"No way."
"If it's so easy to drive, then let's see you open her up."
So Holly accelerated, feeling a thrill when she saw she'd broken the highway speed limit.
"Faster, pet. Come on, kick 'er in the guts!"
"You asked for it." She nailed the accelerator, and the car shot forward, plastering them back into their seats. One hundred miles per hour. The tiniest correction on the wheel caused the most precise adjustment in the direction. One forty. The power, the thrum of the engine, the control - all so heady.
The road was indeed like a runway. And Holly felt like a different person - a boots-wearing, seafood-eating, thong-clad driver of million-dollar cars.
When she peeked at the speedometer again, they were doing a hundred and eighty.
Her heart was racing, her adrenaline pumping. But she also felt something she never expected.
She was getting really aroused.
By the time she was flirting with two hundred miles per hour, there was no ignoring it. Her breaths grew shallow, and she wriggled in the seat. Still getting worse.
Two hundred ten. She licked her lips. Speed. Seductive. Sexy.
He'd grown quiet. She darted a glance at him.
He was staring at her, his eyes dark and inscrutable. "Pull over," he said.
"What? Did I do something wrong?"
"Just stop the car."
As soon as she'd pulled over and put the gear into park, his hands shot for her, cupping her face, drawing her in for a searing kiss. With a cry she responded, crushing her lips to his, flicking her tongue.
Her hand shot for his erection. She wanted to touch it like before, but she couldn't reach it. He put his palm between her legs but she couldn't spread them enough because of the steering wheel and console.
"Bugger this," he growled, snapping off his seat belt, and slamming out of the car.
Just as disappointment swept over her, he opened her door and freed her seat belt as well. His big hands grasped her sides, lifting her from the car to set her on her feet outside.
"Cadeon?" When he started on her zipper, she cried, "Someone will see!"
"No one's driving by."
When he shoved her jeans and panties down past her knees, she cried, "What if - Oh."
She didn't have time to resist before he'd placed her on the top of the car, spreading her legs to open her bared sex.
"What are you going to do?"
"Show you something new." He nuzzled her thigh with his cheek, his stubble rasping her tender skin. She could feel his warm breaths....
With a start, she realized what he intended. But she couldn't make herself protest. Everything he'd shown her so far had been amazing. Why would this prove any diff -
"Oh - my - God," she gasped when he licked at her clitoris with his strong tongue.
She fell back on the car, overwhelmed, spreading her legs even wider in welcome. Unimaginable pleasure assailed her, and she couldn't bite back a sharp moan.
He spread her flesh between two fingers, licking her, ravenous on her sex. "Pull up your top over your br**sts."
"I'll freeze..."
"You won't."
"Why - "
"My hands are busy. Do it, or I'll stop."
Where was his other hand? Comprehension came. "Oh..." The idea of him masturbating as he kissed her like this sent shivers all over her skin.
With a swallow, she tugged her sweater and bra up as he'd done in the hotel. She hadn't perceived a breeze from the forest before, but now it brushed over her sensitive ni**les, hardening them even more. She moaned anew.
He reached up and placed her hands on her br**sts. "Play with them," he said, before returning his mouth.
As she began to cup her br**sts, she gazed up at the sky with heavy-lidded eyes. Above her the stars were feverish, the northern lights glimmering from violet to red and punctuated by her growing lightning. A dream.
Already, the pleasure was about to overwhelm her.
"Your ni**les" - he sounded in pain - "pinch them."
As he set back in, she did, shocked by her own touch, arching her back sharply. More breeze, more stars, more insistent licks.
"Are you ready to come?"
"Yes!"
"Me, too," he rasped, then he sucked her clitoris between his lips.
She screamed, shooting upright as her orgasm ripped through her. He was licking, groaning, using lips, tongue, and teeth to wring more from her.
When he gave a harsh growl against her flesh, she knew he was about to come right after her. Even when she was finished, he continued his kiss, as if it heightened his own pleasure.
Once he was spent, he lay his head on her thigh, catching his breath.
Eventually, she sat up on her elbows.
After staring at her uncovered br**sts with his brows drawn, he met her eyes. "Every five hundred miles?"
She shook her head. "Four twenty."
29
Laughing Lady Bridge,
Bloodwater River, Michigan
"This is the place. Pull over on the shoulder." Cadeon motioned for her to park beside a rock ridge just in front of the bridge.
Holly put it into neutral, engaged the parking brake, then surveyed the scene.
And she'd thought the Sandbar had been in the middle of nowhere.
For the last several hours, the Veyron had prowled along winding roads through fog-draped woods, ever downward to the Bloodwater basin. The area was mountainous, the roads seemingly etched through escarpments.
She and Cadeon had spoken little. He'd been quiet, lost in thought. She'd still been reeling from what they'd done. And what they might do in a hundred more miles...
He glanced at his new watch. "Twenty till midnight. We're early."
"Well, it's certainly atmospheric," she said.
Mist blanketed the river, trapped between the towering cliffs that bordered the water. It was so thick, she couldn't even see across the bridge - which looked as if it led straight into nothing....
Still, she was more excited than uneasy. This could be a real-live haunted bridge.
"I don't suppose it'd do any good to ask you to stay here?" he asked.
Getting out, she said, "None!"
"You seem in a fine mood."
"I'm wearing new clothes, new boots, a new jacket." She felt jauntier, younger.
"Do you really think it's the clothes that are affecting you so - or the three orgasms you enjoyed today?"
Well, there was that. Yet she tapped her chin as if pondering his question, then answered, "No, it's definitely the clothes," making him scowl.
They set out toward the bridge. The Laughing Lady used to be fully covered, but now parts of the wooden roof and siding had rotted in places, exposing the skeleton of trusses beneath.