Men Out of Uniform: Three Novellas of Erotic Surrender (30 page)

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Authors: Maya Banks,Karin Tabke,Sylvia Day

And in her spiral, he pushed her higher, into the moon, sun, and the stars, before she crashed. Sophia lay broken, heaving, gasping for air as her body twitched and trembled, the convulsions crashing into her, multiple orgasms licking her nerve endings raw. Then Colin sunk his hot, thick cock so far into her, she felt him hit the tip of her womb and she shattered all over again.
His lips took hers, his tongue tangling with hers as he thrust into her with an urgency that belied the act. It was full of emotion. Of a need so deep and profound, it transcended his body into hers. His head might deny what his body professed, but Sophia knew he cared for her, more deeply than he admitted.
Just as another wave slammed into her, his body strained, jerked, and he released inside of her with such an explosion she felt his warm seed fill her. His slick body collapsed against hers, and they stared at each other in wonder and awe, as they struggled to gain a sense of what had just happened.
Colin rolled over, pulling her in to his arms, his body trembling in time with hers.
They lay unmoving except for their bodies struggling to regain normalcy. But even hours later, as the sun sank into the churning Pacific, their bodies still entwined, Sophia knew nothing would ever be normal for her again.
“Colin?” Sophia whispered.
“Hmmm,” he answered lazily.
“Tell me about the one woman you made love to.” She didn’t know why she asked, especially after all that had happened between them in the last few hours, but her female curiousity got the better of her. She wanted to know if he still had feelings for her, even though it was none of her business.
He lifted his tousled head from where he’d been resting between her breasts and looked at her with hooded, laconic eyes. He smiled and kissed a nipple. “Her name was Cinderella.”
Sophia stiffened. “Cinderella?”
“Uh-huh. That’s how I think of her. She left me after we made love, without even a glass slipper to cherish the memory. I never saw her again.”
Jealousy prickled her heart. “Did she go to St. John’s?”
He kissed the other nipple, then licked it. It immediately perked up. “Yes.” He looked into her eyes and smiled that cat-that-ate-thecanary smile. “What about you, Sophia? Any long-lost loves?”
She set her jaw, wanting to tell him everything, but she hesitated. He’d think she was foolish and she’d get really pissed when he wouldn’t remember. She should just leave it alone. But she didn’t. “There was a boy in high school.”
“What happened?”
“Angelo happened. But even if he hadn’t, the boy barely knew I existed.”
His lips trailed along the pulsing vein in her neck to her chin. “Oh, I doubt that. You are a hard girl to forget.”
Sophia stiffened. “Not when he had a thousand girls throwing their panties at him.”
He chuckled. “You think so?”
His hand slid down her belly to her warm mound. Sophia tried to ignore the eruption of sensation. “Did you—have feelings for Cinderella?”
He slid his finger around her slick folds and her body immediately salivated for him. “Jesus, Sophia. Your pussy is insatiable.”
“Only for you.” Aware that he’d avoided answering her question, she pushed him onto his back. She nipped his nipple, then sucked it. She looked down at his intense gaze. “Did you have feelings for Cinderella?” she asked more forcefully.
“Yes.”
“What kind of feelings?” she asked, jealous of a ghost.
She felt his cock thicken against her thigh. She raised a brow and cocked her head.
He grinned. “Those kind of feelings. And, the kind of feelings you have for someone who is pure of heart and who gives themselves to you selflessly.”
Sophia was dumbstruck by his words. Was this Colin Daniels speaking? Her shock must have shown on her face. “I’m not a complete Neanderthal, Sophia. Of course it took me a long time to realize just how special she was.”
Pain flashed through her.
Be careful what you ask for, Sophia, you might get it.
His hands ran down her back to her ass. “Did anyone ever tell you how special you are?” She shook her head. He reached up and kissed a petulant nipple. “How brave and generous you are?” He suckled her nipple deep into his mouth and tongued it. Then he pulled her lips down to his. “How fucking hot you are?” His cock thickened against the inside of her thighs. He rolled her over and slid into her. “How fucking tight you are?” Sophia closed her eyes and surrendered to him. “How sweet your pussy is?”
“No,” she whispered.
He cupped her breasts, pushing them together, sucking one nipple, then another. “God, I love your tits.”
I love you, Colin.
“I love the way your body responds to me.” He slowly undulated against her. “How you let yourself go. So trusting. So sensitive.” He thrust deeper into her. “So greedy for more.”
Emotion swelled with the fierceness of a tsunami in her chest. It threatened to wreck her entire world. Colin Daniels tried to come off as a womanizer of the highest order, but he was a man who felt deep. She loved him more for it, even though he didn’t love her. Sophia wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him tightly to her. “Colin,” she cried. “I’m afraid.”
“Shhh, sweetheart. I will stand by you every step of the way.”
And if it were against any other man than Angelo Gilletti, she’d let him. “Make love to me, Colin, like there is no tomorrow.”
Chapter 8
 
C
olin woke to an empty bed. At first, he thought Sophia was just in the bathroom, but when he realized the sheets beside him were cold, he jackknifed to a sitting position. The room was completely dark. He fumbled around for a light. Finding a lamp on the nightstand, he turned it on. Her clean clothes were gone!
He leapt from the bed and ran down the hall to the kitchen. Empty. The entire first floor was vacant. He ran upstairs, and before he got to the captain’s room, his two mastiffs were furiously barking.
“Captain!” Colin said. “Tell me Sophia is in there with you!”
The door jerked open and the captain was shrugging on a shirt, taking earphones out of his ears. “Huh?”
“Sophia? Is she in there?”
“Hell no!” He held up the earphones. Colin could hear music blaring. “I had to put these on because you two were so damn loud last night.”
Panic tore through him. “She’s gone, damn it!”
The captain laughed and pointed at Colin’s half-hard cock. “You probably scared her away with that monster pecker.”
He had to find her! “I’m getting dressed. I’m going to look for her. I won’t say no to help.”
Colin raced down the stairs to get dressed. The captain called after him. “Did you put a GPS in her with your dick? Otherwise, only pure luck will help you find her.”
“I’m feeling lucky tonight,” Colin called back to him and ran to the bedroom. Why had she flown? Did she not trust that he would protect her? As he came out of the room two minutes later, the captain had both of his dogs leashed.
“Spartacus and Caesar have the two best noses in this county. Grab something with her scent on it. The boys will find her.”
Colin ran back into the bedroom and grabbed the towel Sophia had used and ran back to the captain. He let both of the drooling dogs sniff then said, “Find it, boys. Find the girl!”
They put their noses to the air, then to the ground. They picked up her scent and went straight into the bedroom, then to the big bay window, and through it. Colin followed the captain through, and they were hot on her trail. The dogs kept their noses diligently to the ground in a crazy, haphazard trail. It was apparent Sophia had no clue where she was going. Twice she ended up at a dead end. And twice she crossed the road to the beach and ran through the water. But the mastiffs picked her scent back up. Almost two miles down the road, the dogs began to get excited. They led him to a van parked at the end of a dark driveway of a house that looked as if the occupants were on an extended stay.
“Call the dogs off, Cappy. I’ll finish,” Colin said, striding angrily toward the van.
Cappy backed off about fifty yards. Colin tried all of the doors. They were locked. Frustrated, Colin shook the van. “Sophia, unlock the door!”
Silence.
Fine.
Colin pressed his fingers up and around each of the wheel wells, hoping to find a hidden key. No luck. He felt around the fender. Nothing. He lifted the hood of the vintage van and felt around the inside lip of the hood. Nothing. But she didn’t have to know that.
“I found a key, Sophia.”
Nothing.
Damn stubborn woman! Didn’t she know she was in danger running alone? “Unlock the door.
Now
.”
Finally some movement. She moved up to the driver’s seat, where he was standing. She rolled the window down a few inches. Tears stained her red puffy eyes. His heart broke for her. But more than that, euphoria swept through him. He would never let her go. Not now, not when he had just found her again. “Sophia.”
She shook her head. “No, Colin. I’m not going back there!”
“Open the door.”
She sniffed hard and jerked it open. “You can’t force me.”
“I won’t force you.”
Her head jerked back. “You won’t?”
“No. I won’t. But I want you to tell me why you don’t believe I can protect you.”
She swiped her shirtsleeve across her runny nose. “I trust you! I know you would die protecting me! But I’ll never be able to live with him alive. And Colin”—she grabbed his shirt—“Angelo will get you. I care too much about you to let that happen.”
“I care too much about you to let him hurt you. Or to let you run from me just because you’re afraid.”
“You don’t understand! As long as he’s alive, we’re both dead!” She sniffed and dropped her bomb. “I’m not testifying. I’m going back to him.”
Rage and terror swept though him. No! She would not go back to him. Never! Gilletti would destroy her. Colin would never allow that. “Sophia,” he calmly said, taking her face into his hands. He looked earnestly into her terrified green eyes. “Listen to me. You will never be able to live until you are free of Angelo. The only way to do that is to put him in prison.”
“He’ll kill us both.”
“Do you have so little faith in me?”
“I know Angelo.”
“And I know you.”
“No, you—”
“Yes.” Colin looked at her and said softly, “I once knew a brave girl who took on the biggest, baddest guy in town to save the people she loved. But before she sold herself to the devil, she gave herself to a man who didn’t deserve her. A man who never forgot her or the one night they spent together.” He smoothed the wisps of hair from her cheeks. “I went looking for you, Cinderella, but you were gone. Then I had no choice but to ship out.”
His words knocked the breath from her chest. He knew! He went looking for her? Sophia’s heart thudded like a kettledrum in her chest. Her eyes stung with fresh tears. “You . . . remembered?”
He kissed her damp cheeks. “How could I forget?” He kissed her nose and her lips. “And now that I’ve found you, Maria Sophia Castavettes, you want me to walk away?”
“I—Oh, Colin. I’m so afraid.”
“Trust me, please.”
She took a leap of faith, and threw her arms around his neck and clung to him. “I do, Colin. I do.”
 
Several hours later, they were headed for New York City on Captain O’Malley’s private plane, piloted by none other than the captain himself. Colin called the DA’s direct line, brought him up to speed, and discussed when and where to meet. He made it clear that the DA was not to inform anyone of their meeting time or place. No one. Colin was taking no chances.
Sophia slept for most of the flight. An hour out, Colin roused her.
“Cinderella,” he said with a smile, “I need to talk to you about a few things before we land.”
She rubbed the sleep from her eyes and nodded. He handed her one of the cell phones. “Put this in your pocket and keep it on vibrate in case we get separated.”

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