MICHAEL

… My balls are tightening, pressure rising. I could just let go now and shoot her full, but I want her to scream for me first. I thrust harder, battering her inside. James reaches to finger her nipples, pulling and rolling, squeezing hard in time to my thrusts.

She draws still, her whole body straining as she quivers under me; the calm before the storm. Then her head flings back, eyes closed, and she howls her orgasm as her pussy clenches and pulses around me.

That’s all I need, and I let go. Immediately, my own climax takes me, and I spurt into her, shooting her with everything I’ve got.

In the aftermath, we lie quietly together, James and I to either side of her. Finally, she says. “I’m going for a bath. I’ll have a soak, so I might be a while.”

I kiss her. “Enjoy.”

Just the two of us now, James looks rough, though better than he did. “How are you?” I ask.

“Better now that you’re both back and safe.”

“She can be unsettling sometimes, can’t she?”

“How do you mean?”

“Her comment about it not being the first time she’s run for her life.”

He glances up at me, then looks away, nodding.

“She’s going to go nuts up here you know, not able to do anything.”

“What do you suggest? She’s going to have to deal with it.”

“How did you feel last night? When you knew that we were running, but you could do nothing?”

He presses his lips together. Now I have his attention. “It drove me nuts too.” But then, “You brought her back, but Richard’s not got Beth back. How do you think he’s feeling?”

How do I answer that?

*****

She paces up and down.

“You’re going to wear a hole in the carpet.” I’m trying to joke, lighten the mood, but it’s not going down well.

“What else can I do?” she mutters. “I can’t go out. I have no work to do. I can’t even stand and stare out at the view….”

Her voice is savage, and what’s worse, is that I understand exactly why….

I try to be patient. “What are you hoping to achieve with this Charlotte?”

“I want to do something. You can’t all seriously expect that I’m just going to sit here and wait for the future to come to me. You won’t let me leave. I can’t go back to university. I’m not even allowed down in the lower offices in the same building, even my own office…”

“That’s at least partly because no-one believes that you won’t try to leave if you’re let loose.”

“What do they expect of me?” Her voice is rising to a screech.

She can’t help herself…

“It’s only been a day, and I’m bored stupid. It could be months. Michael, I can’t do this.”

“Charlotte…. “I step over, try to take her in my arms, but she brushes me off.

“You’re as bad as them. You just want to treat me as something pretty to be protected. I’m not that person!”

I try again to hold her. “Don’t touch me! Leave me alone!” She storms away from me.

We need to deal with this.

“I just need a word with James. I’ll be back in a bit.”

I take the lift down, nodding to Ross who is seated on ‘guard duty’ outside the elevator shaft.

In Reception, Francis nods me through to Haswell’s office. “He’s in there.copy right hot novel pub