Free Safe From the Dark by Lily Rede

Evie Asher out of his mind
might be to fuck her out of his system. For that to happen, he would probably
have to get her to trust him enough to let him close enough to slide between
those pretty thighs. For that miracle to occur, he was going to have to
actually date her, at least for a while. As in a real relationship, until the
fascination wore off. Which might take months, given his inability to stop
thinking about her. Wasn’t that a scary thought?
    A
quick trip to the adjoining bathroom cleaned away the evidence of his desire,
but the unease remained.
    Moonlight
spilled through the window and as Colin headed back to bed, a flash of movement
outside caught his eye.
    Something was out there.
    He
hesitated – in town it wasn’t unusual to get raccoons and possums, and the
occasional deer, but up here in the hills, there was the chance of a run-in
with larger predators – a coyote or even the rare mountain lion. Still,
something didn’t feel right. It didn’t feel like an animal. It felt like
a person, someone watching the house.
    Knowing
he was probably just overreacting, Colin pulled on some clothes and grabbed a
baseball bat from the closet.
    Just
a quick look around.
    In
the dark, he found sneakers and padded downstairs, careful not to wake Deirdre
as he opened the front door and stepped onto the porch.
    Quiet.
    Colin
peered into the dark, sure he’d seen something.
    A
rustle from half-completed construction on the side of the house had him
jumping out of his skin, his heart pounding. He raised the bat, edging closer
to where a loose tarp flapped in the chill night breeze.
    Nothing.
    Colin
peered around the scaffolding, but everything was as it should be – dark and
empty, with materials piled up neatly, waiting for the workmen to return next
week for the next stage of the project.
    He
felt the blow a split second before the shocking pain in his head, and then the
ground was tilting up to meet him. Throwing a useless arm out, he caught the
edge of a workbench, sending boxes of nails and tools clattering to the ground
as the world went black.
    Somewhere
in the distance, Colin heard footsteps and then Deirdre’s high-pitched scream.
    “Oh
my God, Colin!”
    And
then nothing .
     
    EVIE
WAS LYING ON a beach. Sun, sand, and a shirtless Colin rubbing sunscreen into
her back on a tropical island. He had the best hands, warm and big and sure as
they massaged the creamy lotion into her skin. He growled approvingly as he
untied her bikini top to cup her breasts from behind, which was okay because they
had the beach all to themselves. He pinched and rolled her oh-so-sensitive
nipples while he whispered into her ear all the hot and dirty things he was
planning to do to her.
    Then
they were naked, and she was pushing him back to the sand. He went willingly,
obediently holding his large cock steady for her as she sank down, breathlessly
taking him to the hilt. She smiled as he let her fuck him any way she wanted
to, giving up control to just accept all the pleasure she could give him.
    If
only someone would stop that damned bell from ringing, everything would be
perfect.
    Evie
pried bleary eyes open, her skin tight, her pussy throbbing, unsatisfied as
reality came rushing back. She reached for her phone, glancing at the clock –
twelve-thirty AM.
    “Asher.
Hey, Tony.”
    Thirty
seconds later she was racing around the room, finding clothes and keys, and
then out the door and into her car, wrenching the little sedan down the road to
the fork and then up toward the Daniels house. She was shocked to find her
hands were trembling as she jumped out of the car and hurried up to bang on the
front door.
    The
handsome young Latino man who opened the door was barely out of college, but
carried himself with the poise of someone much older. Still, he looked puzzled
to see a harried woman on the stoop. Evie flashed her badge and tried to look
professional, because that’s what a cop did when summoned to a crime scene in
the middle of