Gunner and Tammy talked a while longer, but they both realized that neither of them wanted to go on without the other, and their best bet for the time being would be to go to Massachusetts and start from there. They left with her on the back of his bike, and he couldn’t say that he wasn’t happy to see the clubhouse in his rearview mirror. He was grateful to Zack for putting them up, but he still didn’t like him. The hardest part of it all had been saying goodbye to Patty and Billy. Patty was the closest thing to a real mother he ever had, even if she would kill him just for saying that, and even if he found his place in Dax’s family, Billy would always be his brother. As he headed for the highway, he thought about how much his life had changed in the past few months. He still didn’t have a fucking clue what to do with his life, but he’d learned a hell of a lot about himself. For instance, he never had a clue that he’d be willing to take a bullet, for anyone. He never knew that someone else would come along someday and that person’s happiness would mean more than his own. He’d been in survival mode for so many years that self-preservation had turned into self-centeredness. But where Tamara was concerned, all bets were off. That’s why when he came to the freeway, instead of going East, he went Southwest.

“Hey!” Tammy poked him in the ribs as he got on the ramp.

“What?”

“You’re going the wrong way.”

“Nope. I’m going the right way for a change.”

“Gunner, we need to stay out of Texas.”

“You want to see your brother?”

“Yes, but…”

“I’m not hiding from Eddie Munster. I’ve been dodging that asshole most of my life. I’m taking you to see your brother, and God help anyone that tries to hurt you.” He felt her lay her head into his back. A few minutes later she pulled her head up and said:

“I love you.”

He smiled. “I love you too,” he yelled back. “I hope you won’t think poorly of me, but when we get to San Antonio, I’m calling Detective Samuels.”

“I’d never think poorly of you. But why?”

“I spent my adolescence in jail because I didn’t want to be a rat. But I had an…shit, there’s a name for it.”

She didn’t laugh out loud at him, but her body was pressed into his and he could feel it shake. “An epiphany?”

“Yeah, that’s it. There are only two ways to get rid of a pest. One is to cage it and the other is to kill it. Eddie has proven hard to kill, but I think I have some information that might help them put the son of a bitch in a cage, where he belongs.”

She put her arms tighter around him and squeezed. “I’m proud of you,” she said. Another thing he was learning was the power of words. “I love you, and I’m proud of you” were words that he hadn’t heard much in his life, if at all. They made him feel almost invincible. He might be fooling himself. The detective might not be able to prove anything Gunner told him, and Eddie might still be free, and even more pissed, but the fact that Tammy was going to be proud of him for trying was enough.

They drove for about seven hours before stopping to grab a bite to eat at a small out-of-the-way diner on I-40. The sun was going down and they were both getting tired, so while they ate, they searched online for a motel nearby. They found one that sat way off the freeway and possibly had bedbugs and roaches, judging by the exterior, but Gunner didn’t think he could do another seven hours without falling asleep and killing them both, or someone else. He went inside and checked in. The good news was that the guy at the counter told him they were the only guests, so they got their pick of rooms. Gunner picked the one that faced right out to the hot tub and pool. The pool was cracked and out of service, but the hot tub worked.

When they got in the room Tamara dropped down on the bed and closed her eyes. Gunner lay down next to her and ran his finger from her forehead down her nose and lips, and down her neck. She shivered and smiled. “I love the way you touch me.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah. Don’t stop.”

He leaned in and kissed her softly on the lips and said:

“I have a better idea.”

“Better than touching me?”

“No. That didn’t come out right. I have a better idea than touching you right here on this bed.”

She opened her eyes. “I’m listening.”

“Well, we’re at the back of the motel where that guy at the counter can’t see us, and we’re the only people in the motel. I was thinking maybe I touch you in the hot tub.”

“Why, Gunner Davis, are you suggesting we have sex in the hot tub of the motel, out in the open, in public?”

He laughed nervously, “If you like the idea, that’s what I was suggesting. If you hate it…”

She smiled. “How could I hate anything that involves you touching me?”

“I was wondering that myself.”

She giggled and stood up. “Let’s go.” Gunner got up too and grabbed some towels out of the bathroom. They stepped outside into the crisp, cool night air. The stars were shining brightly and the fact that it was just the two of them made it perfect. They went through the small gate and Gunner hung their towels over one of the lawn chairs nearby. Tammy had already started stripping out of her clothes. There was enough light from the stars and the moon to give him a sexy view, and he couldn’t take his eyes off her. When she was nude, she stepped down onto the first step of the tub. “Ah, this is nice. Why aren’t you undressed?”

“Sorry,” he said, stripping off his shirt. “You’re just so fucking hot I can’t think straight when I’m around you.” Tammy smiled and finished submerging herself into the warm, bubbling water. Gunner followed her and as soon as he sat down, she leaned back against him and looked up at the sky.

“It’s so pretty.”

“Yeah, it is. But not even close to how pretty you are.”

“You trying to seduce me?” she said in a hopeful tone. Gunner was looking at her neck.

“I was actually thinking about sinking my teeth into that sexy neck of yours.”

She smiled again. “Do it,” she whispered. Gunner had one hand around her waist, and she arched her back so that her neck would be exposed to him. He leaned down further and licked a spot on her neck. She giggled. “That tickles. I thought you were going to bite it.”

“Be careful what you ask for, little girl.”

“I never ask for more than I can handle.” Gunner smiled and bit down on the piece of her neck he was licking. Tammy moaned and wiggled back into him, rubbing herself against his growing cock. He put his hands on her breasts and found her nipples. He rubbed, caressed, and massaged them while he sucked on her neck. “I love that,” she whispered.

“I can tell,” he said. “That’s why I do it. I love to hear you moan.”

“Make me scream,” she said in a sexy voice. He nipped at her shoulder and at the same time pinched her nipples. She gasped and moaned louder as Gunner played with her breasts for a while, and then suddenly he lifted her up out of the water and she did scream. “What are you doing? It’s cold!”

He laughed and sat her back down, opposite him. “Open your legs,” he told her.

“Oh, I see, you’re a pervert. You like to watch.” As she talked, she lifted one leg and put it on the step to her right and then lifted the other and put it on the step to the left. Then she squeezed her breasts while he watched. He wasn’t sure, but he thought his tongue might be hanging out. She was the hottest thing he’d ever seen.

“Fuck, baby, you’re hot.”

“You like that?” She pinched down on her nipples and tipped her head back.

“Oh, yeah.” Gunner’s cock was rock hard now and throbbing. He reached down and took it in his hand and slowly worked it up and down as he watched her. She let her hands slide down from her breasts, across her belly, and just under the water where he pussy was. “Wait,” he said, straightening his legs out and pressing his toes underneath her butt. “Push up, baby.” She used her arms to lift her butt and Gunner slid his feet under her. He had a perfect view of her pussy that way. “Oh, yeah, baby, that’s better.”

She slipped one hand down between her legs and then the other, rubbing her outer lips before taking one in each hand and pulling them open. Gunner groaned. “You are a pervert.

“There’s no way any straight man in his right mind would not get turned on watching you. Keep rubbing that sweet pussy and put one of your legs over here on top of mine.”

She shifted so that she could bring her left leg over on top of his leg, and she didn’t stop rubbing her pussy. She was playing with her clit and moaning, and Gunner thought that he might come just watching her. He picked up her foot and began to massage it, running his hands up over her shapely calf and all the way back down to her toes. She closed her eyes and rubbed her pussy harder and faster. He massaged the pads of her feet and she groaned. “Fuck, baby, that feels good.”

“You like that?”

“Mm-hmm.”

“I didn’t know you got off on the foot thing.”

“Hell, neither did I,” she said. “Don’t stop.” He didn’t stop touching her foot, and he didn’t take his eyes off the beautiful sight of her rubbing her engorged clit in circles and moving her hips in circles on top of his leg. He could feel how wet she was even in the water. Her juices were thick and silky and he had an overwhelming urge to taste her. He reached a hand over and pushed hers aside so that he could slide two fingers up inside of her. He moved them in and out a few times, getting her all worked up, and then he pulled them down and brought his hand to his mouth. She tasted so sweet. He looked down at the slender, sexy foot and got an idea. He dipped his fingers into her sweet pussy again and when he had them covered in her juices, he pulled it back and lifted her foot. He used his fingers to bathe her toes in her pussy juice. Tammy paused what she was doing to watch him, looking both incredulous and turned on as he brought her toes up to his lips and began to lick. She giggled and he stopped.

“Tickle?” he asked. 

“Yeah, but don’t stop.” He smiled and sucked her big toe into his mouth. “Oh, fuck, you look hot,” she said, rubbing her clit harder. “Don’t stop.” Gunner didn’t plan on it. He loved turning her on. It was another thing he’d recently learned about himself. He used to think it was all about his end game. He had never realized how sexy it was to make her moan or to feel her come on his hand, or on his cock…or to watch the ecstasy on her face that confirmed that he was making her feel as good as she did him. Gunner had never played with a woman’s feet during sex, but now as he kissed, licked, and massaged hers, he realized that every piece of her was hot. He kept pleasuring her feet while she pleasured her pussy, and the harder he sucked on her pretty toes the harder she rubbed at her clit. Suddenly, she brought her ass up off the bench, stiffened her body, and shoved two of her own fingers into her pussy as she screamed out with her first orgasm of the night. Gunner watched her work herself through it, and he had to reach down and stroke his cock again as he did. So. Fucking. Sexy.

He waited for her to start coming down before reaching over and grabbing her arms. He pulled her back across the tub and put her in his lap. She leaned her lips into his. She was still breathing hard and he let her just hold them there against his, until she caught her breath and then he ran his tongue along her full bottom lip. She wiggled in his lap, grinding that wet pussy down on top of his hard, aching cock. “I want to be inside you.” She kissed him, hard and passionate and sexy, as she lifted her ass and then impaled herself on his cock. They both cried out as he hit bottom. The feeling of her warm, wet pussy gripping his cock like it was custom made to fit him drove him crazy. He put his hands on her slim hips and began moving her up and down, thrusting up into her as he did. She pressed her feet down on the bottom of the tub and used her legs to move herself up and down. The friction of her soft, velvety folds sliding against his hard, sensitive cock under the water caused a sound that was almost hypnotic. He reached up and took her breasts in his hands and massaged them while she fucked him. He loved watching her use him for her own pleasure while giving him unimaginable pleasure in return.

The harder he pinched and pulled on her nipples, the faster she rode him. He dipped his head down and took one of them into his mouth, letting his tongue roll slowly across the nipple before biting down on it, hard. That was what put her over the edge. She screamed as she came again, bouncing up and down on his lap like he was a trampoline until she couldn't possibly have anything left inside of her. She had her head thrown back and her eyes closed and she was mumbling incoherently as she came down off her high. Gunner was waiting for her to stop shaking so he could fuck her until he came, but as soon as she finished, she pushed up off him. The tip of his cock, red and swollen, glistened with her juices in the moonlight. He was still looking at it when she lowered her head down and took it into her mouth. Gunner gasped out loud and bucked his hips up further out of the water as she licked his shaft from tip to balls. She started again at the tip and worked her way down with her tongue, but this time when she reached his balls, she gently sucked one into her mouth and rolled it against her cheeks. When she released that one, she took the other one into her mouth. Gunner was fighting his urge to come as he watched her suck and lick his balls. She looked as good as she was making him feel, and it was all overstimulating. She let go of that testicle and licked her way back up to the tip. She opened her mouth then and sucked him in, taking him as deep as she could. Gunner tangled his fingers up in her damp hair and pressed into her until the tip of his cock was against the back of her throat, and while she held it there, she flicked her tongue against the shaft.

“Fuck, baby, I’m going to come.” He expected her to take him out of her mouth, but she didn’t. His declaration only made her begin to suck harder. She brought her mouth up to the tip and wrapped a hand around his shaft, stroking while she sucked. He moaned loudly and his body tensed like a board just before he shot his come into her mouth. She continued to suck on him until he was completely empty and completely spent, before letting his softening cock fall out of her mouth with a pop and climbing back up into his arms. Gunner cuddled her into his chest and kissed the top of her head. “You’re amazing. I want to keep you.”

He felt her body shake and then her lips against his chest. “You better,” she whispered.