My dark secret

Chapter 10

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Tom

Finally, the girls' last night here. It isn't that I haven't been enjoying their visit, but it has been a lot of work.

After last night, I spent all day sleeping like crap.

Ever since we took the job, I have told myself that I wouldn't get carried away and do something stupid. But after seeing her in that dress and dancing with Nieke like that, my self-control was at a breaking point. When I said I wanted to talk, I meant it but my body took over and I ended up doing exactly what I promised not to.

I walk into her apartment and it smells like cake again. Kyle is drinking a cup of tea and laughing with the girls as they set up the living room for their girl's night.

Nieke laughs at something Catherine has said and I zone out for a moment. Damn, she really is stunning and normally I would be the first one going after her, but Catherine is occupying too much of my mind for me to be able to concentrate on another chick. Catherine catches my eye and I think back to last night.

Kyle finishes his tea and says goodbye to the girls, wishing them a fun night.

"So, we've been talking," Catherine says, pulling me out of my thoughts. "We feel bad about kicking you out, so you can sit in on this one girl's night."

That peaks my interest.

"However, you have to participate in some of the activities."

I look at them suspiciously. "What activities?"

"You could certainly do with a face mask," Nieke says.

Catherine comes over and peers at my face and I can smell her scent again. It's been tormenting me all day. "Yes, you need to look after your face if you're going to ride around with an open helmet."

"Absolutely not."

"What if we make a deal?" Nieke asks. "We tell you a story from when we were at boarding school and you wear the mask."

"What are you doing?" Catherine asks, sounding a little nervous and hurrying back over to Nieke.

Nieke whispers something in her ear and she goes pink.

"It better be a good story," I say, though I am definitely curious as to why she looks so nervous all of a sudden.

Nieke smiles wickedly. "Oh, don't worry about that."

I get comfortable in my usual chair and they sit on the sofa.

"When we were at boarding school, there was a forest just on the edge of the grounds. Catherine liked running through the trees and it soon became our place to go in our free time. One autumn it rained heavily during the night and so when we went to the forest the next day, there were certain places that were very muddy."

Nieke pauses and smiles at Catherine who is blushing even more than usual.

"We thought, as you do when you're a fifteen-year-old girl, that we would make mud face masks. However, the best mud was right in the middle of this huge... what would you call it, Catherine? A puddle?"

Catherine shrugs. "It was very liquidy."

"Anyway, if we got caught with mud on our clothes we would have been in a world of trouble, so we decided to take them off and get to the mud in our underwear. Washing that would have been easy in one the sinks back at school. It was a fool proof plan."

Catherine snorts.

"Yeah, it didn't go to plan. We ended up slipping and getting covered in mud, and then that turned into a mud fight and we had to go back to school absolutely filthy and getting a month's worth of detention."

"It took me nearly an hour to wash all that mud out of hair," Catherine complains.

I stare at her; the image of her and Nieke in their underwear as adults, not teenagers, having a mud fight will forever be burnt into my mind. The only reason I'm still sitting and not doing everything I've been thinking about doing to Cat's body, is because we're in public.

"Give me the damn face mask," I say gruffly and Nieke smiles in triumph.

Catherine

Nieke's going to be the death of him. Right now, he looks like a caged animal.

We pull out the masks and I go over to help him with his.

"Here," I say, pulling it out of the packet and stretching it out.

His pupils are so dilated, his eyes are almost black.

Flashes of images of what it would feel like if I let him take his frustration out on me go through my mind.

I stand between his legs and carefully place the mask on his face, concentrating unnecessarily hard on getting all the wrinkles out. He moves his hands to his knees and brushes his fingers against my legs, making my breathing hitch.

"So you like mud baths, eh?" he says softly.

I dare to look him in the eyes and a blush creeps up my neck. "Sometimes."

He's virtually fucking me with his eyes and I can't look away. I bite my lip so as to not say something inappropriate.

"Have you two finished over there?" Nieke shouts.

"Yes, yes," I say, pulling away.

"What film are we going to watch?" Charlotte asks.

I go into Netflix and flick through the options. "What about Shrek?" I ask.

"Yes!"

I start putting it on and I hear Tom laugh behind us. "Seriously? Shrek?"

We turn to look at him. "Why, what's wrong with Shrek?"

"Well, first of all, you're adults and second, isn't it girl's night? Shouldn't you be watching chick-flicks like Titanic?"

"But it's our favourite film," I say.

"What did you think girl's night meant? That we would be playing spin the bottle and having sexy pillow fights?" Charlotte asks.

Tom shrugs. "Something like that?"

We shake our heads and laugh at him. "Men."

After years of watching Shrek, we know all the words and religiously sing along. By the third film, we've quietened down. Nieke and Charlotte are lying on the sofa and I'm sitting comfortably on the floor, leaning against the sofa with Bach's head on my lap.

"Hey, do you want another cupcake?" I ask to the girls behind me but there's no reply.

I turn around to look and they've both fallen asleep. Out the corner of my eye, I see Tom is wide awake and I start to feel nervous. Last time the girls were asleep things got a little intense between us.

"No need to look so nervous, Cat," he says softly. "I'm not going to do anything to you.

Not whilst your friends are here, at least."