Chapter 4: Action Speaks Louder Than Words

"You can't stay here," I told Diana. We faced each other in my bedroom. Her hand rested on the belt of her coat.

"I know," she replied. "I'm not invited to your party either."

"April and Alexx are probably grilling Morgan as we speak." I pulled the shirt and t-shirt over my head. Dropping them on the bed, I undid my pants, letting them slip to the ground.

"Aren't you supposed to be trying to get rid of me?" she asked. Her eyes traveled up and down my body, coming to rest on my crotch. She smiled as her attention made me hard, pushing the underwear to its limit.

"I haven't made up my mind yet," I said. "An Asian agent for April, maybe Canin for you."

"She's not available." Diana's eyes never wavered from my crotch as I pushed the underwear down my legs and kicked them aside. "I also know Candice very well."

"What does that have to do with it?" I spread my legs shoulder-width apart. My hard cock waved back and forth at Diana. She took a small step forward but stopped herself before the second step. Taking a deep breath, she smiled at me.

"The Vice-President was poisoned by his mistress. Politically, it made him a dead leper," she said. "Meril will live out his few remaining days under twenty-four surveillance with no one, even family, allowed to visit. There's going to be leaks about some shady dealings during his tenure as Director. Jessica, that's Agent Canin's first name, is going to ensure he steeps in his public disgrace."

"I don't see what that has to do with you and me." Diana stood in front of the door so I had to walk towards her to get out of the room. She reached out and grabbed my dick. Staring into my eyes, she opened her hand and pressed the palm on the underside of my dick. She moved her hand down, took a firm grip at the base of my cock and stroked up.

"You don't hold me directly responsible for your father's death or what happened to Ahmo." Diana rubbed the head of my dick with the palm of her other hand.

"You were a part of it," I said, grabbing her wrists and pulling her hands away from me.

"Even without you in the picture, there would be a penance to pay for what I let happen," she said. "But that's where knowing Candice helps."

"What?"

"She taught you to, at least, listen to my offer," she replied. "I think we have enough time for the hot tub before the Russians get here."

"I was thinking shower."

"But now you're thinking you and me in the hot tub."

I had to nod.

"You see." Her smile was intoxicating. "Flexible enough to accept help in making up your mind about the right thing to do."

"Are you serious about replacing April?" Diana asked.

The hot tub was in a corner of the back yard. The gazebo had been Morgan's addition; four stone pillars holding up a roof made mostly of glass. Large pots of trees and plants between the pillars took the place of walls.

Diana leaned against a pillar. I watched her hand undo the coat belt.

"She doesn't like me." I spread my arms along the lip of the tub as I settled into the water.

"April is frustrated," she said. "You are a very frustrating young man."

"You could tell her about me, couldn't you?"

"I didn't believe it until I watched Black Road attack you." She reached down to the bottom of the coat and pulled it up. Exposing her hip, she scratched her upper thigh before letting the coat slip down. "Even then I had to touch the car that should have crushed you; inspect every bullet that should have killed you. Telling someone doesn't do it when it comes to Tavi Smith."

She leaned back against the pillar and stared at me. "April knows something is going on but ... You have to admit she's very attractive."

"Is the government playing matchmaker or pimp?"

"The unsanctioned attempt to do something about you failed so miserably, quite a few people are scared you might not want to work with us."

"So you and the other two are the government's answer," I said.

"You're not ambitious, Tavi. It's very difficult to understand until a person accepts a singular truth--you have what everybody wants, power," she said.

"I thought everybody wanted to be rich." I caught a hint of neon green-yellow as Diana's coat opened at the top.

"Money gives people power," she said. "The power to do what they want to do instead of kissing ass at a job they hate."

Her hand spread the top of the coat open some more. A bikini top! Diana planned for us to end up in the hot tub.

"You have power unbeholden to anything. It was not given, assigned, bought, or stolen. Scariest of all to any government, it cannot be taken away. April's frustration comes from what it does to you, and it's how I figured out what you are."

"If you know what I am, would you explain it to me?"

"You're nobody. The friend of people with bright futures, Elis and Morgan," she said. "That's what April sees; what I saw. Yet a woman like Candace, and nobody has to look twice to know she is somebody, lives for you."

"She has a family," I said. "Candice lives for them."

Diana waved the point aside. The motion exposed more of her bikini top. It didn't seem to have a panel of cloth to hold her breast. Maybe it was like a spider web design with a tiny panel that barely covered her nipple!

"April sees a speck of nothing orbited by planets."

"But she doesn't like the speck, Diana," I said. "So I think Japanese is the way to go."

"It won't work, Tavi," Diana said. "April won't leave when she finds out what you are."

"Because I have power." I shrugged. "I could send her away."

"As if!"

"I could tell you guys to send her away.""

"You won't send April away. She is attractive. Tough. Competent. Domineering." She undid the belt and opened her coat. I stood up, my hard dick breaking the waterline, to show Diana how much I wanted her at that moment. Under the coat, Diana wasn't wearing much of a bikini, really more like the outline of a bikini. The top was missing the cups. The bottoms were missing the bottom. Diana's nipples were a couple of shades darker than her skin. Her pussy was shaved hairless. The bottoms tied high on each hip.

She looked down at her right shoulder as the coat slid down to her elbows. Diana turned, letting the coat slip to her wrists. Her body in profile, she smiled at me. Turning completely around, she caught the coat before it fell to the ground. I admired the pair of dimples at the small of her back, the way the bikini top's ties would come undone with a gentle pull, and the way the bottoms so adventurously dipped between the valley of her ass cheeks. Most of all, I appreciated how those neon bottoms did not dare offend by covering her pussy. Diana dropped the coat and faced me. Her thumbs slipped under the knots at her hips and she leaned back against the pillar again.

"Where were we?" she asked.

"I think..." I hadn't drunk my fill, so I did. Her hands moved down, as if to take the bottoms off, not that there was much of them to take off. "You're going to ask me not send April away."

"No, baby." Her smile turned the slightest bit sardonic. "I already owe you too much."

"I don't charge interest."

"Tavi, I don't have to beg, ask, or even suggest that April stay," she replied. "You can't say no."

"Of course, I can." I settled back into the water. "Watch me! No ... uh, to April. No! No! No!"

She let go of the bottoms, lifted a foot up behind her and took off the shoe. After repeating the process with the other foot, she tossed the shoes aside.

"You would never give up April if she wanted to stay," she said.

"I really want a Japanese chick! Or Chinese," I said.

"For a long time, I asked 'why me?' Why did you call me? Why do you play along with me?"

"Cause you're hot!"

"No, Tavi," she said. "Because I remind you of Candice."

"You're both brunettes. Both stacked. Both hot. Yeah, I'm there!"

"April reminds you of her too."

"Hello, redhead. Not!"

"Strong, confident, a little bossy." She shook out her hair.

"Very bossy," I sighed. "You're all very bossy."

"Except..."

We stared at each for a moment.

"What do you want, Tavi?" Diana asked. "I don't want to die for what happened to your father and Ahmo. I don't want to go jail and I don't want to leave. So what do you want?"

"Being mostly naked gives you an advantage in negotiating," I said.

"I wasn't looking for an advantage."

"Yeah, right!"

Diana stepped up to the edge of the hot tub. She squatted down and froze. My eyes bore onto her pussy lips. She reached down and cupped water out of the tub with her hand.

"I'm mostly naked, Tavi, not naked and wet." She poured the water between her breasts. It raced down her stomach, over and into her belly button, and seemed to gather at her pussy before dripping to the ground. I walked forward, pushing against the edge of the tub. Diana's hands covered mine as I placed them on her hips. I grabbed the ends of her bikini bottom knots.

"You see, naked and wet would have been much better if I wanted an advantage," she whispered. Her left hand guided my hand up, using me to work the bikini knot loose. "What do you want, Tavi?"

There was no point in taking the bottoms off Diana since they didn't block anything, but it was the principle! I undid both knots but held the bikini in place by grabbing Diana by the hips and pulling her towards me. She put her hands on my shoulders to keep her balance.

"I want you," I whispered. Her eyes were brown pools pulling me deeper. "Whenever, however, wherever I want!"

She moved closer to me, her lips touched mine but we didn't kiss. "Is that all?"

"No husbands, no boyfriends, no lovers," I said.

Diana pulled my left hand up; I let go of the bikini with my right hand. Her motion stripped the bottoms from her body. She looked at the bikini and back to me. She smiled, "I bought one of these for Candice. In orange!"

"No male lovers," I said quickly.

Below, Diana was naked. I dropped the bottoms and grabbed her hips. I pulled her closer; she arched back as my dick ran along her pussy lips. I reached around to palm her ass cheeks. Diana leaned back further. I brought my lips down to her right nipple. I took as much of her tit as I could into my mouth and sucked hungrily.