Crystal Clear (10 page)

Jack couldn’t stop.  She was everywhere, her mouth like a branding iron.  He groaned as she unbuttoned his pants.  Her hand found him as he spilled out to meet her.  She went to her knees.  His shaft pulsed in anticipation.  The warm heat of her mouth found him one
teasing
inch at a time.

“Oh yes baby.  That feels so good.”  His hand reached around the back of her head and guided her mouth as she pumped him
,
sucking hard.  Her tongue doing devilish things inside the warm sheath of her mouth and he grew harder. 

“Stop, enough, or I’m going to leave you behind.”  He pulled her up and bent her backwards over a fallen log.  Savagely taking her pants down around her legs, he placed a hand on her sweet spot.  His fingers rough as they pinched her nub. 

She gasped.

He smiled wolfishly, “Yeah baby, you like it rough don’t you.”  He grasped the tip of her nipple and twisted the sensitive flesh hard between his calloused fingers.  She was amazing.  She arched into his hand. 
His fingers became slippery with her wetness
. 

He drove two fingers deep inside her and her body arched like a taught bowstring.  Bending over her with his fingers still dee
p inside her, his thumb pressed into her
clit
.
Jack turned her so she was twisted at the waist and
bit down on the hardened peak of her nipple.  He began to tug and she started to moan in pleasure.  Her nails raked his back leaving deep grooves.
He didn’t care, the pain only served to turn him on more.
  Jack moved to the other breast and licked the tip blowing on it; he reached up and twisted her mound. 

Her body shook
with an orgasm
. S
he screamed, “Oh God
,
yes!”

Cindy
quivered and shook under him
when he took his hand from her.  H
e flipped her over.  The rough bark of the fir tree harsh
under his palm, and he knew it would be rough
against her bare breasts, the d
eep grooves in the bark
pinching her and pulling
in all the right places.
She gasped as her breasts made contact with the bark. Jack grinned.
He yanked open her legs and rubbed him self on her warm slick entrance. 

“Yes!”  She screamed. 

He moved back and rammed three fingers into to her, she reared back
wards
to meet him.  He moved up behind her looking at the pinkened flesh of her entrance.  His other hand found her and tweaked and pulled on her
sweet spot
until she came in his palm. 
Jack s
t
oo
d
directly behind her and
drove into her tight channel with force while she was still sh
oo
k
from
her
climax.

Cindy
yelled in pleasure.
“Yes, oh yes harder!” 

He thrust himself into her
driving her against the bark scraping
against her skin every time as the
tension built and built.
“
Jack
!”  She screamed.

Jack felt the rush of cream as she came all over him.  He could barely hold himself back.

“Stop, turn around.”  He roughly pulled out and flipped her back over.  Jack shoved her back to her knees.  “Take me baby, take it all.”  He grabbed her hair and she opened taking him deep into her mouth. 

“Yes!”  He came spilling his seed down her throat she swallowed
it all like her favorite drink.
S
he licked him dry. 

Cindy
looked up at him smiling.  

He pulled her up and
kissed her again.  Tasting himself
on her lips
, salty sweet
.  “You’re amazing, Trouble.”  He
still looked
at her with heat in his eyes.

“Thanks.” Cindy suddenly
became
aware that she was naked on her knees in front of this man that she barely knew.  She grabbed her shirt and jeans and quickly slipped them on. 

Jack buttoned his pants. H
is shirt was ruined,
and he
flung
her pack over his shoulder
then swung her up in his arms. 

“We’re going back to the cabin.  We can leave in the morning if you still want, but I intend to see you safe, against your own better judgment.  Besides, I think there’s some unfinished business between us.  Don’t you?”

All she could do was nod.  Her brain vacated the building a long time ago.  She knew there was the job, but it could wait a few hours, just a few more.  The sniper probably thought she was dead, and she had already checked in, so she had a little time.

Her gaze lingered on his mouth and her fingertips brushed along his jaw as she was carried back to the cabin.  She had never
gone down on
any man before, not like that.  Her mind whirled to try and figure out where all that passion had come from.  She thought it impossible for her to feel anything
so intense
for another man.  She let her head rest against his shoulder.  Why now?  Chase wasn’t going to like the turn of events. 

“Oh crap,” her head popped up from his shoulder, “I have to make another call.”  She tried to wiggle out of his arms, but he refused to release her.

“Why now?” He said echoing her thoughts, “Can’t
,
whatever it is
,
wait until the morning?”

“No.  I have to take care of this.” She was adamant.

Jack set her down; she liked the feel of her skin pressed against his hard body.  As soon as her feet hit the forest floor, she reached for her back pocket and pulled out the phone.  She glanced up at him, smiled, then turned away to have her conversation with the one person she really didn’t want to talk to right now.

“Cindy, what’s going on? Luce said that you were in trouble.  I’m on my way to help.”  Chase’s husky voice came across the line, and she closed her eyes.  He was not going to like what she had to say.

“Look Chase, I’ve found someone who’s helping me here.  I know you’ll be arriving soon, and I wanted to warn you that someone will be with me.  He’s one of the good guys, so I didn’t want you jumping him the minute you see
him
.  We’ll be at his cabin.”  Cindy didn’t want to say much more.  Chase would know soon enough that something was happening between Jack and herself.  “I’ll see you soon.”

“I’ll be there in the morning.”  His deep voice sounded troubled.

Cindy hung up her phone and turned to look at Jack, “My backup will be here in
the morning
.”

Jack stepped closer to her and placed his calloused hands on her shoulders running them down to her upper arms.

He leaned in close. “F
inally on the way?” 

She inhaled his scent. H
e smelled of the outdoors and sex.  It made her groan, but she didn’t lose track of what he said.

“Yes, that is what I was yelling in the phone for earlier.  I tr
ied
to talk the team into letting me keep solo on this mission, but it seems as though they don’t trust me enough to be able to handle dealing with the unknown element of my mission.  They’re sending in my backup.” 

She had a frown on her pretty face and looked like a disgruntled pixie. 

“I take it that you’re not normally the person they send out into
the field?”  She shook her head. Her tousled hair fell
in disarray around her shoulders, the tips brushing the backs of his hands.

“No, I know a lot about the project though, and this gave me my chance to prove I could be out in the field.  That’s shot now.  Chase Montgomery will be here shortly,
and
he’ll be here merely as my backup in case anything else goes wro
ng, but he’ll want to take over. That'
s the kind of guy he is.  I need to ask you the swiftest route to our target point and have you lead us there.  After we’re done you and I will probably never see each other again
.
I live in New York, and am regularly on assignment.” 

Jack didn’t look happy with that prospect.  His hands tightened on her arms and she winced, he immediately let up pressure.  His lips took hers again.  He didn’t let up until they were both gasping for breath.

“Have you ever felt like this before?  With anyone?” 

She stared back at him,
his
eyes
were
dilated. She shook her head.

“T
hat would be a no for me too.  So, look, I am not going to let this be the end.  We just found each other.  This Chase will just have to deal with me being part of the picture.” 

Her eyes widened.
“He’s not going to like that.”

“Why not?”  Jack’s eyes narrowed.

“Chase and I used to be together.  We have been off for a while now, but I know he expected us to get back together.” 

Jack’s eyes turned to slits, and Cindy could barely make out the color as he peered at her. She placed a hand on his arm.  Th
e man had some damn fine biceps.

“Jack, I don’t feel the same way about him.  I’ve never been this intense with any man before.  I don’t want this to end either, but I have a job to do, and I can’t let my feelings for you get in the way.” 

Jack nodded, but his eyes didn’t let up their glare.

“I understand, I know about having a job to do.  I won’t get in the way, but don’t think that I’m going to let go of what’s between us.  Once the mission is over, if I have to, I will find you.” 

Cindy sighed.  She didn’t want to fight with him.  “We’ll see.”  She turned and headed back into the cabin to wait for Chase to get there.  It
would
be a very tense next couple of days.

Jack followed Cindy into the cabin.  Moving over to the bed, Cindy sat on the edge.  Her ankle throbb
ed
and she didn’t know how long she
would
be able to keep up the pretense that she was fine.

Copper barely raised his golden head from his cozy place in front of the fire.

Jack watched Cindy from across the room.  Her ankle bother
ed
her, and he knew that they needed to get some ice on it to bring down the swelling.  Their escapade in the woods hadn’t helped matters any.  With hurried movements, Jack got the first aid kit from the table at the foot of the bed and broke another ice pack.

“Here, this should help.”  He moved to sit by her, and she winced with the motion of the bed.  Gently, Jack placed the compress on her ankle.

Chase Montgomery stood at the forest edge.  Cindy had a tracking device installed in her laptop
in case she got in trouble
, as well as one on her person
.  He
'd kno
w
n
she wouldn’t be ready for a solo mission.  In fact, he’d told Killroy so before his boss asked her to solo. 

Perhaps he should have insisted on going along in the first place, but he also knew how important this was to Cindy.  So, he agreed to be her backup in case anything happened.  Of course, now here he was trudging through th
e woods to a small cabin
. 

He approached the run down little shack and
listened to the
voices inside.
  They didn’t seem to be raised. H
e heard Cindy’s voice opposite a man.  Lucy had warned him to expect another person.  Assuming all was clear; Chase approached the cabin directly and pounded on the door.  The wood shook beneath his fist. 
The thud
of heavy footsteps
sounded,
and the door swung open. 

A tall man with dark hair and a rugged look opened the door.  He appeared harassed.  Chase guessed this must be the man Lucy had
talked about. A
nyone in Cindy’s company for more than twenty minutes tended to have
the same
look on his face. 

“Hi, I’m Agent Chase Montgomery I assume my partner is here?  Her distress line called me in.”  Chase brushed past the man in the doorway. 

Cindy
sat
next to the fireplace, and rose at the sound of his voice. 

“Are you alright?”  He walked over to her and made a quick inventory of her bruising and scratches. 

“I’m fine.  It’s good to see you, although I think I could have handled things without you here.  The threat has passed.” 

Cindy always tried to alleviate his worry.  He wished she’d stop. 

She continued, “This is Jack Wilde.  He’s been assigned to us through the US government, he’ll be acting as a guide and backup as we search for the target.”  She gestured toward Jack and smiled.