Chapter 8 - Hudson

 

 

There was no way that I could sleep a wink. I didn’t have a gun on me and I knew that they were skilled marksmen. They could easily kill with one shot. I never needed to use it, but I was starting to wonder if maybe this kind of work might require me to be better armed in the future. I could still defend myself in close quarter combat, but not without a gun.

Lexi was startled when the truck came to an abrupt stop. She was confused and the smile she gave me soon turned into something I didn’t enjoy seeing. She was quite remarkable and even in the face of overwhelming odds, she still managed to keep her head literally and figuratively.

“You’ve been sleeping for a few minutes. Don’t feel bad about that. Your body needed some time to recharge its batteries. I think we’re just stopped at a street light. We still have quite a ways to go. So, you can still relax.” I kissed her forehead.

“I’ve been sitting here thinking about what I can do to fix this. The only thing that comes to mind is a full-frontal attack on the man who killed that police officer.”

I was trying not to use the officer’s name. Using his name would make it more personal and would only have me conscious of the fact that I had been in a position to help him. I was literally right around the corner. I didn’t see what was going on, but it was right there in front of me. I wondered if he had seen me and tried to call out my name. I knew it did me no good to think about it now, but I also knew that question would drive me crazy.

“I just want to go home,” Lexi whispered. “I just want this to be over with.” She pushed her knees into her chest and curled up into a ball, clinging to my side. “I thought I was strong, but I’m not feeling strong right now, Hudson. I wish I could crawl inside you and just stay there.”

“How about I crawl inside you, instead?” I winked at her, trying to use humor to ease her anxiety.

“I’m sure most people would feel that this is not the time or the place. I’ve tried to deny myself and I still can’t escape you, even in my dreams. My mind is saying one thing and my body is saying something else entirely. I’m hungry for you, Hudson. Right here, right now. There’s nothing more I want right now. Hell, we may not even get another chance once this truck reaches its destination.” She surprised me with a long and passionate kiss while lightly grazing down over my arms.

I opened my eyes for a second, taking her in. What could I do but let her temporarily take away my throbbing pain and replace it with pleasure? The pain from being stabbed was now swimming upstream against the feelings of euphoria that she was producing within me. She opened my shirt and laid her bare hand on my stomach. I didn’t have a major six pack, but I worked out and was well defined. She moaned as her fingers moved closer to where my belt was. It was loose and ready to receive her.

The dress she wore was a flexible denim material with a zipper down the back. I easily found it with my eager hands. I heard and felt her desire as I slowly pulled the zipper down to the small of her back. I separated her from her dress until it was around her waist. She wasn’t wearing a bra. She was still so beautiful. It was time to seize the moment and worry about what came next after we gave each other a moment of reprieve.

“If this is what you want and need from me, then I’m all yours.” I moved the hair away from the nape of her neck, touching her slightly and sending a shiver throughout her body. Her responding smile was delicious despite everything that was going on.

I buried my head in her cleavage, muttering into her soft skin, “I know that you still remember the words that I said to you in your hotel room. I wasn’t just saying them to hear myself talk.” Trailing a line with my tongue between her breasts, she bent backward at an angle that was more suited for a contortionist.

She had her hands behind her and I had my arms around her. My mouth consumed and licked in circles around her beautiful buds which were now rock hard. I could feel by the way she was rubbing up against me that she was finally loosening up and forgetting about everything else. The way she moved reminded me of a very explicit lap dance that would have been more than satisfactory for any strip club. I felt my temperature rising. I curled my hand around her neck. She looked so delectable. Like I’d died and gone to heaven.

“Oh, I can’t believe we’re doing this right now, but I want you inside me so bad. I’m aching for you. Please,” she whined.

My connection to her was swift with only her panties standing in the way. She was more than ready for me and I easily gave her what she asked for.

I was occupied with my mouth full and watching her enjoy herself. The worried look that had been glued to her face finally vanished, replaced with nothing but a hungry look of desire and passion.

“Yes… I need this… I need you, Hudson. My God…is there no end to how you can continually satisfy me like no other man ever has or could?”

I wasn’t sure if she was just speaking in the heat of the moment or if she meant what she was saying. Regardless, I always thought no one had compared to her, sexually, in my entire lifetime. She was one of my firsts, and there had been many after her, but no one held a candle to her.

We had entered a new phase of our relationship. I was trying to piece together how this had happened and why I felt so damned powerless to resist her. Was it just that we shared a history, or was there more to it than that?

I was going back and forth from one nipple to the other, making sure that I was giving each the attention it deserved. It was obvious that she was sensitive and I knew of one other area that might be even more so.

I reached in between us and found the spot that was going to leave her body my prisoner.

“I remember exactly where you like it, Lexi.” I barely touched her before her head shot back and she began to quiver.

It took a lot of willpower not to join her in her release, but it was more important that I keep her mind off the reality of our current situation. The longer I held back, the better for her state of mind.

I balanced her weight, each leg wrapped around my waist, and stood up, pressing her against the wall of the truck. With each thrust, her body lightly smacked against the steel wall with a resounding clang that sounded something like wild animals trying to escape from their cages.

“Why did you ever leave me, Hudson? Damn you for leaving me. I cried for months,” she tried to say between her gasping breaths.

“Oh, baby girl, you know I didn’t want to.” I slammed into her harder and harder. “Who would ever want to give you up? Give this beautiful body up?” I leaned back and watched myself enter her again and again.

“But you know I really had no choice.” I slowed down and looked her in the eyes. “My Dad would never let up on me. The older I got, the worse it got. I had to get away from that. I had to escape, and the military was the best option for me.”

I kissed her lips softly. “Leaving you was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. And being inside you again is a dream come true for me, Lexi.” I picked up my rhythm again and proceeded as I was before.

“Please don’t stop, Hudson. I could stay like this forever. I don’t want it to ever end. I’ve missed you so much. More, please.…give me more… you feel so good right now,” she moaned.

I was glad to see that she wasn’t angry at my honesty.

I’d always believed that I had one more shot at forgiveness. I had a lot to make up for. The people I had hurt were wearing the scars from the pain I had put them through. My family deserved more than to have to come to my rescue. I lifted myself up from nothing and was now in a position where I could give them some peace of mind.

“Oh, baby girl, you want more? I only want to satisfy you, baby.” I pushed into her deeper.

I didn’t know how much more I could give her. She was strangling and milking me with her inner walls, screaming for me to satisfy that ache and release my burden.

“You are something else. It’s a wonder that you leave a man breathing after you’re finished with him.” I was having a hard time keeping up with her stamina. She looked right through me, willing me to fill her up.

Her heels slapped against my ass. She spurred me on like she would after saddling a horse.

“I don’t care about anything else,” she cried. “I never want this to end. The way you make me feel is incredible. I feel like I’m flying. I can’t stop myself from wanting more. Bury yourself in me and fill me up, pretty please.” I thought her first comment was enough to pull my seed from my body, but it was the final one that had an intensity that wouldn’t take no for an answer.

I bounced her up and down, hard and relentless with no mercy to speak of. I only had to look and witness how perfectly I fit in and out of her grip to know that I was never going to find anyone else who could take this loving kind of treatment that I was inflicting on her, and still want more.

I grunted and she moaned, not one word making any sense. I could’ve easily given in and let the gates open up, but I was determined to keep her on the edge of insanity. I didn’t want her to think about anything else, not the men who were after us, not her sister, nothing. I had a feeling that she was doing nothing of the sort.

She still had her dress draped around her waist, her panties pulled aside as her body merged with mine. The sight of her, like this, gave me a jolt of adrenaline, like a syringe had been plunged into my sex drive to prolong and enhance it for as long as possible.

I slowed down at various intervals to collect myself before it was too late. She was beside herself, enjoying the moment, and trying to force the issue by utilizing those exercises that women can do practically anywhere. My resolve was crumbling. She was a wild and untamed beast in moments like this. She was burning up and I wasn’t fireproof. She threw fuel on the fire by spewing obscenities and begging me to give her more.

I had no business being with a girl like Lexi. She deserved so much more than I could ever offer her. I couldn’t see a future with her, but I couldn’t see a future without her either. She was the type of woman who made me question myself, made me realize there was something deep down inside that had been missing. Something I had buried. Something I had forgotten could even exist.

Girls who had found themselves with me in recent years would have testified in court that I was unfeeling and cold. I found little use for bringing about emotions that were messy. The only thing I had wanted was a sexual release and then to go my separate way. That was not what I felt with Lexi.

There was a dark side within me, trying to get out. It soon became a matter of desperation. I tried everything to sustain myself, but she was just as stubborn trying to get me to let go.

My legs supported the brunt of our weight and it was a good thing she was leaning against the wall, or I wouldn’t be able to continue at this pace. I gave her long and hard strokes that made her thighs ripple with the impact. The fire consumed us both, raging out of control.

I buried my head in her neck and scraped my teeth along her skin. It made her completely unhinged. It was exactly the response that I was looking for. She made me a bubbling cauldron of ecstasy. It started at my toes and worked its way up until I gave her all of myself. My release was long and lingering. For a moment I wasn’t even sure where I was.

In the back of my mind, I could hear the sound of a very powerful engine gaining on the truck we were in. I managed to retrieve my pants from around my ankles. We were thrown off our feet by the impact of something slamming into the back of the truck.

We bounced around as the truck began to swerve back and forth on the road. I could hear the tires making contact with the gravel on the side of the road. I heard the unmistakable screeching sound of metal meeting metal. It sounded like he was driving alongside the guardrail.

“Find something to hold onto! Now!” I shouted.

We were being jostled around and had no idea how or when this ride would come to an end. I could tell that Lexi was looking at me in hopes that I’d come up with a plan to get us both out of this. But I had no idea what we were going to do.

“I can’t hold on, Hudson.”

“Just try to get a grip on something. Here, hold onto me.”

I found the best thing to do was stand behind the heavy pallets. They had only shifted a little bit because they were wedged in pretty damn tight. I had a hand out to her and she grabbed it, just as the truck bounced crazily from one side of the road to the other.

“Go around… I’m over as far as I can. Why won’t you go around?!” I could hear the driver, his voice loud and panicked. It was unnerving to not be able to see what was going on. I heard the pinging of metal against metal and then tiny holes that perforated the skin of the truck. It was clear that they were coming from a strafe of bullets.

We needed to get down low. It was not going to be good to be standing during this motor vehicle altercation. I could only hope that nobody else would be involved. It was possible, on any given day, that an innocent bystander could get caught into something that they were unprepared for. I tried to brace myself with my feet against the truck, but that was only going to hold for so long.

I pulled Lexi back to where I was, but she had become airborne and landed mostly in my arms with such an impact that I found myself doubled over in pain from her knee making contact with my wound. The searing sensation was enough to drop me to my knees.

The truck moved sharp to the left and sent her careening hard into the wall. She reached above her ear and brought back a handful of blood before sinking down into an unconscious state. I pulled her closer to me and tried to find out where the blood was coming from.

I heard more gunshots and then the inevitable blowout. I had no idea where we were, but this truck was not meant to drive on three wheels. I felt the impact and the truck turned on its side. The cargo went with it. The only thing that I could do was shield us the best that I could from any more damage. Thankfully, we were somewhat protected in the empty space at the front of the truck. 

They were eventually going to come looking for us. It remained to be seen what kind of condition we would be in to take on the might of a Japanese mafia kingpin.