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PRETEND YOU MINE The sad story
"I never went back to my high school again. Only six months from graduation and I quit. My parents were in shock at the change in me. It didn't take long for them to find out about the video either. They argued about what to do, and had very differing opinions. I didn't care. I was someplace else in my head and very, very sick. It's hard to admit about myself, but it's the truth. I was destroyed emotionally with no way to escape the demons."I kissed the back of her head and held on to her a little tighter. I knew all about demons, the evil cocksuckers that they were. "Can I ask why your parents didn't try to press assault charges on the three of them? I can't imagine it would have been difficult to get an arrest. You were underage and they were adults...and there was videotaped evidence.""My dad wanted them in prison. My mom didn't want the publicity. She asserted that my slutty reputation would only drag our name through the mud and upset the social order of things. She was probabl
PRETEND YOU MINE Sweet sensation
Brynne was kissing my hand this time. I felt warmth flush all throughout my body and tried to hold onto the wonderfulness of the sensation while it lasted, because her gesture made me far too emotional to speak."I never knew that my dad went to Senator Oakley and basically blackmailed him. He was livid that he'd nearly lost me and blamed Lance Oakley for every- thing. My dad wanted to press charges but realized I was in no shape to with- stand a trial and probably never would be. And the added bonus of my mother telling him to leave it alone, and allow me to heal in peace, convinced him to let the idea of a formal prosecution go. But Daddy still wanted retribution of some form. Senator Oakley just wanted all the ugly to go far, far away from his political career, so he forced his son to enlist in the army and solved his biggest problem when Lance was shipped off to Iraq. Then he arranged for my acceptance at the University of London when the time came that I was well enough to leave
PRETEND YOU MINE I love her
I opened my eyes in the dark to the scent of Brynne up my nose and smiled when I figured out where we were. She's in your bed with me. I was careful to be still so as not to disturb her sleeping. She faced me, but her head was turned down and curled around her arm. Entranced and content for the first time in days, I just watched her breathe for a few minutes. I wanted to touch my girl, but I let her sleep. By God she needed it.Need. So much need inside me now. Needs only Brynne could satisfy, and that scared me. I couldn't imagine feeling this way about any woman just a month ago, and now I couldn't imagine not having her in my life. The time apart had changed me forever, I feared.I inhaled deeply and held it. The faint smell of sex was in the sheets from earlier, but mostly it was just her clean, flowery scent that intoxicated me. It intoxicated me now just as it had intoxicated me on the very first night we met. She smelled so good I hated to leave her alone in the bed, but I got
PRETEND YOU MINE Feel safe with you
I stayed at my desk for a bit, wrote up some notes, and sent some emails before shutting down my laptop. As I turned out the light, Simba fluttered madly from the aquarium glowing behind my desk. I went back and tossed him a treat before heading out to the balcony to sit for a while. I passed the bedroom and heard nothing but silence. I wanted Brynne to sleep well. No more nightmares for my girl. She'd been through enough for a lifetime already.The night sky held millions of stars tonight. It wasn't often they were so sparkly, and I realized it'd been a long time since I had sat out here. I lit up another clove. This one was a throwaway, though. If I smoked outside, then no- body had to know about it. I shouldn't smoke inside with Brynne here anyway.I crossed my feet up on the ottoman and leaned back into the lounger. I let my mind wander into thoughts of today and all that had happened. I thought about Brynne's tragic story and just how things had altered now. For both of us. Yeah.
PRETEND YOU MINE Soft and warm
She smiled with half of her mouth up at me. "Thank you," she mouthed. "And you know what the best part is?" I asked."Tell me.""You're here with me. Right here, where I can do this." I dipped my hand up under her shirt and cupped a breast, so soft, filling my hand with its gentle weight. I smiled at her. The kind of smile I can feel on my face, and pretty much only give to her and a very short list of others."I am," she said. "And I'm glad I'm here with you, Ethan. You're the first person to make me... forget." Her voice grew softer but, strangely, more clear. "I don't know why it works with you, but it does. I couldn't do intimacy for a long time. And then it was still... difficult... those times I tried-""It doesn't matter anymore, baby," I interrupted. I hated to even imagine Brynne with someone else; another man seeing her naked, touching her, making her come. The images drove me mad with jealousy, but what she'd just told me also made me so damn happy at the same time. I was t
PRETEND YOU MINE Don't want to escape
"Go ahead and pick out the one you like for today," I told her. Brynne grinned from my wardrobe door and then disappeared back into it. "Well, I love the purple ones, but I think today we'll go with this one," she announced as she emerged with a blue tie in her hand. She sauntered up to me and draped the silk around my neck. "It matches your eyes, and I love the color of your eyes."I love when you say the word love in reference to anything about me. I watched her expression as she worked on knotting my tie, biting, just the corner of her luscious, bottom lip in concentration; I was loving her attentions and not loving the fact that she had obviously practiced on somebody else. She had stood right up against some other bloke and tied his tie for him. I knew it. I tried not to envision that it was morning when she performed this service for the cocksucker and that she'd not spent the previous night sucking said cock- sucker's cock. I was such a jealous bastard now. I'd never been jealo
PRETEND YOU MINE My responsibility
"How's the military investigation into Lieutenant Oakley going?" I asked, giving in and opening my desk drawer to pull out my lighter and a pack of Djarums."He's been doing very bad things to the people of Iraq and getting away with it, but not sure for how long that'll stay buried. I think the senator can only be relieved his son is off getting into trouble in Iraq as opposed to anywhere close to his election campaign."I grunted in agreement and sucked back my first, sweet inhale. The cloves gave quite a kick, but I was used to it. Now I just let the nicotine do its work and felt guilty for what I was putting into my body. "So he's career military, you think?" I exhaled away from Neil.Neil shook his head. "I don't think so.""Why not?"Neil had the keenest instincts of anyone I knew. He wasn't just an employee, not by a long shot. Neil was much, much more. We'd been boys together, gone off to war, survived that hell to return to England, managing to grow up in the process and star
PRETEND YOU MINE American beauty
"Well then, may I please have her new phone number since she didn't see fit to give it to me herself?" She sounded more like the wounded victim now, and intent upon dismissing me as quickly as possible.And I was smiling now. I fucking love a winning hand. "Oh please, no. Mrs. Exley, don't take offense. This all happened very suddenly last evening. Brynne told me something yesterday, and I made the decision that she needed a new mobile number. It's that simple. She just hasn't had the time to get in touch with you yet, I am positive that's why." It was easy to be magnanimous when you held the better cards."You made the decision, Mr. Blackstone?""Yes." Man, my ciggie tasted divine."Why are you making those decisions for Brynne?" Mummy had claws, it seemed."Because like I said before, Mrs. Exley, I'm going to keep her safe from any- one or anything that tries to hurt her. Anyone... or anything." I inhaled a lung-full of cloves and savored the taste. She got quiet then. I waited her
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