The Lake of Love (Adult Novel 18+) (8 page)

My breathing was heavy with anticipation.

‘Are you ready?’ she asked me sweetly.

This was my first time…

‘Yes.’ I swallowed down the lump in my throat.

Lisa lowered her bodyweight down against me, as she sat back onto my
cock.

I woke with a shock.

My eyes flicked open and I sat up in bed.

I was all alone in my bedroom. My towel was still wrapped around me
beneath the quilt of my bed. I let myself drop back onto the pillow and let out
a long disappointed sigh.

‘It was just a dream.’

Chapter Nine: A Meeting in Private

‘Good morning’ said Nathan, as I awoke.

My elder brother was standing over my bed with a serious expression
painted across his face. It was not an expression that suited him.

‘M-morning,’ I stuttered a nervous reply.

Did he know?

‘Put these on,’ he ordered. Nathan placed a small pile of folded clothes
on the edge of my bed. It had been the same stuff I had been wearing last night
when Lisa and I had been caught in the storm. ‘We need to talk,’ he added in a
not so nice tone of voice before disappearing out of my bedroom. The door shut
behind him with a click.

‘Crap.’ I sighed to myself. ‘He knows.’

For a long moment, I lay in bed praying to god that this was another
dream. It was not. My mind instantly ran through every single possibility that
was open to me. Many of which ended with me climbing out of the bedroom window
and making a break for it, but Nathan was my brother. He deserved better than
this. I have fallen for his girlfriend and he deserved an explanation.

I climbed out of bed and dropped the thin white towel onto the bedroom
floor. I picked my folded shirt off the bed and slipped it on. My ears listened
to the welcoming bird songs that whistled just outside my bedroom window, as I
began to button my shirt. Had the storm finally passed us by? Without further
ado, I picked up my tumble dried trousers and slipped them on. I felt like a
death row inmate preparing to go to the chair.

I let out a sigh. ‘Here goes nothing.’

The bedroom door opened with a click and Nathan was waiting outside.

‘Come with me.’ It was not a request.

I followed Nathan down the stairs to the ground floor. The familiar
voices of mum and dad could be heard within the kitchen, as they sat at the
kitchen table having breakfast together, but that was not our intended
destination. Nathan escorted me down a corridor towards one of the many offices
that dad, or Frank, would use when conducting business here at the lake house.

‘Inside,’ ordered Nathan, as he opened a door.

I went inside without saying a word.

Much to my surprise Miranda was sitting on the edge of a large wooden
desk at the far end of the room. She was dressed in a dark blue shirt that
clung tightly to her body leaving nothing to the imagination and a short black
skirt that hung at the level of her knees. My eyes unconsciously fell upon her
long elegant legs as they dangled over the edge of the desk. She regarded me
with those light blue piercing eyes.

Has she told him?

The office door locked behind me with a foreboding click.

I turned to see Nathan palm the key into his pocket, as he walked by me.

‘So,’ said Nathan. Silence fell upon the room. The only sound I could
hear came from the frantic beating of my heart. ‘I know everything,’ admitted
my older brother. ‘I know all about you and, Lisa.’

‘Lisa told me that you guys were not really together,’ I replied in all
honesty.

‘What else did Lisa tell you?’ asked Nathan, as he stood beside Miranda.

I shrugged my shoulders.

‘That was it really. She said you were not really boyfriend and
girlfriend and that your relationship with her was complicated.’

‘What, Lisa, told you is true,’ confessed Nathan. ‘Lisa and I are not
girlfriend and boyfriend. We never were in a relationship together and we never
will be.’

‘Then why are you telling everyone she’s your girlfriend?’ I had to ask.

‘She’s helping to protect the one I truly love.’ Nathan slipped the palm
of his hand into Miranda’s. An all-consuming smile spread across Nathan’s face.
‘I’m in love with, Miranda.’

‘Eh?’ A frown creased my brow. ‘But you’re married.’ I directed that
towards Miranda. ‘And you have a daughter.’

‘Sheridan is not a child,’ countered Miranda. ‘She’s the same age as you.’

‘But…how, when?’ A million questions began to take form within my mind.

Nathan held up a hand to slow me. ‘It happened three months ago when I
came to the lake house. It was when you all got snowed in and were unable to
catch a flight out here.’

‘What about, Frank?’ the very mention of his name seemed to hit a nerve.

‘Shall I show him?’ asked Miranda.

Nathan nodded his head in reply.

Miranda picked up a television remote off the desk and pointed it towards
the large flat screen T.V that sat high on the wall. A black and white image of
an internal security camera appeared upon the screen. The camera was fixed high
in the corner of an office overlooking two people standing frozen in place
beside a desk.

‘This is from the security camera in my husband’s office,’ explained
Miranda. ‘Watch…’ Miranda pressed play on the remote control. I instantly
recognised the male in the video as her husband Frank. The woman in the video
wore nothing more than a skin tight t-shirt that fully displayed her large
round breasts and a mini-skirt that didn’t even reach half way down her thighs.
If I had to guess, I would have said she was no older than twenty-two years of
age.

‘What the…’

My eyes nearly popped out of my head, as Frank flung the woman around and
forced her over the edge of the desk. Within a split second, his trousers were
open and he pulled his long hard cock out through the open zipper. The woman
let out a giggle, as he stepped closer and lifted her skirt up over her hips.
She moaned loudly, as Frank pushed his hips forward. Firm hands held the young
woman’s delicate body whilst Frank began to ram himself inside of her without
mercy.

Miranda pressed pause and the video stopped.

‘Frank has been like this ever since we first got married,’ explained
Miranda. ‘He has cheated on me with more women than you have had hot meals.’

‘Conner,’ it was Nathan’s turn to talk. ‘This is not some fling that,
Miranda, and I are having. We really are in love.’ I could see from the look
within his eyes that my brother truly meant what he was saying.

Was it really cheating if Frank was already cheating on Miranda?

But then again who am I to judge?

Didn’t his fake girlfriend just give me a blow job?

‘I’m happy for you. The both of you,’ I replied.

‘There is a reason why we are telling you this,’ explained Miranda. ‘I
knew what, Frank, was like when I married him, but I thought I could make him
change, but as you can see he never has.’ She gestured towards the video of the
security camera. ‘We have a special contractual agreement that if I ever had
evidence of him cheating on me we would be able to get a very quick divorce
within six weeks and that I would also be entitled to half of the business,
technically twenty-five percent because your parents own half. I knew that,
Frank, would drag out our divorce, for as long as he possibly could, and try to
work it so that I ended up with nothing had we not signed the deal, but with
this evidence I can finally divorce, Frank, in six weeks time and then, Nathan,
and I can finally be together properly.’

‘But until then no one can find out about us,’ added Nathan. ‘If, Frank,
can get evidence that, Miranda, is cheating on him within the next six weeks
then she will get nothing from the divorce. He’ll end up with the family home,
the cars, all the money, and take, Miranda’s, half of the business.’

‘And that is why, Lisa, was pretending to be your girlfriend?’ I muttered
more to myself than anyone else. ‘She is helping to cover up the fact that you
two are actually together.’

‘That is correct,’ admitted Miranda. ‘But things are starting to get
complicated.’

‘Because of me,’ it was not a question.

The room fell into silence.

‘Do you want me to distance myself from, Lisa?’ I asked.

My heart sank down into my stomach at the thought of not getting to see
her.

‘No,’ Nathan’s reply was instantaneous. ‘I know you, Conner.’ He placed a
hand on my shoulder and smiled. ‘You are not the type of person who sleeps
around with women or goes into relationship half-heartedly. You like, Lisa,
right?’

I nodded a reply.

‘I would never ask you to distance yourself from her. I too now
understand what it is like to be in love, but all that we ask is that you and,
Lisa, help maintain our secret for the next six weeks and try to be a little
more careful where you.’ He didn’t need to finish. We all knew what he meant.

‘We still need, Lisa, to pretend to be, Nathan’s, boyfriend for the next
six weeks,’ interrupted Miranda. ‘After that everyone can be with the people
they love.’

‘So I have to hide the fact that, Lisa, and I are together?’ I asked.

‘That would be helpful,’ replied Nathan. ‘Will you do that for us? Will
you help up keep our secret for the next six weeks?’

‘Okay,’ I replied.

‘Thank you.’ Miranda almost seemed to be singing the words.

‘You don’t know how much this means to us,’ announced Nathan.

‘I do.’ I replied. ‘I know you too, Nathan. I have never seen you like
this about a woman before. If I can help protect your happiness then, Lisa, and
I will pretend to be nothing more than just friends for the next six weeks. I
won’t let, Frank, find out about the two of you’

‘Thank you, Conner.’

* * *

I walked into the kitchen just as mum got off the phone. ‘Good news,’ she
announced. ‘That was the airport. They said that your bags have finally arrived
and that they are ready to be picked up. Once I get through here I will go and
collect them for you.’

‘It’s okay,’ I interrupted. ‘I don’t mind picking them up.’

‘Oh?’ Mum raised a suspicious eyebrow.

‘I mean to say that I don’t really have anything else to do today. A
drive would get me out of the house.’ I forced a smile.

‘Well, if you say so.’ Mum returned her attention to the kitchen counter.
All sorts of different types of food had been strategically placed in nice
little neat lines all around the chopping board. Mum bent down and opened the
oven door. The smell of something hot and spicy instantly flared within my
nostrils. My stomach growled softly. It wanted whatever was cooking inside the
oven.

‘You, away,’ ordered mum. She flicked a kitchen towel at dad and me, as
we moved towards the oven like wild predators stalking their prey. ‘Dinner will
not be ready for a while yet so go away and do whatever it is you have to do.’

‘I better go find, Lisa, and tell her they have our bags.’

‘You know,’ said mum. In that tone mums use when they are plotting
something. ‘Miranda’s daughter, Sheridan, will be arriving here in a few days.’

‘Mum,’ I sighed.

‘No, no. Hear me out,’ she shushed me into silence with a wave of her
hand. ‘Sheridan is the same age as you and she’s really very pretty. Miranda
told me that she is bringing some of her girl friends along.’ Mum gave me a
cheeky wink. ‘It might be a good opportunity for you to meet a girl. It’s about
time you got yourself a girlfriend after all.’

‘Mum.’

How could I tell her I already liked someone?

And that someone just happened to be Nathan’s pretend girlfriend?

‘Don’t pick on him,’ said dad. He was busy packing things into his
backpack on the kitchen table. I couldn’t help but smile at the clothes he was
wearing. My dad the man who ate, slept and lived his job and never seemed to be
out of his tailor-made business suits was now standing in a bright blue shirt
and dark red shorts. He wore a strange green hat on his head and flip-flops on
his feet. ‘Say, Conner, you fancy going fishing with me today?’ he asked, as he
pointed towards the fishing rods laid out on the kitchen table.

‘Um, maybe another day,’ I replied. ‘I really want to go pick up my bags
from the airport and that may take a few hours.’

‘Well, the offer is always open. You know where to find me if you change
your mind.’

‘Okay, Dad.’ I headed passed them both and opened the back door of the
lake house. ‘Has anyone seen, Lisa?’

‘I believe she went down to the lake for a swim,’ replied mum, as she
began to chop away on the kitchen counter.

‘Thanks.’

I turned away and headed out of the lake house.

* * *

It was a five-minute walk from the lake house to the lake. The path was
covered with muddy puddles, which were a reminder of the storm from last night.
Although the storm had felt like some sort of biblical punishment from the
gods, had I just arrived at the lake house today, I would have never known that
such a terrible storm had been and gone, as today it was a perfect summer’s
day.

The burning fireball of the sun had returned to its rightful place within
the bright blue sky. The dark thunderous clouds had now sailed away and little
white fluffy ones were scattered here and there against the bright blue above.
The howling wind that had battered the lake house last night was now gone and
today there was hardly even a breeze. I felt overdressed in my light shirt and
trousers. I could feel the heat of the sun on the back of my neck warming my
body to the point of discomfort in these clothes. It was such a nice day that
it was no wonder that Lisa had headed down to the lake for a swim.

The forest path ahead of me opened into a sparkling mass of light, as the
sun reflected like a million twinkling stars off the crystal-clear surface of
the lake. My eyes scanned the scene before me. The lake was big beyond big. I
could just about make out a lake house of similar design to ours on the
opposite side of the lake, but it had to be at least a mile away.

My heart skipped a beat at the sight of Lisa sitting just twenty feet
ahead of me beside the lake, but it instantly sank down into my stomach at the
sight of Frank sitting beside her. The sleazy husband of my brother’s
girlfriend leaned towards Lisa and smiled that charming smile that had got him
into the panties of countless women throughout the years.

‘Would you like some lotion?’ he asked.