Chapter 8
Sam
We left the club with a few answers, but more questions than when we started. While Meri had been so busy trying to find Rico, it occurred to me that it wasn’t Rico we were trying to find, but Carol. An American woman that looked like her wasn’t going to be hard to mistake, so I asked questions about the woman and one bartender that was there more days and nights, recognized the picture I showed him. More importantly, he saw the woman after the night in question. It wasn’t enough get Meri to walk, but it was enough to have me convinced that we had to keep moving in that direction. There was something to this. Meri was right, something was off.
“Let’s get some lunch and then we will go back to the restaurant and see if we can get anyone to recognize Carol. She could be anywhere, but we can at least start somewhere we know they have been.”
“So you are convinced that Rico has her?”
“I am convinced they are together.”
“I hope so. That means that we can figure this out and both of us can get back to our old lives.”
“I don’t know if I am ready to leave this all behind. I have rather enjoyed being around you, sleuthing and solving the puzzle.”
She giggled and told me that we hadn’t solved anything. “Besides, you go stay in that jail for a week and tell me if you are still enjoying yourself. All I can think about is getting as far away from this place as possible. New York is sounding pretty good right now.”
Meri had a point, but my words were not for nothing. I did feel like everything was happening as it was supposed to. I was here for a reason and what greeted me when I got back was nothing more than what was greeting me now. I knew that I had to figure it all out. What did it mean that I would rather be here with Meri, than back home in the life that I thought I loved? I worked hard for that life, but it wasn’t as satisfying as I thought it was. How could it be when I was more content here?
We went to a restaurant and had some lunch. I didn’t mention staying again, her answer clear, but it didn’t stop me from seeing my life in this way, pretending that it could always be this way. Sitting here in the middle of the afternoon, not a meeting in sight, with a beautiful woman I actually wanted to be around. That in and of itself was strange enough.
Afterwards, the rest of the evening was spent doing some investigative work and another dinner on the bed of the suite. I wanted to kiss Meri again, but she was preoccupied and once again I was left the one that was reeling from our meeting. When she got into the shower, I left to take a walk. Never before had my mind been so offended by what my body was doing. I should be with Meri. I should have her underneath me, writhing and begging me for more. Instead, I was stuck alone, walking the streets as if I was losing my mind.
I didn’t notice anyone behind me until I felt a push from behind. Looking back, there were a couple of men that looked intimidating. I wasn’t the type to feel that way often, but I was curious what they wanted and what they thought they were going to accomplish.
“You need to leave this place, you and that little bitch. You are asking too many questions.”
I nodded my head, but I wasn’t going to stop. This just meant that we were that much closer. I wanted answers and I wanted Meri off the hook.
“Tell me where Carol is and we will leave and never ask another question.”
“She was sold and you will not find her.”
“Then we have a problem.”
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“Sam, what happened? I thought you were going for a walk?”
“I did. Well that is what I was doing when a couple of guys tried to give me the shake down. I think you are right about Carol. She is not dead. I was told tonight that she was sold and I can only imagine what that means.”
“The sex trade.”
“What?”
“I have been doing some research and that is the only thing that makes sense to me. Now I know for sure.”
It was all more than I was willing to wrap my head around. I came here to help Ashlyn’s friend get out of a foreign jail. It was becoming so much more than that. Meri moved towards me and I wondered how bad my face was. She had a look of concern on her face that I liked to see. It meant that she cared and it almost made it worth the pain I was feeling right now because of it.
“Let me get some bandages and clean that up. You have a nasty cut on your brow that looks pretty bad. Maybe we should go to the hospital. I don’t want you to have a scar.”
“It will just add character. Besides, I am not too eager to go to a hospital here. I can only imagine what I would find.”
“Then it’s settled. Sit down and I will go get a few things. Don’t touch it. You are going to make it bleed again.”
I sat back as she suggested and waited for her to come back. Yeah, this was worth a little pain if I was going to be treated like this.
Meri came back with a small first aid kit that she most likely got from the front desk. I was thankful for her help, but I had seen the cut, it wasn’t that bad. What made it all worth it was how close she had to get to clean it. She was practically back on my lap and this time it was all innocent. Well it may have been innocent from her point of view, but nothing I felt was innocent at the moment. I wanted her badly and that was all I knew. My cock was rock hard and her arm brushed against it. Meri didn’t say anything, but she pulled back and smiled at me in the oddest way.
“Does it hurt? I think there are some pain relievers in this kit thing. I can get you something.”
She was going to move away and I stopped her with a light touch on her arm. “No, that’s okay. You being here with me is making it feel better.”
Meri rolled her eyes and got up. “I will go get you some ibuprofen or something. I can’t stay with you all night, so you might as well get something just in case.”
I wasn’t going to get my way, no matter how nicely I seemed to ask for it. Even hurt, Meri held to her guns. Which gave me even more of a shock when instead of leaving me as she had suggested, she leaned in closer and smiled. Seconds later, she was pressing her lips against mine, letting my tongue push in between her lips before she moaned against me. Meri’s arms wrapped around my neck, her breasts pushing softy against my hard chest and the sounds that she made were heavenly.
Just before I was about to lose it and try to take it over, she released me and moved back to give me some space. I wanted her again, worse than before and I didn’t understand why she stopped. Surely she knew that she was driving me crazy with her antics. One minute she wanted me and one minute she was pushing me away. My cock was throbbing and I wasn’t ready to give the moment up.
When I tried to reach for her, she skirted my advances and I was left wondering what the hell had just happened. Was she just playing with me and my emotions?
“What was that for?” Maybe an answer would make it better somehow. It wouldn’t change that need that was running through me at such a fast pace, but at least I would understand why.
Meri was breathing hard and she kind of shrugged. I had a feeling that she didn’t know herself. “I don’t know. I guess I was trying to make you feel better, like you tried to make me feel better the other night. Did it work?”
“It worked, but now I want more. You can make me feel real good Meri. It is all in your power.”
She let me kiss her again for a few minutes, but when I started to feel her up a little bit, it was back to the same answer that I had gotten before. Meri pushed me away and I was getting irritated with the whole situation. Was she just messing with me because she could?
“I need you Meri.”
“I am sorry Sam. I like you, but I am not ready for that kind of thing.”
What was there to get ready for?
“I understand.” I really didn’t, not even close. Why did she turn me down again and again like it didn’t even faze her?
I went to take another cold shower, determined to not let her see how bad off she left me. I didn’t want her to know that I was dying inside. I was Sam Clemons after all. I didn’t want for anything, except her.
When I got out, the lights were off in the bedroom and I had to imagine that she was already asleep. I wished that sleep would come so easily to me. I needed her, wanted her desperately, but there was no way that I was going to kill my pride to go back in there. Meri had made herself clear after all.
So I went and lay down. As soon as my eyes closed, I was thinking about the woman in the room next to me and I knew that sleep was going to be futile. Instead, I tried to listen and see if she was still awake. I wasn’t a man that usually took such liberties when someone else was around, but it was like I couldn’t help myself. The more I thought about her, the more I felt like I was going to explode. I didn’t want to go into the shower again. Then I would make her think that something was going on.
Instead I lay on the couch and tried my best to hear her. My memory filled in the silence with the sounds from when we kissed and I had gotten my hands on the soft mounds on her chest. It was only for a few moments, but the noise of her pleasure alone was enough to get me rock hard and pulsing in my hand as I stroked myself slowly.
I closed my eyes and knew right where my mind was going to go. I wanted to see Meri in my mind and that was exactly who came up, her innocent green eyes called to me in the most basic way, beckoning me to her. I pretended that it was her hands on me and not my own. It was her small fingers wrapped around my shaft, straining to give me pleasure.
It wasn’t long before I could feel cum rising in my balls. It had been so long since I had lain with a woman, longer still that I had been focused on only one woman and I couldn’t hold it in anymore. My cock exploded in seconds and I mumbled Meri’s name, over and over again. It felt too good and I had to stop before I started it up all over again. I wanted her so damn badly. It was starting to mess with my head.
I opened my eyes to the noise in the bedroom and covered up real quick. After a second I relaxed, sure that it was nothing. Making my way back to the bathroom, I felt relief, but I was even more determined to have her in my bed. I couldn’t wait any longer.