Chapter Eighteen
When she and Chloe returned, Tannin had spread out a second blanket, about one hundred yards from where the four had eaten lunch. He motioned Rai over with one finger. Chloe practically ran over to where Gorgon waited on the first blanket, propped up on his side with his boots and socks off.
No fucking way…
Rai strolled over and stood next to the blanket that Tannin had spread out. She stared in disbelief as Gorgon pulled Chloe down on top of him and kissed her as intimately as if they were alone in his room.
“Tannin…”
“Shhh.” He pulled her down onto the blanket and on top of him. “See? From this vantage point, we can barely be seen.”
He was right. The grasses partially obscured them, but did nothing to block the sounds. “I can’t do this.”
“Have sex outside?” His sexy grin failed this time to arouse her.
“You know what I mean.”
“I want to fuck you, Rai. I want to do it here and now.” He kissed her, shoving his tongue into her mouth and grabbing her hair. It took mere seconds for her pussy to be soaked. Damn him, and his damn mouth and hands.
Tannin released her mouth and hair to remove his cut and t-shirt, while Rai tried not to listen to Chloe’s moans and Gorgon’s grunts. When Tannin took off her top and grasped her breasts through her bra, she gazed down into his face, ready to protest once more.
“Rai, make love to me.”
Shivers ran down her spine. He’d never used those words before. It was the first time he hadn’t referred to sex as “fucking”. Rai reached around and undid the hooks on her bra. He released the fabric so it could fall, and then groaned loudly as she bent over and brushed her nipples against his face.
“Oh, yes! Yes, baby. That’s it. I love your tits so hard!” He bit and sucked them, forcing cries of pleasure from her as she forgot everything except what he did to her with that magical mouth. She moved off him just long enough to shed her jeans, panties, socks, and shoes, while he practically tore off the rest of his clothes.
Rai sneaked one quick glance to her left. Gorgon and Chloe were both naked. She was on top, riding him. This time, instead of embarrassment and reluctance, all Rai wanted was Tannin’s dick inside her.
He had dug a condom out of his jeans pocket and donned it already, so she straddled him and lowered her pussy over his sheathed dick without any foreplay.
“Oh, God!” Tannin’s eyes filled with lust and surprise as he grasped her hips. “Rai … thank you.”
With one hand, she played with her breasts, and with the other she rubbed her clit as Tannin moved her up and down. She cried out as an orgasm drew close, and it took no more than a few moments for it to wash over her.
He wasn’t done, though, and when he withdrew he kissed her again, with more force and meaning than he’d ever done. “This is so fucking fabulous.”
“I’ve never done this. Had sex in front other people … who are also having sex.”
“I’m so fucking turned on right now I can barely breathe.”
“And I’ve never had sex outside before.”
“I’m going to fuck you outside every day for the rest of my life.”
Before she had time to react to that comment, he moved her gently off him and pulled something out from under his jeans. “I have a surprise for you.” Rai gasped. She’d spotted the thick leather paddle with holes in it one time inside the drawer where he kept his floggers and other impact play toys, but he told her it wasn’t a beginner’s toy.
“Here and now?”
His eyes gleamed with mischief, making goosebumps break out over her limbs. “Where better?”
She cut her gaze again to the left. Gorgon was now on top of Chloe, and his bulk practically obscured her, but judging from the girl’s moans of pleasure, she was having a wonderful time.
“I want to paddle your luscious ass red,” he said. “And then I want to fuck you from behind, until tears run down your face and you beg me to stop.”
Rai let out a shaky breath as images of him doing that danced through her mind. “Yes,” she whispered. “I want you to do that. Please.”
Tannin kissed her rough and hard, and then he sat down and pulled Rai over his knee. She braced for it, and cried out loudly as the first swat struck both ass cheeks at once.
There was no preamble this time. No teasing her skin with the edge of the paddle, or working up slowly to the hard swats. He meant business. Another strong climax began to build as the now-familiar pain and pleasure raced through her body and her mind.
It was impossible to think of anything except that paddle, torturing her skin with its burning sting. She forgot about Chloe and Gorgon, instead concentrating on the intense, exquisite sensations she had come to love in the space of one short week.
Tears ran down her face as nonsense syllables and loud moans left her throat. There was no need to think. There was only Tannin, the paddle smashing against her ass, and the contractions that spread out to her fingers and toes. She melted into his hard, muscled body, never wanting to leave him or this place.
When he stopped, she had no time to come out of the sweet haze because he had her on her knees and sank his cock deep into her pussy from behind. Strong hands grabbed her hair, and his mouth was on her back, licking and kissing her skin.
“Rai … oh my God. It’s never been this fucking good.”
She couldn’t answer him, even though she heartily agreed. To her left, she spotted Chloe and Gorgon, lying on their sides, facing her and Tannin. The grass prevented her from having an unobstructed view, but through the stalks it was obvious that Gorgon was fucking Chloe from behind now.
Had they watched Tannin paddle her? The idea of that was no longer uncomfortable. Instead, she found it strangely exciting. When Tannin reached underneath and massaged her clit, she turned her head to the other side and let go again, enjoying the way he was determined to coax yet another climax out of her.
Once it exploded, he did, too, crying out loudly as he slammed into her pussy mercilessly. His balls slapped her with each thrust, and Rai grabbed fistfuls of the blanket as she cried out in pain and pleasure.
After he finished, withdrew and took off the condom, she lay prone and drifted into a sleepy haze. Insects buzzed, and warm sunshine dried the sweat from her body. Tannin wrapped her in his strong arms and nuzzled her neck. “Now you’re really one of us, my cultured lady.”
“Is that what I am? Your lady?”
“Yes.” He kissed her neck gently. “My old lady. That’s what you are. If you want to be, that is…”
The hesitation in his voice finally broke through the fog of an intense paddling and mind-blowing sex. Rai propped herself up on one elbow so she could look into his eyes. “What are you asking me, Tannin?”
“The closest thing to a marriage proposal you will ever get from me.”
Holy shit. “You said you didn’t do happily-ever-after.”
“I changed my mind.” He drew in a deep breath. “I love you, Rai.”
Oh my God… “Tannin, I love you, too.”
“You do?” He was genuinely surprised.
“Yes.” Tears ran down her face again, but this time they weren’t from pain. “This is crazy.”
He brushed a finger along her face. “Why is it crazy?”
“Because…” I have no idea. “It’s so fast.”
“How much time does a person need to know they’ve found the one they want to spend the rest of their life with?”
“I thought I found that person once. I was dead wrong.”
“And now?”
The fear in his eyes was horrible, because she was the reason for it. “How can I be sure you won’t do the same thing to me?”
“You can’t. All you can do is believe me when I tell you that I’d drive my bike over a cliff before I’d intentionally hurt you. You have to trust me, Rai. You have to trust yourself. I can’t do that for you.” He tapped her chest. “It has to come from inside here.”
Voices reached her ears. Chloe and Gorgon.
Tannin sat up, and she did, too. “Think about it,” he said. “I don’t need your answer right now. I want you to be one hundred percent sure before you give it to me.” He began to dress so she did as well, trying to make sense of the confusion inside.
This was what she’d fantasized about earlier. Why was it so difficult now to say “yes”? She either trusted him all the way or she didn’t trust him at all. There was no middle ground with him, and that’s how it should be. It was what he deserved. It was what everyone deserved. He obviously trusted her with his heart and soul, or he’d never have asked.
She didn’t make eye contact with Chloe or Gorgon as they packed the blankets, got back on the bikes, and rode toward the club. Rai was grateful that Tannin and the others would be busy tonight, and that she’d have to stay out of sight. She had some serious soul-searching to do.