Claimed by the Marine (6 page)

“Who told you? Bertha?” he asked quietly, in the hope of calming her down.

“She let something slip and I found out the rest from another friend that was there that night,” Ashanti said furiously. “I can’t believe I didn’t see right through your act! All that romantic dancing, staring into my eyes like I was the only girl in the room…”

“You were,” Hawk said softly, taking her hand in a firm grip as he looked down into her scowling face. “I walked in that night and forgot everything else but you. Ashanti…”

“Oh god I feel like such an idiot!” she cried, snatching her wrist from his hold. “I should have known it was too good to be true.
You
were too good to be true. Nothing about last night was real, was it? It was all just some kind of morale-boost for poor little me. I guess I should be glad I got a hot night of sex from it.”

Hawk sighed angrily. “Look Ashanti, I’m sorry. Okay? I’m sorry I ever got mixed up in Bertha’s silly scheme. I guess I started out doing it for a laugh. Helping a best friend’s sister out with
her
best friend. I never dreamed I’d start to get in deeper than I planned…”

“You can say that again,” Ashanti muttered, laughing with self-derision. “You got in deep all right. I mean, I practically just fell into your web like the idiot I am. You fed me the words I wanted to hear…you touched me just the right way, and I foolishly believed you. I believed everything you said to me.”

Hawk was finding it harder to rein in his temper. “Stop, Ashanti. Please. You know it was just a harmless –“

“Harmless? You jerk,” Ashanti breathed, obviously fighting back tears. “I let you take me home…I let you
fuck
me more times than I could count in one night – and none of that would ever have happened if you weren’t set up to play fake admirer with me. Do you know how that makes me feel? Oh God I really, really hate you right now, Hawkins Malone for - ”

Hawk didn’t let her finish. He moved so fast she didn’t have time to even blink. She was backed up against the wall so hard the breath was knocked out from her. Before she could thump at him with her fists, he lifted them high above her head. And then he kissed her. Swooped down for a deep, searching kiss that gave her no room for denial.

She struggled for some moments but then he managed to slip past her defenses with his hot, seeking tongue. He groaned into her soft, giving lips, feeling her body’s curves push against him as she fought not to respond. Tried to turn her face away but Hawk slanted his head to capture her deliciously swollen mouth again and again.

She was melting; he could feel it. Unwillingly, true; but she wasn’t struggling so hard against him. Keeping one hand wrapped around both her wrists, he slipped his free hand down her back to cup her ass, shoving her tightly into his full length.

“You feel that, babe?” he rasped, grinding his lower body into her as he kept her pinned against him. His erection was already thick and hard as a plank. “Could I fake that? Or this?”

She was staring widely up at him as he released her hands, guiding one to his shirted chest where his heart beat somewhat wildly. He saw her lick her bruised-looking lower lip, and he let out a low growl, a pulse ticking in his chiseled jaw as he looked down into her face with his eyes blazing. “Just don’t pretend you don’t know what you do to me. Ashanti, you’re a beautiful, sexy-ass woman. How can you even doubt that I’m attracted to you?”

“It doesn’t matter,” she said, her eyes defiant as she shook her head at him. “I don’t…”

“What, Ashanti? Say it. You don’t want me? Or that you’re too mad at me to let me take you right here, right now? Because I know that’s exactly what you want me to do,” Hawk said hardily, his gaze sweeping over her face, neck and chest. “Your breasts feel heavy right now, don’t they? They want me to grab them, take them in my mouth one by one. And your pussy…it’s already as wet for me as it was all through last night. Want me to check and prove myself right?”

“No, Hawk…stop…”

“Ah, babe…you have to sound more convincing than that,” he rumbled, ignoring her soft words. Keeping her back wedged against the wall, he reached right under her skirt for her panties, and yanked.

He heard her gasp of surprise and arousal. Her panties were now nothing more than tatters which he flung aside.

Sure enough, his fingers soon probed between her trembling thighs and found her folds soaked and soft with need. He leaned close to pluck at her tantalizing lips, stroking on her clit and making a moan spill out of her throat.

“This feels so real, babe,” he told her, sliding two fingers up her slippery pussy, his booted foot kicking her legs further apart. She was clutching his shirt and staring at him partly with anger, partly with dark, molten lust. He finger-fucked her deep, filling the hallway with sounds of her honey-slick wetness.

“And this…” ‘This’ was his mouth kissing her; hot stinging kisses. He heard her low whimpers as she threw her head back when he began to trail his mouth hungrily down her neck. Her scent and taste maddened him; made him lose his hold on reality for a second.

“Damn, I need you so bad. I’ve got to have you. Or I’ll lose my fucking mind.” Hawk freed his cock with one hand while the other didn’t stop finger-shafting her deliciously tight and wet pussy.

Fuck! It felt so good jabbing into that slick cunt. But now he wanted to plant more of himself into her than just his fingers. Lifting one of her legs to wrap around his waist, he pushed her skirt higher. She held on tight to his shoulders, bracing herself against the wall as he slipped his fingers out of her to guide the tip of his cock to her entrance.

Hawk got his tip coated in the wetness at her slit, his gaze fastened on her flushed, beautiful face. Her eyes were heavy-lidded, almost shutting as she groaned each time he rubbed his crown back and forth along her opening. Hawk knew he couldn’t keep tormenting her – and himself. He was ready to rip right into her and yet, he wanted something more.

“Look at me, babe. Open your eyes,” he commanded, and saw the bright orbs snap open. Satisfied, he hefted her leg higher up his waist and then probed her pussy with his cock. He kept his eyes pinned on her face, not wanting to miss any expression as he slipped just inside the entrance of her juicy-wet cunt. And then, with a forceful thrust, he plunged deep inside her.

Ashanti was so wet that he sunk in more than halfway with his granite hard cock. So hot, so tight…so fucking sweet. Ashanti felt so good the way she gripped on his cock, her body shuddering as with a second stroke, he rammed in as far as he could go. Nothing but his balls remained outside her pussy and he watched as her pupils dilated, her mouth parting in a soundless “O” as she stared into his gaze.

He could feel her fingers fisting up small tufts of his short hair, tugging hard, making his scalp tingle. He drew back right to the tip of his cock and then lunged in once more. This time she cried out his name. And didn’t seem ready to stop. Quickly, he seized her mouth with his and then locked both her legs around his waist as he held her up against the wall and drove
in
.

His cock had never felt so hard; it almost ached. Her vaginal walls were so snug and yet spongy that each time he drew out it was like hell because he couldn’t wait to slam back in again. He never wanted to stop; never wanted it to end but he sensed he was too close. They both were.

Ashanti was panting against Hawk’s roughly kissing mouth, and was moving her hips in that frenzied way that told him she was deriving maximum pleasure from the act. His upward strokes grew harder, went deeper till he felt sure he was pounding her cervix. She tore her mouth from his and her head fell back against the wall as she cried out in ecstasy. He buried his face in her neck and lost himself in being lost in her.

Again and again he virtually hammered her, speeding faster as he reached closer to his goal. With a swing of his hips, he angled his cock repeatedly up against her g-spot and was rewarded with a shrill, long-drawn out cry from her lips. Ashanti was coming, her labia and her walls swelling and convulsing to engulf his pumping cock. His orgasm followed almost instantly, his fingers cupping her ass tight while her legs stayed wrapped tight around his middle.

Hawk slid in as deep as he could go and then held himself tightly sheathed within her walls, hardly moving as his cock pulsed and ejected with cum. Ashanti’s whole body kept spasming, so he lifted his face from her neck and sought her lips, hungry as ever for her moist sweet tongue. He sucked it in his mouth even as he filled her with ropes of cum. His body shuddered with the force of his release, and already Hawk was thinking how hard it was going to be to leave for his latest assignment after having this red-hot taste of her bounty…

Chapter Fourteen

Hawk was exploding deep inside her. Ashanti could feel the heat flood her like a wave as he stayed jammed tight within her spasming walls. She clung fiercely to his shoulders, and just held on. She too, was still lost in the haze of her recent mind-blowing orgasm. She knew that if he let her go right then she knew she’d crumple to the floor.

But Hawk didn’t let her go. His powerful arms felt as good around her as his thick, still-hard cock which remained buried far up her pussy. His mouth clung wetly to hers, and she reveled in his possessively searing kiss that took saliva-swapping to another level. She moaned deeply, her back leaning against the wall as her ass was groped in his big strong hands.

Finally, Hawk broke his lips away and she lifted heavy eyelids to look into his handsome face, a light sheen of sweat on his forehead. Ashanti heard his harsh, low breathing and saw how much he was trying to regain the control he’d lost in the last several minutes.

It almost didn’t seem possible that it was less than half an hour since she’d walked in here spouting her wrath at him. She’d been so mad she’d felt she couldn’t stand him touching her again.

But she’d been wrong, so wrong. Within ten minutes of her arrival, he was shoving her against the wall and taking her so hard her legs still felt wobbly.

Hot damn!

It had been hard and fast and the hottest sex ever.

Mixed in with all the friction of being mad at him, it had proved a potent combination. Helpless to fight her own powerfully surging lusts, she’d let him have his way. She’d felt no more than a weightless doll, carried and then impaled upon that devastatingly thick and powerful cock of his.

The atmosphere had been charged with tension, heat and undeniable passions. And as he slowly, gently released her legs and let her slide down his body to plant her feet on the floor, she felt reality dawning. Hawk kept a steadying hold on her waist and didn’t let go till her strength alone was able to keep her upright.

He rested his forehead against hers and Ashanti closed her eyes, praying for the strength to do what she needed to do next. But before she could speak, Hawk broke the silence first.

“I have to go,” he said quietly, wincing for a moment.

Ashanti felt a fist of pain clench around her heart. It had been the exact words she’d been about to say – and yet it gave her a perverse pain that he’d beaten her to it.

“I understand,” she said very calmly, righting her clothes as best as she could.

“No you don’t,” he said with a heavy sigh, backing up and doing up his pants as he stared down into her deliberately expressionless face. “I have to leave…on assignment. My team’s been called in and now I have less than an hour to get there. I can make it if I leave now. But when I get back…”

Ashanti was shaking her head. “It’s okay, soldier. You don’t have to make me any promises,” she told him quietly, pushing her fingers back through her hair. “I didn’t come here for that. I guess you gave me exactly what I came for so maybe I should say thanks.”

She smiled brightly at his narrowed expression. “Because that’s all it is, Hawk. It’s nice to know you’re always good for a pity-fuck whenever I need it.”

Moving closer to his rigid frame, she cupped his cheeks in both hands. “No harm, no foul, soldier. Last night…and even just now – it’s exactly what I needed. But you don’t need to go thinking I’m looking for something more, because I’m not. You go on and…do what you need to do. I know how being a Marine works; and that you can’t tell me where you’re going or exactly how long you’ll be. So I won’t ask. But whenever you’re back in town, handsome…maybe, just maybe I’ll be up for another roll.”

Smiling seductively, she plucked at his lips, closing her eyes briefly and trying hard not to whimper as heat from his mouth transmitted straight to her. He was staring straight into her eyes when she pulled back seconds later, and she added with a wry smile, “But don’t count on it.”

She found she could move to the door without staggering in her boots, and was glad when he didn’t try to stop her. She swung the door open and then before she left she turned to say finally, “Be safe.”

One last smile, and Ashanti felt she could leave - perhaps with her dignity intact but the rest of her…not so much.

“Ashanti…,” she heard Hawk say with a deep, ragged sigh, but she didn’t respond, shutting the door behind her without a backward glance.

Chapter Fifteen

During his time away, it took all of Hawk’s physical and mental training to keep his mind off the things Ashanti had said before she left. Hawk had wanted to get mad but he knew he had to let her leave, aware that she was still hurting and that right then, he couldn’t do anything about it.

But he was back now.

The mission had meant to last only a few hours, but it had ended up stretching into a week.  Hawk and Marcus were in the same platoon and their team had parachuted into the given desert location with the intent that it would be an in-and-out operation. Turned out they were wrong.

The rock walls dotting the region were surrounded by enemy snipers. His platoon’s task of reconnaissance and retrieval regarding another team of Marines would prove a test of endurance out there in the eastern African desert.