The greasy garage of Abe's Auto Shop was dappled silver and lilac in the quickly fading twilight. Shifting ribbons of ghostly light illuminated the shining curves of the cars and turned the oil on the concrete into luminous metallic pools. McKinley Night, flat on her back on the shop's main workbench, looked like Venus rising from the sea: even tied at the hands and ankles, there was something undeniable graceful—almost musical—about the curves of her perfect slender body. She no longer looked like the perfect snowy princess; her waterfall of golden hair was damp and mussed, her tiny breasts were still heaving up and down, and the smooth pink folds of her pussy were wet and raw and glistening. She was a wanton, writhing creature, a butterfly with flaming wings. She had never looked more beautiful.
Jake Rosetti was standing over her, an Adonis carved of gleaming bronze and onyx. The sculpted lines of his back and shoulders caught the boldest ray of moonlight: the light played over the wiry ropes of muscle and turned him into something fierce and wild and wonderful. He had the look of a lion, all untamed strength and kingly pride. He looked down at McKinley with a surprising tenderness, like she was the only beautiful thing in all the world. The look on his face was shatteringly incongruous with the night: there should have been music playing, the oldest and most regal waltz ever penned. There should have been rose petals and candlelight, beds with silken sheets, boxes of the most luscious chocolates and bottles of the most expensive wine. Instead, there were tied wrists and ankles, a workbench splattered with layers of paint drippings, and a girl with parted pink lips and closed eyes.
When she opened her eyes, however, Jake heard the sensual strains of music and felt the tart dryness of wine on his tongue. Her eyes matched his. Her soul matched his. For one perfect second, the world hung suspended in beautiful, breathless stillness.
And then McKinley blinked. Suddenly, her wariness was back. She was Eve in the garden of Eden, suddenly aware that she was naked and human and wanting. Suddenly ashamed.
"Jake, I can't," she whispered. "We can't do this. Nothing good could possibly come of it."
He saw in her eyes that she was sorry, but he didn't care. She couldn't do this. "McKinley, please," he implored gravely, "say yes. Please say yes."
"Why does it matter?" A hint of her old chill crept into her voice. "You took me before. You could take me again."
He watched her bite her perfect lower lip. He felt something aching and sore twist in the pit of his stomach. He sighed. "I know that, and I will. But not this time. I want you to want me back. I want to feel you want me back."
"I can't."
He touched her cheek and watched a shiver tremble through her body. He smoothed her rumpled hair away from her pretty face and watched her eyes brighten like they were filled with liquid starlight. He leaned forward, so close that he could feel the press of heat from her skin.
Carefully, deliberately, he reached up a hand.... and untied the cable from her wrists. She blinked up at him, so surprised that she looked comical. She watched in dumfounded silence as he untied her ankles and stepped away.
"What are you doing?" McKinley's voice was petulant. Her creamy forehead was wrinkled like a compressed accordion and her eyes were full of questions and confusion and—was it possible?—disappointment.
"Go home, McKinley." Jake turned away from her. He couldn't look at that flawless porcelain skin without wanted to taste it. He couldn't look at her rosy little nipples, stiff in the impending coolness of the night, or the dewy wetness of her perfect little cunt without wanting to eat her up and swallow her whole. His cock was hard as steel, aching for the velvet silkiness of her body, the sweet tightness of her pussy. In all his life, nothing was harder than moving away from McKinley Night.
But he knew what he was doing, what he had to do. She'd be back.
"Jake." McKinley touched his back with whisper-light fingertips. She'd put on her shorts and her camisole, but he could still see the little swells of her tits, the piano key steps of her ribs. Her skin was flushed and rosy and looked like it would taste like strawberries. God, but she was perfect.
"Yes?"
"What are you doing?" McKinley twisted a strand of her hair between two thin, pink-nailed fingers.
"Sending you home. I won't fuck you again until you ask me to."
That brought out the old McKinley in a flash: she set a hand on her hip and raised a flawless blonde eyebrow. "You think I'd ask you to fuck me?"
Jake ran a hand down the curve of her neck and kissed her softly under her jaw. "I think you'll beg me to."
McKinley's cheeks turned a brighter shade of rose. She stepped back. "You're out of your mind."
"Go home, McKinley," Jake repeated coolly. "But remember: what happened tonight? That's just a taste of what I'm going to do to you."