and I went to see it once, and I’m staying with friends who happen to live near you, just up the beach a ways.”
“That’s convenient.”
“Yes, it is. Very.”
I could hear measured panting. “Why are you breathing heavily? What are you doing?”
“Jogging along the beach. I’m on my way. Won’t be long.” The phone went dead.
What did he want to talk about? Never had a person instilled such fear and desire all at once in me. He would berate me, tell me that he didn’t want to work with me ever again, that what I did was cheap and tacky. God, I hated being an actor sometimes. The DNA of insecurity—part of a thankless job. Insecurity manifested itself in a myriad of ways; prickly behavior, promiscuity, bitchiness, cockiness, and often alcohol or drug abuse. I knew that Star once had a drug problem. Twice, three times actually—she kept relapsing. No actor gets off lightly, even when they’re famous.
I looked back up at the starry void and must have dozed off, because the next thing I knew, Daniel was leaning down stroking my hair. I opened my eyes. I knew it was him because I could smell his familiar, masculine scent. His clean musty aroma that made me weak every time he came near me.
“So beautiful,” he whispered.
“What?” I wondered if he was referring to the starry sky but he was looking at me directly.
“You woke a sleeping bear,” he said. “You know that expression, Let Sleeping Dogs Lie? The Swedish talk about bears, not dogs. You should have let me sleep, Janie, but you woke me up.”
“When I responded to your text message?”
He chuckled. “No, when you kissed me and gave me a raging hard-on. You woke up my senses.” He took my hand and brought it to his crotch. “Feel how hard you’ve made me again.”
I breathed into his face, “Oh God!”
“I’m going to have to fuck you, because you’ve asked for it. It’s what you’ve wanted all along, isn’t it? To get fucked by me?”
I could feel his enormous erection through his jeans. It was almost intimidating. Almost. “Yes,” I whimpered. “I’d like to deny it but that’d be a lie.”
He leaned in closer and planted a light kiss on my forehead. “Not the innocent little girl we all thought now, are we?”
“No,” I murmured.
“You’re a fiery little tiger beneath that schoolgirl body, aren’t you? I bet you’re wet just thinking about how hard I am and how much I want you. Are you wet?”
He pressed his face against mine and kissed me, driving his tongue into my mouth and licking it, biting my lip softly, all the while groaning. His groans sent currents of lust through my body, hardening my nipples.
“Oh God,”—I breathed into his lips—“Daniel.” I flung my arms around his neck.
His hand gripped my ankle and then tantalizingly traveled up my calf, igniting every cell, every nerve along my sensitive skin.
“So soft, Janie.” He let his fingers crawl higher, easing up, up, between the apex of my thighs. I opened them a touch to let his hand in. “Jesus Christ, you’re soaking, baby.” He plunged two fingers inside me and I cried out. This was the most sensual thing that had ever happened to me. I pushed my hips at him so he’d get in further. “So fucking horny for me, aren’t you?”
“Yes,” I admitted.
He started to finger fuck me, my juices swirling in celebration as he pumped me, his other hand rubbing my clit. I’d come any second if he carried on like this.
“I so want to fuck you, Janie. Lie on top of you and drive myself into your hot pussy. So you can feel every hard, thick, pumping inch of me. Make you scream. Make you come.”
“Oh please!” I flexed my hips up at him as I thrashed frantically against the hand that was rubbing my clit with such expertise. One, two . . . I was going to come any second . . .
“But I need to know one thing first.” His hand slowed down and so did my pulse. NO! Not now! Keep going, please.
“What do you need to know?” I panted, “please don’t stop what you’re doing.”
“Are you in love with me?” His fingers were still inside me.
“Yes,” I groaned, aching for him to finish off what he started.
“Then I’m not going to fuck you after all.”
“What?” I screamed out, pushing my hips at him and pressing my own hands on his so he’d make me come.
“I’m in love with