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Chapter 34 - 34 Time

*WARNING R-18 CONTENT AHEAD ADULT SITUATIONS*

"Sin you got those two coming up around the next corner. Wearing shades and smoking that will be at your two." Cass's voice comes through the receiver as I'm walking the crowded streets of Guadalajara, tracking down some goons for information.

It's been 8 years since that prick Ortiz got away from me, but he didn't stay low enough for me to get wind of him. I destroyed his drug trade routes and made him a very wanted man. He escaped Panama and was wanted by INL, not that they truly tried to catch him....

He's done very well at evading me, but not anymore. Cass as my eyes in the sky has made me a lethal and accurate weapon. An assassin/bounty hunter for hire depending on how much someone wants to spend. With his amazing gadgets, skills, and a whole lot of physical training together we are a damn good team.

I get around the corner and immediately see the two he's talking about. It doesn't take long before I realize they don't know shit about where he is and were trying to make a quick buck. I give them a couple hundred pesos, just to shut them up and leave, cursing my damn luck the whole way heading back to the border.

"That sucks Sin, I'm sorry. You want me to stay on the line? I see you're in TJ right now. You gonna go visit some old friends?" He asks.

"Yeah cut feed, I'll beep you when or if I need your eyes." I say pulling the car in front of a familiar home that I know very well.

"Gotcha tell em I said Hi."

"K"

I climb out of the car and stroll up to the gate, the vato's are fist bumping me as I walk in and the redcaps are busy making food in the kitchen as always.

"Oh something smells good!" I take a big whiff of a pot on the stove and I hear a loud in unison. "MIJA!" As they all say hello and Lar waves hi and points upstairs.

I nod and wave and head up to the lounge area. Inside is Alex and some of the textile factory managers going over some documents about the next contracts and orders.

Alex smiles upon seeing me walk in and shouts, "HEY MARIA! Come on over and get you a drink. We're just finishing up here!" He looks at the managers and they nod and pick up the documents to take with them. It's just me and him now.

"Hey hermosa, you haven't been to visit in almost a year now. Did you get that pinche cabron yet?" Alex leans over giving me a quick hug.

"No, damn dead end with the last lead. I was so close..... I saw his ass and he got away. Now not a hair of him. He probably fled down south or something. He'll slip up again, this time, I'll be ready...."

I will get that idiot and when I do.... he'll have his own taste of hell.

"So how's the kid been? Still dating that red head out of the lab state side?" Alex inquires as Lar comes in with plates of food for us.

"I'll come back and visit later Mija, we're off to feed the ninos." Lar informs us and we send him off with a wave.

"Yeah but she's been getting curious about what he really does for work since he's got such weird hours sometimes and has to leave suddenly when he gets a call. I told him he needs to be honest about it already. If she's right for him she'll understand and not care."

I wave it off since it's not really my business. " What about you though? How's the business been and everything?"

"We're still doing fantastic, I'm really grateful that Farel had sent me to college now, there's been some shady companies coming out all over the place that want to no pay you or take their sweet time in paying for stuff. It took 10 months for one company to pay for product that they had already received. After I got paid, we cut their contract up told them we don't do business like that. Now we have a rock solid clause, we get paid when they get the product. It's made life so much less stressful. But other than that, what brings you around for visit?"

We talk back and forth over dinner and with Lar when he comes back. I finally end up cutting to the chase when I finished off the bottle between us.

"I'm wanting to know if you're willing to have some eyes and ears for me down this way. I have to do some actual jobs and make Cass get some paychecks too. He's not hurting for money, neither of us are, but I can't focus on just that asshole all the time. However, I don't want to miss an opportunity if I can."

"No problem Mija. Oh I almost forgot!" Lar snaps his finger and a photo appears in his hand. "Is this the elf you saw on that video in your house?"

I take the picture of the elf and give a good look, the elf that left me the letter almost 9 years ago....

"I'd have to say he looks very close, but I'm not entirely sure. Where did you get this picture?" I ask really marveling at how similar they did appear.

Alex laughs, "That's from our own surveillance footage, we recently received a letter. You want to see it?" He gets up and goes to one of his wall safes and takes it out and hands it to me.

It's the same kind of paper with the leaves and plant fibers visible in it. I open it and see the same handwriting that was on my own.

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'Oh wild of heart a human child, caused this old one to glisten,

the honor bestowed and not defiled, if ever should one talk, one will listen'

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"What in the...? What?" I look up at him and he shrugs his shoulders and Lars laughs.

"I done told you estupido. It's court talk, they like to talk in riddles and rhymes and play with their words. It's old court talk, but none the less, a fairy wrote that."

"So what does it mean then?" I ask and Lar shrugs.

"Who knows? Other than if Alex talks they will listen, but that's it. The Fairy Court has a way of saying things that even we humble fae can not understand at times." He shakes his head and tells us good night before disappearing.

"So what did your letter say, hermosa?" Alex asks getting us another bottle down and filling up our cups.

"Be cautious of what you seek, there is a greater evil playing meek. Waiting to catch once you're weak, that web of theirs turns life bleak." I say knowing that letter by heart.

"So you obviously got a warning, do you think it was talking about Ortiz?" Alex ponders over it.

"You know I used to think that it was but I've had some flashbacks of the day and before everyone rescued me, he went on a little rant about someone promising him there would not be any one coming for me. The problem with it though is he never said and when I tried to ask him, is when he told me about the bomb and killed me making sure that I wouldn't have enough time to tell anyone."

"Thank goodness the thing wasn't put together right and didn't go off. Then everyone would have died. That vile excuse for a human still was able to do what he wanted to me, to us. He took away what we loved the bastard." I muttered taking a long gulp from my glass.

"To our loved ones. Salud." Alex lifts his glass and we tap them together.

"Salud." I finish it off and lay next to Alex on the giant lounge and he hesitantly puts an arm around me.

"Been having a rough time lately?" Alex rubs my back and side softly looking down at me.

"Yeah.....why do you ask? That evident on my face?" I give a slight ironic smirk up at him even though I know it still reads sad.

"You're not one to actively get physically close for affection like this hermosa." He moves slightly and sets down his glass. "In fact I only know of this and one other time."

"Yeah." I huff out resigned to the fact.

"You want to talk about it, Maria?" He suggests with his demeanor gentle and understanding.

"I just miss him, Farel, my family and friends that have all been long gone now. His mom passed away last year, she had a heart attack." I pause thinking about it.

"That's why I have not come by for so long. You know me well enough, I avoid and run from those emotions and just try to work myself to death. No luck on the latter."

I chuckle, "Not that it does me any good. The pain is still there but I try not to cry like my friend Sarah always used to tell me." I avoid his gaze, trying to laugh my emotions off.

"I can sympathize with your pain, I miss Farel too. Although I have a question about Sarah. Why would she tell you not to cry?" Confusion crosses his face.

I look down, then off in the distance. "Well she used to tell me not to cry over the memories. It would make the memories become associated with pain. If they were good memories I should remember them fondly so as not to dishonor their memory." Downcast I look farther away from his face.

"That's not bad advice, she was right. Besides.....," He strokes the stray hair away from my face making me look back up at him as he continues, "you are too beautiful to be crying all the time."

His gaze is gentle but intense as we stare at each other. His eyes baring deep into my soul, knowing and sharing in the pain.

I can not look away from those brown eyes.

He bends down and gives me a gentle kiss, paralyzing me in shock but I don't pull away.

Alex is kissing me!

Am I repulsed? No...

Am I shaking?.... No...

Do I like it?... Yes.

It feels like a balm on my sore heart to be in someones arms who does care about me....

I feel his body tense as he realizes that I'm not reacting in any way. Just as he's starting to pull away from me, I cradle his head in my hands and return the kiss.

No one has touched me since John has died that I could handle and I haven't wanted anyone's touch. Now, though, with Alex, my body deprived of that affection became ravenous suddenly.

My heart starts to beat faster, fluttering at first making my stomach fill with butterflies as our hands start to shyly caress each other.

I feel the soft silkiness of his hair intertwining around my fingers as I loosen my grasp upon his head. He pulls me closer as if I might try to pull away.

I'm grateful we're already leaning on the lounge as my head feels light and my knees feel weak.

The awkward angle makes me have to break free and I quickly readjust myself. I go to lean back over to him and restart our heated frenzy of kissing.

He is an amazing kisser, he shares the dominance of the kiss. He is not forceful and seems to read my body language like it was braille under his hands.

His mouth leaves mine and starts a decent to my neck making my breath hitch as I feel his tongue lick and his teeth nip and suck at the sensitive areas of my neck.

I moan lightly and he comes back up to my lips, smiling looking down at me panting from his mouth working on me, making me out of breath.

My hands were creeping under the fabric of his shirt to feel his hot skin on my own.

He claimed my mouth again twisting me under him and began to massage my stomach gripping the hem of my shirt up.

When his hands touch my stomach my whole body tingled and my toes curled as they inched the shirt up while caressing my skin too.

His hand was on my breast and bra rubbing them with his palm in large slow circles.

My moans were stifled against his lips and he hummed in response. Soon he was shirtless and I could help but run my hands over his thick muscular figure savoring every inch.

Pausing his administrations, he huskily whispered against my neck, "Hermosa, let me take you to my bed."

"Yes." my breathless voice full of need immediately gave him all the affirmation he needed.

Standing up he swooped me up in his arms making me giggle.

He grinned at me hearing my response.

"That's a very cute giggle. It makes me like it even more." He playfully nuzzled my ear.

His bedroom turned out to be behind a large painting off the lounge area that he was able to open with a button he stepped on the floor nearby. He set me down on the edge of his large four poster draped canopy bed, a warm and yearning look in his eyes....

"Alex don't you know it's impolite to stare?" blushing I coyly turn to hide my face.

He gets down on his knees in front of me and takes off my shoes and socks and raises up to kiss me as he takes his own off with his feet.

"My apologies, I can't help it when I see something so beautiful." he stands up and removes his pants exposing his thick, tight toned legs, keeping his boxer briefs on and coming back down to help me remove my clothes.

"What are you seeing that's so beautiful?" I tease as he removes my shirt and goes to unbutton my pants.

"Hermosa, must you really put me on the spot like this? Do you really have to ask?" He grins playfully and sheepishly back at me as my pants start to slide down.

Feeling them slide off my hips, "Of course." I tease naively.

My feet are freed from the material as, "Maria, Maria, Maria.... eres tú por supuesto.(It is you of course.)" escapes quietly from his lips as he admires my barely clad figure.

"Alex are you trying to seduce me?" I raise a foot to push my self farther into his soft, red silk and cream satin colored bed. The soft fabric lets me glide easily.

Confidently with a smile I go on, "If you are, it's working."

I smile biting my bottom lip, cocking my head to the side shyly raising my hand to hook my finger in the come hither motion.

The intensity in his eyes is fierce, like a prowling tiger after it's prey and my heart starts to pound intensely as he approaches me,.... his prey.

My heart feels like it's going to beat a hole through my chest ,as he runs his lips against my calf placing a kiss just by the knee, as he crawls in between my legs.

Overwhelmed with this desire and longing, I almost start to beg as he slowly traces his tongue up my inner thigh, nipping at spots along the way on both sides. I gasp sharply as he bites the sensitive flesh right in the middle of the inner thigh causing more shock than pain.

That gasp is quickly replaced with a moan as rubs me through my panties on my sex and my hips move with his hand. I can feel the wet warmth making my panties slide over me with ease.

Alex hooks his hands into the underwear and tears them apart like they were curtains over a window, revealing to him my aching womanhood that desires this touch, HIS touch, so badly

He tosses them away smirking at my surprised expression.

I could feel his hot breath on me sending chills through my body, like waves, making me tremble in anticipation.

When I felt his mouth begin to devour me, I moaned deeply spreading my legs farther apart to let his tongue do what ever it wanted to me.

I forgot how amazing it felt for a man to dine on me. Like I was his last meal, that he would alter between savoring and devouring me. I couldn't keep my head still with my gasps and whimpers that he would echo with his own sounds of approval from mine.

'oh my' I thought to myself feeling the edge of my eclipse to be soon arriving.

"Oh..!" I clutched his head between my thighs and used my hands to keep his head doing what he was doing with that salacious tongue.

He slid his hands under my cheeks and hips pulling me closer against his mouth so all that I could do is let the inferno raging in my body consume me.

Twitching and shivering from the intense and earth shattering release that just washed over me, Alex trailed kisses up and across my stomach stopping only to suck on my breast and tease my nipple.

I whimpered from the aftermath of my orgasm as the sensation was overwhelming to my senses that were all alive again.

I was breathless, panting as he came up to my lips for a deep kiss. With the sweet and savory taste, of me, on his lips I couldn't control my self.

Immediately I began feeling my just quenched molten core begin to blaze back up with a vengeance needing more than just his tongue.

I wanted him.

"Alex?".....

"...yes....hermosa?" He asks hungrily between the kisses and movement of our bodies against one another not yet intertwined.

"I ....want you..." I whisper into his ear as I bite his earlobe.

He pulls back to look down at me, emotions I don't know run across his face.

"Please?" I beg quietly reaching out to pull him back to me.

"Please ...?" I beg louder, desperately again with my breath against his lips. The desire in me is so intense I feel as if I may burst into tears if I am made to wait much longer.

He kisses my neck and slides his last article of clothing off and I reach for him and touch his silky soft texture, his hard length, twitching against my hand. He lets me stroke him, his groans vibrating against my lips as he removes my hand to nestle his body between my legs.

My heart skips a beat. I forgot to tell him and I blush as I put my arms on his chest to stop him, "Um, Alex ...I .....please be gentle with me?" I timidly say avoiding his gaze.

Confusion crosses his face at my request I can see it from the corner of my eyes. I can feel my eyes tearing up a little anxious and apprehensive as no one has touched me since Ortiz raped me.

It's also the fact every time I have sex, I start out with my virginity still in tact, this John knew and was always careful with me at first.

"Oh...Maria...." Alex eyes show a sudden understanding as he caresses my face and asks, "We don't have to go any farther, do you want me to stop?" He waits for my response searching my eyes for any doubts I may have.

"No, please don't stop, just I... haven't been touched since then." I say my voice tries to break as a mixture of emotions tries to surface. I quickly clear my throat and blink the back the emotions.

He hovers over me close and kisses me spreading my shaking legs slightly apart and positioning himself against me.

"Maria, I will not hurt you." He whispers and kisses me softly rubbing his body against mine, the friction quickly erases the anxiety in my heart as it is replaced with need.

He eases himself into me feeling the resistance first and then tension in my body.

He immediately pauses. I can feel the gears in his mind moving.

He looks at me questions in his eyes at that.

"Maria..?" He says it so softly I can barely feel the breath from him speaking against my lips.

"Yes, it's what you're thinking." I blush wishing I could hide my face under a pillow.

"Oh."

It's all he says as he moves my chin to look me in the eyes before kissing me again.

He stays where he is and continues kissing me. Letting my tension settle before we're rubbing our bodies against one another again. Me pulling him against me, moving my hips up to meet his.

Soon he's finishing his entry into me.

I gasp, at first from the sting of pain, but then I'm gasping from how he is moving. I forgot how it felt when a man was gentle and giving like this.

His movements were slow, gauging my reactions with each of his thrusts. Soon these led to me opening up more and losing myself to the feeling I craved earlier.

It wasn't long until we both were panting between kisses, our eyes penetrating each others as we both were becoming close to our release. He had been slow and soft at first but now it was more rhythmic and getting harder with every thrust.

His eyes staring into me like he saw my soul, it made my senses go into overload. My eyes widened and my mouth started to stay open to gasp and make the 'oh' sounds.

"Alex. Alex." I cried out desperately not wanting to rise to this intense, consuming and powerful peak alone.

"Oh yes..." He said between thrusts hearing me say his name.

He saw I was on the brink of the precipice and not wanting to be alone, he heightened his urgency with the thrusts his own eyes growing as tears streaked from the corners of my eyes. His hands held on to my own as we gasped our mouths open in that last moment of impending bliss.

"OH ALEX!" I was so close I could feel it coming with his next thrust as he kissed me and thrust one final time holding it deep within me making me cry out against his kiss.

My body shuddered and clenched tightly onto him, feeling him doing the same inside of me.

Our lips breaking apart as he moaned loudly his eyes closed with his own bliss as we clung on to that precipice together. Our lips meeting again in a frenzy as we free fell together moving our bodies against one another, prolonging the exquisite agony and ecstasy between us.

Afterwards, still pulsing, I was so tired.

I don't know when I fell asleep.

I woke up in his arms, cradled closely like a treasure to his chest.

The sun was gently shining through the curtains as I stirred wondering what time it was. The gauzy curtains sent golden rays of sunshine that danced across his hair and face. I gently stroked a hair from his cheek.

My stirring woke him up and he pulled me closer making me blush at the memory of how intense and amazing last night was.

"Buenos dias, hermosa." He murmured into my hair kissing my head ever so slightly.

"Good morning." I blushed red hot against his chest.

He pulled back and bent down and kissed me softly on the lips and pulled me back into a warm and tight embrace.

"Can we stay like this a little longer, hermosa? I don't want to wake up and realize I was just dreaming."

He looked down at me and smiled.

"I think I'm in heaven the way this light makes you glow." He whispers.

My arms embrace him back, "Yes, we can. Even though I know you're not dreaming."

Suddenly Lars voice sounds out in the room,

"MADRE DE DIOS! YOU'RE NOT DREAMING BUT I THINK I AM!"

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