Darkness

19. Cain

Nineteen

Cain

“Hayden, I said I’d do it.” I shout down the cell as I make my way up the stairs to Autumn-Rose’s apartment. I told her I’d be over, but the club was busy. Three members of my staff called in sick.

I told Lincoln to work the floors, which is what I would have done, and I asked Hayden to come into the club to help me behind the bar.

“Tomorrow? I’ve done my first hit. It’s a family rule. Do the hit. You get the tattoo,” Hayden shouts down the cell, as the music plays in the background.

“Tomorrow. Now, will you get back to fucking work?” I snap as I knock on the door. I know the guys don’t hate working at the club, but I still hate asking them to help me out.

Autumn-Rose opens the door, and I can’t help but roll my eyes when I hear the music coming from inside. She leans in and gives me a kiss, then moves to the side so I can come in.

“I’m working at the same time. Mason wants to know if the sixth floor is busy?” Hayden asks. Fucking idiots, the three of them. Fuck knows how Declan will be once he joins them.

“He needs to ask Lincoln and tell him and Miles I might not be there, but I’m on camera watch.” I end the call before he says anything else to piss me off.

“You could have let yourself in,” Autumn tells me as I put everything on the couch. Not answering, I walk over to her, wrapping my hand around the side of her neck and pull her in for a better kiss than I got when she opened the door. I feel

her grip the side of my suit jacket as she kisses me back. “Miss me?” She asks when I pull away from her.

“How is the hand?” I ask her. Still pissed off with her because she didn’t call me. I had to keep my cool in front of her, but once she left a few drink glasses at the bar found out how pissed off I was about it. Especially when they were smacked against the floor. Not one staff member came up to me for the rest of the day.

What annoyed me the most was the fact she didn’t think what we had was anything. She thought I fuck around with woman, and just think nothing of them. It still pisses me off.

“It started to hurt, so I had some painkillers, our takeaway-”

“Take out.” I correct her.

“You order food to take away with you.” She’s quick to answer me, and I walk over to the coffee table to get my laptops set up to get to work.

“And you order food to take out with you,” I tell her, taking my own painkillers out of my pocket. Today my head and eyes have been on fire, Lincoln said as fucked up as it is, I get a few days peace once I go back to the room. Something I don’t want to do, because it gives me a little peace, but a lot more fucked up thoughts than I would like. “Can you turn the lights off?” I ask her, and put on the two lamps which she has by the couch.

“Sure you want a drink?” Autumn asks as she brings a mug to the coffee table.

“I don’t think you’re a whiskey girl, so I brought my own.” Taking out the bottle from my bag, she laughs, then sits on the floor in between the couch and coffee table singing along to the song playing.

“How has your day been?” she asks me, opening her notepad and looking at the laptops as I set them up to get the club CCTV footage running.

“Not good. First my woman thought I wasn’t anything to her, which pissed me off, then I had to order a lot of glasses for the club, because I broke them. Then

staff called in sick so I had that mess to fix, and-”

“I said I was sorry, and it won’t happen again.” She turns to face me and moves between my legs. “To even say sorry again, I will let you have some of my chocolate. I only gave Katy-”

“If you’re going to be in this position, I’m sure there are other ways you can say sorry.” The corner of my lips curls a little, which makes her laugh. “I’m sure I’ll be doing a lot to you tonight.” I lean in to kiss her. I would kiss her every second of the day if I could, because everything about her is perfect, and I want as much of it as I can.

“I’m sure you will be.” Her hands move up and down my thighs, if she thinks I need her to get me hard, she’s wrong, I was hard the moment her lips touched mine.

She continues to kiss me. Her fingers undo the button to my pants, slowly lowering the zipper. I lift myself to lower my pants down a little bit more. She pulls away from me, as I groan the moment her soft hand wraps around my cock, and she looks up through her eyelashes at me, as she lowers herself.

Fuck, her tongue slides off the tip, her hand wraps around my cock at the base, and she lowers giving my balls a kiss, before taking me between her lips, giving it a quick suck which makes me jolt into her.

Releasing my balls, she licks up my shaft, licking as if it was an ice cream cone. Once at the top, in one swift movement, she takes me into her mouth, sucking. I’m not all the way in yet, but fuck is she doing a good job?

Leaning my head back, I close my eyes, my hand moves into the soft hair, not wanting her to pull away. As my head fights between being in heaven or hell right now.l.

Autumn’s mouth goes deeper and deeper, and her name escapes with a choke when I hit the back of her throat. Fuck. She stops moving her head, and I finally look at her as she looks at me through her lashes.

“I’ll fuck your mouth myself if you want.” I’m not sure how many times she’s done this, but something tells me not a lot. Not sure how that is right, because God her mouth around me is feeling good. She gives me a nod, sucking my cock at the same time.

Both my hands grip her head, holding her in place, as I thrust hard into her mouth, hitting the sweet spot in her mouth. I hear her choke, but it’s not stopping me, as I continue to thrust inside her mouth.

Autumn begins playing with my balls. “Fuck.” I grunt out louder because god it’s hitting the right spot. Hitting the back of her throat once more, I hold her there, wanting to feel her closing and opening for me.

When she tries to pull away, I let her go a little, then continue to thrust inside her mouth, making my fingers gripping harder in her hair.

“Fuck, fuck, fuck,” I grunt. Feeling my dick harden, and twitching to the point I’m ready to explode. I pull her away, and I watch her panting for air for a moment, then wipe the tears away from her eyes.

Picking her up, moving her dress up as she sits back, she presses her lips against mine. My mouth opens as I lightly bite down on her bottom lip. God, she tastes so good. Her hands move through my hair, a feeling which gives me chills down my spine. Crazy how much I like her doing this to me.

“You take over my body,” Autumn-Rose tells me under her breath, and it makes me happy.

She kisses me again, pressing her body into mine.

Digging into my pocket, I grab out a condom, one of many I’ve brought for the night.

She sits up a little, as I put it on. I can’t wait to fuck her, bare feeling everything inside her. But that is not going to happen today. Autumn-Rose looks at me with a smile as she lowers herself on me. A sharp moan escapes her beautiful mouth once she is full with my dick.

“Fuck. So fucking tight.” I move my hands to the bottom of her dress to remove it, and smile. “I like the no bra.” I lean in closer to suck on her nipple, and she rides me.

“Harder,” she whispers, her grip in my hair tightening. Happy with her request, I suck on her nipple harder, and with my other hand, I grab her breast hard. Her loud moans echo in the room as she moves her hips, rocking them back and forth.

“Ride me.” I hiss, leaning back on the couch watching this sexy amazing woman riding my dick, as if it’s all she needs at the moment. “You’re beautiful.” Watching her perfect body moving while on top of me.

“I’m co-” the word cuts off as she moans loudly. I pull her closer to me, kissing her hard. Rocking my hips so they move with hers.

We moan and grunt as the pleasure builds for both of us.

“Come for me,” I tell her, as I feel her tighten around my dick. Fuck. Bringing my hand between our bodies and I start rubbing on her swollen clit.

“Oh god, Cain,” she cries out, her hands on the back of my neck, to keep herself balanced as the orgasm hits her hard. I wrap my other arm around her waist to keep her close to me, as her body trembles and I flick her clit a few more times.

I want her to finish before I take over and finish hard myself. I want her to be satisfied, before I even think about finishing. She kisses me. Both my hands grab her hips to lift her off me a little and I thrust hard inside her.

She kisses me harder, and I moan against her lips as I come hard, fuck do I come hard? Wrapping my arms around her waist, Autumn-Rose sits back down, and rocks slightly on me as I kiss her shoulder, then her neck, then her jaw.

“Fucking amazing.”

“It was more than amazing,” I tell her, and she slowly gets off me, and moans, which makes me smile. “Don’t worry, I’ll be buried inside you again.” I kiss her quickly, then take the condom off. Pulling my pants up, I make my way to the bathroom to clean up.

I’ve been on the couch all night. Autumn ordered food, which is scattered over the coffee table. I’ve been working at the club, and she’s been singing non-stop and working on something for the shop.

I watch her in the kitchen as she makes herself some tea again. She dances around to the music. I don’t even know who she’s listening to anymore. It started with I think she said Taylor something, then it moved to some other pop girl singer, now it’s someone else. Not the music I listen to, but watching her dance to it is a sexy view I’m not going to complain about. You see her doing some of her figure skating moves, I saw when I watched her YouTube videos. She’s in her own little world. I think she’s forgotten I’m here, as she smiles to herself and spins around.

“Are you sure you don’t want any tea? You’ve been drinking a lot?” Autumn asks me from the kitchen.

“I’m fine.” She smiles as she spins around while waiting for her tea to brew, which I’ve learned in the space of the evening she drinks a lot of tea, and she will not remove the tea bag until it has been in the water for a full five minutes.

“Do you miss figure skating?” I ask her. Every time she’s moved around the apartment, she has been dancing, lifting her legs, and spinning around. She is always moving and I’m assuming it’s part of her love of ice skating that keeps her moving so fluidly.

“I never told you I used to figure skate,” she places her hands on the counter, and waits for me to answer her because I laugh at her statement.

“You think anyone enters my life without me making sure they aren’t a threat?”

“You thought I was a threat?” She bursts out in a fit of laughter. “I don’t even know your last name, nor do I know how to fight.” She finally stops laughing,

and brings her mug of tea to this side of the counter. “So, what did you find out about me?”

“It’s the quiet ones you have to watch out for. You are one hell of a figure skater, winning a lot. Then you never showed up to one competition, and no one has seen you since. You went to the hospital, that report is missing, and you went to the police a few times, but again, they are missing. Now I know why. But I don’t know why you were in the hospital.” I look over at the four laptops I have set up, watching the club so Lincoln can do his normal job and not worry about anything else there.

“The night he… I went straight to the hospital because he didn’t use protection, and I wanted everything.” She stops and finishes making her tea. “I wanted to be safe. I already knew there was something he was going to do to make sure I couldn’t go to the police, and it wasn’t even for that. It was to protect

myself.” She turns her back to me as she does something else in the kitchen, which I can’t see.

I’ve already been looking into the piece of shit who thought he would get away with hurting her and think nothing will happen to him. Something will happen to him when the time is right. But the man comes from a family of powerful people in England. His grand-dad was the commissioner, top of the police department, then his dad is a politician, then you have him, who is trying to be like his grand-dad, so getting rid of him will not be easy.

Autumn-Rose sits back on the floor between my legs and looks up at me as I lean in for a kiss.

“I’ve been saving this one.” She lifts the blue box. “Are you going to open it?” She waves it a little for me to take off her. I can understand why she thinks the chocolate is better from England than here. I had one from a box which was called Roses, and it tasted better.

“What is it?” I ask to take the orange foiled ball out of its box.

“Okay, don’t take it out of the foil, just tap it on the table. Not hard, which is what you would do. Like your medium strength.” She giggles to herself, and I place my hand on her shoulder as I lean forward and tap it on the table. The smile on her face is beautiful as she watches me tap it once more. Handing it back to her, I lean back looking at the screen quickly to make sure everything is good, then get back to Autumn opening the orange foil as she lets the ball rest on the table. “I think you’ll like this. You enjoyed the orange flavor I gave you before.” She opens the foil, and I watch as the chocolate pieces fall, as it’s an open orange. “Try it.” She hands me a piece.

Taking a bite, she fully turns her body to watch me. The orange flavors in the chocolate are nice. I never thought I was a chocolate, orange person, but if I’m eating something which tastes this good, I can see myself eating it.

“What do you think?” Autumn asks as she takes a piece for herself.

“I’ve tasted better.”

“What? No, you haven’t. Stop lying, this is amazing.” She takes another piece and turns back around, opening her notebook. “I want to know what tastes better than this.” I have to press my lips together to stop myself from laughing at how annoyed she is with me saying I’ve tasted better than this chocolate.

“I’m waiting.” She looks over her shoulder at me.

“You.” She licks her lips, then presses them together to stop the smile, but it’s not stopping her cheeks from turning red.

Turning back around, she turns the TV on. I roll my eyes. Another fucking reality show. She watches some shit on TV.

“For my window display-” she holds up her notepad. “-can you see it?” she asks, tapping her pencil on the pad.

“I can.”

“Do you think it’s a good idea?”

I let out a small chuckle. “I don’t know what this is.” She has been drawing in that paid for most of the evening. If she’s not dancing, she’s drinking her tea and drawing in there. But not once told me what she’s doing, because I’ve been doing things myself.

“So every season I like to have a new display window. I have to bring in the customers. At first I thought I’d do a nice flower display, but I did that already.” She flicks through her pad to a page of her drawing. “I didn’t like this, it was too blah-” Now I do laugh out loud.

“What the hell is blah?” Never in my life have I heard anyone use that word before.

“Blah, it’s not crap, it’s not okay, it’s in the middle. Blah. So then I came up with this idea, and I really like it. The coffee flower box. So it’s a box with one side of it with a nice flower arrangement, made by me. Then on the other side of the box, a cup of coffee, or tea, or whatever their girlfriend, wife, or other half drinks. Now if I had someone bring me flowers and a tea all in one-”

“You want to change that sentence?”

“Trust me, there is no one who can top what you are doing for me. I’m talking about the normal boyfriend, who isn’t…I want to say rich, but not sure if…you know what, let’s get back to my window.”

I lean in closer to her, taking the pad from her to look at it better, and kiss her neck. “And I am rich,” I whisper to her. “So, what’s the problem? I know nothing about flowers, and I drink simple coffee and whiskey.” I know nothing about this business, but I know she’s busy, so I know there is no need for me to even help her.

“I need a coffee shop who would like to become, I don’t know, become partners with me for this.” Autumn takes the pad off me and flicks through some pages. “I’ve even designed the box. You like it?” She asks, but I don’t answer while I call

Lincoln, and wait for him to answer. “Get to the fifth floor, and rough the asshole up so he remembers not to fuck around in my club again.” I end the call before he can say anything, and I wait until I see Lincoln and another security guy get to the floor. Autumn sits up to look at the laptop, seeing Lincoln grab the guy from the back of his neck. “And to answer your question, you know there is a coffee bakery four shops down from you. Taking her pad again I look at the design she’s done. “And you already know the owner.”

“No, I don’t. I go there all the time and not once have I seen the owner.” Autumn drinks her tea and turns back to the TV.

“Logan’s mom. She owns it-” I stop when she turns to face me again.

“As in your mom?” Autumn's eyes light up.

“Yes. Talk to her-”

“Can you talk to her?” I hand the pad back to her, and walk away from the couch to get the first aid box, so I can change her bandages. It gives me the chance to think about how I don’t want to talk to mom for her.

“Cain?”

Walking back to her, I grab her hand and cut the bandage off and let some air on the cut, which is fucking deep. “My relationship with my mom is not a simple one. So, it’s best if you talk to her yourself.” I look up at her as she stares at me. “It’s complicated.” There is no need to tell her about how or why things are complicated between us. I’m still trying to fix the relationship myself.

“Thank you.” I raise my brow at her, not sure what she’s saying thank you for. “You’ve given me happiness. Something I didn’t think I would get.”

I don’t say anything. I’ve given her happiness, yet I have more demons, which she hasn’t seen yet. It takes everything in me to keep the demons in my head. Unfortunately, it’s slowly killing my head more and more. If she knew half of my life, her happiness could go in a flash.

Wiping her cut, I wrap it back up, and see Lincoln’s name appear on my cell. “Hello,” I put him on speaker.

“Camera one, you have a visitor,” Lincoln tells me,I grab the laptop, and look for camera one.

“What have you told him?” I ask.

“You’re not in. He said he will wait.”

“Let him wait. When it’s closing and I’m still not there, he will know you were not fucking with him. Make sure the office is locked up and get in the apartment tonight.” I don’t know what game he is playing coming to my club thinking I’d talk to him.

“I’ll walk around the apartment for a bit, and I’ve got someone at the office door.” Lincoln hangs up and I finish with Autumn’s hand, then lean down to kiss it.

“Right, I’m going to make a cup of tea, then we can watch these Housewives.” She stands up, kisses my lips, and walks away, and I get a good view of her sexy ass.

During the time I spend with her, I live in a world where I don’t have enemies, don’t have The Pit, don’t have scars, don’t have and nightmares. It’s normal, and even if it only lasts a few hours, or a day, I feel normal.

Tomorrow I can go back to hell.