Page 42 of Paradise & Vodka

"When your fingers are deep inside of you, are you going to be thinking about me, baby?"

"Yes," I breathed, and it was the truth. I would think of him every time I got myself off.

"What about when you're fucking another man. Are you going to wish it were me?"

"Yes," I responded, not hesitating.

"Yeah, you are. You're going to wish it were me, that it was my fingers, my dick, getting you off."

"It could be yours," I moaned.

He leaned forward and whispered into my ear, "You're right. It's gonna be all me, baby."

I didn't know what that meant, and I didn't have time to think about it before I came around his fingers, my body shaking. Nick used his free arm to hold me up so I didn't turn into a puddle of mush at his feet.

I still didn't respond as I tried to come down while Nick walked to his side of the bed and grabbed a condom. Without taking off his pants, he sheathed himself and then came back, keeping me bent over the chair and driving into me.

He fucked me.

He fucked me hard.

He fucked me all night long.

I woke to a god-awful alarm. Outside, air sirens were going off, making it sound as though we were under attack. I sat up, the sheet pooling around my naked torso. "What the hell is that?"

"I don't know," Nick stated as he sat up.

Our cell phones started to go off with alerts, and I grabbed mine off of the nightstand.

Event Type: SEAQUAKE Magnitude 9.2

SMS TSUNAMI WARNING

WARNING — EARTHQUAKE/TSUNAMI ALERT

I didn't finish reading the alert on my phone. Instead, I turned to Nick and said, "It's a tsunami warning."

Ashleighand I quickly got dressed. We didn't know how much time we had, and when we looked out the window at our ocean view, it looked like any other morning that we had seen the water. There wasn't some giant wave forming or anything alarming, and I wasn't sure what that meant.

We packed as much as we could in two minutes, grabbed our cell phones, and when we opened the door to go outside, people were frantically running around. Some with luggage, some without. Some were carrying their kids, and some were alone. Neither Ashleigh nor I knew exactly what to do. We both lived in the fucking desert, but the only thing we could think of was that we needed to get to higher ground. We followed the people as we made our way toward the lobby, which was inland.

"What about my parents? What about my sister?" she asked as we got closer to the building.

"I'm sure they're going to the lobby too."

"Right."

When we got into the main part of the hotel, staff members were waving people to the front door. "Get to higher ground," they were saying.

I stopped by one of them and asked, "How do we get to higher ground if we don't have a car?"

"The hotel shuttles or find a ride," he replied. "But try not to worry. We have a lot of tsunami warnings."

That didn't really put me at ease because everyone was running around as though it wasn't normal. I turned to Ashleigh, who was looking around for her family. "Do any of our people have cars?"

She shrugged. "I don't know."

I didn't like what I needed to say next because I couldn't imagine if it were my family that we were waiting for. "I don't know how long we can wait for them."