STORY EXCERPT

Lana Peters rested her pounding head against the steering wheel once she had parked the car in the parking lot. She was hot, tired, and ready to go home. She didn’t want to spend the next five hours on her feet dishing burgers to flighty teenagers and grouchy parents with screaming kids. She opened her eyes and sighed. As much as she hated this job, it helped pay her bills. She still had another four months of payments before she was free and clear of her school loans. Then she could start to back off of the second job.

Despite having a decent job as an administrative assistant at the local high school, Lana had to work the part-time gig at the local fast-food joint to help pay off her student loans. Even though she kept telling herself that once she had the loan paid off she would quit her second job, the reality was that she needed a newer car, one she would be able to depend on during the upcoming winter months. The only way she would be able to afford that would be to continue working at the fast-food job.

“You coming in or sitting out in the car all night?”

Lana jumped then grinned. Leave it to Joseph to startle her.

“I’m coming. What are you doing out here? Taking a break?”

“Picking up trash. Not much going on right now. Better hurry in before you’re late.”

She nodded and locked up the car before heading toward the entrance in the back. With Joseph outside, the door would be propped open. She slipped in the back way and punched in before Rick caught her. He didn’t like for them to come in that way. He wanted to know when they showed up. She adjusted her name badge as she stepped up front to locate her duty schedule for the night.

“Hey, Lana. You’re drive-thru tonight. Dee is sick.” Rick tossed her the drive-thru keys and headset.

She grimaced. She hated working drive-thru. That meant she would close the window and not get home much before 1:00 a.m. Remember, more money to pay bills. Reminding herself didn’t do a lot of good when her head already hurt and her feet ached.

She got to work, and by the time midnight hit and she could lock up the window for good, Lana was near tears. Her headache had morphed into a full-blown neck and shoulder ache as well. Her back and legs were useless noodles that threatened to fold on her at any given minute. She quickly cleaned up the area and counted down her drawer. For once she was right on the money and wouldn’t be filling out any extra paperwork.

“You ready to walk out?” Joseph asked when she emerged from the bathroom a few minutes later.

“Yeah. I’ve already clocked out. Let’s go.”

She followed Joseph to her car and waved him off when she was safely locked inside. She jabbed the key into the ignition and turned, expecting it to crank right up. Instead, she got nothing. It didn’t even make a clicking sound.

“God, not tonight. Please!” She tried again with the same result.

By that time, the parking lot was empty except for Rick’s pickup truck parked by the back door. She really didn’t want to have to walk across the empty parking lot to bang on the back door and ask for his help. He would take it the wrong way. He had been trying to get her to go out with him for months. She’d thought she had managed to convince him that she wasn’t interested, but that might all change if she ended up asking him for help.

She looked up and down the street in front of her. It was essentially empty. Her apartment was only a little over a mile away. She could walk that in only few minutes, right? Nothing ever happened around Riverbend, Texas. She would be fine. Glancing one last time at Rick’s pickup, Lana made up her mind and climbed out of the car. She grabbed her backpack purse and locked up the car. It wasn’t as if there was anything worth stealing in it. Just habit, she guessed.

The first few minutes of walking proved to be the worst. She jerked at every sound in the night air. Her legs and feet seemed made of lead, taking a monumental effort to get them to move. Eventually, she calmed down enough that by the time she was halfway home, she wondered why she hadn’t saved gas and walked to and from work before.

A dark-colored car pulled up beside her and the window rolled down.

“Need a ride?”

Lana didn’t recognize the voice, so she didn’t turn to look into the car. “No, thanks. I’m almost home now.” She walked a little closer to the buildings on her right.

“Nonsense. You’re still a long ways from home. Let me give you a ride.”

She shook her head and realized she was beginning to shake all over now. She didn’t know whoever this was, but they acted as if they knew her. The car pulled a little ahead of her and stopped in her path. She panicked, unable to move to save her life. Just as the driver’s side door opened on the car, a truck pulled up behind her.

“Lana, come on. You should have waited when your car wouldn’t start.”

She recognized the voice but couldn’t remember the man’s name. He and his brother had stopped by that night for burgers in the drive-thru. She saw them several times a week picking up something to eat. Did she trust him or the man she didn’t recognize at all?

ADULT EXCERPT

“Lana. You know we are attracted to you. We want to know everything about you we can. Don’t close up on us, hon.” He leaned in and took her lips in a soft kiss.

Lana couldn’t help but respond to him. Her mouth opened and his tongue dove inside to tease and tangle with hers. She slipped her hands into his hair and gave herself over to him with a whimper as he took her higher and higher with just the kiss. Then he was pulling away just enough to run his mouth all along her jaw to nip and suck on her earlobe. It sent shivers down her spine and goose bumps along her arms. She could feel her pussy weeping her juice as Justin continued his roving down her neck.

He licked at her neck then sucked on it, no doubt leaving a mark there before moving over to her shoulder. He nuzzled aside the neck of the V-neck T-shirt she was wearing and bit lightly against her shoulder. Pulling back, he looked deep into her eyes.

“Let me give you pleasure, Lana. I want to show you how much you mean to me. To us. I’ll be careful with you. Please, sweetheart. Let me taste your sweet honey.”

“Oh, God, Justin. What are you doing to me? I can’t breathe.”

“Shh. Just relax and let me make you feel good. I’ll take real good care of you, Lana.” He moved down her body and slipped his hands beneath her shirt to lightly rasp over her nipples. They were already hard from his kisses, but with the extra stimulation, they began to ache in need for a heavier touch. Justin lifted the cotton material and folded it at her neck. He just stared at her breasts for several seconds before moaning and lowering his mouth to lick at one torrid peak. The sensation of his tongue rasping over the tip sent jolts of electricity through her body.

“God, they’re perfect, Lana.” He palmed them with his large hands then sucked a nipple deep into his mouth.

Lana bowed her back as he sucked more and more of her breast into his mouth. He seemed on a mission to take all he could into the hot, wet cavern before finally backing off to nip at the nipple once more. Then he moved to the other breast and repeated the process while pulling and rolling the abandoned one between his fingers.

It was too much. Lana felt things begin to simmer deep inside of her. If he kept doing what he was doing, she was going to come from him playing with her breasts alone. That shouldn’t happen, should it? He would think she was immature if that happened. She fought it with all her strength, but when he lightly bit and pulled on her nipple, electricity arced across her body, sending her pussy into spasms.

“Ahhh!” She screamed out her climax even as tears spilled down her face with embarrassment.

Justin growled around her nipple before releasing it and sitting back. When he saw her tears he cupped her face with both hands.

“Shh, what’s wrong, sweetheart? Did I hurt you? God, baby. What’s wrong?”

“I–I couldn’t stop it. I’m sorry.” She turned her face from him, sure that she would see disgust in his face.

“Oh, honey. Don’t apologize for that. It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever experienced. You’re so responsive, hon. I love it.” He kissed her cheeks and thumbed away the tears there.

“You’re not disappointed with me?”

“Hell, no. That was wonderful, but I’m not through with you yet.” He kissed her again then grinned and began kissing his way down her chest and abdomen, making sure to skirt the tiny cuts there, to the waistband of her shorts.

Lana moaned as his mouth caressed her pelvis. When he began pulling down her shorts, she panicked. Her shorts were wet from her arousal. What would he think of her? He growled when she grabbed his hands to stop him.

“Move your hands, sweetheart. I’ve got to taste your sweet honey. I can smell you and it’s driving me crazy.”

She lifted them and sighed when he pulled her shorts from her body. Justin moved one leg out and over his shoulder so that he could access her wet center. His warm breath across her pussy lips made her jerk with anticipation of more. Surely he would drive her insane if he touched her there. She was already panting with expectation as his mouth hovered mere inches from her most intimate of places.

The second his mouth kissed her there, Lana felt as if every nerve ending in her body quivered at one time. She cried out in frustration when he didn’t immediately consume her.