Dahlia Mountain

Charlie

It was a cool not quite spring day and we were just finishing up a lazy lunch. I was basking in the sun on the swing curled up in lounge shorts and a tank under a huge fluffy blanket letting myself pretend spring was already here. I'd given up writing and was almost in a post food nap. I  was listening to the crack of the ax from  Nathan just inside the tree line cutting up fallen wood to replenish our winter stores. I heard the black suv coming up the driveway before I saw it. The cold empty winter forest echoing sounds across great distances. As soon as it came into view my heart dropped into my feet. I scrambled to my feet and ran down the porch steps, racing across the gravel in my bare feet. I came to a stop in the middle of the driveway my hands on my hips. I was going to force the confidence that I didn't feel. Then from the tree line came the form of my Mountain, axe slung over his shoulder as he stalked deliberately in my direction. The SUV pulled to a stop in front of me and I locked eyes with the driver. I didn't glance to my right where I knew the big man was coming for me but held the eyes of the man in the car. I focused on regulating my breathing as Charlie stepped out of the car. He tucked a manilla folder under his arm and stepped in my direction saying "it was a real pain finding you, wife. I've got your papers here. My lawyers say it's best to just sign them and get all this over with but frankly I think if you want to force my hand like this the least you could do is do it in person. I enjoyed the last conversation we had. I'm betting you liked it too considering your fucked up sexual proclivities." Charlie smiled a cruel smile and took another step in my direction. It was then that Nathan's stride hit the driveway. I looked in his direction and he gave me a big easy smile. He walked past me and gently leaned the axe against the front porch rail before turning and heading back in my direction. "Oh I see" Charlie said "I wasn't big enough to hit you proper, huh. Found yourself a big dumb ox to hurt you better." Nathan came up behind me  saying "Hello Charles. I think you're a bit confused about the nature of my relationship to Josephine." He stepped forward then to stand at my right side before dropping heavily to his knees on the gravel. Nathan on his knees was still typically as tall as me but now he was making himself small, settling back on his heels. He smiled broadly up at me before lowering his head and snaking his left hand up around my right thigh. I saw the image he was creating and dropped my right hand onto his shoulder before looking back up at Charlie. I could see the fury in his eyes and knew that the photo of me at Ellie's feet was returning to taunt him just as the Mountain kneeling at my feet had intended. "Cute" Charlie spat through gritted teeth. Even with his head bowed I could feel the smile on Nathan's face and my lips curled up into a genuine smile in response. "Alright Charlie, say whatever you came here to say" I chuckled. "As you can see I'm busy." Charlie turned his attention away from me unwilling to face my confidence. He addressed Nathan instead, saying "she's a whore you know, was passed around sex clubs all over New York. You'd better get yourself tested." Despite that being hardly true my face went red with embarrassment and Nathans fingers tightened around my thigh. I let out a held breath slowly. Nathan didn't raise his head or respond to Charlie but his hand slid slowly higher up my leg until it disappeared in the leg of my shorts his fingers coming to rest in that soft spot where my inner thigh meets my body. "Are you seriously going to finger fuck my wife right in front of me man!" Charlie shouted. My smile had returned bigger than ever. Nathan moved his hand then to run his middle finger up between my lips running the building moisture from my core up me to come to rest on my clit. I knew Charlie could see the outline of that massive hand in the front of my shorts. I may as well have been naked. He gave an angry huff as his face turned a deep shade of red. I held up my hand to him palm out placatingly. "Nathan drop your hand please, you're distracting our guest." I commanded, and Nathan's hand immediately dropped to his side.

"Why are you here Charlie? It's over. You always hated me. You never wanted me. Wish granted, now you don't have me. Give it up." I gritted out through my anger. "I came here to finish what I started before you ran away" Charlie spit out "but you went and found yourself a guard dog so I guess this will have to do" he said and in the same moment I registered the gun being pulled from his suit pocket I saw the blur of Nathan rising to his feet and crossing the space in a few long strides. It all happened in one breath, Nathan had the wrist with the gun in an iron grip as it clattered to the ground and I heard Charlie scream out as his wrist snapped. Nathan yanked the man to the ground and began to drag him across the gravel towards me stooping to pick up the discarded manilla envelope as he walked. He pulled the man up to his knees by the broken wrist before checking his pockets for more weapons and coming away with only a pen. He tossed the pen and envelope in front of him. "Sign" the big man commanded. Charlie was crying now his face red with pain and anger. "With a broken wrist!?" He snapped up at Nathan, then attempted to struggle to his feet. Nathan held him on his knees his massive hand digging into his shoulder. "You'll stay on your knees in front of our goddess" he commanded "and yes, sign with a broken wrist, sign now. Then you'll crawl back to your fancy car and disappear forever." "My lawyers are going to fucking destroy you for this." Charlie spat out. Nathan dropped to his own knees still towering over the sniveling man in front of him. Nathan grabbed him by his chin forcing him to look up at him and gave him an easy friendly smile. "No they won't Charles. If I hear from anyone representing you, if I see you again, if I ever so much as hear of you being on this side of the continent again then we're going to get to know each other really really well. We can take a little camping trip together. These mountains are dangerous" Nathan said gesturing to the wild around us. "And if something happened to you in the back country, you got hurt or got lost, the odds of you being found are slim. Even slimmer knowing there are places I've walked in these forests where no other living human has set foot. I would be delighted to show them to you Charles. I sincerely hope you give me the opportunity." Nathan's voice remained even and friendly as he spoke, just two old friends having a conversation. But I watched as Charlie registered the promises in Nathan's eyes before his own pupils blew wide in fear. He ripped the envelope open signing each page holding the pen awkwardly in his hand the wrist not moving properly. Then he crawled away faster than a person should be able to on a broken wrist pulling himself up only to drag himself into his car and throw the thing into gear speeding away. Nathan gathered the papers before turning to hand them to me, still on his knees before me. I smiled at him my smile catching when I caught the last flicker of the terrifying monster in his eyes, the one who had sent Charlie crawling away in panic. My smile dropped and my eyes went wide as I stumbled backwards only to be caught in Nathan's arms as he smiled up at me broadly the monster in his eyes flickering away completely as he rose to his feet lifting me against him before stomping up the porch steps and laying me out in our swing. He had my shorts down and his cock in me in one motion as I arched into him. The stress and tension in his body falling away as he took what was his. I came undone under him screaming his name into the valley around us. As I came down from my high I put my hands against his chest. "Stop" I whimpered. Nathan stilled inside of me growling but acquiescing at least momentarily. I held his eyes. "Nathan, you would really kill that man for me wouldn't you?" His fierce eyes held mine a beat too long before he answered "I'm a good man Josephine. I need you to only see me as a good man, so please don't ask me to answer that question. Just know you are perfectly and eternally safe." And then he tucked my head against his chest as he fucked himself harder into me, coming as he called my name over and over, "oh Josephine you're mine, Josephine...my goddess Josephine." My name got quieter on his lips as he pumped into me the last few times emptying himself deep inside me. Then he lay still above me still holding me tucked against him as I shivered in the aftershocks of our pleasure. We never did hear from or see Charlie again. We never even spoke his name. He ceased existing in any way that mattered.