TEMPTATION - A Bad Boy Romance (120 page)

Nothing was said between them for the longest, until Kassie shifted beneath his weight and he seemed to come back to the reality of where they were. He raised his head and looked down at her with a smile on his face, and she couldn’t help the answering smile that she gave him in return. “I suppose I better move and let you get up, huh?”

She nodded her head and cleared her throat before she could talk. “That might be a good idea.”

He straightened his body and moved away from her, pulling out completely before standing up and holding out a hand to pull her up from the table. “Stay right there.” She watched him walk across the kitchen, admiring his naked body and feeling her own home to life all over again. He reached into a drawer and pulled out a towel before turning around and walking back towards her, holding it out to her when he reached her. “I think you might need to mop up before you get dressed.” He laughed at the blush that spread across her face as she took the towel from him.

“Thanks, I think.” She avoided his gaze as she quickly cleaned herself up and then looked around for her clothes. Shawn had pulled his own jeans back on and then walked back across the kitchen towards the sink, being a gentleman for the first time and giving her a little privacy so that she could get herself together without too much embarrassment.

“I know that probably shouldn’t have happened, but I can’t say that I’m sorry it did. I’d like to think that you’re not sorry either.” He paused as he lifted the coffee pot and turned his head to look at her. Kassie wasn’t sure what to say, but she wasn’t going to lie to him so she just shook her head to indicate that he was right in what he was thinking. “I’m pretty sure that you haven’t been treated quite so roughly before, and I’m damn sure that you’ve never been spanked by anyone, have you?”

She shook her head again, her face blazing red. “You know you didn’t have any right to do that to me.” She really wasn’t trying to be a bitch but she felt that she had to try and save face somehow.

Shawn looked at her again and sighed dramatically as he crossed his arms over his chest. “Are we really going to have that conversation again?” He didn’t wait for an answer this time. “Look, Kassie, we need to get something straight otherwise this working relationship is never going to work. I’ll agree that while were on site you’re the boss, but that doesn’t mean that I’m going to agree to everything you suggest or demand. I’m always going to do the right thing by the job and by my guys and you’re going to have to learn to trust me on that, agreed?”

She knew that he was right, and she also knew that she still had a lot to learn when it came to taking charge of a building project. Maybe he really was the right person to teach her. “I’ll agree that I’ll try. That’s as good as you’re going to get, Shawn.”

“I can work with that. You also have to understand that you need to expect the unexpected if you ever come to my home again and talk to me like you talked to me earlier. I don’t take that shit off anyone, and I can promise you that I will teach you a lesson one way or another.” His words sent shivers down her spine and she quickly banished the thought that she needed to test him on what he was saying sometime soon.

“Fair enough.” She’d sobered up enough to know that she had been totally out of order earlier on, although she couldn’t say that she was sorry about it when she thought about the punishment he’d given her. “But don’t expect me not to say what’s on my mind. I’ll do my best to be a little politer but that doesn’t mean that I’m going to agree with everything you say or do.”

He nodded his head in agreement and then turned to pour a cup of coffee, carrying it across to the table and putting it down in front of her. “You need to drink this what I go and get some more clothes on. I’m assuming that you didn’t drive here drunk and will be lucky to get a taxi at this time of night, so I’m going to drive you home, okay?”

“Thank you, Shawn. I’d appreciate that.” She could have told him that she had the number of a private taxi firm she used in her phone, and that they were always available any time of day or night. But for now she’d let him think that he was doing her a favor.

Besides, it would give her a little more time with him and she might learn something about him that could come in handy in the future. It was always a good idea to keep your options open. You never knew when you might have the opportunity of using what you learned.

- THE END -

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DAMAGED

A Bad Boy Romance

By Gabi Moore

Chapter One

“Alan! Oh my God, Alan! It’s
happening
!”

My wife of 9 years, my beautiful, wonderful wife Tanya, was racing towards me with something small in her hand and a look of deep consternation on her face.

If the last few weeks have been anything to go by, I could be mere moments away from having a heavy kitchen implement thrown at me, or else pinned down and shagged – or possibly both, in that order.

Tanya is a woman who knows what she wants. And she wants a baby, preferably yesterday.

Everything else had been checked off the list: I was one of the first items on the list as the handsome, successful husband, and soon after me followed the autumn wedding, the house with just the right tiles in the kitchen, the pair of beagles we named Bubble and Squeak, the coordinated bedspreads, and the yearly trips to Bali.

I loved Tanya. With every (exhausted) fibre of my being. I gave her everything, and happily. And as I saw her rushing over, I had the distinct impression she wanted something, shall we say, very specific from me.

She pushed a mound of papers aside and plonked herself down on my desk, square in front of me as her one, true and rightful project in life. She waggled a thermometer right in my face, looking very excitable indeed.

“Look? See?”

She had just woken up, and was still sleepy-haired and sweet and smelling like cotton pajamas. I loved her nearly half to death, this woman. But it was 6 in the morning, and I was bone tired. I rubbed my groggy eyes, trying to focus on what in god’s name she was showing me.

“Plus! Egg whites. I have egg white mucous. Raised temperature, egg whites… this is it. It’s happening
right now,
” she said, leaning in very close and whispering this last part to my still slightly confused face.

“You’re ovulating?” I said.

Men are oblivious, I know. She had been going on and on about her… secretions for the past week now, and I, unsure about my manly part in what seemed so clearly “woman’s business” was trying to be supportive while hoping she wouldn’t ever quiz me on the difference in viscosity between Day 12 discharge and Day 20.

I smiled weakly, trying to remember if “ovulation” is the part that involved blood or not. Before I could say anything, she had tossed the thermometer aside and had hoisted her butt onto the desk, plunking her two bare feet into my lap.

“We should totally do it!”

“What,
now
?”

“Yes now, silly! The window is closing, Alan, even as we speak. And once it closes, that’s it for this particular egg, you know. Whoosh, gone, down the tubes, as it were.”

I loved how she spoke like an indignant professor whenever she got pissy with something.

I ran my hands up and down her thighs, probably soothing myself more than anything.

“Alright, alright, but how long have we got?”

“The egg is only viable for 12 to 24 hours. We can make it a few days before or after, but really now’s the time,
now’s
our best chance.”

Egg? Viable? Was this the same woman who had once whispered dirty words in my ear in the back of a cinema when we were in High School? The same woman who had jerked me off under a picnic blanket at that festival that one time, the girl who had flashed her boobs at me in church at my niece’s wedding?

I stared at the papers she had shoved aside – council tax, credit card statements, interest rate changes, bills for that damn broken boiler - and now here was beautiful, wonderful Tanya, reduced to another one of my chores, it seemed.

My work schedule for the last while had been the same every day: work myself to the bone, try to fix up our piece-of-shit house, replace that broken tile in the bathroom, get Tanya pregnant.

I was tired.

She sat staring at me, legs slightly parted, a few wild strands of hair falling into her waiting face. Her hazel eyes, the soft curl of her lip, they were all as beautiful to me now as they had ever been. And yet…

“Ok. Let’s do it,” I said, smiling.

I would give this woman the world. And good god if she needed it, I would dig deep and find it in me to fuck her, right now, and give her all the damn babies she could handle. I lunged forward and grabbed both her legs, pulling her onto the desk and laying her down.

“Ouch! Careful,” she mumbled, revealing a pointy paper weight she had landed on.

She lay back and shot me a flirty smile. Oh yes. God yes.
There
it was. The gorgeous, sexy little thing I had married. Her hair fell onto the desk and her pajamas fell loosely open. The word
mucous
popped into my head.

Shit.

I leaned in and kissed her passionately, as though this would help dispel the thought. Ok, so if we started now, and it’s probably around 6 o’clock right now, or ten minutes past… so if we take 15 minutes to get this over with, I’d still have a chance for a quick shower and would make it to work if I left by 7… but what if we took longer than 15 minutes?

I snapped my attention back to the moment and kissed her some more.

“Ouch!” she said again, and tore her lips from mine to fuss behind her some more, the sound of bills crumpling beneath her.

“You ok?” I asked.

She smiled.

“Yeah, sure, but uh...”

“Shall we go upstairs instead?”

“Uh, yeah, we could? I mean, let’s just--”

“Yeah, you’re here now, now’s the time isn’t it?”

“Yup, we should be spontaneous about it.”

We looked at each other.

I leaned in for another kiss, this one more strained than the last. I thought of her naughty, tanned brown legs under a sundress on our honeymoon, the way she had run away from me on the beach, laughing, the dress whipping all around her in the wind. The dim memory was stirring something down below, thank god. I pressed my cock against her; it was the beginning of an old, old dance I had been doing with Tanya for years now, the familiar choreography, the well-worn, happy ruts we had carved out for one another, affectionate patterns in both body and mind. I’m more or less an idiot with most things in life, but hell, I
knew
what turned this woman on.

But somehow, here, spread on the desk, everything was wrong. Our lips were out of sync with one another. A cramp was growing in my calf as I try to balance myself over her (when was I going to go to the fucking gym already?) and she seemed to be distracted.

She was suddenly pulling at my hair, tugging at clumps of it and manhandling my head as she kissed. She threw her head back and moaned,

“Oh, yes, give it to me daddy!”

What
.

I sat up straight, looking at her.

“Daddy?”

She flicked a lock of hair from her eyes, looking a little embarrassed.

We struggled to make eye contact with each other for a few moments more, then she threw up her hands defensively, sending two pay slips to the floor.

“Ok, I’m so sorry, jeez, I’m just …I’m just trying something new I guess, because of the …baby? I don’t know, just forget it.”

She was turning a deep shade of red, and started to pull her nightdress down again.

“No, no, it’s…” I started. The word “mucous” popped into my head again.“…it’s hot. I guess,” I said limply.

She glared at me.

I leaned in again for another kiss, but she shoved me away and jumped off the desk, looking angry.

“Just forget it,” she said and made for the office door.

Damn.

She turned around in the doorway and looked at me with eyes full of daggers. “I’m going to the shops in a bit – do you need anything?”

I looked at her tired face. I wanted to curl up in bed with her right now, and forget all of this, and play Angry Birds with her under the covers with our own patented system of kiss penalties, like we had done only last year.

“We need milk,” I said softly, with as much affection as I could muster.

She turned and left.

“
And a baby would be nice,
” I muttered to myself after she’d left.

Chapter Two

I’m what you’d call an old fashioned guy, I guess. If there’s anything they don’t make anymore, it’s guys like me. Think of every mildly sexist joke and groan-inducing stereotype about men and women and, well, you have a pretty accurate picture of who I am. I like big boobies and fast cars and movies with robots and dinosaurs in them… although not if they’re too long. So sue me.

Every severely right-brained male specimen eventually gravitates to their own little niche, and my niche was engineering, where my other manly colleagues were more than happy for me to merely grunt at them for weeks, or come into work with the same shirt I did yesterday. I’m not too good with the written word, or social stuff, but I have a fair idea of how the world actually
works
, and what I know is that it needs people like me …especially when a part of it breaks.

I’m the type who thinks that a perfectly reasonable response to “does this make me look fat?” is, “aren’t you always as fat as you actually are, though?” and I’ll admit I’m a bit miffed that the consensus seems to be against me in these cases.

I understand machines. I can glance at an engine or a circuit board and see into its soul, but people… they’re a little trickier. My wife was something of a black box to me, although she was goofy and big-hearted enough to see my shoddy social skills for what they were: innocent. Figuring out the mysterious ins and outs of her unknowable female mind was an ongoing project for me, but after 9 years, I
had
made her happy, in the ways I knew how.