Page 61 of Lick

My head is miles away with another woman. I don’t realize I’m hard until I feel the nurse wrap her fingers around my cock and give it a stroke. I don’t have time to process the joy I feel at getting a hard-on thanks to this bitch.

“Get your fucking hands off me!” I all but roar at the woman. She staggers back, flipping the bowl of water with her elbow, soaking the sheets in the process. I reach for the nurse’s call button as I cover myself over. I jam my finger into the button over and over.

“I’m sorry, I thought…well, you were hard for me. I know you were. I just wanted to make you feel better.”

The door opens before I can rip her a new one, and an older nurse walks in. She takes in the scene before looking at me. “What seems to be the problem, sir?”

“Get that nurse the fuck away from me.”

“Did something happen?”

“You mean besides her trying to jack me off?”

The nurse whips her head around. “Excuse me?”

She flushes. “It was a mistake.”

“My office now, Leah, and don’t leave until I get there.”

“I—”

“Not a word. What would you have done if you had walked in to see a male nurse with his fingers inside a woman’s vagina?”

“I’d have reported it, of course.”

“Because it’s sexual assault, right? Well, that’s exactly what this is, too. I’m disgusted that you can’t seem to understand that.”

Leah runs out in tears while the older nurse looks at me apologetically. “I’m so sorry. I can promise you this will be dealt with immediately. Would you like me to call the police?”

I sigh and shake my head. “Just keep her away from me. My hands work just fine. I can clean my own junk.”

Her lips twitch before she can think better of it. Nodding, she moves the table at the foot of the bed closer, so I don’t have to overstretch for anything.

“I will be back in a moment to change your sheets. If you need anything else afterwards, hit the call button. I’ll make sure I have one of the other nurses personally assigned.”

“Thanks.”

“Don’t thank me. I’m sorry this happened in the first place.”

“Not your fault, but I appreciate you taking care of it.” She smiles and leaves, but returns swiftly to change the sheets, just like she said. She nods on her way out which I return before she closes the door.

With a little awkward manoeuvring, I manage to finish cleaning myself up. I’m an exhausted, sweaty mess afterward, which defeats the whole fucking purpose of washing, but whatever. I’m pissed off and beyond agitated as I try to get some sleep, but I can’t get my brain to shut down and give me some peace. It’s too busy playing out all my worst-case scenarios in my head, over and over until I want to scream.

Maybe that’s why I react without thought when Emma unexpectedly walks in later. “Lick?”

My head whips around so fast at the sound of her voice that I hurt myself. “Emma?” I hear the ache in my voice before I harden it. She can’t be here. She can’t see me like this.

“What the fuck are you doing here?”

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Emma

Istand in frozen shock, not just at the sight of him but at the cold way he speaks to me.

“I came to see you,” I manage to choke out just as a nurse pushes into the room.

She frowns at me before indicating for me to leave. “You can’t be here.”