Chapter 16 Neck kisses
LISA
"I dare you to go strip on that pole for a minute," she dared sweetly, the fakest and most plastic smile on her face.
The others exchanged glances at the dare because yeah, looking at me, I didn't look like a girl that'd even want to go near a strip pole, not to talk of stripping on it but no one said anything. Well, except Maddy who bent to whisper in my ear.
"You don't have to do it if you don't want to, I can just drink the shots for you."
"No," I smiled at her, "thank you but I've got this."
I reached for the top button of my jacket and popped it open and involuntarily, my eyes were drawn to Axel.
He was staring at me, more like staring at what I was doing with his eyes fixated on the movement of my hands with an intensity that made my blood surge faster, that made everything in the room fade into thin air till it was just the both of us in the room and that... It made it seem like I was undressing for him, that I was baring my body for him to do whatever he wanted with it.
That thought snapped me out of my reverie as I shrugged out of my jacket and even though he was sitting across from me, I could hear and feel his soft exhale and the not-so-subtle change in his breathing.
Was this... Was he getting sucker in by his own games?
I didn't have time to process and look at the stunned expression of others at our table, I just stood up and sashayed my way to the pole.
It was all too familiar, the pole, flattening myself and fixing myself around it. I've done it countless times, both in the presence of an audience and privately and I didn't even feel a thing as I got in position and all too soon, I finished to a semi-silent pub because the music playing from the speakers was now somewhat quiet one and as I walked back to our table, I did it with a lot of hollas and catcalls and whistles and hot damn, that was hot.
Our table was strangely quiet when I returned to them. Axel's eyes were latched on me with hooded lids and dark illicit desires and he was sort of sitting in an awkward position as if he wanted to hide something.
That made my insides surge. I wasn't sure if I was able to get a rise out of him at the pool party when he pushed me to strip on that pole but now, I was more than certain that I was able to.
I settled down beside a grinning Maddy.
"That was hot, I need to come and take lessons."
I laughed, "stop it."
"Do you strip professionally?" A guy that hasn't bothered to talk to me since morning probed, "because those were fucking classic moves only befitting of a professional."
I was going to ignore him but Axel answered him on my behalf.
"Yeah, she does but she only shows it to a specific set of people, private people," he flickered his eyes to meet mine, "people that deserve to see it."
"Fuck you," I muttered to him but he only flashed me a wink.
Tacha didn't say anything, she only slumped back in the chair, sulking that she didn't get to embarrass me. She reminded me of the girls that liked playing Queen Bees and mean girls in high school, one who liked poking and embarrassing others just for the sake of it.
We were all way past high school but it seemed like Tacha never quite left.
The game continued and strangely, it evaded me again until it landed on Axel.
Maddy grinned wildly and widely beside me and her grin deepened when Axel picked dare.
"So I dare you to give a particular girl a hickey."
His eyes glided slowly toward me and I gulped before moisturizing my lower lip.
"What girl?" His voice was dark and hooded and they... they didn't leave mine.
And I didn't look away either.
"Lisa here."
What? I turned to look at her and I bent to whisper to her, "what are you doing?"
She whispered back, "you can't deny the fact you guys are obviously hot for each other and if you both dislike each other too much you don't want to act on it, I might as well set it up for you guys." Set it up alright, I thought to myself but you don't know what you were setting up. It was a fucking tornado, one that'd swallow both me and Axel up completely, and anyways, I wasn't going to allow him to get anywhere near my body.
I turned back to see that he had already pushed himself off the chair and was already walking toward me with a smirk on his face.
A self-satisfied smirk that I wanted to slap off his face.
We were not doing this. We were not supposed to be doing this. Carrying out this dare would mean crossing a line we should never have crossed and Maddy was right, there's this attraction we both don't want to address between us, and doing this would fuel the need we have for each other to intensify.
It's just a fucking hickey, Lisa, they didn't ask him to suck on your fucking titties.
Except it's not just, it's my neck and I know well enough that it was one of my most sensitive parts, Ben used to joke that he could get me to reach orgasm by just sucking on the most sensitive part of my neck and once, he nearly did that because my body had always been so fucking responsive until I closed up after him.
Only to open up with Axel Ivanov, the fucking mortal enemy of my family.
I was doomed.
Axel settled in front of me, eyes dark and piercing and he kept his eyes on me, watching me to see my reactions to what he was about to do to me, as he lowered his head and buried his face in the crook of my neck, his warm breaths fanning me there.
I tried my hardest not to squirm.
If I could close my eyes and count to 60, it'll be over and done with.
Axel's lips the sharp hollow of my neck and I had to bite down the soft gasp that threatened to burst out of my mouth as he trailed his lips over the sensitive part of my neck
And then his tongue darted out to trace a line on my most sensitive part and this time, I couldn't stop the low moan from escaping from my mouth, I couldn't stop my head from tilting sideways to give him better access and for the briefest second, I felt him freeze at my reactions before he continued his assault on my neck, eliciting soft gasps and moans that only he could hear.
His teeth suddenly clamped down on that most sensitive part and it took all my willpower not to buckle off the chair at the sharp pain and pleasure. His hand resting on my lap started trailing a line toward my inner thigh and I felt like... God! It was too much, it was too much for me to handle and he was just kissing my neck.
Eventually, he moved back and I exhaled loudly as he walked back to his seat.
"Wow, you guys look like you were filming porn."
"I'm telling you, they made it seem like they were doing more than just neck kissing."
Tacha snickered and Maddy elbowed me playfully as they continued their games. I couldn't dare look at Axel afterward.
The way he had kissed me had given me all the confirmation I needed.
I want him just as much as he wanted me and even though this hickey that my hands were inching to touch was just a dare, it changes everything and nothing between us.
We both know we want each other but we were never going to act on it.
But even that conclusion was not enough to make my core stop throbbing, to make my desperate need for a release go away.
Even after a very long and cold shower, my core was still dripping from the way he had skillfully kissed my neck and when I lay in my bed and touched myself, it was Axel Ivanov's fingers that I imagined touching me, stroking me, fingering over the edge of insanity.
And when I finally cum, it was all over Axel's hands.
I hated every second of it and I hated Axel even more for daring to make me feel this way.
G Gold Writes Author
Things are getting pretty heated between our leads, don't you think?