Legacy of Desire (23 page)

‘You can leave all that to me,’ Todd reassured her. ‘If there’s one thing I do know about it’s coaxing women to help them discover the full extent of their sexuality.’

‘True,’ conceded Tanya and then, finally content, she forgot about Jay and Davina and turned her attentions to her husband once more.

On the Sunday evening Davina prowled restlessly around her cottage. She felt lonely and depressed. Phil had driven back to London, but in some ways that was a relief because she’d scarcely seen him during his visit. When she’d asked him how he and Pattie had enjoyed themselves he’d hesitated for a moment before saying, ‘She’s fantastic, the most incredible woman I’ve ever met.’ The result had been to make Davina feel totally inadequate. Not only had Jay deserted her, it now seemed that she’d never, even at the beginning, satisfied Phil in the way that Pattie could.

She was beginning to wonder if Jay was ever going to return. Even if he did, she couldn’t understand how
their relationship could progress. After their last session of lovemaking, when she’d been certain that he’d felt as much for her as she did for him, what more could she do to move the relationship on? It seemed, she conceded to herself, that she’d been wrong about him. He really wasn’t the kind of man who was ever going to settle down. Although he’d taught her a lot about sex, she’d been stupid to read more into it than that.

There was plenty of work waiting for her in the studio, but she wasn’t in the mood for work. After the experiences of the past few weeks she found that she was shamefully obsessed with sex. Her body was now finely tuned to sensual pleasure, and when she was forced to go without sex she missed it in a way that she never had before. Every night, before she could sleep, she had to masturbate. She knew that there was nothing wrong with this but still felt a sense of shame, as though in some way she was a failure because she had no man to make love to her in the way that her body craved.

The ring on the doorbell took her by surprise. Her heart started to pound and she ran to open it, convinced that Jay must have returned without her
knowledge. When she saw Todd standing on the doorstep her heart sank. ‘Oh, it’s you.’

‘You don’t sound very pleased to see me.’

She felt guilty. ‘I’m sorry, I was expecting someone else.’

‘Jay?’ he asked.

All at once Davina had to tell someone the truth. ‘Yes,’ she said miserably. ‘I thought you were Jay,’ and to her horror she felt her eyes full with tears.

‘Hey, you mustn’t cry, honey,’ said Todd. ‘Here, let’s try and talk this thing through.’

Davina took him into the front room and the pair of them sat side by side on the sofa. There, with the late evening sun slanting through the windows, Davina confessed her feelings about Jay and her desolation now that she was beginning to realise he didn’t feel the same about her.

‘You could be wrong,’ said Todd when she’d finished talking. ‘Tanya and I think he does care for you. We believe that’s why he’s run off, because he can’t face his own feelings.’

‘Well, if he can’t face up to them there’s no point in him having them,’ replied Davina. ‘Even if you’re right,
he’s never going to admit it to me. I wish I’d never met him.’

‘Hey, that’s not true and you know it. If you’d never met him you’d never have met any of us. We’ve had some good times, haven’t we?’

Davina nodded. ‘Yes, but … ‘

‘I know, we’re not Jay, but you’ve enjoyed the sex and so have we. We’ve also taught you to loosen up a bit, which can’t be bad.’

Davina managed a weak smile. ‘I suppose that’s true.’

She didn’t quite know how it happened but suddenly Todd’s right arm was round her shoulders and his left hand was lightly stroking her thigh through the material of her skirt. ‘If I weren’t a happily married man, I’d sure as hell marry you,’ he murmured. ‘You’re incredibly sexy. I even dream about you.’

‘Do you really?’ asked Davina curiously.

Todd nodded. ‘Yep. I’ve told Tanya about it. Luckily our relationship’s so stable it doesn’t trouble her. Truth to tell, I don’t think she’s surprised, you see we don’t get women like you in America.’

‘Which is presumably why Jay’s fled back there.’

Todd shook his head. ‘Not necessarily’ He tilted her towards him a little and began to kiss her lightly on the corners of her mouth while at the same time his hand continued its insidiously arousing caress, only this time his fingers moved beneath her skirt until they reached the soft silken skin at the top of her hold-up stockings. It felt delicious and his kiss was so tender, so relaxing, that Davina didn’t attempt to stop him. ‘I know you love Jay,’ muttered Todd, ‘but that doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun together, does it?’

Davina shook her head. Why should she miss out on this, she thought to herself, simply because Jay wasn’t able to deal with his emotions. ‘I’ll draw the curtains,’ continued Todd. Once they were safe from prying eyes he carefully removed her skirt and blouse leaving her standing in her white bra and matching French knickers. ‘You’ve got lovely skin,’ he whispered, standing behind her and running the tip of his tongue over the vertebrae at the top of her spine. ‘So white and creamy. You’re a real English rose.’

Davina gave a sigh of contentment. Her flesh was tingling with excitement and as Todd sat her down on the sofa, his hands roaming all over her body, she felt
her breasts begin to swell. Todd quickly undressed and then sat on the floor at her feet, stretching one leg upwards so that his toes were between her thighs. Then he began to use his big toe to massage her through the crotch of her panties, and her belly ached and tightened as her excitement mounted.

She could feel the material sticking to her as her juices began to flow. She couldn’t believe how skilful he was and let her head fall against the back of the sofa so that she could concentrate on the incredible sensations he was arousing. The pressure was firm, the movements circular and steady, and her excited clitoris swelled until her whole body tensed in preparation for release. To her horror Todd suddenly removed his foot.

Davina’s eyes flew open and she stared down at him. ‘I don’t want to delay it, I was just about to come then.’

‘Sure, but it’ll be better if you wait a little while. How about you do something for me now?’

They swapped places and Davina knelt on the floor while he sat on the edge of the sofa as she drew his erection into her mouth, flicking at the tip with her tongue before moving her head up and down the shaft until he began to groan and pulled himself out of her.

Now they changed positions once more, only this time he removed her panties first and then began to nibble the smooth flesh of her inner thighs before sliding his thumb between her damp inner sex lips. Frantically she lifted the cheeks of her bottom off the sofa trying to get him to touch her clitoris but he pushed her back down. ‘Wait,’ he commanded. ‘You mustn’t be in such a hurry.’

‘Please let me come,’ she begged him.

‘I will, but not yet.’

Now he used both fingers and tongue to tease the whole swollen area. His tongue moved around her clitoris with lazy circular movements while his fingers continued to roam over the damp flesh. Then, as her body trembled violently, he carefully closed her outer sex lips and pressed his mouth over her pubic mound in a strangely intimate caress that increased the hot pressure deep within her without offering her any chance of release.

‘I can’t stand it any longer,’ she whimpered, ashamed of her own need but desperate.

‘Not much longer,’ he promised, turning his attention towards her breasts. Now his tongue was drawing
lazy circles around her nipples, his teeth occasionally nipping at the rock-hard tips while his hands moved lightly over the flesh that covered her ribcage before he palpated her slightly rounded belly, swollen with desire.

The result was an increase in the pressure that was building up deep within her, somewhere behind her pelvic bone, and she felt that if she wasn’t allowed to climax soon she’d explode. She was making strange keening noises now, writhing desperately on the sofa, her head moving from side to side, while he continued his incredibly skilful torment that was giving her such delicious bittersweet pleasure.

‘Okay,’ he whispered against her ear. ‘I think you’ve waited long enough now. Spread your thighs wider apart.’

Almost weeping with gratitude she did as he asked and his mouth travelled down her body, kissing her breasts, waist and belly before at last he was once more between her thighs. This time he drew her clitoris into his mouth and sucked rhythmically on it. For a couple of seconds the dreadful full feeling increased but finally the first pulsating throbs began behind her clitoris and
then her body was racked by a huge orgasm, an orgasm so intense that she nearly lost consciousness.

‘Didn’t I tell you it would be worth waiting for?’ asked Todd as she lay gasping on the sofa.

Davina nodded weakly. It had been fantastic, but despite the pleasure there was a hollowness about it all because skilled as Todd was, caring as he was, she wasn’t in love with him. He could bring her body to heights of ecstasy but, no matter how much she tried to fool herself, there was something missing.

‘Let’s go upstairs,’ said Todd. ‘I think we should continue this in the bedroom.’

Davina hesitated. She wasn’t certain that she wanted to carry on. Todd gave her a lazy smile and lightly cupped her breasts in his hands. ‘Come on,’ he urged her. ‘Let’s try something different. You’re capable of having lots more orgasms you know.’

‘Why do we have to go upstairs?’

‘Because we need the bed,’ explained Todd.

Davina knew that if she chose to send Todd away, she’d regret it later. Tonight she’d once again lie alone in her bed, and once more she’d almost certainly end up pleasuring herself. She liked Todd, and it was clear
he liked her. There seemed no point in longing for Jay when he’d gone off to the States in order to forget her.

‘Come on,’ urged Todd. ‘You’ll surprise yourself.’

Throwing caution to the wind, Davina nodded. Once inside her bedroom she lay down on the bed waiting for Todd to join her, but instead he began rummaging through the drawers of her dressing table. ‘What do you want?’ she asked.

‘Some scarves.’

‘Why?’

‘So that I can tie you up.’

He sounded completely matter-of-fact, as though there was nothing unusual about what he was saying, but Davina’s heart quickened and she shook her head. ‘I don’t think I’d like that.’

‘Sure you would. Tell you what, if you want me to untie you at any time just say. You trust me, don’t you?’

‘I suppose so,’ she conceded.

Todd looked hurt. ‘Surely you do. I’m a friend of Jay’s, I’d never do anything to hurt you. Pattie and Tanya love this kind of sex. It will really add something extra for you.’

Davina showed him where she kept her scarves and
then nervously raised her arms above her head so that he could fasten her wrists to the bedstead. He fetched extra pillows from another room so that her head was well raised. ‘Comfortable?’ Davina nodded. ‘Great. Then I can begin.’

Davina waited tensely. Already, despite her fear, she was becoming aroused and she trembled as Todd fetched a third scarf, a long narrow silk one and began to draw it over her skin. He used it to surround each breast, lifting it slightly and then lowering it, teasing at the rapidly burgeoning nipple with a corner of the material so that she squirmed helplessly with the sheer pleasure of it.

He spent a long time sliding the silk scarf over her upper torso before moving it lower down her, but not where she wanted it. Instead, he ran it from side to side across each of her insteps and then drew it in and out of the spaces between her toes. Soon she could feel her hips start to twitch as her body searched for greater stimulation, in order to bring about the satisfaction she so desperately craved.

‘You’re very responsive,’ whispered Todd. ‘I guessed you would be.’

‘Touch me between my thighs,’ Davina begged him, but he shook his head.

‘Not yet, honey. That’s why you’re tied up. This way I can control exactly when you get touched there. Right now I’ve got plenty more in mind before that happens.’

Davina groaned.

Todd looked down at her for a moment and then vanished from the room. She realised that he was going downstairs and when he returned saw that he was carrying a large plastic tumbler full of ice cubes. Her flesh felt hot, as though she was on fire, and when he lazily moved one of the ice cubes over her left nipple her whole body went rigid with shock. The contrast between the hot blood coursing through her veins and the slowly melting ice was incredible. Her nerve endings leapt with desire and once more she lifted her lower body upwards, frantic for him to touch her where she most needed it.

Todd no longer bothered to talk to her. Even when she pleaded with him for some relief from the terrible aching between her thighs he ignored her. He sucked on the ice cubes himself before fastening his mouth around her breasts, and the coolness made her gasp. After that,
he held an ice cube up in the air and as she watched, mesmerised, he slowly lowered it, until finally he dropped it into her bellybutton and she whimpered as she felt it start to melt. Tiny cool rivulets of water began to run down her stomach and into the creases at the top of her thighs, but no matter how much she tried to manipulate her body none of it would go between her sex lips.

Davina began to pull at her bonds. ‘You’ve got to touch me or let me touch myself,’ she shouted.

‘That would ruin the whole point of tying you up.’

‘I don’t want to be tied up any more.’

‘Gee, that’s too bad.’

Davina couldn’t believe her ears. ‘You said you’d untie me if I asked you to.’

‘Did I? Sorry, I didn’t mean it.’

For the first time Davina saw how stupid she’d been. After all, what did she know about Todd? She thought she liked and trusted him, but they were alone in the cottage with no Tanya or Pattie to keep an eye on things. His erection was huge and briefly he lay on top of her, moving himself up and down and stimulating the shaft of his erection against her pubic bone. This
had the effect of increasing her desperate need for an orgasm as her whole body swelled and tightened. Then, at the precise moment that the first rhythmic pulsations started, he moved off her and casually ran a hand over her quaking lower belly.