tile step. Instead, she straddled his legs and set her knees on the underwater bench alongside him.
“Are you sure you want this?” he asked.
“Yes,” she breathed heavily. “If I didn’t, I would’ve said no.”
She moved herself slightly forward and he slid slightly down so that his now very rigid member aligned with her opening. She was not a virgin. This wasn’t her first, or second, or even third time, but this was different, and not just because it was in a hot tub. There was something special about this moment. She felt more free about this time than any of the others. As she lowered herself onto him, she was more than choosing to make love to Neil. She was choosing between him and her father.
The climax which quickly overwhelmed her was more than a sexual release. It was her release from years of captivity. It was her body and mind and spirit’s declaration that she was free. And it was explosive.
As Raina’s world slowly came back into focus, Neil was holding her tightly against him. “Whoa,” he said. “I’ve never had to ask a girl this before, but are you all right?”
“Mentioning other women you’ve slept with is not real good after-sex pillow talk,” she said somewhat groggily.
“We’re in a hot tub,” he replied. “There are no pillows, and I’m not trying to be suave or cool. You scared me. Are you OK?”
“Yeah,” she laughed, “I’m OK. But I think a lot of pent-up things just got released.”
She laughed again as Neil said, “Something like that could drown us both.”
Neil started to say something else, but Deep in the Heart of Texas suddenly started blaring from Raina’s cell phone. “That’s my mom’s ringtone,” she said suddenly, and quickly pulled herself out of the tub to grab her phone from her shorts.
She spoke into the phone. “Yeah, mom.”
Neil could hear a female voice on the other side of the line.
“Honey, I don’t know where you are, but your dad thinks you are out at that motorcycle place. I don’t know why he thinks that, but he’s waiting for the sheriff and a couple deputies to get here before he goes down to the diner to look for you. If you’re not there, he’s going out to that clubhouse looking for blood. Please be at the diner when he gets there.”
Neil scrambled out of the tub and handed Raina a towel. “So much for pillow talk. Does your old man have a GPS unit stuck on you somewhere too, or is he guessing?”
“He’s guessing,” she replied. And then she added with an anxious frown, “I think.”
It was hard to get the tight leathers on over wet skin, but very shortly the blond hair of the wig was again streaming behind Raina as Neil roared down the highway. A patrol car was pulling into the parking lot as she ran up the back steps of the diner and into the restroom.
A few moments later, she could hear her father’s voice. “Princess, are you in here?”
Stuffing the leathers and wig behind the trash container to hide them, she called back, “Daddy, is that you?”
The door to the restroom opened a crack and she could hear her father’s voice. “Princess, are you in there?”
“Yes,” she called back, trying to make it sound like she was almost crying. “I’ve been trying to call mom for the past hour and can’t get through.”
“Why didn’t you call me?” he asked. There was a great deal of anger in his voice.
“It’s a woman thing,” she replied, again almost crying. “I’m wearing white shorts and... and... and... my period came a day early. I needed mom to bring me some tampons and a change of clothing.”
If Miles had been able to see into the bathroom, he would have seen that his daughter was now holding her hand over her mouth to keep from laughing. She knew that he was infamously squeamish about “woman things.” It was his one real weakness.
One of the waitresses stepped up to the door.