Tock.
No man wants a woman your age with no experience.
Tick.
If you haven't lost it by now, you're not going to.
Tock.
The last of your bloodline is going to die out with you.
Tick.
Forgotten, all while the world passes by.
Tock.
Stop it, Mercy. Just stop.
My rabbit floats in front of my mind, abandoned and all alone in that room. Anger gives way to sadness again. I can't leave him like that—stuffed animal or no. Forcing myself out of bed, I pick him up from where he landed on his head and cuddle him against my naked chest all the way back to my room.
Under the covers once again, I squeeze him to me and apologize. "I didn't mean it. I just wanted to feel safe again. I don't know how you did it, but I wish you could talk back to me and tell me everything's going to be all right, just like when I was a little girl. Tell me there's someone out there who cares about me and wants me for himself."
A fresh wave of tears falls. "That there'ssomeonewho would hold me in his arms and wipe my tears away." Iholdhimtightly and turn my face into my pillow, silently sobbing into it.
Life wasn't meant to be lived like this.
Something's got to change.
Chapter five
Amos
Leaningagainstthedoorframe as I pocket my spare key, I stare. Nothing can tear my gaze from her. Her beauty turns heads without question during the daytime, but when she’s sleeping...well, it’s beyond words.
Moonlight shines through a gap in the curtains, beaming at just the right angle to caress her face, tear tracks from earlier drying. Like a spotlight, it highlights those thick, black lashes that hide the prettiest green eyes I've ever seen. A rosy mouth, resting slightly open in heavy slumber. A cute button of a nose. Long hair as black as night fanning over her pillow.
Can nostrils be sexy? Yes, they can. If they belong to sweet Mercy Callahan.
Thoughts of her always make my balls tighten. Just the mention of her name...Mercy.I imagine her begging me for mercy as I tease her, bound and captive to my desires. Even now my cock hardens, pleading for mercy of its own as it stretches against the crotch of my pants.
She lies there in her queen size bed, only the barest hint of her naked shoulders visible. Not one for lingerie, my Mercy. No, her tastes weremore simplethan that. Her preference was to sleep in just a pair of underwear, with the heavy comforter tucked underneath her chin.
I should know. I’ve been watching her for a long time.
Oh, Mercy—you won’t be needing those covers much longer. Soon I’ll be the one wrapped around you. I’ll never let you go.
Her swollen eyes draw my attention again. Why was she crying? I saw her holding a stuffed animal and crying herself to sleep, but I got here too late to see why. And I couldn't exactly walk out from the shadows to ask her. It would have frightened her.
At any rate, it doesn't matter. I'll be the one wiping her tears away from now on.
Tonight’s the night.I can’t take it anymore.
Thesedative-filled syringe feels like a boulder in my pants pocket as my bare feet take me to her bedside. The sound of my zipper lowering is stifled, lost in the droning hum of the air conditioner.Ahhh...nothing like the feeling of a heavy cock being set free.
But something’s missing—got to set the mood. Dick swaying, I detour to her attached bathroom, using the dim light of my phone's screen to grab her perfume from the counter. There's also a prescription pill bottle I haven't noticed before.Picking it up softly so the pills don't rattle, I add it to my pocket, reminding myself to look at it later. I bring her perfume up to my nose and inhale as silent padded footsteps lead me back to her bed.
A smirk twists my lips as I remember Mercy's confusion when she found her perfume here instead of in the bathroom. She didn't notice me watching through the opening of her curtained window yesterday morning, but I could see every emotion cross her face, from confusion to worry and even a flash of fear. I didn't mean to scare her, but I just couldn't stay away. Luckily, the grass had just been cut so I didn't leave any trampled spots on my way back to where I'd hidden my truck.
