"Pull the car over."
She had reflexively started to speak. Not exactly a protest, but a suggestion that perhaps they should drive back out to the main road and into Desert Hot Springs; the closest small town. For, she had this impression that he simply needed to relive himself. They had been driving for a few hours without a break really. She was going to need to stop somewhere soon, so she had assumed.
She stopped the car, the tires slowing to a crunchy stop along the isolated gravel road. They had driven a significant way from the highway, considering the severity of the area. It was deceiving, really. It felt like one wasn't that far from 'civilization', yet the extreme heat and harsh surroundings were, as she knew, anything but civilized. That's why she loved it. First glance suggested, a closer look seduced. At least it did her and she had long ago stopped wondering why. She knew. She knew very well why.
She inhaled and opened her mouth to speak but something instinctual stopped her. Whatever his reason for stopping her didn't matter. He simply told her to stop. Silently, he opened his door and got out. She watched the little waves of heat rise off the gravel in front of her. Perhaps all of fifteen seconds passed but it was enough for her to sort of smile to herself. To some it might seem trivial. Some wouldn't even notice or take the time to even appreciate something so small. But she did. She did because it didn't happen every day and when she was able to be...she savored even the tiniest details. She noted them and tucked them away to replay over and over and over during the times when her memories and her dreams and her anticipations of the next time. Yes, little things like that instinctual little 'catch' brought her happiness.
She was 'aware' of him before she saw him standing beside her door. She looked up and he didn't even smile. "Get out." That's when they started. The slumbering butterflies fluttered their wings in her belly and began to swirl about slowly. She looked into his eyes and they took flight in earnest. His eyes were bearing down on her like two dark predators. She didn't even have time to get out of the car. His hand suddenly snatched her by the hair and she felt the sting as he pulled.
Outside, the heat wrapped around her like a shroud but it wasn't oppressive to her. No. For this was the place of her favorite fantasies. In the dark of night in her bed alone she could feel it when she closed her eyes and remembered. It was heat, yes...but it was passion to her. She felt it's tentacles wrap around her. She felt the sun beat down on her skin and the grit under her feet. Beyond, in the distance, the immense windmills turned silently in the wind. Graceful. Sexual. Watching. She felt her flesh begin to crawl as every nerve in her body began to pulse. She knew this man, she knew that look.
Without ceremony, he pulled her and then she stumbled as he pushed her against the car. The metal was hot against her hands and she could feel her own perspiration rise to the surface and instantly dry in the hot wind, making her skin salty. Salty and sweet underneath those shorts she wore as she felt her own wetness boil inside her and start to slither between her lips like a dirty little serpent. Her own naughty evil desires all welling up inside. Dirty little thoughts that she had in the night, in the daylight...whenever she could. She had come here before, just to feel it. It hadn't really mattered that she was alone...well, it had but she loved it anyway because she knew in her soul that someday, somehow...it would come to pass.
And now it was going to.
She had no indication he had stowed anything out of the ordinary in that backpack. But..then again...what was 'ordinary' for him? Oh but he had. He slid that cold steel in front of her and he couldn't see her eyes grow huge.
She trusted him with more than any other human on the planet...yet that knife made her breath come in little gasps as he slid it over her skin. It was like the sharpest of needles and she truly thought it had opened her skin. He could... He could slice her throat open with less effort than opening a pickle jar with that knife. He'd used it before to get her attention and this time had no less effect. He wouldn't fillet her...but she'd often wondered when he would cut her with it..because she knew he would. She knew and he undoubtedly knew she did. But he also knew she'd simply hold still and feel her own blood slither down her skin and get wet from the very idea of suffering for him.
Suffering for him. From the very first time she had, she knew a truth she'd never known in all of her years. He had growled and the look on his face was the personification of arousal. That reaction in him was more powerful than kerosene on a prairie fire to her because it enflamed her perhaps even more. More than the curious way the pain made her feel wet and wanton...the fact that it pleased and aroused him just about drove her insane. That little voice of protest inside her just retreated without further fight. What was the point? She was a masochist. It was true. She'd secretly wondered in her belly as she heard herself say countless times how pain wasn't something she was interested in. Perhaps those days were the real birth of the dirty little alleycat inside her because that was when the tail started to flicker slowly, the throaty purr began and the dirty little cat inside just smirked patiently like a inmate x'ing off days left in confinement.
He spoke to her, wrapping himself around her there against the car as he ran that knife up one arm, down the other. He reached and she whimpered...but she really wanted to beg him...as he yanked off her shorts and the lace panties that had clung to her sex. Later, things would blur somewhat in her memory because what happened next was something she never would have suspected in a million lifetimes.
"Don't move." He warned. There were times she still stumbled and asked why or what for. This wasn't one of them. She was so focused on him that she could have stood still for just however long he demanded right then. Yes, her knees felt they'd give way any second, but she wasn't moving.
Only once before had she felt the sting of that whip. Once, and the better part of a year had passed since. But the instant the leather cut the air, nanoseconds before it landed like a fiery feather on her skin, she knew. Her toes curled underneath her and her sex clenched as if it were searching for something. Well...it was.