Betting on the Zebra Chapter 17

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CHAPTER 17

“Fuck.” Kevin ground out between clenched teeth as he grasped Lenny’s hips and held them fast. “Stop.” He managed to say. Finally he realised that she had no intention of stopping. “Lenny, you have to stop.”

But Lenny just shook her head a little wildly. “No.” She gasped out as she repeatedly rubbed herself against him. Somewhere inside she knew that she should be feeling ashamed right about now but she just couldn’t bring herself to dredge that up. She was too busy just going with what she was feeling. It was something that she didn’t do often enough and if she had realised that it was going to be this much fun then she would have lived her life by this credo. “I mean, I don’t think I can. Plus ... I just don’t want to.” She whispered and smiled slightly. “Think about it Kevin. Do you really want me to stop?”

“Yes!” He yelled out and felt like cutting out his own tongue. He had no idea where that voice had come from because he was sure that it wasn’t him. When had he ever turned down anything like this before in his life? Never, that was when! “We have to stop Lenny and we have to stop now.” He said and again felt like looking around to find out who in the hell was doing all of this talking. “If we don’t stop now then I don’t know if I can stop later.”

She just smiled wider and leaning close to him pressed her lips to his in a hard kiss. “Who on earth said anything about stopping later?” She asked him quietly as she stared into his eyes. God she could see how unfocused he was right about now and knew that he wanted her. Well that was fine by her because right now she wanted him just as much. It was something that was so far removed from how she would usually act but right now she just wasn’t going to let herself care. This was something that she wanted. Something that perhaps she didn’t know she had wanted till right now. But now that she had worked it out for herself like a big girl she was determined to make herself happy for once.

Kevin just stared at her and he knew that his eyes were widening rapidly. Did she have any idea what she had just said? Because to him it had sounded an awful lot like ... well just thinking it again in his head was doing strange things to his mind. “Lenny are you drunk or something?” He asked with a smile trying to diffuse the situation with a little humour.

“Nope, not drunk at all Kevin.” She said then pushed herself back a little. The smile on her face reappeared as that movement made her press firmly down on the front of his pants and he let out an unfettered growl. “Are you saying that the only women that you sleep with are the ones who are drunk? That seems like a strange rule plus it’s more than a little like taking advantage of someone.” She wriggled around slightly and resisted the urge to laugh out loud at the expression on his face. “I’m not drunk ... but I still want you to fuck me. Will I do?”

Groaning loudly Kevin reached up and cupped her face in his hands. “Will you do?” He repeated her question. “Are you insane? I think that you know how much I want you baby.”

“I couldn’t fail to.” She said with a smirk as she stroked a hand over his cock lightly through his pants. “You certainly seem to be happy to see me.”

Shifting one of his hands quickly he grabbed at hers and held it away from his body. She seemed determined to drive him crazy and she was succeeding. “Whoa.” He said and laughed at the craziness of the situation and the craziness of his thoughts. He couldn’t quite believe that this was happening and he definitely couldn’t believe that he was the one who was trying to slow things down. “Have you looked around? Are you aware that we’re still in the car?”

“Well yeah of course I am.” She said and rolled her eyes. What the hell was wrong with him? She knew that he wanted her and she was sure that she was doing a pretty good job of showing him how much she wanted him too. “But that doesn’t matter.”

He just stared at her. “Ok, who the hell are you and what have you done with the real Lenny?” He asked with humour running through his voice. Yeah, right about now he wanted nothing more than to just thrust right into her but he didn’t want her to suddenly realise what she was doing and then hate him for it all. “It might not matter to you but it certainly matters to me.” Although there was a voice inside his head just screaming at him to take her no matter where they were he couldn’t do it. “I want the first time that we make love to be somewhere a whole lot nicer than the front seat of my rental.”

“The first time?” She asked with an arched brow. “Who said anything about there being any other times? I know that I didn’t.”

Not able to stop himself he laughed out loud. “Maybe you didn’t but we both know that this won’t be the last time Lenny. We both know that it’s about more than just a quick fuck between us.”

“Do we?” She asked and couldn’t stop her voice from coming out sounding hard and at the same time her eyes glittered with some unspoken emotion. Then she seemed to shake it off and return to the situation at hand. “Then what are we waiting for? Let’s get inside.”

-o0o-

Knocking on the door again Paul sighed as he stepped back from it. “No answer.” He muttered to himself and then shook his head. He had tried both of their rooms but hadn’t been able to find either Lenny or Kevin. That was exactly Kev’s style though he realised. He was still incredibly pissed off that the guy had just swept in and practically stolen her from right under his nose. Things had been going so well too. After they had travelled together last night he was sure that he was starting to chip away at the reserve that Lenny kept around herself most of the time. Yeah he had always known that she was fun, he wouldn’t have chosen her if he hadn’t.

She was smart, she was funny and well yeah she was sexy as hell. It was just lucky for them that she didn’t know that about herself. He frowned slightly as he realised that most women didn’t seem to know how sexy they were. They let their own fears and doubts about themselves cloud their judgement and just didn’t seem to see what others saw. He wondered where Kevin had taken her. He was in no doubt that wherever they were his pal probably had the charm ratcheted right up there.

Kevin wasn’t a guy that made friends easily. He found it pretty difficult to trust people but he had seemed to take to her right away. Oh they weren’t exactly bosom buddies but he had spotted almost immediately that his friend was talking more to this woman than he had to most people on the first day that he met her. They had connected in some small way he supposed. Then he pulled a face. Was this bet the dumbest thing that he had ever come up with? He let himself lean against the wall opposite the door as he let himself think about that question. Then he smiled widely. Yeah, it possibly was, but that didn’t mean that it couldn’t be fun.

And that was what it was all about. He needed to throw off some of the baggage that he had been carrying around for the last few months. That was one of the reasons that he had split up with Steph. It had all gotten to be way too heavy. Not the relationship but all of the other crap that had come with it. It had started to feel like he was the boss’s new pet. He loved what he did for a living but hated the fact that for him it had become less about what was happening out there in the ring and more about what was happening behind the scenes. Yeah at first it had been kind of exciting to know everything that was going on ... to be so totally in the loop. But it had definitely gotten old. Especially when everyone and their grandfather started pointing the finger at him for all of the company’s failings. Hell anyone would think that he was the wrestling anti-Christ or something.

So he had walked away. At the time he had known that he was taking a chance because at any moment Steph could have played the wronged woman card and squashed him like a bug. It wouldn’t have been right but if she had wanted to she could still have done it. And he knew that in her quieter moments Steph could be a bitch if she wanted to. Oh all in all she really was an incredible woman but she was also a businesswoman and nothing got in the way of her work. Absolutely nothing. But so far things had been fine. Oh the tension had been in the air for the first few weeks after their break up but now things were slowly starting to return to something resembling normality.

“So, time to get back to the fun.” He muttered and found himself mentally going over all the places that Kevin might have taken Lenny. Then turning he headed for the elevator.

-o0o-

Breaking away from Kevin’s kiss so she could breathe Lenny pressed herself a little harder into the elevator wall behind her. She knew that it was the only thing keeping her upright right now. “God.” She gasped out and saw the way that he was just standing there looking down at her with humour in his eyes.

“I just love the way that you keep calling me that.” Kevin said with a light laugh. “If this is how responsive you are just to a kiss then what are you going to be like in bed?”

She arched a brow at his intimate question. But then they were about to be as intimate as two people could be with each other. “Well I guess that you’ll have your answer soon enough.” She laughed and then frowned slightly. “That is if this damn elevator ever gets to where it’s going!”

“You’re so impatient.” He said and pressed a kiss to her lips once more. “I like that.” He said softly as he ran his fingers down her cheek.

Pushing herself away from the wall once more when she realised that the lift was coming to a stop she just looked at him wondering if she was doing the right thing. Then she smiled to herself. Oh yeah, she was sure about it. Feeling him wrap his arms around her waist from behind she let herself slide against him. Shit, all she was aware of was the way that he was branding into her. “Glad to hear it.” She smiled as she slid a hand upwards and tangled it into his hair pulling him down to her for another kiss. She really couldn’t get enough of his kisses.

-o0o-

Paul felt his jaw drop open around about the same time that the elevator doors did. “Ahem.” He cleared his throat loudly and was pretty pleased when they sprang apart like guilty teenagers. Then he smirked. “Oh sorry, am I interrupting something.”

“Like you don’t know Levesque!” Kevin snapped out as catching Lenny’s hand in his he tugged her out into the hallway. “But don’t let us stop you from getting to wherever you were going.” He tossed the words over his shoulder carelessly and was sure that he could see something sparking in Paul’s eyes. Oh no, he knew that look. It was pure devilment.

Not taking the hint at all Paul just shrugged and started to follow them along to Kevin’s room. “Actually I was looking for you Kev.” He said with a grin as he stopped beside them outside the door and waited while Kevin unlocked the door. “We need to talk over a few things for our next match.” He lied. Was he mistaken or was Kevin just a little worked up here? He felt like laughing out loud. Thank god he had found them before this could go any further. Whatever it took to keep him away from humiliation.

“I’m only going to say this once Paul so listen up.” Kevin said as he let Lenny into the room but blocked Paul’s way completely. “Fuck off, you are so not wanted.” He said coldly and began to take a few steps into the room.

Lenny shook her head. “Invite him in Kevin.” She said and propped her hand on her hips.

“What?” Kevin asked her incredulously. Was this the same woman who had wanted to get him into this room just a few minutes ago? Why the hell hadn’t he kept his mouth shut and stayed in the car?

“You heard me.” She said with a small grin sliding across her face. “Invite him in.” Then she turned and headed into the bathroom.