Arthur Alexander

Emily_s Lips

Prologue

It was bound to happen. It had to. You know how it is. I don't have to tell you about it.

I bore her down upon the sand. I forced aside her vague, distracted fingers, ripped aside her encumbering clothes. I seated her naked ass upon the cold earth, and I plunged my vast cock into her with the force of a rape. I pounded at her like a mad thing. I would kill her if necessary with fucking. Her claws commenced to rake my back. She nearly strangled me with the power of her embrace as her breathing changed to gasps, and her gasps to cries. I felt fingernails digging into my buttocks.

My toes scrabbled in the sand for resistance, I rose off my knees and slammed down into her, my balls battered against her heaving ass. She spread her thighs until they creaked and lashed at my back with her heels. I was pouring with sweat, and the hair of my chest was matted and rasping against her squashed tits. My hands clenched on her shoulders and pulled her torso against mine as hard as I could. With each gasp, she slammed her head harder against my neck and shoulder. Her hair slashed at my face and filled my panting mouth. Her cunt slung itself up and up against my driving loins, and rasping moans were torn from her throat with each lunge. And then I was coming, jetting hard spurts of sperm deep, deep, all over the floor of her heart.

Her moans broke into a scream, and her teeth clamped upon my shoulder as she too came. She battered her cunt on my cock through the shuddering of her climax, harder, and then more softly, More softly.

We ground to a ragged halt.

For a long time, my sweating face lay pressed into the sand beside her shoulder.

Our breathing began to still. Her cunt was still clenching now and then on my cock as slowly it wilted amidst our swimming juices.

I came back to the present. I looked down at her face. My God, it was Carla. Carla! I opened my mouth to speak who-knows-what words of confusion and remorse. But she placed a finger across my lips, and she breathed. "No. Not a word. Don't speak, my friend, don't speak."

We pulled apart, stickily. I looked down to watch my veined and shrinking coc k emerge slowly from the red and smashed lips of her cunt. A thick gob of white semen washed backwards to ooze from her lips as my head finally parted from her.

Her profuse, dark cunt hair was matted wetly away from her slit, and I bent my face slowly between her tumbled thighs to place a reverent kiss upon that reeking wound.

The smell of her juices and my sperm was rich and sharp. As my nostrils and mind were swept with this intoxicating scent, my lips pressed softly against her swollen, slippery membranes. My cock began to stir again with the sensation. I began to suck deeply of her leaking, red flesh, softly to drink the sperm and cunt-juice which welled from her like thick blood. But she pulled me up and kissed me softly with her other lips, and she licked from my beard the nectar of cunt and cock which I had so recently been drinking from her own wet sex. She repeated herself: "Not a word. No more, Arthur. But don't say anything."

Well, it had been bound to happen. Five days of hiking with her through these Oregon mountains, five days of watching her in her elegant pirouettes. She had been teasing me, I think, allowing me to watch her bathe in snow-melt this morning, growing careless of what the firelight showed of her hands upon her husband's body.

Tony had not been helping to hide their intimacies. And, when he and I were alone, the conversations had turned to sex. Casually, he had told me of her body, her pleasures, and, as casually, I had described the heady pleasures of Emily in bed.

But Emily had not come along this time, being too involved in a thesis project, and it was just the three of us, three friends, three healthy humans, three… well, you get the point.

And there was Tony, not two miles away, sunning himself through the afternoon beside this rushing river, unaware of the sudden change which had occurred. We had been playing with fire, as the saying goes. Carla's joy, her suppleness, her strength. She-and he-had kept me tingling for days. It had been bound to happen.

Something anyway was necessary to relieve the tension. Masturbating was all very well, in fact I loved it dearly, but when listening to the slight sounds of Tony and Carla making love in their sleeping bag only feet away… and then last night I'm certain they had known I was listening to them. The liquid sounds of Carla's mouth sucking him rose to a feverish pitch as his stifled gasps broke from his straining throat. Only that afternoon he had been telling me how much she loved to suck upon his cock, how she adored the slow tension which mounted in his muscles, the quivering which heralded his explosive orgasm. She loved the taste of come, he had said, licked it all into her mouth with an avid tongue, sucked it deep down her throat, dipped the last puddles up from his sweaty belly with a slender fingertip and tipped those drops onto the end of her tongue as though they were honey. And there she was now, licking and sucking his desperate cock! Through slitted eyes I could see the dark shape of her starlit head bobbing over him. I could hear the frenzied twitching of his arms and legs. I was beating off-and it felt so very good-and yet I yearned. Oh, I ached! I opened my bag so she could see my hand flying up and down my quivering cock if she should turn her head, and I listened to Tony's moans mixed with the wet sucking sounds of her soft mouth. I allowed myself to groan and thrash a little.

I wanted her to see me, to watch my beautiful cock as it came. I knew my chest, and belly, and hand would be bathed with come, and I wanted her to witness it. And she did! Oh, she did. As my hand flew faster and my cock grew even stiffer. Carla raised her head off of Tony and stared in my direction through the night. Her hands were flying up and down Tony's glimmering, wet cock, but her eyes were on me as I arched, arched, arched, and then camel A nd after I had come, I heard her give a trembling moan as she kneeled around, opened her cunt over Tony's mouth, and lowered her ass onto his face.

So it was bound to happen. You know how it is though. Something, some event, is coming toward you all the time, and yet, when it is there, you can only half believe it.

They had been aching, I suppose for months, to share their sex. It was something everyone tried, after all, part of the ethos of our generation. They knew Karen was living with Emily and me, and the nature of the relationship must have been obvious.

But, still, one never believes it. I hardly could, after Carla dressed again and we began meandering back along the riverbed to the camp. It wasn't really until we were replete with stew and secured by darkness that our conversation and our emotions began to encompass it all. Tony had certainly not been surprised by it. Perhaps they had even schemed the event.

With us intellectual types, it's only by talking about something that it becomes real.

Our conversation analyzed and re-analyzed the whole event until we had gotten the emotions well enough corralled so they couldn't threaten us. But that way is a denial of the events themselves.

"We all need an access to lust," I said. "We need to be carried away."

"Yes?" mused Tony, a match to his pipe.

"This is much too decadent and sophisticated an idea, I'm sure, but to the thing is that most of us never have any access to lust. Oh, we may make love all our days, and yet we never touch the complete fulfillment of the desire to be with, which is, after all, what it's all about."

Carla snorted, but I was warming to my subject. "I mean, we all know what we want.

We want to be drowned out completely. We want our selves, our personalities, to die. We want to be replaced with a totality, a wholeness, a… a lust, for Cod's sake!

Overcome with sex, nothing but cock, forever fucking. The thing is that lust is a totality, like hate, and greed, and all the rest. And love, charity, whatever. I'll bet you could take any one of the seven virtues or vices, express it so totally in your life that you became the thing, and then whatever you had begun with would no longer either be a virtue or a vice. It would just be it. As sinless, and subtle, and uncompromising as a god." I broke off. "Not a bad idea, that. I'll write a book about it someday."

"What do you think about all this Carla?" asked Tony.

"You talk too much, Arthur," said she, with her cat's eyes in the flames, "but I love you all the same."

"Well, it's all just for the fun of it."

"I'm cold," she answered. "Let's get into the bag, Tony. Warm me up."

"You know," I mused, after the general re-shuffling had occurred and we were all encased in our down cocoons, "I have an example of that access to lust in my own life."

Tony's voice came from the huddle across the fire. "What do you mean?"

"Emily. It all happened before we met you, about two years ago. We were going to split up…"

"We know."

"But you don't know what really happened."

"Hey, are you going to tell us a dirty story?" Carla asked.

"Well, as a matter of fact."

"Goody," she giggled. "Just let me get ready." I heard their bodies shifting around a bit and then heard Carla giggle some more. "No," she whispered, "put your hand there. Yes, oh yes. Oh, boy!" Then her voice came across to me again. "Now, Arthur, now tell me your dirty story."

Chapter 1

The rain which had begun as a gentle drizzle now roared on the convertible top of Emily's car. In fact, it fell so heavily that she was unable to see clearly through the windshield. Her wipers hurried back and forth, doing the best job they could under the circumstances, but they could not clear the glass effectively. To make her situation even more unpleasant, she notic ed suddenly that the needle of her fuel gauge read well below the Empty point.

Oh! If only she had had the sense to fill up when she passed through that last town.

But it was too late for that now. There would hardly be another gasoline station up here in these damnable mountains, and even if she should pass one, she imagined, it would almost certainly be closed at this late an hour. In fact, it must be midnight or after. Damn! What was she doing up here anyway?

The best she could do, then, would be to proceed slowly and evenly in order to save as much fuel as she could. Perhaps if she could manage to drive as far as the pass, she'd be able to roll down onto the plains on the other side. And, in the meantime, if she did come to a station, she could, always park before its pumps and sleep reasonably well in the back seat until someone came to open up in the morning. All this practicality was perfectly sound, of course, but just at that moment she truly could not see why she had needed so desperately to leave Arthur-well, run out on him if you wanted to know the truth. For three years they had been constructing quite a pleasant life, even an exciting one. And now here she was, driving away into the night with an ache in her heart, stripped of understanding of what was happening.

She felt like some rather obvious little tart of a wife in a mediocre movie. But here she was, for all of that, lost in these endless mountains, her handkerchief, predictably, soiled with tears.

She had slowed the car to thirty-five. Lightning began to flash around her, affording her piercing views of bent treetops against a hurtling, grey void. Thunder came with the lightning to shake the car on its foundations as a dog would an impertinent stick.

The trees crept by at a snail's pace. She wasn't getting anywhere. She'd never reach the pass at this rate. The road she followed was totally deserted. For hours she had not seen another car. The black shapes of trees hemmed her in too tightly, and the winding climb allowed her no sense of relief from their embrace. She wanted space around herself, vision, a chance to rest. It was all too close, too loud. But the road kept drawing her higher and even higher, away from the range of human company, and away into a blackened and drenched landscape of fretful trees and conglomerate rocks. She tried the radio, but the storm around her so interfered with the radio waves that she heard only now and then a distant voice, thin and useless through the static.

Now too her roof began to leak. Just a little at first, a few drops, but as the storm beat upon the opening, the drops grew into a stream. Soon cold rainwater coursed down the windshield and splashed onto her skirt and knees.

She grew ever more damp. The windshield was fogging up, and the defroster worked only poorly. The water dribbling down her calves grew warm from her body before it ran into her light shoes, and she realized that her toes were growing all squishy. She had come into an area of gusty winds, and the rain was now driven through her roof almost without slowing down. The car swayed drunkenly on the long curves. She slowed further. Her headlights, even, were dimmed by the heaviness of the rain. How high was this pass? Wouldn't she ever get there? Why had she come?

Why, why, why had she left herself without gas? It was at that moment that a pair of wrought-iron gates came into view on the right. They were so out of place that she hardly realized what they were until she was nearly past. She had an impression of space though, as her headlights fleeted over them, but no lightning came to show her more. The gates had seemed to be hung on stone pillars. There had been a board, perhaps with a name or a warning upon it, which swung in the wind. She slowed the car. There had been no sign of a house. She pulled the car to the shoulder of the road and stopped. She was growing wetter by the minute. Certainly, it was far too late to call upon strangers, and yet the thought of sleeping in the car was increasingly unappealing. And she might as well admit to herself that she'd never find any gas now. Already the engine had choked once or twice. There! It missed again. Oh, God.

She looked backwards through the red glow of her taillights to where the gates had been. But this was too cliched a situation; I mean, really! A lonely house on a hill, probably Victorian, a crashing storm, a girl in distress. Straight out of Mary Shelley and the gothics. It embarrassed her, so conventional a scene was it. It embarrassed her, and she pulled the car once more out into the road.

But she was not destined to go far. Before she had traveled another mile, the car's spluttering had become so marked that she knew escape from that house back there was impossible. Had she been able to go a few miles more, she would have slept in the car, wet, but spared the necessity of appearing like a half-drowned kitten appealing for shelter in the middle of the night. She turned the car with its last drops of gas, and commenced to roll back through the storm. There was always the chance, of course, that no one would be home, and she could sleep in the car anyway, secure in her anonymity yet knowing she had done all she could.

She braked to a halt before the gate. An opportune flash of lightning showed a driveway and a copse of trees into which it disappeared. And the name upon the signboard was "Black."

The crash of thunder which followed even as the lightning was still vivid in her eyes stunned her. She panicked. She found herself clutched before the gate, wet through, tugging at the bars with frantic hands. The lightning came again, and the thunder.

The noise seemed to still the very blood in her veins. The shock of it thrust her against the wet, cold bars like a blow from a battering ram. Dimly she realized that her own voice was bellowing in her ears, screaming and screaming to drown out the thunder.

She tried to pull herself together. It was just thunder. Just a big noise. Thunder couldn't hurt you. It's okay, Emily, she kept soothing herself, it's okay, it's okay. Oh God, where was Arthur?

She returned to the car, pulled out an old raincoat, closed it uselessly around her shivering body, pocketed her keys, and locked the door. She walked calmly to the gate. She could see no bell to ring. She tried the bars again. They were not locked, but they were closed by a complicated latch which. had defeated her earlier panic.

She unfastened the gate and pushed it open. The drive led in front of her. Rain pelted her from behind, and the wind seemed to lift and shove her down the road.

She felt the water seeping through coat and clothing to drench her with another ooze. Lightning struck again, and the thunder came, but she was prepared, vigilant against terror. She did not even turn her head. She clutched the coat together in front of herself with white little hands, carried her face stiffly, and marched into the utter darkness between the trees. The coat was useless, of course, better suited to a lady like drizzle than to this gale, but she kept it pulled determinedly to her as the trees whipped her and the wind rose to a howl.

Finally, the drive left the trees. She had followed pale, white stones through the darkness, all that she could see, but now she was out. again in a rolling, landscaped country which the lightning revealed to extend far along the mountain slopes in each direction. She caught glimpses of other wooded areas, of small outbuildings, of what probably should have been graceful shade trees now gusted into writhing monstrosities. Someone very substantial lived here. The name Black meant nothing to her, save that symbolically it was apt for this night.

Probably an eccentric woman of Victorian v intage, a Miss Havisham keeping herself in timeless splendor. Or, more formidable still, a tall and cadaverous gentlemen involved in mysterious experiments who would lock her in a basement and allow her only the company of his large, mute servant named, unfailingly, Igor.

Whoever it was, he was certainly enamored of seclusion. The lightning still uncovered no sign of a house. Emily was beginning to wonder whether after all if she oughtn't return to the car when the drive angled around a hillock and down, and she saw the cluster of roofs which she knew must belong to the main house. It was situated, so far as she could tell, in the fold of a hill, backed by the imposing mountains she had been trying to cross, and looking out across what was probably miles upon miles of the lowlands. Carefully s ited plantings softened the shape of the house against the hill. She noticed that before a low garage were drawn up four or five expensive cars, putting their unquestionably immaculate polishes to the great test. The house itself was wide, of stone, and three stories high. It boasted gabled roofs and turrets, and a long, wide veranda fronted it. And, to her excitement, there were lights not only in some of the upper windows but coming through a series of tall French windows along one wing.

Drenched, Emily climbed the stone steps of the veranda. The front door was dark, so she walked to the French windows instead. She would have liked to peek in to see what sort of people they were, but heavy drapes cut off her view. She straightened her hair, took a deep breath, thought for one instant of the car, and knocked.

Nothing happened.

She knocked more loudly.

Still she roused no response.

She felt rather deflated. What should she do now? She gave one more louder knock on the glass and turned to see if she might not be able to attract the attention of someone upstairs. But just as she did this, the drapes were swept aside, and she found herself looking into the handsome face of a man of about forty years who wore a.comfortable-looking smoking jacket. A look of immediate concern crossed his features, and the door was swung wide to admit her.

"Oh, thank you. Thank you. It's so wet!"

"But, my dear, of course. Whatever can have happened? Do come in."

"I ran out of gas,. you see, and I saw your gate, and I-"

"Thank God you were close by! What a terrible night to be stuck on the road."

She had entered the room by this time, and he closed the window again firmly. She stood dripping by the glass and felt intensely awkward. The room was a large one, rather baronial, and was dominated by a friendly fire in a massive, stone fireplace.

The couches and chairs looked inviting. Save for the two of them, the room was empty.

"I'm afraid I'm rather wet," she said nervously. She realized that she was shivering as well.

"Well, of course you are. Now, don't worry about the carpets. It won't hurt them. You just come over her by the fire to get warm. Come on now! I'll not have you catching pneumonia in my house." He took her elbow and guided her toward the fire. Emily felt enormously relieved to have stumbled upon such a gentleman. He would take care of her, she knew, and see that she was all right. There was nothing to worry about now. She allowed herself to be led as a little child might.

"Now, that's better, isn't it?"

"Oh yes! It's so cold out there."

"Give me your coat, my dear, and I'll just hang it out to dry."

Emily peeled out of the clinging coat. She knew her clothing was soaked, and she felt somewhat uneasy about the fact that she was not wearing a bra. She had the sort of physique which is slender but sports quite massive breasts. Her nipples, she knew, were erect with the cold and from rubbing against the wet silk of her blouse.

She was aware that this man could see most of the contours and details of her body as she struggled from the wet garment, aware also that her breasts themselves were wobbling quite obviously as they hung from her chest. In point of fact, she saw in the mirror over the fireplace, her breasts were not actually as exposed as she feared they might be. Her nipples did stand out like cones, yes, and the darker color of them could even dimly be seen through the wet silk, but the rest of her blouse did not cling too tightly. Her hair, though, was a wreck.

But after all he did not allow her to be embarrassed. He hardly glanced at her body as he took her coat. "Now." He hung the coat over his arm and asked her, "What can I do to help your'

Emily was at a loss. She supposed that she wanted to spend the night, but one could hardly ask such a thing. Mainly, toward the end of her walk, she had just wanted to get away from that awful rain. "Well, I… that is to say, I'm out of gas, don't you see, by your gate. If you had some gas… " She allowed her voice to trail away.

"Nonsense! You'll stay the night of course." He looked at her for a moment. "A nightgown, I think. Something warm and flannely. And a robe."

"Oh, but I couldn't-"