His Dark Promise (Siren Publishing Classic) (8 page)

His eyes found hers, and for a brief second, he gazed into them, trying to measure the sincerity of her plea and her comfort levels. Holly nodded her head back at him to confirm her words were genuine and pushed her butt back on him. He groaned long and hard at her as his eyes drooped closed. He reached out and gripped her hips in both of his hands then said to her in a voice he barely recognized as his own. “Remember you begged for this, sweet darlin’.” He then pulled her hips back hard and impaled her on his cock and buried himself completely in her ass.

Holly screamed out as both pleasure and pain exploded within her being. His hips bucked against her butt. His balls slapped against her pussy as he drove into her at record pace. He forced her to take all of his cock into her tight back entrance. He took her hard so she would know she had
been
taken by him. Holly would be sore when this was over, deliciously so. This meant the next time he took her he’d have to ease into to her slowly and gently.

Snaking one of his hands down to her pussy to play with her clit, he felt more moisture ease its way from her core to run down the inside of both her thighs. The sight of her juices spilling from her spurred him on even more and had him plunging his cock into her even faster than before.

On the verge of diving headfirst into an orgasmic heaven and hell, Travis grunted out for her to come. She came with a scream that was guaranteed to leave her throat raw from crying out so loudly. Her body rippled beneath his hands as her orgasm shot though her. She threw her head back as she gave herself over to him and the pleasure he was giving her. Travis could see she had her eyes squeezed shut, capturing the pleasurable torment rolling through her. She was the most exquisite sight when she released all her inhibitions and let the pleasure take her over.

Just as she was coming back to normality, Travis pulled abruptly out of her ass. Fisting his cock in his hand, he aimed it at her ass and pumped it. His hot seed splattered onto the bare skin of her lower back and dribbled down into the crack between her ass cheeks. He marked her, just as they both knew he would.

When she glanced over her shoulder at him, he could see her smile of satisfaction she hadn’t tried to hide from him. She then collapsed back down onto the bed, exhausted. He had worked her hard and taken her to a depth she was more than likely unaware she could even be taken to.

He had to remind himself then that in less than twelve days’ time she was leaving. She was flying halfway around the world and staying there for a whole fucking year. He may not want her to go, but at the same time he would let her go knowing it was something she needed to do. It would be a selfish move for him to demand to her not to leave, so he wouldn’t. And when she left him he would no doubt comfort his broken heart with a bottle of whiskey, and remember this time with her without regret. He couldn’t say the same for her though, and wondered briefly whether Holly would come to regret being with him like this.

Rolling off the bed, Travis slipped into the bathroom to grab a warm washcloth to clean up the mess he left on her skin from his marking. While he was in there he happened to glance up at the mirror and was shocked to discover a glimmer of hope shining brightly in his eyes. After spending only one night in her arms and in her warmth, he had found more love and hope than he had ever imagined he could find with her.

He couldn’t help but strut back into the bedroom with a purpose to conquer her heart and make it his. After methodically and tenderly cleaning away their love making from her, he covered them both with the bedsheet he had ripped off the bed earlier. Holly turned onto her side to snuggle up close against him. Travis couldn’t deny her of this moment of being in his arms while they both drifted back to sleep, blissfully fulfilled, while outside dawn broke, bringing with it Sunday morning.

Eleven days, that’s all the time he had left with her to prove to her once and for all that he was her man. Then she would have a tough decision to make. She would have to choose between accepting his love for her or risk spending the next twelve months alone wishing he was there with her.

Travis suspected Holly would constantly be dreaming about the way he took her body to that dark place where only the forbidden pleasure can be found no matter which way she chooses. He had commanded a lot from her in the last twenty-four hours. But he planned on commanding a lot more from her in the coming days before she left.

Then when the time came for her to fly out she would make her final choice. Travis only hoped that when it came down to the crunch Holly chose correctly and picked him. At the end of the day her only options were either risk her heart to a man he knew she had an unwavering need for. Or accept the ache of loneliness for a love she would deny herself and him of.

He refused to think she would select incorrectly and secretly knew her heart had already made its choice and chosen him. But when it came right down to it, would she take a chance on him too?

They both left the hotel together around checkout time the morning after a night of wild, unadulterated bliss, albeit a little exhausted. Holly could feel herself practically glowing in her satiated state when Travis walked her over to her car. He had woken up ravenous for her again, had taken her while she was half asleep, and brought them both to orgasmic completion just as efficiently as he had previously. She had cried out as her climax had swallowed her up whole while he roared out his own pleasure.

Kissing him on the cheek now and saying good-bye to him, Holly knew this was a turning point in their relationship, if she could call their brief encounter a relationship. She stared at his jean-covered ass as he strolled over to his own car. Climbing into her own vehicle, she pulled out of the hotel driveway and headed back over to her apartment to spend the rest of the day packing up her stuff. She was subletting her apartment while she was overseas for twelve months. The tenant was due to move their gear in in just over a week’s time. So she really needed to get her butt into gear and finish packing up her stuff and put into the storage space she had hired for the year she was away for.

It was going to be a long, tiresome day of packing and having very little sleep meant she wasn’t in the mood to deal with the whole packing up the apartment thing. Unlocking her front door and stepping inside, she turned and closed it before flipping the lock back into place. Holly couldn’t help the somber mood she found herself in as she walked down the hallway to her bedroom. Her mind was constantly thinking about her time with Travis. He was like a drug to her, one she couldn’t get enough of. Her body was craving another shot of him, even though it had been less than hour since he last taken her.

Holly refused to acknowledge that there may not be another next time with him, because if that were true, then all she had accomplished by surrendering to her lustful desires was being just another meaningless name he would write down in that little black book of his. She would mean nothing more to him than just another conquest and that was the last thing she wanted to be.

Collapsing on top of her mattress in a heap after entering her bedroom, she was dead on her feet, thanks mainly to Travis’s constant possession of her body. Not that she was complaining at all, well, maybe a little. But now all she wanted was sleep.

She groaned when her doorbell buzzed just as her eyes closed. The last thing she wanted was company, but whoever was disturbing her late on a Sunday morning wasn’t going away. When the doorbell buzzed again, Holly eased herself up from her bed and made her way to the front door, cursing the person behind it. She opened the door and scowled at the person standing there. “Travis? What the hell are you doing here?”

“Well, when I got in my car I realized I hadn’t fed you. So I thought I better, since I worked you pretty hard this morning and last night.” The smug smirk on his face made her resistance to not let him in weak. Before she knew what she was doing, Holly was inviting Travis inside her apartment. She waved her hand at the moving boxes stacked around the place and apologized for the mess they created. “No need to apologize, you’re packing up to leave, right?” She just nodded her head to answer him, too damn tired to do much else. He placed the brown paper bag of food and the cardboard tray holding two cups of coffee down on the kitchen table. He then shocked her by moving toward her and wrapping his arms tight around her waist. He even had the nerve to drop a kiss to the top of her head. Holly could feel the affection he held for her in that one kiss. She felt like weeping from the tenderness she sensed coming from him and she never cried. So she wrote off her emotional response to him as due to her lack of sleep.

Pushing back from him, Holly ran her hands through the lengths of her hair while staring up at him. “I’m really tired, Travis. In fact, I was lying down when you showed up here.” Unannounced, she wanted to added on but didn’t.

“Yeah, it was a pretty long night and neither one of us got much sleep.”

She studied him for a moment before asking him, “Why are you really here, Travis?”

“I’ve told you that already, I felt guilty in not feeding you, so I brought us both some breakfast.” Holly watched him arrange the fresh bagels and donuts on the table for them to eat.

“You know that’s not what I mean, Travis, and we both know it.”

He turned to her then and shoved a cup of coffee and a bagel in her hands. “Eat,” he grumbled out to her, “and stop overanalyzing this, Holly. You’ll give yourself a headache and you don’t want that, do you
?
So once your belly is nice and full, I’ll tuck you into your bed and if you ask me really nicely I might even stay and lie down with you.”

Holly just rolled her eyes at him and dug into the bagel he shoved in her hand. “Arrogant bastard,” she muttered under her breath. He obviously heard because he smirked down at her and said, “You got that right, sweet darlin’.”

As promised, once she finished eating and had downed her coffee, Travis escorted her down the short hallway to her room. He even stripped her of her clothing, telling her she would sleep better in the nude. More likely he would sleep better if she was in the nude. Even when she protested he stayed anyway and slept the day with her in her bed.

Late in the afternoon, he woke her up with his lips delving between her splayed legs to taste her essence. Holly gripped his head and tried to grind herself onto his mouth. His lips sucked at her clit and before long she found herself teetering on the edge of a breath-stealing orgasm. He shoved his tongue into her opening and a fingertip in her ass, and she flew over the edge, crying his name out as she flew higher and higher.

On the way back down from her release, he plunged his huge, hard length into her and stole her breath once again. His lips slanted over hers while his hips drove forward, filling her up with his rock-hard cock. She could taste her own unique flavor on his tongue. It was an utterly sinful delight.

With his hands massaging her breasts and his fingers tweaking her taut nipples, Holly found herself once again spiralling into a second orgasm then a third one before he let go himself. She felt his hot seed pulsing inside the condom he wore. And once again, she found herself wishing he hadn’t worn one. Just once she wanted to know what it felt like to have his warm semen spilling into her wanting womb and marking her as his.

As she lay back down on the bed completely spent, Travis gently cleaned them both up before disposing of the used condom. He lay back down beside her and tucked her into the crook of his arm and they both fell back to sleep, thoroughly sated once again.

When she next woke up it was dark outside. No light spilled in from the opening in the curtains. Leaning over she flipped the lamp on and a soft glow appeared and Travis was nowhere to be seen. She called out to him but was greeted with silence. He was gone. He must have slipped quietly out into the night while she slept soundly thinking he was nearby.

She missed him, but deep down knew he had to go. After all it was a work day tomorrow. Great, they hadn’t spoken about what to say to people about their what? Relationship, were they even in one? “Ugh!” she grumbled then switched the light back off.

Darkness, she wanted the soothing darkness to ease the ache within her chest, the one caused by him leaving her without even so much as a word of good-bye to her.

Running a fingertip over her lips, a tear slipped from her eyes when it dawned on her that he left her alone in her bed without so much as a kiss goodnight. Maybe he didn’t want to pursue this thing between them like she had presumed he had. If that was true then it left a hollow feeling deep inside her and a longing for something just out of her reach, him.

Holly wanted Travis more than anything else in the world. But what if in the end she wasn’t enough for him to want her in his heart? What would she do if he did reject her love for him?

Travis smirked to himself when he saw Holly scamper into the office two days later. He wasn’t surprised to see she was running late again. Tardiness was definitely one of her stronger points. When she raced by his desk without even a backward glance, frustration rose within him. She had been avoiding him at all cost when at the office, but outside the workplace was a whole other story. She was like a sexual firecracker and he was the match that lit her fuse. However all that changed when at work. Holly acted like she didn’t even know him and refused to make any and all contact with him. Travis knew they should have had a discussion before now about their relationship to avoid such situations like this. It just hadn’t eventuated as of yet.