Chapter 7 Chapter 7
Gabriel
She ran from me, well from the house anyway but it might as well have been me because I knew she had seen me. Had part of me wanted that? Honestly I didn’t know anymore. The idea of her seeing me , actually seeing me was intriguing. I wanted it. Hell I had always wanted it but was she ready?
The simple answer to that was no but that didn’t mean it wasn’t time for her to know of my presence.
Pausing on the staircase I fought the urge to chase after her. Wasn’t that something all the book girlies wanted these days and i already knew she liked to read. Was being chased by a masked stalker something Audrey craved?
No.
Well maybe it was something she fantasied about but by the time I finished with her , she would be craving something so much darker.
She would want me.
The thought made me smile. A slow knowing grin that made my cheeks ache. I seemed to be doing that more and more since she had come back. Smiling didn’t come naturally to me. Maybe back when I was a child it had but not since.
Still it felt good now even if it caused me pain but wasn’t that my relationship with Audrey all over? Pleasure and pain in equal measures.
It was time to show her how those two things could go hand in hand.
Moving slowly I made my way down the stairs. My eyes glued to the apple crumble she had left on the sideboard. It was so quintessentially British. Not a pie , not a strudel , she had made a crumble and I could smell how delicious it smelt.
Dipping my fingers into the still warm soft apple I scooped some up and slipped them into my mouth. It was goey goodness, delicious on my tongue but it was nothing compared to the taste of her.
Memories flashed into my mind, how hard my cock had been in my fist as I smelt the vibrator I had taken from her room. How it had tasted on my tongue as I licked the now dry juices from its shaft with the blood of the man who had hurt her friend still wet on my hands.
It had been the best wank of my life.
Well my life so far.
Because it was time to take my relationship with my future wife to the next level. Tasting her dried cum was one thing but I wanted it fresh from the source.
I wanted her.
To taste her and for to taste me.
Eyes closed I smothered my lips with the sweet cinnamon and apple goodness. Coating my chin with it.
This was how I wanted to be. Covered in her sweetness. And soon I would be.
All I had to do was make contact. Somehow anyway. I needed to find a way to bring her to me without scaring her off because if I couldn’t then -
From my office in the back of the house the phone began to ring. A loud shrill sound that popped my fantasy like a balloon.
Wiping the sticky apple from my chin and lips I made my way towards it. Not that I was going to answer it. I had told my family I needed space. Which I did and I wasn’t about to let the attempt to drag me away from my mission.
Audrey was my mission.
Making her fall in love with me.
And if she doesn’t? A small voice seemed to hiss in my mind. Mocking me with my own voice.
She will, I hushed my own self doubt because there was no room for doubt now.
Audrey had to love me, I wouldn’t give her any other choice.
Several hours later my stomach was so full of crumble that I could barely move. But I forced myself to wash the dish and walk through the small stretch of woods that separated my property from hers.
It was the neighbourly thing to do. Or at least that’s what I was telling myself except I didn’t plan on talking to her. I was going to sneak back into her house like I did every night and leave it in her kitchen. I wanted her know I was there but not see me.
Neither one of us was ready for that.
She needed to love me, crave me like a junkie craved a fix before I let her see my face. It was the only way she would ever accept me.
I hated that I thought that she was that shallow but I knew the truth. My own family looked at me and saw a monster. Audrey was a wonderful woman. Caring and kind but she wasn’t blind. I wouldn’t put her through the horror that was me without-
My foot caught under a loose tree root and stumbling forward the twigs under my foot snapped loudly in the dark quietness.
“Hello?” The voice was unmistakably Audrey’s but thick with emotion like she had been crying silently in the dark. Searching the darkness I found her finally. Propped up under the oldest apple tree on the property. It was the only one in the garden and not the orchard.
It was the one that was so important to me because I had buried my nightmare under it and found my salvation at the same time.
Freezing in place , I studied her with narrowed eyes. Propped up against the wide gnatly trunk with a blanket around her she had had been half hidden in the shadows but now I knew she was there she was all I could see.
Audrey glowed with a light that was incapable of looking away from. That’s how beautiful she was.
I had almost walked right past her.
Like ships passing in the night we would have missed each other again but destiny had intervened.
Tonight was not the night I planned on talking to her but now I had no choice.
“Hello?” She called again in her small, tear thickened voice. “Is someone there?”
Guilt crawled up my spine. She had been crying and crying hard and it hit me how selfish I had been. Of course she was crying. The very reason she was here was because her only living relative was dead.
Now death didn’t bother me. In fact it was a currency I dealt with but Audrey? Audrey was feeling the loss of her grandmother hard and I hadn’t seen it because her friend had been here.
Now she was alone , she could grieve.
Taking a deep breath , I lifted my hood further over my forehead. I had no mask to put on but I knew she wouldn’t be able to see under the hood of my hoodie.
Stepping forward an inch my boot snapped another twig and her head twisted in my direction. I could feel her eyes searching for me. Could see the apprehension in her eyes and the way her breathing grew more ragged.
She knew I was there but couldn’t see me and that’s the way it had to be. At least for now.
Taking a deep breath , I filled my lungs with the night air.
“Hello Audrey.”