Charlie IV

Chapter 20

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"When do you lose the crutches?" Rick asked her as he carried her upstairs per her request.

"In about a week I'm told. I can't wait to get rid of them. It's been weeks! I can actually stand on my own now finally.

Rick set her on the edge of her bed and stepped back. "Rick, you're my boyfriend and I want to make love to you. But I need to be on top. Can we do that? I don't have any condoms but I am on the pill."

"So this is what you've been up to? You've been a little off all day."

"I know and I'm sorry. I'm just nervous but I trust you. Please close the door and take your clothes off." Kate got to work on taking off her top and bra. By the time she had her shoes off she had a naked Rick in front of her. She took hold of him and took him in her mouth. She needed to get him hard.

With a little work Kate had made sure Rick had an erection and now he was pulling off her pants followed by her panties. "I'm already wet." She almost couldn't believe it given how nervous she was. "Lay down for me." Kate patted the bed.

Rick was soon on his back on her bed; she was on her knees on the bed and leaned down to take him in her mouth. She wanted to make sure he was nice and hard.

Now that she had the strength in her legs she crawled on top of him, reached down, and positioned him at her entrance. She was still nervous.

"Condom." Rick held it up to her.

"Damn! I almost forgot." She had been so focused on having him inside her that it had completely slipped her mind.

Kate ripped it open with her teeth and rolled it down his beautiful cock. Then she got back above him and was where she had left off. It had been a while since anyone had been inside her so she had no illusions that this was going to be easy.

She dropped herself down very slowly and realized she had to push down to get him inside her. Kate cried out just as his head penetrated and he was suddenly inside her. Now that he was in she kept lowering herself till she was literally sitting on him and he was in her really deep. She held him there while she adjusted to having him inside her.

Eventually she lifted up and then back down. God but he felt so good.

It took her some time but she was soon bouncing up and down. But her leg muscles gave out so she switched to grinding herself back and forth. Then suddenly Rick's hands were on her breasts. Kate placed her hands on his and guided his hands to start molding her breasts.

"Damn, you feel good." Kate was learning that if she moved just right his cock would hit this spot and that was sending her closer and closer to an orgasm.

"I'm going to come! Come with me, Rick. I need you. I want you to climax inside me. ...RICK!" Kate let her orgasm take over and spread throughout her body.

With Rick still inside her she fell down on top of him. Kate felt his arms wrap around her and hold her in place. While she liked it when he held her she needed to talk to him so she raised up so she could look down at him.

Kate smiled at him. "We made love. We're lovers. ...Boyfriend."

"So that makes you my girlfriend?" Rick watched her bend down and kiss him so he kissed her back. When she broke from the kiss she just rested there.

"We're lovers. How many condoms do you have?" Kate listened to him laugh.

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Kate took the condom off of him, tossed it into her little trash can and actually made it. Now she was cleaning his cock with her tongue. She wanted to taste him again. He was her lover and she wanted to get used to his taste.

"Come up here, girlfriend." Rick watched her climb up his torso and kiss him. "Keep going, I want you to sit on my face so I can taste you."

"Really?" She knew she could give him blowjobs but she was still adjusting to him wanting to taste her. But when he did that she was learning that the feeling was amazing and he was capable of making her climax several times.

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Kate had fallen off his face after three orgasms, certain she couldn't move. She could even feel these little quakes of her latest orgasm.

"Now we're lovers," Rick informed her and listened to her begin laughing.

Kate stayed right where she was and twisted her head around. She could see his limp cock right there so she reached out to take him in her hand. "Rick, what is Black Pawn sending you?" She knew it was his publisher. It said so on his book she had read.

"They keep sending me an update on the number of books sold. The total to date and how many I've sold each week. To be on the New York Times Best Seller List I need to sell 5 thousand books in a week. I've come close more than once but so far, not yet.

"At least they're happy with the overall numbers so far. Right now I'm on track to start receiving checks for books sold. I make it to that list and I'll make the next milestone, which is being offered to publish my next book and get an advance. How much that is will be based on how many books have been sold. The longer I'm on the list, the bigger the advance. That happens and I'll actually have real money."

Rick knew the money he made with UPS was good but if he could stay on the list for more than one book he just might end up rich.

Kate found the energy to spin around and leave his cock behind so she could face him. "So you're almost successful?"

"Almost. I have news that you might not like, Kate. You remember that book signing I did in New Orleans?"

"They want you to do that again? Can I come with you? New Orleans was nice. I'm not sure I want to live there but I like visiting it." Kate looked him in the eye.

"That's the bad part. This one is in LA. I fly there in the morning, do the book signing, and then fly home again. It's during my weekend off from UPS in two weeks."

"CRAP!" Flying meant money and staying at a hotel meant more money. She had very little and she didn't know what Rick had. Her parents had already spent a lot and probably couldn't afford to send her.

"I think you have to stay home for this one." Rick would like for her to come but he didn't see a way for that to happen. "How well will you be walking in two weeks anyway?"

"Crap. Two weeks, huh? We're having sex a lot between now and then." Kate found the strength to get up on her knees and take his cock into her mouth. He was getting another blowjob.

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Kate was walking down the stairs and Charlie had long since gone past her like a rocket. She was taking the steps one at a time and using the handrail to actually hold herself up. Once she reached the bottom she lunged for the dining room table and used it to keep her upright. Next came the challenge of reaching the opening to the kitchen.

The opening was what she was holding onto and then launched herself at the wood table that was the island in the kitchen.

"Where are your crutches, Katie?" Johanna was in the kitchen this morning while her husband ate his breakfast in the breakfast room.

"In my room." Kate spun, took a step, and reached for the refrigerator that was now behind her.

"What are you doing? If you want something I can get it for you." Jo took a couple of steps and opened the refrigerator for her. "You fall down and hurt yourself and you might be back in that wheelchair. You could break something," Jo warned her and then went and got her a glass so she could pour her own orange juice.

"I want to walk, Mom. I'm tired of this and I don't intend to fall." Kate grabbed the orange juice and poured herself a glass, put it back, and closed the door. Now she needed to reach the table with her glass.

"Give me that." Jo took the glass from her and set it on the table way down there and came back to what she was cooking. "You fall and I'm going to say I TOLD YOU SO!"

"Yeah, yeah." God her mother loved that saying. It was also totally annoying.

Kate grumbled at her all the way to the table. She plopped down and hoped the chair didn't break under her.

"How long have you known, Katie?" Jim questioned her.

"Known what?" Kate asked and drank some of her orange juice.

"That Rick Rodgers is Richard Castle and that he wrote a book called Flowers For Your Grave and what all those letters from Black Pawn said?" Jim and Jo had found out from Rick a little before he flew to LA to do a book signing.

"A while. Don't be angry. It's his story to tell, not mine. I found out before that trip to New Orleans where he did his first book signing which is what he's doing in LA."

"So how is his one book doing?" Jim queried since she likely knew since she had been holding out on them this long.

"It's doing pretty well, actually. He's almost made it on the New York Times Best Seller list. He just can't reach 5 thousand books sold in a week. He's come close twice but he just can't quite make it. Rick's hoping this book signing in LA manages to accomplish that. Four or more hours of signing his book just might do it." Kate was hoping it would make it.

"And you miss him," Jo said softly. Katie had been moody all day long and he wasn't due back until tomorrow.

"I think Charlie misses him more." Kate looked down at him. He was just lying on the floor not really paying any attention to any of them.

"Charlie is definitely depressed," Jo decided as she looked at him. She went to the pantry cabinet, pulled out his treats, and handed one to Kate so she could feed him.

"You want a treat, Charlie?" Kate held it and watched Charlie look up at her but he didn't get up. "Charlie, please? Up, Charlie." Kate patted her leg and finally saw Charlie get up and put his head on her leg.

"I know you miss him, Charlie." Kate petted him and leaned down to kiss his head. "I miss him too." There she admitted it. Since that first time they had only been able to arrange to make love with her on top just once. He was supposed to be home on his days off so they could make love again and not get caught.

"He'll be back, Charlie. He will." Kate leaned down to kiss him again.

"Breakfast." Jo put down two plates and retreated to get her own plate. Her plate on the table now, she asked Katie, "Are you going to be okay home all alone? Because if you get stupid on us and fall down we'll never know till we get home."

"Just leave me in my room so I can reach the bathroom and I'll keep Charlie and read a book. I'll find a way to take him downstairs and out into the backyard. It's too cool to stay out there all day." Kate would do it. She loved Charlie.

"All right but if you kill yourself I'll kill you again." Jo listened to Katie laugh at her.

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Rick began to realize that getting around LA in a taxi was really different than life in Laurel. It felt weird. It was fast here and packed with people everywhere.

Black Pawn paid for the flight and hotel but not the meals so what he ate was up to him. He quickly noticed that his hotel was literally down the street from the bookstore.

There was one thing as he sat there and asked who to make it out to. He missed having Kate sitting next to him. He missed her almost as much as he missed Charlie.

Everyone seemed to have something to say or had a question for him. Then he was asked if he had a girlfriend or was married.

"Yes, I have a girlfriend. She's back home and couldn't make the trip or she would be sitting next to me and you could meet her."

Someone had heard that. "Where do you live?"

"I live in a small town in Mississippi. It actually feels like home. I used to live here in LA but it feels better there," Rick answered truthfully.

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Rick greeted people for almost 5 hours till finally they closed the doors to keep people out. At last he could go to his hotel, take a shower, and find something to eat.

It was late even in LA by the time he picked up the phone and dialed the number from memory.

"Hello?" It was Jo answering.

"Hi, it's me. I'm finally back in my hotel room."

"Rick! How's LA?" Jo put her hand over the phone. "Jim, go get Katie. Rick's on the phone." She went back to listening to him. "So how many books did you sign? I still don't see why you felt you had to keep it a secret."

"Depends, do you mean the ones fans bought and handed to me or the actual number of books I signed? I spent 5 hours signing books that people had in line. Then another almost 100 books in the bookstore before I finally left. All told a little under 300 books. Almost twice the number I signed in New Orleans."

"Three hundred and all you need to do is reach 5,000 books in one week. Too bad you can't stay another day. You might make it that way." Jo wanted him to succeed. "Here's Katie." Jo handed over the phone and retreated to give Katie some space.

"HI! How are you? Did you miss me? Charlie's been moping all day. He ate his dinner but he ignores treats." The words just spilled out of Kate's mouth.

"Poor Charlie and yes, I missed you. You really should be sitting next to me while I sign books. It feels weird not to not have you here."

"You're sweet." Kate was glad to hear that and she sneaked a look. "I miss you. I want you to make love to me," she whispered. Hopefully she was loud enough for him to hear but not her parents.

"I have a nice, big, king-size bed too. Next time you should be walking normally so maybe I can ask for a second plane ticket so you can come." What Black Pawn would say to his request could be another matter entirely, though.

"I would like that. So what does it feel like being back in LA?" Kate was curious.

"Weird, really weird. I was so used to this city and what I could do. Now I find it way too big with far too many people. When I move out someday I'm going to have to make sure I'm not back in a big city."

"You want to move out?" Kate's heart ached. Did he mean he wanted to get away from her? She was falling in love with him. It was why she wanted to make love to him.

"I'm not staying with your parents forever. I'm going to want a place of my own. Don't you?"

"Yeah, a little I suppose. I wasn't sure what I was going to feel when I started classes at Stanford. I may never know now." She was still thinking her dream of being a lawyer was dead.

"You don't know that, Kate. Of course the school is probably expensive so you need to talk to your parents how to pay for tuition. Things may have changed. Colleges are expensive, trust me I know. Mother sent me to boarding schools. It was what she could afford."

"Maybe. So your mother is in New York City. Is she coming for a visit? Or do we have to go to her?" Kate inquired.

"We?"

Kate peeked to make sure she was still alone. "I'm your girlfriend so yes, we. Or do you not want your mother to meet me?" She felt hurt.

"I'm asking because I want to make sure you want to meet my mother. I can call her in the morning and ask her."

"Of course I want to meet your mom. You've met my parents I should get to meet your mother. We have empty bedrooms even if two of them are missing beds," Kate reminded him.

"I'll ask her if she has time. We might have to go to her instead."

"New York City." Kate shuddered. It wasn't a city she really wanted to live in or even visit. "If I have to, I guess."

"How is the walking going?"

"The same. I'm slow and need to be really careful. But I'm doing it without crutches." Kate was happy to lose those.

"Just don't fall and break something or you'll be back in that chair in a heartbeat."

She rolled her eyes. "You sound like my mother." Now Rick was bugging her about walking without her crutches.

"We both care about you. I'll be home tomorrow. You need to take good care of yourself. I want to taste you again."

Kate's heart thumped and her heartbeat increased; she bit her lower lip. What he could do when he did that was the greatest thing ever. "Me, too. Bye, Rick. Please just come home." Kate hung up. Yes, she was falling in love with him. They were lovers and she wanted to make love to him.