Chapter 6

Jason had intended to take a long cold shower as soon as he'd made Mandy comfortable, but he'd found himself sat beside her watching as she slept so soundly stroking her hair. She was bone tired and not just from before. She'd come here straight from her flight from West Africa and knowing her she won't have slept much while there or on the plane. For anyone who had spent any time in captivity, sleep was not always a friend. Every so often she would startle in her sleep her body tensing her arms going around herself in a protective stance. Jason whispered "It's OK, you're safe, you're home" as he gently stroked her upper arm and she would relax against his touch, her breathing steadying.

He watched her face, a little scar still over the bridge of her nose, some light bruising remained on her upper cheek of one side and her jawline of the other. The cut to her lip had now almost totally healed. He still couldn't bring himself to think about the other endings there could have been to this story, he could only think about this one here, the one where she came home to him.

Home, he realised now, was where she was.

Once Mandy seemed to be in a peaceful sleep again he stripped off the rest of his clothes and walked towards the bathroom. He still really needed that cold shower.

When Jason emerged from the bathroom he was surprised to find Mandy awake, sat up wearing one of his team t-shirts eating Chinese from the tub with a fork, her hair was now tousled loose and her long legs stretched out in front of her.

Damn…He would never be able to wear that t-shirt again without getting a raging hard-on

"I thought you'd be out-cold for a while yet"

Mandy met his gaze with a smile "I'm all about the power naps"

"And refuelling… " Jason grinned and nodded to her fork full of food

"So I might have been dreaming about food…" Mandy admitted laughing as she ate another fork full

"Not dreaming about me? I'm disappointed" Jason laughed. Mandy wiped her mouth and put down the fork and tub on the bedside table.

Mandy gave Jason a good look up and down, as he stood there still wet and a towel around his waist. She grinned at the obvious erection that was growing again under his towel.

"Yeah, so that cold shower did absolutely nothing to help" he grinned in return

Mandy shifted so she was sitting on the edge of bed facing him. "Anything I can do to help with that?" she teased as she opened her legs and moved the fabric of the t-shirt slowly further up her thighs until Jason could see she was wearing nothing underneath. "Or are you hungry?"

"Oh I'm hungry alright. You are going to be the death of me" Jason growled as he moved towards her lifting her from her seated position until she was lying underneath him on the bed, he pinned her hands together above her head and kissed her hard, she squirmed, trying to free herself as he came up for air. For a second he froze, his thumb stroking one of her wrists and the slight marks and bruising still around it, he released her hands "I'm sorry, I didn't think" Mandy's hands came up to his face "I wasn't worried" she told him sincerely "I'm safe with you" she pulled him down to kiss her again. "You're the one person who gets to capture me whenever you want." She whispered to him smiling seductively as she lay back and put her hands back above her head. "Do what you want with me Master Chief..."

Jason was momentarily stunned and unbelievably turned-on by Mandy handing over control to him like this, giving herself to him. His hand came up to capture her wrists gently as his other hand dragged the borrowed T-shirt up over her naked body, over her head and he left it bunched around her wrists. He held her hands in place as he leaned down to her ear "this is going to be hard and fast Mandy, I can't wait any longer…" she smiled and nodded, kissed him hard as he shifted himself so his cock was nudging at her entrance. "You're already wet for me" he groaned.

Mandy moaned anticipating him, moving her hips against him, it had been a long time since she'd felt Jason Hayes inside her, and it felt as good as she remembered as he pushed slowly into her. She gasped at the feel of him, after two slow strokes he kept his promise and drove hard and fast, filling her totally. He continued to hold her wrists with one hand, fucking her harder and faster, he was so close but he wanted her to come with him, he used his free hand to roam her naked body, pinching her nipples and then teasing her clit. Mandy moaned deeply.

"Fuck, Jason…." "Oh fuck"

"Come with me" he demands of her as he's face to face with her making her come undone. He felt her body start to tense around his cock and that's all he needed to send him spinning, with one hard stoke he came inside her moaning as she falls apart around him, shaking, still pinned to the spot with her wrists, her body writhing underneath him.

He collapses to the side of her releasing her wrists and they both lay there catching their breath.

Once she'd recovered Mandy rolls to face him, still flushed and smiling "You know you ruined sex for me forever" she teases

Jason frowns "I did what now?"

Mandy laughs and reaches out to pull him towards her, he moves closer, watching her face.

"The first time we had sex. That was it. You ruined sex with anyone else after that."

Jason grinned and propped his head up on his hand. "The Jason Hayes standard"

"Indeed. And then I just about got over not ever getting the Jason Hayes standard ever again when J-Bad happened"

"Sorry about that…" Jason laughed out loud "…But you kind of ruined it all for me…" Jason continued suddenly serious "the one woman who knows all sides of me, who understands without trying. Who is also the hottest fucking thing I ever saw naked. I mean what relationship was ever going to live up to you?"

Mandy stroked his face "took us a while to work it out didn't it?"

Jason smiled back at her "worth the wait though" and he pulled her to him to kiss her.

"I love you too, by the way" Mandy added before she kissed him back, feeling him smiling his cat-that-got-the-cream smile against her lips, Jason knew she wouldn't miss what he'd said earlier, even in the throws of passion nothing got past Mandy Ellis.