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The Summoning - Incubus × chubby fem warlock
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“the space reserved for those souls who died before baptism and for those who hail from non-christian cultures.”
ִ ࣪𖤐 ˓ . synopsis your great-great-grandmother once opened herself to the dead and called something hungry instead. decades later—in the 1960s—her gift belongs to you and, after one dangerous dream-walk, so does her monster. (wc : 7.3k) ao3 link
𝜗ৎ . notes ; happy one year to sinners ! 📢 yes yes ik i’m still supposed to be logged out until i’m finished with exams but i had to drop this for sinners bday. i will be going back into the void now… i will be back in abt 2-3 weeks, so not long ilyg ♡
ִ ࣪𖤐 contents ⸝⸝ DEAD DOVE : DO NOT EAT. NONCON. unprotected p in v. blood drinking. biting. somnophilia-adjacent. creampie. messy sex. vaginal fingering. dark!remmick. incubus-like!remmick. rough sex. drool / spit. murder. tons of kissing. size kink. forced orgasm. graphic violence / gore. restraints. supernatural elements. gifted!reader. canon blue-eyed remmick (warning in itself LMAOO i’m jk). MDNI 18+
The hush in your bedroom has a body of its own tonight, something warm and close and faintly oppressive, as though the dark settles into the corners hours ago and waits there with patient attention for you to notice it.
Summer presses itself against the house from every side, laying its damp palms over the roof and the porch and the thin-paned windows until even the air inside feels used, breathed through too many times, heavy with old wood, drying lavender, and the ghost of candle smoke that never fully leaves your room no matter how often you open the sash.
Beyond the screen, the night stretches wide and black over the fields, full of cicadas and distant frogs and the occasional rustle of something small moving through the grass, yet none of it disturbs the stillness gathered around your bed.
You sit cross-legged atop the quilt with your nightgown loose around your knees and your grandmother’s saucer resting in your lap. Its white glaze crazed with age, its shallow center holding a pinch of rosemary, a few bruised mugwort leaves, and the little stub of candle you press into place with your thumb earlier that evening.
Wax has already softened beneath the flame and runs in pale streams over the china, pooling around the herbs until the scent rising from it turns sharp and green and just bitter enough to stir old memories from wherever they go when daylight is still around. The candlelight reaches only what lies close enough to claim and leaves the rest to shadow. It glows over your hairbrush on the dresser, your folded stockings on the chair, the Bible on the nightstand with its ribbon marker hanging limp over the edge, and most of all over the photograph you take down from the hallway and bring in here without fully admitting to yourself why.
She looks small in photographs, your great-great-grandmother, though everyone in the family who still speaks of her insists that she carries a presence large enough to fill whatever room she enters.
Perhaps photographs are poor at carrying certain things across time. They give you the dark dress buttoned high at the throat, the severe line of her mouth, the hard intelligence in her eyes, and the suggestion of a woman who trains herself never to flinch in public, yet they cannot hold the stories clinging to her name, and it is those stories, rather than the image itself, that keep drawing your attention back across the room.
Your great-great-grandmother, daughter of a woman who read signs in smoke and tea leaves and churchyard dirt; mother of the son she loved until grief hollowed her out after he died; and the woman from whom your own uneasy inheritance comes.
The gift never belongs to every woman in the family, which only makes it more ominous when it appears.
It skips daughters and granddaughters, lies quiet in one branch and flares up in another, turning up in children who never ask for it and elders who pray it will pass them by. With your great-great-grandmother, it came strong. With you, it comes stronger than anyone seems comfortable naming out loud.
You have been called touched, blessed, sensitive, and once, by an aunt who does not care whether you cry over it, poorly guarded. None of them are wrong. There has always been something loose at the edge of your sleep, some part of you that does not remain neatly in place once your eyes close.
When you were little, it was dismissed as imagination, though imagination didn't explain the drowned calf you dreamt of three days before it surfaced in the neighbor’s pond. Nor the image of your cousin’s split lip that arrived an hour before he stumbled up the front walk after a bar fight in town. Nor the morning you woke with your heart beating like a frantic bird and begged your mother not to let your father take the west road because the bridge will give, only for the county men to shut it down by noon.
By the time you were old enough to understand that other people do not move through sleep the way you do, dream-walking had already become a private fact of your life, something you practiced in secret and spoke of only to the women who shared enough blood with you to believe it.
It was your grandmother who finally gave it a name, and your grandmother who told you that naming a thing never makes it smaller, only easier to recognize when it begins circling your life.
She was the one who explained that there are ways of settling yourself before a walk, ways of quieting the mind until it loosens from the body without tearing, ways of protecting the doorway you make when you reach too far into memory or grief or longing.
It was she who told you the story of your great-great-grandmother properly, not the softened Sunday version spoken for children, but the one that had survived because the women in your family had never fully agreed to let it die.
Your great-great-grandmother had lost her son and never recovered from it, not in any ordinary sense. Grief took up residence in her house and sharpened the gift in her until sorrow and sight became almost the same thing. She began dream-walking farther than she ever should have, searching for the boy she had buried, believing with the stubbornness of a brokenhearted mother that love could reach where death had put its hand.
Then, one night, she sat down to call for him and opened herself too wide. By dawn the front door stood open, one lamp had burst on the floorboards, the bedclothes were half dragged to the floor, and there was blood dried down the front of her nightdress. Nobody ever made a proper earthly sense of it.
What remained, passed carefully between kin and spoken low after dark, was the certainty that she had called across the veil and something else had heard first.
You lived with that story so long that it no longer feels like a tale handed down but an inherited bruise, something tender lodged beneath the skin of the family.
Tonight it tugs at you with more force than usual.
Perhaps it is curiosity, that reckless urge that has always lived at the center of your gift, the need to look directly at what other people cross themselves and turn away from. Perhaps it is loneliness, or that peculiar ache that sometimes comes over you after sundown, when the house quiets and every unanswered thing in your bloodline seems to draw close.
Whatever the reason, you find yourself here in your room with the photograph, the saucer, the candle, and the old half-sacred, half-foolish ritual your grandmother warns you never to attempt in a state of longing.
You let your hands settle loose on your knees and lower your eyes until the candlelight turns red through your lashes. Beneath your fingertips, the saucer holds a little heat. The fan overhead moves too slowly to help much, though it lifts a damp strand of hair at your neck and lets it fall again.
You breathe until the room begins to lose its hard edges, not visibly at first—but inwardly, as though the distinction between one thing and another softens somewhere beneath thought.
The rosemary smell deepens. The sounds outside stretch thinner and farther apart. Your body remains where it is, cross-legged on the bed in your narrow room with the window cracked and the wick burning low. Though, another part of you—the part that has always proved difficult to keep tethered—begins to slip free with the same familiar yielding that comes whenever you walk too close to the edge.
It never feels like falling in the common sense of the word. There is no drop, no shock, nothing so clumsy. It feels more like stepping backward into dark water and discovering depth already waiting for you, cool and soundless and ready to take your weight the moment you stop insisting on keeping it.
When the vision opens, it does so with such quiet certainty that for a moment you cannot tell whether you have gone elsewhere or whether the world itself has shifted beneath your feet and let an older one rise through.
Moonlight lies over a yard you have never seen waking and know at once. The house ahead is narrow and weathered, its porch leaning, one weak lantern burning near the window and throwing more shadow than comfort. Oak branches bend over the roof. Tall grass moves in slow dark ripples.
There’s such exactness in every detail that invention becomes impossible.
This is not the loose wandering texture of an ordinary dream. This is memory, inheritance, vision—whatever name belongs to the place where what happens refuses to remain buried.
It is your great-great-grandmother’s house, her yard, her last night.
And the knowledge of it settles into you before you can resist.
A pressure comes over you almost at once, low in the body and sharp as warning.
Before you see another soul in the yard, you feel the presence of something hidden just beyond sight, something patient enough that waiting does not seem like effort to it, only habit. The grass bends. The branches stir. Nothing in the ordinary shape of the night announces danger—but the sense of being watched moves over your skin with terrible intimacy, close as breath against the nape of your neck.
You turn toward the tree line and find nothing you can name there, though that only makes the certainty worse.
Then the porch boards give a faint groan, and she steps out with a shawl around her shoulders despite the heat, a candle in one hand and a shallow dish in the other.
Even from where you stand, you can see it in the hollows under her cheekbones, the tension at her mouth, the bruised darkness beneath her eyes. She moves with the steady, exhausted resolve of a woman who spends too many nights arguing with the same pain and finally chooses action over obedience to fear.
The dream draws you closer without asking permission, and then you’re inside the room with her, standing in a space small enough for sorrow to fill completely.
The bed sits neat against the wall. A washstand holds a basin, a pitcher, a comb. On a hook near the door hangs a man’s coat kept too carefully for a house no longer occupied by the one who wears it.
She kneels beside the bed and arranges the contents of the dish with reverent, practiced fingers while her mouth moves in a low stream of prayer and plea. Not nonsense or fever talk, but the braided old language of women who learn to ask heaven and memory for the same impossible mercy.
When she speaks her son’s name, the room seems to draw inward around it.
You want to call out to her then, to tell her to stop before the door opens any wider, but dream-walking never offers intervention, only witness, and witness can be crueler than helplessness because it leaves you standing still long enough to understand what is coming.
The candle flame thins and bows until the wick shines red through its weak gold halo. The curtain at the window stirs though no wind enters. The boards under the bed give a soft complaining sound.
Your grandmother goes still.
It’s a small stillness, the held breath of someone who has lived with sight long enough to recognize the moment a thing answers back.
Fear crosses her face then, and not because she lacks faith. Faith never keeps knowledge from entering a woman whole.
The shadow beneath the bed thickens slowly, deepening until it ceases to resemble ordinary dark and begins to suggest an opening, a seam in the room from which a figure might emerge.
A hand appears first, pale at the knuckles, the fingers long and rough rather than elegant. Then the slope of a shoulder, the line of a bowed head, the full shape of a man easing up out of the shadow with a smoothness so unnatural it makes your stomach draw tight.
He doesn't look like some villain dragged up from a storybook grave.
That would be easier to understand, easier to set apart from the ordinary world.
He looks, instead, like a man who might come off a road at dusk and ask after work or water, the danger in him hidden under the plainness of his body until you notice how wrong every stillness around him feels.
His hair is dark and damp, pushed back in places and fallen over his forehead in others, not arranged so much as roughened by the night. A pale face lifts into the candlelight, open enough in its structure that another expression might make him look almost approachable. A faint rasp of stubble shadows his jaw and upper lip. His mouth is broad and wet at the corners, too soft in shape for what it is about to do. He wears an ordinary shirt with the collar loosened, sleeves rolled to the forearms, the stripped-down plainness of a workingman at the end of a long day, and that plainness makes the sight of him worse, because there is no theatrical distance in him, nothing to warn the eye that it has left the realm of men until you meet those eyes and find the cold, washed blue of them fixed on your great-great-grandmother with patient appetite.
When he smiles, it comes with false warmth, almost companionable, the smile of a stranger too ready to charm himself welcome.
“So that is who you sought,” he says, and his voice is low and lovely and wrong, touched by an accent the dream cannot place cleanly, only old enough to make every syllable sound drawn from someplace far from these fields and older than the church at the crossroads. “Poor grieving thing.”
He bends his face to her with obscene tenderness, inhaling her fear as though it has perfume in it. His mouth brushes her cheek. His spit shines wet on her skin. He turns his head slightly, listening, and in one horrible moment you understand that he hears you too, not just her but you across the years, you in your borrowed witnessing place, blood-bound to the woman beneath him.
You take a step back without meaning to. Not because he sees movement in the ordinary sense, but because recognition has already crossed the distance between you.
Your grandmother begins to scream in earnest then, and the dream breaks into violence.
You see his hand knot in her braid and wrench her head back. You see the white baring of his teeth. When he bites into her throat, it is with the closeness of a kiss turned sacrament and slaughter all at once.
Blood goes everywhere in a rush too fast for the mind to prepare for, sheeting down the front of her nightdress, spattering his cheek, pattering onto the quilt and the floorboards and the overturned dish where rosemary drifts in red. His throat works as he drinks. His eyes close. A sound leaves him then that has no business being so soft, a sigh almost, full of relief so profound it feels blasphemous to witness.
You try to wrench yourself free of the vision, but nothing happens.
Your grandmother’s hands beat weakly against his shoulders. Her legs kick once against the side of the bed. Her face goes slack with shock and pain and some final incomprehension that perhaps this, of all things, is what answers a mother’s call.
He pulls back only enough to look at her while she dies. Blood slicks his mouth and chin. Saliva and crimson mingle there, stringing from his lower lip to her torn skin. He watches the light leave her with the absorbed fascination of a man studying a sunrise.
Then he turns his head again, and this time there is no mistaking it. He is looking directly at you.
Recognition comes instantly and completely, as though your blood has already spoken your name to him. Across the years, across your great-great-grandmother’s last terror, across the raw passage the vision opens through the family line. He finds you standing there and knows exactly what you are.
You try—again—to pull yourself out of the dream, but it holds long enough for his expression to shift, just slightly, that false warmth deepening into something more terrible.
The room lurches. Your grandmother’s body sags. The candle flame thins to a furious wire of light.
Then you are coming up out of the vision with your back arched against the mattress and your breath broken in your throat, panic climbing through you faster than waking can settle the world into sense.
The fan moves overhead in its slow, useless turn. The saucer sits crooked on the quilt. The candle has burned nearly to nothing. The photograph leans dark on the dresser.
Everything ought to be familiar enough to anchor you, yet the weight pressing into your hips reaches you before thought does, and the certainty of another body above your own arrives all at once.
He’s there, braced over you with one hand beside your head and the other around your wrist, not squeezing hard enough to bruise, only holding with easy certainty, and he looks even more dangerously ordinary at close range than he does in the vision.
Moonlight from the open window slips over one side of his face and catches in the damp disorder of his dark hair. The blue of his eyes looks washed out in the low light, almost gray until they shift and turn colder. Stubble darkens his jaw. The line of his mouth is generous and human and glistening wet. He wears the same plain loosened shirt, sleeves shoved carelessly to the forearms, as though he has come in off some muddy road rather than through the torn edge of a dream.
He looks like a man somebody might trust too soon.
“You called for me,” he says, and his voice in the close hush of the room carries the same unplaceable oldness you hear before, though now there is something crueler in it. Just a conversational softness that makes the words worse rather than better.
Fear moves through you so sharply that it clears the last remnants of sleep from your blood.
You try to pull your wrist free, but his fingers only tighten enough to tell you how little effort it costs him to keep you still. The damp patch on your nightgown cools against your skin. Another thread of drool gathers on his lower lip as he leans closer, breathing you in as though the scent of terror and sweat and rosemary becomes something irresistible.
“I didn’t call you,” you whisper, though the lie comes weak and frayed.
A smile ghosts across his mouth. “Did you not?” His gaze travels over your face with minute attention, lingering at your eyes, your mouth, the pulse moving too quickly at your throat. “You opened yourself. You went wanderin’. You stood in a dead woman’s room and watched with all your little soul laid bare. That is a call, darlin’, whether you mean it as one or not.”
The endearment lands with the intimacy of a trespass. He speaks to you like a man already acquainted with the shape of your fear.
You pull against him harder this time. The bed frame knocks faintly against the wall. He doesn't budge. Up close you can see the fine damp at his temples and the way his nostrils flare each time he breathes you in. His attention keeps slipping to your throat, to the base of it, to the place where the neckline of your nightgown has gone translucent with his saliva.
“I saw what you did to her,” you say, and the words come unsteady.
His expression alters at that with a slow considering pleasure, like he is delighted to discover that the old story reaches you with its horror intact.
He lowers his face until his mouth hovers near your ear. His breath is cool in a way no living breath should be.
“Yes,” he says quietly, then lowers himself nearer, that cool breath skimming your cheek. “I figured you did.”
The simplicity of it hollows you out.
He confesses the way he might admit to weather, casual and untroubled, as though what happens to your grandmother long ago ceases to be tragedy and settles into memory so familiar it no longer deserves ceremony.
“You shouldn’t have gone rummaging among the dead,” he goes on, the corners of his mouth tilting just enough to suggest humor. “They answer poorly, more often than not.”
That false ease in him is almost worse than open menace. It is the friendliness of something that does not feel the need to hide its teeth because it already has you under it.
“Why are you here?” The question trembles out of you before pride can stop it.
His tongue slips over his lower lip, collecting what remains there. It is a shockingly human gesture, almost thoughtful. “Because you reach beyond the veil, and I am what answers.” He raises his head again, studying you in the weak moonlight. “Because I remember your blood for a very long time. Because gifts such as yours are bright things, and bright things are visible from very far off when the dark is hungry enough.”
The room seems to draw inward around his words. You feel every place where the old house fails to keep the night outside, the cracked pane at the window, the gap beneath the door, the unlatched world.
You think suddenly, wildly, of your grandmother rising from her ritual too late, finding that grief opens what prayer cannot close.
His eyes drift shut for a moment. He breathes in against your throat, and a shudder goes through him so pronounced you can feel it where his weight rests over your hips. His mouth brushes the damp fabric at your chest, not quite a kiss, not quite a taste. When he speaks again, his voice has roughened.
“You’re sweeter than she was.”
Your stomach turns over.
He must’ve felt the motion beneath him because he gives a low, almost soothing sound that belongs nowhere near a predator’s mouth. “Don’t look so bothered by it. Your terror ain’t all that I smell.”
Humiliation strikes hotter than fear.
You turn your face sharply toward the wall, but he catches your chin with one cool hand and brings you back.
“Look at me,” he says softly.
Up close, his features are all the more unsettling for their lack of excess.
“You women,” he says, almost to himself, “always opening doors and then grieving what enters.”
The words send a chill clean through you. “Get off me.”
He smiles again. “I might. In a little while.”
His head dips. The tip of his nose trails slowly along the side of your throat.
You flinch when his tongue touches the place just beneath your jaw. The sensation is shockingly wet, unhurried, exploratory. He tastes you as though confirming what his hunger already knows. By the time he reaches the pulse at the base of your neck, your breath has gone shallow enough to hurt.
His mouth opens there, not biting yet, merely resting. Drool warms your skin. You feel the shape of his teeth with exquisite clarity.
“Please,” you whisper, though you no longer know what the plea is asking for: mercy, delay, waking, a different lineage, a sealed door two generations back.
He makes that quiet sound again, almost affectionate, and lifts his face enough for you to see the new sheen in his eyes.
In the blue there’s red now, faint at first, then deepening from the center outward until each iris looks lit from behind by banked coals.
“You should not have wandered so far tonight,” he says.
His hand releases your chin and travels downward with infuriating patience, over the damp lace at your collar, along the trembling line of your throat, between your breasts, pausing where the nightgown clings.
Your whole body goes rigid. The old cotton has grown nearly transparent where his drool soaks it.
His palm presses there, broad and cool, over the frantic beat of your heart. He watches your face while he does it, not the movement of his hand. He watches every reaction, every involuntary tremor and tightening breath—your fear itself is a language he intends to master.
“You carry the sight like a fresh wound,” he murmurs. “No one teaches you how to close yourself after.”
You would deny that too if you could think around the path of his hand.
He glides lower, deliberate enough that anticipation becomes its own injury, and stops just above the knot of your gathered nightgown at the waist.
Your body betrays you then with a convulsive shiver.
“There,” he says under his breath, more to your body than to you. “There you are.”
Shame and terror and something darker twist together until you cannot separate them.
He has not done enough to earn the heat rising through you, and yet your flesh begins to answer danger with a confusion older than sense. His pupils widen further. A fresh line of drool slips from the corner of his mouth and falls against your collarbone.
His fingers curl in the fabric at your waist, bunching it slowly. The old nightgown pulls tight over your knees, your thighs, the vulnerable length of you laid out beneath him. He seems to take a dreadful pleasure in each inch of surrender the moment forces from you: each breath you fail to steady, each futile shift beneath the imprisoning weight of him.
“No,” you manage, though it comes out breath-torn.
“Not no,” he says gently. “Not after a call like that.”
Before you can gather enough air to protest again, he bends and puts his mouth to yours.
His lips are cool, wet, and devastatingly slow, parting against yours with such patient certainty that for one stunned instant your body forgets fear in order to register detail, the silk-slick drag of spit, the faint metallic trace of old blood, the shape of his mouth, beautiful and monstrous in equal measure.
He kisses as if feeding and prayer were once the same art where he comes from.
When you turn your face away, he follows. When your lips press shut, he tastes the seam of them until panic forces you to gasp and gives him the opening he wants.
The sound that escapes him then is low and hungry enough to make the bed tremble beneath you.
He savors your first helpless breath against his tongue, the involuntary yielding of your mouth, the way your body arches under him only to recoil from its own response. By the time he lifts his head, your lips are wet with him.
“You see?” he says, not unkindly. “You call for an answer, and now you’re listenin’.”
You hate him for making the room feel altered around the shape of his words, as though everything before this moment is merely the narrow vestibule to some deeper chamber of your life.
The candle in the dish has long guttered out, but the dark does not feel complete. His eyes provide their own terrible light. Each glance from them brushing over your skin like heat from a hidden coal.
He slips one hand beneath the pillow and finds the little cross you keep there out of habit more than belief.
When he holds it up between two fingers, the chain dangling, your breath catches. He examines it with interest, then lets it fall onto the bed beside your head.
“That is not what keeps me out,” he says.
Your pulse stumbles harder. “What does?”
He leans close enough that his face is inches from yours, shutting out the rest of the room. “You.”
The answer chills you more than any threat.
For all the old stories about thresholds and charms and spoken permissions, the truest gate is never the house at all. It is your reaching, your call, your gaze meeting his over a dying woman’s body in the bent shape of a dream.
The word hangs between you like a hook already sunk, and his mouth returns to yours before the echo of it can fade.
This kiss is deeper, slower, a purposeful claiming. His tongue slides in with the same unhurried patience he has shown every other inch of you, tasting the faint rosemary still clinging to your lips from the ritual. He licks into you like he is learning the shape of your fear and the first reluctant bloom of heat beneath it.
His free hand finally moves. It slips beneath the hem of your nightgown and drags up the inside of your thigh, fingertips rough with calluses tracing sweat-damp skin until the thin cotton bunches uselessly around your waist.
You’re bare underneath—nothing but the humid summer air and the slick heat already gathering between your legs. Panic spikes sharp and sudden in your chest. Your thighs clamp together instinctively, trying to trap his wrist, but he’s stronger—so much stronger—and he simply pries them apart again with a low, amused sound.
“No—wait—” The words tumble out breathy and cracked as his palm cups your cunt fully, two thick fingers gliding through the slick seam of you without warning, parting you open.
The sound that leaves you is half sob, half gasp, and you buck hard under him, one hand shoving at his shoulder, nails digging into the fabric of his shirt.
“Shh,” he murmurs into your mouth, swallowing the protest before it can grow. “Let me feel how sweetly you called.”
He strokes you slowly at first, parting your slick lips with the broad pads of his fingers, spreading the shamefully abundant arousal that has leaked out despite every ounce of fear still clawing through you. His middle finger finds your clit—swollen, throbbing—and circles it with lazy pressure, then presses down just hard enough to make your hips twitch.
Suddenly, two fingers push inside you at once, and your cunt clenches around the sudden stretch and he groans quietly, the sound vibrating against your lips. He curls them slowly, searching, pressing firm against that spongy spot until your hips jerk.
He doesn't thrust yet. He simply holds them deep, scissoring gently, opening you while his thumb keeps working your clit in slow, wet circles.
“Look at you,” he whispers, pulling back just far enough to look at you. “Already drippin’ for the thing that killed your blood. Does that shame taste as good on your tongue as it does on mine?”
You turn your face sharply away, but he follows, licking a broad, filthy stripe up the side of your throat, collecting the salt of your sweat, then does it again, slower, teeth grazing the tendon.
His fingers begin to move—long, dragging strokes in and out, curling each time.
The wet sounds are loud in the quiet room: the slow squelch of his fingers fucking you open, the slick slide of his thumb over your swollen clit, the helpless little gasps you cannot swallow down.
“Feel that,” he whispers, voice rough and pleased, mouth brushing your ear. “You hate how good it feels, don’t you, sweetheart?”
He adds a third finger, stretching you wider, the burn sharper now as your walls part around the thick intrusion. You gasp, back arching, and he swallows the sound with another deep kiss.
He keeps you pinned like that, one hand still holding your wrist above your head, the other thrusting into you.
His stubble scrapes your jaw as he kisses down your throat, sucking a bruise into the soft skin just below your ear. His eyes stay fixed on your face the whole time, drinking in every flutter of your lashes, every bitten-off whimper, every involuntary roll of your hips as you chase the pressure building low in your belly.
Your thighs are trembling now, spread wide and glistening with your own slick. The muscles in your stomach clench visibly with every curl of his fingers. He watches it all, that smile curving his mouth like he’s proud of the way your body betrays you.
He keeps the rhythm devastatingly slow, drawing it out until you’re whimpering, until your cunt is making wet, filthy noises with every thrust, until the pressure coils so tight you feel like you might shatter.
Only then does he pull his fingers out completely, leaving you empty and clenching around nothing, a string of your arousal stretching between his fingers and your dripping hole before it breaks.
“You’re trying so hard to stay still. It’s sweet,” he murmurs, wet fingers trailing along the inside of your thigh while you shake your head frantically and try to close your legs again.
You shiver at the contact, eyes squeezing shut as he shifts above you.
He sits back on his heels, eyes dragging over your ruined state: nightgown shoved up around your ribs, breasts heaving with every ragged breath, nipples tight against the thin fabric, thighs spread obscenely wide and shining with slick.
His own cock strains against his trousers, a thick, heavy bulge that twitches visibly when he finally opens his fly.
He frees himself with one hand, and his cock springs out—thick, flushed dark at the head, veins standing out along the heavy shaft, already leaking a steady bead of pre-cum that drips down the underside. It’s obscenely hard, curving slightly upward, the head glossy and swollen. He strokes himself once, twice, smearing the slick over the entire length while he watches your face, that patient hunger burning in his glowing eyes.
“On your back, just like this,” he says, voice low and rough.
He hooks your knees over his elbows and folds you open wider, spreading your thighs until your cunt is completely exposed—puffy, dripping, clit swollen and glistening. The blunt, leaking head of his cock nudges your entrance, hot and heavy against your cooler, soaked folds. He pushes in with one long, inexorable stroke.
Inch after thick inch sinks into you, stretching your walls wide around his girth. The burn is intense, your cunt fluttering and clenching as he fills you completely, bottoming out with his hips pressed flush against your ass.
He stays buried deep for a long moment, letting you feel every throb, every vein, the way his cock pulses inside you like it belongs there.
“Fuck,” he groans, the sound low and guttural.
He starts to move then—slow at first, dragging almost all the way out so you feel the thick head catch on your entrance before slamming back in to the hilt.
The slap of his hips meeting your ass fills the room, loud and rhythmic. He fucks you deeper, harder, the angle perfect so every stroke drags over that sensitive spot inside you while the base of his cock grinds against your swollen clit.
His hands grip your thighs hard enough to leave marks, holding you open while he pounds into you. Sweat glistens on his chest where his shirt hangs open, dark hair damp at the temples, face catching the moonlight as his head tips back for a moment in pleasure.
You give weak kicks of your heels against his back—but every movement only drives him deeper and makes your cunt clench tighter around him.
He leans down, mouth finding yours again in a hungry kiss. “You feel that?” he rasps against your lips, voice wrecked.
The pace turns punishing. Long, brutal strokes that make the bed creak and knock against the wall.
Your thighs shake uncontrollably, cunt clenching and fluttering around his cock as the pressure builds again, hotter and sharper this time. He feels it, and his smile turns feral against your mouth.
“Come on, darlin’. Let me feel you fall apart on my cock. Squeeze me just like that—fuck, yes.”
The orgasm crashes over you without mercy, your cunt clamping down hard around his thick length in rhythmic, pulsing waves. He fucks you through it, never slowing, hips snapping harder while he groans low and filthy at the way your walls milk him.
Only when your shaking starts to ease does he chase his own release.
His thrusts turn short and brutal as he drives as deep as he can. His cock throbs inside you, swelling even thicker, and with a low, guttural groan that vibrates through your whole body, he comes.
Thick, hot pulses of cum flood your cunt—endless, heavy ropes that you can feel leaking out around his cock with every shallow thrust he gives to push it deeper.
You push weakly at his chest one last time, but he keeps moving through it, slow and lazy now, grinding his hips in circles to fuck every last drop into you, making sure it stays deep inside.
When he finally stills he stays buried to the hilt, chest pressed to yours, cock still twitching with aftershocks inside your cunt. A thick trickle of his release leaks out around where you’re stretched so obscenely around him, dripping down your ass in warm, sticky trails.
His chest stays flush to yours, sweat-slick skin sliding together, the fabric of his shirt rasping against your nipples through the bunched nightgown. His eyes drift half-lidded over your face, a smile deepening as he feels the way your body keeps clenching around him, milking the last drops he’s already given you.
One of his hands slides up your side, possessive and slow, fingers digging into the soft give of your waist, then higher, until his palm cups the side of your throat. His thumb strokes along the frantic jump of your pulse.
“You feel so good like this,” he murmurs, voice low and rough, lips brushing the shell of your ear. “All ruined. Full of me.”
He rolls his hips in a slow, lazy grind, stirring his cum deeper inside you. Your breath hitches, a broken little sound you can’t swallow down. He chuckles softly against your skin—warm, almost affectionate—and then his mouth moves lower.
His lips part over the tender spot where your neck meets your shoulder, the same place he tasted earlier with nothing but teasing licks. His breath ghosts hot and cool at once over your skin, and then his jaw opens wider, unhinging just enough to bare his teeth.
You feel the blunt scrape of his teeth first—human enough to feel intimate—then the sharp, serrated points denting the soft flesh, pressing harder until the skin splits with a faint wet pop.
He bites.
The pain is sudden and blinding, a white-hot explosion.
His teeth sink in with a brutal, meaty crunch, punching straight through skin and muscle like a knife through ripe fruit. The jagged edges tear deeper as he clamps down, ripping a ragged, gaping wound that splits muscle fibers and nicks the artery beneath.
Blood explodes into his mouth instantly—hot and coppery—pulsing out in violent, rhythmic jets with every frantic beat of your heart. It floods over his tongue in heavy gushes, spilling from the corners of his lips in bright red rivulets that run down his chin and drip onto your chest in warm, sticky splatters.
He groans deep in his chest, the sound guttural, vibrating straight into the torn meat of your neck as he locks his jaw tighter, grinding his teeth deeper into the wound to widen it.
The pull is savage, greedy, like he’s trying to drink you down to the bone. He sucks hard—violent, rhythmic pulls that make the torn edges of your flesh flutter and gape wider with every tug.
His tongue flattens against the ragged, pulsing hole he’s made, lapping and slurping up the hot rush of blood with wet, filthy sounds that fill the room like an animal feeding.
It pours down your collarbone in thick, glossy sheets, soaking the front of your nightgown instantly, turning the pale cotton dark and heavy as it clings to your breasts. It runs in warm rivers between your bodies, smearing across his chest where his shirt hangs open, mixing with the sweat and the cum still leaking from where he’s buried inside you. The metallic smell is overwhelming, sharp and iron-heavy in the humid air.
Your whole body seizes violently beneath him.
The agony blooms outward in white-hot, shattering waves, radiating down your arm and up into your skull until your vision sparks with black stars. It crashes against the lingering aftershocks of your orgasm, twisting pleasure and pain together so viciously you can’t tell where one ends and the other begins—your cunt still fluttering and milking his cock even as your neck feels like it’s being torn apart.
You convulse, back arching hard off the mattress, legs kicking uselessly against his hips as fresh blood sprays across the pillow and the headboard with every frantic pump of your heart.
He works his mouth against the wound like a starving man, sucking harder, deeper, swallowing loud and greedy with audible, wet gulps that make your stomach turn even as your body betrays you again.
His cock throbs inside you in time with every pull at your throat, like the taste of your blood is making him hard all over again.
You feel your vision starting to tunnel, the edges going dark and fuzzy. Your hands scrabble weakly at his shoulders, nails clawing bloody furrows down his back through his shirt, but he only moans louder into the gaping bite and thrusts once more, grinding the head of his cock against that spot deep inside you while he drinks.
The scream builds in your chest, raw and terrified, clawing its way up your throat past the blood and the pain and the unbearable fullness of him still buried inside you.
You finally find the air for it, shooting upright in bed with a scream that tears out of you like it’s being ripped from your lungs.
The sound dies in the empty room the instant your eyes fly open.
Your heart is hammering so hard it feels like it might crack your ribs. Sweat soaks your nightgown, plastering the thin cotton to your breasts and stomach, and between your legs you are shamefully, impossibly wet—thighs slick, the quilt beneath you damp and warm.
You’re alone.
The fan turns lazily overhead. The candle in the saucer has burned itself out hours ago, leaving only a stub of blackened wick. Moonlight still spills through the open window, silver and ordinary and completely harmless.
You press both hands over your mouth, trying to muffle the next sob that wants to escape. Tears spill hot and fast down your cheeks, dripping off your chin onto the quilt. Your throat burns like it’s been torn open, but when your trembling fingers fly up to check, the skin is smooth.
“It was a dream,” you whisper, voice cracked and shaking. “Just a dream. Just a nightmare. He’s not here. None of it was real.”
You repeat it again, slower, like the words might anchor you if you say them enough times.
Your hands drop to clutch at the quilt, knuckles blanching, trying to steady the wild tremble running through every limb.
The room smells only of rosemary and old wood and the faint, distant night air drifting through the screen. Nothing else. No cool breath on your skin. No weight pinning you down. No thick, leaking heat still deep inside you.
You draw in a ragged breath, then another, forcing your shoulders to drop, forcing your racing heart to slow. Tears keep slipping down your face anyway, silent now, as you stare at the dark photograph on the dresser across the room.
“It was just a dream,” you tell the empty air one last time, barely more than a breath.
But even as you say it, the phantom ache between your legs refuses to fade—the slick, full feeling of being used and filled still clings to your body like a memory that hasn’t quite realized it was never real.
your daddy sticks the strange new farmhand in the small house by the barn, figuring it’s safer to keep a man like that close. it isn’t. remmick spends his nights watching you, and when you finally sneak down in your nightgown to “set him straight,” he bends you over his table and fucks the fight right out of you. (wc: 22k). ao3 link
゛notes ⸝⸝.ᐟ⋆ i was mad horny everytime i opened the doc to work on this… this is def one of my fav fics that i have written, and i’m ngl and say i won’t write anything else with this dynamic bc it’s too juicy. beta read by my offline irl bbg (i’m trying to get her to make an acc 😔)
゛ contents ⸝⸝.ᐟ⋆ morally dubious behavior. virginity taking. peeping tom behavior / voyeurism (he’s a creep). m!masturbation. size kink. vaginal fingering. very light choking. groping. manhandling. breeding kink if you squint. messy sex. cum play. light overstimulation. rough sex. table sex. unprotected p in v. power imbalance. period-typical misogyny. small talks of purity culture. predator / prey vibes. praise w a little degradation. possessiveness. mdni 18+
Night eases down over the fields slow as molasses, settling in the furrows and fence lines until everything looks dipped in ink.
The porch sits right on the edge of it, a little island of yellow lantern light with you cross-legged in your chair, enamel bowl in your lap, fingers slick with bean juice. Crickets grind away in the ditch, frogs answer from somewhere near the pond, and the heat that pressed on your skin all day finally lets go a little, turning soft and damp and heavy instead of mean.
Your daddy, Joe, stands out by the road with a cigarette, just that small orange coal drifting up and down whenever he draws on it.
He’s mostly shadow, hat brim pulled low, shoulders a dark cutout against the pale strip of dirt lane. The smoke hangs around him in thin gray strands, catching the lantern glow before the breeze worries it apart.
The wagon makes itself known before you see it. A tired rattle carrying over the fields long and low, iron and wood complaining in a way that could belong to any old rig on any old night.
The mule steps out of the dark first, ears flicking, hooves whispering in the dust, harness creaking, then the wagon-bed, then the man riding it, the whole shape of him hunched against the evening like the road’s been sitting on his back.
He climbs down slow, not careless, one boot testing the ground, then the other. He isn’t tall; not one of those long, scarecrow boys you see come through town sometimes. He’s put together closer to the earth than that, thick through the shoulders and arms, weight settled in the meat of him instead of stretched out.
Shirt pulls across his chest where the fabric has been asked to hold too much too often, sleeves rolled to his forearms, muscle and old work written in the dust and veins there. Suspenders run straight over his torso, holding everything decent, but there’s something loose under the neatness, a restless set to the way he carries himself, like he’s got more energy than his frame knows what to do with.
His hat sits low enough to shade most of his face until he steps up nearer and the porch light reaches for him.
“Evenin’, Sir,” he says, voice a slow scrape, low and worn, like it’s been dragged over gravel and cigarettes for years.
The vowels don’t belong to your county, not exactly, but he leans into them like he’s been practicing, trying to make them fit the dirt under his boots.
“Evenin’,” Joe, flicks ash toward the ditch without turning. “You Remmick?”
“Yes, sir.”
He takes off his hat then, presses it to his chest in a gesture that seems to be humble, and in that little bow you see the line of him clear.
Hair dark and close-cropped, stubborn where it’s tried to wave up and been tamed with water and a hand. Jaw rough with stubble that looks more forgotten than stylish.
There’s a hardness around his mouth, something that could tilt into a grin or a snarl with not much provocation either way.
When he straightens and lifts his eyes, they cut toward the porch, and you feel it right away when they land on you, as sure as if somebody laid a hand on your bare ankle.
A limp green bean hangs between your fingers, ends torn and wet.
His gaze drifts, following your calves where your skirt’s ridden up, running along the slope of your shins and the span of your knees pressed together, sliding up the line of your apron and the thin open V between your collar buttons where the night air pushes in against your skin.
He looks like he’s reading you, not just seeing you, taking his time over every line.
You go still, sharp-aware of every place your dress touches your body and every place it doesn’t.
The bean pieces drop into the bowl as you lower your eyes to the boards. The porch wood is dark and warped from years of feet, knot-holes winking like little eyes in the dim.
You fix on those, on the small wet snaps and soft taps of beans piling against enamel. Anything that is not the feeling of a stranger’s stare walking up and down you like a man checking fence.
“Baby,” your father says, voice flat, cigarette smoke curling out on the word. “Say evenin’.”
You wipe your hands on your apron and stand, bare feet quiet on the boards. “Evenin’,” you say, polite as sunday, letting the rest of what you feel sink down where it won’t show on your face.
Remmick smiles like he hears it anyway. It isn’t wide or warm. Just a slow tug at one corner of his mouth, a small, crooked tilt that never quite reaches his eyes.
“Evenin’, miss,” he answers, and there’s a drag in that word miss, the s held just long enough to make it catch.
Miss, when he could have asked for your name, when any decent man might have. Your father hasn’t offered it yet, so you keep it closed up in your mouth.
“Girl oughta be in bed this hour,” Joe mutters, eyes on the yard, not on you. “Ain’t no call for her to be sittin’ out like some boy on watch. Night’s for men workin’, not for women gawkin’.”
The words land on your shoulders like an old coat, familiar weight, old smell. You bite down on what you want to say and feel it burn on the way down.
“I’m finishin’ the beans,” you tell him instead, hands tightening on the bowl till the rim bites into your palms. You don’t bother trying to explain that the dark sits easier on your skin than the hard white noon does, that the night gives you a little space to stretch.
You can feel Remmick watching you still, not with that sloppy hunger you’ve seen from boys in town, all elbows and gawking.
This is like he’s comparing what he sees to something he’s held in his head a long time.
“Don’t reckon there’s any harm in her gettin’ some air, Sir,” he says after a moment, pitched low, as if he’s offering reason and not meddling. “So long as she stays where you can see her.” He tips his head, and his eyes make another lazy path over you, unashamed. “World’s rough for a girl on her own.”
Your daddy snorts, jaw tightening just enough for you to notice. “You just worry ‘bout them fields, son. I didn’t hire you to advise on my girl.”
The almost-smile on Remmick’s mouth doesn’t quite leave. “Yes, sir,” he says. “I’ll give all my attention to what you’re payin’ me for.”
He keeps his words aimed at your father, but his gaze is not that obedient. It flicks back to you when he says attention, and there’s weight in it, promise, something that makes your skin prickle fine all over. Something in you bristles right back, lifts its head like a barn cat whose tail’s been stepped on.
You draw a breath and set the bowl against your hip. “Where you want him sleepin’?” you ask your father, eyes fixed out over the yard so you don’t have to meet either man’s stare straight on.
“In the old place.” Joe jerks his chin toward the smaller farmhouse slumped beyond the well—a squat little shape where the lamplight doesn’t reach, half-eaten by shadow. “Closer to the barn. Got a bed and a stove. Man don’t need more than that.”
Remmick turns to look at it, and the lantern light catches his eyes in a strange way, making them flash for an instant like there’s something slick behind them.
The little house sits there like it’s been waiting, windows dark, door shut up tight, roofline sagged just enough to look suspicious.
“That’ll do,” he says. “I’m a night sort myself. Easier workin’ when the sun’s gone and the air ain’t tryin’ to boil you clear through. Less trouble all around.”
He says it easy, like it’s about sweat and shade and nothing else, but you hear the way he shapes night in his mouth, the soft way he lets it roll off his tongue, and something in your belly curls up smaller and sharper.
“Heard you don’t care much for daylight,” Joe says, watching him out of the corner of his eye.
Remmick’s jaw shifts, a muscle ticking like it wants to answer on its own. He glances at you, quick and bright, before he looks down at his boots. “Sun don’t care much for me,” he finally drawls. “Burns me to char if I let it. Always been that way. Doctor said I got delicate skin.”
The word sits wrong in your ear as soon as it’s out, delicate, dangling over this stocky man with forearms roped up in tendon and dirt ground into his knuckles, hands that look like they were made to break things, not handle them gentle.
It slips out of you before you can catch it, quiet and skeptical. “Delicate,” you repeat, eyes finding his without meaning to.
He catches that and settles into it like a cat into a warm spot. “You don’t think so, miss?” he asks, voice a touch softer now, gaze steady and unblinking.
You ought to let it pass. Ought to dip your head and let the men talk over you, let delicate lie between them like some joke you weren’t meant to get.
Instead you hold his stare in the lantern glow, take your time looking back the same way he did to you, tracing the faint hollows under his eyes, the line of his nose, the mouth that looks used to biting down on words and maybe on other things too.
“No, sir,” you say finally, after a beat that stretches long. “You don’t look delicate at all.”
Something shifts behind his eyes at that, something pleased and sharp that makes your heart knock once, hard, against your ribs. The corner of his mouth tugs just a shade higher.
“Then I suppose I’ll have to live up to what you see,” he murmurs. “Would be a shame to disappoint you.”
Your daddy grinds his cigarette out under his heel, done with this line of talk. “You can unload what you got, then I’ll show you the place,” he says. “Got work waiting for nobody. You ain’t too tired from sittin’ on a wagon all day, are you?”
Remmick rolls one shoulder, hand rubbing the back of his neck. The stretch shifts his shirt over his back, pulls the fabric across solid muscle there.
You feel your breath snag for half a second and hate that it does.
“Wagon ain’t heavy,” he says. “I’ll get settled quick, then you can put me to whatever needs doin’.”
Joe nods and starts toward the dim outline of that little house, his boots crunching through the loose gravel near the well. The lantern light falls behind him with each step until he’s just another moving patch of dark.
Remmick lingers at the foot of the porch. He settles his hat back on his head, brim bringing his eyes into shadow again, but you can still feel them.
“You finish them beans,” he tells you, voice gone softer, aimed up at you like a secret. “Man works better with a full belly.”
There’s nothing in the words you could point to and call wrong, nothing on the surface you could carry to your father and hold up like proof.
Still, the way his gaze drifts down and back up as he says them leaves something slick and uneasy under your ribs. Heat crawls up your neck, hot in a way that has nothing to do with the air.
“I’ll see to what’s mine,” you say, gripping the bowl till your fingers ache. “Same as you should see to yours.”
His laugh is low, a rough little sound that lives in his chest and doesn’t quite make it to his teeth. He dips his head a fraction, like you’ve handed him a dare instead of brushing him off. “Oh, I intend to,” he replies. “You can count on it.”
Then he turns and walks after your father, stride easy, body moving with a loose sort of purpose. His shadow stretches out along the yard behind him, tossed strange and long by the lantern, then swallowed up as he and Joe move past the well.
The small farmhouse waits ahead, black windows staring, door a darker cut in the wall. It looks, for one breath, like it’s swallowing the two men whole.
You stand there with the lantern hissing softly at your elbow and watch the dark take them.
When the yard settles again, when their footsteps fade and the crickets creep back up to full volume, the space between the barn and the house does not feel the same. It’s as if something else has stepped into it and sat down, something you cannot see but can sense just the same, like a pressure change before a storm.
You sit again, bowl back in your lap, fingers finding another handful of beans by habit alone. The wet snap of them breaking sounds too loud in the hush, echoing in the hollow boards under your feet.
Every few seconds, your eyes drag toward that low silhouette out past the well, toward the little house that is not empty anymore.
You tell yourself you’re only minding where your father put a stranger.
The first night after he arrives, he walks the fence line while you wash dishes.
You hear his boots dragging through the loose gravel near the yard, then the softer sound of steps in the grass.
The screen door hangs open to let the air move, lantern burning low over the sink. Your arms are wet to the elbow, suds creeping up your forearms as you scrub at a pan that’s older than you are.
Out past your own reflection in the dark window, you catch a small shape of motion—the swing of a lantern out near the barn, then the shorter, solid outline of him moving along the fence, checking posts, rattling wire.
He doesn’t look up at the house that you can tell, doesn’t lift the light toward you, just keeps on with that steady pace, head bent.
Still, your shoulders hunch like you’ve been caught at something you haven’t done. The glass fogs a little with the breath you don’t remember letting out.
You tell yourself it’s good your father found a man willing to walk the property at night. That’s what you tell yourself as you rinse plates and stack them, as the little yellow circle of his lantern slides back and forth along the edge of your sight.
The second night you have to bring him his supper, because your father ‘forgets.’
It’s late by the time the last of the pots are scraped and put away, your back aching from standing, hair pasted to your neck. Joe leans back in his chair, radio humming low on the table, and says without looking up, “That boy eat?”
You still your hands on the dishrag. “Ain’t seen him at the table.”
“Damn it,” He grumbles, more at himself than you. “Told him come in if he heard me holler and I ain’t never thought to holler. Fix him a plate and take it down. Man don’t work right hungry.”
You swallow whatever you were about to say about whose job it is to feed farmhands, scrape together a plate from what’s left—two biscuits gone hard at the edges, a ladle of beans, a piece of ham with more bone than meat—and cover it with a clean cloth.
The air outside hits your damp skin and feels cooler than it ought to. The night smells like dirt and hay and whatever’s blooming along the ditch.
The smaller farmhouse sits out near the barn with a faint thread of light leaking around the edges of its curtain, not bright enough to spill onto the yard. You walk out there, skirt brushing your ankles, plate balanced careful in both hands.
You knock, knuckles soft on the wood. For a second there’s nothing, then the faint scrape of a chair, the hush of someone crossing a small room.
The door opens only halfway. He fills the gap, shoulder and chest just there, heat and sweat.
“Evenin’,” he says, voice a little rough, like he hasn’t used it since sundown. “You lost?”
You hold the plate out, not stepping any closer than you have to. “Daddy forgot to call you in. Told me to bring your supper.”
His eyes go to your hands first, to the way your fingers wrap the rim of the plate, then to the food, then back up.
He doesn’t reach right away; he lets the moment stretch, his gaze traveling from your wrists up your arms, lingering on the damp on your skin, on the few stray strands that have worked loose at your temple and stuck there.
“That’s mighty kind,” he says at last, taking the plate so slow his fingers brush yours.
They’re not as rough as you expected, just warm and solid, the pads of them catching against your knuckles. “Hope he didn’t drag you out here from your bed on account of me.”
“I wasn’t in bed,” you answer, because lying feels worse than telling him anything true. “Kitchen don’t clean itself.”
He makes a small noise at that, somewhere between agreement and amusement. “No, ma’am. World’d fall apart if it weren’t for everything women do men don’t think about. Least he can do is call me in for a plate now and then instead of sending you.”
You don’t like that it sounds almost gentle, that there’s no clear edge you can grab onto and call wrong.
You nod once and start to turn away, wanting the room behind that door to stay his business and not have to wonder what’s in it.
“Miss?” he says, and you stop even though you don’t want to. “You tell your daddy I’m obliged. To him and to you.”
You keep your eyes on the yard. “He’ll hear you tomorrow.”
“Maybe I like the thought of you carryin’ my thanks,” he says, voice dipping lower.
You don’t answer to that. You walk back toward the big house with your empty hands and you feel his eyes between your shoulder blades all the way to the porch steps.
Another night you pass him by accident at the pump.
You come around the corner of the house with a pail in each hand, too focused on not sloshing well water onto your skirt to notice him right off.
He’s just there suddenly in the lantern’s edge, sleeves rolled high, suspenders hanging loose at his hips, hair damp with sweat or water; you can’t tell which.
The pump squeaks once as he lets go of the handle. Moonlight catches the wet on his forearms, the curve of muscle there, the scar that runs pale along his left wrist like a rope burn that never faded.
You stop short, pails swinging. “Didn’t know you were usin’ it,” you say. “I’ll wait.”
He tips his head, that same little crooked half-smile thinking about showing up. “You scared I’m gonna dirty the water, standin’ too near?” His accent is thicker tonight, as if he’s tired of smoothing them for everybody’s sake.
“I ain’t scared,” you say. Your voice comes out flatter than you mean it to, which only makes him watch you harder. “Just got taught not to crowd folk when they’re at work.”
“And here I thought you were just bein’ polite,” he murmurs. He steps back from the pump, gives you room to pass. “Go on, then. Wouldn’t do to have Mr. Joe’s girl haulin’ from the ditch ‘cause I hogged the handle.”
You move past him, the damp of his skin ghosting near your elbow, the smell of iron and sweat and something like tobacco clinging to him. You set a pail under the spout and work the handle, arm moving in a practiced rhythm.
The pump groans, then warm water shudders up from below, splashing cold over your fingers when you misjudge the first rush.
His gaze sits on your hands again, on the bare forearms you didn’t bother covering because it’s night and there’s no sun to scold you. “You do all that yourself?” he asks. “Water, cookin’, everything inside?”
“Me and Mama,” you say, though your mother’s cough has been bad enough lately you both know it’s more you than her. “Daddy’s got the fields.”
“And now he’s got me,” Remmick says, watching your arm work. “Guess I’m supposed to make life easier ‘round here.”
“Then do it,” you answer, a little sharper than you meant. The second pail fills and you swing it away, careful not to splash your toes. “Don’t stand around talkin’ about it.”
For a heartbeat there’s quiet. Then he laughs, low and delighted. “There she is,” he says under his breath, as if he’s been waiting on that bite.
When you glance over, he isn’t offended. He looks satisfied, eyes bright, lean mouth curled up. “You keep snappin’ at me like that, miss, I might start thinkin’ you’re sweet on me.”
“Or you might start thinkin’ wrong,” you shoot back, lifting both buckets. The weight drags at your shoulders, but you’d sooner drop in the yard than ask him to carry them.
He doesn't offer, just watches you walk away, and you can feel that as keenly as the pull of the water on your arms.
There are other little moments like that, small as splinters. Like, when you cross paths in the barn one evening when you go to check on a cow that lowed funny through your window.
He’s already there when you reach the threshold, one hand on the animal’s neck, murmuring something soft and nonsense in her ear.
She calms under his touch, sides heaving slow, eyes rolling less. The lantern hangs from a nail overhead, throwing golden light over the dust in the air, over his shoulders, over the cow’s hide.
He glances up when he senses you, and for a blink his irises flash almost too light, as if the lantern’s in them and not above him. Then they’re ordinary again, a color you could name if you got close enough, and he’s saying, “She just didn’t like the thunder,” even though the sky’s been clear all day.
You lean on the stall rail, arms folded, watching his hand move in slow strokes along the cow’s neck.
The steadiness of him with animals makes something twist in you, something like reluctant respect and something like fear, because if he can soothe two thousand pounds of nervous flesh with a voice and a touch, what could he do to yours if he ever decided to try.
On another night you fix a tear in one of his work shirts at the kitchen table because your father plops it there and says, “Stupid fool’s gonna walk around with his arm hangin’ out if someone don’t thread a needle.”
You mutter that Remmick has two hands and surely they can manage a seam, but you fetch your sewing basket anyway.
The fabric smells faintly of him, sweat and field and that odd metallic thread that’s been nagging at the back of your senses since he arrived.
You push the needle through worn cotton and wonder how a man gets a rip that clean across the bicep, by snagging it on barbed wire or nail head, without a single bloodstain around the torn edge.
He shows up to collect it before you take it down yourself. Don’t know how he knows it’s ready, but he’s at the door not long after you knot the last stitch, hat in hand like he’s paying a call.
Your father’s gone out back to piss or smoke or both, your mother’s dozing in her chair, so it’s just you in the quiet kitchen with your fingers still sore from the work.
“You didn’t have to,” he says when you hand the folded shirt over. “Could’ve walked around indecent a day or two, see if anyone complained.”
“My father would,” you say. “Don’t like loose things on his land.”
He takes the shirt with his good arm, the other rolling his shoulder like it aches. The lantern throws his eyes into little warm coins.
Some nights you only see him from a distance.
Through your bedroom window when you should be sleeping, you catch the sway of his lantern again and again, marking his rounds. In the moonlight, his stride is compact, efficient, not showy.
He moves like someone who’s spent a long time walking alone, someone who knows better than to waste steps. He never seems to stumble, never misjudges a rut or loose stone.
You watch him slip between the barn and the smaller house, in and out of shadow, and you tell yourself you’re just making sure he’s where he should be, that you are only doing what your father would want.
You notice, too, the nights when the light in his window stays on longer than makes sense. Long after your father’s snores have settled and your mama’s breath has evened into sleep, after you’ve lain there staring at the ceiling until your eyes burn, that far-off square of yellow will still be sitting out there at the edge of your sight.
Sometimes you think you see the shadow of him cross it, head bowed, shoulders hunched, moving back and forth in a tight little path, but when you squint it’s gone.
Once, you step out onto the porch for air and catch him already looking.
You don’t see him at first; you just feel that prickling awareness that has become his signature in your body.
Then your eyes find him where he’s paused near the barn, one hand on the fence post, the other hanging loose at his side. No lantern this time, just moonlight on his face, flattening all the hard parts, making his eyes look too bright and his mouth too soft.
He doesn’t look away when you notice him. He doesn’t call out or tip his hat in greeting. He just stands there in the dark, steady as another post, and lets you decide whether to step back inside or stay where the night can see both of you.
You stay a breath longer than you should, chest tight, heartbeat stepping up loud between your ears. Then you reach for the door, fingers curling around splintered wood, and it feels, for a strange second, like you’re the one retreating and he’s the one who lives here.
By the time a week has worked itself around, his presence has braided into the place.
The horse knows him, ears twitching toward his voice before dawn. The dogs have quit barking when his boots scrape the yard at dusk. Your father has stopped watching him like he might bolt and started calling for him when something heavy needs lifting.
The small farmhouse doesn’t look so empty now; you’ve grown used to the idea of a man’s breath in there, a man’s boots by the door, a man’s shadow on the curtain.
You’re the one still wary, nerves still stretched thin every time you feel his eyes, even if nobody else in the house seems to notice how often that is.
You catch him in little reflections—a sliver of him in the pump’s metal, in the window glass, in any surface that throws back light—and he’s always looking your way.
Not always outright, not always rude, but always aware of you. Always clocking where you are in the yard, whether your sleeves are rolled, whether your hem rides high on your calf or hangs proper at your ankle.
You tell yourself it’s just because there’s not much else worth watching out here.
You don’t quite believe it.
Clouds bruise up toward the horizon, swallowing the moon a few bites at a time. You’re at the kitchen table with mending in your lap when you hear it—one sharp, panicked bawl from the barn that cuts straight through the hum of crickets and the low murmur of your father’s radio.
You’re on your feet before you think about it, thimble still shoved on your finger, needle stuck tight in a loop of thread.
Your father says something about “damned horses spookin’ at their own shadows” but doesn’t move from his chair.
His back’s been bad all day; he’s been walking like every step hurts. Mama’s dozing, her breath a thin whistle.
So you grab the lantern from its hook, light blooming up in a hot bloom that stings your eyes, and head out barefoot into the yard.
The grass is cool against your soles, damp from the thick air. The little farmhouse where Remmick sleeps has a strip of light at the curtain-bottom, but you don’t see him outside. The barn looms ahead, big and dark, door standing half-open like a mouth. Another low, fretful sound comes from inside, not as sharp as the first but enough to hurry you along.
“Easy now,” you call as you slip in, lantern held high. “Hush yourself, girl, I’m comin’.”
The barn swallows the outside sounds. In here it’s hay and dust and the soft shuffling of hooves, the rustle of wings up in the rafters.
Your mare stamps once, snorting, eyes rolling white when the lantern light hits her. You cross the packed dirt quick, set the lantern on a hook so you’ve got both hands, and reach for her halter, stroking her long face.
“It’s just the weather actin’ strange,” you murmur, words more for yourself than her. “Ain’t nothin’ gonna hurt you.”
She settles a little under your voice, but her muscles are still tight, skin twitching under your palm.
You’re so focused on her that you don’t hear him until he’s already in the doorway.
“Somethin’ wrong?”
His voice slides through the gloom, low and rough.
You jerk a little, head snapping toward the barn entrance. He’s just inside the threshold, lantern in his hand turned down low, throwing more shadow than light. Sleeves rolled, suspenders hooked proper tonight, hair damp at the temples like he’s just come in from a hard walk.
“Lord,” you mutter, heart kicking hard. “You move too quiet. Thought you were a ghost.”
He lets out a short huff of a laugh. “Not yet.” The lantern swings by his knee as he steps inside, setting the hay shadows dancing. “Heard her fussin’. Figured I’d check before she took it into her head to kick through a stall.”
“She just spooked,” you say. “Storm brewin’ somewhere.”
He comes up nearer, close enough that you can see the sheen of sweat along his throat, the bead of something darker at the cuff of his shirt where it brushes his wrist.
His gaze does a quick, automatic sweep of the stall—manger, bucket, the mare’s flanks, your hand on her halter—and then it hooks on you, like it always does, like there’s a string between his eyes and your skin.
“You shouldn’t come out here by yourself at night,” he says, quiet, not rebuking exactly but not gentle either. “Barn full of spooked stock, any one of ’em could knock you right off your feet. Ain’t proper for a girl to be runnin’ around after dark alone.”
“That girl’s got ears,” you answer, voice tight, stroking the mare’s neck to hide your own nerves. “She can hear you fussin’ without talkin’ over her head.”
His mouth does that little tilt again, amused. “Reckon she can,” he says. “Reckon she don’t listen half as good as she ought, neither.”
You’re just shaping a sharp reply when it happens.
Something cracks outside, a dry, sharp sound—maybe a limb breaking, maybe a board settling wrong, maybe thunder grumbling way off where the clouds are thickest.
It doesn’t matter what it is. The mare flinches hard, shoulder slamming sideways. The stall rail shudders under the hit, and you’re standing too close, lantern throwing crazy shadows as the world jolts.
Your first instinct is to get out of the way. You jump back, skirts swishing, hand flying off the halter. You pivot toward the stall opening and catch—not air, not clear space, but the edge of an old nail head that’s been working itself loose from the post for years.
The sound of fabric tearing is loud as a gunshot in the barn.
It rips from just below your hip down the side of your thigh, a long, rude run that opens your dress like a mouth.
Cool air hits bare skin where cotton should be.
You gasp, more from the exposure than pain, and slap your hand down, fingers clutching at the split to keep it from gaping wider.
For a heartbeat you stand frozen, lantern light swinging, breath shallow, your leg half-bared through the torn seam.
You don’t have a slip on under this dress, not a proper one. It’s too hot. You’ve got plain cotton drawers and a whole lot of skin, and you know without looking that the tear has gone high, high enough that if you weren’t grabbing it shut he’d be seeing places no man has any business looking at on you.
“You all right?” Remmick’s closer before you register him moving, his boots whispering over packed dirt. His lantern clanks against a beam as he hangs it up. He reaches for you by pure reflex, hands coming to your arms, steadying you where you’ve stumbled.
“I’m fine,” you snap, too quick, humiliation burning your face, neck, chest. “Let go.”
You twist away from his grip, turning your hip, trying to angle the torn side away from him.
The dress shifts anyway, hem dragging through straw, and there’s a flash of thigh where your fingers don’t quite cover everything. You feel the rush of blood under your skin like you’ve been slapped.
His eyes drop before you can stop them.
It’s an instinct with him just like yours, hungry and automatic. His gaze hits the split, the glimpse of your leg, and sticks. Time slows down around that look. You see it happen, see the way his pupils widen, see the quick, sharp inhale he tries to hide.
“Jesus,” he breathes, almost soundless.
You yank the torn fabric tighter, the motion making the rip strain up higher, edge brushing the curve where your thigh meets your hip. Your whole body feels like a lantern flame, exposed and flickering. “Don’t you look,” you hiss, low and furious. “Turn around.”
One of his hands lifts, like he might actually offer to cover the tear for you, fingers curling as if they want to fit over the place you’re guarding. He stops himself, hand hovering for an awful second near your hip, close enough that you feel the heat of him even through the thin cotton.
“Ain’t my fault you went tearin’ yourself open on every nail in the county,” he says, tone trying for light and landing somewhere rougher.
His eyes drag up slow, from your knuckles clenched in the fabric, up the bare strip of thigh he already saw, up the shape of your waist and the heave of your chest. “Maybe you should let me look and make sure you didn’t cut that pretty skin to ribbons.”
The way he says pretty makes your stomach flip and your teeth set.
“I ain’t cut,” you spit. “And I sure as hell don’t need you inspectin’ me.”
He should look ashamed. Though, he doesn’t. There’s color high in his cheeks now, not from heat, not from work. His mouth’s gone a little slack, like he’s holding back words. His gaze keeps sneaking back to the place your hand guards, greedy, any time you aren’t staring right at him.
“If you say so,” he murmurs finally. “Wouldn’t want to offend your delicate sensibilities.”
You hear the echo of his earlier lie in that word, delicate, and decide if you stay here another minute you might do something you can’t take back, like slap him or cry or both.
You shift your grip to catch more fabric, bunching the torn side up in your fist so nothing shows. It makes walking harder; you’re hobbling, half-skipping, desperate not to let the skirt fall. “You see to the mare,” you manage, chin up, eyes burning. “I’ll fix my dress.”
He steps back enough to let you pass. As you squeeze by him in the narrow space, your shoulder brushes his chest, your bare calf bumps the hard line of his boot.
“Careful,” he says, voice quiet, right by your ear. “Would be a shame if the rest of that dress gave up and left you standin’ in nothin’ at all.”
You don’t give him the satisfaction of a reply. You duck your head and hurry out, every step measured so the torn seam doesn’t pull, one hand clamped between your thighs, lantern bumping at your knee.
The night air on your exposed skin feels wrong, every stray breeze finding its way up under the rip.
You keep your eyes fixed on the glow of the house, on the square of the kitchen window, on anything that is not the barn behind you.
You slam the kitchen door with more force than you mean to, startling your mama awake, mumble something about a nail catching you and make straight for your room. You don’t light your own lamp; you don’t want to see what he saw. You stand there in the dark with your back to the door and your dress torn open under your hand, heart hammering, ears roaring, shame and something hotter and uglier twisting up together in your belly.
Down by the south fence, in the smaller farmhouse, Remmick sits on the edge of his narrow bed with the easy, humming satisfaction of a man who’s been saving something up.
He lit the lamp as soon as he stepped in, not out of any real need for light but because he likes the way it throws shadows, likes the way it paints dim gold over bare wood and gives him something soft to look at while his mind runs back over the evening.
The room is small and warm from his own body heat, close enough that every breath feels shared with the walls. Old wood, dust, a curl of tobacco from the roll-up he finished outside, and under it all the ghost of you clinging to his clothes—soap and starch and sweat—make a thick little stew in the air.
He shrugged out of his shirt as soon as the door shut, tossing it over the chair without bothering to check if the seam you mended had held.
The rip in the fabric is nothing next to the rip in your dress that he can’t stop savoring. He works the buttons of his trousers loose without hurry, fingers moving with the contented patience of a man about to sit down to a meal he’s been smelling all day.
He doesn’t try not to think of you. That would be a waste of a perfectly good night.
He leans back against the wall, boots kicked off, pants open at the fly, and lets the picture come as easy as breath.
You in the barn with your hand clapped between your thighs, dress split wide, that slick little strip of thigh flashing when the cloth slipped. The way your eyes flared when you realized he’d seen, outrage and mortification and something bright under both. The sound of your voice when you told him not to look, like you already knew he was going to anyway.
“Hell,” he mutters, half laughing under his breath as his cock swells heavy against the thin barrier of his briefs. “Ain’t nothin’ on this earth I’d rather think on.”
His palm drifts down over his belly, fingers tracing a slow path to the bulge at his groin. Even that light touch makes him suck in air through his teeth.
He presses his hand over the outline of himself, feeling the hot, solid weight of his cock straining upward, and a low, pleased sound curls up out of his chest. He palms it once, a lazy roll, enjoying the way it kicks against his fingers like it’s eager too, then he slides his hand inside.
Warm cotton gives way to hot skin. He wraps his fist around the thick base of himself and exhales like he’s been holding that breath since the barn, relief and hunger tangled up in it. His cock sits heavy in his grip, veins standing up, the head already wet where precum has gathered from how long he’s been walking around hard on the memory of you.
“Look at that,” he murmurs, voice low and rough, thumb smearing that slickness over the swollen tip. “Worked up over one little tear. You’d laugh yourself sick if you saw me now, wouldn’t you?”
The thought of you seeing him like this, spread out on his narrow bed with his trousers open and his cock standing full in his hand, only makes him harder.
He drags his fist down slow, savoring the drag from head to base, then back up again, the friction sharp and sweet all at once. The first few strokes are measured, a man settling into a rhythm he plans to enjoy, not something hurried and guilty he has to choke down.
He lets his head tip back against the wall, eyes slipping shut so he can see you better behind his lids.
Not the church version, not the good girl with the hem tugged just so and the buttons done up high.
The barn version. Lantern light sliding over your bare thigh, the tremble in your fingers when you clutched at the rip, that split second when your hand wasn’t fast enough and he got the clean, unearned look he’s been replaying ever since.
“Shit,” he breathes, hand tightening, the slide of skin on skin picking up a little speed.
He drags his fist down again, slower, getting a feel for every inch, for the way his cock swells harder in his grip with each pass. Arousal slicks his thumb, gathers at the crest of the head, and he spreads it with an easy, greedy little twist, working it around until the slide turns wet and smooth.
His hips lift into his own hand without much prompting, body eager after nights of walking around with you on his tongue and in his teeth and under his nails.
“Bare leg,” he mutters, watching his hand move now, eyes half-lidded, lashes throwing shadows on his cheeks. “Goin’ about your business like you ain’t got that tucked up under your skirt. Like I ain’t seen it now.”
He remembers exactly how the tear opened, how the cotton gave and the seam surrendered, how your thigh flashed in the jumpy lantern light.
That first raw glimpse lives in his chest like a hot coal. Skin smooth and soft-looking, the curve of muscle under it, the sweet thickness where it met your hip.
He remembers your drawers too, plain white cotton clinging to you, riding that line between demure and lewd when the fabric shifted wrong.
His hand moves faster at that, instincts catching up with memory. He curls his fingers a little tighter, pulling from the heavy base up to the slick crown, milking a fresh bead of precum up with each stroke.
“Bet you went home and stitched that dress up neat as a Sunday virtue,” he says, voice roughened by breath. “Head bowed, lips bit, pretendin’ that leg ain’t still there underneath, smooth as cream and just as soft. Bet you can’t stop thinkin’ about me seein’ it neither.”
He can picture you at your little table, lamp burning, needle in hand, fingers trembling just enough to make the thread snag. Your face hot, your mouth set, your thighs pressed together under the cloth as you sew shame into every stitch. He imagines you tugging that seam tight, that same hand that clutched the torn fabric now working the needle, every pull a memory of his eyes on you.
His free hand slides down his belly, fingers pressing over the flexing muscles there, holding them tight as he fucks up into his own fist. The bed creaks under him, wood complaining, but he doesn’t slow. He spreads his legs wider on the mattress, giving himself more room to move, and the extra slack lets his strokes lengthen, his hips roll, everything turning into a slow rhythm.
“You know what I see when I close my eyes?” he asks the ceiling quietly, dragging his thumb across the slit. “Not that pretty little mouth tellin’ me not to look. I see that hand of yours slip. I see that dress fall open just a little more.”
The picture in his mind sharpens: you, back against a stall post, hand too busy clutching at rough wood to hold your skirts closed, light catching on the full line of your thigh as the rip edges skid higher.
He imagines the flap of cloth falling aside, full view of your leg from knee to hip, drawers pulled tight over the mound between your thighs, a faint darker patch where heat and sweat have gathered.
His cock throbs in his grip at that. He grits his teeth, pushes his palm down hard, and his hips jerk, chasing the pressure.
“Yeah,” he growls softly. “That’s it. Dress up around your waist, showin’ all that sweet flesh. You holdin’ on to that wood like it’s gonna save you, eyes full of righteous fury while your body’s tellin’ on you.”
His fingers slip lower on the stroke, pausing to cup his balls, rolling them in his palm, feeling the tight, heavy pull there. The sensation punches another sound out of him. He goes back to his cock with renewed urgency, arm working harder now, hand pumping.
He lets himself wander further than any real moment has gone. Lets the memory of that tear turn into something else, something he can taste.
He imagines stepping in close before you can bolt, one hand catching your wrist, the other gathering your torn skirt up and out of his way. Imagines your gasp, that little sharp intake he already knows, your bare thigh hitting his hip as he pins you to the stall. Your panties stretched tight over the soft swell of your cunt, his fingers pushing up against the dampening cloth, feeling how hot you are through the barrier.
“Pretend you don’t want it,” he murmurs, throat rasping. “Try to act like you ain’t gettin’ wet for me while you fuss.”
The words sound vulgar and right in his mouth. His cock swells at it, the head aching now, sensitive with every pass. He squeezes at the top, thumb pressing just under the crown, and his whole body shudders, pleasure rushing up his spine.
“Be a good girl,” he hears himself whispering to the woman in his head, the one pressed to barn wood with her dress in tatters. “Spread ’em for me, let me see what you’re hidin’.”
His hand flies now, finding a quick, dirty rhythm. His breath comes rough, each inhale catching, each exhale spilling out in curses and half-formed praises.
“You’d flush right up to your hairline,” he pants, head rolling against the wall. “Act all offended while your thighs tremble and that pretty thing between ’em throbs. Might even cry a little, wouldn’t you? All sweet and scared and soaked.”
The image of you crying—eyes bright, lashes wet, lips bitten—while your body betrays you sends him right to the edge. His balls draw up tight, cock jumping in his fist, veins standing out under his skin. Heat coils at the base of his spine, that familiar pull gathering everything in, ready to snap.
He spits into his hand for more slick, doesn’t even bother wiping his mouth. The added wetness turns his strokes into something obscene, the sound echoing in the small room. His forearm snaps, muscles burning, chasing the crest bearing down on him.
“Come on then,” he grits. “Show me.”
He imagines hooking a finger under the edge of your drawers and pulling the cotton aside. Imagines the first sight of you bare between your thighs, folds swollen, maybe already glistening, all that heat finally out in the lantern light instead of tucked away in shadows and good manners.
“That’s it,” he rasps, voice breaking, hips jerking harder into his fist. “Knew you’d be pretty there. Knew you’d be soft.”
The wave hits with no ceremony; it slams through him like a mule kick. His whole body locks, stomach clenching, heels digging into the thin mattress, head thumping dully against the wall.
A groan tears out of him, rough and strangled, half-swallowed behind clenched teeth. His cock jerks in his hand, once, twice, then again, spilling hot over his fingers and across his stomach in thick, pulsing ropes.
He rides it out, hand still working, strokes shortening but not stopping, milking every last drop. Cum coats his knuckles, drips over his fist, slicking his grip until his palm slips on the softening length.
“Fuck,” he breathes when he can breathe again, voice low and wrecked.
His strokes slow, then ease off altogether, fingers loosening their grip.
For a moment he just sits there, chest rising and falling, wrist slick and heavy, cock giving a few last, half-hearted twitches in his hand. Sweat cools on his forehead, a bead sliding down along his temple.
He looks down at the mess on his belly, streaks shining in the lamplight, dripping off the side of his hand. There’s no disgust in the way he examines it; if anything, there’s pride. A crooked smile tugs at his mouth, lazy and satisfied.
“Look what you pulled out of me, and you weren’t even here,” he murmurs, more pleased than ashamed.
He wipes his hand across his stomach, smearing instead of cleaning, fingers drawing idle patterns through the stickiness before he drags them off onto a wadded-up shirt at his side.
The cotton takes the worst of it, darkening where it soaks, but he doesn’t fuss about the rest. Let it dry on his skin. Let it sit there as a reminder.
He tucks himself back into his briefs, though he doesn’t bother fastening his trousers all the way, leaving the fly gaping a little for air.
His body feels loose and heavy now, bones sunk deep into the thin mattress. The edge is blunted, that sharp hunger dulled to a warm, low thrum, but it’s not gone.
He leans his head back and lets his eyes drift half-closed, the lamp still burning low.
In the quiet, he can almost hear you tossing under your own quilt up the rise, feel the echo of your indignation, imagine the way your fingers might trace absent circles over the mended seam of your dress while you tell yourself you hate him.
He runs his tongue along the back of his teeth, savoring that thought as much as any touch.
“Gonna see it torn again,” he says softly, not quite a promise, not quite a threat.
The lamp flickers, a tiny flame fighting sleep. Outside, crickets scream and something small scurries through the grass.
The little house settles around him with soft creaks and sighs. He closes his eyes fully at last, the picture of your bare thigh and your furious face smoothing together into one sweet, ripe ache he’s already wondering how soon he can taste again.
Most nights Remmick does his rounds like he’s supposed to, lantern swinging at his knee, gate latches checked, fence wire plucked and listened to like strings.
But once he knows the map of the place in his bones, once he has counted every post and measured every path, his feet start wandering off the straight lines your daddy would like him to walk.
He learns where the shadows fall thickest under the pecan tree by the side yard, where the dark under the eaves hides a man from anyone glancing out through lamplight.
He learns just how far back he can stand and still see into the kitchen window when you’re up late, sleeves rolled, forearms wet to the elbow, talking to your mama while you scrub a pan.
He learns that when you think everybody’s settled, you lean your hip against the counter and tilt your head a little while you dry your hands, and that little shift of weight does things to your dress you’d never let it do in town.
He finds out you like the back porch at night even more than you like it at dusk. That when the work is done and your parents are loud in their sleep, you slip out with a glass or a cup and sit with your legs stretched, ankles crossed, toes tracing idle circles on the board beneath them.
From the fence line he can see the shine of lamplight on your bare shins when your hem rides up, can see the loose, tired way you soften back into the chair.
He watches you tilt your face toward the dark yard like you’re asking it questions it hasn’t answered yet, listens to the little sounds you make—half-sighs, half-hums—that never show up when anyone else is awake.
He leans on a post with a cigarette hanging from his fingers and looks until he’s had his fill, no hurry in him, nothing but a lazy, steady satisfaction in knowing you have no idea.
He learns your bedroom window, too. Where it sits in relation to the oak, how far up the slope he has to stand to see its square of light.
The first time he notices the curtain isn’t quite shut, it’s by accident; he’s walking back late, boots slow on the path, when a slice of movement catches his eye.
Curtain gapping, lamp turned low, you moving around your room in that soft circle people make before bed.
He stops in the shadow of the tree without even thinking, shoulder to rough bark, the leaves above him murmuring in a wind that doesn’t get down into the yard.
From there he can see you in fragments—an arm as you reach up to unbutton, a brief glimpse of the side of your neck, the line of your shoulder as fabric slips.
He tells himself he’ll move when you’re done, that he’s only making sure you got in safe. He stays until the lamp goes out.
The night he sees you in the bath, there’s not even that thin excuse.
It’s late enough the frogs have worn down to a sleepy chorus and the crickets sound drunk. A low, warm fog sits over the fields, pressing scents in close: damp earth, animals settled in their pens, soap drifting thin from the open kitchen window where somebody forgot to latch it right.
He’s finished his rounds early, all the work of the night sitting behind him instead of ahead, and he feels that restless itch under his skin again, that soft, prowling urge that has nothing to do with fences and everything to do with you.
The house is a square of softer dark against the sky, only a couple of windows holding light.
He knows which is which now without having to think about it. Kitchen, front room, your parents’ room. The little back room off the side where the big galvanized tub sits when somebody’s been lucky enough to haul enough water.
Tonight it’s that one glowing gentle behind its thin cotton curtain, lantern hanging somewhere just out of sight, making the fabric look like a pale, breathing thing.
He circles wide, slipping along the edge of the yard where the grass meets the packed dirt of the lane, where the shadows from the trees throw him one more thin cloak.
The bath window is low, glass fogged a little from steam. The curtain is drawn but not all the way, left a thumb’s width open on one side—enough for light to leak out in a narrow spill. Enough, if a man stepped in close and angled himself just right, to see inside.
He comes up under the sill, breath slow, boots quiet, and lays his palm flat against the siding to steady himself. The boards are cool and rough under his fingers. He leans his shoulder into them and tilts his head, lining his eye up with that careless little gap.
Heat hits him first, a wet, sweet breath rolling out into the night. The lantern inside throws shadows high on the wall, flickering over the curve of the tub, over the length of you in it.
You’re sunk down in the water with your knees bent, one leg drawn up just enough for him to see the shape of it under the surface, the other stretched straighter, foot braced on the far side.
The water glows around you, gone cloudy with soap, clinging in beads to your skin where it’s out of the tub.
Your shoulders show above the rim, bare and slick, drops running down in slow trails.
Steam curls off your chest, off the slopes of your breasts where they rise from the water, soft and heavy, nipples pebbled tight from the heat or the air or both. The lamplight loves them, catching on every curve, laying little gold crowns on each peak.
Your head is tipped back against the rolled towel you’ve wedged between neck and tin, eyes closed, lips parted just enough for breath. One arm drifts along the tub’s edge, fingers dragging lazy patterns through the thin scum of soap there, the other resting across your stomach.
He watches your ribs move with each inhale, the slight swell and fall of your belly under your palm.
You're so unaware of him that it feels almost holy.
He drinks it in like it’s what he came here for all along, no flinch in him, no apology. His gaze roams where it will.
From the line of your throat down to the hollow between your collarbones, where a small puddle has gathered and overflowed in slow rivulets; down over the slick, shining hills of your breasts, the way they shift just a little with every breath, the way the waterline cuts across them. Lower, to where the curve of your stomach disappears under the opaque water, hinting at more, promising everything.
You shift, lifting one arm to drag the washcloth over your shoulder. The washcloth trails over the round of your shoulder, down the outside of your arm, across the swell of your breast, nipple tightening even more when the rough cloth skims past.
You don’t seem to notice the way your own body responds; you’re too busy chasing day-dirt away, lifting your arm to scrub your neck, tilting your head to give yourself better reach.
From his vantage, he sees everything. His hand tightens on the siding, knuckles going white, that buzzing hunger flaring up bright and hot behind his eyes.
He stares, not making a sound.
You work the cloth down your arm and set it aside, then slide both hands into the water, scooping and pouring over yourself.
You lift your leg a little, knee rising higher, water spilling off in sheets, showing him the smooth length of your thigh all the way to the place where it vanishes back under the cloudy surface. The muscles there flex as you shift, your toes stretching, calf defined a moment before settling again.
For a brief second, the water thins enough he can see the shadowed shape where your thighs meet, softened by the haze but there, real and mouth-watering.
His eyes go dark on it, pupils swallowing light. He leans in a fraction more, cheek almost touching the glass, breath fogging the edge of the pane where it meets the frame.
Every small move you make sends little waves across your body, playing light over the parts he can see, hinting at the parts he can’t.
You sigh, the sound faint through the wall but clear. Your head tips a little to the side, cheek turning toward the window without quite facing it.
One hand skims over your sternum, following the center line of your body until it disappears under the water.
Your fingers paddle lazily there for a moment, moving along your own stomach, over the soft give of your lower belly.
He imagines exactly where they’re drifting, what warm, slick places they’re brushing, even if you’re not thinking of it like that. Your face gives nothing away but relief, a tired little slackness, the expression of someone finally easing aches out of their bones.
“You ain’t got a clue,” he breathes, lips ghosting the words against the flaking clapboard. There’s satisfaction in it, not cruelty. “Bathin’ like Eve in a picture book with the curtain open and the devil on the outside lookin’ in.”
His hand, the one not braced on the wall, shifts restlessly by his side, brushing the front of his trousers.
He doesn’t touch himself proper, not yet; this is looking time. He wants to be empty enough of the last time to fill up on this one entire.
His fingers flex anyway, his palm pressing for a moment against the growing bulge, acknowledging it. His cock swells quick and eager, remembering the barn, welcoming the new fodder.
You lean forward to reach the soap, and the angle changes.
For a breathless few seconds he gets the long line of your back, the way it curves from nape to waist, the hollow above your hips, the dimples that show when you move just so. Water slides off you in glittering trails, trickling down along your spine, pooling in the small of your back before spilling lower.
As you sit back again, that same water slips over the round of your ass where it breaks the surface, catching the light along the curve, then vanishes under the cloudy bath.
He closes his eyes briefly, just to fix it, then opens them again. He doesn’t want to miss a thing.
You lather your hands, work the soap into your skin, fingers massaging into your shoulders, down along your collarbones.
The more you scrub, the slipperier you become, water beading and running, foam clinging in thin streaks before melting away.
When you finally slide your hands under the water, scrubbing lower, your elbows move in a rhythm that makes something low and obscene curl in his gut.
He knows you’re only washing, just doing what needs doing, but to him it looks like a preview, looks like a rehearsal of things you haven’t yet learned to want.
He watches until the waterline creeps lower on the lantern as the bath cools and you sink down, chasing warmth. Watches as you finally let yourself relax fully, shoulders sliding under, just your face above the surface, eyes closed, breaths slow and even.
Only when you sit forward and reach for the towel hanging on the peg beside the tub does he ease back from the window.
He knows if he lingers another second, if he sees you stand, water sheeting off every inch as you step out, he’ll plant roots under this sill and never leave.
There will be other nights, he tells himself.
He peels himself off the wall, body humming, and slips back into the darker yard, breath still measured, strides easy.
By the time he’s at the edge of the light, he has his lantern in hand again, held low, the picture of a man just passing through on his way to some small piece of work.
He doesn’t feel a lick of shame. What would be the use of it, when the memory of you in that tub is already lodged in his body like a polished stone, something he can roll under his tongue whenever he chooses.
You’ll go to bed clean and soft, thinking maybe about chores and storms and the seam you mended this morning.
He’ll go back to his little house with your wet skin behind his eyes and no confusion about what he plans to do with it.
The day’s been long, the kind that starts with a rooster and ends with your back feeling twice your age.
By the time supper’s put away and the kitchen wiped down, your father’s in his chair with his boots off, socks so full of holes you don’t know why he bothers wearing them, radio mumbling low out of the corner. Your mother’s gone to bed early with a headache, door cracked just enough that you can hear her cough now and again.
You’re halfway through folding the dish towels when you remember.
Mama’s good jar of salve.
You can see it plain in your mind’s eye: small tin with the blue lid, the one she guards like treasure.
She sent you looking for it just after dinner, when she noticed the raw place on your father’s wrist from rope burn and the darkening bruise on your own hip from where the stall rail caught you days ago.
You’d gone to fetch more wood for the stove first, meaning to get the salve on your way back, and somehow it slipped right out of your head, chased off by smoke and scolding and the rush to get biscuits off the fire before they burned.
Your father’s already grumbled twice about the barn nail and told you if you’d been paying mind you wouldn’t have torn your dress, wouldn’t have bruises, wouldn’t have needed fussing.
You can hear him in the morning if he finds that wrist still angry and your hip still tender. Can hear that disappointed click of his tongue.
You’d seen him hand the tin to Remmick earlier in the week, mumbling something about “keep this on hand, boy, in case you tear yourself up,” and watched the new hand tuck it into the pocket of his coat before heading down to the little farmhouse.
“That’s where it is,” you murmur, more to the quiet kitchen than to anyone. A little knot between your brows loosens when you place it. “Down there.”
You glance at the clock. It’s late enough the newsman’s gone off the air, early enough the world hasn’t quite tipped into the dead hours where the dark feels thickest.
Outside the window, the yard is quiet, the barn a heavy shadow, the smaller house beyond it just a darker square against the field.
“Where’s that boy?” Your father mutters around his cigarette, not really expecting an answer. “Ain’t heard him come in for coffee. He out checkin’ fence or sleepin’ on my dime?”
“Out, I reckon,” you say, folding the last towel with a sharp little snap.
Truth is, you haven’t heard his boots either. You haven’t seen his lantern bob by the window. It’s been a soft, blank stretch of night, no sign of him.
You tell yourself that means he’s at the far end of the pasture or walking the ditch line. Exactly where he’s supposed to be.
“I’ll fetch Mama’s salve,” you add, already untying your apron, tucking it over the back of a chair. “She’ll want it first thing in the mornin’.”
Joe nods, smoke curling out of his nose. “Don’t you linger,” he says, not looking up. “Get what you need and bring your tail back in this house. I don’t want you down there visitin’ like it’s social hour.”
You bite back the urge to say you’d sooner visit the pig pen. “Yes, sir,” is what comes out instead.
The night air catches you on the porch, damp and soft, smelling of cooling dirt and a hint of something sweet blooming out by the fence.
You step down barefoot, skirts whispering around your calves, the boards’ splinters familiar against your soles. The big house’s light spills just to the bottom of the steps, then gives up, letting the yard roll out into dark.
The little farmhouse sits a ways off, past the well, past the worn track where the wagon turns. All its windows are black. No orange seam under the curtain, no silhouette rising and falling against the glass. The barn is quiet too, doors thrown shut, only a thin line of moon-silver along the roof.
You latch onto the sight of that dark little house like proof. He’s not there. He’s out somewhere with a lantern and a bad attitude.
You’ll be in and out before he knows you’ve even left your room.
You wrap that thought around yourself like a shawl and start across the yard.
The grass is cool and a little slick with dew under your feet, clinging between your toes. Crickets saw at the edges of things, frogs mutter down in the low spots. The well’s stone lip rises out of the ground like something old and patient; you ghost past it, keeping your eyes on the squat shadow of the farmhouse.
Up close, it looks smaller, somehow meaner. The door is shut, the porch bare save for his boots lined up neat off to one side. You take in that detail with a little flick of relief—boots off means man in bed, not loose in the yard—before another thought slides in behind it: or just inside.
You hesitate only a heartbeat.
The want to not get scolded in the morning, the want to have Mama’s salve where she can lay hands on it, outweighs the whisper of sense telling you this is foolish.
You lay your palm on the door and push.
It gives with a small, tired creak, the smell of the place rolling over you in a warm wave: wood, straw, tobacco, sweat, and that faint metallic thread you’ve started to think of as his alone. There’s a lamp turned low on the table just inside, wick pinched till the flame is barely more than a coal in a glass throat, enough to lay out the shapes of things and nothing more.
“Remmick?” you call, voice barely above a whisper, more habit than hope. When nothing answers—not a word, not a shift of boards—you let your breath out slow and step over the threshold.
The door eases halfway shut behind you, not latched. You don’t bother with it; you don’t plan to be here long enough to worry about what’s open and what isn’t.
The room is small and spare, just like your daddy said it was. Bed against one wall, blanket rumpled from someone sitting, if not lying. Chair with a coat thrown over the back, shirt draped careless on top. Table with the lamp, a chipped cup, a folded knife. A shelf holding a few tin plates, a jar of coffee, the heel of a loaf.
You move quick but careful, eyes trying not to linger on the smaller things that say a man’s been living here—his belt coiled on the chair seat, his hat hanging from the peg, the empty space on the floor where his boots were.
You head straight for the coat, remembering your father’s hand dropping the salve tin into its pocket.
You pinch the fabric between your fingers, easing it aside, but the weight you expect to tug at the hem isn’t there. The coat hangs light. You pat the pockets; they’re empty, save for a wadded rag and a stray button.
“Damn,” you breathe, annoyed, under your breath.
Maybe he moved it. Maybe he took it out so the tin wouldn’t fall and get lost when he shrugged the coat on.
You cast your eyes around the room, searching high shelves, low boxes, any place someone might set a small, important thing.
The table catches your attention next. You circle it, gaze skimming over the knife, the cup, the lamp.
There, near the edge, half in shadow—a squat little tin no bigger than your palm, blue lid dulled with age.
You smile in spite of yourself and reach for it. “Got you,” you murmur, closing your fingers around the cool metal.
You pop the lid just enough to see the salve inside, pale and thick, smelling faintly of herbs and camphor, then press it back down with a soft click. The job’s done. Simple as that.
You turn, already thinking about the path back to the house, about slipping this into Mama’s hand and letting yourself be proud she won’t have to wonder where it is in the morning.
You don’t make it two steps.
There he is.
Standing in the doorway that leads to the small back room, shoulder braced against the frame like he’s been leaning there a while, like he grew right up out of the wood.
He’s shirtless, skin slicked faint with sweat, the rise and fall of his chest slow and easy. Suspenders hang loose against his hips, clipped to his trousers but fallen off his shoulders, framing the cut of his torso in dark lines.
The lamp’s low light paints him in gold and shadow both, dipping into the hollow between his collarbones, skating over the plane of his stomach, catching on the trail of hair that runs down from his navel into the waistband of his pants.
His arms cross over his chest, veins standing faint along the backs of his hands where they rest against his biceps.
His feet are bare. His eyes are not gentle.
“Find what you was lookin’ for?” he asks, voice soft, too soft, the scrape of it wrapping around the words like a touch.
Your heart gives one wild jump, slamming up against your ribs hard enough to hurt, then starts to run.
You hadn’t heard him come in. Hadn’t heard the back door, hadn’t heard the floor protest, hadn’t heard anything but your own little fussing search and the tiny pop of the salve lid.
For a foolish second you think about hiding the tin, tucking it behind your back like a child caught in a pantry. You don’t. There’s nowhere to put it he wouldn’t see, and you refuse to give him the pleasure of watching you scramble.
Instead you hold it up just enough that he can see the blue lid glint in the lamplight. “My mama’s salve,” you say, surprised at how even your voice comes out. “Daddy gave it to you. He forgot where he put it. I came to fetch it.”
He doesn’t move. Doesn’t look at the tin for more than a passing glance. His attention stays on you, heavy as a hand between your shoulder blades. He rakes his gaze from your face down to the salve, then lower, slow as a man looking over a field he’s about to plow.
You suddenly know exactly how your dress is sitting—where the fabric pulls across your chest from turning too quick, where the skirt clings to your thighs from the damp in the grass, where your collar gapes just a breath more than it should because you didn’t bother with the top button in the heat. Your skin prickles under each place you picture his eyes touching.
“You always just walk yourself into a man’s house without knockin’?” he asks after a beat, one brow ticking up.
“This ain’t a house,” you reply, chin lifting a shade. “It’s a shack my father stuck you in so you’d be closer to the barn.”
Something like amusement flickers across his mouth. “Still mine for now,” he says. “Door was shut, wasn’t it?”
“You left the lamp on,” you shoot back. “Anybody with decent sense would take that as invitation in case of emergency.”
He uncrosses his arms then, letting them drop to his sides. The motion makes muscles jump in his chest, the lines of his shoulders shifting under skin. “And what’s the emergency, miss?” he asks. “That your mama’s medicine was sittin’ ten yards farther than you like it?”
His tone isn’t mocking. It isn’t kind either. It’s something in between, something testing. Like he’s poking at you with words just to feel where you’re soft.
You swallow, the salve tin suddenly heavy in your hand. “I said why I came,” you answer. “I’ll be goin’ now.”
You move to head toward the front door, the one you came in, but the room is small, and he doesn’t move. One pace brings you close enough to smell him. Another pace would put you near enough to brush him if you misjudged your route.
He shifts his weight to fill the doorway more fully, one hand lifting to rest on the frame to the side of him. It leaves his ribs bare, that patch of hair under his arm catching the lamplight. There’s a faint scar along his flank, pale against the warmth of his skin, old and ugly, like something tore him open once and he lived anyway.
“Seems a shame,” he says, looking at you. “You comin’ all this way just to snatch up a tin and run.”
Your pulse hammers harder. “It ain’t far.”
“For you,” he agrees. “For me it’s a long, lonely walk most nights. I might be grateful for a little company.”
“You got company,” you say, words a little sharper than you intend. “You got every cow, every dog, every fence post on this land. You don’t need me.”
He lets that roll over him like water off a duck’s back. “Maybe I’m tired of talkin’ to things that can’t talk back,” he murmurs. His eyes flick down to the salve again, then to your hand, to your wrist where your pulse beats visible in the hollow. “You tore yourself up any today, or you just borrowin’ this for show?”
“Bruise on my hip,” you admit before you can remind yourself you owe him nothing. The words come out stiff. “Ain’t your concern.”
“Everythin’ that happens on this farm’s my concern when it means workers showin’ up busted in the mornin’,” he says. “You do work, don’t you? Or are you just here to keep the place pretty.”
Heat flashes through you, quick and mean. “You've seen me work,” you say. “You've seen me at that pump, at that stove, out in the yard. Don’t you stand there half-dressed and ask if I do my share.”
His mouth twitches at half-dressed. He doesn’t bother to hide the way his gaze drops, quick, down the front of himself and back up, as if to say he knows exactly how much he’s wearing and how much you’re seeing. It’s deliberate, that small, shameless acknowledgement of his own body.
“Believe me,” he says, voice dropping lower, “I’ve seen you.”
The words land between you, heavy and thick. They mean more than they say. Every peek he’s stolen presses into the space they open up: your bare leg in the barn, your shoulders shining in the bath, your tired posture on the back porch, one strap slipping careless down your arm before you hitched it back up.
You don’t know about most of that. What you do know is enough to make your throat go dry.
“I ain’t supposed to be down here visitin’,” you say, trying to wrestle the conversation back onto some ground that feels steadier. “My father told you that when you got here. Told me too.”
His eyes gleam at the mention of your father, some dark amusement sparking there. “He told me to show you respect,” he says. “And I have. Haven’t laid a hand on you that you didn’t walk too close to yourself.”
Your mind trips over the memory of his fingers catching your arm in the barn, steadying you when your mare spooked. The way his hand hovered near your torn dress, heat just shy of your hip. The way he stood in the yard with his eyes on your mouth and called you miss like it was something he wanted to lick.
You draw yourself up as tall as you can manage in the little room, salve tin tight in your grip, refusing to yield the step he’s trying to take without moving his feet. “Then you’ll move,” you say, voice low but steady. “So I can go on home and keep livin’ my life with all that respect you’re so proud of.”
For a moment, you think he might laugh in your face. His lips part, teeth catching on his bottom lip, eyes glinting.
Instead he just looks at you.
It’s worse than if he’d laughed. He looks like a man deciding how honest he feels like being tonight. Like he’s weighing whether to keep playing at politeness or lay something sharper on the table between you.
The lamplight flickers, shadow jumping along his jaw as he tilts his head. “You walk out that door,” he says finally, nodding toward the porch, “and I’ll let you. I ain’t gonna drag you nowhere you don’t step first.”
Relief and something colder flick through you at the same time. “Good,” you start to say, but he isn’t done.
“But,” he adds, and that one little word lands heavy, “you come walkin’ into my place after dark again, all alone, dressed like that, lookin’ at me like you don’t know whether you wanna slap me or cry on me—well.” His gaze drops to your mouth and back. “That’s you steppin’. And I’ll take it as such.”
Your heart stutters, one hard misstep in its rhythm. “You overestimate yourself,” you snap, even as your fingers twitch on the tin.
He smiles then, slow and wolfish, the expression finally reaching his eyes in a way you haven’t seen yet.
“We’ll see,” he says.
For a long, tight second, nobody moves. The walls feel closer, the air thicker, the lamplight too intimate. You hear the frogs outside, the creak of the house settling, the little wet sound of your own swallow. His bare chest rises and falls, steady, like he’s got all the time in the world.
Then he steps to the side.
The doorway opens up behind him, a narrow slice of night visible over his bare shoulder. It’s more space than you expected him to yield, less than you’d like.
You duck past, your shoulder nearly brushing his chest, the heat pouring off him making your skin prickle. You feel his eyes on the side of your face, on the line of your throat, on the way you have to hitch your skirt just a little to keep from tripping as you step over the threshold.
“Goodnight, miss,” he says softly, right by your ear, breath warm as it ghosts over your neck. “You be careful now. Dark’s full of things you don’t know about.”
You don’t trust your voice not to shake, so you don’t give him the satisfaction of hearing it. You just walk, bare feet hitting the packed earth hard, fingers biting into the salve tin so tight the metal cuts a little crescent into your palm.
Rough wood presses into your hips, edge digging a little where your nightgown’s ridden up, breath catching in short, shallow pulls because he’s got one big hand flat between your shoulder blades, holding you there, and the other is on your ass, fingers clawed into the thin cotton, bunching it up and away from your thighs.
The lamp in the corner throws a low, mean light over the kitchen, just enough to show you the knot in the tabletop and the chipped plate someone left on the shelf, just enough to catch the shadow of his arm when it moves.
You came down here hot with it. Anger, mostly.
At him for looking at you how he does, for crowding doorways and talking low in your ear. At yourself for feeling anything besides disgust when he does it.
For weeks that feeling has sat under your skin like a burr under a saddle, rubbing everything raw—every brush of his eyes, every sly comment, every late-night glimpse of his lantern out in the yard when you should’ve been sleeping.
Tonight it tipped over. Tonight you lay in your bed and stared at the ceiling and saw his bare chest in that little house instead, heard his voice saying we’ll see, felt your own body answer in a way that wouldn’t quit.
So you got up after the house went quiet, barefoot on the boards, heart in your throat.
You didn’t bring a lamp. You told yourself you were just going to tell him off, to say plain that you didn’t want him looking, didn’t want him speaking to you sideways, didn’t want the innuendo and the smirks and the way he made you feel peeled without ever laying a proper hand on you.
That was the story you wrapped yourself in as you crossed the yard, nightgown clinging to your knees.
He opened the door before you could knock, like he’d been standing right on the other side with his palm on the handle, listening.
You remember the way his eyes moved over you, slow, no shirt, just those loose trousers hanging low on his hips, lamp behind him making his shoulders look broad and his face unreadable.
You remember his mouth forming your name, quiet and satisfied, like he’d been waiting to say it like this.
You remember the way all that anger and want surged up together in your chest, wild and tangled, and how you said something too sharp, voice shaking, about him needing to keep his eyes to himself if he wanted to stay on your daddy’s land.
Now here you are with his hand on your back, pressing, holding you down exactly where you came—over his small scarred table in his small farmhouse kitchen—your own fingers gripping the edge in a white-knuckled clutch.
“Thought you weren’t supposed to be down here visitin’,” he drawls above you, breath warm near your ear, words rolling over your spine. “That what you told me?”
You glare at the knot in the wood like it did you personal harm.
Your face is hot, your body even hotter, a slow, heavy throb deep between your thighs that started halfway across the yard and hasn’t done a thing but grow.
“I ain’t visitin’,” you say, the words a little muffled by the way he’s got you folded. “I came to talk sense into you.”
His laugh is low and pleased, hand on your back sliding a little, fingers spreading, thumb settling along your spine. He presses down just enough to remind you who’s holding you where you are.
“Is that what you call it,” he says, “showin’ up in your bed things after dark, sneakin’ through my door with your hands empty and your eyes wide? Talkin’ sense?”
His other hand cups your ass through the thin fabric, palm wide over you, squeezing like he’s testing a piece of fruit at the market.
The nightgown has twisted up, hem caught high over your hips, leaving the bottom curve of you bare to his touch, only the cotton of your drawers between his fingers and your skin.
Heat floods that spot, a sharp, shameful pulse that makes your breath catch.
“You been walkin’ around twitchy as a cat for days,” he goes on, hand kneading, thumb digging into the give of your flesh there. “Snappin’ at me, snappin’ at your daddy, gettin’ that look on your face every time you see me like you don’t know whether to spit or spit somethin’ else.”
“Shut up,” you hiss, mortified at how true it feels in your bones.
You shift your hips, trying to wriggle away from that hand, and all it does is grind you back against his palm, soft cotton dragging over the swell of you, catching on the seam that runs right over the place you’re trying not to think about.
He makes a sound at that, low in his throat, rough and appreciative. “Yeah. There she is,” he says, words coming a little thicker now. “All that fire. You walked your own self down here, girl. Nobody dragged you.”
“I came to tell you to stop,” you manage, though the way your voice climbs at the end takes the bite out of it. His fingers curl, grab a little handful of your ass cheek through the cloth, and you feel the ache spike hotter. “Stop lookin’. Stop talkin’ like that. Stop—stop–”
“Stop makin’ you feel all twisted up?” he supplies, not unkind, just plain.
His hand on your back softens, spreads, rubbing along your spine like he’s soothing a spooked animal even as the other keeps kneading at you.
“Stop remindin’ you there’s more to be had in this world than hymns and beans and mendin’?”
You suck a breath in through your teeth. “You ain’t the only man alive,” you snap. “You ain’t special.”
His grip tightens, a hard squeeze that makes you gasp. “No,” he agrees easily. “But I’m the only one you marched down here to cuss out in your bare feet and nightclothes, so I’d say I’m doin’ something right.”
You hate how your body answers that, how something low in you liquefies at the thought of it, at the truth you don’t want to name. You hate the way your thighs press together of their own accord, seeking pressure, seeking relief, even as you hold yourself rigid under his hand.
He feels it. His palm slides down, fingers curling under the heavy curve of you, thumb dragging along the crease where your ass meets the top of your thigh.
You’re hyper-aware of every inch, every callus on his skin, every place the old wood digs into your hips. When his hand moves inward, fingers bumping close to the center of you, you flinch.
“Don’t—” you start, panic and want knitting together, but the word thins out when his touch presses just a little firmer over the damp cotton there.
“You’re soaked,” he says softly, no mockery in it, just raw, hungry wonder. “Walked through my door mad as sin, all full of pretty speeches, and your cunt’s already cryin’ for somethin’ to hold on to.”
Shame scorches up your neck. “Don’t call it that,” you choke, mortified, the word hitting you deep and low and making everything worse.
He hums, thumb tracing a slow circle over that swell, pressing right where the cloth is clinging. The pressure is perfect, unbearable.
“What you want me to call it, then?” he asks, voice brushing the shell of your ear now.
“Your virtue? Your purity? That sweet spot between your legs that ain’t nobody touched?” His thumb moves again, firmer, and your hips jolt against your will. “’Cause I see it all over you, darlin’. You came here wantin’ me to stop, but your body came here wantin’ somethin’ else entirely.”
You shake your head, even as your toes curl, even as your lungs drag in another sharp breath that tastes like him and the lamp smoke and the hot, close air of this little house.
“You’re—you’re foul,” you say, but it comes out thin, breathy. “You been lookin’ at me, watchin’ me, talkin’ to me like—”
“Like I know what to do with you,” he cuts in, a hint of impatience threading through his heat. “And I do. You think I don’t see what’s eatin’ at you every time you glance down at my hands, or my mouth, or lower?”
His fingers slide along the seam of your drawers, finding the little ridge where cloth meets cloth and pressing right there.
It sends a jolt through you big enough you can’t muffle the small sound that drops out of your throat.
His hand on your back pushes down, keeping you bent, letting you grind into that touch without rising off the table.
“Listen here,” he says, voice roughening, patience fraying. “You came. You’re here. You can tell me to stop and I will. I ain’t gonna take what you don’t hand me. But don’t stand there in my house, drippin’ on my floor, and try to lie about what you’re feelin’.”
The room seems to shrink around those words.
You know he’s right. You also know how far you are from where you were supposed to be, from the girl who said she’d never let a man like him get close, from the girl who swore she’d keep herself intact till some tidy, respectable husband came along with a ring and a house and his hat in his hands.
You think about those men. Faces you’ve seen in church, in town, men who look at you when they think you’re not noticing with a hunger they don’t know what to do with. Men who’d apologize if their fingers brushed your wrist too long.
Then you think about this man, bare-chested behind you, hard and unashamed, his hand pressed between your shoulder blades, the other on you like you’re his to handle.
You think about his eyes in the barn, on your torn dress. About the words he said in this very room, about stepping. About how you’ve been walking around with your jaw clenched and your thighs pressed together ever since.
“Tell me the truth,” he says, thumb pressing a little harder, his other fingers spread wide over the swell of you. “You want me to let go of you and send you back up that hill with your temper, you say it. I’ll move. You can go pray extra loud come Sunday.”
The lamp crackles softly, a tiny sound in the heavy dark.
“And if I don’t?” you hear yourself ask, voice small but steady. “If I say I don’t want you to move?”
His hand stills on your back for one beat, then both of them tighten—one pressing you down, one grabbing a handful of your ass like he’s staking a claim. A breath leaves him in a long, shuddery exhale that ghosts hot over your neck.
“Then I’m gonna take real good care of what you brought me,” he says, tone gone hoarse and thick, the restraint in it the only thing keeping you from shaking. “Gonna give you somethin’ to think about next time you lay awake in that bed of yours. Gonna fuck you on this table till you don’t remember what you came down here mad about.”
The word fuck lands hard in you, a punch and a promise all at once.
You grip the edge of the wood like it’s all that’s keeping you upright, though you’re already bent, already braced.
“Say it,” he murmurs, leaning in until his chest brushes your back, bare skin hot where it touches the thin cotton.
The admission sits in your throat like a hot stone. It feels enormous. It feels like stepping off a ledge.
“I want—” The word catches, but his thumb flicks over you again, sharp and sure, and your hips roll without permission, a little helpless grind that betrays every fight you’ve been waging with yourself. “I want you,” you gasp, shame and relief crashing together. “I want you to—to do somethin’ about it.”
He lets out a sound that’s almost a groan, almost a laugh, almost a curse, his body crowding you tighter, his weight a solid wall of heat at your back. “That’s my girl,” he says, and the possession in it makes your knees wobble, makes that core of you clench hard around nothing.
His hand leaves your back long enough to grab a fistful of your nightgown at the hem, yanking it up in one rough motion that leaves it bunched around your waist.
Cool air hits your drawers, the bare backs of your thighs, the soft part just under your cheeks, and then his palm is there, skin to skin at last, cupping you hard.
His fingers dig in, thumbs pressing outward, spreading you slightly, mapping the give.
“You’re shakin’,” he says, sounding pleased. “Ain’t even touched you proper yet.”
“You’re takin’ your time,” you manage, though the words shake too.
He chuckles, low. “First time’s never good when a man rushes,” he answers, matter-of-fact. “And I know you ain’t had nobody in you yet, feelin’ the way you do under my hand.”
Before you can answer, his fingers hook into the waistband of your drawers and tug. The fabric resists for a second, elastic biting into soft flesh, then slides down, dragging over your hips, over the swell of your ass, down the backs of your thighs until they tangle around your knees.
He leaves them there, trapping your legs just enough you can’t kick or close up, just enough that you’re open and vulnerable and aware of it.
Cool air kisses you everywhere the cloth just left.
You feel filthy, bare from waist to mid-thigh, bent over his table with your nightgown rucked up, your cunt exposed to the room, to him. It makes your head swim.
Then his hand is back, and there is no room for anything else.
He cups you from behind, fingers sliding through the slick heat of your folds, and you hear a sharp breath hitch out of him. “Oh, hell,” he says, reverent.
You make a broken, helpless sound that doesn’t sound like it belongs to you.
No one’s ever been there before, not like this, not with fingers spreading you, rubbing through you, middle finger catching on that aching bud you’ve only ever touched in the dark with guilty hands.
The sensation is lightning-bright, stabbing up your spine.
“Easy,” he murmurs, palm flattening across your low back again, his body curving over yours, caging you. “I got you. Gonna make it good for you before I stretch you around me. Don’t want you too scared to enjoy your first fuck.”
The way he says first fuck, like he’s staking a flag there, like he’s carving his name into it, makes something fierce flicker through you, a strange pride knotting up with the fear.
You push back against his hand without meaning to, chasing more.
He feels it. “That’s it,” he encourages, fingers pressing deeper between your lips now. “Ask for what you want with that pretty body. Tell me where it hurts.”
“Everywhere,” you pant, honesty ripped out of you on a wave. “It hurts everywhere.”
He laughs, breath hot against your neck, mouth close enough you feel the shape of it. “That ain’t hurt, girl,” he says. “That’s need.”
His fingers finally find your entrance, slick and hot and clutching, and he presses the pad of one inside, just the tip, testing. Your whole body clenches around that intrusion.
“You relax for me,” he tells you, tone sliding into something commanding. “Breathe.”
You suck in air, lungs burning.
He slides the finger in a little further, thick and probing, opening you.
The stretch is sharp, uncomfortable, but there’s an undercurrent of relief in it. He works it in and out slowly, letting you get used to the feel, letting your body learn the shape of him.
“That’s good,” he murmurs when he feels you soften around him, the praise lighting up something small and hungry in your chest. “See? You take my finger just fine. Gonna take my cock too when I’m done with you.”
He adds a second finger before you can brace, and this time the stretch makes you gasp loud, muscles clamping down. It burns, a deep, insistent ache, like you’re being pried open.
“Shh,” he soothes, his index finding that little bundle of nerves again, circling steady, sending sparks to chase the hurt. “I know. I know. We gotta loosen you up some or you’ll split yourself on me.”
The blunt truth of it makes you squeeze your eyes shut, face hot against your forearm.
You can feel him behind you, solid, his chest glued to your back, his arm moving between your legs. When you manage to breathe past the initial shock, the burn eases, replaced by a full, pressurized feeling that fills your head with nothing but sensation.
He moves his fingers, slow at first, pumping them in and out of you in short strokes, stretching, coaxing.
Your body starts to answer despite itself, hips rocking back in tiny motions, seeking that deep, sweet drag.
Every thrust brushes against something inside you that makes your legs tremble, makes your breath hitch.
“Listen to that,” he says, voice thick, and it takes you a second to realize he means the wet sound loud in the little kitchen as his fingers work in and out of you. “You hear yourself takin’ me in? That’s you wantin’ it.”
It’s filthy and true and you can’t deny it.
There's a coil tightening low in your belly, every nerve in your body funneling to where his hand is. Your grip on the table edge goes slippery with sweat.
“Remmick,” you gasp, not even sure what you’re asking for, only that you’re strung too tight.
“There you go,” he groans, fingers driving a little deeper, curling just right.
It hits without much warning. One second you’re climbing, the next you’re over the edge, everything snapping.
Your body seizes around his fingers, clenching so hard it almost hurts, that coil unspooling in a rush of pleasure so intense it blanks your mind.
A breathless moan tears up your throat. Your thighs shake, knees nearly buckling, if it weren’t for his hand on your back and the table under your palms you’d be on the floor.
“That’s it,” he groans, riding you through it, fingers still working, still moving until you’re whimpering, too sensitive, twitching with each little aftershock.
You sag against the table when it finally lets you go, chest heaving, sweat cooling on your neck. He eases his fingers out of you slow, gentle for the first time since you walked in, his hand sliding up to rest on your hip. You can feel his other hand at your back again, rubbing small circles, keeping you grounded.
“First one’s always a little wild,” he says, sounding almost fond. “You doin’ all right?”
You nod, or try to. Your head feels full of cotton, floaty and heavy all at once. “I—” Your voice comes out hoarse. You clear your throat. “I’m fine.”
“You’re more than fine,” he says, and there’s a smile in it. “You’re perfect.” He shifts behind you, and that’s when you feel it, really feel it—his cock pressed up against the back of your thigh through the fabric of his trousers.
He’s been hard this whole time, you realize dimly, all that while he was working you open. The blunt head drags over your skin when he adjusts, the thickness of him obvious even through cloth.
Your stomach flips, fear and anticipation knotting together. “You’re really—”
“Oh, I’m really.” He sounds almost amused. “You wanted me to take you on this table, remember?”
His hand leaves your back and you hear the soft, familiar sound of a belt coming loose, a buckle clinking, the rasp of leather through belt loops. Then buttons, quick and practiced, fabric shifting.
You suck in a breath, every sense straining.
A moment later, something hot and slick—not his fingers this time—nudges against your entrance. He slides the head of his cock through your slick folds slowly, up and down, coating himself in you, bumping your clit on the downstroke, making you twitch.
“Jesus,” he mutters, more to himself than you. “You feel that? How you’re grabbin’ at me already and I ain’t even in?”
You do feel it, and it’s terrifying. Your body recognizes him as something it’s meant to hold, meant to take, even as your mind stumbles over the size of him, over what this means.
“I—wait,” you say, panic flaring for a second, the reality of it looming. “Remmick, I’m—”
“I know,” he says, and for once there’s no teasing in it. “You listen to me. It’s gonna burn at first, then it’s gonna feel like you never should’ve gone without it this long. You trust me?”
You hesitate. He feels it in the way your muscles tense around the head of him. His hand comes up, fingers wrapping loosely around your throat from behind, thumb tipping your chin just a little. The touch sends a different kind of shiver through you, sharp and grounding.
“I ain’t gonna break you,” he says quietly, close to your ear. “I want you comin’ back to this just as bad as I want you right now.” His hips roll just enough that the blunt tip presses hard against your opening.
The hand at your throat, the tone in his voice, the memory of his fingers and the way your body just came apart on them thirty seconds ago—they all crash together, and you find yourself nodding before you know you’re doing it.
“Go,” you whisper, the word trembling, but there.
He makes a sound then that’s half-growl, half-groan, all man. His grip on your throat tightens just a hair, his other hand clamping down on your hip.
“That’s my girl,” he says again, rough with need. “Hold on.”
The head of him breaches you with more resistance than his fingers ever met.
Your body tries to clamp down, to keep him out, muscles fighting the stretch. He doesn’t slam in, but he doesn’t baby you either. He works himself in slow, steady pressure, teeth gritted, hips driving forward inch by thick inch.
The burn is real. It’s sharp, like you’re being split open from the inside. You gasp, nails scraping at the wood, whole body bowing. For a second it’s too much.
“Breathe,” he grunts through his own strain, hand at your throat sliding up to your jaw, thumb pressing at your cheek. “Breathe through it. You’re takin’ me. Look at you. You’re takin’ me.”
He isn’t wrong. Beneath the pain, there’s this breathless awe—at the size of him, at the way your own body yields, at the feel of being filled in a way you never have before.
You force yourself to inhale, exhale, again, again. Your muscles flutter around him, protesting, then slowly easing.
When the broadest part of his head passes the tight ring of your entrance, the rest slides in easier, still stretching, still burning, but less violently.
He sinks deeper, stopping only when his hips are flush with your ass, his pelvis pressed to your backside, balls snugged up against your cunt. You can feel him everywhere, heavy and solid in your core, pulsing faintly.
“Christ,” he rasps, the words hot against your neck. “I can barely think straight. Sweet girl, you just swallowed every inch of me.”
You exhale shakily, overwhelmed. Full doesn’t begin to cover it. You feel stuffed, stretched to the point of coming apart, and yet under the ache, something else is already starting—a low, thick pleasure that moves like honey, spreading outward from where you’re joined.
He holds still for a long moment, breathing hard into your hair, chest rising and falling against your back. His hand at your hip rubs little circles, the one at your jaw softening its grip.
“You tell me when it stops hurtin’ so sharp,” he says. “I ain’t in no rush, even if my cock’s yellin’ otherwise.”
You try to focus. The worst of the burn ebbs, leaving a throbbing soreness, but the sense of him—deep, impossible, yours—is starting to bloom into something almost good.
“Move,” you whisper, surprising yourself. “Just a little.”
He laughs, breath short. “Greedy already,” he says. “Alright.”
He pulls back, just an inch, maybe two, dragging that thick length along your walls. The friction is intense, raw and tender and electric all at once. Then he pushes in again, slower, watching for any flinch.
Your fingers dig into the table, but you don’t cry out, don’t tell him to stop. Your body clutches at him on the way out, sucks at him on the way back in.
He does it again. And again. Each shallow thrust smooths the hurt a little more, replaces it with deeper sensation. The initial sting fades into a deep, stretching fullness that makes your knees weak, that makes heat lick up your spine in waves.
“That’s it,” he murmurs, hand sliding from your jaw back down to your throat, wrapping around it more firmly this time, not cutting your air, just pinning you, reminding you where you are and who’s holding you. “Now we’re gettin’ somewhere.”
He lengthens his strokes, pulling back farther, pushing in harder. The wet slap of his hips meeting your ass starts up, quiet at first, then louder, the sound of skin on skin obscene in the still night.
Every push drives him deeper, nudging at something inside you that makes your breath jump, that sends little shocks through your belly, like he’s bumping the edge of something tender and secret and his.
Your body has learned the shape of him, stretching you from the inside.
You can feel every ridge, every vein, the way the fat head spears through the tight clutch of you and then disappears into that deep, hot place that was empty your whole life and now is nothing but him.
His hand at your throat tightens, just a little. Not enough to cut your air, but enough to make each breath a thing you have to pull for, chest heaving against the table edge. His palm is broad and warm, thumb resting under your jaw, fingers curved along the side of your neck.
Every time his hips snap forward, that grip reminds you he’s there; it pins you in your own skin so you can’t float away from what’s happening, can’t pretend it’s anything but what it is: you getting fucked open on a man’s cock in his kitchen like you were meant for it.
Then his hand drops. It slides down the column of your throat, over the dip of your collarbone, fingers spreading wide as they drag lower, rough palm grazing the top swell of your breast through the thin cotton.
He cups you from behind, big hand wrapping around the weight of it, lifting, squeezing. The nightgown bunches under his fingers as he kneads, thumb rolling over your nipple until it stiffens hard, the fabric rasping just enough to make you whine.
“There,” he mutters, voice gone thick, like he has to taste every part of you. “Knew these’d feel good in my hand.”
He squeezes once more, harder, the pressure sending a sharp line of sensation straight down to where he’s buried in you, your nipple trapped between his thumb and the heat of his palm.
Your back arches, pushing more of your tit into his grip even as his cock grinds deeper.
For a second you’re caught between the drag inside and the rough, greedy hold on your breast, pleasure ricocheting between the two.
Then his hand is moving again, leaving your aching nipple peaked under the cotton, skimming back up over your breastbone, returning to your throat like it owns the place. His fingers curl back into their collar around your neck, thumb settling under your jaw, holding you where he wants you while his hips keep driving.
“Listen to you,” he groans, and you realize he doesn’t just mean your voice—wrecked and breaking on every inhale—but the wet, filthy noise your body’s making, the slick drag of his cock pulling out of you, the obscene squelch when he pushes back in, the slap of his balls hitting the curve of your cunt. “You hear that? That’s this pussy lovin’ every inch I’m givin’ her.”
The word makes your stomach flutter and your cunt clench down around him so tight he curses, hips stuttering.
There’s no room for modesty now; everything between your legs is wide awake and telling on you.
Every time he pulls back, your inner muscles chase after him, hugging, clinging, like you’re frightened of losing that fullness, like your body’s praying he’ll push right back in—and he does, like he’s answering a call.
He adjusts his stance, feet shifting on the rough floor, and angle changes. The next thrust lands different, deeper, the thick head of him driving up and forward to grind against a spot inside you that makes your vision white out around the edges for a beat.
You jolt, a strangled noise ripping out of you, fingers scraping along the tabletop as your whole body goes tense.
“There it is,” he pants, catching that reaction, chasing it.
He does it again on purpose, hips rolling instead of just snapping, driving that same path, making sure he hits that spot with the crown every time.
“You feel that? Right there? That’s what you been needin’, girl. That ache way up high you ain’t never had a name for.”
He's right on it now, relentless.
Each stroke is a steady assault, steady enough your body starts to learn the pattern, tension building with every collision. The soreness from taking him the first time smooths into a deep, hot throb that wraps around the pleasure, one feeding the other.
Your toes curl, your thighs tremble, your stomach ripples around the intrusion like you’re trying to swallow him even deeper.
He slides the hand from your hip back around your front, into the slick heat between your thighs, and finds your clit like he’s been doing it all his life.
His fingers are slick with your own mess, rough pads moving in tight, ruthless circles over that swollen bud. It sends lightning directly up your spine, straight to the base of your skull.
You choke on a sound that isn’t quite a word and jerk against his hand; his arm around your throat holds you in place.
“Goddamn, you’re twitchy,” he groans, grinding his hips down so the bone of him presses your ass, so his cock bruises into that soft spot inside while his fingers roll your clit. “You gonna fall apart on me again? You gonna let me feel you squeeze all over my cock proper this time?”
Your answer is a breathless, broken, “Please,” your voice ragged, half sob, half prayer.
The table shudders under the force of his thrusts now, the legs complaining in small creaks that match the rhythm of his hips. The lamp flame jumps in its glass, throwing wild shadows against the wall—a tangle of your bent body and his frame hunched over you, shoulders rolling as he works inside you like he’s plowing up hard ground.
Spit slicks your lips; you realize at some point your mouth fell open and just forgot how to close, breath dragging in ragged, wet pulls.
You couldn’t be bothered to care if you tried; everything is narrowed to the hot place his cock is sawing through and the bright, brutal pulses from his fingers on your clit.
He can feel you climbing, feel your body drawing in tight around him, feel your channel starting to flutter. He growls, low and guttural, the sound pressed against the back of your neck. “That’s it. That’s it, squeeze me.”
His hand at your throat tightens a hair more, narrowing the world to his breathing and yours, the rush of blood in your ears, the drag of wood under your palms.
The smallest bit of pressure makes every sensation hit harder; your body goes light and heavy at the same time, limbs tingling, cock-deep pull inside you the only thing that feels solid.
He pistons into you now with a steadier, punishing rhythm, cock dragging from the fat base at your entrance all the way to that deep end that makes your belly flip, then back again.
Your ass jiggles from each impact, flesh rippling under his grip. His fingers at your clit don’t falter.
You can hear yourself now, high and ruined, begging without even knowing what for. “Don’t stop—don’t—Remmick, don’t—oh—oh God—”
“Mhm, use my name,” he hisses, hips crashing into yours, the wet slap echoing off the close walls. “You say it when you can’t hold yourself together no more.”
He leans forward, the sweat on his skin slick against the thin cotton of your nightgown bunched at your waist.
His mouth finds the side of your neck, teeth scraping over the delicate skin there, then biting down just hard enough to make you gasp. He sucks, draws blood closer to the surface in a hot sting that only makes your cunt flutter harder around him.
Between the choke of his hand, the sharp pinch of his teeth, the relentless grind of his cock, and the ruthless attention on your clit, you don’t stand a chance.
The orgasm slams into you hard enough your knees buckle, your body trying to curl in on itself while he holds you stretched over the table.
Everything constricts at once—your throat around his hand, your belly around the deep ache, your cunt around his cock. You clamp down on him with startling force, walls seizing, milking, clutching like you’re trying to suck him straight out of his skin.
You cry out. There’s no pretty word for it. Sound rips out of you high and raw, your voice cracking on his name.
Your vision goes fuzzy with white at the edges, the kitchen shrinking to the rough wood under your hands and the thick, unyielding length splitting you and the brutal roll of pleasure ripping through you in waves.
“Fuck—fuck,” he grunts at your ear, the feeling of you spasming around him cutting through every ounce of control he has left. “That’s it, that’s it, girl, grip me—Jesus—”
He doesn’t stop moving, not really; he grinds through it, forcing his cock to keep sliding, short, deep thrusts, using the vice of your orgasm to wring everything he can from you.
You’re shaking all over, thighs trembling so hard your feet skid a little on the floor, toes digging uselessly for purchase.
Another rush of slick gushes around him, soaking his cock, dripping down over his balls, sliding warm along the inside of your thighs.
Your body keeps clenching in pulses, the pleasure cresting and breaking over and over until it tips toward something sharp, too much. You whimper, the sound small and shredded. His hand leaves your clit finally, stroking shaking skin instead, but his hips don’t stop.
The rhythm goes ragged, less measured, more frantic. His thrusts turn into short, hard ruts, like his body’s the one begging now. His fingers flex around your throat, then loosen just a little, thumb stroking your jaw instead as his breathing unravels.
“Gonna fill you up,” he groans, voice pitched low and rough. “You want that? You want me shootin’ deep in you, huh? Want to feel me leakin’ out you all the way back up to that house?”
The words, filthy as they are, punch right through your oversensitivity and light up something molten in your gut.
Your sore, flooded cunt tightens around him involuntarily at the thought of carrying him inside you, his spend rolling down your thighs later when you climb into your own bed.
You can’t shape the answer into full words; what comes out is some strangled mess that sounds like y-yes and a choke.
“Yeah, you do,” he snarls like he heard it. “You greedy little thing, comin’ down here pretendin’ you just wanna talk when your cunt’s hungry as hell.”
He drives in hard, once, twice, three more times, each thrust bottoming him out, pelvis grinding against the round of your ass.
The slap of his hips is loud now, sloppy, wetter, your combined mess making the impact slick.
Then his whole body locks.
His stomach clenches tight against your back, jaw clamped against the side of your neck. A sound tears out of him, not quite human, something between a growl and a groan. His cock jerks inside you, swelling even thicker for a heart-stopping second, and then you feel it—hot, heavy spurts of him spilling deep, pounding against your cervix, flooding that space that’s been empty your entire life with a hot, liquid fullness.
He curses low and hoarse on each pulse, hips rocking in tiny, helpless movements as he empties himself, his own climax dragged out by the way your slick, oversensitive walls keep squeezing and fluttering around him. Every time your cunt milks him, another rope of cum kicks out of him, painting you inside.
“God—damn—” he grits, shuddering, one hand sliding from your throat to slap down next to your own on the table, fingers splayed wide, knuckles white on the wood. “You feel that? Feel me givin’ it to you?”
You do. You feel all of it. Every pulse, every twitch, every deep throb of him lodged inside, filling you, staking a claim. Your whole body feels stuffed, weighty, like he’s poured something molten into your bones.
The shakes take him then. You feel them where his chest is plastered to your back, quivers running through him in waves as his orgasm tapers off.
His cock softens a little inside you but doesn’t slip free; your swollen entrance and the spent thickness of him keep you plugged together. Each small movement sends a slow, slick ache radiating outward.
For a long moment neither of you says anything.
He slumps more of his weight onto you without meaning to, and you sag under it, cheek pressed to the tabletop, breaths coming in harsh, uneven pulls.
Sweat has glued your nightgown to your ribs where it’s still covering your upper body; where it’s bunched around your waist, the fabric clings damp to your skin with a mixture of your own wetness and his.
Eventually, he finds his voice, though it’s wrecked, scraped raw at the edges. “Jesus,” he mutters, words ghosting hot over the shell of your ear.
For the first time since he pushed into you, he eases his hips back.
You gasp, a little shocked moan slipping out as his softening cock drags along your raw walls.
When his head slips past your entrance, your muscles clench on instinct, reluctant to let him go, but gravity wins. He slides free, leaving you empty in a way that feels sharp, unfinished, even with his cum already starting to seep down, warm, from inside you.
Something thick and wet trickles out immediately, a slow, viscous roll that slides over your swollen folds and down the curve of your inner thigh. You feel it clearly, a hot trail in the cooler air of the kitchen. The knowledge of what it is, whose it is, makes your face burn and your belly tighten all over again.
He sees it too.
“Look at that,” he says softly, voice full of rough, satisfied awe.
His hand leaves yours and slides down, palm cupping the underside of your ass, thumb catching one of those white streaks, spreading it lazily over your sensitive skin. You flinch, a little gasp escaping before you can stop it.
“Too much?” he asks.
“A little,” you admit, breath still stuttering.
He makes a pleased sound at that, thumb dragging one last lazy stripe through the mess before he rubs his hand off on his own thigh.
He straightens slowly, the absence of his weight making you sway for a second. His hands, empty now, come to your waist, smoothing down the bunched nightgown. He tugs it back into place over your hips, hiding what he’s done as best cloth can hide it.
Then he crouches a little, fingers catching the waistband of your drawers. They’re still tangled around your knees, sticky with your slick.
He coaxes them up, guiding the cotton over your tender flesh, covering your cunt, trapping his spend where it is.
The pull of the fabric against your oversensitive skin makes you hiss and bite your lip, but it also feels lewd and intimate in a different way—his cum pressed up against you, soaked into the cloth that sits right over your entrance.
He knows exactly what he’s doing, sealing you up like that. It shows in the way his thumb lingers a second too long at the gusset, pressing lightly, as if to make sure the material is snug, as if to feel one more time that he’s right there even with clothes between you.
“Gonna be walkin’ home with your panties stickin’ to you and a piece of me tryin’ to leak right back out,” he murmurs, voice a dark purr. “You’ll be thinkin’ of me every step.”
You make a weak noise, somewhere between a protest and something softer. Your legs feel unsteady when he finally helps you pull them fully into place, when he urges you upright with hands at your waist.
When you stand, it’s like your bones have gone wrong—heavy at the hips, light at the knees, a deep, interior throb that makes you aware of your own body in a way you’ve never been.
He turns you gently, so your hip leans back into the edge of the table instead of your chest, so you’re facing him. His hair is damp and rumpled, a curl fallen low over his forehead, chest and stomach slick with sweat.
His gaze sweeps over you, taking in the mussed nightgown, the bite marks blossoming at your throat and shoulder where his teeth worried your skin, the slackness of your mouth, the glassy shine to your eyes.
Confidence sits easy on him; he looks like a man who’s put in a long night’s work and is proud of the job he’s done.
“You’re gonna cuss me tomorrow,” he says, voice low and a little smug. “When you sit down. When you walk. But you ain’t gonna regret it.”
You swallow, throat thick, his words settling warm and heavy between your ribs.
“No,” you admit, even quieter than before, and there’s no sense lying now. “I don’t… regret it.”
His mouth curves. “Good.”
You look away, suddenly aware of the time, of the silence of the big house up the hill, of how your mama and daddy are sleeping through something that’s gone and rearranged their daughter from the inside out.
“I need to go,” you say, voice small but steadying. “Before my father wakes up for water, or Mama starts callin’ and finds my bed empty.”
His hands fall from your waist, though not without one last, slow sweep along the curve of you, like he’s committing it to memory.
“Go on,” he says. “Before I talk you into layin’ down on that bed in there and not leavin’ till the rooster screams.”
Your body responds to the image with an exhausted throb, a clench around nothing.
You push off the table and take a careful step. Your thighs rub, slick, the damp cotton of your drawers pulling against you; you feel a fresh little leak of him inside you, a warm ooze that soaks into the fabric and clings. It makes you stutter a little, the soreness set deep in your core.
Remmick watches the way you move, jaw flexing, something like pride and hunger both tightening his face.
He reaches for his trousers, tucking himself away, but he doesn’t bother with a shirt yet, doesn’t bother pretending he’s anything but what he is: the man who just fucked you on his kitchen table and filled you til you’re walking crooked.
You make it to the door on legs that still shake. Your fingers land on the frame as you pull it open, the cool breath of the night spilling in.
Before you step out, you glance back. His eyes are on you, unreadable now, dark and steady in the lamplight.
“You come down here again,” he says, voice quiet, sure, “don’t pretend you’re just here for salve or scoldin’. You knock on my door after dark, I know what you’re askin’ for.”
You hold his gaze, the soreness between your thighs, the fullness inside you, the ache in your muscles all speaking louder than any denial you could muster.
His eyes follow you out into the dark, low and pleased, and as you cross the yard barefoot, nightgown brushing your knees, his cum warm and sticky between your legs, you know he’s standing there in that doorway shirtless, watching you go with no shame at all, already planning just how he’ll take you the next time you come scratching at his door.
The birds wake you with the sunrise, singing gayly outside your window.
You look around the bed, then the room.
He's gone.
You remember the night before.
The ache.
The fervour in which you devoured each other.
Your muscles were sore in a decidedly good way, your arms aching as they pushed you up from the bed.
Seeing the bed empty, your heart fell. You'd hoped he'd stay. Hoped it meant as much to him as it had to you.
You didnt want to admit it, but being with him, just being near him, made you feel.....whole....somehow.
Now you just felt dumb.
An image of his backlit silhouette flashed in your mind, the long fingers adorned with sharp nails, red eyes gleaming in the blackness.
Yet you couldn't bring yourself to care.
If he wanted to hurt you he would've already.
He'd had a million chances.
You thought about it all as you pulled on a robe, sticking your feet in slippers forgotten under the bed, and wandered out to the kitchen.
Work.
You hoped they wouldnt be mad. You'd say you had a stomach bug or something. Itd be fine.
Out of the corner of your eye you noticed it was gone. Remmicks banjo. The guitar was leaning all alone against the fireplace where you'd set it last night.
You wondered if you'd ever seen him again. Men were like that, they'd fuck ya senseless then blow outta town, not a word. You hoped that wasnt the case...
The night came, as it always does.
You had waited for it like it'd never come.
You sat outside, swinging and strumming as usual, wondering if he would show up as or if you'd be back to playin your melodies all alone, only the cicadas to keep you comp'ny in the dark.
It took a while, you were almost ready to go inside when something moved in the corner of your eye.
You held back.
"Howdy, gorgeous." He drawled, his boots heavy on the wood of the porch, vibrating your bones. He stood in his usual spot, strumming along with you.
"Howdy." Scooching over, you patted the seat next to you and he strode over and took his spot.
Juat the sound of his voice gave you a wash of relief that you hated.
We're you mad at him? Maybe?
You didnt really know what youd expected anyways. He was a stranger.
A voice whispered in the back of your head 'a monster'.
There was no promise of tomorrow.
And yet, here he was, handsome as ever, sitting next to you.
Yall played for a good long while before you decided to ask a question you been wanting to know.
"So...what really brought you round these parts, mister wanderer."
He didnt hesitate. "You."
Your eyebrow almost tangled in your hair, lips pressed tight. "How so?"
This time he took a minute and you could see he was thinkin. "You ever hear of the legend of the firekeeper?"
The question got you so confused. "No?"
You heard a small sigh. "Its hard to explain. Firekeepers, or Filí as I used to call them, are people who make music so true and so pure, that it transcends time, uniting the spirits of the past and future, and unites them with the present realm." He looked at you for a long minute. "You're one of em'. I heard your music and came to hear you play and feel the spirits of my long expired friends."
You nod, listening to him speak. You didnt know how much of this you believed, but given he was a Vampire, maybe there was more to life than what's in the good book your daddy always toted around.
"So when I play the guitar n sing n all that, I conjure spirits?" You asked and he nodded. "And you came to hear me play and be with them?"
"I did. But....I kept comin back. Thats something I aint usually in the habit of doin." His voice took on a sincere quality, looking at you like the stars were shinin behind your eyes. "I think....." He ran a hand over his face. "I think I.....like you.....more than a monster like me should be able to." The nervousness was evident in his voice. "You make me feel...sorta.......alive."
The both of you had stopped strumming by now as you soaked in his words. They were making your heart do flipflops and your palms sweat. Your foot bounced. You hadnt worked up the courage to admit it to yourself yet.
You stared at each other in the dim light of your lantern, tension so thick you could cut it with a cold butterknife.
"Do you want to come in for some tea?" You asked, looking over at him to scan for rejection that never came.
"O'course." He smiled.
The kettle whistled loud and the sound rang in your ears until you turned the stove off.
Remmick sat at your kitchen table, seeming out of place somehow in a proper house. He looked casual as can be but there was an air about him that said he didnt do houses. Something slightly off in his manner.
He was a monster after all.
Sitting in your kitchen.
Because you invited him in.
You shook your head at yourself, cursing your naivete.
But then you looked at him...
There he sat, looking around your house like he hadnt been in one in ages. Eyeing all the stuff on your walls and knicknacks on the shelves, your grandmothers orrnate plates displayed above the kitchen cabinets. You'd made him leave his boots by the door, so he tapped his socked feet on the linoleum.
He got up as you set down his cup of lemon verbena tea.
"This a radio?" He asked, turning the knobs. You heard the familiar click and fuzz of it turning on and he searched for a station, finally finding one with a new song you hadnt heard before.
He came back over to you before you could sit down and enjoy your tea, hand extended to you, the other behind his back.
You knew what he was getting at.
"The tea will get cold." You whined, secretly giddy inside.
"Oh hush."
He pulled you to the livingroom carpet, hand around your waist, the other in yours just like last time. The two of you swayed with the slow melody playing from the speaker behind you, not too soft and not too loud, lingering in the sweet spot that gave the moment tenderness.
He spun you a few times, your head going under his arm and your back coming to rest against him, his head on your shoulder, arms intertwined. He placed one kiss on your neck, a shiver reaching your core, and then spun you again to face him, hands resting easily on your waist.
Blue eyes, a slight sheen of red ghosted over them, and they looked at you like you were the only woman in the world. Your arms went to his shoulders.
"Where'd you go. This mornin." The words practically jumped outta you.
"I got a bit peckish." His face said it all, he needn't explain.
Your heart ached.
You'd felt lonelier than ever in the moment you realized he wasnt there.
But there was no promise.
He left.
He didnt have to come back.
And he did.
Did it say more that he left or that he came back?
It was as if he saw the gears turnin.
"I'm sorry darlin." He swept your hair behind your ear and you looked up at him.
You wanted to say it.
Plead with him to stay.
But you figured maybe thats selfish.
It'd been four days since he first came to your porch.
Nary a week and you wanted to pledge eternity?
You almost laughed at yourself.
With a monster nonetheless.
Your face must've looked like you felt.
Helpless.
Confused.
He tilted your chin up with a finger. "Look at me." You almost couldn't bring yourself to. "Whats goin on in that pretty head of yers."
The words threatened to choke you.
You opened your mouth but nothing came out.
This is so ridiculous
"I want you to stay." You mumbled, eyes looking down at the buttons on his shirt.
"Hmm I cant hear you mumblin like that." He lied, cravin to hear it again.
You straightened and tried to hold your wavering eyes onto his.
"I want you to stay." You said sheepishly, face definitely flushed now. "Its so stupid." Your forehead hit his chest as you mumbled the last line. You wanted to slap yourself silly. His hand came to your hair, stroking it a bit.
It took a while for him to respond.
"I aint ever had a place before. Never belonged anywhere." Remmicks voice rumbled in his chest and it did something to your soul. "I dunno if I know how to anymore..."
Something dropped on your head.
At that you looked up to see a single tear had rolled down his cheek, evident only by the slighty shiny trail that disappeared at his chin.
"You dont have to know how." You whispered, face close to his, noses touching."You just....do."
The sheen on his eyes glowed a bit brighter as the radio changed to a different song.
You two barely heard it.
Your mouth was on his, eyes closed, the remnants of his tear on your cheek. Time slipped by, your chests heaving, pressed together as if in a vice.
Last time?
Last time it was sweet.
Tender.
Caring.
The new love of spring and sunrise, all buttery and fresh.
This time its twilight.
Dark.
Raw.
Desperate.
You breathed each other in. Swallowed the space between you and damn near split atoms getting closer. Mouths opening wider, heads turning, tongues wrestling for a rough dominance that didnt exist.
Sharp fingers dug into your hips, and your heart raced at the realization that if you opened your eyes, you'd see his crimson truth staring back at you.
A feral groan ripped through his chest and into yours. Your hands came down to undo his shirt buttons but he just ripped the thing off, popping all of the buttons and throwing it across the room. Your eyes, heavy with lust, watched the movement of his muscles underneath pale skin while he pulled his undershirt over his head and dropped it on the floor before pouncing on you.
He pulled your legs up to wrap around his waist as your fingers settled in his hair. The taste of sin flooded your mouth and the scent of his skin, soft and smelling of smoke and some spice you couldn't name but couldnt get enough of, invigorated your senses.
His steps were heavy and sure leading back to your bedroom. The world tipped for a second and you gasped and clung to him right before your back hit the bed linens. You moved back to make room as he crawled onto the bed with you, settling between your legs.
He sat back on his heels, pulling your nightgown off of you, sharp nails then dragging a slow line down from your clavicle all the way to your folds. He stared at your skin in the moonlight while dragging his fingers around your slick wet cunt.
His other hand took off his belt, dropping his pants to reveal his cock, the perfect size with a nice full pink tip, already leaking as he stroked it, a pitiful moan escaping from deep inside of him. You licked your lips and whined as the sight made you want to rip him apart or suck him dry, you couldn't decide.
How a creature spawned from the pits of hell could make you feel so close to heaven was beyond your understanding.
But you didnt need to understand.
You just needed to feel.
Your legs went over his shoulders and he positioned himself at your entrance, with one thrust his cockhead slipped up your folds, parting them like the sea before pressing good and hard right on your clit.
You moaned long and loud. The anticipation had made you more sensitive than ever, hips twitching. Your back arched off of the bed.
"Oh...your moanin is so sweet baby, do it again for me." He said as he repeated his action, cock poking at your entrance, then sliding up to nudge your sweet spot, eliciting a pathetic whimper to bubble up from your throat.
He moaned at the sound, "Mmm baby...just like that."
Fisting the base, he dragged the tip up and down over and over again, your whimpers and moans sounding more and more desperate with each pass over your clit.
His eyes fix on your face, watching like a predator stalking prey, making you feel even more exposed and vulnerable.
A line of drool flows down his chin and drips onto your chest.
The lewd wet sounds of your pussy being massaged amplify the experience, the coil in your belly getting too tight to handle as you teeter on the edge.
Knuckles white gripping the sheets, your back arches off the mattress.
Screaming his name over through the sensations.
Toes curling and legs falling limp.
Your hips twitching and roll, his leaking cock still slipping around your folds, building another climax as you come down from the first.
You barely catch your breath before another one grips your body and everything dies out, your existence hinging on this overwhelming pleasure coursing through you.
You come down, sensitive and empty.
"Ready darlin?" He says, lowering himself down over you, legs slung over his shoulders. He doesnt waste a second, its agony and ecstasy in one. A nice gentle stretch, just enough to make you squirm while the tip slides past the spongy area right at the top of your canal.
No words are said because none are needed.
He bottoms out, the tip nudging your cervix with each languid roll of his hips.
Remmick grows harder inside of you, his arms straining, eyes locked on you, gold chain swinging with each movement.
The friction of his cock against your gummy walls makes your eyes fall closed, whimpering softly against his neck.
A heat pools in your belly, your moans ramping up in time with his thrusts.
He moves one hand down to press down low on your belly, feeling himself slide through you and increasing the sensations.
You clamp down on his cock, moans wild, teetering on the edge, nails digging into his sides, and he moans with you.
"Fu..u..ckkk." He groans out as you both explode, he slows his thrusts, making your orgasm wane and you can't hold back.
"DONT STOP!" You plead. He rolls his hips again and again, your orgasm resuming harder than before as you cry out, gripping tight, his own moans making it even hotter. His eyes roll back in his head, arms shaking.
Cum oozes out at the base of his cock, dripping onto the sheets while he continues to fuck into you.
Finally spent, he rolls off of you, panting.
You wait for your breathing to regulate, his hand in yours.
Rolling over, you lay your head on his chest and drift off.....
The next morning you wake up to your head gently rising and falling, fingers running gently through your hair.
His voice rumbles in your head. "Sleep well, mo ghradh?"
Thank you for reading!!
I've got two other remmick fics in the works right now, one of which is very much romance and anticipation focused, the other is very dark kinky slutty bloody. Watch for those!
The birds wake you with the sunrise, singing gayly outside your window.
You look around the bed, then the room.
He's gone.
You remember the night before.
The ache.
The fervour in which you devoured each other.
Your muscles were sore in a decidedly good way, your arms aching as they pushed you up from the bed.
Seeing the bed empty, your heart fell. You'd hoped he'd stay. Hoped it meant as much to him as it had to you.
You didnt want to admit it, but being with him, just being near him, made you feel.....whole....somehow.
Now you just felt dumb.
An image of his backlit silhouette flashed in your mind, the long fingers adorned with sharp nails, red eyes gleaming in the blackness.
Yet you couldn't bring yourself to care.
If he wanted to hurt you he would've already.
He'd had a million chances.
You thought about it all as you pulled on a robe, sticking your feet in slippers forgotten under the bed, and wandered out to the kitchen.
Work.
You hoped they wouldnt be mad. You'd say you had a stomach bug or something. Itd be fine.
Out of the corner of your eye you noticed it was gone. Remmicks banjo. The guitar was leaning all alone against the fireplace where you'd set it last night.
You wondered if you'd ever seen him again. Men were like that, they'd fuck ya senseless then blow outta town, not a word. You hoped that wasnt the case...
The night came, as it always does.
You had waited for it like it'd never come.
You sat outside, swinging and strumming as usual, wondering if he would show up as or if you'd be back to playin your melodies all alone, only the cicadas to keep you comp'ny in the dark.
It took a while, you were almost ready to go inside when something moved in the corner of your eye.
You held back.
"Howdy, gorgeous." He drawled, his boots heavy on the wood of the porch, vibrating your bones. He stood in his usual spot, strumming along with you.
"Howdy." Scooching over, you patted the seat next to you and he strode over and took his spot.
Juat the sound of his voice gave you a wash of relief that you hated.
We're you mad at him? Maybe?
You didnt really know what youd expected anyways. He was a stranger.
A voice whispered in the back of your head 'a monster'.
There was no promise of tomorrow.
And yet, here he was, handsome as ever, sitting next to you.
Yall played for a good long while before you decided to ask a question you been wanting to know.
"So...what really brought you round these parts, mister wanderer."
He didnt hesitate. "You."
Your eyebrow almost tangled in your hair, lips pressed tight. "How so?"
This time he took a minute and you could see he was thinkin. "You ever hear of the legend of the firekeeper?"
The question got you so confused. "No?"
You heard a small sigh. "Its hard to explain. Firekeepers, or Filí as I used to call them, are people who make music so true and so pure, that it transcends time, uniting the spirits of the past and future, and unites them with the present realm." He looked at you for a long minute. "You're one of em'. I heard your music and came to hear you play and feel the spirits of my long expired friends."
You nod, listening to him speak. You didnt know how much of this you believed, but given he was a Vampire, maybe there was more to life than what's in the good book your daddy always toted around.
"So when I play the guitar n sing n all that, I conjure spirits?" You asked and he nodded. "And you came to hear me play and be with them?"
"I did. But....I kept comin back. Thats something I aint usually in the habit of doin." His voice took on a sincere quality, looking at you like the stars were shinin behind your eyes. "I think....." He ran a hand over his face. "I think I.....like you.....more than a monster like me should be able to." The nervousness was evident in his voice. "You make me feel...sorta.......alive."
The both of you had stopped strumming by now as you soaked in his words. They were making your heart do flipflops and your palms sweat. Your foot bounced. You hadnt worked up the courage to admit it to yourself yet.
You stared at each other in the dim light of your lantern, tension so thick you could cut it with a cold butterknife.
"Do you want to come in for some tea?" You asked, looking over at him to scan for rejection that never came.
"O'course." He smiled.
The kettle whistled loud and the sound rang in your ears until you turned the stove off.
Remmick sat at your kitchen table, seeming out of place somehow in a proper house. He looked casual as can be but there was an air about him that said he didnt do houses. Something slightly off in his manner.
He was a monster after all.
Sitting in your kitchen.
Because you invited him in.
You shook your head at yourself, cursing your naivete.
But then you looked at him...
There he sat, looking around your house like he hadnt been in one in ages. Eyeing all the stuff on your walls and knicknacks on the shelves, your grandmothers orrnate plates displayed above the kitchen cabinets. You'd made him leave his boots by the door, so he tapped his socked feet on the linoleum.
He got up as you set down his cup of lemon verbena tea.
"This a radio?" He asked, turning the knobs. You heard the familiar click and fuzz of it turning on and he searched for a station, finally finding one with a new song you hadnt heard before.
He came back over to you before you could sit down and enjoy your tea, hand extended to you, the other behind his back.
You knew what he was getting at.
"The tea will get cold." You whined, secretly giddy inside.
"Oh hush."
He pulled you to the livingroom carpet, hand around your waist, the other in yours just like last time. The two of you swayed with the slow melody playing from the speaker behind you, not too soft and not too loud, lingering in the sweet spot that gave the moment tenderness.
He spun you a few times, your head going under his arm and your back coming to rest against him, his head on your shoulder, arms intertwined. He placed one kiss on your neck, a shiver reaching your core, and then spun you again to face him, hands resting easily on your waist.
Blue eyes, a slight sheen of red ghosted over them, and they looked at you like you were the only woman in the world. Your arms went to his shoulders.
"Where'd you go. This mornin." The words practically jumped outta you.
"I got a bit peckish." His face said it all, he needn't explain.
Your heart ached.
You'd felt lonelier than ever in the moment you realized he wasnt there.
But there was no promise.
He left.
He didnt have to come back.
And he did.
Did it say more that he left or that he came back?
It was as if he saw the gears turnin.
"I'm sorry darlin." He swept your hair behind your ear and you looked up at him.
You wanted to say it.
Plead with him to stay.
But you figured maybe thats selfish.
It'd been four days since he first came to your porch.
Nary a week and you wanted to pledge eternity?
You almost laughed at yourself.
With a monster nonetheless.
Your face must've looked like you felt.
Helpless.
Confused.
He tilted your chin up with a finger. "Look at me." You almost couldn't bring yourself to. "Whats goin on in that pretty head of yers."
The words threatened to choke you.
You opened your mouth but nothing came out.
This is so ridiculous
"I want you to stay." You mumbled, eyes looking down at the buttons on his shirt.
"Hmm I cant hear you mumblin like that." He lied, cravin to hear it again.
You straightened and tried to hold your wavering eyes onto his.
"I want you to stay." You said sheepishly, face definitely flushed now. "Its so stupid." Your forehead hit his chest as you mumbled the last line. You wanted to slap yourself silly. His hand came to your hair, stroking it a bit.
It took a while for him to respond.
"I aint ever had a place before. Never belonged anywhere." Remmicks voice rumbled in his chest and it did something to your soul. "I dunno if I know how to anymore..."
Something dropped on your head.
At that you looked up to see a single tear had rolled down his cheek, evident only by the slighty shiny trail that disappeared at his chin.
"You dont have to know how." You whispered, face close to his, noses touching."You just....do."
The sheen on his eyes glowed a bit brighter as the radio changed to a different song.
You two barely heard it.
Your mouth was on his, eyes closed, the remnants of his tear on your cheek. Time slipped by, your chests heaving, pressed together as if in a vice.
Last time?
Last time it was sweet.
Tender.
Caring.
The new love of spring and sunrise, all buttery and fresh.
This time its twilight.
Dark.
Raw.
Desperate.
You breathed each other in. Swallowed the space between you and damn near split atoms getting closer. Mouths opening wider, heads turning, tongues wrestling for a rough dominance that didnt exist.
Sharp fingers dug into your hips, and your heart raced at the realization that if you opened your eyes, you'd see his crimson truth staring back at you.
A feral groan ripped through his chest and into yours. Your hands came down to undo his shirt buttons but he just ripped the thing off, popping all of the buttons and throwing it across the room. Your eyes, heavy with lust, watched the movement of his muscles underneath pale skin while he pulled his undershirt over his head and dropped it on the floor before pouncing on you.
He pulled your legs up to wrap around his waist as your fingers settled in his hair. The taste of sin flooded your mouth and the scent of his skin, soft and smelling of smoke and some spice you couldn't name but couldnt get enough of, invigorated your senses.
His steps were heavy and sure leading back to your bedroom. The world tipped for a second and you gasped and clung to him right before your back hit the bed linens. You moved back to make room as he crawled onto the bed with you, settling between your legs.
He sat back on his heels, pulling your nightgown off of you, sharp nails then dragging a slow line down from your clavicle all the way to your folds. He stared at your skin in the moonlight while dragging his fingers around your slick wet cunt.
His other hand took off his belt, dropping his pants to reveal his cock, the perfect size with a nice full pink tip, already leaking as he stroked it, a pitiful moan escaping from deep inside of him. You licked your lips and whined as the sight made you want to rip him apart or suck him dry, you couldn't decide.
How a creature spawned from the pits of hell could make you feel so close to heaven was beyond your understanding.
But you didnt need to understand.
You just needed to feel.
Your legs went over his shoulders and he positioned himself at your entrance, with one thrust his cockhead slipped up your folds, parting them like the sea before pressing good and hard right on your clit.
You moaned long and loud. The anticipation had made you more sensitive than ever, hips twitching. Your back arched off of the bed.
"Oh...your moanin is so sweet baby, do it again for me." He said as he repeated his action, cock poking at your entrance, then sliding up to nudge your sweet spot, eliciting a pathetic whimper to bubble up from your throat.
He moaned at the sound, "Mmm baby...just like that."
Fisting the base, he dragged the tip up and down over and over again, your whimpers and moans sounding more and more desperate with each pass over your clit.
His eyes fix on your face, watching like a predator stalking prey, making you feel even more exposed and vulnerable.
A line of drool flows down his chin and drips onto your chest.
The lewd wet sounds of your pussy being massaged amplify the experience, the coil in your belly getting too tight to handle as you teeter on the edge.
Knuckles white gripping the sheets, your back arches off the mattress.
Screaming his name over through the sensations.
Toes curling and legs falling limp.
Your hips twitching and roll, his leaking cock still slipping around your folds, building another climax as you come down from the first.
You barely catch your breath before another one grips your body and everything dies out, your existence hinging on this overwhelming pleasure coursing through you.
You come down, sensitive and empty.
"Ready darlin?" He says, lowering himself down over you, legs slung over his shoulders. He doesnt waste a second, its agony and ecstasy in one. A nice gentle stretch, just enough to make you squirm while the tip slides past the spongy area right at the top of your canal.
No words are said because none are needed.
He bottoms out, the tip nudging your cervix with each languid roll of his hips.
Remmick grows harder inside of you, his arms straining, eyes locked on you, gold chain swinging with each movement.
The friction of his cock against your gummy walls makes your eyes fall closed, whimpering softly against his neck.
A heat pools in your belly, your moans ramping up in time with his thrusts.
He moves one hand down to press down low on your belly, feeling himself slide through you and increasing the sensations.
You clamp down on his cock, moans wild, teetering on the edge, nails digging into his sides, and he moans with you.
"Fu..u..ckkk." He groans out as you both explode, he slows his thrusts, making your orgasm wane and you can't hold back.
"DONT STOP!" You plead. He rolls his hips again and again, your orgasm resuming harder than before as you cry out, gripping tight, his own moans making it even hotter. His eyes roll back in his head, arms shaking.
Cum oozes out at the base of his cock, dripping onto the sheets while he continues to fuck into you.
Finally spent, he rolls off of you, panting.
You wait for your breathing to regulate, his hand in yours.
Rolling over, you lay your head on his chest and drift off.....
The next morning you wake up to your head gently rising and falling, fingers running gently through your hair.
His voice rumbles in your head. "Sleep well, mo ghradh?"
Thank you for reading!!
I've got two other remmick fics in the works right now, one of which is very much romance and anticipation focused, the other is very dark kinky slutty bloody. Watch for those!
hello, these r really cute :] can I request tuxedo cat recolors of them? if that’s too complex for a recolor then just black
Unfortunately I wasn't able to make most of them tuxedo, but here are some cute black cats. Includes some bonus dividers I cut from the original set cause I forgot I cut them lol
Please credit @pixopix, likes and reblogs are appreciated!
Do you write just for Remmick or for more sinners characters?
I write Remmick because hes the one I like the most but I'm definitely open to writing for more of them. Do you have a request for a certain character?
I needed to do some ezgif.com magic to make the yellow star request, so I ended up with gray scale versions of all the star gifs. Figured I may as well make the whole set <3
Please credit @pixopix, likes and reblogs are appreciated!
Do you write just for Remmick or for more sinners characters?
I write Remmick because hes the one I like the most but I'm definitely open to writing for more of them. Do you have a request for a certain character?
Heyy I'm the one who request the remmick x vampire reader hahaha I would love to see romance but still they'are having that Tension between them like when remmick turns into a vampire he starts drooling at the sigh of reader like his mind going inside because is connected to her
Okay! Thanks for the feedback! Ill definitely make sure their bond is a key part of the fic. Keep and eye out for the next couple of days, I'll post it as soon as I can!
Heyy love your work, dunno if you taking request but if you do couod you maybe do a shot of vampire reader where she is the one who turn remmick a vampire and he is just obsessed whit her, kinda like a morticia x gomez relationship
OOOOOOOOOOO THAT IS AN AMAZING IDEA! I'll probably write that while I write part 3 of Firekeeper. Are you looking for more romance or more smut with no plot?
Just realized I asked a question but you cant comment anonymously so im not going to get an answer 🤣 ive never really had a question or request so forgive my sillygooseness
Heyy love your work, dunno if you taking request but if you do couod you maybe do a shot of vampire reader where she is the one who turn remmick a vampire and he is just obsessed whit her, kinda like a morticia x gomez relationship
OOOOOOOOOOO THAT IS AN AMAZING IDEA! I'll probably write that while I write part 3 of Firekeeper. Are you looking for more romance or more smut with no plot?
Tw: kissing, talk of loss, fingering, biting, oral(m and f recieving), penetration, p in v, pinching
Dividers credit: @dividers-are-us and @strangergraphics
You could barely call it a kiss, it was so gentle.
As if he thought he'd break you.
The two of you moved painstakingly slow, the cicadas in the background growing louder, almost deafening in the silence between you.
You could've sworn the wind died down, with how your insides burned so badly.
You leaned forward, lips meeting his in another soft kiss.
Soft fingers brushed against your palm and laced with yours ever so slowly, leaving your hand tingling where he touched it....
It felt like forever before you pulled away, both breathing hard having held it in for so long.
You were apart long enough for the next move to be a decision, not an accident.
There was no urgency in his movements, just certainty and tenderness as he closed in, kissing you full on the mouth, a little drool on the side of his chin. Your hand came to his jaw, thumb wiping the saliva away before moving to the nape of his neck.
You caught his bottom lip in your teeth for a second and his next one landed on the tip of your nose, then your chin, and back to lips again, lazy and sweet.
Before you knew it, the instruments were leaned against the porch railing and he pushed you to lay on the bench, each kiss taking your breath away, little licks and nibbles making their way in, his hips rolling slightly between your legs, bulge brushing against your core.
The tips of his fingers held small callouses from the banjo strings, but you didnt care.
Your mind both raced and melted from his touch as his hand rubbed the length of your smooth thighs over and over, knee pulled to his waist, taking his time with you, savoring this like you might crumble to dust any second.
Ever so slowly, his hand ventured between your legs, tickling the skin at the very inside of your thigh, sending a shiver of anticipation through you.
You needed him, wanted to crawl inside of him and just rot there in his soul.
Nothing moved as it should. Not you two. Not time. It didnt feel like you'd been out there very long but it bagan to drizzle on the roof over the porch, sprinkling you both.
You pulled apart, the hesitancy evident in the way you clung to each other.
Between your legs was slick and just getting up and walking made you needier than ever.
"Cant let these get wet." You said and brought them into the house and leaned them against the wall by your fireplace.
You didnt hear any footsteps in your kitchen. It was silent except for the crickets outside.
Where did he go? Did he leave?
You looked back and he was lingering just outside the door, the lantern still alight behind him. You walked to the screen door and he looked a little guilty from what you could make out in the darkness.
"You gotta invite me in, darlin." His eyes glowed an eerie red, the only part of him you could really see.
"Whys that?" You still felt the ache inside, walls craving sweet friction.
You saw his fingers grow longer than they should be, pointier too.
He said it slowly, scared of your next sentence. "I think you know why."
With the glowin eyes and sharp claws, you knew what he was. You'd heard the stories floatin around of a creature that walks and talks like a man in the light, but in the dark he is something else, wholly unnatural, ancient.
You didnt really hesitate. "Come on in then."
It took him a second to register what you'd said, but once he did, he came towards you terribly fast, hands hard on your hips.
"You aint scared?" You could tell he tried to intimidate you, baring his fangs and digging his claws into the flesh on your sides to show you how big and bad and mean he was. Your heart did pound, but not for the reason either of you expected.
Your hands went to the buttons on his shirt, taking your time to undo them all the way down as you spoke, staring into those red orbs to intensify your command, your face so close to his thst your lips brushed his as you spoke.
It came out almost as a whisper.
"Kill me. Right here."
The way he stopped breathing was delicious. Silenced stretched on for a few seconds.
"I could if i liked."
"Why am I still here then?" You smiled, and you bet he could feel the grin.
He seemed to get what you were saying when you pulled him down into your kiss, hands tugging his shirt off his shoulders. It hung loose from where it was tucked into his pants. He ripped it free and tossed it to the side, hands going to your face, fingers now back to normal on your delicate jaw, a little tense on your bones.
You started yanking the bottom of his undershirt out from the waistband of his pants, knuckles brushing against the skin of his stomach and pulling the shirt over his head.
Once it was off you let your hands roam like you had all the time in the world. And you did, really.
You took your time workin your hands into his back muscles, his lips trailing wet hot kisses down your neck, hitting all the spots that make your knees turn to jelly but he didnt let you fall.
Until he did.
Remmick pushed forward until the back of your knees met the arm of the couch and you gasped as he tipped you over onto it, except you toppled onto the floor instead.
You laughed at his reaction, he immediately tried to catch you.
"Oh my. You okay? I'm so sorry." He stuck out his hand to help you up.
"Shit, I'm broken." You said, hand to your chest for effect.
"Really? Where? I didnt mean to I promise." The look on his face in the dim light of the moon filtering through your sheer curtains was priceless, just wide red eyes and shock.
"Everywhere." You grinned sarcastically.
He chortled. "Oh, shut up." As you took his hand and he helped you up.
Your hands immediately went to his hair, wrapping around his head, pulling him into your deep kiss as if he might run away. He held you at the waist, pushing back against the wall of the hallway that led to your bedroom.
When your tongues met, it set you ablaze, his taste something like salt and sin with a hint of blood. Spicy in an intoxicatin sorta way.
You were dizzy, drunk on this feeling.
But you followed his lead, and he was goin slow.
The anticipation and lingering was sweet and made your insides itch like you were bein deprived.
His chest pressed against your sensitive breasts, hands on the wall, his tongue caressing yours, hot and wet.
Was the burning on your skin coming from him, or you?
"Please....touch me, do somethin, I'm burnin up." You whined, his lips tracing your collarbones, a hand in your hair.
"Well thats cuz you got your clothes on, sweetness." The world was white for a second when he pulled your nightgown over your head, exposing your nakedness to the night. The fresh air felt nice, his gaze leaving you flushed.
He looked you up and down, drool dripping down his chin and hitting the floor.
You took that as a good sign.
You hadn't disliked your stretch marks before the incident, you maybe even liked them, seeing them as proof your body was a miracle, bringing life.
Lately they'd served as a painful reminder of what you lost.
Your breasts had seen better days too, the nipples a deep rosy pink, pointed straight with arousal, but they were the first thing he went for.
One in each hand, he bent and popped one in his mouth, tongue masaging the sensitive nub.
Your breath heaved, hands pressing against the wall like you were trying to hold on to your sanity.
Whimpers escaped your throat as he switched to the other nipple and began to suckle lightly, teasing like he knew exactly how to work you.
Knees now jelly, you almost did fall, but moved your hands to his damp curls instead, squeezing a bit harder than you meant to but the feeling just made him groan.
He dropped to his knees, nuzzling into your mound. The sight of him worshipping at your feet was something out of a novella and in the moment you felt like a goddess.
The moment his tongue found its mark you let out a breathy moan. His hand gripped your ankle, lifting your leg to set your foot on his shoulder, opening up access to your glistening cunt.
He licked a stripe from the bottom of your hole to your clit, wet tongue gliding ever so softly through your folds, tantalizing your nerves.
You gave a pathetic whine when he stopped and you pulled him up and into a heated kiss, your chest aching, back arching into his form as his arms went around your waist.
"Bed?" He managed to get out between kisses. You processed it after a minute and began pulling him towards the door.
Remmicks hands around your waist were a good idea since you tripped over each others feet a few times, paying entirely too much attention to one another and not enough on moving backwards.
After a while you broke from the kiss and turned away from him to open your bedroom door, feeling his hands slide to your front. Fingers pinched your nipples as you tried to turn the knob, making you squeal "Ow! Quit it," but he just laughed you off.
Once through the door, you felt his bulge settle on your asscheeks ass he pulled you in close, sweeping your hair aside and nibbling on the skin right below your ear. His other hand was solid on your shoulder, your head bent in submission, almost forgetting the sharp teeth you'd seen earlier.
At this point, if you died right now you'd at least die happy.
You ground your rear right up into his bulge and he ground back, a desperate moan punctuating the silence, kisses on your neck getting sloppier. You turned and got onto your knees, beginning to undo his belt, staring up at the man with big eyes.
His form made you feel so comfortable; broad shouldered, a little taller than you, solid structured, inhuman.
You looked up at him with big eyes as his cock sprung free from his trousers. Moonlight filtered through the sheer curtain on the other side of the bed. The view from down here was spectacular, your bed was just the right height for you to be able to kiss the tip and watch as his face twitched.
Then give it a lick and see his eyes droop.
Wrap your hand around the base and suck on the fat pink cockhead and see his breathing falter.
Suck down a few inches and a groan escapes.
Once you got to the base he moaned loud and pathetic for you.
You loved it.
Each moan and groan, even heavy breaths were like singing your praises and it made your pussy sopping wet. You wanted to touch yourself so badly.
"I can...ugh..smell you," he said between groans as you sucked his cock hard. He stopped you and made you get up, pulling you into a kiss and sliding his middle finger between your folds, groaning into your mouth.
"You're soaked, baby" he moaned more to himself than to you. He then sucked his finger clean and moaned some more.
"I need more." He about growled, dragging you onto the bed with him. Knees at his hips, you straddled him, hands on his chest, his fingers digging into your hips. Your center found his length laying against his stomach and ground onto it, your folds on either side of the shaft, sending tingles down to your toes and making you whimper.
"Mmmmm.....fuckkkk...," he gripped your hips, moaning, visibly straining to hold himself back. "Sit on my face."
"What?"
"Just, come here. Sit over my head." Your ha ds went to the headboard and he slid down a bit to make room as your brought your legs closer to the pillows.
You had no idea what he was doing until he wrapped his arms around your thighs and sat you down onto his face, mouth and tongue attaching themselves to your needy weeping hole and suddenly it all made sense.
Black stars flew across your vision so you just closed your eyes, forehead on your arms, toes curling as he sucked your clit and lapped at your entrance like he hadn't eaten in days.
"Cum for me, sweetheart." The sounds that escaped you were weak and desperate. It wasnt long before you were crying out real tears, gushing onto his face and making a mess. He kept sucking and the low point of the first orgasm melted into the peak of another, over and over avain, barely a few seconds between climaxes, tears dropping onto the pillow below you as he bullies your overstimulated pussy into doing whatever he wishes.
This went on until you had lost count of the number of orgasms youd had and forgotten who was giving them to you. He pulled your thighs and you collapsed beside him in bed, hole fluttering around nothing, feeling insanely empty and aching.
His palms wiped the tears from your cheeks, kissing your face all over.
"Did you like that?' He crooned, kissing your wet lips, your breathing still shaky from the screaming.
"Fuck me....please..." you muttered, pleading at him as he positioned himself atop you.
"Look what you did to me, darlin." His cock hovered above your pussylips, leaking precum onto you as he continued kissing your face and neck.
"so empty.....fill me..." His hot throbbing tip kissed your entrance and you whined, rolling your hips forward, trying to coax him to go deeper.
He slid in slowly, panting and moaning, the glacial pace just setting your nerves on fire as the stretch set in.
Almost on instinct, your legs wrapped around his waist, heels digging at his low back, trying to pull him onto you but he was too solid, too controlled. You whined at his resistence, craving the full feeling of a cock at its hilt.
Once he made it to the base, balls resting on your ass, youd had enough. The stretch was nice, just enough to make you feel full and satisfied but you wanted friction, heat, impact.
"Pound me." You pleaded, nibbling his earlobe.
"Slow down, love." He whispered into your hair, his voice strained as he resisted the very thing you were begging him for. He loved the restraint, the anticipation. It was tantalizing.
He began to pull slowly out, every second making you itch for more, feeling empty, and then thrusting back in with enough force thst the head kissed your cervix, making you gasp at the end of each thrust when he panted and trembled above you, trying to keep himself controlled.
The tension in his muscles was palpable, you almost felt as if your hands were gripping rocks instead of shoulders.
Every thrust came a little sooner after the last, his panting snd moaning greater after each one, until he was going at a decent pace, his forehead glistening with sweat. You loved the sight of him above you, the straining in his neck muscles, the low groans and moans he let out, panting put from between gritted teeth. Loved how your pussy made him unable to control himself, and it just made you hotter and needier as you whined and gasped beneath his weight.
"Oh, god......oh........" Remmicks' hips lowered, pelvis grinding against your overstimulated sweet spot, and it began coiling low in your belly again, threatening to drive you mad. Your hips bucked, hands gripped his forearms, eyes heavy, and he made eye contact with you right as you released again, his red eyes gleaming with pleasure, the intimacy of the moment intensifying the sizzle in your frayed nerves.
You mouthed an 'I love you', unable to speak as you neared the peak of climax. A few seconds later he moaned long and loud, driving his cock as deep as it can go and leaving it there, hot cum pooling in your cunt, building pressure, white liquid oozing out of you at the base of his throbbing cock, dripping down your ass and onto his now empty sack.
The two of you came down from your shared peak, panting and trembling.
He rolled off of you and you lay there, arms above your head, hair messed about, eyes shut, hole fluttering closed, and stretched all of your muscles. You hadn't felt this relaxed in ages.
He pulled you onto him, head on his chest, his fingers gliding lazily up and down your back.
"Will I see you again?" You mumbled as you fell asleep..........
PART 3!
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