“I can’t…..I can’t….” Caesar stammered and turned his face away. The image of that beautiful body had really got him going.
“Yes, you can,” she said, her voice scarcely above her a whisper. She got to her feet and walked slowly to him. She stood in his front, her blue eyes boring into his.
She was very close now, close enough so that he could smell the faint scent on her body. He looked into her eyes, and they were hard and calculating, like the eyes of a whore and yet, he found himself drawn into them.
Safiya could see him struggling with himself, trying to caution his orgastic tension and smiling triumphantly to herself, she put her arms around his muscular shoulders and kissed the dark hollow of his neck.
Caesar sucked in air and grabbed her body to steady himself. Her milk-white flesh was hot and burning through his shirt. She raised her legs, standing on the balls of her feet, she nestled her mouth to his ear.
“Fuck, me” she purred like a cat, “Fuck me, hunter”
Then she pressed her mouth to his. She shivered in his arms. Suddenly, she gave a little gasp as Caesar began to kiss her.
His kisses were quick and urgent and it seems he was drawing every breath from her body. He kissed her too hard and too fast.
And there was something else; something weird and surreal about him; something that told her he was only doing this not because he wanted to; but because he needed to.
But No! This was not how she wanted it! Not how she planned it! She had waited for this moment for almost forever. She wanted it slow and easy and filled with love. She wanted him to make love to her! Not to maul her!
She tried to pull away from him, but he held her tightly to himself. He paused for a moment and looked at her, his eyes were dazed and his face flushed. And hearing the way he breathed, it was like being dragged fast through a keyhole, “Why are you frightened?," he panted, his hand sliding down the length of her back. “Is this not what you wanted? So why are you running from it? Problem is you are not getting it the way you want. We are doing it my way,” The meaning of his words hit her and tried to pull away from him again, but he held her. “You’ve been strip teasing me along! Turning me on and off. And now, I’m tired of denying myself what you are offering,” and his grip tightened. "Kiss me," he said urgently. "You're in this with me,”You can't escape from it now. Kiss me."
She hesitated, then closing her eyes, she relaxed against him. His lips met hers, he felt her shudder. Roughly, he picked her up and carried her to the bed.
He tossed her on it wildly. She shrieked as she landed on it, her eyes blazing fear and anger.
She tried to get up, but he had quickly come over to the bed and placing a hand on her chest he held her down. Somewhere at the back of Caesar ’s mind, a voice was telling him not to do it; It was reminding him that Safiya was a werewolf, and as a wolf hunter, having sex with her was taboo.
But right now, he was past beyond warning. Selena had hurt him hard and deep.
He needed to let out his sexual frustration for her on something. Safiya was the victim.
She was staring hard at him now, as she lay on her back. He moved over her and reached to her.
She shook her head wildly.
"No ... not like this, Caesar ! No!"
He did not even hear her. There was a sudden, savage expression in his eyes, an expression that frightened her, she pressed the palms of her hands against her eyes and shudderingly yielded to him. And they were locked together and the bed was moving violently in a storm of lust and disgust.
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Much later, Safiya was lying in the bathtub, her eyes closed, smoking a cigarette when Caesar walked into the bathroom.
She opened her eyes and regarded him. There was a gleam in her eyes that told him she was pissed at him. And not only that. There was this calm stillness about the way she was looking that told him she was up to something but she wasn’t yet quite sure of what to do.
Caesar came over and sat on the edge of the bathtub. Not taking his eyes off her, he dipped his hands into his pocket and brought out a packet of cigarettes. He shook out one and lit with a gas lighter.
“You don’t have to feel sour about it,” he said. “It wasn’t that bad,”
“I don’t want you here, get out!” She whispered.
“This is my place, remember? You can’t kick me out,” he dragged in smoke and exhaled. “I don’t usually apologize when it comes to things like this. And I’m not gonna apologize. So if you think I’m here for that, then you are damned stupid,”
She lay quite still, her eyes black with hate.
“I’m only here to give a little explanation on why I had behaved that way to you. “ he said, “For the record, I would say this is my worst experience with any woman so far,”
“Get your cocky self outta here, you sonofabitch,”
Caesar’s mouth set in a hard grin.
“You better listen to me. All these curses you are throwing at me won’t do you any good,”
She sat up suddenly in the bath, slopping the water over the edge, with her violence.
“You don’t have any right to come in and have some little talk with me,” she said breathlessly, her voice shrill. “You behaved like a starved animal. And you dare come in here to talk bullshit?”
“I like I said, I only come here to give an explanation. I’m not here to pander to your anger,” he said softly. “When it rains, you get wet. So if you want to listen to me, fine! If you don’t, I would leave,” he got to his feet but didn’t make any move for the door.
Safiya looked at him coldly. Then she stepped out of the bath and grabbed a bath-robe. She hastily wrapped it around herself, her eyes like dagger. She walked past him and went out of the bathroom.
Caesar watched her go, shrugged and went after her. She went over to one of the lounging chairs and sat on it. She wrapped her arms around her and crossed her leg. Then she looked at him.
“If you want to talk, then talk. But I can assure you I’m gonna listen to anything,”
Caesar shrugged indifferently.
“I’m not going to force you to listen to me. I just wanna say my piece. Whatever you do with what I tell you, is your business.” He paused and when she did but say anything, he went on. “Let’s say what Selena did to me, really got me. I won’t deny it.” He paused as the sordid thought of how he had conjured up the image of Selena , thinking she was the one in his arms while having sex with Safiya came into his mind. He pushed the thought away and went on,”That bitch hurt me bad. And I’m going to deal with her in a way she won’t forget,”
She said with a low hiss, “Can you even hear yourself?You behaved like a fool in bed just because I let yourself get pussy whipped by a stupid, shameless girl who has no ounce of regard for you,” she shook her head pitifully. “You just don’t get it, do you? you are still in love with that girl. I can taste her in your mouth when I kiss you. I can feel it. It’s there. Right inside of you.”
Caesar’s lips tightened.
“This is not about Selena, dammit! This is about me,” he lied easily. “Anyway, guess there’s no point in trying to reason with you about anything. You see, you are not a man. If you were a man and you were in my shoes, you would understand where I’m coming from. If you were a man, you will understand what I’m trying to tell you,”
Sayifa shook her head at him.
“I’m not a man. And I don’t wish to be. I’m a woman, Caesar. A beautiful woman with a lot of sexual appeal. A woman who can have any man she so much desires. And you,” she pointed a finger at him, raising voice. “You are one hell of a stupid man. You disappointed me, tonight, Caesar. And I will say this: I don’t feel anything for you, again. My feelings are dead for you. I don’t want you anymore,”
“You are crazy,” Caesar gasped. “You are just saying things to hurt me.You don’t even mean what you are saying,”
“You think so?” Safiya said grinning evilly at him. “You think you are the only hot man around? You think I can’t find any man like you anywhere? There are many men like you fool! Men that will know what to do with this banging lush body of mine if I offer it to them,”
“Then go to them,” Caesar snarled at her, “Go and meet them. You think I care? You think I give a fuck about what you do? Go on! throw yourself at them. You beautiful bum!”
Safiya’s face became suddenly ugly with menace. She got up from the chair and slapped him hard across the face. The slap sounded like a paper bag makes you burst it.
Caesar’s face lost color. He raised a clenched fist hand. His cellphone rang. Safiya remained still, rage draining from her.
Caesar spun away from her. He held one finger up in a way to say - let me pick this first, then we’ll get back to what you started. He took out his phone and answered.
“Caesar on the line,” he said, “Yes, I know. Listen I’ve got to tell you something,”
The voice was male, heavy. Caesar did not recognize the voice immediately, but it recognized him. “I believe Safiya is there with you. If she is let me talk to her,”
Caesar turned to look at Safiya puzzled. She raised her eyebrows at him, her face questioning. The caller, Razor, was speaking now.
“Wait, who the hell is this?” Caesar asked.
“Don’t you remember? I was the one who called you the other time. Told you about the attack and all. You mean you don’t remember?” Razor said grimly.
And suddenly Caesar remembered. The man who had snitched on Jack Axgorn and the Blood river pack. He gripped the cell phone tightly.
“Alright I remember you. What do you have this time?”
“I need to speak Safiya first,”
“How the hell do you know she’s here?”
“That’s none of your business, Hunter. Let me speak to her,” Razor replied impatiently. “Give her the damn phone. I ain’t got time,”
Fuming with indignation at being controlled, Caesar gave Safiya the cellphone. But not before he had turned on the loudspeaker so that he could hear what they were saying.
Safiya took the phone from him, her eyes still quizzically looking at Caesar . Razor was speaking now.
“Safiya! I know you are there, girl. Speak up,”
Safiya's mouth jerked open. She looked at Caesar uneasily, afraid to talk, but he nodded at her reassuringly. She cleared her throat.
“Hello Razor, how are you?” She feigns a happy tone into her voice.
“Hello Safiya! You ran off from the pack without a notice you didn’t even tell me. I thought we were pals,”