Page 9 of The Explorer
I hadn't finished my sentence before she attacked me.
“Hey, I wasn’t ready,” I complained as she twisted my arm back.
“Size is an advantage, but so is speed.” Lifting my arm in a painful angle, she forced me to my knees.
“You little witch,” I hissed through the pain and could think of a dozen things I’d do if I didn’t care about hurting her.
Aubri leaned in and whispered in my ear. “I wouldn’t let a man get on top of me because I would smell his intentions and take him down first.”
I groaned in pain because it felt like my arm was about to pop out of its socket.
“You might be bigger and stronger, Indy, but I’m in power now,” she whispered in my ear. "Maybe I should give you that spanking."
“What do intentions smell like?” I asked through gritted teeth and drew a sigh of relief when she let me go.
“They smell like… hmm, I guess it’s more of a feeling.” Aubri, who clearly felt that she’d proven her point, walked in front of me and was halfway to the door when I closed my arms around her body from the back and lifted her off the floor.
In an attempt to get free, she threw her head back, but I had expected that and avoided getting hit. Turning to the bed, I threw her down and attacked her again – this time forcing her to her stomach and using the weight of my body to press her down.
She fought like a wild beast, huffing and puffing, but with my three hundred pounds all I had to do was keep my body pressed down on her and use my strength to force her hands down. Once I had them to her sides, I sat on the back of her thighs and pulled her wrists together. Aubri was strong and twisting and turning her body, but there wasn’t much she could do. Getting a hold of both her wrists with my right hand, I used my left hand to press down between her shoulder blades. Aubri’s hair was tousled from our fighting and she was gasping for air after being squeezed by my body. Her face was turning to the left as I kept pressing her. “If I was a rapist, I would have tied your hands now. Even if I didn’t have any rope, I could hold you with my right hand and remove your pants with my left.” To demonstrate I trailed a finger down her spine to the hem of her blue panties, which had crept up between her cheeks while we fought.
“Do you still think you could defend yourself if I wanted inside you?” My voice was hoarse and I was embarrassed that this demonstration was affecting me in a way it shouldn’t.
“I would squeeze so tight that you couldn’t enter me.”
“You can’t close your vagina, Aubri. If that was an option, all women who had been raped would have done so.”
“I’m not all women. I’m stronger.”
Annoyed with her stubbornness and naiveté, I showed her again how I could force her hands from her back to the top of her head. Once again, I pressed her into the mattress using my body, but this time, I was in the position of a man entering a woman.
“The best defense is to not provoke a man. I don’t care if you walk around naked in this apartment, but when other men are present, you’ll wear a fucking bra under your t-shirt so they can’t see your nipples.”
Aubri was breathing in a way that made a strand of her hair rise every time she exhaled. “Liar!”
“What did you say?” I tightened my hold on her arms, suddenly feeling aroused from the power I had over this brat who was the reason I was stuck in France for the next year.
“You said you wouldn’t care if I walked around naked, but your cock pressing against me is saying otherwise.”
“I’m doing this to teach you a lesson, young grasshopper. You asked for me to show you and this is me showing you.” I pressed my hip forward, indicating how vulnerable she was.
“So, you’re saying you wouldn’t touch me if I walked around naked.”
“No, I wouldn’t touch you.”
“Not even if I asked you to?”
My body stiffened and my voice was breathy when I whispered, “Are you asking me to touch you, Aubri?”
“Ew, no! You’re like a brother to me, Indy.”
With a last push on her scalp, I moved away from her. “Do you see what I mean?”
Aubri rolled to her back, her chest falling and rising and her eyes shining with fire. My eyes fell to her belly button, showing since her t-shirt had crept up.
“Yeah, I see what you mean. Someone your size and strength could sneak up on me and rape me, but this isn’t the Northlands. The largest men I’ve seen here are Victor and Banni and they can’t be more than six foot three.”
“This isn’t about height, Aubri. I need you to accept that men like Victor and Banni would be able to have their way with you if they had those intentions. While we’re here, I’m your protector and you’ll do as I tell you to.”
