Reaching the Summit Ch. 02

Author's note: My thanks to my partner and editor for her help with this, and to all of you who commented so generously on Ch 1. I truly never expected it to get a red 'H', thought it was too inaccessible for most Lit readers. I'm delighted that you've proved me wrong!

This is the second chapter in a story. It will make more sense if you read the first. Julie has spent the day introducing John to the joys of winter mountaineering in Scotland. They ended up at her Glasgow flat and fucked. She has just told him to phone the woman he had been dating.

*****

He winced when she told him to make the phone-call.

-I mean it John. If we're to be anything more than one-time sex, I don't want any ghosts hanging over us.

She knew he'd do it. Handed him her bedside landline. He paused, muscles on his face twitching. Finally looked in her blazing eyes, saw what he needed there. Took the phone from her.

-Want me to leave you in private while you speak to her?

He shook his head:

-No lassie. I know... that I can have no secrets from you. Please stay.

She smiled, enchanted by his trust. He pressed the broadcast button, dialled. Quite a few rings, then a woman's voice, posh English, sharp with annoyance:

-Who the fuck's that? It's past midnight. This'd better be good!

-Umm...Anne? It's me, John. Sorry to call so late, but... – he looked in Julie's smiling eyes – it's... err... it's important. Had to speak to you now. I...

-Piss off John. That's the first and last time you brush me off. Bet you're fucking Julie now, aren't you?

-Anne. I'm sorry...

The phone clicked dead.

Julie melted, stroked his cheek. She knew she had him now, had growing confidence that he wouldn't, couldn't, cheat on her. She glowed at this understanding of her power.

-Want to tell me about her? She didn't sound your type at all? Very hinktie English...

-Not much to tell. She's a bit older than me, a journalist with an English paper, newly in Scotland, colonial posting, and very sexy indeed. Met her through work, we seemed to click, had a drink after the press conference. Realised as she was new here, she must be lonely. I haven't – hadn't – fucked in a year. We had a few evenings out, a meal, concert or theatre. Last time was 'Mother Courage' at the Citz, last week. That night she invited me back for coffee for the first time. Awfie fancy flat in Newton Mearns. We kissed and groped. I wanted to fuck her, desperately, but she sent me packing, told me 'next time'. That was – would have been – tonight.

He looked straight in Julie's eyes, unblinking:

-I'm so glad she sent me home that night. I mightn't be here if we'd fucked then.

-Oh, you'd have been here anyway, Julie laughed. I'm a vixen in heat. I wanted you. I'd have had you, whatever you'd done with her. But...

She twisted from his arms, slid up his body, her cunt leaving a glistening trail on his torso. Crouched over his face, her pouting lips open before his mouth:

-Eat my sex, dogfox, need to get off again.

His face moved irresistibly into her wetness, scenting her want, tasting it, lapping into her squirming lust, adoring her sexneed. She groaned as the tip of his tongue flicked over her swollen clit:

-Ahhh jesus, more...harder... bite my clit...

He moved his mouth from her temptation to speak:

-Christ, I love the taste and smell of you, vixen.

His lips closed on her protruding clit again, sucked, nibbled. Bit into it as his fingers drove into her want. Drew his mouth back, fingers rasping her gspot...

-Oh, he gasped, you're a whole new world, not just a new vixen.

His face was drenched in her ejaculate as she spasmed on him, howling her release. Jesus, a vixen in heat indeed. He lapped and sucked as her body continued to jerk on his face. Felt her slowing and calming, her lust satisfied for now. But his wasn't:

-Off me now woman. Need to fuck you. Belly to the bed. Head down, arse up.

She quivered at the assurance in his voice, shuffled to do his bidding. Crouched waiting, knowing his desire. Wanting it. Felt his fingers pull her sensitive arsecheeks apart. Trembled in aching need as his tongue lapped slickly between the globes. Spasmed as his tongue probed her there, christ he knew her intuitively... Then his head pulled back and she sensed his lips funnel to blow on her anus...

-Jesus, fuck me John. Now. Hard... please...

She felt his cock plunge deep in her cunt, knew his need as he thrust in her urgently. Her head jerked back when his fingers tangled in her hair, pulled sharply. Fuck, she knew now this was a struggle between equals, and she was glad. Felt him lancing her, filling her. Screamed as his teeth sank in her neck. Knew this fuck would last, he was over forty, ten years her senior, it would take time for his second orgasm to build and she needed that, wanted this never to stop, his power, his slippery member filling her and withdrawing...

-This... is for the fuck I've been gagging for... he groaned.

She yelped as his hand cracked on her arse and his crown nudged her cervix for the first time. She couldn't help it, exploded on him, cunt grasping him into her, almost preventing him from moving. She sobbed as the spasms shook her, and he leaned forward gently to turn her bowed head, lick the tears from her eyes.

-We make a good team, he whispered. And for now that means you're mine Julie.

-Fucking madness, beautiful madness, she gasped.

She felt his hands grasp her hips tightly, long slender fingers digging into her muscle.

-And this, he panted, is for all the times I've wanted you and knew I couldn't have you...

As he cored her and grunted his impending explosion, her fingers reached between her thighs and grasped his balls. Thrilled as she felt them tighten...

-And this – his penis stabbed her viciously – is because you're...

His words were lost in a groan as she felt his semen fill her, his body jerking insanely in twisting ecstasy. He collapsed on her back, struggling for breath, cock embedded in her. Presently his breathing told her that he'd passed out. His wilting cock slithered from her. Aye weel, some mountaineer him! She eased out from under and he slid belly-down on the mattress. His face barely twitched as she pulled his head round to let him breathe freely. He'd be useless for a wee while.

*****

She pulled on her gown against the chill. Went to the kitchen. Poured herself a G&T, rolled a fag, gazed through the patio door onto her wee balcony. Drew on the rollup as her eyes scanned moonglowed sky, the frozen canal, the city beyond; pale towerblocks glinting between dark Victorian spires. She wanted air, real air, opened the door and stepped onto the balcony. Ice on the tiles burned her soles but she didn't care. The mergansers were still cooried in the reeds below her, the city finally quieting. She was glad of the space. She'd expected sex with John to be good. But she hadn't expected him to touch her core so readily.

She'd managed to settle to contentment on her own, busying herself with work and friends, after a long and latterly unhappy relationship which had ended several months previously. She'd been close to John and his ex Pat for years, sharing politics with them both, and mountains with John. Their wee boys called her 'Auntie'.

On the mountain it'd felt as though a screen was removed between them for the first time: that they had finally been able to see each other as woman and man. Sexual beings as well as friends. Well, they had surely learned now that sexual beings they were! She shivered at the memory of her orgasms, how they had overwhelmed her.

She knew her own power over him, but shivered in acknowledgement of his over her. Knew theirs would be a partnership between equals.

Then realised she was freezing, slipped back into her kitchen, slid the door shut. Mixed herself a Horlicks, felt it warming her as she sipped. Returned to the bedroom and slid in beside her comatose lover.

*****

A hand was gently shaking her shoulder and she unglued her eyes, rubbing sleep from them.

-Good morning, team member. I hope you're as well-rested as I am?

John was smiling down on her, and she felt the care emanating from his eyes. Melted a little, felt her cunt tingle:

-Good morning student. Yes, – stretching tight legs – a lovely sleep, thank you.

He hunkered down by the bed, kissed her brow.

-I need to go and collect the boys from Pat at eleven. I planned to take them for a swim, after lunch at my place. Care to join us?

Her brow furrowed , then relaxed.

-Just give me a mo to think that one through John? I'm hardly awake. Not sure that's such a good idea...

-Your wakey-up tea is to hand, sweet. Aye, I understand your hesitancy. Mibbe you're right, it could be a bit precipitate. But we're now an item, that wasn't a one-nighter, was it? So they'll need to know at some stage.

-Aye, I ken that. Your bairns need to know sometime. And – her brow tensed again – so does Pat. But maybe not yet... He smiled at the vestiges of her Edinburgh heritage. Passed her the mug of Darjeeling as she shuffled pillows at her back, sat up.

-Thanks for the tea. Glad you're making acquaintance with my kitchen. I... I realise that everyone will know in time. Just not sure how Pat will take it. She wants you back, you must know that?

He started.

-No, course I didn't know that! I... had no idea. She's a funny way of behaving with me if that's part of her agenda. Ahh... so that's why she's spinning out the separation agreement?

He laughed, shaking his head in disbelief. Julie put her mug on the cabinet, stretched her arms up, drew his face to hers:

-Never mind that the now. We've a couple of hours before you need to go. I want you in bed.

She drew his hand into her wet groin.

-Jesus wumman, you've a way of getting me hard. - Well, I know now that there is no way she's getting you back. I'm having you. Now – she shuffled her legs apart – eat me. You need nourishment.

He dragged the duvet off the bed, knelt between her thighs. Scented her arousal as his head dipped.

-Fuck, I want you, sweaty wench.

She moaned as he closed on her sex, thrust her hips up to meet his mouth. Felt the lips purse on her swollen clit and shuddered. Christ he knew exactly what she needed. His tongue teased between the petals of her open flower, tasted her need, lapped and lingered, flickered on her clit, then dived into her sodden cuntmouth. Probed relentlessly there, then resumed its delicious torture of her clit.

-Enough man, want cock. Fill me.

He raised his head, smiled into her.

-In good time lassie. I haven't tasted enough yet. But you can have my fingers now...

She writhed as his lips pursed round her clit and she felt his long fingers probe into her, curling to massage her sensitivity. She jerked as they found it, began a long slow hard massage there, moving faster so her moans increased, her shuddering intensified. Oh sweet wonder he was good, read her need precisely, driving her relentlessly higher till she felt nothing but his worship of her sex. Can't last, need release...

-Ohhhhhhhhhh sweet christ...

Her soul soared, body spasmed and contorted, and she screamed as ejaculate pulsed from her, drenching his face and twisting hand. The fingers slowly withdrew from her and he looked up, into her eyes, her sweet fluid running down his face.

-You're the most intensely sexual woman I've ever met, he breathed. But now I'm going to get my share.

She shivered at the hard edge to his voice:

-Yes sweet. Take me now. Take me for yourself. I'm yours.

-Turn over wumman.

He slid his hardness into her quivering sex from behind, reached forward to feel her beautiful dangling breasts.

-Yes John, give it to me. Now, please...

He grunted as he sank in her muscular heat, felt her tighten round him. Oh, so sweet, so delicious... Panted as he increased the speed of his driving penetration, fucking her for him, increasingly oblivious to her needs as his movements became harder.

-Jesus wumman, yer quim drives me mad, need to fill you now...

He gasped as his balls tightened, one final thrust... surges of lightning flashed through him, striking his cock, searing his soul. And he collapsed groaning on her back as the semen spurted from him, emptying his being into her.

-Ohhhhhhhh sweet, she croaked, that just...

And her muscles grasped him, sucking the last drops of spunk from him as the turbulence surged through her body.

They remained twined, panting for some moments, unable to speak. Eventually he slipped from inside, slithered in their joint sweat, fell beside her on the mattress. She smiled into him, glowing in post-orgasmic fullness:

-Maybe we should shower now? Can't have you seeing the boys stinking of my cunt, can we? They wouldn't know, but sure as hell Pat would.

*****

His day with his two lads passed as it always did, in joy and exploration. Dougal, the younger, managed his first full length of the big pool that afternoon. John relished the grace and enthusiasm with which Hamish congratulated his wee brother. Well, if he and Pat had fucked up their own lives, he was proud that they'd managed to rear two such lovely children between them.

As they fussed to prepare dinner together, he caught up with what had happened in their lives since he'd seen them on Thursday evening. Told them of his day on the hill with Julie, his excitement at his first proper day of winter climbing. His gratitude to their 'Auntie' for being so patient and forbearing with him.

Finally, about half seven, they caught the bus down to Pat's elegant main-door flat in Hyndland, two exhausted boys ready for bed. He was surprised when Pat took him aside at the front door as they rushed into their home:

-John, I need to talk to you. Privately, after the lads are in bed. Will you go now, come back about nine, once they're asleep? Please?

Her face was almost inscrutable, but there was something in her eyes... It had been months since they'd last had a proper chat. Much longer since she'd said 'please' to him, about anything.

-Aye, of course. Always happy to blether, you know that.

Outside her flat, he called Julie on his mobile, explained that he couldn't see her for a drink later as they'd arranged. Told her why. Heard her brief silence, then her cheerful response. Agreed to meet her after work on Monday. Then he headed to Tennant's for a pint and a look at the Sunday Herald. But he could hardly focus on the paper for wondering what was up with Pat.

When she opened the door to him an hour later she was smiling:

-Thanks for coming back John. I wasn't sure you would...

He wandered through the huge Victorian hall towards the kitchen, but she took his arm:

-It's warmer in the living room, something's wrong with one of the kitchen radiators. Um, maybe you could have a look at it later?

He always felt a bit uncomfortable in this place now, couldn't help but remember the year it had taken him to strip it out and totally redecorate it, turn it from a midden into a mansion.

There was a bottle of retsina on the coffee table. They'd both acquired a taste for it on a Greek holiday, before the boys were born. Two glasses. His brow arched when he looked at her. They hadn't shared a drink since long before she'd kicked him out. Well, apart from at the boys' birthdays, and Christmas. But never alone. He noted as she bent to pour the wine that she was wearing no bra. She stood and handed him a glass, raised hers to chink it:

-Slainthe, John. Now please sit down.

She sat in a corner of the sofa – a new acquisition, he noted, an elegant Victorian chaise-longue - and patted the space beside her. He sat diffidently, keeping a space between them. His heart was thumping now, he'd a glimmer of what might be coming. They'd shared their lives for fifteen years.

-I know you feel awkward in here John. Know what you feel about the place. And about me...

He opened his mouth to speak, but she held up her hand:

-No, hear me out please. Believe me, I'm not finding this easy either.

There was a smile in her blue eyes he hadn't seen for years.

-I know I've been dragging out the legal stuff. And you know I've been seeing Davie...

Aye, he knew that. Knew that was the reason she'd finally relented and allowed the boys to stay at his borrowed flat most weekends for the last few months.

-Well, I'm not seeing him any more. Haven't for a couple of weeks. I err... I wanted to clear the decks. Tell me, is there anyone in your life?

-Jesus, Pat, what is this? You don't own me any more, I ...

-Sorry, I shouldn't have asked. Forgive my intrusion. I was ... just curious, that's all. You know what an old busybody I am. But – she tensed – I um... I just wanted to test the water with you. Christ, this is hard...

There were beads of sweat on her brow now. Awkward as he felt, he couldn't help but take pleasure in her discomfort. He looked her in the eye hard, deliberately not helping her.

-I need to know whether you'd consider ... moving back with me?

His eyes widened in surprise, mouth fell open slightly.

-Umm, Pat... I really hadn't considered the possibility. I err, need time to think about it.

She edged slightly toward him so her thigh brushed his:

-Kiss me John.

Her mouth was on him and he returned the kiss hesitantly. She drew back:

-Now you bastard, kiss me properly.

And she launched herself on him, arms round his neck, kissed him slack-mouthed with need. He drew back from her, pushed her away gently, one hand on her soft breast.

-Wheesht lass. No, I'm not going there, not now anyway. Need to think.

It took him some effort to say that. He still loved her of course, through all the bitterness of the last year, and forbye his cock throbbed in his jeans. But no, this wasn't good, not good at all. When she chucked him out he'd drawn a line under it, and he'd no intention of crossing it:

-Pat, what's brought all this about? His finger ran down her cheek, he could allow himself that.

-It's not just for the boys John, it's for me too. I just... I thought we should give it another try, you know? She giggled nervously: And John, um... I want you to know that Davie was a crap fuck. I faked orgasms with him. Never had to do that with you!

Her face was glowing red from embarrassment. And arousal he thought, noting her nipples protrude through her silk top. His cock strained against his jeans. If he hadn't spent the night with Julie, and made her an unspoken commitment, he'd have ripped Pat's panties off her and fucked her rough and hard right there. He wasn't going to. But he was going to string her out a bit.

-Sorry Pat. You're tempting me. I need to think, and I'm not going to take advantage of you and fuck you now, as you know part of me wants to. But... if I did relent, moved back in... there would be conditions.

-Tell me?

Her hand was on his thigh, brushing his cock deliberately.

-You'd have to agree to give me your arse.

Fuck, how did he manage to say that? In the fifteen years of their relationship, she'd only occasionally accepted a finger there.

-I... I agree John. Know you always wanted that. Perhaps that's what those other women gave you, why you ... you cheated on me? Stay tonight John. I promise ... promise I'll give you everything tonight.

-Thank you for that sweet offer. You know I'm sorely tempted. But no, I cannie stay tonight. Have to go. Sorry.

She slumped back in the corner:

-So there is someone in your life then. Someone important? I've – she smiled wanly at him – I've never known you to turn down the offer of a fuck before.

He stood awkwardly, didn't dare adjust his jeans in front of her. Bent to kiss her brow.

-I need time to think about it Pat. This has all come as a complete surprise. I'm just... I'm amazed, never expected this might happen. No, stay there. I'll let myself out.