. Like he made a choice to keep being with Kelli even though he’d come here to kill, who he now knew, was her cousin, he was going to have to figure out if he tells her and they work through this or he does his job and leaves.

 

He untangled himself from her arms and sat up on the side of the bed.

 

“Kelli, I have to tell you something, and you’re not going to like it.”

 

The gasp he heard behind him was awful to hear and made him feel like the devil his foster families had told him he was. There was a time when it felt good to be bad. So many people had done him wrong from the moment he’d taken his first breath and doing dirty things made him feel like he was lashing out at a world that had forgotten him or lashed out at him depending on what it wanted to do that day. Not today though. The way he’d behaved and left out pieces of his story was horrible because he’d gotten to know one of the kindest people he’d ever come into contact with, and he was going to shit on her the way life had a way of shitting on him. The only things was he deserved it, and she didn’t.

 

“Please don’t tell me my father was right. There are so many things he’s been wrong about, and I’ve felt justified in doing all the things I did this evening because I believed I was right.”

 

He didn’t even want to look at her because he knew there would be disappointment in her eyes. The fact that he didn’t say anything should have told her the truth that she didn’t want to be true, but knowing her as he did she knew, she would want to hear it from his mouth. She moved off the bed and came around to sit next to him.

 

“My name is Carson Hale, and I’m with a mercenary biker group from Idaho called the Satan’s Ravens. I’ve never really told anyone my whole story because I’m a nobody from nowhere, and any story I make up is better than the truth. That’s what I’ve always thought anyway. I shared some of my history with you because you seemed to recognize the desire to be someone else, but I’m sharing my truth with you now because you saved my life.”

 

“You were really here to kill Argo?” She wanted to hear the words, and he couldn’t blame her. She’d given up a lot in the last few hours, and she deserved to hear it all.

 

“Yes. I knew you had some information about him and you were the way to get to him, but I didn’t know you were related. I thought you were an ex-girlfriend or something, and I had no idea you were the big boss’s daughter.”

 

“So you did use me to get to Argo?” Her voice sounded so small, and for once in his life, he was ashamed about what he had been planning to do, but this was his job. “How many other people have you killed? How many other lives have you destroyed? When you take someone away like that, it’s not that person you punish but the people left behind wondering what happened. Those people put up signs and look for clues to find the loved ones you so easily discard.”

 

He hadn’t really thought about the other people who were affected. Carson didn’t have any family or anyone who’d care if he never returned from any mission, so it was difficult to see her point of view, but he thought about what happened tonight. What if something would have happened to Kelli, and he didn’t know about it? He’d have spent a lot of time, money, and energy attempting to retrace the steps she took and knowing the people who she’d been with it would have been for nothing. They didn’t leave traces unless they wanted to, and if he were going to kill his own daughter in his own home, Carson would bet there would be nothing of her left. That thought chilled him.

 

“I don’t know what to say about the families of the people I was hired to kill. I’ve never thought about them until right now, but to answer your question. Yes I was using you to get to Argo… at first. The rest of the time I was trying to figure out what I was going to do to keep you. That’s not to say that I wasn’t going to do my job. I’m good at it, Kelli. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been really good at.” He took a moment to look over at her, and he could see her confusion. He’d gotten her into something that he didn’t know if she’d ever make it out of. For the first time in his life, he was worried about another person’s safety.

 

She stood up, put her clothes on and then paced around the room cataloging what had been going on in her life. “I’ve betrayed my family for a criminal. The one thing I didn’t want anyone to be in my life was a person who could use violence for their gain. I’ve grown up around it, and I’ve done my best to keep it out of my life, but the farther I run, the closer it gets. A liar and a thief and I brought him home and tried to bring him into my family.”

 

He didn’t know what to say to her or do for her. His mind was blown from having someone go out on a limb for him. The boy no one wanted and the man no one thought about. He was someone who was sent to do the tough jobs, the almost suicide jobs, because he had no family and no real place to call home. He had an apartment that had a reasonable amount of stuff in it, but there was no one to call if something happened to him and no one who would claim his body if he died. He was nobody, and that’s what made him good at what he did.

 

“My father was right. I was going to bring them down, and I am naïve. I thought you cared about me like I did for you, but I was wrong.” Kelli slid down the wall and sat on the floor. He knew she felt alone since she’d gone against her family and was now stuck with the criminal who was going to betray her with her family. He knew how it felt because that’s the only feeling he’d ever had until a week or so ago when he hooked up with Kelli.

 

“I didn’t mean for it to get this far. I did plan to use you for information and after I saw your body in the pictures I meant to have sex with you as well, but I didn’t plan to stay around this long. Honestly I didn’t think you’d let me stay around this long. I’ve enjoyed being with you even as I planned to take away your cousin.”

 

“I have to fix this. I’m going to go see my father and tell him I’m sorry.” She stood up and walked toward the door. He caught her just before she walked out and spun her to face him. Kelli tore her arm out of his hand with her eyes full of contempt and disgust.

 

“I know you’re upset…” he said trying to explain why he stopped her.

 

“Of course you know why I’m upset. You’re the reason. You and all of the people like you who don’t care to be decent human beings. You take what you want and throw everything else away. I texted you because I thought you were going to be killed in some senseless way just for fucking Picerno’s daughter, but you’re more like my father than I ever imagined.” She could barely get all of what she wanted to say because she was hyperventilating. He backed away from her with his hands up. She already felt violated; there was no reason for her to feel trapped as well. Carson got the feeling that was how she spent most of her life, and she wasn’t happy about it.

 

“I just wanted to remind you of a few things before you go barreling out into the night.”

 

She looked skeptical, and he couldn’t fault her for that. The trust she thought she had with him was damaged, but if she didn’t listen to him. she may be in a worse position than even she thought. He could tell she was going over the options in her mind and the exact moment she decided it may be to her advantage to see what the criminal could bring to the table.

 

“I’m giving you ten minutes. This better be good.” She closed the door and sat at the circle table while she looked at her nails. She’d never looked more like the princess he’d heard about until right then. He tried to get his words together so he would know what they were up against. “The clock is ticking, Carson. Spit it out or let me go.”