Warning-Smut and violence

Chapter 2

At lunchtime the next day, my favorite ball of Cuban energy slid up to my cubby with another lunch invitation. "What color should we expect your balls to turn today; or does it have to do with what's on the menu?"

"That's just mean. You were brutal with that sub sandwich. How about we go to the diner today and we can choose when we get there?"

"What color balls do you normally have Lester?", a husky female voice crooned. "Mind if I join?"

"Hey Rox. Do you know Lester?"

"Not very well, but I would like to know him better."

"Well, you're invited. Let's go." Lester was looking at her with a half-sneer on his face. Interesting.

When we got to the diner, we scooted into a corner booth with our beefcake in the middle. This satisfied Lester's need to be able to see the whole restaurant and the door. I ordered a big juicy cheeseburger and fries, Lester ordered the turkey club and fries, and Rox ordered a big chef salad. I looked at Lester. "Aren't you the lucky guy today? You have a woman on each arm Les."

He beamed. "Yes I am. How about we move this back to my apartment when we get back? I know after watching you eat your greasy burger, I'll be ready for a marathon."

I snorted. "You are such a manwhore Santos."

Rox crooned, "Actually that sounds like a fun idea." We both turned to her.

"Uh...sorry chick. I just do the dudes...solo. But, I'm...a...sure Lester here would be game. You've heard of Mikey the kid that will eat anything? Well Lester here is the dude that will do anything."

Lester got his back up. "I resent that! There are one or two things that I won't do. I saw them on the menu at the red light district in Bangkok. They were..."

"NO, no, no. No way I want to hear what they were. Neither my ears nor my brain could take it and I still have to be able to eat my burger." Just then the food came.

I was thoroughly enjoying my greasy burger when Santos groaned. "Man, I'm never going to get used this. I must be a sadist too, because I keep asking you to lunch so you can torture me." Just then he jumped. I looked down at his pants and Roxanne's hand was there massaging him. I choked on my last bite of burger and looked up at Lester. He was at first shocked and then his eyes closed. Roxanne just began talking to me.

"So Steph, tell me about Ranger. I'm hearing a lot about him. I can't wait to meet this man so feared and revered."

I knew my face was flushed the color of a tomato. "Uh…well, he is that and more. He's very tender and caring at the same time to me and I miss him."

Lester began to groan harder. "I hear he's very handsome and wealthy," she said.

This was embarrassing. My girlfriend is shameless. "He is very handsome. He has a successful business, but I don't know anything about his financial status. It's not an important topic in our relationship." I flashed a small glance up at Lester. He opened his eyes to look at me for a few seconds and they were smoldering like and bright like glass. He reached over and put his hand on my knee and lowered his head and bit his lip and a small growl and gasp escaped him as his breathing went from shallow to hard.

Shit! That was embarrassing and hot at the same time. I felt like a mix between an innocent bystander and a freaking voyeur. I looked over at Rox and she gave a girly wolf grin and whispered something in Lester's ear. He was still recovering. We finished our lunch and headed back to Rangeman in an awkward silence.

When we got off the elevator back into the control room I looked at both of them. "Uh...good lunch. See you guys later." Then I hurried off to my cubby. Hector passed by about an hour later. "Psst...Hector. Come here."

"Como es mi chica (how is my sexy girl)?"

"Bueno, chico sexy (good sexy guy). You are not going to believe what happened at lunch." I was in full-on Burg style gossip mode and told him the whole embarrassing story.

"Chica, your friend is a puta and I don't trust her. I hear things and I watch her. She going to be trouble." Then he turned and walked away.

I dressed for bed and lay thinking about the day and our unusual lunch and about Hector's words. Wow, I guess those stories about the uninhibited Rox were true.

I was dreaming that I was being hugged and it felt so warm and good and I felt moist heat down the back of my neck and it made me shiver and raised goose bumps on my skin. It felt delicious and I began to stir. No, no please don't wake up. I don't want to lose this dream. I opened my eyes and felt breath on my neck, but the tingle wasn't there. Shit! I scrambled away from him and jumped out of bed running to turn on the light.

It was Ranger. There he was in the bed, but he didn't look like himself. He had shorter hair hanging down the length of his ears, a goatee beard with a chinstrap, and his eyes were different. They were hard and cold. He was naked, but covered to his waist with the sheet, and resting on his elbow looking at me. He had new scars on his chest and neck and some were still healing and a new tattoo on his right pec muscle; a snake wrapped around a knife. I shivered.

"Did I frighten you Baby?"

Did he just call me Baby? "I just didn't…I didn't know…" I couldn't tell him that I didn't feel him. "I just didn't know you were back. I thought I was dreaming about you. Are you okay?" He nodded and put his hand out.

I turned the light out and crawled back into bed. His arm snaked out and he grabbed me and pulled me roughly against him. He pulled me tight to him and kissed me hard, biting and sucking my lip. I think he drew blood. He pulled the t-shirt up over my head but didn't remove it. It covered my face and exposed my breasts. He roughly took my breast in his mouth and sucked and nipped at me with his teeth. I didn't know whether to be turned on or frightened by this man. I was really surprised that he didn't smell like my Ranger. Maybe he hadn't showered yet.

He reached down and ripped my panties off and roughly put his fingers in me and he growled, "You're not wet enough. Is there a problem?"

I pulled the shirt over my head and looked at him. "I'm sorry. I'm just not used to rough sex with you and I'm a little nervous." He gave me a wicked grin and moved down my body to put his mouth over me. He replaced his fingers with his tongue and laved me hard and then sucked my bud with ferocity and that's when the juices came. He moved back up my body and slammed into me.

I gasped and whimpered. He growled as he pumped into me hard. He looked down into my face with those dark eyes and a haunted expression came over his face and he took my throat in his hand and began to squeeze as he kept pounding me harder. The pressure of his hand became tighter as the pressure in me became tighter until I was struggling to breathe and I couldn't talk. I was trying to push him away with my hands when I came just as I was ready to black out. In the dark I heard him roar his release and then felt him let me go and roll off me. "Sorry if I hurt you. But you responded well."

When I came back to my senses, he had his nose in my hair smelling me. I felt sick. I slowly moved away from him. "I need to go to the bathroom Ranger." He let me go and I moved away from him avoiding his eyes. I never thought I would ever feel like I didn't want to look in those beautiful eyes. I went to the bathroom and shut the door. When I looked in the mirror, I saw the red marks on my neck changing color and I saw fear in my eyes.

Tears began to fall. Where is my Ranger and who is this man that came home in his place? Maybe it was a bad mission and he just needs time to adjust. Maybe all of him has not come back yet. The only thing I can do is just love him and be patient. I wiped the tears and washed my face and went back to the bedroom.

Thank goodness he was sleeping. I quietly slipped into bed and looked across at him. In his sleep I saw the softer features of the man I loved. I wanted to take him in my arms and comfort him, but I didn't know this man, so I stayed away not touching him at all. I rolled over and silently cried for him and myself.

When I woke the next morning, he was gone. I showered and dressed in my Rangeman uniform and went down to the lounge to get breakfast there. I sat quietly eating and thinking. I didn't realize that anyone was speaking to me until I felt a hand on my shoulder and I jumped. "Hey there, Earth to Beautiful."

It was Lester. "Oh, good morning Les." He sat across from me with his coffee and looked at me and then he leaned in and looked closer.

"What the hell happened to your neck Steph?" Just then, Hector walked up and kissed me on the cheek. "Buenos Dias Estefania."

Lester looked at him and pointed to my neck. "Look at her fucking neck!" Hector sat down and looked at me. His eyes went dark.

Both men looked up as a hand wrapped around my neck and gently rubbed it. Ranger bent over and kissed me on the cheek. "Good morning Baby." Then he looked at the two men and turned and walked away. I sat there frozen in place. He didn't care. Did he just take public ownership of what he had done?

Both men sat stunned, eyes dark, and then Hector erupted in a string of Spanish curses. Lester said, "He did that to you? What the fuck?"

With tears in my eyes, I whispered, "That man is not my Ranger. I don't know who came back in his place. I...I need to get to work."

TBC

I know you probably want to kick Ranger's butt and maybe mine, but keep reading the story.