Not
Covered in the Contract, a Ned/Jax
story in the GH universe by Sue Castle. Rated NC17.
What if Gertrude hadn't caught Jax with Chloe ... but
came damned close? This story is set in January, 2000, and the story line about
Chloe's blindness doesn't exist in this universe. No copyright infringement
intended.
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While
he had gotten used to it to some extent, Ned had to admit it was weird, lying
in bed next to Chloe, dreaming about Alexis.
It
was even weirder lying in bed next to Chloe and dreaming about Jax.
Shaking
off the last remnants of a dream that had him reaching for a water bottle to
soothe his dry throat and heading into the shower to relieve the pressure at
his groin, he stuck his face beneath the shower head and cranked the water over
to ice. It helped. A little.
Staring
at himself in the mirror a little while later, he wondered why his past had
suddenly decided to haunt him. The steam fogged before his eyes and his image
wavered. His hair was longer, his features softer, his eyes harder. There was
an indefinable aura about him that cried, 'hustler!' Twenty years before,
barely legal, doing whatever he had to do to escape his mother, ditch his
father and make it on his own. Since the only skills he had were with a tennis
racket and his body, that didn't leave a lot of options.
Thankfully,
he hadn't had a lot of inhibitions. Women, men, hell, animals
if they paid a premium, not that it had ever actually come to livestock.
His beauty, willingness, and utter lack of morals had made him a comfortable
living all the way across
So,
he loved Alexis. He wanted Jax. Not really any
surprise there. He'd wanted what he couldn't have in the past. He'd get over
it. Cold showers were good for that.
"Ned?"
Chloe's sleepy voice broke off his reverie, and he finally looked away,
stepping into a pair of sweatpants and opening the door. Grabbing a towel,
swiping at his hair, he bowed her into the bathroom.
"All yours, wifey." She grinned
at him and smacked his butt as he made his way out the door. He really liked
Chloe. Felt comfortable with her. In a way it was almost too bad he was in love
with Alexis, and Chloe wanted Jax. There was a lot to
be said for comfort.
A
shiver crawled up his spine, and his skin tingled. There it was again, the
thought of wanting Jax. He really had to stop that,
before he got himself in trouble. It wouldn't do to be in bed with his lover
and call out his wife's lover's name when he came. Alexis had a mind that was a
cross between a steel trap and a katana. She hadn't had cause, as far as he
knew, to go digging too deeply into his past. He hoped it would stay that way.
What he'd done, what he'd been, had been a long time ago, but it was still
affecting him. He glanced down at the beginning of an erection showing through
his sweats.
Obviously a little more than it should.
Determinedly
blanking his mind of all thoughts of sex with men in general and Jax in particular, Ned headed into the weight room and
began his workout. He had a feeling it was going to be a long and difficult
day.
He
wasn't wrong.
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There
were days when his life resembled a particularly Baroque opera, sans music but
with all the larger-than-life villains. Jax stared
down at the rotund, obnoxious woman waving her finger under his nose and
suppressed a sigh. Gertrude wasn't truly evil. She was simply greedy,
conniving, and out to take away his true love's life's
work any way she could. Turning the idea over in his head, he re-thought the
definition of evil, and decided she might fit in that category after all.
When
the woman finally stopped to draw breath, he smoothly interjected, "It's
all in your fevered imagination." Grasping her elbow in an unbreakable if
carefully non-bruising grip, he steered her toward the door and ejected her
back out into the hallway. "You truly don't want me to have to get a
restraining order, now, do you?"
With
her usual perfect timing, Alexis came down the stairs, yawning behind her hand,
looking lovely in a streamlined way in her satin robe and bare feet. Upon
finishing her yawn she pushed her hair out of her eyes and backed him up.
"I
can have it for you by this afternoon. Standard hundred feet
or should I push for more?" Her voice was nonchalant, businesslike.
She leaned sideways to peer around Jax, pinning
Gertrude with a laser stare. "Given the history of harassment, not to
mention delusional behavior, I don't think we'd have any trouble at all getting
one."
Gertrude
hissed and sputtered, but eventually stomped away. Jax
grinned down at Alexis as he shut the door.
"Nice
one, mate," he teased. She grinned back up at him.
"Anything for a friend." Her hand flailed blindly. He
stepped around her into the kitchen, retrieved her coffee and placed it in her
hand. "You're an angel," she sighed, burying her nose in the cup.
"Only
to the people I like," he tossed over his shoulder as he headed for the
door. He'd been on his way out when Gertrude had muscled her way in.
"Speaking
of which, how's Chloe?" She was grinning at him. He laughed back at her.
"I'll
let you know tonight. How's Ned?"
Her
grin turned wistful. "Won't know until tomorrow.
Court all day, then paperwork piled to the rafters tonight."
His
grin grew smug. "All work and no play makes
Alexis a dull girl."
He
barely got the door closed between them before the newspaper she threw thumped
against it. He was still chuckling when he arrived at L&B headquarters.
"H'lo?" he called out into the empty lobby. A faint
echo from the back led him further into the studio, and he paused behind Dewy
at the sound board, watching Ned sing for a few minutes. Ashton's eyes were closed, one hand held the earphones to his head, and his
entire body was curving around the microphone extending from the ceiling. He
looked like he was dancing with it, or seducing it. He was almost finished with
the song, and his free hand sketched patterns in the air, matching the lyrics,
all about unfulfilled desire and anticipation making love sweeter.
Jax could relate. There were days when, much as he
liked Alexis, it was difficult to roll over and wake up to her face instead of
Chloe's. He had to fight the urge to run screaming down the length of Port
Charles and get his rightful lady back.
"Hey,"
Ned said right beside him, startling him from his daydream and making him jump.
"Oh,
done? Didn't hear you."
Ned
gave him a look of mock affront. "Didn't hear me? How could you not
hear me, giving it Eddie Maine's all in there in that little plastic box?"
Then he grinned. "Didn't miss much. I'm a little
weak on the top notes today. Gonna have to go back
and re-lay some of those tracks."
They
headed back toward the lobby, and Jax dug in his
briefcase for the papers he'd brought over for Ned to sign. He let the
music-babble wash over his head, happy in an abstract way that his friend was
able to follow his passion. ELQ was suffering for the loss of Ned Ashton, but
the opposite couldn't be said. Ned was in his element. Jax
cocked his head and stared at Ned, bouncing along at his shoulder. He seemed a
bit more hyper than usual, brushing against Jax then
rebounding away like he'd gotten a shock.
Jax looked at him more closely, and Ned refused to
meet his eyes, blushing a little. Eventually he calmed
down. Jax chalked the antsy behavior up to the
post-singing adrenaline rush that often seemed to affect him, especially after
being on-stage. He sneaked a sideways glance down and saw that, yes, Ned had a
hard-on. Jax hid his grin. Whatever turned his crank. Ignoring the residual effects of creativity, if that
was it was, Jax settled on the couch and got down to
business.
As
soon as he spread the papers across the table, Eddie the Musician was subsumed
into Ashton the Executive. Things went smoothly, contract talk ebbing and
flowing, and Jax was feeling slightly buzzed himself
by the time he left.
Of
course, a large part of that could be on account of the fact that he was on his
way to get a little quality time in with Ned's wife. With
Ned's blessing. He ignored the wicked grin Ned gave him when he said,
"See you tomorrow, have fun, don't do anything I wouldn't do."
Right. Like he would content himself with that!
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Twenty
minutes after Jax left L&B to go romance Chloe,
Ned came out of the mental haze of note arranging that had been the only thing
keeping him from embarrassing himself with Jax to
realize that two of the most time-critical documents Jax
had brought with him still lay, signed and dated and ready to go, on the
counter where he'd signed them. He sighed. Looked like he
wasn't the only one preoccupied by thoughts of sex that morning. Of
course, Jax was going to get some, and Ned wasn't. He
grinned lopsidedly.
That
was more the norm than not, any more.
Pushing
aside thoughts of Alexis, whom it seemed he could never get together with
lately, and Jax, with whom he'd never get together,
period, he gathered up the contracts and grabbed his briefcase and keys. It
wouldn't be the first time he'd have to ask his wife and his friend to hold off
on their fun and games until business was done. It probably wouldn't be the
last.
Stepping
from his car to the curb, he saw a familiar stocky figure disappear through the
front doors. He checked, making sure Gertrude hadn't seen him, then followed. He didn't know what she was up to, but
knowing her, it would be nothing good for Chloe. Ned would, as always, do
whatever he had to do to protect his lady wife. That was why she was his
lady wife, after all.
Gertrude
ducked into a small room that he recognized, and he made a mental note to have
the head of security sacked for allowing the woman to use his office. Ned hoped
the bribe had been a good one, because the man would have to live on it for
awhile and Ned wasn't about to give him a reference. There were some good
things about owning the building.
Sneaking
up to the side of the office, he ducked into the room when Gertrude's back was
turned. She was so intent on what she was doing she wouldn't have seen him,
anyway. He heard the unmistakable clunk and whirr of a videotape loading, and
peered around the coat rack to see what she was up to.
As he'd suspected. No good.
"I
knew it!" she cackled. The vicious glee in her squeaky voice made the hair
on the back of his neck stand straight up.
Craning
as far as he could without being caught, he saw the monitor of the camera she
was currently taping. His eyes bulged and his mouth fell open.
When
had security wired Jax's bedroom?
It looked like there might be criminal charges along with that dismissal,
because there was no way Gertie could have pulled
this one off on her own. Then figures moved across the screen, and his eyes
closed instinctively. It looked like Gert was going
to get her evidence, and then some. Chloe was drawing Jax
across the floor and pushing him over onto the bed. Jax
was far from resisting.
As
silently and quickly as he could, Ned escaped the office and headed at high
speed for the elevator. The doors had barely closed before he had his cell
phone out. He punched the third speed-dial number, right after Alexis and his
grandmother's private line.
"C'mon,
Chloe, don't ignore it, you always say it could be important and it is!"
he muttered, willing her to interrupt her afternoon delight for an incoming
warning call. His mind was racing, planning a way to spike Gertrude's guns, and
praying like hell Jax would go along with it. Chloe
would, he had faith in her. But he might have to move fast to keep Jax from giving the game away.
On
the third ring, his prayer was answered.
"Chloe
Morgan," she answered, both breathless and impatient, but hiding it well.
"Chloe,
it's Ned, it's an emergency. DON'T SAY ANYTHING! Just listen. Warn Jax that Gertrude is watching and to be ready for anything.
She's down in the security office and she's got a video recorder running,
pointed at his bed. I'll be there in two minutes. Got it?"
"I'm
sure I put in an order for the chiffon," she said calmly. "But if all
they have is the satin, tell them it won't do, cancel it out and we'll try the
The
click in his ear let him know she would do her part. Now it was up to him.
And Jax.
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Chloe
was shaking slightly as she ended the call and set the 'phone down slowly on
the bedside table. Her aunt was worse than a nemesis; she was a stalker. Rage
burned through her, turning her vision red before she managed to regain her
self-control. She would indulge her emotions later. Right now she had a company
to save and a lover to protect. Not to mention a husband about to descend on
them both, equally intent on protection.
Jax's hands came up over her shoulders, and she twisted
into his embrace as he pulled her down to him. Before he had the chance to kiss
her, she angled her chin up and whispered into his ear.
"Gertrude
is watching," she murmured, pretending to nuzzle his cheek. "Ned's on
his way in. Be ready for anything."
The
warm skin under her hands tightened as his muscles hardened. She stroked his
arms gently, silently warning him to calm down and not do as his -- and her --
instincts demanded, which would send them down to find Gertrude, and kill her
where she stood. Chloe trusted Ned. He'd gotten them out of danger from her
aunt in the past; he'd do it again.
"Thanks
for warming him up for me, baby."
Ned's
seductive drawl from the doorway nearly sent her into fright-induced heart
failure. She managed not to shriek, fall off the bed or faint, and raised
herself up off Jax with as much natural grace as she
could muster. Not sure where he was going with this, thankful she and Jax hadn't gotten completely undressed yet,
she gathered the front of her dress together in one fist and sashayed over to Ned,
putting a sizzle in her walk.
The
sparkle in his eye told her he appreciated the view. Catching her chin in one
hand, he gave her a deep, open-mouthed kiss that she felt clear down to the
soles of her feet. The unexpected carnality of it surprised a whimper from her.
When he finally took his tongue out of her mouth, she was a little
light-headed, and Jax was making a sound suspiciously
like a growl from the bed behind her.
That
had been fun!
"Your
turn next, Jasssper," he breathed, drawing Jax's never-used first name out until it was about five
syllables long. The unexpectedness of that froze Jax's
growl in his throat.
Or
perhaps it was the way Ned was slinking over to the bed, looking like a
particularly hungry wildcat. In heat. Stalking Jax.
Chloe
realized in an instant precisely how Ned intended to throw Gertrude for a loop.
Her sense of humor, black at the best of times, kicked in with a vengeance, and
she purred, "My pleasure, darling." Tossing her hair back, she paused
at the door and told them, "Enjoy yourselves, boys!"
Then
she went out into the kitchen and started fixing lunch. Any minute now, her
aunt was going to come bursting in the door. Chloe couldn't wait to see the
look on her face.
It
was going to be priceless.
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This
wasn't exactly what Jax had been expecting of his
stolen afternoon. Ned was down to his boxers by the time -- much too soon --
that he got to the bed. Bouncing up on it with a motion weirdly similar to the
way he'd been walking at L&B earlier in the day, he draped himself over Jax like a blanket and squirmed. Jax
grabbed hold of his shoulders and yanked the man up where he could get to his
ear without broadcasting to any unwanted watchers what it was he had to say.
"What
the hell are you up to?" Short and to the point.
Ned turned a completely serious look on him, letting Jax
know that the camera, however it had gotten into his room, was to the left of
the bed behind Ned's back.
Which would, of course, give Gertrude a perfect view of Jax's own face. He did his best to look as dopey and lustful as
possible. Ned smirked, then shook his head slightly.
"Stop
it, you'll make me crack up," he whispered against Jax's
neck. Jax shivered involuntarily, then
assayed a nice little moan, deliberately. Ned closed his eyes, a despairing
look on his face, and bit his lip to keep from laughing out loud.
Shifting
a little closer, a move Jax hadn't been sure was
possible given as close as they already were, Ned murmured in loving tones
directly into Jax's ear, "The wicked aunt should
be right on my heels with a belly full of righteous indignation. Make it look
good!" He gave Jax a slurping kiss, accidentally
grazing one of Jax's most sensitive erogenous zones,
and the moan Jax gave was neither little nor
deliberate. Ned bucked against him in surprise at the equally involuntary
thrust that accompanied the noise.
"Sorry,"
he muttered. Jax grunted in return, hoping like hell
he wasn't turning cherry red. Not the best performance of his life, if he was.
"Also, we're being taped."
"Got
that much from Chloe," Jax whispered back,
covering it up with a kiss that became more real than he'd intended when Ned
unexpectedly moved toward him at the same time he moved forward. The electric
surge of arousal he felt when Ned slid against him gave him a wicked idea.
Make
it look good, eh? He could do that.
Sliding
his hands down to catch Ned's wrists in his fists, Jax
rolled them over until he was on top and Ned was pushed against the pillows.
Ned's eyes widened and a grin split his face. Jax
leaned down and licked one of the dimples lining his cheek.
Ned's
smile tilted, and his eyes rounded. There was a not-so-little twitch against Jax's belly. So, Ned liked to be licked, hm? Jax lowered his head and did it
again.
They
might not have much time before Gertie broke it up,
but he'd have his bit of pay-back for Ned's mischief before she got there. Game
plan firmly in mind, he went to work teasing the hell out of Ned, holding him
down and tickling him, then nipping anywhere he could reach when Ned tried to
wriggle out of his hold. It was fun. He hadn't had that much fun since he'd
gotten Mac drunk that time back home in the outback and had a go at him.
The
memory spurred him on, and Ned was a more-than-willing participant in their
little show. He'd finally gotten his hands loose and they were as busy on Jax as Jax's were on him. The
second time Ned stroked him down the side and around the top of his thigh,
causing Jax to hump up against him, might have been
an accident. The third time definitely wasn't.
Jax hooked his fingers under the waistband of Ned's
boxers, pulling them down as carefully as he could given that
Ned was hard as a plank and moving like a snake beneath him. He expected
Gertrude to come in at any minute, and decided to give her an eyeful she
wouldn't soon forget. Then Ned hooked one leg around Jax's
hips and rolled them over again, and Jax lost track
of his thoughts as Ned started kissing and biting his way down Jax's torso.
Soon
they were both moaning, and neither of them was faking. There was one certain
thing about being a man; once the engine started revving the only thing that
mattered was making it to the finish line. There were times when this fact of
life irritated Jax.
This
wasn't one of them.
Mainly because Ned had worked his way down to Jax's
crotch, and was doing things with his tongue that Jax
had never even imagined, much less had done to him. By anyone. Even professionals. He
had no idea where Ned had learned the things he knew, but he found himself
hanging on to the headboard with both hands and howling by the end.
Climax
took him by surprise, but Ned seemed to be expecting it, latching onto him like
a leech and hanging on until the bitter end. With a groan so pleasured it
sounded painful, Jax collapsed against the bed
linens, Ned settling gently beside him. One hand was gentling his softening
prick while Ned pulled at his own balls with the other. Once the endorphins
stopped drowning him, Jax came around enough to realize
that Ned not only hadn't gotten off, but was trying to avoid it.
No
fair. If there was one thing Jax strove to be, in bed
at least, it was fair. He didn't examine his rationalization too closely, in
main part because reciprocation felt like the thing to do and he wasn't
one to second-guess his gut instincts. Catching Ned's hands in his, he used
them to draw the other man up beside him in the bed. By the time Ned was
sitting on the pillows, leaning back against the headboard, his lap with its
straining erection was in easy reach of Jax's mouth.
So he reached.
"Bloody hell!" Ned yelped as Jax
swallowed him in one gulp. It had been a very, very long time, but deep-throating was apparently like riding a bicycle. Once
mastered, never forgotten. Ned tasted a little like salt and not much of
anything else, mostly the sensation of thickness over his tongue. Jax swallowed around him, concentrated on breathing through
his nose on the out-stroke, and hoped Ned's grasping
hands would leave a little of his hair still rooted in his scalp. The way he
was bucking and pulling Jax was likely to be choked and
bald by the time they were done.
Luckily
for them both, Ned was too close to the edge for it to take long enough to
either kill or scalp Jax. With a cry that was close
to a scream, Ned arched under Jax's hands and gave it
up to him. Jax held on and let it come.
Altogether satisfactory if very surprising.
Lying
there trying to catch his breath, Ned curled over him, arms crossed over his
back rubbing absently over sweat-streaked skin, Jax realized that in the heat of the moment he'd completely
forgotten Gertrude. Videotapes and verisimilitude. Chloe and Alexis. Everything except Ned.
Movement
beneath him startled him, and he let Ned go with rather more reluctance than he
wanted to admit. Of course, lying with his head in Ned's lap sucking on his
prick like it was a lollipop wasn't something he wanted to think about for
long, either. He shook himself all over, trying to get his skin to fit right
again. Such intense, unexpected pleasure was unsettling. Then he started to
roll over and get up off the bed.
Strong
arms caught him. Reeled him in expertly and easily, making it look intentional.
Before he could catch himself, Jax found himself flat
on his back with an armful of satiated Ned Ashton.
Not
precisely the scenario he'd envisioned when he came home that morning. Oddly
enough, he didn't find himself all that anxious to escape, either. He looked
down at Ned, who was looking up at him. Ned seemed to read his mind, because he
shrugged one shoulder as if to say, 'whatever works!' He grinned at Jax, then with deliberate intent, snuggled up to him.
It
was Jax's turn to fight against laughing aloud. Ned
looked perfectly content, capable of lying there all day long given the opportunity.
Petting him absently, Jax snuggled back. A few short
moments later there was a bang on the door. Gertrude's unmistakable bark was
met by Chloe's calm response.
"Would
you care for some lunch?"
"It's
all a sham! It's ridiculous! I don't believe it! It's -- it's -- Oh, my
God."
The
last of her miniature tirade was bellowed at the foot of the bed, breaking off
with a shocked gasp. Jax did his best to look
affronted at the invasion of his privacy. Ned did a wonderful impression of a
startled village maiden, letting loose with a baritone shriek of his own and
dragging the covers up around his neck, incidentally giving Gertie
a nice eyeful of Jax's nether regions before Jax yanked a corner of the sheet down to cover himself.
Glaring down at Ned's face, he could see his own barely contained hysteria
mirrored in Ned's expression.
He
hoped the mixture of emotions on his face looked like wounded dignity to Gertie. Laughing like hyenas at this point wouldn't do them
much good on the believability front. Happily, before the uneasy balance could
be broken by the sounds of two grown men howling like idiots, Chloe came up
behind Gertrude and patted her on the shoulder.
"You
see, Aunt Gertrude, Jax and I aren't lovers as you
seem so determined to prove. He and Ned are. Since Ned obviously can't
marry Jax, and he does love me as well, we're helping
one another out with our marriage."
Ned
choked and turned to smother it against Jax's chest. Jax put a protective arm around him, more to hide the fact
that Ned was practically in hysterics than for any actual protective purpose.
Gertrude finally managed to rip her fascinated, horrified gaze from the bed and
pin Chloe with an equally fascinated, disbelieving stare.
"After
all, the only proscription in the will is that I don't break my marriage
vows. It doesn't say anything at all about my husband having a
boyfriend." Placing one arm around Gertrude's shoulders, Chloe ushered her
into back into the living room. "Now, how does a nice shrimp salad
sound?"
Ned
finally unburied his face from against Jax and looked
up at him. Jax smirked.
"This
might actually work!" Ned muttered.
Jax leaned over and kissed him. He hadn't any choice,
really. Ned looked so absolutely amazed and so smug at the same time. A kiss
had been imperative. Unable to stop acting on impulse once he'd begun, Jax reached down and smacked Ned's arse.
A very fine arse.
And
since Chloe was so obviously all right with this ...
Ned
yelped as Jax reached over, pulled him into the
middle of the bed, and started playing all over again. Jasper Jax had never been one to miss an opportunity. He wasn't
about to start now.
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"You
know I'm allergic to shellfish," Gertrude said faintly, eyes glazed, brain
obviously still back in the bedroom with the boys. Chloe managed a sympathetic
look that, by sheer force of will, didn't turn into a full-blown grin.
"Oh,
my, I'd completely forgotten. I'm so sorry. Well, perhaps the Grill downstairs
will have something more to your liking." She'd hustled Gertrude out the
door before the older woman knew what hit her.
Doing
a controlled but still joyous victory dance across the living room floor, Chloe
peeked in the doorway of the bedroom to let her husband and her lover know the
dragon was gone. Her mouth opened to speak, then stayed that way, her eyes
rounding to echo her lips.
Ned
was star-fished in the middle of the bed, Jax sprawled between his wide-spread thighs. Ned's head was
thrown back, his hands were buried to the hilt in Jax's
hair, and his eyes were squeezed shut. His toes were curling. He looked like he
was having a wonderful time.
Jax was lazily humping the bed in time to the rhythm
his head set, going up and down, up and down over Ned's groin. No need to see
details to know what he was doing that was causing Ned to have such a
wonderful time. Jax was having a pretty good time
doing it, too, from the look of it.
Fanning
herself, Chloe silently backed out of the room and decided that it might be a
good time to follow her aunt and see what the woman was up to. Now that she had
a moment to think about it, she didn't trust Gertrude not to take the videotape
and sell it to the highest bidder. Or the local newspaper.
Or Lucy Coe. Or Edward Quartermaine. Or AJ.
Terrible possibilities running through her mind, Chloe left the penthouse and
headed for the lobby.
As
expected, Gertrude hadn't gotten far. In fact, she was planted in front of the
security monitor, watching Jax and Ned devouring one
another. Chloe glanced over her shoulder and gulped. Yes, she had to admit it
certainly was ... enthralling. Blinking rapidly to try to wipe the glaze off
her own eyeballs, Chloe swallowed several times before managing to speak firmly
to her aunt.
"Enough
is enough!" Gertrude jumped at the sound of Chloe's voice, squeaking like
a startled mouse. Chloe shook her finger under Gertie's
nose. "If you don't leave them alone, I'll have you arrested for illegal
surveillance. Stalking. Harassment.
Invasion of privacy. Whatever it
takes!"
Gertrude
stared at her, hands fluttering, for a long moment before retreating in
confusion. She left the tape behind when she fled, hands still fluttering,
mouth still opening and closing with no sound coming out of it. Chloe put her
fists on her hips and threw her head up, staring triumphantly after the Wicked
Witch, routed from the field of battle. A keening cry unlike any she'd ever
heard brought her around and she froze, staring at the monitor.
Oh.
So that's what Ned sounded like when he came.
Swallowing
again, licking her lips to try to get some moisture back to them, Chloe backed
to the door, eyes still glued to the monitor, and locked it. Then she felt
along the desk until she found a chair and sank into it, still watching the
action.
By
this point, Jax had moved up behind Ned, and his hips
were moving. Ned was squirming around in front of him in a way that made Chloe
itch, pleasantly. Jax said something, too low for her
to understand the words, and Ned tipped his head back. Jax
licked along the side of his jaw until they were kissing, a short, awkward
kiss, no less hot for the lack of duration. Chloe heard panting and blushed
when she realized it was coming from her.
No
wonder she had a dry mouth.
A
thoroughly wicked grin creased her face. From the look of it, this could last
awhile. From her own reaction to it, this new wrinkle
in their relationship could be a very enjoyable one. And she wasn't one to hold
out on her friends.
Picking
up her phone without tearing her eyes away from the screen, she punched her
second call button, the one right after Jax. It was
answered on the first ring. She had to love a person who was married to her
cell phone.
"Hello,
Alexis? This is Chloe. You need to come over to the hotel right now. There's
something here that you have got to see!"
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the end