Rescue Me (10 page)

She crawled up to lay at his side, planting a kiss on his open mouth as
he gasped for air.
 
He turned to look at
her and smiled, dragging a thumb across her lips as if thanking her for what
she'd just done.

"Damn", he said, when he could speak again. "Each time I
think it isn't possible for me to come any harder, you go and prove me wrong.
Where did you learn to do that?"

Maya opened her mouth to speak, but he pressed a finger to her lips to
stop her.

"No, don't tell me. I don't want to think about you doing that to
anybody else but me."

She smiled and pulled his hand away. "Larry told me how to do it,
one drunken night. He said nobody knows better what pleases a man than another
man. You're the first person I've done that to since he taught me how. I guess
he was right?"

Seth rolled on to his back and smiled as his eyelids began to close.
"Remind me to buy that man a drink."

****

He watched her walking across the room towards him as she came back from
the bathroom a couple of hours later. Hunger and the hard wooden floor had
finally forced them apart, and they'd stopped making love to get a drink and
have a bite to eat then help each other get clean in the shower. Maya had
stayed behind to blow dry her hair while he went through and collapsed into her
massive white leather bed.

Seth was pleased to see she trusted him enough to walk around naked in
front of him. She couldn't be in any doubt about how beautiful he thought she
was. He'd told her at least ten times in the few hours they'd been together.

He marveled at the way his dick got hard again, just from the sight of
her. He doubted he could love or want her more than he already did, even though
they still didn't know each other very well.

He'd taken a visual inventory of the room while he was waiting for her
to finish drying her hair. The bed he was sitting in probably cost as much as
his truck, and the house that had seem so modest from the outside was far more
impressive inside. Seth didn't know much about interior design, but he was
pretty sure the weird bits of sculpture on top of the shiny glass furniture
were high end items.

Maya crawled into bed beside him and snuggled down into the nook of his
shoulder, fitting against him so easily, it seemed almost natural to have her
there.

"Hey", she said, brushing her lips against his neck. "I
thought you'd be asleep."

Seth wriggled down the bed to lie flat on his back, taking her with him.
"I'm too wired to sleep."

"It's four in the morning Barbados time."

"Are you kidding? I didn't think about the time difference after I
checked it wasn't too late to ring my dad in Texas from the airport while I
waited for my flight."

Maya winced. "How did that go?"

"Surprisingly well.
I got all fired up to tell him the ranch was his
dream not mine
, and that I wasn't going to let it put him
into an early grave.
 
Turns out, he
thought he would be letting me down by giving up on it. He thought he was
robbing me of my legacy."

"Does that mean he is open to the dude ranch idea now?"

"I hope so. We didn't get that far as my flight was called, but it
seems likely."

"What about the orphanage? How will they raise the money they
need?"

"If things go the way I plan, the dude ranch can pay them for
allowing us to host a couple of events like barn dances or hoedowns. They've
got a few buildings on the edge of the land that borders ours, and they never
use them. This way, I can make sure the land is taken care of and help the
orphanage to bring in a little money to help support the kids."

Maya kissed him on the shoulder. "You're an amazing man,
Seth."

He brushed off the compliment.
"Just practical.
I've got an idea about stabling the horses over there. Then the kids get to
enjoy them when they're not being ridden. It's good for the kids and good for
the horses."

"Wow. You've really thought this through."

"I just need to convince my dad to sell off some of the land, and
we'll have the money to get going straight away."

Maya fell silent, and Seth could feel her body going tense. "What's
up?"

"I don't know. I'm just sad, I guess. I've been going through the
motions in my career for years. I know I want to do something else. I just
don't know what.
 
I wish I had your
passion."

Seth grinned down at her and let his hands wander, eager to take the
sadness out of her eyes. "What about your passion for me?"

Maya laughed. "Watch out. Here comes that ego again."

Chapter Eleven

He rolled her onto her back and slotted his body on top of hers.
 
"Sorry, I couldn't hear you over the
sound of my head swelling. Did you just say you wanted to come again?"

Maya raised her eyebrows, trying to look innocent, but her smile gave it
away. "I can't remember. How about we pretend I did?"

"Works for me."

Seth slid down her body and kissed the space between her breasts. Her
skin carried the soft scent of the creamy lotion she asked him to wash her with,
and the smell of orchids took him back to the first time he ever laid eyes on
her.

He turned his head and sucked one of her nipples between his lips,
letting his teeth graze against her skin. Maya let out a shaky sigh and pushed
her breast against his mouth, encouraging him to take more. Seth lavished
attention on one then moved to the other, his attention fixated on the way his
wet mouth made her nipples glisten like plump coffee beans.

She squirmed beneath him, pushing her groin towards his and rubbing her
mound against his torso. Seth didn't keep her waiting, sliding further down her
body and trailing his tongue from her chest to the apex of her thighs.
 
He parted her dark folds, holding them open
so he could see how aroused she was. She was slick with moisture, and her clit
looked ripe and ready for his touch. Seth blew cold air against her flesh,
watching in fascination as her skin contracted slightly and then another hot
gush of moisture oozed from her pussy.

"My God, Maya. I love the way you respond to me."
 
Her vagina convulsed again at his words, and
Seth slid a thick finger inside, eager to feel as well as see her
reactions.
 
"Do you like that?"

Her body answered before she did. "Yes..."

"Do you want more?"

"Yes."

Seth added another finger, pushing harder and faster, adding the extra
sensation of flicking at her engorged clit with his tongue. Maya shuddered, and
her pussy throbbed again.

"More."

He sucked her into his mouth, holding her firm as he added another
finger and began to fuck her hard. Maya's hips jerked from the bed as she
started to shake and moan in response.

Seth doubted she was anywhere near as out of control as she'd made him
earlier, and there was no way he'd leave her wanting. He pulled out of her for
a
second,
moistening his thumb with her juices, before
plunging his fingers back in. He increased the tempo and shook his head from
side to side, stimulating her from the outside as well as the inside. When her
legs parted a little more and she ground against him to increase the
sensations, Seth pushed the tip of his thumb into her ass.

"Oh, fuck! Yes ... yes!"

Maya let out a yell and clamped down, gripping him hard, and he felt her
orgasm begin. Her insides coiled tighter and tighter, and then the first wave
crashed over her, sending her into a chaotic series of jerks and shudders as
her pussy convulsed around his hand.

He crawled up to lay beside her while she recovered, happy to let her
sleep even though he had another raging erection. Maya had different ideas and
reached over to her bedside cabinet for another condom, tossing it onto his
chest in an unspoken command.

Seth sheathed his dick, gritting his teeth against the sensation. He
turned to roll on top of her, but Maya stopped him, pushing him onto his back
and swinging a leg over his hips to sit over him. She took him in with one,
powerful motion and began to ride him.

Her hands were behind her, bracing her weight against his thighs as she
bobbed up and down on his dick, her face a mask of concentration.
 
Seth watched her breasts swaying against her
torso and the muscles of her stomach trembling as she took him in all the way,
and he reached for her but she smiled and shook her head.

"Not yet. I want to watch how you react to me fucking you. I want
to see the expression on your face as you come."

"Okay, but move closer. I need to touch you."

Maya put her hands on his chest, and Seth latched on to her hips. He
began to control her movements, driving her up and down on his dick and making
her rise and fall at a faster pace than she was capable of, one he knew would
make them both come.

If she was annoyed that he'd taken over, it didn't show. Her eyes were
locked on his, and he watched as they began to glaze over a little and her lips
parted in a soft pout that told him she was near her peak.

Seth held her steady, changing position so he could thrust up into her
as his hands pushed her down. Maya began to pant, a small frown creasing her
brow as she bit into her lip. Seth could tell she was having trouble keeping
her eyes open because it was just as hard for him. The urge to shut let his
head fall back and tumble blindly into his orgasm was almost overwhelming, but
he didn't give in to it.

Maya moved one of her hands and licked the pads of her fingers, then
slipped it between her thighs. Seth kept his gaze locked on hers but saw the
movement at the periphery of his vision as she began to rub at her clit.

Little electric shocks of pleasure rippled through his dick as they
raced through her body, sending her into orgasm with a series of hard jerks and
moans that made his balls contract until he had no choice but to come, too.

His fingers bit into her hips as he exploded into her, and the last
thing he saw before he lost the ability to keep his eyes open was that hers
were closed.

****

The next thing he knew, it was getting light outside, and Maya was
asleep on top of him. He lifted her off, placing her next to him and covering
her body with a sheet. He padded into the bathroom to get rid of his condom and
freshen up, then crawled back in
beside
her, dragging
her into the nook of his shoulder.

When he woke again, bright sunlight streamed in through a gap in the
curtains. He stretched his arm out to feel for her but found the bed empty.
Before he could think too hard about where she might have gone, the smell of
good coffee reached his nostrils followed by the unmistakable sound of bacon
sizzling in a pan. Seth's stomach
growled,
and he
rolled out of bed to use the bathroom, intent on finding her and the breakfast
that was waiting for him somewhere.

When he got back to the room, Maya was sitting up in bed with a tray
laden with food next to her. His mouth began to water, and he stopped only to
kiss her in thanks before taking the plate she offered him and tucking in to a
huge breakfast of bacon, eggs, sausage, and fried potatoes.

 
Seth cleared his plate and
drained his coffee cup before taking a breath, or at least, that's how it felt.

"Damn, woman. Don't tell me you cook, too?"

Maya grinned and nibbled at the edge of a rasher of bacon. Her plate was
still half full. "Mom insisted I learn how to cook. I could feed an army
with a bag of cornmeal."

"I can do the basics, but I don't enjoy it."

"I love cooking. I thought about becoming a chef for a while."

"Well, I'm glad you didn't. We would never have met."

Seth kissed her and went to take a shower after locating his travel bag
in the hall. He washed his hair with some of the complimentary bottles from the
hotel that he'd thought to bring with him and dug through to find clothes
suitable to travel in.

He put on a clean pair of jeans and a T-shirt and wondered if Maya had
realized he wouldn't be able to stay for more than a few hours longer. He
wasn't happy about it, but fear of how Maya would react outweighed his sadness.

But when he got back to the bedroom, he found Maya fully dressed and
throwing clothes into a large suitcase.

"Going somewhere?"

She stopped packing and turned to look at him. "I hope so. There's
this ranch I've heard about in Texas. Turns out, the guy wants to set it up as
a dude ranch, and I'm hoping he could use a little help for a few weeks from
someone who knows how to sell an idea and make something attractive to the
public."

Seth stared at her without speaking at first, afraid to believe life
could suddenly become so easy and uncomplicated. She looked sincere. In fact,
she looked terrified, as if she thought there was a chance he'd turn her down.
"You know I can't pay you?"