Zack was half-surprised that his bike started and even more surprised when he pressed on the brakes and they worked too. He drove from Nashville to Memphis, racking his brain and trying to figure out what Spider had planned for him. He obviously wasn’t stupid enough to kill him before the court hearing, and even if he disappeared, Nicole would make sure that the police knew Spider was the number one suspect. But Zack knew he wasn’t being paranoid. Spider hadn’t called him there for fun. Something big was coming, and since the hearing was only two days away, he knew it had to be coming soon.

He parked his bike in front of Nicole’s apartment and tried to shake off the funk he was in. He told himself that he wasn’t afraid of Spider, and that was true…but the other man’s threat made him wonder if he was putting Nicole at risk just by being around her. He sat on his bike and stared at the window of her apartment and wondered if, by trying to help, he had only made things worse for her and Liam. He was still stewing over it when the front door was pulled open and Nicole appeared under the moonlight. She was wearing a pair of cutoff jeans and a white “wife-beater” tank. Her hair was wet, like she’d just gotten out of the shower, and her face was scrubbed so clean that her skin shone in the dim light. She was beautiful, and every time Zack saw her, he wanted her just a little bit more.

“Hey,” she said, leaning into the doorframe with a smile. “Welcome back.”

He grinned at her and stepped off the bike. “Thanks. Nice welcoming committee.”

She walked toward him and when they met, he opened his arms and she folded into them. He inhaled the fresh, clean scent of her hair and held her tightly. She felt so fucking good. They stood there like that silently for several seconds before Nicole pulled back and said, “You okay?”

“Yeah,” he said. “I am now.”

“Why were you just sitting out here for so long?”

“Just thinking, baby.” He kissed her lips softly. “I missed you.”

She pulled him back down and kissed him back, only her kiss went from sweet and romantic to hot and lustful in about ten seconds. The taste of her mouth did things to Zack that no one or nothing else ever had. He had her pulled up onto her toes as he let his tongue explore every dark, wet crevice, and he’d almost completely forgotten about Spider by the time they came up for air. “I missed you too,” she whispered, breathlessly.

Zack grinned at her and said, “Where’s Liam?”

“Asleep.”

“Where’s Stacey?”

“She’s inside.”

“Damn.”

Nicole giggled. “I bet she wouldn’t mind watching him if we wanted to go for a little moonlight ride along the river.”

Zack smiled and pulled her back in for another hug. “I like the way you think.”

Zack waited for Nicole to talk to Stacey and then grab a blanket and a bottle of wine. While he waited, he debated about telling her about his meeting with Spider. By the time she came out of the house he had decided against it. The “meeting” had come to nothing and would only add to her stress. A night of de-stressing was what they both needed. He would do more thinking about what Spider was up to tomorrow.

Zack drove them out to a part of the Mississippi that ran just outside of the city. It was a warm night and the moon was big and bright. They parked the bike in a small lot and after grabbing the blanket and wine out of the saddlebag, Zack held Nicole’s hand and they walked down the embankment until they reached a small grassy area near the edge of the river bank. Nicole spread out the blanket and with a grin, Zack looked at the wine and said, “We drinking it straight out of the bottle?”

She laughed. “I didn’t see the point in glasses.”

They sat down on the blanket, and Zack pulled the cork out of the wine and handed it to Nicole. She took a swig out of the bottle and then he took one before sitting it aside and putting his arm around her waist. Nicole snuggled into his side and they sat there for a long time just looking up at the moon and stars. After a while she said, “How was your trip? Did things go okay for your friend?”

He sighed. He didn’t really want to think about all of that, but that wasn’t Nicole’s fault. “It worked out in her favor. Gunner will be okay, anyways, but I’m sure his older brother would have made sure he was either way. Tammy and I both confirmed that we walk around with really shitty DNA, in case there was any doubt.”

She looked up at him. Her hazel eyes looked so pretty in the moonlight. He bent and was about to kiss her when she said, “I’m sorry that you had to suffer having parents like that…but in a way, it helps me to know it.”

He smiled and raised an eyebrow. “You’re welcome?”

She laughed. “I just think about Liam and sometimes worry that he will be genetically predisposed to certain things because of who his father is. But then I look at you and where you came from, and I see what an incredible man you became in spite of it.”

Zack’s brain flooded with images of things that he’d done in his lifetime, none of them pretty. “I think Liam will be fine because he has you for a mother. Can I kiss you now?”

She smiled and nodded. He finished leaning down and kissed her gently on the lips. She parted hers slightly to let his tongue wind its way into her mouth. Hers came out to meet it and they tangled up so that it was hard to tell where one ended and the other began. His hands began to roam across her body, kneading her back and shoulders and sliding along the sides of her breasts. He could already feel his cock beginning to throb as she broke the kiss and pulled off the thin tank top. She wasn’t wearing a bra underneath it and before she even tossed it to the side, Zack’s hands were on her perfect breasts. He caressed them with one of his hands, taking turns from one to the other, loving the way she pressed into his hand and moaned as he touched her. He leaned down and sucked one of her hard nipples into his mouth and while he was preoccupied with that, he felt her hands go to the button of his jeans. His cock twitched with relief once she had them unbuttoned and unzipped, and he had to suck in a breath when she ran her hand along the outline of it through his shorts. He switched breasts, sucking harder now that he was even more excited, and Nicole slid her warm hand down inside of his shorts and took his throbbing cock into her hand. She caressed the hardened flesh gently, but firmly, squeezing just the right amount as she let her hand glide from the wet tip to the base and back up again. She pulled her body back slightly so that the breast he had in his mouth fell out with a pop and then she positioned herself on her knees and grabbed the waistband of his jeans and pulled. He helped her get them down as far as his knees and then she bent down and licked the tip of his cock. Zack groaned and wound her hair up in his hands. While he helped guide her, she used her thumb and forefinger to grasp the base of his cock before opening her lips and taking him all the way in to the back of her throat. She began to bob her head up and down, sucking and licking and making fireworks go off in his head. Even the sounds she was making were a turn-on. Zack leaned back, closed his eyes, and enjoyed it for what seemed like a long time before he finally had to touch her body again.

“Take off those shorts, baby.”

She gave his cock one long, last lick before taking it out of her mouth and standing up to finish stripping in front of him. When she bent down to push them to her ankles, Zack caught sight of the shadow of a man walking his dog. The man was frozen to his spot, watching them. He hesitated about telling her, afraid that she’d want to stop, but he couldn’t let her be on display without knowing it.

“We have an audience,” he said. Nicole froze and he was about to curse the man and his dog…but then she did something that completely surprised Zack. She turned her back to him, and with her beautiful ass pointing in his direction and her gorgeous tits facing the man and his dog, who were far enough away not to get a clear shot of her features, but close enough that the man probably had a raging hard-on, she slid down the pink thong she was wearing. “Daaaamn…” Zack whistled. “My girl is a freak.”

She turned back to face him and said, “Only when I’m with you.”

He reached up and pulled her down into his lap and kissed her lips before saying, “Good. Let’s give the horny old guy a show.” He slipped his hand down between her legs and used his fingers to part her soaking-wet lips. His hard cock was pressed up between her ass cheeks and he felt her tighten them as he found her clit and began to rub it in small, tight circles. He couldn’t just feel how excited she was, he could smell it. The smell of her arousal on the night air was almost as erotic as how good she felt. He played with her until she seemed right on the verge of orgasm and then he slid his cock up inside of her tight pussy. She impaled herself down on him and he looked over her shoulder and saw that the old guy had walked down near the river, probably to be less obvious, but he was still watching. Zack reached back and grabbed her cheeks with his hands and held onto them tightly as she bounced up and down on his cock.

She was warm…hot even…wet, and the walls of her tight pussy were as smooth as glass. She pumped her hips against his, taking him in deeper with each sexy thrust of her hips and then she reached back behind them and used one of her hands to gently caress his balls while she rode him. Zack brought one hand around front to take hold of one of her bouncing tits. He squeezed and massaged and tweaked the nipple while she bounced up and down on him. “Jesus, fuck, baby…you’re incredible,” he said.

“Huh-uh,” she said, breathlessly, without opening her eyes. “It’s you.”

“It’s us,” he said. She brought her lips down to meet his and they kissed deeply. Nicole was moaning and whimpering and he could feel her pussy tightening up even more, getting ready to come. He took hold of her slim waist in both hands and flipped her onto her back. “Don’t move,” he said. He stood up and pulled his boots off and took his pants and shorts the rest of the way off before dropping back down to straddle her sexy thighs and slide his cock back up inside of her. He slipped his biceps underneath her legs and pulled them up and then he proceeded to fuck her…as hard and deep as he could drive his cock into her. Nicole was tossing her head back and forth and making unintelligible noises as she thrust her butt up off the blanket even higher, begging wordlessly for even deeper contact. She clawed at his shoulders and called out his name as she had her first orgasm. Zack slowed down slightly and rocked against her until she loosened her grip on his shoulders and opened her eyes to look up into his.

“Jesus, Zack…fucking amazing.” He leaned down and kissed her, hard. Then he began to fuck her again, harder and faster until she came again with a primal cry and he let himself go with a loud grunt and another curse toward the sky about how fucking amazing she was. He dropped down to the blanket onto his side, falling out of her and pulling her body up against his sweaty one. The night was humid and they were both covered in sweat. Zack liked the way it made them stick together. He lay there with his arms around her thinking that he could fall asleep right there and sleep comfortably all night. He was almost asleep when Nicole pulled her head up and rested it on her propped-up elbow. “We should rinse off,” she said.

Zack raised an eyebrow and grinned. “You didn’t get off enough giving the old guy a show as you fucked me? You want to really give him a thrill and skinny-dip?”

“Oh, damn, is he still there?” She tried to sit up and look, but Zack held her down against him and said:

“Who cares? I’d do you in front of a packed house any day. All that guy is thinking is how damned lucky I am.”

She giggled, nervously. “I’ve never been an exhibitionist. I just got caught up…”

“Good. Get caught up, baby…every time. I love fucking you and I don’t care who watches. Let’s go take a dip.”

Zack sat up and Nicole, still glued to his side, looked around. The guy and the dog had already left, but just the idea of her thinking he was still watching turned Zack on. He knew he was a freak, but he was beginning to suspect that he’d hit the mother lode and Nicole might be as freaky as him. He let go of her and stood up, holding his hand out to her. “You coming in?”

She took his hand and stood up. “I’m coming,” she said. She squealed when Zack picked her up and threw her over his shoulder like a caveman and carried her into the water. They had been working so hard on the blanket that Zack hadn’t noticed the slight breeze, but once they were knee deep in the water, he felt the chill as it passed over his sweat-soaked body.

“Maybe it’s too cold,” he told her. Nicole didn’t answer him. Instead, she pressed her hard breasts into his chest and gently pushed him back. Zack let himself fall back into the water and took her down with him. They were supposed to be cleaning off, but he felt his erection beginning to grow again, already. He was hooked, and like any other addict, he was going to need more and more of her to get that high he was looking for.