Page 56 of Cakewalk
I mumbled expletives, not even sure what the hell I was saying at that point, my mind off in some far off place. Just as I was close to my limit, she slipped the condom on, then hovered herself over me. I looked down at this beautiful woman, taking in the sight of her, then lost all sense of time and place again when she lowered herself against my cock.
My hands clutched at her hips again, squeezing the flesh, beckoning it up just a bit further, just another inch so that I could—
A growl escaped my lips when my cock slipped into her hot, wet tightness. She moved slowly, taking me in, inch by inch, until finally there was nothing more. Then she gyrated her hips, her mouth in an open gasp. I rutted beneath her, thrusting just enough to make her breasts bounce, until she returned the favor, riding me slow at first, then harder and harder until she was practically bouncing on my cock.
As she got closer to yet another release, she flattened against me, burying her face into my shoulder as I dug my heels into the bed and thrust hard into her, my lap slapping against her ass. I wrapped my arms tight around her waist, everything tightening as our climaxes grew nearer.
She whispered in my ear, “Give it to me,” and that was it. I came hard as she arched and shuddered against me, riding out our orgasms until she collapsed.
“Fuck, Jade, you’re amazing,” I whispered once I caught my breath. She propped herself up on an elbow, looking half drunk from pleasure. I put a hand on her red cheek and said, “I can’t get enough of you. I never will.” I pulled her in close to say in her ear, “I love you.”
She looked over at me, a myriad of expressions flashing on her face, until she settled on a big smile and whispered, “I love you too.”
Hearing those words come from her was like a revelation. The words freed me from any other worry or desire I might have had, and I held her close once more.
Epilogue
Griffin
It was nearlysix months to the day that I had purchased the council’s stakes in Calhoon. I only held the title of town owner for a few months, though, before I worked out contracts with most of the business owners and residential tenants to let them buy the properties from me at a fair price. Now I mostly only owned the utility companies and the newspaper.
Thomas quit as soon as he learned who his new boss was, hightailing it out of town in protest. A premature response, considering I wasn’t in the newspaper business anyway and had been looking to sell it to a new owner.
No, I was still very much in the commercial real estate business, and now things were moving along smoothly, with much of the construction underway and looking to be finished in the next three months.
But today, I was taking the day off. Today, I had something special planned for Jade.
“I don’t know what your obsession is with this broken pinball machine,” she said as we walked the short distance from our apartment to the local bar.
“Just wait and see,” I responded, opening the door to the dark saloon.
She stepped inside, seeing Madison, Courtney, and James sitting at the bar. “The hell’s this?” she whispered out of the corner of her mouth, eyeing me suspiciously.
“I told you, it’s a surprise.”
Madison spotted us first, and she hopped off her bar stool to give her best friend a massive hug. Courtney and James left their stations too, greeting us with the tired energy one would expect from two parents of a newborn. Jade asked about Avery, who Courtney assured her was safe with their parents. “Okay…” Jade began, looking at all of us with suspicion now. “So, why are we all neatly gathered here?”
I waved her over to the pinball machine, popped a quarter in, and said, “How about you play a round?”
“I’ve never been very good at this,” she said, then took her position in front of the machine. She tried the paddles and gasped when she discovered that both worked. “You fixed it!”
I smiled, motioning at the table. “Give it a whirl.”
She pulled back the plunger and sent the ball out, draining it almost immediately. “Crap.” She pouted. “I’m rusty. I haven’t played this one since it broke.”
I shrugged. “Well, you have two more balls.”
Madison whispered from behind us, “That’s what she said.”
Jade snorted as she sent another one out, and right down the drain it went after a few good hits.
“Wow,” I said. “You’re terrible at this.” But that was what I had been counting on. She’d really screw up my plan if she beat any of my top three scores.
“Oh yeah?” she said with determination, then sent out her third and final ball.
We all watched as she hit all the right ramps to engage the multiball trigger, which she hit like a pro. I gulped as she kept all four balls in play, racking up points and getting ever closer to the third top score. Madison, who was in on the plan, shot a worried look my way, and I knew I had no choice but to sabotage the game.
I pretended to trip, grabbing onto the pinball machine and tilting it just enough to set off its tilt sensors. It locked up the paddles, and the balls drained just before Jade could break a score of ten million.
