Sexy Love (10 page)

I shake my head
in answer and mutter, “I can’t.”

He gives me a
weird look, confused, and then notices the mobile in my hand. His
eyebrows go up as he finally catches on what’s happened.

“
Dirty texts,
huh?” he asks quietly, smirking.

I just nod in
answer.

“
Just sit and
talk with me a few minutes,” I say to him quietly. “I really need
to distract myself.”

“
Okay,” he
answers coolly and tells me what happened in one of his martial art
lessons instead.

By the time
he’s done telling me, I’ve finally finished my meal and can finally
stand up.

“
Thanks dude, I
owe you one,” I tell him.

“
No
problem.”

The texting
still continues through that week and I’m loving it, even if it
does get me too excited.

I text her on
my break:
Lets get to 3rd time wen work
finishes ;-) xxxxx

I can’t stop
thinking about making love to her twice this morning and I’m dying
to do it all over again.

She replies
back:
I cant busy 2nite

We can have it all around my flat
tomorrow ;-) xxxxx

I’m
disappointed I won’t see her again today, but I’m looking forward
to her suggestion for tomorrow.

“
You headin’ to
gym when we’re done?” I ask Mick.

“
Yeah, you
coming?”

“
Sure,” I
answer. “I’ll grab my stuff before we go.”

I quickly run
up to my flat after work, throw my gym stuff into a sports bag and
get a lift with Mick in his car.

I regret it
once I take off my t-shirt and remember the friction burns on my
back. I’m usually not that bothered when Mick jokes about me having
love bites or scratches on my body, but I feel embarrassed this
time and it’s still sore.

Mick catches
sight of them and I look away shyly.

“
Dude, nice
one,” he says, sounding amused. “Looks kinda painful
though.”

“
It is,” I
reply, blushing a little, and quickly pull on my sports vest before
anyone else can see them.

“
Let’s hope I
don’t find rope burns on your wrists next time,” he jokes, loving
to tease me.

“
No way,” I
cringe. “I’m really not into that…” Although I’m starting to think
the idea of Starlet in handcuffs is pretty sexy.

We walk out of
the changing rooms and start on the treadmills as a warm
up.

“
So what’s Star
like in bed?” he asks me cheekily. “Not ‘cause I’m interested or
anything…just curious.”

I know there’s
a big chance he could have fancied her if I hadn’t made a move, but
Mick is loyal and a good friend. We’d never do anything with each
other’s partners or ex-girlfriends, so Mick only ever sees her as a
friend, despite how stunning she is. I doubt he could ever look at
her in a potential girl kind of way, especially when she’s one of
his self-defence students.

“
She’s totally
amazing,” I tell him, keeping it vague.

I know he’s my
best friend and I trust him, but there’s no way I can give him full
details to what me and Starlet get up to. That’s private and just
between us.

Chapter
20

“
Are you sure
you’re feeling okay?” Starlet asks me worriedly the next
day.

Today has been
eventful. I’ve just had to save people working at our rescue
centres, after we were given a tip off that Snider’s troops were
planting hidden bombs. Luckily I managed to get everyone evacuated,
with the help of Starlet, Sarah and Kat. I had to return inside the
building when Kat’s little sister, Lulu, had stayed inside to find
her favourite doll.

We only just
got out in time before the explosion happened and destroyed the
whole building. I somehow heard the bang and pushed Lulu to the
ground just in time, shielding her body with mine. The blast
vibrations hit us seconds later and parts of rubble flew down on us
and hit my back hard. I just had to grit my teeth and hope that we
were safe from any more damage.

Poor Lulu was
terrified, clinging onto me and whimpering in fear. I felt so sorry
for her and knew this experience would scar her for
life.

“
It’s okay,” I
tell her softly. “We’re both safe now.”

She’s still in
shock, her little body trembling. After a few seconds she bursts
into tears.

I look up to
check the situation. The building is now in ruins, just two half
shattered walls remaining, with the rest scattered around into
piles of rubble. I cough with the smoke that’s flowing over our
heads and stay down until it’s passed and the air is
clearing.

I carefully get
up, feeling my back sting with pain where bricks had fallen onto
me. I hold onto Lulu and help her stand to her feet. She looks
totally shell shocked and holds onto my hand tightly.

“
Let’s go find
your sister,” I say, giving her a reassuring smile.

She seems eager
to get back to Kat, and we see them both waiting anxiously, looking
upset. Kat is already crying, but she looks so relieved when she
sees that Lulu is safe. She runs over and scoops her up in her
arms, hugging her tight with tears of relief.

“
Thank you,
Rickie,” Kat says to me, tearfully, still holding Lulu. “I’ll never
be able to thank you enough.”

Starlet runs
over too and goes straight into my arms, hugging me
tight.

“
Rickie, we
thought you were still inside,” she said. I notice tears in her
eyes and feel guilty for worrying her.

I smile with
relief and hold her close, “we had to get out the back way,” I
explain. “I didn’t want to risk wasting time going to the front.
Luckily we managed to get a safe distance away before it
exploded.”

She notices me
rubbing my back where it still aches.

“
Are you hurt?”
she asks me, immediately concerned.

“
I’ll be fine,”
I reassure her, “I guess some of the rubble hit me, but at least
Lulu’s fine.”

Lulu comes over
and gives me a hug too, smiling up at me gratefully, “Thank
you.”

I smile down at
her and ruffle her hair.

“
Come on, we
need to get back to the base,” Starlet reminds us all, but she
takes hold of my hand and watches over me, making sure I’m okay
after the injury.

“
I couldn’t
bear it if anything happened to you,” she says to me
later.

I feel a twinge
of guilt again. It must have been horrible for her to watch me go
back, knowing that I might not come out alive, and then watch it
explode thinking I was still inside.

“
I’m sorry,
Star,” I apologise. “It must have been hard. I know I’d be totally
devastated if I thought you’d been killed.”

“
It’s okay. All
that matters is you got out safe,” she says, cuddling up to me
happily.

Even though I’m
hurt and nearly got blown up, I’m really enjoying the attention I’m
getting from Starlet now it’s all over.

We have a long
kissing session, relieved that everything’s okay and we’re still
together.

“
How’s your
back?” she asks me, still concerned. “Does it still
hurt?”

“
It feels okay,
just a little sore,” I answer.

“
We should take
you to first aid and get it checked out,” she says and drags me off
there.

Unfortunately
Kat must be busy with Lulu so there isn’t a first aid nurse
available.

“
Do you want me
to take a look?” she asks.

“
Okay,” I agree
and get on the stiff medical bed.

I roll over
onto my back and let her pull up my t-shirt to inspect the
wounds.

“
Aww, you poor
thing. It’s all bruised where the rubble hit you,” she says,
running her fingers smoothly over it.

I can’t help
feeling excited at her touch, even though it still
hurts.

“
I’ll make it
feel better,” she whispers sexily and starts kissing gently along
my back.

I groan a
little, loving it.

She stops,
“sorry, did I hurt you?” she asks.

“
No, it’s
fine,” I reply dreamily. “It feels great.”

She carries on
kissing my back until it feels so good that I have to roll over,
pull her on top of me and kiss her passionately.

She pulls away
from me after a while, “we really shouldn’t be doing this here.
What if Kat walks in?”

“
We’ll go back
to my place,” I suggest.

We leave
immediately, running along the corridors to my flat and go through
to my bedroom.

“
What are you
grinning at?” she asks amused.

“
I’m just
imagining how hot you’d look in a nurse outfit,” I reply with a
smirk.

She just laughs
and lets me push her towards my desk. We kiss passionately against
it and I rest my forehead against hers.

I pull her even
closer, although I didn’t think it was possible. There isn’t any
gap between us, but somehow our bodies entwine even more. I know
she must feel how excited I am over her, because it’s hard against
the place I want be and this makes her groan in my ear.

I French kiss
her and begin to rip off her clothes hungrily. She moans into my
ear again as I unclip her bra, let it fall to the floor and push
her back onto the desk.

She smiles and
lies back on it sexily as I get close to her again. We share an
intense gaze before our passionate kissing begins again.

Soon she’s
taken off all my clothes too, so I remove her remaining thong with
my teeth. I kiss along her legs teasingly and then go down on her.
She screams so loud I can hardly wait to start having sex with her.
I can only stand waiting until she has an orgasm and then I just
have to have her.

I make love to
her hard against the desk, and when I’m done she pushes me back
into the chair. She gets on top of me, her legs either side of me
as she sits on my lap. I pull her close and kiss along her neck
until we’ve having sex all over again. It hurts my back to keep
touching the back of the chair, but I ignore it because it’s worth
it to make love to Starlet and there’s no way I’m going to stop.
The way she moves her body against mine feels totally
amazing.

Chapter
21

The next day is
really bad. It was going well at first, and Starlet and I even had
time to go out for a meal together, enjoying some time off away
from all the action. Little did we know that our secret base was
being raided and destroyed right when we were at the restaurant. We
were blissfully unaware at that moment, holding hands across the
table and staring into each other’s eyes.

It was only an
hour later on our drive back that we got the dreaded phone call.
Carl was pretty annoyed that Starlet and I hadn’t been answering
our mobiles, but he didn’t rant at us because he had to give us the
really bad news.

I was so
shocked I couldn’t believe it. Our secret base had been there for
years. It had been my home since I was fourteen and now it was
gone. It was really hard to process.

Carl told us to
meet everyone at another one of our buildings, where we would have
to stay for the night until we set up another base.

We headed over
there but we were still in a state of shock and everything just
passed by in a blur. We all had to camp out in a small building,
still getting over it all.

“
I can’t
believe he did this,” Starlet says as she cuddles up in her
sleeping bag to keep warm. “Our home, our work offices…they’re all
gone.”

I put my arm
around her, “I know it sucks big time, but we can’t let the bad
stuff get to us too much. If we do everything that goes wrong will
bring us down. We just need to be strong and move on from
it.”

“
I guess
so.”

“
It’s a
dangerous job we have; we could be injured or killed at any time.
As long as we all make it back alive then we should be grateful for
it.”

“
You’re right,”
she replies. “We could have all been in building when it happened.
Everyone else was lucky to get away.”

“
Exactly, so
instead of thinking about the negative stuff we should focus on the
positive and be happy we’re all okay.”

“
What happens
when a team member is killed?” she asks me eventually, looking
nervous at the thought. “How do you all move on from
that?”

“
We just try
our best to get through it,” I answer sadly. “We took a huge hit
when Snider murdered our previous leader, but we had no choice but
to get back up and carry on working, because people out there need
us to protect them. Knowing that gives you the boost to keep
going.”

She smiles at
my advice and I realise just how deep I’m getting.