Free The Fire Within by Jan Springer

should do anyway? She was eighteen. Legal age to do whatever she wanted.
    A faint puff of alluring perfume sunk a warning to Jim. Someone else was in the room along with himself and Sally. He recognized the scent and he grew cold. Carmella’s perfume.
    Sally’s grip around his waist tightened. A noise erupted from immediately behind him and before he could wrench himself free from Sally’s hold, pain exploded like a bomb against the right side of his head. The impact stunned him. Bright white stars blinded his vision.
    He blinked. The stars remained. The ground came up to meet his face. He groaned as someone kicked at his legs. He wanted to kick back. Nothing happened.
    Rough hands grabbed his shoulder and rolled him onto his back. The stars danced wildly, making him nauseous. Carmella’s perfume drove deep into his lungs.
    “He’s the undercover cop I was telling you about. Want me to kill him?” a man said.
    Jim’s blood chilled in his veins. That man’s voice was unmistakable. He was one of Jim’s Sex Squad detectives. A man with a perfect work record who’d asked for a position on the Squad. He was one of the two men who hadn’t taken the Loverboy case seriously enough during Briefing last week. Or at least Jim had thought he hadn’t taken it seriously. Apparently, he had, because here he was.
    “No, Loverboy wants him alive,” Carmella replied.
    Someone lifted his feet. Hands slid under his armpits. He was being lifted and the room whirled violently. Before he blacked out he could only think of Sky, and how he should never have walked out on her.
    *****
    “Sky. There’s no need to be frightened.” Loverboy drawled.
    Damn, he could see right through her.
    “It’s just a physical,” he said as he slipped on a pair of latex gloves while he stood beside the cot he’d instructed her to lay on. “I won’t hurt you. I just need to feel around inside. It’s the same as a pap smear.”
    “I’m not afraid,” she replied as she slid off the cot. “I guess I’m a little shy. I need just a little more time. A day or two.”
    Loverboy frowned. “You didn’t seem shy with Jim.”
    “Oh, well, he’s a fellow student.”
    Lame excuse .
    “Meaning?”
    Her cheeks burned with embarrassment.
    “I’m attracted to you. It wouldn’t be professional. I’d enjoy your touch.” She lied. Sickness clawed at her belly at the thought of him touching her.
    “All the more why I should touch you, Sky. I can pleasure you in ways you’ve never dreamed of.”
    He started toward her.
    Oh dear. She was in trouble here. Jim, where the hell are you?
    “I thought you didn’t do virgins?” she stammered as she walked to the other side of the cot putting it between them.
    “I lied.”
    Big news flash there.
    “Virgins are my weakness,” Loverboy cooed as he slowly trailed her. His eyes burned with lust.
    “How’s that?” she asked. She rushed through the adjoining door into his office and circled behind his desk, stalling for time. If she could keep him talking, she might be able to get to the other door.
    “My upbringing. The nuns where I had to stay were virgins until they forced me to service them.”
    Sky blinked in disbelief.
    “They fucked me.” Anger coiled in his voice. “In the orphanage they ran. I protested at first. But they were women. Lonely women. Bigger than me. Stronger. I found out quickly they were sensuous creatures who only wanted to be loved. They weren’t meant to be locked away in a convent without the love of a man. So, they used us orphanage boys. I serviced the nuns for years. Even while I was a preacher. I learned to look for the yearning in their eyes. But you’re different, Sky. I saw the yearning in your eyes. The yearning for a man you’d lost. He hurt you so bad. He made you vulnerable. Despite that fact, there’s a strength in you I just can’t help but to try to dominate. I couldn’t leave you in that bar to get fucked by some stranger. I want you all to