Lucinda by Gerard Brennan
   
    It’s not often a fine and exotic young thing turns up in a spit and sawdust like Chucky’s. So when I spotted her leaning on that pool stick and swaying slightly to the awful Honky Tonk music blaring from the jukebox, I knew I had to make a move fast.


Neon light kissed her beautiful mahogany skin and I drank her in as I approached. Braided hair, big brown eyes, button nose, pouting lips and a pair of taut, muscled thighs between high boots and short-short hotpants. She clocked me as I approached, rolled her hips a little and threw me a coy little smile. If that wasn’t an invitation, I’d eat my cap. But I played it suave.

“You like your beer in a bottle, sweet cheeks?”

She licked those beautiful big lips and winked at me. “I’ll take a long-neck, Bud.”

I blinked. “How’d you know my name, missy?”

“Oh, I call everybody Bud, ’til I know their name. You get lucky once in a while.”

I smiled at her. “Well I hope my luck’s in tonight. But you have me at a disadvantage. What’s your name, sugar?”

“I’m Lucinda, Bud.”

“Lucinda, huh? I like how that rolls off my tongue.”

 

   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  I bought her a couple of bottles and let her win a few on the pool table before I made my play. “Hey, Lucinda. I’ve got a nice house not so far from here. A bottle of Jack and a pair of clean glasses, what do you say?”

We jumped into my flatbed and pulled up to my cabin in minutes. Lucinda was all over me on the ride over. She nibbled on my ear and slipped her hand in my pocket. My heart skipped more than a few beats. Dunno how I kept that old Ford between the hedges. But somehow we made it without crashing.

I was too het up to bother with my keys, so I kicked my door free of its warped frame.  Lucinda’s excited squeal raised the hair on my forearms.

“Oh, baby. You’re so badass!”

She hopped on my back and dangled her arms over my shoulders. I was engulfed by the scent of soap and skin. She was lighter than smoke. I carried her to the kitchen, backed up and set that fine butt on the old oak table where I took breakfast most mornings. But I never had me a meal as sweet as this delectable piece. I turned and put my lips on hers. She tasted of Bud and Juicy Fruit. She hooked her arms around my neck. I went for her belt buckle. She broke away from the kiss.

“Not so fast, Bud.”

I chuckled and tugged on it.

“I mean it, Bud.”

“Sure, baby.” But my blood was up and... I dunno. Usually, I’m a real gentleman, taught well by my momma, but this chick... she was bringing out the beast in me.

I grabbed her vest in both hands and tugged. It split down the middle. Pert titties jiggled free, stilling me for a second. Her nipples were chocolate brown and as big as cigarette filters. I needed one in my mouth. She was my nicotine.

I leant forward to suck on one of those nipples. She kicked me in the balls. I doubled over and my face met her boot. Lights flashed and I was on my back. Warm blood trickled from my nostrils. I coughed crimson. Lucinda hopped off the table and went to the sink.

She came back with my filleting knife and a wicked gleam in her eye.

“Why does this always happen?” she said.

“Lucinda, I’m sorry...”

“Every Bud, Chuck and Lou I pick up. Good for a laugh and a fumble. Then they want to scoot on past the foreplay.”

“Baby, look at you. Dressed like jailbait. What you expect?”

She curled her lip and made a little growling noise in the back of her throat. I looked up at this tower of beautiful dark skin, bunched muscle and wild sexuality. I should have been fearing for my life, but this woman had me thinking like a poet and panting like a randy teenager. I needed to focus on the danger. The blade.

“What you gonna do with that knife, Lucinda?”

Lucinda ran her tongue along the flat of the blade. “I’m gonna school you, Bud.”

She didn’t speak so much as purr. My heart fluttered in my chest like a butterfly in a Mason jar. Blood rushed to my dick. I thought I was gonna pop right through my blue jeans. My mind swirled and I felt like the floor was rocking beneath me.

Lucinda took the knife and cut through the remains of her torn vest. Beautiful. So beautiful. I refused to blink while this dark angel stood before me.

“Stand up, Bud.”

Her voice dropped to a husky whisper as she said my name. I have no recollection of getting to my feet, but there I was, standing to attention and breathing in the dizzying scent of her skin again. She grabbed a handful of my T-shirt and went at it with the filleting knife. As the last shredded remain fell to the floor, Lucinda tossed the knife over her shoulder. It thunked into the wall behind her. The handle quivered like a tuning fork. Lucinda took hold of my chin and turned my face back to hers. I offered no resistance.

“We got off to a bad start, Bud.”

“I’m sorry, Lucinda. You’re just so damn pretty. I couldn’t help myself.”

“That’s no excuse, Buddy boy, but let’s not argue. Just let me dictate the pace for now, okay?”

“Anything you say, sweet cheeks.”

“We’ll start with some gentle kisses. Right here.”

She tilted her head to the left, exposing her long, elegant neck. I leant in to her. Skin so soft, warm and sweet on my lips. I went easy. Barely touching. I swear I could feel the blood flowing in her veins. My whole universe shrank down to a pair of lips on smooth, brown skin. I felt no connection to anything else. As if my body had been cut loose from my mind. I couldn’t see, smell or hear. Everything was touch and taste. And I savoured.

Then I became aware of her hands on my chest. She gently pushed me backwards. Light hurt my eyes. The sun had risen and was glaring through the kitchen window. I shook my head. Checked out the wall clock. It was a little after two in the afternoon. I scratched my cheek and thick stubble met my touch. I’d a vague recollection of shaving before I left for Chucky’s. My stomach grumbled.

Lucinda smiled sweetly. “You should eat, Bud. You’re gonna need your energy.”

I shook my head, knew I couldn’t leave her, not for a second. A prisoner to the breath-taking power of her supernatural sensuality. And it didn’t bother me none. “You’re the only thing I need, baby.”

She winked at me, gave me that bewitching smile, and pushed her chest forward. “Let’s get back to it, then.”

I went to her, mouth watering and breath hitching. And someday I’ll be worthy of the final release I’ve been craving since I saw her by the pool table at Chucky’s honky tonk.

Someday.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Gerard Brennan (www.gerardbrennan.co.uk), 29, lives in Northern Ireland, with his wife, Michelle, and their two children, Mya and Jack. He’s working on his third novel while his second languishes in many slushpiles. His first has been put down, sadly. He is also redrafting a screenplay, titled The Point (thanks to NI Screen), finishing off a collection of poetry for children, illustrated by Rachel Law, and plans to tackle another draft of the play co-wrote with his father, Joe Brennan, titled The Sweety Bottle.

And he runs a blog dedicated to crime fiction in Northern Ireland,
http://www.crimesceneni.blogspot.com/. So pass the coffee.
 
     
 
     
   
 

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