There were plenty of places to hide in the cabin, and I wondered if she’d be up for an unclothed game of hide and go seek. Only when I found her, I’d fuck her. It seemed like a win-win for me.

“We’re almost there.” I announced, and her face rolled toward me, her eyes blinking sleepily in the dim lighting. There was something different that I couldn’t place about her, but it might have just been because she was so agreeable for once. “Don’t forget we’re too far away for anyone to hear you, so trying to scream will just wear out your voice. I’d like to hear it screaming other things later, so I’m going to need you to be quiet.”

She hummed, the sound muffled by the bandana I’d tied across her mouth, and I smiled, knowing she was still down for playing the game since she’d responded with a hum and not silence or a pissed off growl.

Slowing the car and carefully navigating it across the frozen gravel on our private driveway, I tried not to jostle her too much even though I was desperate to get her out of that back seat.

My cock was already hard, and I knew once she started leaning into her naughty role for the night that she’d make it even harder.

“If you even think about kicking me when I open this door—“ I warned, eyeing the spikes on her heeled boots. “I’m gonna throw those fucking boots into the woods and we know you’d never make it far without shoes if you manage to escape. Although with this snow, I think you’re trapped inside with me for the weekend. I’m sure I’ll think of something we can do to pass the time.”

When Mikey had told me to look for the pink boots, I’d admired how hot the thigh high black boots with pink soles made her legs look from across the dance floor. She’d looked so carefree as she let the music move her, and I couldn’t recall a time when she’d looked so relaxed. Maybe this shift between us would bring back parts of the girl I’d initially been attracted to.

Once a college kid wearing a baseball uniform had started to make his move on where she danced with her arms stretchedabove her head and her hips swaying in a sensuous rhythm, I knew I needed to stake my claim and put my plan into motion. There was no way I was letting another man put his hands on her. Especially one who didn’t deserve her.

“It’s snowing pretty hard now, so I’m going to check the generator and get the fire started inside. I won’t be long, but I need to know you’ll be waiting for me when I get done. Can you be a good girl?”

Hooking my arm around my headrest, I looked in the back seat, watching her nod. I wanted to say fuck it and throw her over my shoulder now and get inside her the second we were in the cabin. But the ice crystals forming on my windshield had me more concerned for her safety. People died from exposure at this elevation in no time, and this weekend was all about pleasure, and only the fun kind of pain.

Watching her body language, I climbed out, the wind biting into my exposed skin since I’d given up my sweatshirt to her in the woods behind the bar. For once I was thankful for this annoying as fuck mask, because it’d protect my face. She remained still as I folded the seat forward, leaning into the car and grasping her hips to slide her across the seat.

She turned her head away from me, hiding her expression as she let me pull her out, only wobbling slightly in her heels when they hit the snow-covered gravel of the path leading to the house. Despite the black hoodie drowning her slight frame, she shivered, her lips quivering as her breath fogged around her red, puffy lips.

Lips that had thoroughly sucked my dick in a way they never had before, and I was desperate to get between them again.

But that could wait. We had days to play if this snow didn’t let up. Anything over eight inches and we weren’t going back down the mountain for days. But luckily, I had another eight inches to keep us distracted until then.

“Let’s get you warmed up,” I murmured, wrapping an arm around her back and leaning down to brace my other one behindher knees. She laid her head on my shoulder while I carried her toward the house, kicking snow out of the way.

She was quiet while I punched the code into the lock on the door and blinked curiously up at me as I nudged the door open. Using my elbow to press the switch, I expected the overhead lights to illuminate the front hallway, but nothing happened. Looked like my planning was for a good reason, because the electricity was out and wouldn’t be coming back on tonight.

“Power’s out. I’m gonna lay you on the couch. Can I take off the gag?”

She nodded, her lips curling around the cloth in her mouth in what I assumed was a smile.

Carefully laying her down on the worn cushions, I reached behind her, untying the cloth and pulling it free. She flexed her jaw and sighed, reaching her bound hands toward me. Her fingertips grazed the side of my mask like a caress, and I craved the feeling of them on my skin.

Reaching down again, I went to lift her mask, but her desperate plea stopped me. “No. Leave them on. Both of them. I’m not ready for this to be over yet.”

Neither was I, but there was something almost panicked about the way she requested we remain anonymous for what happened next.

“Stay here. I’ll be back in a few minutes. Anything you need before I go?” I knew I wasn’t sticking to my menacing, masked persona, but it seemed she liked the combination of the characterandme.

“Just come back to me.”

Nodding, I left her there, somehow knowing she would stay where I placed her. She was just as anxious to connect as I was, and until we dropped back into character, she’d be patient.

Throwing on my Carhartt jacket hanging by the back door and a pair of work gloves from the shelf above the hook rail, I trudged through the accumulated snow and quickly brushed off the generator. It only took me a few minutes to get it purring to life, butI only activated the portion that kept the appliances and the water heater running.

I was more concerned about our food supply andwarm water than lights, and maybe spending the next few days in the dark would help keep the fantasy alive. There were plenty of battery-operated candles and lanterns if she wanted something more.

All I wanted was to lose myself in her for the foreseeable future until reality called us back.

Charley

As I stared atthe wooden beams spanning the sloped ceiling of the cabin, memories of all the time I’d spent here in the last decade flooded in.

All the times I’d watched him from across the room, when he didn’t even notice my curious eyes following his every move. Part of that desperate, lovesick schoolgirl was hidden deep inside of me, and I wanted to reassure her that everything would turn out alright after this weekend. That my heart would survive knowing this side of him.