Three Times Lucky

IMG_1059“What’s the R for?” I asked in an offhand way, hoping to convince her that I didn’t care all that much.

“Oh, that,” she drawled, then gave a soft laugh, turned her head to look over her shoulder like she’d forgotten it was there. “Dumb stuff you do when you’re young.”

Amalia sprawled on her stomach, naked save for the white sheet that had wrapped itself around one beautiful, tanned calf.  Her loose dark hair slid over her shoulder and the perfectly executed R of a scar was gone.

I wanted to ask her what the initial stood for, but she looked at me through hooded eyes, and quirked her lips. As if she wanted it again. As if we hadn’t just fucked. My dick told my brain to shut up and stop using up so much blood so I could get hard again. Amalia wasn’t one of those women who would hang around long if you didn’t give her what she wanted. I was pretty sure of that.

* * *

I’d met beautiful women before. Fucked a number of them, too. Some were very nice and some were walking train-wrecks. But there is a scale of beauty when it comes to women, and it’s unique to every man. Some are so far out of your league you can look away without a second thought. You are what you believe you deserve and I didn’t, in a million fucking light years, deserve Amalia.

I first laid eyes on her at a fundraiser for a worthy cause – damned if I can remember for what. Every other heterosexual male in the room saw her too.  Tall, lithe, dressed in a simple black sheath dress that plunged at the back to show an expanse of golden skin. Her hair was pinned up, dark tendrils trailed down the nape of her long, slender neck, but every one of us was mentally pulling out the pins and watching it cascade over her shoulders. High, perfectly proportioned breasts. Hips like a woman – not to narrow, not too wide – and an ass that could curve into the palms of your hands like glory.

If the body was stunning, her face was flawless. God – her mouth, her lips were hypnotic – made to surround the base of your cock.  But it was her eyes that trapped me. Big, dark almond-shaped with a little slant. Her mouth was all sex but her eyes were all innocence. That insidious combination forced me to overcome that sense of ‘out of my league’ and introduce myself.

When I did, and she responded with a slow smile and a languid handshake, I became the sort of asshole I can’t stand. I would have this woman. She was mine and she just didn’t know it yet. I’d do anything – utterly anything – to possess her. It was a strength of will thing, an absolute single-mindedness that should have frightened the fuck out of any sane, civilized adult. But the moment she didn’t turn her back and walk away, I was none of those things.

I held her hand too long. She gave me another half-smile and retrieved it. No wedding band. It wouldn’t have stopped me. Nothing would have stopped me.

“What brings you to this worthy gathering?” she asked, tease-heavy drawl in her words. She turned her head to scan the room grown crowded before I answered.

“I think I made a donation.”

Her laugh was moonlight on skin. “Good for you.”

“And you?”

“I designed the invitations. The organizers are friends.”

I had been relieved of my invitation at the door, so I couldn’t pull it out, look at it, and charm her with a compliment. Fuck it, I thought. “Do you have dinner plans?”

That’s all it took.  It turned out I didn’t have to do ‘anything.’ Just a donation to some charity and an invitation to dinner.

* * *

I watched her eat. Neat little forkfuls of the starter. But when the crab arrived, she picked up a shattered claw in her fingers and sucked the meat out with uninhibited relish. Just the sound of it made my eyes water. Her cheeks hollowed and my cock ached. Thank Christ for tablecloths.

I’m not an idiot.  When women do this, they know exactly what kind of game they’re playing. She did. I just didn’t fucking care. I’d play any game she wanted.

After the exchange of pleasantries and the requisite bits of personal information, halfway through the main course, I regained enough sanity to think strategically. I didn’t want to blow it with this woman. Yes, I wanted to fuck her, but I wanted more. More of what? No idea. Just more.  So I decided I wasn’t going to screw it up by asking her up to my place.

Instead, I drove her home like a gentleman, and she asked me up to hers.

* * *

She fucked like she ate.  Like all that golden skin was just pretty wrapping for a carnivore. Like she was born to be in porn, but the really high-end stuff.  The reality of her lips wrapped around my shaft blew what I’d imagined away. On her knees, looking up at me with those little doll eyes, leaving lipstick smears as she sucked.  It took everything I had not to lose it down her throat.

It was after I’d fucked her from behind that I found it.  After she’d spread her thighs wide and groaned over the meaty thuds of my hips meeting her ass.  After she’d arched her back and orgasmed, milking my cock until I was sure I’d go insane. After I filled her with cum.  I bent over to kiss her shoulder and felt the ridges of it against my lips.

The R. The fucking R.  With my half dead cock buried in her pussy and my muscles still twitching. I knew better than to ask.  I just couldn’t help myself.

She moved. The conditioned air chilled the fluids on my dick as if to remind me that, like everything else, pussy passes. Sprawled on top of the rumpled sheets, her skin dark against their whiteness, her hair a tousled mess. My fingers itchy to thread and clutch at the strands.

I asked. The answer was lame. So I fucked her again just to stop myself from asking another question.

* * *

It was fear that stopped me from phoning her the following day, or the day after.  I didn’t want to hear her turn me down. Didn’t want to consider the possibility that I’d never fuck her again. That I had been a disappointing one-night stand.  But I did finally use the number she’d given me.

“Hey there, It’s David.”

“Hey there yourself,” she said in a bored, neutral tone.

“I apologize for not calling sooner,” I said, and meant it. “Crazy week.”

“Sure.”

“No, I mean it. I’m sorry.” I tried to dial down the desperation. “I was hoping, maybe…”

“You could fuck me again?” The voice was still bone dry.

“Well, that, too. But maybe dinner? Or something else?”

“Hmm. I don’t know. Maybe.”

“Are you gonna make me beg?”

There was a pause on the line, then her laugh, glassy and wicked. “No. When?”

* * *

It took the advice of a friend to remind me of what I’d almost thrown away. I was up at the Skyline bar, having a few drinks after work with a buddy of mine, Chris. I’d just finished telling him about Amalia when she walk in with three other women. They were headed towards the far end of the room.

“That’s her,” I said, putting down my drink and nodding towards her.

“Holy shit.” That’s all he said at first.  Then he repeated it. “Holy shit.”

“Yeah.” And all I could think of was that it was a good thing she wasn’t there with another man because I’d have ripped him limb from limb.

“You fucked her?”

“Yeah.” I followed her progress to a table by the huge glass windows that overlooked the city. Her girlfriends were cute, but nothing compared to her.

“And you didn’t call her for two whole days? What the fuck’s wrong with you?” Chris snapped his fingers in front of my face. “Hey, over here. Are you shittin’ me?”

Then I was back. Wondering if I should go over and say hello.

“Don’t do it. If you go over there now, you’ll look like a desperate asshole.”

“I am a desperate asshole.”

Chris looked over at her again. She was haloed by the deep orange sun, as it set over the city.  “Sure. No call to wear a sign, though.”

* * *

I found the second one in the shadow of her right breast. This time I felt it with my fingertips as I was sucking on her nipple.

She was squirming beneath me, grinding her hips up against mine. I knew what it was before I saw it, and my mouth went dry, but I propped myself up on my elbow and looked.

Like the first, it was a raised scar. Not a burn, but cut into the skin. It was just as ornate, with a little curl at the leg of the R. Fancy. It had taken time to do. It must have been cut deep.

“What does the R stand for?”

Amalia threaded her fingers through my hair and tried to tug me back down her her tits, but I resisted.

She sighed and stretched on the bed. “Why do you want to know? Why does it matter?”

“I’m just curious. Two of them? It’s got to stand for something.”

She tisked like she was humoring a wayward child. Her hand skittered over my bare chest, over my stomach, and began to work the button on my pants.

“If I tell you…” she said, tease oozing over her tongue, fingers tugging down my zipper. “Will you stop asking silly questions and fuck me?”

Warm skin curled around my cock. It throbbed in her hand, and she laughed.

“Yeah.”

I was almost deaf by the time she spoke again. Sure, even strokes. My dick leaked precum and she used it like lube to stroke me faster.

“It stands for Robert. Old boyfriend. Satisfied?”

I didn’t answer her because I made a choice not to come in her hand. I got my pants past my hips, pushed the crotch of her panties aside and slammed into her. But the sensation of immanent orgasm faded. All I could think about was the name.  The fact that she’d let some other guy to cut his initial into her. Not just once, but twice.

I had to fuck it out of her. Fuck that image away. Of that fucking letter, and her lying there, letting him carve it into her. If I could only thrust hard enough, I could obliterate it.

“Fuck!” she sobbed, and pushed at my chest. “You’re hurting me.”

“Not like he hurt you, I bet,” I panted.

“Stop it. Fucking stop it.”

And I did. I apologized. I kissed her. I made her come and I fell asleep with my arms around her, because I didn’t know what else to do.

* * *

I found the third one as I was teasing her, kissing my way down her naked body. Her hands and legs bound to the bed frame with my ties. I smelled the musk of her heat, working my way down to her cunt.  And there, just above her mound was another one.  I stopped. This time, I didn’t have to ask. Same well formed letter. Same curl at the foot of the R.  It had to have hurt like a bitch.

“For god’s sake. Did you think I was a virgin when we met?” Impatience curdled her voice.

“No.” I hilted two fingers inside her swollen cunt, just to make the point.

Her muscles tensed and tightened around them. “Then what?”

“What’s his name?” I asked, pressing the pad of my thumb against her clit and circling it, watching her hips rise and fall as I fingered her.

“Why the fuck does it matter so much?” she panted.

“What’s his name again?”

“Rick.”

“Really?”

“Not this way,” she groaned. “Let me come on your cock.”

“I thought his name was Robert.”

“Jesus. Just let it go. Fuck me.” She was looking down at me, legs splayed, grinding her hips. She pushed herself onto my fingers with a wet, sucking sound.  “Just fuck me.”

The smell of her pussy was overwhelming. Thick and woody and rich.  It didn’t matter that I was hard. It didn’t matter that I wanted to be inside her. I had to know.

“Rick? Robert? Which is it?”

She stopped moving. “Untie me.”

“Why did you let him do it?”

“Unfucking tie me now.” Tears made her eyes glassy and unfocused.

“I need to know. Amalia.”

“I didn’t let him!” she yelled.

I sat back on my heels and looked down at her. “Three times? Bullshit.”

“You wouldn’t fucking understand. You’d never understand!”

One by one, I undid the ties. Amalia curled up into a ball and cried. Not loud, but in a way that shamed me. I lay beside her, wrapped my arms around her, and told her I was sorry. That it was fine. Everything would be all right.

* * *

First I tried to tell myself it didn’t matter. Everyone has a past. I’d been in love before, with a girl in college. Why shouldn’t it have been the same for Amalia? Of course, it was. But it didn’t matter how many times I tried to reason with myself, I couldn’t get those Rs out of my head. Every time we made love and I touched one of them or kissed one of them. I tried to push it down but it just kept coming back up.

Six months into our relationship, lying in bed on a lazy Sunday morning, I trailed a fingertip over the curve of her shoulder.

“God damn, I love you,” I whispered.

She turned onto her side, sliding an arm over my chest and hooking a leg between mine. “I love you too, baby.”

“Then tell me.”

Amalia giggled. “I just did.”

“No. Tell me about R. What’s his name again?”

She sighed and closed her eyes. “Riley.”

“Bullshit.”

“Then don’t keep asking.” She turned onto her back and sat up.

I grabbed her wrist, pulled her down, and rolled on top of her. “I need to know. I just fucking need to know.”

Her body went limp beneath me and she looked up at me with the coldest eyes I’ve ever seen. “The next time you ask me about this, I’ll leave you. I’ll walk out of your life and I’ll never come back. Understand?”

* * *

Amalia is the most beautiful, hottest woman I’ve ever known.  When we walk into a place, people change. Women look at her with envy and wish they were her. Men look at her with lust and wish they were me. I tell myself I’m the luckiest man alive to have her. That’s why I’m going to marry her.

If I tell myself that enough, I forget to wonder who R is, or what they had, or why she let him carve his initial into her skin. Three times.


Comments

48 responses to “Three Times Lucky”

  1. Keon Bates Avatar
    Keon Bates

    Your words have carved beautiful images onto my mind’s eye and tantalized my thoughts.

    Thank you

  2. Excellent work, I loved learning about the 3 Rs x

  3. Mysteries happen when we don’t know things, when we don’t understand, which ends up being the very reasons we think about them so much, and are so willing to adjust everything about ourselves to keep the beauties they bring with them around us.
    She is simultaneously the best and the worst thing to ever happen to him. No wonder he’s in love. Makes me wonder (!) what she sees in him…

  4. Malcolm Miller Avatar
    Malcolm Miller

    A delicious story, Remittance Girl! I’ve always enjoyed your writing – well since I was dfirst in ERWA, anyhow.

  5. Alec Smith Avatar
    Alec Smith

    Thank you RG. It’s great to get more to read from you.

    Apart from all the other whimsical threads this pulls for me, I had a sense of having been here before; the story and words are yours, but it felt to me as if the late Iain Banks were behind the keys.

    A

  6. Your descriptiveness always hook me, and what a great story. That R could stand for anything. It could be visible or invisible. Beautiful.

    “Amalia sprawled on her stomach, naked save for the white sheet that had wrapped itself around one beautiful, tanned calf”

    A simple, and lasting image. I’m always inspired when I read you. Always. I wish I had written every one of your stories.

  7. Such a mesmerizing web you weave with these stories…truly enjoy your writing.

    Stranded

  8. Simple amazing just the right touch of everything

  9. I’m not even sure what my search parameters were or what link I clicked to get here but my god – I’m glad I did

    Such an agst-building little tale! Thiis guy could lose his mind – she already owns his soul.

    I think we all want to know who R is/was & the back story of how he (or she) got to engrave this woman’s body.

    I see I have a lot more reading to do

  10. Enjoyed the dialogue. A woody smell from vagina….mmmm the seasonal imagery of springtime love (for me at least)….

  11. You really love your characters. It easily comes through and makes your stories better. This is just me, but I would rather hear more about Amalia’s thoughts than the guys’. As in the good shepherd part 1 with Tanya, the reader (or just me) is under the impression that both Amalia and Tanya are sacrificing their body for a need to emotionally experience something, but that something doesn’t seem connected to the sex.

    To me, the unanswered question that I’d like to hear more about in these stories and some of your others are the motivations behind the womens’ behavior.

    1. Thanks for the comment, Driver. I understand that you want that, and that a lot of erotica writers make character motivations very explicit to the reader.

      It is my belief, and part of my practice of the craft, to leave that open to a reader’s interpretation / imagination. For me, this changes the reading process from one of passive entertainment, to active participation in the textual experience.

      I’m pretty sure you can come to your own conclusions about motivation. If you can’t, or don’t want to, then perhaps my writing is not for you.

      In terms of this story, Amalia doesn’t have a voice in it because the Amalia that the narrator thinks he possesses does not exist. She is a projection of his own desires and his fears. Of course, she is a real person, and probably has a very interesting story of her own, but the Amalia that David desires is an object that will make him the envy of other men. That’s not a person, that’s a thing, which – unlike a real person – can be a secondhand thing.

      So, what you want is another story entirely.

      1. I’m completely sold by your explanation. I realize I’m just wanting more out of your story in my way than the way you’re intending. Despite this, I want to keep reading.

        1. I’m so glad you do. You see, I’m positive you are an intelligent, adventurous person who might have fun being part of this adventure with me. I never think of my readers as recipients. I think of them as the final part of the writing process. As Mike Kimera, the erotic writer who probably played the most significant role in my decision to write what I write, says: “What you read is not what I wrote. I provide the text. You provide the meaning.”

          That is a sentiment I really try to honour. My writing is incomplete without a willing reader to make meaning from it.

          P.S. If you’ve never read any of his work before, I urge you to delve. He’s got a huge library of stories up at http://mikekimera.wordpress.com/

  12. Thanks for the kind words. I’ll give Mike’s website a look.

  13. The Scarlet R…. Great story! Amalia and David are to me so much the strangers in the sack. Amalia is the souyght-after statue and David the feckless willing cock. I won’t go off on “men” but David is a worthless sot with no idea what he’s playing with, whereas Amalia is the classically damaged woman using sex as a wall rather than an intimacy. Orgasms as conversation-enders. I don’t think David would understand the trauma; he just want to know what the R is. They’re using each other, sure, but what the R is isn’t important either. He’s just mad his beautiful bird has a broken wing.

    Or so I think. 🙂 The reader may have the right to their own interpretation but no immunity against being wrong.

    This feels like the beginning of a story, the sketch, unless both characters are as hollow as they feel. I’m afraid David is no more than a device however; the interest would come from somewhere between Amalia’s coiffure and sculpted thighs (I’d prefer the upper half). I know which of the two I’d desire, regardless my gender or orientation.

    1. “The reader may have the right to their own interpretation”

      Indeed they have. 😀

    2. Anastaria Avatar
      Anastaria

      I agree partially, and as you said we are all entitled to let our minds wander, but here is where ive got it. R was either incest or rape. R could stand for rape or it could be a redirect, a word used during the rape repeatedly started with r, and cleverly she made up names to disguise it. They loved eachother but she will have to trust david, he values her as having made him the most lucky man alivem fullheartedlym and someone hurt her. Perhaps he could kill the person for her, or maybe not if she had no information, but he could help her heal and turn r into something of their own and no longer the master of shudders and tears. another spin could be that it was a woman who raped and carved her up, so using a male name is an even better misdirect to keep from facing the horrible truth of the past.

  14. love romance Avatar
    love romance

    Story let’s your imagination run wild with possibilities!

  15. Beautiful story.

  16. tEthio Avatar
    tEthio

    amazing, deep, strong, meaningful, forcing me to sink my toes into the proverbial sea of ur writing. No wonder i keep coming back.

  17. You drew me in with your words.
    You have my attention…
    Great writing…

  18. hotvanilla Avatar
    hotvanilla

    I love this line: ” You are what you believe you deserve”

  19. Michael Walling Avatar
    Michael Walling

    By the end of the story I had fallen in love with fhe characters.

  20. davidwillingham Avatar
    davidwillingham

    I have read 2 of your stories both were captivating and intriguing. I can’t wait to read more

  21. Anastaria Avatar
    Anastaria

    jesus christ you suck me into these! I have an entire story of a guesstimate of R and all the different ways to take it. I want a full on novel from you so bad. I saw in a comment a link to another writer, mike, i will definately be checking him out. Thanks for the link, i had no idea what i would do once i read everything of yours! if you respect this other writer then he must be good, so im excited to read him as well.

  22. The quality of the writing is so good.

  23. This is my first time here. I think it was very interesting (and good), just a little too quick on the draw.

    1. Hi there. I think that’s a very valid criticism. Lately, I have found there is an impatience to my writing. I’ve come to admire concise writing in others, and I think it’s affected my own process in a negative way. Also, my weakness, as a writer, has always been my endings. They’re never very good.

      1. I disagree about your ending. 🙂 I think it leaves the reader wondering and wanting more. Just my two cents!

  24. Great story. Thankyou. Tittllated my imagination. Glad to have found you.

  25. 112 Gardenia Lane
    lot f-6

  26. Thank you RG for this piece and your comments below. I’ve browsed your other work and look forward to the podcasts as sound can add so much to the minds eye.

  27. This is one of the most beautiful short stories I have ever read. If you turned it into a novel, I’d buy 2 for myself, and one for each person I meet. Absolutely wonderful.

  28. Obviously they stand for Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.

  29. Very interesting. I want to know more about the R’s!

  30. I was introduced to you through a younger woman who loves your stories. She is a breath of fresh air for me, as is your writing. I told her this and it still applies about your work, I can feel your stories when I read them and I love your answer to an earlier comment that the reader gives your stories meaning. Your work is new to me, and exciting, and i’m glad she took the time to show you to me.

  31. Great story. However I am more of the romantic type.

  32. I found your writing when looking for inspiration for an erotic scene within my own writing. You are very talented.

  33. A lovely story

  34. Enjoyed the story. The first person narrative from the male P.O.V. is unusual for a female author and makes the story even more compelling. I too found the character, David, a bit of an ass for pushing the ‘what’s the R for’ issue. I think it will eventually doom their relationship. but that’s to you of course. This is my initial foray into online erotic fiction. Glad you were my First. I look forward to more.

    1. Hello Kahsim. So glad I was your first. *snicker*.

      I too found the character, David, a bit of an ass for pushing the ‘what’s the R for’ issue. I think it will eventually doom their relationship. but that’s to you of course.

      I think that’s a very valid reading. And it’s not up to me. It’s up to you. You’re the reader. You’re the one who makes meaning of the story.

    2. Great story,.the most interesting part is how the author goes straight to the point and am also very curious abt this R stuff first it was Robert..I guess she was Raped in the past but all the same nice work

  35. Avid reader Avatar
    Avid reader

    That was a great story. You have a remarkable ability to create situations that feel totally real. I almost felt that I was sitting in that bar next to David when Amalia walks in with her pals. The three R’s that David later discovers carved into Amalia’s body had me thinking that I would happily track down her former tormentor if I was David and make him pay for what he did to her. My interpretation of the story leads me to think that Amalia has been in a very damaging previous relationship and is going to take a lot of time to recover from that. David, could be just what she needs, a normal bloke who will care for her and love her.

  36. Maltey Avatar
    Maltey

    One of the few short stories I’ve read to leave me with the feeling that I will ponder this for hours throughout the rest of my life.

    1. Thank you. Me too, by the way.

  37. Beautiful writing. I am undecided on the story itself but I could read whatever you write for hours upon hours. You have popped my erotica cherry, recommended by a friend. And I’m not complaining at all.

  38. Richard Hollins Avatar
    Richard Hollins

    Just the right amount of mystery.

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