2. Illawarra Flame Ch. 13-15

He encircled her hand with his and squeezed, moving it up and down slowly, showing her how he liked it. She caught on and continued stroking him without his assistance. She replaced her mouth over his cock and started to suck on him while pumping him with her hand. He could feel her tongue moving over him inside her mouth.

'Oh Maya...' he moaned. She smiled up at him and he came dangerously close to squirting cum all over her face.

He took a step backwards, away from her. Anymore of this and there would be nothing left for her.

He held his hands out for her and she stood.

'Ouch," she said. She wasn't wearing any shoes and the ground was rocky with a layer of dry pine needles that would be prickly.

He grinned. 'Will you let me carry you now? There are no staircases for me to injure you on out here."

She smiled and held her arms out for him. He scooped her up and walked her to the front of the vehicle, her arms draped around his neck. Even if she claimed that she didn't like to be carried, Tyler didn't mind admitting that he liked carrying her. There was something primal about it, some part of his brain that lit up when she was in his arms like this, submitting to him, giving him control.

He pressed her up against the hood of the vehicle, it would be just the right height. She scooted her butt backwards so that she was sitting and opened her legs to let him in close to her. Her arms were still wrapped around his neck. He kissed her again as his hands roamed over her bare skin, her beautiful tanned skin. He kissed her face and neck and shoulders while she murmured to him.

'Sasha, you're so good to me baby... I love you Tyler."

He came back to her face and looked into her eyes. They were full of emotion, glazed over with tears.

'I love you too Maya," he told her. They looked at each other for long seconds, neither one wanting to break the moment. Tyler brought his hand to her face and stroked her cheek. He was so in love with this woman.

She laid back and he drank in her beauty. She looked so amazing in the afternoon sunlight. Her skeleton was so delicate, it was visible in small ways, the dip of her clavicles, the whisper of her ribcage, the edges of her hipbones that stood out under her bikini.

He could see the corner of the condom packet under her bikini. He slipped it out and left it on the hood and peeled her swimsuit away. It was wet with her juices. Like everything else about Maya, her pussy was full of beauty and grace, and right now it was swollen and covered with her wetness, her desire for him.

He lifted her leg and kissed down the soft skin of her inner thigh, the skin that had so aroused him back at the campsite. He licked around her pussy, lapping at her lips, tasting her. He kissed her clitoris softly, eliciting a moan. He used his thumbs to rub up and down over her outer labia while he licked her inner lips, finding her entrance and lapping at her sweet fluids.

He moved his face away and slid his fingers inside her. He pressed upwards on her, looking for her g-spot by watching her face. Her breath caught and her brow furrowed. Got it. He stroked back and forth over it and she moaned. Her eyes were closed and her head turned to the side, revealing the tendon in her neck that arched up to her cute little pixie ear.

He could tell she was starting to get worked up, she was moaning and breathing quickly, her arms above her head. He reached up and grabbed the condom packet with his free hand and tore it open with his teeth, being careful not to catch the rubber. He found the edge of it with his lips and let the packaging drop to the ground. He needed his other hand for this, so he slid his fingers out of her pussy and grabbed the condom from his lips quickly before leaning his face down and replacing his lips on her pussy, kissing and licking her again.

He put the condom on without looking, he just glanced down once to check that it was all good before he brought it to the entrance of her vagina.

She cried out when he pushed his cock inside her. God she was so tight, so little, she felt amazing. He felt the resistance of her muscles but there was no such resistance on her face, she was his, she had given herself over to him.

He gave her a second to adjust to him. He knew she liked his cock, she had told him as much through the orgasms it had given her, but it could be a bit overwhelming for her. She hadn't had him in five weeks, she may have forgotten what it was like.

Five weeks too long, he thought.

He felt the pulse of her pussy around him and he knew that she was ready. He pushed in and out of her, gently at first, letting it build slowly until he was pumping her at a nice pace, her small breasts jiggling in time with his thrusts. He let his hands glide over her body, cupping and squeezing her breasts, caressing over her waist, teasing her clit a little bit, then stroking up and down her magnificent long legs.

Maya was looking at him while she moaned softly, her arms splayed out across the hood. She lifted her arms up towards him and he leaned down to her.

'Sasha baby, let me be on top. I want to make love to you."

He wouldn't argue with that. He slipped his arms under her shoulders, picked her up and turned around. His butt was against the front of the vehicle and his cock was still inside her. She held onto his neck while he used his arms to get himself into a sitting position on the hood. The suspension sagged and he felt the metal bow under his weight, but he was beyond caring if they damaged the vehicle. He slid himself backwards and laid back on the hood.

Maya sat on top of him, riding his cock. She started moving over him, back and forth. Her hands were on either side of his head and she leaned down and kissed him. She kissed his mouth and his cheeks and along his brow. She murmured to him as she kissed him. 'Sasha, one day I will kiss every freckle on your beautiful body...'

God she had an amazing sense of rhythm, her hips were driving him insane. She wasn't just going back and forward anymore she was going up and down and rolling in the most amazing way. She was starting to breathe harder.

'Oh Sasha... you feel so good baby... oh... I need you...'

She pushed off her hands and sat up straight, still moving and squeezing her pussy over his cock. She increased her pace and emphasized the up and down motion. Tyler was in heaven, she felt so good, she was spoiling him rotten.

Her face was contorted in pleasure and she was panting and moaning in an unreserved way. Her cheeks were flushed and wisps of her hair had fallen around her face and were stuck to her skin by her perspiration. She looked so amazing and she was moaning for him. She was calling out his name.

'Sasha baby... god, you're so good... feels so good...'

She altered her pumping action so that she was grinding her pelvis into him, his cock buried deep inside her.

'Ah baby... I'm close Sasha... I need it baby...'

Tyler was holding on for dear life. He wanted to hold out for her. He needed to look away, if he was going to last he needed to look away, but he couldn't tear his eyes away from her. He felt the tension in his balls. Oh shit he was going to cum, there was nothing he could do to stop it now, it was coming.

Miraculously, as if on cue, Maya's eyes squeezed shut and her mouth opened in one final cry as she ground her pelvis into him and the walls of her pussy came crashing around him, squeezing every last drop of cum out of him.

She collapsed on top of him. She was panting hard, her lungs expanding rapidly, sucking in oxygen. He wrapped his arms around her and stroked her back, feeling her relax as she came back down.

She was so amazing, so beautiful. He had never seen or heard anything like that before. She had been so uninhibited, so lustful for him.

'Maya, you were so good baby," he breathed.

'Mmm...' She moaned in reply.

'Mayechka, the most beautiful woman in the word," he murmured. 'I can't believe I get to make love with you. How did I get so lucky?"

She picked up her head and smiled and kissed him. 'I missed you so much Tyler," she confessed.

'I missed you too."

They were silent for a while and then he remembered her gift. 'I brought you back a present," he told her.

She smiled. 'A present? But it's not my birthday."

'How old are you?" He asked. He'd never even thought about that before, he'd just assumed she was the same age as him.

'Twenty-six."

He smiled, 'Well then, I guess I missed twenty-six of your birthdays, which means I get to give you twenty-six presents without needing a reason."

She laughed. 'How old are you?"

'Twenty-four."

'That's not old. You said on the TV that you were getting old."

'It is old for swimming. I probably only have another two or three good years left in me... Let me get your present."

She rolled off him. He stood and walked around the back of the vehicle and searched through his bag until he found her gift. He hoped that she would like them. He thought they were beautiful, but there were some colors that he couldn't see so he'd had to trust the woman in the store.

She was sitting up when he came back to her.

'Okay, I have a disclaimer before I give these to you. You know I'm color blind so I had to trust a little old lady with a very thick Australian accent who I couldn't understand very well. She told me that they were brown and I can see brown so hopefully what I'm seeing is what you'll see."

He handed her the box. He hadn't wrapped it.

She opened the lid and gasped. He hoped that was a good gasp.

She looked up at him, 'Tyler, they're beautiful."

'They are?"

She nodded as she looked back down at them.

He was relieved. 'Oh good, I hoped so. They are brown, right?"

She smiled. 'Yes, the diamonds are brown. The pearls are cream though, but you knew that right?"

'Yeah I can see cream."

'Do you want to see them on?"

Tyler nodded. She had him hold the box while she took out the little gold earrings that she was wearing and replace them with the ones he'd given her. They looked even better on her than he had hoped. The small brown diamonds sparkled in her ears just the right amount, not too flashy, but not dull, and the pearls dangled at exactly the right length to accentuate the curve of her long neck. She made them look good.

He smiled. 'You're gorgeous Maya." He stood back, taking her in. 'This is what I'm going to think about every time you wear those earrings. You, naked, sitting on the hood of an SUV in the middle of the forest after we've just made love."

She smiled and held her arms out for him. 'Thank you Sasha, they're beautiful," she said as he stepped into her embrace. She held onto him, their skin sticking together from her perspiration.

'Do you still want to go to the hot springs?" He asked.

'Do we have time?"

He looked at his watch. 'I think so." It was only three o'clock, Zach wouldn't start cooking dinner until five. Sam could watch Nicholas for a while, he owed him for this morning, not that Tyler kept score.

It was a short hike into the hot springs, but they'd left the campsite so quickly that Maya didn't have any shoes. Tyler piggybacked her in. The trail was well worn and muddy in places from small springs that leaked out of the ground.

'I changed my name back," she told him.

'You did? Do you feel more feminist now?" He teased her, but he was secretly pleased.

'Um... I'm not sure about feminist, but I feel like I've regained part of my identity."

'What about having the same name as Nicholas?"

'I changed his too."

'You did?" Tyler was surprised.

'Yes, he is Nicholas Chandrasekhar Galloway now."

'What made you decide to do that?"

'Sam's mom Judy. I talked to her about it and she told me that I should do whatever I thought would make my life the easiest. That, and she's not a huge fan of Hamid or his parents."

'Sam's mom? Are you sure she's a good person to be taking advice from?" Tyler didn't like the idea of Maya being buddy-buddy with Judy, she wasn't a woman to be trusted.

'Actually yes. She is surprisingly insightful. She has a lot of common sense and she's very practical. She helped me to organize my kitchen cupboards."

The thought of Maya's kitchen cupboards made him smile, but he didn't feel comfortable with Judy messing around with them. 'I don't know Maya, I'd be careful if I were you."

'Oh really? You want to know what she thinks of you?"

'Not really, I'm sure it's not complementary."

'You're wrong. She likes you. She thinks you're a good egg. She told me that she thought Sam was lucky to have you as a friend. When you were away and I didn't know where things stood between us she told me to give you a year to get your act together."

'A year?" That seemed like a long time. 'You were prepared to wait for me for a year?"

'Of course. I love you Tyler, in my mind I said a year but in practice I'd probably wait longer."

Tyler thought about it. He'd wait a year for Maya. He'd wait many years for her if he had to. Maybe he had been judging Judy too harshly?

'What does she think of Sam and Emma?"

'She is heartbroken. The only way she can deal with it is if she admits that Emma isn't her daughter, so she feels like she has to try and forget the mother-child bond. It must be tremendously difficult for her. I mean, you've seen how Emma and Gracie are together, they're not genetically related but they are mother and daughter. Imagine if you told Emma she wasn't Gracie's mom? I think that if you are a good person, once you make the decision to take on the commitment of being a parent it is very difficult to reverse it.

'Don't get me wrong, I don't condone what Judy's done, I'm just saying that I can see how it has been difficult for her."

Maya was amazing. She was so compassionate. Tyler had always thought that Judy was a wicked bitch who wanted to break Sam and Emma up because she had some sick and twisted version of morality. He'd never thought about it from her point of view before.

Maya was delighted with the hot springs. She'd never been to natural ones before and these ones were pretty good. There were a series of sandy bottomed pools that visitors had build up with rounded river cobbles, from the hottest one close to the spring, trickling down to the warm ones and then the coolest ones before the water finally trickled into the stream that ran close by.

Of course Maya wanted to sit in the hottest pool. He had known. When they had taken showers together he'd had to ask her to turn the heat down. Maya didn't like to wash her skin, she liked to scald it.

After scorching herself for a while she came and sat with him in what she called the 'luke-warm pool for pussies'.

'That's not very feminist of you," he told her with a shake of his head.

They snuggled and chatted and touched each other until he had to carry her off into the woods to make love to her again. It was not private enough at the hot springs, beside which it was poor etiquette to have sex in a hot spring pool.

Later, when they got back to camp, Nicholas came running to them. He wanted to show them the bugs in the creek. He recited an extraordinary list of facts about the creek and the bugs as he pointed at them. Tyler looked at Sam who had been the one watching him.

'Kid's got a mind like a steel trap," Sam said.

Tyler smiled. 'Yeah, I know." There was a funny sense of joy that he was getting from watching Nicholas and listening to him talk. It was pride. He was proud of him.

They built the fire up and did all of the cheesy campfire things that you do when there are kids around. They roasted marshmallows and made smores, they played music and sang.

He and Josh refused to play kumbaya, there were limits to how low they would sink. Instead they sang 'We all live in a Yellow Submarine." Tyler passed his guitar to Zach and Josh showed him the chords to play. Nicholas crawled into his lap and asked him a thousand questions about submarines.

Tyler was tired when they finally crawled into the tent. He spooned into Maya's back and she held Nicholas in front of her. He was happy.

He thought about what Maya had said earlier when she was talking about adopted children. She'd said that once you make the decision to become a parent it is very difficult to reverse it. He knew in his heart that he had already made that decision. He made it when he was looking at that Illawarra Flame in Sydney. This was his family now, the two most important people in the world.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Ah fuck, Monday afternoon again. Tyler needed to sit in a room with the entire office and listen to Maya like he needed a punch in the face. He needed a new job.

Maya was the most amazing, fantastic, wonderful thing that had ever happened to him and it was getting harder and harder to pretend that wasn't the case while at work. It had been two months since he got back from the world championships, two months since they had been together for real, and every single day in the office had been like a tightrope walk. He had to concentrate so hard to not look at her, to not watch her, to pretend that she was just his boss.

Everyone filed into the conference room. There was chatting and joking and general atmosphere of functionality. It was amazing how much the place had changed since Maya became their general manager.

Tyler sat in his usual seat, the second from the far end facing the window. She was talking about the Medevice project, the medical hardware company that she'd won a big contract with. It wasn't moving as quickly as she would have liked, she wanted to move some people around, increase the man hours on it.

Suddenly his phone was buzzing in his pocket. Shit, he had told Sam to text him if Emma went into labor, not phone him. The room went silent and everyone was looking at him, including Maya. He took it out and was about to silence it when he saw the caller ID, it wasn't Sam, it was Nicholas' day care. What could be wrong?

'I'm sorry, I have to take this," he mumbled as he got out of his chair and left the room, pulling the door shut behind him. Maya looked pissed but what could he do? He couldn't ignore a call from Nicholas' day care, what if there was something wrong?

He spoke to Loretta, the lady in charge down there. He had gotten to be quite buddy-buddy with the staff at the day care over the past eight weeks. He'd taken time off swimming after the world championships, leaving him with plenty of free time, so dropping off and picking up Nicholas had become his job for the time being. Loretta told him that Nicholas had been feeling sick all day and that he had started vomiting after lunch. She wanted him to come and pick him up.

'Okay, that's fine Loretta, but have you spoken to his mother about this?" He asked.

'I tried but I couldn't get through, you're listed as his secondary contact," Loretta explained.

How should he handle this? They had discussed how to go about situations that might arise with Nicholas, and they'd talked about how to act at the office, but never about what to do if there was a situation that involved Nicholas at the office. He tried to figure out what she would want him to do but it was confusing, they were conflicting philosophies, with Nicholas it was all about openness and honesty, with work it was subterfuge and secrecy.

What should he do? He didn't know and there was the added stress of Nicholas being sick playing on his mind. He really needed to get out of there and take care of Kolya, but he should tell Maya first. Surely Nicholas was the most important one here? Surely the honesty route was the way to go?

She could be in that meeting for a long time, he was going to have to interrupt her. He opened the door, the entire room looked up at him.