Seducing Celestine (13 page)

Celestine looked over at the man in question. Nick Swan lay asleep on the crisp white sheets of the hospital bed and looked decidedly calm and relaxed. Celestine was glad that he had been able to have a private room. Ah, the expensive miracle of private health insurance. She stood up and walked over to him. She ran a soft finger along his stubble-covered jaw and wondered if she would ever have the guts to admit she loved him. Celestine looked at the five stitches that had closed the wound on his head. Who the hell had done this and why? If they just told her what they wanted she would bloody give it to them.

“Bastards,” she hissed softly under her breath.

“Who’s a bastard?” Nick asked as his eyes opened and locked on hers. “So you stayed? Why?”

The look on Nick’s face indicated to Celestine that he knew the answer, he just wanted her to confirm it. Too bad for him that she was perverse.

“I had no way to get home.”

“My wallet was in my pocket, you could have used that money.”

Damn, logic. Who needed it?

“Maybe you stayed because you love me.” Nick’s hands sought hers. “Climb on board.” He tossed the sheet off his body. He was clothed only in a hospital gown.

“What?”

Nick surely wasn’t suggesting that they have sex now…in a hospital? Yet, strangely, the idea of hard, fast sex in a public place had Celestine all wet and aching. Would there ever be a time she did not want Nick? “We can’t.”

“Why not?”

“This is a hospital…”

“So?” Whatever point Celestine was trying to make Nick wasn’t going to buy it.

“You’re been injured, for God’s sake.” It would be irresponsible agreeing to have sex with a sick man. Good but irresponsible.

“Baby, my cock is just fine and it’s aching for you.”

When Nick said things like that Celestine found it hard to think about doing the right thing. But what exactly was the right thing in this case? Not have sex with Nick and make him be a good patient and rest? Or did she have sex with him to improve his morale while being banged up in hospital? Everyone needed their morale boosted. She really owed him that much. When she looked at in that light it seemed perfectly reasonable to honor his request.

“What about your head?”

“That’s not the head I’m thinking with at the moment. Pull the curtain around and take off those clothes. I want you naked now.”

If it was anyone else, Celestine would have said it was the drugs talking. But this was Nick Swan. And he liked sex at any time or place. She looked down at his cock. It was pushing up through the cotton of the gown. Could she?

“Come on, you want me as much as I want you. Now strip.”

Celestine pulled the curtain around and quickly tore off her clothes until she stood before him naked. At the insistence of his hands, Celestine scrambled awkwardly onto the bed and sat astride him.

“This is so wrong,” she said as she flung up the cotton gown and grabbed his stiff cock in both hands.

Nick grabbed Celestine’s hips and urged her onto him.

“If it’s so wrong why have you got your hands on my cock?” His fingers slid into the wet core of her body.

“Because I am going to suck it inside me, so please move your fingers out now.” Celestine impaled herself onto his straining shaft and leaned forward to allow him to hungrily suck her breasts.

“What are you going to do if a nurse arrives now and sees you sliding up and down on my cock with your breast in my mouth?”

“Continue riding you until you come, moonlight man.” Celestine ground up and down on Nick’s cock, enjoying the hot feeling of him deep inside her. She quickened her pace and her head fell back as the spasms of pleasure tore through her body. As Nick shot up inside her, she bit back the scream that came to her lips. Instead she leaned forward and kissed Nick hard.

“Bloody hell, I’m cured.” Nick caught Celestine as she collapsed against his chest, his cock still buried deep within her. They lay quietly wrapped up in their thoughts.

“Tell me, baby, other than you and me, who else knows you were staying at my house?”

Celestine looked into his eyes and thought about it.

“Well, only Julia Bailey knew where I was as I gave her this address to return the money she owed me.”

“Yeah, that’s what I thought. Would Julia be mixed up with whatever these people are chasing you for?”

Celestine knew only too well the scruples of her cow of an ex-roommate. Greed was her god. Anything she had to do to get her money, Julia would do.

“Julia would sell her grandmother if the price was partway decent.” Could Julia Bailey be involved? What were these people after and how long had she had it? Had it been when Julia was her roommate? The timing did not seem to fit as it all started a week or so ago. “All this happened after Julia ran off with my stuff.”

“What if Julia somehow found out what these people were after and what if she agreed to help them?”

Julia was greedy and grasping so it was not beyond reasonable doubt that she was somehow involved but how?

“Okay, so Julia, the ratfink, finds out that someone is after me for something. She makes a deal with them and gives them your address.” Celestine ran the possibilities through her mind as she said the words. “They then come to your house to get whatever it is I am supposed to have that they want and you get clobbered.”

“Which leads me to believe, Nancy Drew, that whatever they want is portable and you have it with you.”

“I only have my clothes and the car from hell.” Neither was valuable or fashionable enough to make anyone want to pursue her for them.

“I think it’s the car.” To Nick, it was the only thing that made sense.

Nick had mentioned the car before. It still seemed like a crazy conclusion to her.

“Yes, I keep forgetting it is a priceless object.” Celestine placed her hand over Nick’s brow. “Are you feverish and hallucinating?”

Nick put his hands on her ass to keep her firmly on his cock. The beast was stirring again.

“Think about it, baby, it all comes back to your car.” Nick’s lips nuzzled at Celestine’s neck. “It’s something in the car. Maybe something is hidden inside.”

Wow, that sounded dramatic to Celestine. Other than gum wrappers and the environmentally friendly shopping bags she kept forgetting to use when she went shopping she could not think what someone would want out of her car.

“Like what?” Celestine eyes opened wide as she felt Nick’s cock stiffen inside her. The man was insatiable. But then so was she it appeared as she still had his cock inside her when she could have lifted off a while ago.

Nick’s hands caressed the mounds of her breasts.

“I don’t know what could be in the car but I suggest we pull that car of yours apart. But first…ride me hard, baby.”

Chapter Eight

Celestine walked around her car, opening all four doors wide. One door hung on an awkward angle but Celestine did not worry about that. The whole car was awkward, what was one flaw among so many? She had already checked out the boot. Other than a tire that need inflating and container of oil nothing appeared to be exciting enough to make someone want to steal it.

“So what should we be looking for?” She turned to look at Nick. He had insisted that they search the car as soon as they returned from the hospital.

“We won’t know until we find it.”

“Yes, I love cryptic comments—not.”

“Are you still upset at the nurse coming in and catching us?” Nick smiled at Celestine’s embarrassment at being caught just as she came on top of him. Though it hadn’t stopped her sucking every last drop from him.

“Gee, I can’t think why, Nick. I was completely naked on top of a patient who was supposed to be resting.”

“I always feel restful after sex with you.”

“That excuse did not work with the nurse. Though she did seem impressed with the size of your cock.” The woman had looked at it a little too long for Celestine’s liking.

Nick grinned, recognizing jealousy when he saw it.

“Most women are. But don’t worry, baby, it’s all yours.”

“Of course it damn well is…” Celestine muttered softly under her breath. She wasn’t about to share that with anyone.

“What was that?” Nick had heard her and was both amused and pleased at her possessiveness.

“Nothing of importance.” Celestine crawled into the backseat and reached in and under the back of one of the front seats. Nothing but an umbrella and a paperclip. She stretched over, lying on her stomach, to search under the other front seat.

Nick stood and watched as Celestine wriggled her body, totally unaware how enticing her rounded, plump ass looked. He wanted to be all hot and tight between those cheeks. Nick moved into the backseat to join her, pinning her down beneath him.

Celestine felt his cock prodding hard into the cleft of her sweatpants-covered butt.

“You’re kidding me? Now?”

Nick pulled down her sweatpants and was pleased to see no panties standing in the way of what he wanted. He flung them out the door.

“Why not?” His fingers moved under her and dipped into the wet curls between her legs. “You’re wet already.”

“I’m always wet around you.” It was the truth. Celestine saw no reason to hide it. She heard Nick unzipping his pants. She wanted him inside her and she wasn’t even going to pretend otherwise. She arched her ass up toward him. “I want you take me in the ass this time, Nick.” Even as she said the words she felt hot. She had never had anyone take her in the ass before. She wanted to know what it felt like.

Nick was ready to take this woman any way she wanted but he knew without lubrication that was going to hurt.

“I need cream or something.”

“Hand cream in the glove box.” Celestine turned on her side and watched as Nick squeezed through the front seat and wrenched the glove box open in his rush. His impatiently dancing cock was strained to the breaking point. “Let me put it on.” Nick handed her the tube and faced her. Celestine liberally slathered on the smooth white lotion, enjoying the slippery, hard feeling of his cock in her hands.

“That’s enough. I’ll come in your hands if you keep doing that.”

“We can’t have that.”

Celestine threw the tube to the floor. She got onto her knees and arched her butt toward him. She felt him pull apart the cheeks of her ass. As he entered the virgin territory, Celestine tensed momentarily at the tight invasion. But the further Nick pushed gently in, the more Celestine became accustomed to the feel of him in her ass.

“Are you okay?”

“Hell, yes…” Celestine panted softly as Nick moved slowly in and out of that tight entrance until she had taken him fully inside. To have Nick inside her like this was a completely different sensation and she liked it. “Harder.”

“Any way you want, baby.” Nick pulled her hips firm against his as he increased the pace and pounded inside her.

Celestine bit down on the upholstery as she felt the pleasure roar through her body.

“Howdy, Nick, I heard you’d been in hospital and…” A man’s voice stopped dead as he took in the sight before him. “Oh, man, I’m sorry…I’ll…uh, leave you to it…”

Celestine heard Nick chuckle out loud. He did not stop thrusting inside her.

“Who was that?”

“My next-door neighbor, Steve.”

Celestine wanted to say she was embarrassed but she was more annoyed that someone had interrupted them when she was so close to coming. Besides, what had this Steve person seen? Just her ass with Nick buried inside. She arched her butt against him. She needed completion here.

“Make me come.” Celestine shrieked as Nick pulled all the way out then slammed back in, making them both come instantly. “Oh God…that was…ouch!”

“Not the response I expected,” Nick said as he finished pumping away inside her.

It was that last slamming action into the springs of seat that made Celestine realize there was something under the seat. She felt something uncomfortable and lumpy pushing into her stomach.

“We need to get this seat up.”

Nick pulled out of Celestine and helped her up and out of the car. As Celestine pulled on her sweatpants, Nick started pulling at the bottom backseat. Once clothed, Celestine went around to the other side of the car and started to pull the seat up from her side. As Nick gave one almighty wrench, the seat flew up and Celestine lost her balance in the momentum and fell over backward, landing on her ass on the ground. A pleasant soreness still throbbed through her butt.

“Wow!” Nick exclaimed in amazement.

“Wow what?” Celestine scrambled to her feet and looked inside the car where the backseat had been. “Holy hell!” Her eyes widened in astonishment as she took in the sight before her. Under the backseat of the car was money. Stack upon stack of it. What a glorious sight to one who was starved for it.

“I don’t believe it!” It was more money than she had ever dreamed of seeing in her life. One-hundred-dollar notes, fifty-dollar notes and twenty-dollar notes were bundled one upon the other in haphazard stacks and those stacks covered almost the entire space under the backseat. That much money
en masse
was mind-boggling to Celestine. Just a quarter of that money would get her out of her financial trouble. What was that saying about possession being nine-tenths of the law? Surely that had some bearing here? Celestine’s greed was of a different nature to Julia’s. Celestine’s greed was motivated by pure survival.

“How much do you think there is?” Celestine asked as she continued staring at the money as if mesmerized.

“It would be hard to stay but it looks like it’s in the tens of thousands of dollars,” Nick speculated. He grinned at the look of enthrallment on Celestine’s face.

Celestine licked her lips in thought.

“So I have been driving around in a broken-down car that is basically worth a fortune.” She could not remember the last time she had seen a one-hundred-dollar note. It was like being surrounded by chocolate and knowing you couldn’t eat it because you were on a diet. But then people were known to break their diets and would anyone really know if the odd hundred-dollar bill got misplaced?

“This is clearly what these people have been after.”

Celestine nodded her head at Nick’s words. She thought back to the dirty-looking blond man that attacked her.