Free Shut Off (Just This Once #3) by Cee Smith

to my own ears. She held the door open as she stood in the doorway, giving me a moment to take in every inch of her. The black V-neck blouse she wore dipped low enough to show me a flash of her cleavage that already had my mouth watering for a taste. Her jeans were dark blue and encased her legs like a second skin. The same strappy black shoes she wore the night I met her were the ones adorning her feet, giving her 5'2" height a boost.
    “Thanks,” she responded shyly—a look I wasn’t sure I’d seen before crossed her face, making me feel like it really was a first date and we weren’t two people already well acquainted with each other’s most secret places.
    “You look like a woman who’s expecting more than a kiss at the end of this date.”
    “You wish,” she replied, sliding by me, careful to rub her ass against my crotch. My dick was already straining, and I wondered if she knew, or if she was trying to get a rise out of me. Literally.
    We drove for two hours, the sun fading behind the mountains on our left as we drove north outside of the city. The sky sprayed violent reds and yellows before it eventually turned black. The farther I drove away from the city, the more excited I was to show her a favorite place of mine. A place I was sure she hadn’t visited yet and one not a lot of residents made it out to see.
    “Are you going to tell me where you’re taking me? If I didn’t know any better, I would think you were trying to dispose of a body.”
    She looked out of her window, and I watched her reflection in the glass as she squinted into the blackness.
    “You don’t trust me?” I mock-played like I was insulted. “You know, I am good for a few things outside of fucking.”
    “Like what?” Blaire crossed her arms beneath her chest, her cleavage deepening with the lift of her breasts. I barely registered the uptick in attitude, I was so focused on the smooth span of skin that looked ripe and ready for me.
    “Oh look, we’re here,” I snickered beneath my breath. “Guess I’ll have to give you that list later.”
    “Hmph. Where are we?” Her eyes squinted, trying to look out into the darkness as I unbuckled my seatbelt and moved to get out of the car. I rushed over to open her door just as I heard her door unlock.
    “Where are we?” she asked as she could now see the large, jagged rocks and mountainous terrain.
    “Cathedral Gorge State Park. They have star parties up here on the weekends. Come, the tour starts soon.”
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    “If you look over to the left a little, you can see the constellation Scorpius, with stars Antares and Sargas being the brightest stars, and over there is Ursa Minor,” our tour guide said while pointing up at the corresponding constellations.
    I watched Blaire’s eyes transfixed on the night sky, searching for each star pointed out by the woman guiding our party. There were five other people with us—a couple who looked like students there for school credit, a man our guide knew by name, and an older couple.
    Up there, the stars looked endless, but nothing rivaled Blaire’s beauty. I couldn’t take my eyes off her.
    “We’re going to move on to point #2 on your maps.”
    The guide looked over the few of us before she began moving to the next spot. I didn’t even bother shining the light on our map because I had no intention of moving. The whole night I’d been planning a moment alone with Blaire, underneath the stars with no one but the two of us, and I took the first opportunity that came.
    Blaire grabbed the blanket she’d been sitting on, dusting off the dirt before she moved to follow the others. I grabbed her arm halting her, “Wait.”
    “But everyone else is leaving, Joel,” she said, looking in their direction. The black outline of their bodies faded into the background until only the lights from their cellphones could be seen in the dark.
    “Let ‘em. There’s something I have to do.”
    “I am not having se—”
    She didn’t get the rest of