Months later, Erik placed the blunt to his lips firing it up as he sat on the high balcony overlooking the Parisian view of the Eiffel tower and its shiny city below. He looked over his shoulder at Linda who slept peacefully on her side of their shared soft white downy hotel bed. It was a warm night. The sounds of the city echoed softly from below. But there was an undeniable electricity in the air. He felt damn near giddy, and shit he never felt giddy. His plans were finally starting to take shape.
His quickly intense intimate connection to Linda had not only landed him several good fucks but also finally placed him right at Klaue's front doorstep. And the heist in London had gone off without a hitch. Next stop was Klaue's meeting with the buyer in Korea. This romantic side trip to Paris while they waited was his idea. He needed Ade fully in his corner because he was surrounded on all sides by Klaue's men. All of them deeply loyal to a hotheaded arms dealer who could not be controlled. He needed his own loyal rider. And even better was that he stole her right out from under Klaue. It was easy. Erik never had trouble exuding charisma when he tried. There were often times he could act cold, blunt, even downright mean. And he never had trouble walking away, no matter the devastation he left behind. But it was all very calculated. A way to throw people off and leave them vulnerable. It was his charm that held their interest and made them come back for more. And while Erik never understood all the ways of women, he did know very well how to exploit their weaknesses.
He stood up straighter and leaned back on the balcony railing facing the bed just inside the open glass doors. Linda stirred slightly in the sheets just waking up, the material barely covering her naked body. He licked his lips. In the end she would be expendable if it became necessary. A terrible sacrifice for the greater cause. He had been completely honest with her about that and about all of his intentions. He wanted to make sure she was clear about the risk she was taking being with him. But Ade had been around ruthless and duplicitous men for far too long. She was definitely no pushover and she had learned early on how to set boundaries, watch her back, and protect herself. But Erik's complete and brutal honesty and his seeming integrity had been refreshing and she was falling hard. Erik was naturally a blunt man but he always kept a lot secrets. He had purposely been vulnerably open and honest with her, knowing the effect it would have. And just as expected, she lapped it all up, thirsty for more of him.
He watched as she slipped out of the sheets and walked naked to the bathroom starting the shower. He felt things shift in his basketball shorts as he watched her naked ass bounce as she walked. His thoughts drifted to Tamika imagining what she would have looked like slipping out of his bedsheets naked. Her petite body lit by the morning light as she padded to their bathroom on strong and fully capable legs. An odd mixture of guilt and lust hit him smack in the center of the chest. Closing his eyes, he pushed her out of his thoughts before turning back to the city view to let the high take his thoughts again.
"I love this city. Paree, the city of love." Finally done, Linda came out to join him a bit later, leaning forward over the rail to let the cool evening wind whip across her face and rake its fingers through her big bushy hair. Erik chuckled and moved next to her, handing her the glass of gin and tonic he was able to finagle out of the hotel room bar. He looked out on the city lights that held her attention.
She turned to him and took the tumbler with a small smirk on her lips. She held it out for him to clink. Then she placed it to her lips taking a sip but not taking her eyes off of him.
Erik sipped the liquor in his own glass, eyeing her in return. As a child Linda had lived a pampered life, the daughter of a wealthy Nigerian business man and a Danish mother who had royal lineage on her maternal side and close familial ties to Ulysses Klaue on her paternal side. Ade spent most of her younger years in European boarding schools and had a refined air about her that spoke of privilege. After her parents died in a plane crash, Klaue found sixteen year old Linda in Switzerland and took her in. She was just smart and self involved enough to turn out and into his own little professional criminal. She proved herself skilled with her own set of Smith and Wesson, and her ability to shift seamlessly through very diverse crowds was useful to him. So he played on her rebellious desires, luring her into a life as one of his minions, better known as Lady A. Despite the few oddly placed tattoos on her arms and the back of her neck, Ade was the type who usually went for rich and powerful white men with old money. A man like Erik shouldn't even be on her radar other than for a night of fun. But like most women, he intrigued her, and now she was emotionally involved.
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One Wild Ride (A Marvel Fanfic-Complete)
FanfictionBegins several years before The Black Panther Movie and ends several years after. This is an alternate universe (with certain events from the comic and the cinematic universes which have been altered and intermingled together) containing multiple M...
