Damon (15 page)

He came around the front of t
he desk and leaned against it.
He looke
d down at the little boy.
And tried to
think how to best handle this.
Damon s
tood up and took off his belt.
He watched Connor pale, but he didn’t move from his seat. He handed him the belt.

“Connor, do y
ou know what this is used for?
What I use this f
or?
I know you understand that it’s a belt, but what do I use it for?”

“You can hit me with it, but it won’t keep me from protecting my momma. I’m not going
to let anyone hurt her again
. Y
ou ain’t no different than he was.”

“I don’t want anyone to hurt
her either.
I’m in
love with your momma, Connor. I won’t hurt her. Ever.
She mea
ns too much to me to hurt her. But back to the belt.
I want you to know that all I will ever use
it for is to keep up my pants.
I will never hit anyone with it. I will especially never hit you or your mom with it.”

“He hit her. He t
old her that he loved her too. Then he hit her.
He used the belt on her al
l the time and then his fists.
I’m not going to let her hurt like that again.”

“Neither will I.
I want you to trus
t me, Connor.
If it makes you feel better, I’ll get rid of my belts, whatever it takes to make you know that I won’t hurt her. I want to protect her as much as you do.”

Connor squirmed in the chair and l
ooked everywhere but at Damon. He let him.
Damon was do
ing some squirming of his own.
He sat
down in the chair next to him.

“You gonna punish me? I didn’t mean to hurt you.
I just can’t
stand it when…she’s all I got.
I should have…I wish
I could have helped her before. But I let her down.
I should have…I should have…”

Damon reached over, picked Connor up
, and pulled him into his lap.
He was stiff at first, but after a few seconds, Connor turned and put his arms around Da
mon’s neck and started to cry. His heart ached for the boy.
He held him while he cried his heart out and then held him when he was finished.

“I’m sorry, Damon
. Y
ou must think I’m a big baby.
Mr. O, he
used to hurt me when I cried.
Please don’t tell my momma.”

“Never. Men cry too.
I have on occasion, but that’s between you and
me.
One time, my brother Byron knock
ed me in the head with a book.
I didn’t cry in front of him, but I could have.”

They sa
t like that for a few minutes.
Then when Damon’s cell phone went off, signaling that he had a text message, he pulled it out and
read it.
He burst out laughing and showed it to Connor.

“Charlie is going to storm in there if you d
on’t tell me things are fine.” It was from Byron.

“We’d better go back, huh?
She’s going to be
mad at me when I go back out.
Maybe you should just tel
l me what my punishment is too.
Hers has to come first though.
She’s my momma.”

“I’m not going to punish you
. Y
ou were protecting the woman you and I love.
I can’t fault you for that. And let me talk to your mom.
Maybe we can work out a deal on this
one.
But Connor, she’s right, we don
’t settle things with violence. Words work better. Well, most of the time.
Som
etimes my brothers and I fight.
But we usually end up
having more fun than anything. And I have to patch them up.
I have been known to lessen th
eir pain meds just to be mean.
Now
that is between the two of us.”
They were laughing
when they walked out the door.

Connor ra
n to his mother and hugged her.
Damon didn’t know what Connor told her, but
she seemed satisfied with it.
Damon sat back down in the big, winged chair and as Charlie walked past him, he pulled her in
to his lap and held her there.
He thought she needed a hug, but he was sure he needed one worse.

“All right.
So fill
us in on what we need to know.
And from now on, I think when we have discussions about this bastard, they
should be in a group setting.
We can all be kept up to date and there are no surprises for those of us a little
late coming into the picture.”
Damon kissed Charli
e’s hand and winked at Connor.
He had a family and so long as there was breath in his body, he wa
s going to keep them all safe.
First thing Monday, he was having a better secur
ity system put into the house.
Also, he needed to hire someone to keep
an eye on Charlie and Connor.

At around two in the morning, they
all were shown to their rooms.
Dane told Charlie that if she wanted to sleep with Damon, she’d have to sneak to his r
oom after Margaret was asleep.
Dane had put the older woman on the other hall t
o give Charlie the extra help.
She’d never been any good at sneaking and she was happy for the help.

Charlie was still trying to work up the nerve to go to his room when he opene
d her door and slipped inside. She was shocked and excited.
He looked at her with such hunger, she thought she would me
lt if he didn’t touch her soon.
But there was no way she was going to make it easy for him.

“What are you doing in here?
Your mother is just down the hall. What would you
have done if she had seen you?
She was very explicit on you not coming to my room.”

Instead of
answering her, he kissed her.
His tongue swept in he
r mouth and rolled along hers.
As he backed them to the bed, he started to untie the belt at her wa
ist and then take her robe off.
Her body was on fire for his and he hadn’t even touched her yet.

“I’ve thought about
your naked pussy all evening
. Y
ou aren’t going to deny me
having a taste of it, are you?
I want to bury my mouth over your moun
d and fuck you with my tongue.
I want to slide my fingers up into your hot pussy and fee
l your juices coat my hand.
Then I want to drink from you, close my mouth over your clit,
and have your juices fill me
. Y
ou wouldn’t want to deny me all that, would you?”

Her pussy wept more, so much more that her thighs now had it trickling down them sh
e was so wet.
Sliding her hand between the two of them, she cup
ped his cock and squeezed him. He rocked into her hand.
Over and over he rocked as he stripped her out o
f the gown she had on as well.
When she stood before him naked and bare, he stepped back and looked at her.

“You’re beautiful. Lie on the bed for me, raise your arms above
your head, and open your legs.
I
want to feast on you, Charlie.
I want to have my fill of you before I fuck you.”

Her heart was pounding and she could barely catch her
breath.
When she lay the way he wanted her to, she watched as he climbed on the bed and se
ttled between her open thighs.
He pulled his shirt up and over his head and h
er mouth watered at the sight.
She had to grip her fingers together to keep from reaching for him.

“Damon, please do something. I’m dying here with need.
I want to feel your cock
inside of me in the worst way.
Please stop teasing me.”

He slid his finger into her and she rocked up to meet him wh
en he moved in and out of her.
She felt a second then a third finger slide in and he moved do
wn to settle between her legs.
When Charlie felt him pull her nether lips open, she heard him moan.

“You’re so wet, baby.
I can see your juic
es flowing with your new look.
Would you keep your pussy bare
like this for me?
I want to go with you the next time you have this done.”

Her body responded to his words and she fe
lt her climax moving over her.
She wanted it, wanted it so badly that she whimpere
d when he removed his fingers.
But when his tongue speared into her, she came up off the bed. Her climax ripped through her so quickly that she had to pull the pillow over her
mouth to keep from screaming.
He never stopped what he was doing and even s
lid his fingers back into her.
Still riding on the first one, the second, then a third climax took her to l
imits she’d never been before.
When Damon pulled away and got up off
the bed, she looked up at him.
His pants came off in seconds and when he opened the condom, she reached for the packet and started to open it.

“Baby, I’m so close that if you play too much, I’m going to come all over you and not inside of
you where I really want to be.
I swear when we get
home, I’ll make it up to you.
But I want you to roll ov
er and put your ass up for me.
I’m going to fuck you hard and fast.”

After sheathing him in a condom and with a quick kiss to the tip, she rolled to her
belly and then up on her knees.
She put her head down on
the mattress and watched him.
He pushed her legs ap
art and then grabbed her hips.
In one quick mo
ve, he was hard inside of her.
Charlie felt him touch h
er deeper than he’d ever been.
When he started to rock gently a
t first, her body needed more.
Pressing back against him with every surge forward, it wasn’t long before he was moving in h
er fast and frantic.
When he leaned across her back, reached between her legs, and pull
ed on her clit, she came apart.
As she was coming down, he bit her on the shoulder and b
rought her with him this time.
Collapsing on the bed with his heavy weight on top of he
r, she had never been happier.
Her body lax and sated, she fell into a deep, dreamless sleep.

~CHAPTER 12~

An
thony wasn’t getting anywhere.
He’d had to go home and fix it with his bo
ss about taking some time off.
He’d had to admit that he was having family issues and that his wife
had left him, taking his son.
He didn’t want them to know his business, but it seemed to open a few doors with the others
to know that he had a family.
If he didn’t find Charlotte soon, he wouldn’t have on
e.
The drive back across the country was making hi
m exhausted.
He pulled into I
llinois on Thursday afternoon.
It had taken him driving around the city for two hours trying to find something to eat to realize it was Thanksgiving Day and everything was cl
osed down.
He had t
o settle for a pizza and beer.

The beer hadn’t bee
n bad, but the pizza was shit.
He’d been half tempted to go to the pizza place and beat the shit out of the
person who’d made his dinner.
He knew that it wouldn’t do him any good so
he stayed put.
He had a long drive tomorrow and he didn’t have time
to teach some moron a lesson.
At least not this trip. Besides, he wanted to get an early start in the morning to get to Columbus by dinner.

~~~

Charlie came down to the kitchen the next morning and found Dane
drinking a glass of iced tea.
Her flushed face and sweaty forehead had Charlie come to her i
mmediately and check her head.
Dane just laughed.

“I’m fine.
Jamie just went
to get something from the car. He…he and I…never mind.
Jami
e is very happy this morning.
I’m sure about as happy as Damon was this morning when I saw him sneaking back to his room.”