Aftermath: A Purge story (closed for Cum_Inside)

[Tx_Liquor]

"Be afraid. Be angry. Be unfaithful." Jared said, gliding slowly into her as punctuation. "But also." He couldn't hold back anymore, the feel of Harmony's body was too good.

He couldn't speak as he started to cum, his body pressed against her back and his cock shooting his hot load into her. It would be only after several strong, healthy, attempts at impregnating her here and now that he could finally catch his breath. With his cock still deep in her filled pussy he finally said, "Be mine."

He pulled out and pulled her panties up first, then stepped back to examine his semi-erect and juice coated cock. "Care to kiss it goodbye?" Jared said with a smile, glancing from Harmony to his thick, drooling, manhood.

 

[Cum_Inside]

She looked at him cautiously.

The expression on his face wasn’t anger like she would have expected. He looked genuinely happy with what had transpired and she was certain he was happy to see her. She had to admit that her feelings echoed that.

Harmony knelt in front of him and dutifully cleaned his cock of their mingled juices, gently tucking him away in his pants and zipping him up after depositing a soft kiss on the tip.

It was only then that she focused on his words.

For a moment, she was dumbfounded with nothing to say.

But then...

“Oh my God. You were actually serious about that? Jared, that’s crazy. I thought you were just trying to get me to stay for one more round.” The look on his face was sincere, though, and he did seem to at the very least have some fondness for her the way he helped her redress after their quickie. The old Jared would have left her in a mess.

 

[Tx_Liquor]

"Why not both?" He said, putting himself together. Without further exchange he just turned and walked away, leaving Harmony's scrubs around her ankles. But at least she was wearing her under garments.

Snapping his fingers as if remembering something he turned to ask, "Is there a good place and time for me to see you again tomorrow? Or even a bad time. Otherwise, I'll just pick something and show up like I did today."

He shifted his cock, through the front of his jeans, "Just thinking of it make me hard." He hummed his desires, looked her over one more time and tuned to walk the street and turned out of site.

 

[Cum_Inside]

She was definitely late getting back to work after collecting herself. Part of the issue may have been that she was so disorientated from seeing Jared, even if part of her told her how stupid that was -- he had been stalking her pretty obviously in the past and why should now be any different? Except that she thought it was; he'd said he was done with her. He'd told her to fuck off.

Yet here he was.

Something about it seemed sincere. He was making an effort and that struck her in the chest. He hadn't meant those cruel words he'd said to her, but instead was trying to push her away to defend some part of him that obviously did feel something for her, even if he denied it. Harmony's heart pounded in her chest.

Jared wasn't backing down.

He was making it clear that he wanted her.

She had to decide; to stay with the man she'd been with for years, who admittedly didn't attract her as he once had, or to go for a man that caused her nerves to dance in excitement whenever she saw him?

Things weren't easy with Jared, but wasn't anything worth fighting for difficult? It took work.

Cameron's affection for her seemed lukewarm at best. They were comfortable and familiar, but the spark was gone. Harmony didn't feel the warmth for him that she'd had in the beginning.

It wasn't Cameron that she thought about in the dark, late at night when he was snoring next to her or on the opposite side of the country.

Well, well. It seemed like her heart had already made the decision even if her common sense was screaming at her to reconsider.

Harmony had never done anything the easy way. Why on earth should she start now?

 

[Tx_Liquor]

When she got home that night, Cameron greeted her with dinner half made. Wine on the table, the scent of candles in the air. "Hey, sweetheart." He gave her a passionate hello kiss and hugged her to him, all the signs of a man wanting to warm up his woman for sex later that night.

"I made that butter rice and salmon dish you like."

Yes, he was really trying to warm her up.

"I thought we could eat at the couch, watch a movie and just relax. If you're feeling okay."

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Back in his lair, Jared got the alert that Harmony was home. He stopped hitting the heavy bag and walked to the computer, shirtless and drenched with sweat. He didn't even pull off the glove before firing up the sleeping display. Sitting and pulling the gloves off he watched the interaction.

The boyfriend was certainly trying, and Jared couldn't blame him. He himself didn't like the idea of going more than a day or two with feeling Harmony's perfect pussy gripping his bare cock. Even now the thought was making him hard, and keeping his heart rate up.

Jared didn't know much about how the female body worked, but having just given her his seed hours ago he wondered if Boyfriend would be able to tell, or if his own load would find itself waiting in line to impregnate Harmony. "Fuck I need to cum again." He cursed, fishing his raging hard on from his workout pants and trying to coax himself to calm down.

 

[Cum_Inside]

Perfect timing she thought sardonically, fake smile lighting up her face. Just when she’d made the decision to leave him, he had to go and do this. She should have known that this wouldn’t just be an easy out, either.

Well, she was fully aware. There wasn’t anything easy about leaving the one person you’d been with for years for a chance at something that might turn out to be nothing. Was she crazy?

Utterly.

That didn’t stop her from closing her hands around his waist and kissed him back, not wanting him to suspect that anything was wrong.

“Cam, what is all this?” She asked, glancing around at the romantic spread and then back to her fiancé.

“I mean, what’s the occasion?”

 

[Tx_Liquor]

"No occasion." He said, pulling away to take a tray from the oven. "We've just been so distracted with life, I thought we could get back to the basics. Like, dinner was purchased from the supermarket and wine was a cheap close out sale on something from Chile."

He laughed a bit, pouring her a glass of what was clearly the more expensive stuff.

"I just... hope we could... Do things simple again." He gave her a lustful smile, clearly reflecting back to times when they had more passion than a bank balance. Harmony could also tell he'd started early, the opened wine not his first drinks of the night.

He had a hungry gaze, one she hadn't seen in him in years. Cam looked like a hungry wolf, and she the prey. But if that was an accurate description, then Jared was the white tiger that would eat a wolf chilled in the mountains of Siberia.

"Come one, sweetheart, have some wine and relax. I'll even let you pick the movie."

It was clear he was looking to finally have the sex he'd been so far denied. Having been without for so long, it was easy to see how his lust was prompting the animal within.

 

[Cum_Inside]

She could see it in his eyes; it wasn’t passion for her at all which drove him tonight. Cameron was being purely selfish, looking to get his dick wet. It almost felt like it didn’t matter whether it was Harmony or someone else who gave him that.

She sighed, turning her back on him and grabbing her own glass and taking a healthy sip.

“So you’re horny,” she said bluntly.

“Aren’t we past the point that if you want to fuck you just say so? You haven’t bothered to wine and dine me in almost a year, Cameron. What am I supposed to think?”

Harmony swivelled to look at him full-on again, one hip propped against the counter.

“I want to ask you a question and I want you to tell me the honest-to-God’s truth. Will you do that for me?” She paused, awaiting his response.

 

[Tx_Liquor]

Cameron bit his lip when she called him out. All pretense gone as he tossed back his wine. If she knew he wanted to fuck his fiancee then he was willing to end the seduction he thought it would require.

"I've always been honest with you." He only paused for a heartbeat before saying, "I was only doing this because I wanted to make it all special and about you. But... Yeah, if I have to be honest, it's been a while and these trips abroad can really make a guy home sick."

 

[Cum_Inside]

She levelled him with a blank stare.

“That wasn’t the question, Cameron.”

Harmony was quiet for a second, digging at her fingernails, where the layer of gel was starting to peel away from her natural nail. She was in dire need to have them filled. It was annoying.

What else was annoying was the way he thought he knew everything she wanted to say.

“Do you love me? If you could have, would you have slept with anyone just to get your rocks off? Tell me that you feel passion here,” she said quietly, almost afraid of the answers.

 

[Tx_Liquor]

Cameron's jaw dropped, as if to imply the question shouldn't need to be answered. But two full second ticked by, just long enough for him to formulate a hollow response. "I love you." He said, not answering the original question, "When I'm away from you, I just want to get back to you. I'm loyal to you. You alone!" He said, meeting her eyes, but he was asking a question in return.

Aren't you loyal to me too?

"I asked you to marry me because I wanted to be with you. Just you." He smiled, "My passion for you is unquestionable."

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Jared laughed aloud wondering if Cameron hadn't already had sex with a pretty woman he'd picked up in a bar. He made a mental note to arrange that, just to see what would happen. At the same time Jared knew he'd slammed his cock in a cunt, without regard, but it was Harmony he wanted to seed. It was her that was his world.

Why?

Jared waved away the question. He wanted Harmony like he wanted to keep breathing. It was a simple as that. He actually zoomed in on Cameron, drawing up the mental image of the woman he'd have temp him.

 

[Cum_Inside]

She caught the dismissal, eyes narrowing.

Harper downed the rest of her glass and poured another.

“You love me, but you’re not passionate about us anymore. You would have fucked some other broad if they’d offered,” she summarized.

Her expression was pained when she looked back up at him.

“I love Lena, too, but that doesn’t mean I want to spend the rest of my life with her. There are different types of love and it just feels like we’ve inadvertently friend-zoned each other. Maybe at one point we were due to get married, but look me in the eye and tell me that you could see yourself happy with me for the rest of your days; maybe I’m wrong,” she shrugged.

“I don’t feel that chemistry when we fuck, or the sparks when you kiss me, and sometimes I feel as though you’re looking through me. Only putting up with me because it’s easier than being alone,” she said quietly. “Sometimes I feel like a burden to you, but especially since...”

They hadn’t talked about it — the Purge was this dark gray area that existed but neither of them crossed that line. He’d never asked what happened to her the evening she never made it home, and Harmony had never spoken up. Part of her had wondered if he didn’t want to feel the pain of knowing his fiancé had been raped and almost killed, but part of her wondered if he was callous enough to just be grateful that it hadn’t been him; that he’d been tucked away safely on Purge night while she took the brunt of some stranger’s aggression.

Harmony twirled her engagement band, eyes focused on the floor.

“I didn’t come home the same person the next morning. We’ve ignored it, but I don’t know if you know the woman I am now well enough to even love her in the first place. For fucks’ sakes, even I don’t know. I do know that things have changed for me, Cam. I’m struggling to adjust, and you haven’t once even bothered to ask me if I was okay.”

There was a bit of contempt, hidden there, masked behind the steady flow of words.

 

[Tx_Liquor]

Cameron waited for her to finish before the flood of emotions overcame him. "FUUUCK!" he shouted, taking the dinner from the range top and throwing it into the sink, ruining everything.

"Fuck!" He shouted again, throwing the cut and peeled fruit off the counter top.

"What do you want from me, sweetheart?" He shouted, "You think I don't worry about what happened to you? My mind comes up with all these possibilities. I want to keep you safe and yet I fail?! Is that it? Am I too weak for you now? Is there more you want from me?"

He closed in, grabbing one of her wrists, "Is there more you want now?! Did something happen and you liked it too much!?! Huh!?! Did someone rape you?! Did someone FUCK YOU!?!!" He gently slapped Harmony, pausing to see if he'd gone to far. His cock hoping he hadn't.

She'd been so distant for so long, he'd done everything in his power. The only thing he hadn't tried was this. Was this their life now?

 

[Cum_Inside]

She froze, fear running predominantly through her veins.

Even though there had been a switch flipped in her that liked when Jared was rough with her, this wasn’t Cameron. The glass shards skittered across the floor all around her toes, but it was only a split second notice before he was on her.

“Get off me! Let go! Let me go!” It was a panicked yell, upper body struggling against him until he caught an elbow to the ribs. Her eyes were wide and afraid.

The percussive blow had surprised him just as much as her, and Cameron struggled away.

Tears welled in her eyes.

“Don’t you ever,” she started, voice wobbling but sharp still, “lay your hands on me that way again.”

Her fists clenched.

“Do you want to know the truth? I was only metres away from the house. I was so fucking close, and he came out of nowhere and he,” Harmony’s voice cracked.

“He raped me. So many times. I thought it would never end. He knows where we live, where I work, he knows everything about me. I’ll never be free of him,” she cried.

“But you didn’t even care. You thought everything was normal after that night, that our normal life resolved. He’s been stalking me and nothing is the same.”

The words that left her mouth really did compose the grand confession.

“I’m not upset that things changed, just what had to happen to cause that. I wasn’t happy, Cameron. I’m so sorry, but I can’t live this lie anymore. Who you are isn’t what I need and I... I have to go,” she gasped, trying to hold back her tears, welling in the corners of her eyes.

“I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. I’m so fucking sorry,” she repeated. “I can’t do this to you,” genuinely, there was sincere regret emanating from her glossy, tear-filled eyes.

“He won’t stop. And I can’t let him hurt you. Do you want to know the truth? He didn’t kill me that night, but I haven’t felt alive since then anyway. He might as well have cut my heart out of my chest. I’m only a broken piece of shit now that manages to fuck everything up,” her hands were trembling now, anxiety eating away at her insides, “and I won’t hurt you anymore Cameron. You deserve better than me.”

 

[Tx_Liquor]

Cameron closed in, "I never wanted to know what happened to you." A tear escaped his eye, "I feared it... I mean, why else would someone let you life if not just to rape you."

He took a breath.

"I fucked Stacy. She had come to me saying her friends were hurt. Someone had attacked them. She said she'd give anything for safety. So I fucked her. And she fucked me."

He grabbed Harmony's arms, "It was the Purge. It shouldn't matter. It shouldn't have happened. But it did. And you can ignore it, or you can let it control you." He wasn't letting go, even painfully pulling her to him, "Or let ME control you."

 

[Cum_Inside]

If she let this get to her, she’d be nothing but a hypocrite, but the situation then had been different.

That didn’t mean it didn’t hurt any less, and Harmony reacted out of pure frustration.

“So while I was being tortured you were just getting your rocks off,” she sneered. “She’d give anything for safety and her pussy is what you chose?” She questioned coldly, yanking her arms away from his. “Has it happened again?”

She watched him carefully for any sign of deceit.

“A man who can’t even control himself doesn’t get to own me.”

The tears were starting to leak down her cheeks — angry, frustrated things that always happened when she was pissed off. To her, it was a sign of weakness and vulnerability.

“I’m done. I can’t do this. I won’t. You can go back to Stacey — she’s always wanted you. What an opportunity to make that happen for her while your fiancée almost died. Don’t let me stop you; I’m not in control of everything. Even now,” she repeated, “he controls what happens, so no — I don’t have a choice, Cameron. Wouldn’t it be so easy to be you? To be hunkered down in the safe room getting boned while people’s lives are ruined? Because that’s what happened. I’m broken. It’s not so easy to come back from.”

Harmony stormed past him, through the hallway and to the staircase. She was fully intent on packing her bags and leaving, though she had no idea where she might go. Dealing with her parents was not something she wanted to do at the moment, and there’d be drama just about anywhere she went. She didn’t quite feel up to story time tonight.

Cameron chased her up the stairs maybe about five minutes later to find her curled up by the side of the bed crying into her hands and an opened suitcase with clothes and belongings messily strewn inside. She looked up at him when she heard his footsteps in the doorway, giving him a stare that was more saddened now than anything else. She sighed, pushing herself to her feet and turning her back to him to zipper her luggage closed.

“I’ll come back for the rest of my stuff when I’ve found somewhere to stay,” she intoned quietly.

 

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"No." Cameron said, not approaching her but not leaving either. "I'll leave. You're right. I fucked up. Figuratively and literally. I'll go. I'm going to get a place tonight. I'll put it on the company card. It's only fair."

He took a step, wanting to reach out to her, but pulled back. "Call me. Just. Call me when you're ready to talk to me. I won't leave where I go until you tell me to. I'm not going to... do anything... I just want you to call me."

He stepped back, now just outside the doorway, "I love you, sweetheart. I do." And without taking anything with him he left the room. He left the apartment. He left the building.

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Jared watched all of this, and there were to parts of him at war. The first part, was thrilled to see Cameron leave. This was the dark side that wanted nothing more to go over, now that he was gone, and fuck Harmony in their shared bed. But there was another part of Jared, who hated seeing how hurt Harmony was. This part of him that wanted to go, lay next to her, and let her cry against his chest.

Both parts of Jared, however, agreed to log in as Cameron via social media.

Sending a message to Stacey he let her now that Harmony knew about them. That he'd come clean and that Harmony didn't take it well.

That was all he needed to do for now. He assumed the rest would take it's course. While Cameron wouldn't remember sending that message it wasn't like he was thinking clearly.

Picking up a burner he dialed a number for one of his retainers. "Cameron's left his apartment. Find out where he goes. The moment he starts to drown his sorrows, let me know." He folded the burner closed after his agent responded.

Sitting back he watched Harmony, hand going back to his erection for physical satisfaction, but emotionally unsure of what he should do next.

 

[Cum_Inside]

For a second, Harmony wondered if she’d made the right decision. Then, once the silence fell and she was truly alone, it was as if there had been a weight lifted off her shoulders. She felt freed.

She’d somehow managed to tell Cameron exactly the creeping thoughts she’d had for a while now; that her heart wasn’t in it. Harmony hadn’t been able to say that she was in love with another man, and she couldn’t say that his name was Jared Goldwing. Harmony suspected that Cameron might lose his mind.

Even if she didn’t feel the same for him as she once had, Cameron was still a friend to her. She wouldn’t be so cruel as to drop that bomb on him so nonchalantly, if at all, and although her anger had gotten the best of her, she’d still tried to cushion the blow a bit.

Harmony blew out one large exasperated breath, head lolling back against the bed for one second before she pushed herself onto her feet and meandered slowly into the bathroom to have a nice hot soak before bed. Hopefully it would suck some of the stress right out of her body. She didn’t know if that was possible.

“Good job Harmony,” she said quietly, staring in the mirror. She was slightly proud of how well she’d managed to stick up for herself and express her needs. She’d rarely ever done that before and she had to say that it felt great.

 

[Tx_Liquor]

Jared wanted nothing more than to pull up his pants and go to Harmony. As she looked in the mirror he felt as if she were looking at him. He met her digital eyes on camera 11 and touched the screen. He wanted to touch her.

"You don't know what you do to me."

He waited until his man called, telling him where Cameron was. He waited for Cameron to be on this second beer before getting dressed in his Black Ops gear. Going to the sub-parking he got in the car and started off into the night.

As he drove he called Harmony on his car's phone. While it rang he felt his hands grow cold and his throat turn dry. While heading for her place, he didn't know what he was going to do when he got there but he didn't want to delay, regardless of what he decided.

 

[Cum_Inside]

Harmony showered instead.

Standing there under the scalding spray until it finally turned ice-cold, Harmony scrubbed herself raw.

She stepped out of the shower and dressed herself in a pair of loose cotton shorts and an old threadbare tank top, grabbing a book from the nightstand and crawling in under the covers of her bed to try and read before sleeping. It was an impossible task, unable to really focus on the words in front of her. It felt foreign to spend the night in an empty bed and she really was not looking forward to it.

Harmony managed to knock out with the book still in her hands, snoring softly through parted lips with her body propped up against the headboard.

 

[Tx_Liquor]

When Harmony awoke the net morning the book had been marked with a pair of her panties and set aside. She had a throw, normally found in the closet, over her shoulders. If that hadn't made it obvious that someone had done these things while she slept the print outs of pictures, her sleeping just hours ago, fanned across Cameron's side of the bed were the final give away.

On one, written in what could only have been Jared's handwriting were the words; I didn't want to wake you. You looked so peaceful.

As if he knew she were awake her phone rang. Jared ID'd how Harmony had chosen to indicate it was he who was calling her.

 

[Cum_Inside]

It should have spooked her that he had been in her house. Maybe during the initial period of fear of him, where she was disgusted and appalled, but now... Harmony smiled. Someone was actually bothering to take care of her for once. Cameron only did these things when he wanted to get laid. Jared was probably the same for the most part, but the fact that he’d been here and not woken her spoke volumes; there was warmth soaking through her body and she suspected it wasn’t due to the blanket overtop her.

With a yawn and a stretch, Harmony sat up and examined the pictures spread out around her. She really did look peaceful after all. The photos were the creepiest part of it all, even over the knowledge that he could enter her home at will. That didn’t surprise her. He was able to keep track of her at all times; of course he had a way inside her sanctuary.

She dropped the final photo just as “Jared Goldwing” popped up on her phone. Once upon a time, he had been something like “scum of the earth, do not answer”, but after their weekend of hot sex she’d changed it to simply his name. Her feelings for Jared were still climbing and she couldn’t handle it if Cameron had gotten ahold of her phone and became suspicious, so a professional contact from his primary investor wouldn’t raise any red flags. At times, Harmony handled the liaising part of the business when Cameron’s own employees could not.

Her voice was a bit husky when she said “you should have woken me up, baby. I would have slept better with you wrapped around me instead of the blanket. Thank you for that. I know you have to work, though, and I wouldn’t have let you go.”

Harmony paused. She still hadn’t given him a moment to speak.

“I left him. All I want these days is... you, Jared. My feelings for you... they don’t make sense, but all I know is that I don’t care. I want you. Only you.”

 

[Tx_Liquor]

There was a long silence, almost as if no one were on the other end of the line. Finally he said, "I know. It's why I came over. I didn't know what I was going to do when I arrived, but looked so peaceful."

She's said words he never thought he'd hear, and now he wanted only to go forward with his plans. "I'm nearby. I was calling to offer you breakfast. Anywhere you want, I'll pick it up and bring it to you... breakfast in bed with dessert."

 

[Cum_Inside]

That sounded wonderful. It was almost like a dream.

“There’s this little cafe on the corner of Ventura. They make the best crepes,” she said informatively.

“Let yourself in. I’ll be waiting.”

Harmony hung up, deciding she wanted to be ready for him. She did a very quick shave in the bathroom of her nethers just to cut any peach fuzz growing there and reached into the tampon box under the sink. Cameron never thought to look there but it was where she kept all her fun toys. Dessert may be quick and maybe unfulfilling depending on how long he could stay, but Jared would know how serious she was.

She hoped he called in his perks of being the boss this morning.

Harmony bent over the sink and popped in a pretty rose gold plug with a bright diamond glittering in the centre until it nestled perfectly between her cheeks and put pressure in all the right spots.

Harmony was just sliding back in bed when she heard the front door open and footsteps on the stairs.

 

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Jared walked in and stopped at the kitchen. He knew where everything was, and took the time to plate Harmony's food and his own. He then put everything on a tray he'd brought, poured out coffee and fresh OJ for Harmony. A large diet soda was his source of caffeine.

Throwing everything that was to be discarded in the trash he took some time to undress, wearing only the Guinness lounge pants that the woman at the take out line was either appalled or aroused by. With some napkins and an orchid he headed to the bedroom, pausing to knock for a moment.

"Breakfast is severed, mistress."

He walked in, shirtless without shoes and smiled. "Does my mistress wish for anything not on this tray?" He asked, almost over playing the subservient role.