This story follows on directly from the previous chapters, which in turn follow on from 'All Thing Come...To He Who Waits'. Some characters from the first volume reappear, and Luke's personality and abilities are assumed to be already known. It could (just about) be a stand-alone story, but if you get interested in the characters I suggest you read volume 1. It's in 'Novels and Novellas', or you can find it via the authors' index.
One other point : after posting eighteen chapters of the Luke Lancer Saga in this format, (plot and character / some hot / more plot and character / more hot / close chapter, between 5000 and 6000 words per chapter), it's beginning to feel a bit formulaic. I like the characters and want to continue with their story, but after this chapter I'll be experimenting with different styles and approaches, mainly to see if it works for you, the reader, but also to stretch myself, the author.
Thanks for all the feedback. Constructive comments always welcome.
Satyricon.
BRUSSELS/MALDIVES DECEMBER/JANUARY
Long flights always wipe me out and I was glad I'd arrived twenty-four hours before Inge and Trudi. I was looking forward to pampering them, and even more to accepting their displays of gratitude. A nasty part of me hoped that Uli was feeling jealous. She'd shown no sign when I'd mentioned my holiday plans, merely saying she was going to spend time with her mother and Karl, and then start working on her end of year fashion collection. We'd promised each other a weekend before Easter and left it at that.
I looked at my watch. Two hours before I needed to call the water-taxi. From the patio I could see nothing but tropical vegetation, beach, and sea, and the next bungalow was nearly half a mile along the shore. I drank the coffee and walked down to the beach, slipped into the warm water, and relaxed. Small scarlet fish came to inspect me, decided that I wasn't edible, and went about their business. I let my mind wander.
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My students had hated me. Holidays for EU people are lengthy and no-one with any sense tries to get much done between the second week of December and the middle of January. My lot were looking forward to their break, and the news that there was going to be a heavy-duty exam had come as an unpleasant shock. Elena had laughed.
'Let them moan,' she'd muttered as she snuggled closer into the crook of my arm. 'I had to work like a dog to get my English to a decent level, and if they complain I'll give them hell. And if either Magda or Anita does spectacularly well,' she'd added, grabbing me in a very unfair way, 'I'll have these on toast for breakfast.'
'Nothing but threats. What have I done to offend?' She'd let go and stroked my cheek.
'I trust your professionalism completely. I'm not looking forward to the break, I guess. I've got a couple of days at home with my parents and then lots and lots of dumb meetings with the Foreign Affairs people, and the Minister, and all sorts of unwanted shit. I'd rather stay here and sleep.' I'd looked at her.
'Elena Strevic, don't lie to me. You love your job, and you love the responsibility, and you're absolutely delighted that people listen to your opinion. You'll be telling me next that you wish you were ordinary. Would you like me to fuck you gently to remind you that you're special?' She'd flushed slightly.
'OK, I was fishing. Never mind the gently though.' I was already erect and slid into her without warning until my balls brushed the crease of her ass. She was still wet and sticky from round one, and her pussy gripped me in a slick, pungent embrace. She muttered something in her own language and bit my shoulder hard as I slid my hands under her buttocks.
My cock tickled and I looked down to see two of the little fish nuzzling it. Thinking about Elena had made me swell and thicken and my finny friends had come to check it out. I flexed myself and they darted off.
Magda had moaned as well.
'It's unfair, and Anita thinks so too, and you could have warned the two of us at least,' she'd grumbled as we relaxed after some fairly intensive exercise. I pinned her arms and clamped my mouth over one dark nipple. 'Luke, don't do that.' I'd held her fast.
'No. I'm being serious now. I'm a teacher and you're a student and the time we spend in bed together is nothing to do with that. Do you really want me to think that you're swapping sex for grades?' She'd had the grace to look ashamed.
'That's not what I meant, honestly. You know I wouldn't do that. It's just that I was looking forward to relaxing and everything, and now I'm going to be revising and checking everything we've done so far.' She'd wriggled up and put her face very close to mine. 'Anita and I have worked out a timetable already. Neither of us is going to disappoint you, if that's what you're worried about.' I ran my finger down her back.
'OK. Do you want to go and get something to eat?' Her face changed.
'I know what I want to eat, and you'd better be peckish too.' With one smooth movement she'd reversed herself and was crouched over me, her sodden pussy inches away from my face, her mouth poised over my cockhead. She twisted her neck and looked at me. 'I bet you come before I do.' I love a challenge.
I reached up and pulled her down and wrapped my lips round her clit, suckling it as if it were a tiny nipple. At the same moment her tongue slid over my glans and she drew me deep into her mouth, her lips running smoothly down my cockshaft. My hips bucked reflexively and I heard a strangled chuckle. I moved my head back and let my tongue flicker over the entrance to her tight passage, rubbing her clit with my chin. I was trying not to breathe too deeply. The scent of arousal always tugs at my trigger. I tasted myself on her, the tang of semen mixing with her fresh juices. Her mouth loosened its grip on my cock and I heard her gasp as I pushed her sensitivity up a notch. She should never have made the bet. It was only twenty minutes since we'd achieved successful closure in our first encounter, and her motor was still running. I, on the other hand, felt as if I could go on for ever. I circled her tight little asshole with the tip of a finger and pressed gently at the gates. Her body betrayed her and with a moan she let the ring of muscle relax and I slipped into her up to the knuckle. I could feel her trembling as the pressure began to build. I pushed my tongue gently into her pussy and she forced herself down hard, then relaxed and let me slide out of her mouth.
'You win, already. Only a little one though. Let me turn round. I'm going to be busy for the next week or so and then you're off with your Austrian friends, so I want to make this last. None of your sneaky tricks.'
'Yes, ma'am, whatever you say ma'am.' She'd swiveled effortlessly and lowered her dripping pussy onto me, her breath hissing as she slid down my shaft. I watched her labia open, her body stretching to accommodate me until the tip of my glans was nudging her cervix. She'd sighed contentedly.
'Yum. An early Christmas present. Now, slowly or I'll send Anita over to punish you.'
'She was here last night and I survived, sort of. Do your worst, you baggage.'
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I shook myself out of my daydream and splashed back to the beach for a quick shower to get the salt off. Twenty minutes later the water-taxi was skimming across the three miles of ocean to the seaplane jetty.
The resort is exclusive and remote. In fact the Maldives define remote. If they were any more remote they'd be in a parallel universe. There's absolutely nothing but sea and coral and tropical greenery. Nothing that is, except sheer luxury, with hot and cold running service twenty-four hours a day, or total isolation, depending on how you feel. I saw the little seaplane in the distance and drained my beer.
They came up the wharf looking tired and rumpled from fourteen hours traveling, uncomfortable in their European clothes, groggy from lack of sleep. A cheerful guy followed with their luggage, and I stepped into the sun-glare to greet them.
'Hi, kids, welcome to Paradise.' Two seconds later I had a double armful of warm girl to cope with, and two pairs of lips nuzzling my face and neck. The luggage carrier and the barman were grinning at me and I grinned back. Eat your hearts out, guys.
In the water-taxi they began to look around.
'Luke, this is gorgeous, where are we going, it's incredible, is this why you told us to get a tan before we arrived, what's the bungalow like, how far is it...' They were both talking at the same time.
'Twenty minutes and we're there. We'll have to wade ashore. You might as well take your jeans off now or they'll get soaked.' Inge leapt up.
'Just our jeans, or the whole lot?' I smiled.
'Better keep your underwear on or we'll be part of the first shipwreck that's ever happened here.' Trudi began to strip as well, then they stuffed their clothes into their bags, looked at each other, smiled, and sat down opposite me.
I gazed at them and felt a surge of lust. For two girls with such similar coloring they were completely different. Inge, tall and slim, with tawny golden skin, her hair cropped short, small breasted and narrow hipped, winked at me lazily. She was wearing a slender thong and a matching silk camisole, and her tiny nipples pressed against the thin fabric as the wind molded it to her body. Trudi sat next to her, more compact, darker and riper, her full breasts pushing against the sports bra that held them. Boy shorts clung to her hips and her prominent mound strained the material. Her hair was streaming out in the breeze of our passage.
'What are you grinning at?' she asked sleepily.
'Just happy,' I said, and realized with surprise that I was speaking the honest truth. The bow bumped gently against sand and I hopped out.
'Come on, kids. Shower and sleep. We'll eat later.' They stepped out into the water. Trudi sank to her knees and splashed her face, then looked up.
'It's almost like a bath.' Inge looked down at her silk underwear then shrugged and copied Trudi. She ducked her head under the water and when she surfaced, lunged at Trudi and pushed her under too. I gestured to the boatman and held out a note, and he somehow managed to pass me the cases and pocket the money at the same time. Holding my arms as high as possible I staggered out of the water and put them on the beach. He gave me a thumbs-up and put the craft into reverse. The girls had stopped splashing and were floating in the shallows, hand in hand, their faces turned up to the sun. Their underwear was all but transparent. I shucked my shorts and went back.