Afterburn

She was standing in the middle of the floor, staring at a chart of the human spine on my wall. “Can I ask you a question?”

“You can ask me whatever you like.”

“Do you ever have any doubts about us?”

“No, never,” I replied. “Do you?”

“No.”

“Then why ask me that?”

“I was simply curious.”

I sighed and walked up behind her. “Rayne, if this is going to last we have to be completely open with one another.”

“I totally agree.”

I ran my fingers down her back. “Then talk to me. Look at me instead of that stupid ass chart and tell me what’s on your mind.”

“Yardley, the situation with Roxie earlier tonight made be extremely uncomfortable.”

“I know it did and I’m sorry that you had to be subjected to her nonsense.”

Rayne finally turned to me. “Are you sure it was nonsense?”

I laughed uneasily. “I don’t understand what you’re implying, Rayne.”

“She said that you’re still emotionally attached to her. She said that you’re only using me as a substitute to soothe your pain. She said—”

“She said?” I lashed out in anger. I took her saddened face in my hands. “Listen to me, baby. Roxie can’t tell you what I’m feeling. Only I can do that and I’m telling you that I adore you. I want this relationship between us to work. I was as leery as you in the beginning. Hell, I’ve been hurt just like you have. Maybe even worse between the jobs Sheila and Roxie did on me back to back. We’re not goin

g to compare heartbreaks though. They’re in my past. You’re my present and my future.”

Rayne bit her bottom lip. I drew it into my mouth and bit it gently also.

“You bring out so many deep emotions in me, Yardley. It’s almost scary.”

“Don’t be afraid, Rayne. I meant what I said to you in my parents’ home. I’m in love with you and I’m prepared to spend the rest of my life proving it to you. Can’t you see that Roxie was jealous? I didn’t hear the bullshit she laid on you in the bathroom but she was completely delusional when she was speaking to me in the hall.”

“She’s obsessed with you.”

I backed Rayne up against the wall, knelt down, and buried my nose in her belly button through her silk blouse. “And I’m obsessed with you, Rayne Waters.” I pushed her skirt up over her hips. “Damn, I can smell it calling me.”

She had on these satin black thongs and thigh-high black silk stockings. I wanted her so badly.

“You think seducing me will get my mind off what happened tonight?” she whispered.

“Shhh, Rayne.” I lowered my head as I pulled the thongs down and lifted each one of her feet so she could step out of them. I licked the front of her pussy. “Um, you taste so good; so sweet. Put your leg on my shoulder.”

Rayne lifted her left leg and placed it over my right shoulder. “Anything else?”

“Yes.”

“What?”

“Play with your nipples for me.”

Rayne unbuttoned her blouse and let it cascade from her shoulders, down around her waist where the wall caught it from behind. She lowered her bra straps just far enough for her breasts to extend beyond the cups. I watched her from below, fingering her pussy while she ran her manicured fingertips over her nipples. They were hard; like diamonds.