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  Ava was trying to catch her breath as her eyes met his.

  “No! Fuck that. I’m not sorry. I’m glad this happened.”

  Her mouth rounded with a stunned O, and then she laughed hard. She grabbed his face and kissed his cheeks, his nose, his forehead and his chin. “All this time I never knew that you felt that way. I figured you were a guy about it and just shrugged while moving on.”

  Rex shook his head. “I moved on, but you were there with me.”

  “Well that would have been kinky.” Her laughter rang out again.

  He swung her around and opened the shower door.

  “What are you doing now?”

  Stepping in, he shut the door. “I always give at least 3 orgasms a night,”

  She looked up at him her hazel eyes sparkling with joy.”Really?”

  Nodding his head, he grabbed a washcloth. “Oh yes, and you are getting the special treatment.”

  Ava was trembling again when he brought the washcloth down between her legs. “Oh, and what might that be?”

  He lowered his mouth to a luscious nipple. “I am going to make you come until you pass out cold.”

  Her laughter erupted again and when he latched onto her nipple, it stopped as her body arched back.

  Rex knew he was going to take his time and devour her from tip to toe.

  NO DEALS

  Rex used his skilled tongue to explore her delicious wet skin. He knew what heaven was now, and he knew that he would never get his fill of this woman. He stayed hard the entire time she was near him, since he boarded. He could do her in all the ways he could think of while using the entire pleasure list and it would still not leave him satisfied. His drive had never been as strong as this, even when he worked at it as a paid lover. He twirled his tongue along her inner thigh and remembered that supposedly, he was still a paid lover.

  Ava’s body trembled from his touch as he reached up and tweaked her wet nipples. The sweet sensual sounds she made just spurned him on, she was herself a living aphrodisiac for him.

  It was all insane, he knew this and the fact that he wanted this hell cruise to last forever now, proved that fact. He knew also that he’d already broken almost all of his rules to be with Ava and he would even settle for just being her paid lover. A gigolo finally, and happy to be so.

  Suddenly, she wound her fingers in his hair and tugged hard.

  He gazed up at her sweet form, shimmering with beads of water from the shower spray.

  “Stand up, Rex,” she whispered down at him.

  He stood and looked into her eyes.

  “I want to give you just a little of what you keep giving to me.” She knelt in the shower and looked up at his long hard cock. “I’m going to suck you dry.”

  His hard body shook with her promising words.

  Reaching up, she grabbed his hard on with both hands, tugging him downward now.

  Having no real choice, he sat down on the shower floor.

  She got onto her knees and lowered her mouth, sticking her tongue out to circle the tip of his dick.

  He tried to swallow but couldn’t as his body grew rigid from the feeling.

  With a sensuous sigh in her throat, she slid her mouth over him and lowered it all the way to his base.

  He knew she must have a part of him in her throat and he did feel like his cock was entering there.

  She reached over and placed his hands onto her head.

  Grasping her hair, he realized she wanted him to use her head.

  She pulled her mouth away for a second. “Fuck my mouth hard, Mister Harris.”

  His cock throbbed again. This woman was hotter than any he remembered.

  Latching on, she seemed to just wait for him to use her.

  Rex knew he was rather large and always hesitated when a woman proposed this.

  Ava seemed impatient while squirming her body around and rubbing her large breasts across his wet thighs.

  Rex tightened his hold on her head and slid her down. Her hot mouth slid sinfully downward. He slowly moved her back up to his very tip. She then licked his tip with a hungered urgency as though she were starved for him.

  Panting while his chest heaved, he didn’t know how long he could last with this kind of blowing. He shoved her face back down while she panted through her nose as he just let his cock sit in her throat.

  Taking the initiative, she moved her mouth back up and then down again.

  Rex’s body jerked from the extreme pleasure as he let out a loud groan.

  The sound seemed to turn her on even more, as she panted and moaned while sucking him hard.

  With the drawing on his tool, he let out an even louder male sounding groan and he watched as her body spasmed with her climax. It was the hottest dammed thing he ever saw and he exploded into her mouth immediately without knowing he was going to. Without any conscious knowledge that he could be so vocal while coming, he released a helpless yell.

  Ava’s sucking grew intense and he felt her drawing his spurting cum straight from his tip.

  “Oh, God!” he yelled, while now knowing how it felt to get this kind of helpless ecstasy. The same kind he’d given to many females. He sat there, propped up against the shower wall, spent and groggy in the streaming water. The sensual gratification he experienced was the best in all of his sexual memory as he watched the woman who matched his fantasies raise her head and give her full lips a licking, as though she were a wicked cat who’d captured the illustrious cream.

  The sex filled showering had finally wound down. They sat together in the streaming cool water and held each other for at least thirty minutes before they dried off and finally got dressed.

  Ava tugged her velvet dress down and over her curves. Stepping close, she placed her hands on his chest. “Rex, what are we going to do now? How do we get out of this mess?”

  That was a good question, but he needed to ask her something very important first. “Ava… why are you married to Tino?”

  Her hands fell away and she lowered her gaze. “For love.”

  That pain stabbed at his chest and he held his breath as he waited for the rest.

  “I was a young girl and we never, you know? Did anything before the marriage.”

  Rex knew what was coming. “Then you found out that he could never make love to you.”

  “I told myself that it didn’t matter and for a long time, it worked. Then later, he found out I was using toys and such.” She released a breath. “He proposed that I take a lover.”

  “That was when you started to have sex?”

  She shook her head. “I just couldn’t do it.”

  Rex was confused now.

  “I looked for a long time. I thought I could do it.”

  “What happened?”

  “There was this big party for the family in Italy.” Ava sat down on the toilet as she spoke. “The last night of the gathering…”

  Rex knelt down and took her hand. “What happened, Ava?”

  She released a heavy sigh. “I drank too much and I was frustrated. Married for two years and no wedding night? I brought it all on myself.”

  “Brought what?”

  “I was in the ballroom at maybe three in the morning, singing and dancing all by myself. Tino came in and told me it was time to go to bed.” Ava put her face into her hands. “I yelled at him and said that would be great if it meant he would finally fuck me.” Her tears glistened on her cheeks when she looked up at Rex. “I yelled all kinds of things at him, impotent, no love, no sex.”

  He took her hand into his again. “It’s all right, we’re all human.”

  Ava jerked her hand away. “No! He isn’t human!”

  “What did he do?”

  “Nothing.” She swallowed heavily and swiped her tears away.

  Rex grabbed both of her hands. “Tell me!”

  Ava struggled to loosen his hold. “He did nothing, I tell you!”

  “You need to tell it.”

  “Never.”

 
; He wondered what could be so horrible that she couldn’t talk about it, even to him.

  She stood up and tried to move to the door.

  Grabbing her, he spun her around and pulled her close. “This is why you stopped loving him?”

  Nodding her head, she wouldn’t look him in the eye. “It’s also when I started to find out everything. How he made his money, what he really was.”

  He rubbed her back. “It will be all right, you’ll—“

  Ava jumped away from him. “No, it won’t be if he ever finds out about you! That’s why we will part after this. With no feelings at all.”

  “We can’t do that.” He knew he couldn’t and there was that confession tape to consider. Mimi didn’t bring him here for nothing.

  “Oh, yes we can!” She hissed the words at him. “You will still be alive and you can—move on and resume your life of before.”

  “My life? You mean fucking all those women?”

  Ava froze and her tears grew. “Yes, that is what you are going to do!”

  “If I didn’t love you it would be easy to do.”

  “You did it before?”

  He nodded. “Yes, but that was before I knew you really loved me.”

  “I don’t believe in love.” She looked away.

  Rex knew better now. “Yes, you do.

  Shaking her head, she tried to loosen his hold.

  “The one night stand that you couldn’t seem to walk away from.” He quoted the taped conversation.

  She gasped. “What?”

  “You believed in it so much that you walked away.”

  Her face paled. “Let me out of here now!”

  “You left a pile of cash…”

  Ava looked afraid as she slowly nodded her head.

  “And underneath, where I couldn’t see it?”

  Her body went limp in his arms as she trembled almost violently and stared up at him with shock on her face.

  “Was your broken—“

  “No!” she shouted. “How did you…?” She couldn’t seem to speak.

  He pulled her close. “Shh, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have said…”

  Her crying grew loud in the tiny room. “How could you know all of that?”

  “I didn’t.”

  She raised her tear streaked face.

  “Until Mimi showed me a tape of it; you and another woman.”

  Ava stepped back from him.”What?” Her breathing grew more rapid.

  “It was taped. The whole conversation.”

  “Oh, God. Oh—no!” She looked around the bathroom as if she wanted to hide or run.

  “She can’t show it to him now though.” Rex assured her.

  “Why? Why couldn’t she?”

  “Because it will show him that she very well knew we had been involved.”

  “She won’t care. She knows he won’t hurt her, because she’s family. She will use it.”

  “What does she want you gone so badly?”

  Ava looked enraged.

  “Ava?’

  She shook her head as thought to snap herself out of the rage. “Bad history.”

  “I want to know. I have a right to know.” He grabbed her again. “She tracked me down, spending more money that I could ever imagine. Just to bring me here to destroy you!”

  Ava looked pained. “The night of the Ballroom?” She looked away from his intense gaze. “Tino was livid about what I said. He dragged me through the mansion and…”

  Rex caressed her arms.

  “I don’t know why he did it. Why he chose to…?”

  Rex held her to his chest. “Just tell me!”

  She took a deep breath and released it. “He dragged me into a man’s room and told him to fuck me. The man look afraid, like he knew if he refused that Tino would not be kind. One of Tino’s men was suddenly there too. They tied me to the bed spread eagled.”

  His embrace grew so tight that he could hear Ava gasp for air, so he let up a little.

  “The man did as Tino instructed. He took my virginity. He looked shocked too, when he looked down at me while realizing that I had been a virgin.”

  “I am so sorry, Ava.”

  Her body trembled in his arms. “The man halted and he couldn’t perform after that. Tino was out of his mind with rage. He took out a gun and shot him in the head. I was covered in his blood.”

  Rex now knew why she’d said these people were deadly.

  “The man was…Mimi’s lover. Though Tino didn’t know that at the time.”

  Rex saw it all now.

  “She never blamed Tino, but she hated me from that day forward.”

  He set her away. “I need to get you away from them.”

  Shaking her head, she stepped back. “That can’t happen—ever. They are rich and powerful and they will find us.”

  “There has to be a way.”

  “No, we need to just get you off this boat. Is there somewhere you can go?”

  He shrugged. “What good would that do?”

  “I could smooth it over with Tino. I could try to make a deal or something.”

  “A deal?”

  She nodded.

  “What could the man ever want that you haven’t given already?”

  Ava sighed. “I can do it.”

  Rex studied her face. “What do you have to barter?”

  She wasn’t going to answer, this he could tell by the resolute look in her eyes.

  “Whatever it is, knowing these twisted fiends? It must be monstrous.”

  “No, not really,” she whispered.

  “So, tell me then.”

  “Well, he wants a child.”

  Rex was lost now. “What?”

  “Yeah, for me to be inseminated by his brother, so it would be a Pavorelli.”

  “What?” he asked in shock.

  “I could finally agree. It is strange. As cruel as he can be? He won’t force me to do it. Motherhood is something different to him I suppose?”

  “Then you would be bound to him and them, forever.”

  Ava looked stricken. “That was why I always refused.” She sniffled and went over to the sink, turning the faucet on. “Like I would ever get free anyway. He has always been unpredictable. All these years after the deflowering and murder that night? He has never mentioned it, like it never happened. Then he’s been ill a lot the past year and it has made him calmer and even kind at times.” She seemed to be distracted as she wiped her face with the washcloth. “I never trusted him again though. Never.”

  Rex patted her hand. ”Of course not, how could you? But there will be no deals.”

  “But—?”

  “No deals.” He shook his head. “We will have to bide our time and see if we can find a way.”

  * * * *

  Rex came from the deck way and looked around at all the activity. The deck shone brightly in the sun as the boat sat anchored near the island. It had been two days since he’d seen Ava. He didn’t know if he should ask after her, but he thought better of that. He was just supposed to sex her and go back to his cabin. Oh yes, he did that part right and it played in his mind ever since. He had the steward put a lock on both of his doors. He didn’t have to put up an act over Mimi anymore and he wasn’t going to put up with seeing her hateful smirk either.

  Funny thing was she hadn’t been around either, he was relieved but it worried him too. He had taken in sun all afternoon yesterday and then he was served dinner in his room. Today breakfast and lunch was brought in too. It all felt like the quiet before a storm and he didn’t like the threatening silence. He thought about Ava’s solution, just hop ship, it would be easier in the short run, but in the long run, she would end up in a worse way. No, he would just bide his time.

  The situation wasn’t a good one and it got more dangerous by the day. Mimi could expose them at anytime and he waited for that axe to fall. It could perhaps literally sever his head from his body in the end.

  He searched around for any of them, and saw only crew. Whe
re the hell were they hiding? Did they go ashore without him, or maybe they were in their cabins? He turned and went back around toward the starboard side. He ducked his head and went in through the narrow deck hall. A door stood open down the passageway and he halted as he remembered the day of the weight room. He moved closer and peeked around and all three people he was looking for stood in the room.

  “It doesn’t matter,” Ava spoke.

  “The hell it doesn’t!” Mimi replied.

  “You brought him here to destroy everybody,” Ava accused.

  “I wouldn’t be able to if it were all as causal as you say!”

  “The both of you shut up!” Tino interjected.

  Both women looked over at him.

  “I’m glad this happened,” he stated sadly.

  “What?” Mimi gasped.

  “Shut up, Mimi,” he ordered, he was silent for a long moment. “You knew this man before?” He was looking at Ava.

  She nodded her head. “It was three years ago.”

  He looked over at his sister. “And we already know he was never your boyfriend.”

  Mimi looked angry and she opened her mouth.

  Tino put his hand up at her.

  Her mouth snapped close.

  Tino looked over and spotted Rex. “Well, here he is now.”

  Rex stepped into the room. “I was eavesdropping,” he stated truthfully.

  Tino smiled at him. “Yes, honesty. That is what I appreciated about you before.”

  Rex shook his head at him.

  Tino laughed.

  The hired gigolo looked around, as laughter was the last thing he thought this man would do when he found out the truth. Ava’s face was pale and Mimi’s was flushed with frustration. “I don’t see how that can be.” He looked back over at Tino.

  ”Well, did you ever lie to me?”

  Rex tilted his head at him. “No, I don’t believe that I have.”

  “When I asked you not to get emotionally involved with my wife, what was your reply?”

  ”That I would not feel anymore for her, than I presently do.”

  Tino pointed at him. “See? That was being honest.” He laughed again.

  “How can you laugh about this, Tino?” Mimi shouted. “They were having wild sex, right here on your boat!”