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“Yeah, I’ll tell Vanessa he’s okay. She’ll be happy knowing that he’s safe and sound at home,” He said into his cell phone. Vanessa could tell he smiled as he laughed and nodded his head.
“Yeah I’ll tell her you called Slash,” He said as he said goodbye to Slash and hung up the phone. He put it on his bedside table and then laid back down.
“Slash said that Duff’s back home and doing wonderful, although he’s still unwilling to talk about anything that went on,” He said and she nodded.
“That’s good baby,” She replied quietly, trying to get to sleep. They stayed silent for a few minutes before he broke the silence.
“Tell me something, what does Duff have that I don’t?” He asked her
“W-what?” She stuttered, her eyes fluttering open.
“What does he have that I don’t have? Is it that he’s blonde or what?” He asked her again and she moaned and rubbed her face with her hands.
“Axl please don’t bring this topic up right now when I’m trying to sleep. Can’t we talk about it in the fucking morning?” She moaned.
“Is he better than me in bed?”
The question caught her completely by surprise. She was so surprised that she couldn’t even answer him. She didn’t want to answer him because it was the cold, hard, painful, pitiful truth. He sat up and looked at her, a disbelieving look on his face.
“He is isn’t it?”
Vanessa pressed her face into the pillow, wishing to God that she could just sink down into the ground and never come back up again. She never wanted to face Axl or Duff again. “I’m so sorry Axl . . .” She sniffed. He shook his head. She could feel that it was literally, a slap in the face for him.
“I can’t believe your admitting it . . . and to my face too!”
“I’m sorry-”
“Sorry just isn’t fucking good enough for me anymore,” He growled as he threw the covers aside and walked into the closet.
“Axl forgive me please,” She moaned desperately as she got out of bed and walked into the closet where he was putting on his black leather jacket. “Where the Hell are you going at this time in the evening?” She asked him, her eyebrows furrowed in confusion. He grabbed a shotgun from a box at the top of his closet and her eyes grew wide in recognition.
“I’m going to go and blow Duff’s fucking head off,” He answered her.
“No Axl!” She screamed as she tried to wrestle the gun away from him. He pushed her and she got thrown back down on the bed. She quickly got back up and ran at Axl again. “I’m not going to let you murder him. If you do, you’ll go to jail and I won’t thrust that on Brandon,” She grunted. “You been sent to jail so many times already,”
“Why do you love him so much then?” He roared.
“Goddammit Axl! I love you more don’t you fucking understand that?” She screamed at him.
“Dammit Vanessa, get the fuck off,” He roared as he grabbed her arm and thrust her away from him with more force than he intended. She fell to the floor, her chest heaving. She looked at her arm with wide eyes. A big black and blue bruise was starting to form on her arm. She looked up at him in stunned disbelief.
He dropped the gun and backed away, muttering, ‘oh my God’, over and over again. He looked like he was shocked to the point of insanity. He wouldn’t even look at her. She got up and walked over to him where she put her hands on his chest but he gently pushed her away, determined to be careful so he wouldn’t hurt her anymore.
“No just . . . just go. I don’t want to hurt you any further. Now you know what happens when I get beyond mad,” He told her quietly.
“Axl!”
“Vanessa just go, please,” He begged her with wide, pleading eyes. “I’ll call Slash and Renee to come over and get Brandon but I don’t want to hurt you. My old attitude is coming back. It would be safer if you left until I cooled down,” He told her and she nodded and stripped of her nightclothes so she could then slip on some jeans and a long sleeve shirt to cover up the bruise.
“Slash will watch Brandon, I’ll make sure and call him as soon as you leave,” He said in that same quiet voice.
“Axl please, think about what you are doing!”
“Vanessa I am thinking and I don’t need our civil war right now, and I don’t think you do either,”

Duff opened the door to his apartment and was surprised to see Vanessa standing in his doorway yet again. He leaned up against the door frame and raised his eyebrows, his hands in his front jeans pocket. “To whom do I owe the honor to this time, for sending such a beautiful woman to my door tonight?” He asked her.
“I need a place to stay Duff.” She mumbled as she pushed past him into his apartment.
“Fine with me, just make yourself comfortable,” He called over his shoulder as he closed his door behind her and set his beer down on the nearby coffee table. “You need anything?”
She shook her head. “No thanks,” She muttered. She could feel the tears welling up in her eyes and she crossed her arms in front of her chest and looked down, not willing to show him her tears.
She gasped and looked ahead when she felt Duff come up behind her and put his strong arms around her chest. He put his chin on her shoulder and took her hands within his big ones. “Hey now what’s wrong?” He asked her quietly in her ear. She let a tear fall as she tried to tell him,
“I-it’s nothing r-really.” She choked out, turning to look down at the floor. He kissed her neck.
“Vanessa, tell me truth . . . did he hurt you?” He asked her quietly.
She nodded furiously and twirled around, where she buried her face in his chest. “Just don’t do anything to him Duff, please! I’ve been through enough shit for tonight,” She begged him. Her tears were growing in numbers and he wiped away a lone one from the corner of her eye with his thumb.
“It’ll be okay, you can stay here as long as you need to, I don’t care,” He said gently.
“You can take my bed, the couch, the guestroom, Hell we can even share a bed, I don’t give a fuck as long at you feel safe and comfortable,” He assured her and she nodded and smiled a weak smile.
“Thanks Duff,”
“You’re welcome and help yourself to anything. Feel free to use anything,”
“Where’s your girlfriend?” She asked him. The words tumbled out of her mouth before she could even stop them and he smiled a weak smile as he looked away and ran his fingers through his shoulder length blonde hair.
“Ahhh, we kind of broke up. I guess it was stupid of me to kiss you. I should have known that word would have gotten back to Axl eventually. If I had thought about it more instead of being so damn impulsive like I always am, I would have been more prepared for the consequences,” He laughed a little and she smiled a little too but didn’t laugh. She just wanted to hear his laugh. His laugh was the only thing that was able to cheer her up when she was like this. It was always like this.
“Hey now, will anything get you to laugh tonight?” He asked her and
she shook her head, almost in a defeated way.
“I don’t know Duff, I just don’t know right now,”
“That’s fine, you need me to show you to the bedroom?” He asked her and she looked at him funny.
“Are you trying something funny?” she asked him, a playful grin on her face.
“Make that out to be what you want it to be, but you know, this is a new apartment. You haven’t been here before,” He told her as he led her into his bedroom that was down the hall. She sat down at his computer chair as he tossed blankets onto the bed from the top of his walk-in closet.
“I got more blankets in the spare bedroom if you need any,” He said but she was wasn’t listening to him. She was instead looking at his computer screen. It was featuring a brightly colored Guns N’ Roses concert flyer that was supposed to go on in about a week or two.
“Oh I was working on that until you rang,” he said as he plopped down onto the bed, put a cigarette in his mouth and took out a lighter.
“Mind if I smoke around you?” He asked her and she shook her head without looking at him. He lit the cigarette, inhaled and took it away. A long issue of whitish-gray smoke came from his mouth.
“You should add something. I don’t know what it is though, maybe more pictures,” she said as she turned around and saw that he was looking at her, his eyes full of love although his face did not show it. He wasn’t allowing his face to show any emotion.
She could see the desire to hold her in his eyes. She could sense the struggle going on within him. She could sense the battle between him to embrace her, to kiss her, to be her ultimate lover completely. To erase all the pain that went on within the night, and the iron restraint that was fighting for him to give up as his eyes ran slowly up and down her body.
“Vanessa, if I told you have a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?” He asked her quietly.
“What?”
“It’s just that you are so damn beautiful. I don’t know how in the Hell that Axl could have hurt you tonight,” He added as she blushed and looked away.
“Duff-”
“What, I’m not kidding.” He interrupted her, a smile on his face as he laughed and slid an ashtray towards him where he quickly put out the cigarette.
“When I kissed you at the hospital and made love to you in the hotel room, it may have been wrong of me to do it and it may have been insanely stupid speaking that Axl was three floors up,” He told her, “But I want you to know that I did mean to do it, all of it. It was not a mistake Vanessa,” He told her. “May we kiss those we please, and please those we kiss?”
“Duff-”
“Vanessa have sex with me tonight.” He interrupted her again. She was shocked as she gazed at him. His face showed no embarrassment, regret or any other kind of emotion and it kind of turned her on knowing that he was so confident about his love for her.
“Y-y-your not kidding me are you Duff?” She stuttered and he raised his eyebrows and shook his head.
“I mean it one hundred percent. Vanessa have sex with me please, just this once.” He said, and raised his eyebrows. “You got a body I just can’t help but want to ride. Vanessa I want and need you so badly right now.” He sighed and shook his head as he looked her up and down again. “Only problem is that you got all those curves, and I’m pretty sure I have no brakes. Vanessa you have no idea how badly I’m fighting back the urge to make you the happiest woman on the whole earth right now,”
“But what about Axl?”
“Goddamn Axl for once in your life and love a man that actually loves you back,” He said as he got up and walked over to her. “At least I will never hurt you, not in anyway, and you know that good and well.”
“But he loves me,” She said, somewhat feebly. Right now, she was pretty sure it was not Duff that she was trying to convince, but herself.
“Yes he does but I could love you so much more than he ever could or would,” He said breathlessly and Vanessa swallowed.
She loved Duff but did she love him enough to stray back into those waters again? Did she love him enough to stray into the dangerous waters of infidelity? Of course, that law did not apply to her since they weren’t married, but did it still mean the same thing? Her mind was saying no, but her heart, oh her heart was screaming yes on the top of its lungs.
Vanessa was falling fast and out of control, a downward spiral into dark pits unknown. She put her arms around his neck and kissed him hard. He picked her up and they fell onto his bed where he broke apart.
“Are you really sure you want to do this?” He asked her breathlessly around their kisses.
“Are you having second thoughts Duff McKagan?” She asked him, a grin on her face.
“Fuck me if I’m wrong, but don’t you want to kiss me?” He asked her, grinning, smiling and she smiled back as she kissed him again. His tongue parted her lips and made love to her mouth. Duff groaned when there was a knock on the door
“Dammit, right in the middle of foreplay with Axl’s fiancé,” He said as he got off the bed and went into the living room. She laughed as she fallowed him and stood in the archway of the hallway that led to his bedroom. He opened the door and Alicia was standing in the entrance to his apartment.
Alicia was extremely pretty with long strawberry blond hair and beautiful almond shaped green eyes. Vanessa also knew her as an ex. Playboy Playmate. She was sure that he would pick his girlfriend over her. She smiled a perfect smile and kissed him but he shoved her quickly away.
“Alicia I can’t, in case you haven’t noticed,” He said irritably. She saw him with his jeans unbuttoned and halfway unzipped and then her eyes darted to Vanessa standing in the bedroom doorway with her shirt halfway unbuttoned.
“Oh, I-I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to interrupt you or anything like that Duff,” She sputtered, blushing madly.
“Yeah well now you know Alicia, that you did,”
“Duff-”
“Alicia, I got another woman here for Christ’s sake,” He said snappishly but Vanessa interrupted him.
“No its okay Alicia. I was just leaving anyway. Thanks for letting me in and being a good friend Duff,” She said as she grabbed her coat off the couch and headed for the door. He held out an arm and caught her in her chest as she attempted to leave.
“Vanessa what are you doing?” He said a surprised look on his face. Not to mention hurt also flashed across his face too.
“I’m sorry Duff, truly I am.” She said as she walked quickly past them and into the hall. Duff sighed, shot Alicia a disgusted look and then raced after Vanessa. She opened the doors to the lobby of the apartment building minutes later and walked swiftly to her car.
“Vanessa please wait up . . .” he said as he ran after her. She kept walking as he ran after her, buttoning and zipping his pants as he went.
“I thought you said you broke up with your girlfriend Duff?” She yelled back over her shoulder angrily, fighting back furious tears. “Or were thinking that you could sneak your way into getting a threesome?”
“Vanessa I swear I broke up with her, she just doesn’t want to let go of me. I tried it at the hospital and it didn’t fucking work, I swear.” He pleaded to her.
“I was stupid to even come here. I should have known what I was getting myself into. I don’t want to be known as a fucking groupie slut any longer.”
“And you won’t be known as a groupie,” He said, gently grabbing her elbow. She twirled around to face him.
“If I start sleeping with two men every other night I will.”
“You won’t be a groupie if people don’t figure out that your sleeping with two men every other night. Axl doesn’t exactly need to figure out that you had sex with me. I’m not exactly going to go and brag to him about it tomorrow. I’m not that stupid you know.” He said, gazing at her. “Vanessa I wasn’t kidding when I asked you to have sex with me.”
“Duff-”
“Vanessa when you were cheating on Axl with me it was only two nights of me loving you before he finally found out,” He said. He put his hand on the hood of her car and looked away. “Two fucking nights . . . of absolutely nothing.”
The wind passed through, wafting his shoulder-length blonde hair and her long brown hair to the side as he looked at her again. “I barely knew you and I only saw you as a groupie that I dealt with every time we were on a tour. All I knew was that you were drop dead fucking gorgeous and I had to have you. I will admit it, I didn’t love you at first. But when I saw how hurt you were at the bar when you saw Axl with that other girl, I wanted to beat the shit out of him for hurting you that badly. Now that was when I learned that I truly loved you,”
She looked away and he gently moved her face so that he could look at her. Her eyes were closed and a tear leaked out from under her eyelid. “Look at me,” He said quietly. She opened her eyes and looked at him.
“When I chased after you when you left the club and you rejected me after I tried to comfort you, that was when I knew I never had a chance to love you.”
He kissed her softly. “Duff he hurt me.” She told him quietly.
“Oh I know he hurt you. H-he’s Axl.”
“No Duff you don’t understand, he hurt me . . .” She said as she rolled up her sleeve and showed him the ugly bruise on her arm.
“Oh my God Vanessa.” He said as he gently touched it. She flinched and pulled it away from him. He gave up and took her into his arms instead. His touch was so light and loving as he hugged her, just allowing her tears to fall.

“Vanessa you should just leave him,” He told her when they were finally back in his apartment. He sat down a steaming mug of coffee in front of her, sat down besides her on the couch and put a comforting arm around her.
She looked at him with a look of shock on her face. “Duff I can’t. I’m not going to thrust that forcibly on Brandon. I already did that once.” She said. “Besides he’s been to jail to many times already.”
“Would you rather keep Brandon in the house that his father is in while he’s regaining his old attitude and keep him in danger or would you leave him and keep Brandon safe?” He asked her. Vanessa smiled a little as she took a sip of her coffee. “Dammit Vanessa, he’s like Ryan Reynolds from the Amityville Horror.”
“With the way you worry about Brandon, It wouldn’t be surprising if you were his father instead of Axl.” She joked. She meant it as a joke but Duff treated it differently.
“What if I am?” He asked her and she looked at him.
“That’s not fucking possible Duff.” She said. She caught the look of disbelief on his face and set her mug down. “Its just not.”
“Is it Vanessa? I remember you got pregnant right around the time we started to become lovers. Brandon could be mine or Axl’s. Its basically a coin toss between me and Axl.” he said.
“It’s not. The doctors said that Brandon was Axl’s.” He dropped the subject but still looked a little skeptical and they stayed in silence for a moment.
“You can take the bed, I’ll take the couch,” He said coldly as he set his coffee back down on the coffee table.
“Are you sure Duff? I mean I don’t want to kick you out of your own bed,” She asked him and he nodded.
“I don’t want you to get in anymore trouble with Axl.” He said to her. She leaned over to him and lightly kissed him.
“Then good night Duff, I’ll see you in the morning,” She said. She got up and was going to walk away but he grabbed her hand. She turned around and he pulled her onto him and their lips met each others yet again. His hands ran under her hair to the back of her neck. He broke apart from her
“Do you actually think I would let you slip away that easily after you kissed me?” He asked slyly. She unbuttoned his shirt as he took it off his arms and threw it away from them, revealing his well built and well toned chest and stomach.
She kissed him as he fell back onto the arm of the chair. He turned his face up to the ceiling as she kissed his collarbone, her tongue swirling over it, her hands on his chest. He took off her shirt and kissed her neck, his arms wrapping around her back and waist. His hands were soon running over her chest and he picked her up as easily as if she was a rag doll and carried her into his room where he set her down. He kissed her neck and she backed up onto the wall, his hands on her shoulders.
Their lips met each other’s, Duff’s moving against hers in a style all his own. There was always a bit of his dangerous, punkish, Seattle side showing through his kissing. That side would pull her towards him roughly, turning her on to no end. But his lips were soft and gentle, making her feel more loved then she ever had.
She moaned as his lips traveled to her neck, nipping gently at the sensitive point near her throat. It gave her pleasant shivers, and she let her hands roam freely under his loose shirt, loving the feeling of his stomach muscles tensing and relaxing under her touch.
She leaned her weight into him, causing both of them to fall back into his bed. Duff said something in surprise, but she didn’t move her lips away so that she could hear him.
The warmth that radiated off his body seemed to overheat her and relax her at the same time. She didn’t want to let go of him, but Vanessa doubted she could handle this heat much longer. Especially when being in his strong arms made it possible for her to want him to kiss her beyond belief.
Not thinking straight, temptation seemed to take control of Vanessa’s actions and body as she suddenly brushed her lips against his. Moving away just a little bit, Vanessa silently searched Duff’s eyes for his reaction. A small smile graced his lips as she leaned in again for another kiss. They leaned in closer to each other and brushed their lips together a bit more into it. At first it felt a bit awkward, but the feeling left as soon as Duff deepened the kiss, dipping his tongue in her mouth.
Vanessa pulled Duff down on top of her. Without a word, Vanessa began removing his clothes, his black t-shirt gone in only a few seconds. Duff took off her shirt and then quickly took her bra off her, and they both threw their clothes somewhere. As his lips moved down her chest, Vanessa’s breasts seemed to harden with yearning; she desperately loved the sensation and she never wanted it to end. Quickly they pulled down each other’s pants and underwear. Not once did Duff stop kissing her.
Duff moaned with bliss as her lips started to suck on his ears. He quickly moved his lips to hers and kissed her eagerly. They both groaned as the thrilling feeling when they once again deepened the kiss. Vanessa begged Duff to enter her and without argument, he entered her making her moan and go over board with pleasure. She was fairly tight, which made Duff groan in pure bliss at the feeling. Hearing her begging for more, he went faster. Static seemed to go through he each time he moved inside her. The heat from the room seemed to make the feelings even greater.
“God . . . Duff-!” Vanessa cried as she felt her orgasm exploded. Duff moaned as she dug her nails into his chest. She quickly captured his lips in a kiss and he quickly let go of her lips as he exploded. After her orgasm high settled down, she groaned and kissed him deeply with excitement again. Minutes later, after a few wet kisses with Vanessa sucking on his ears, she cuddled up next to Duff, laying her head on his shoulder. Duff wrapped his arms around her.
Vanessa smiled to herself as she silently thought about what they had done. It was wrong beyond belief she knew, but at the moment she didn’t care at all. This was what she needed. Her mind couldn’t even remember what had happened between her and Axl at the moment, and that was perfectly fine with her.
The iron restraint holding him back had broken.

They stopped a few minutes later, their breathing coming out in short gasps. The pale moonlight, squeezing itself into the room by the space between the blinds, was shining on them, illuminating them.
They smiled at each other as he took her by the back of her neck and brought her to him where he kissed her. A slow, passionate, and romantic kiss that made the blood rush to her lips. She returned the kiss as soon as he broke apart from her.
“And you said you never liked my kisses,” He whispered to her as she played with the cross necklace around his neck. “If I do recall, you said they needed more passion,”
“I didn’t but that was before you got so damn good,” She whispered back playfully. He looked at her.
“I got so good at what exactly?” He asked her, smiling and raising his eyebrows in the darkness.
“Everything.”
He looked at her and moved a lock of her hair out of her face. “Vanessa do you love me?” He asked her.
“Duff I had always loved you, I was just too damn scared to tell you. You know with Axl and all.”
“When we were dating and after we would have sex, I used to stay awake, just to hear you breathing. Lying close to you, feeling your heart beat,” he said quietly. He laughed a little and smiled a small smile.
“Watching you smile while you were sleeping. Watching you dream. I would constantly wonder what you were dreaming. I was wondering if you were seeing me in your dreams and no one like Axl.” He whispered. She smiled. “I just felt like while we were like that I felt like nothing could happen to us. Axl couldn’t do anything. I just, I kept on thinking, ‘Man, I could spend my life like this, in this sweet surrender with you and only you.”
She was listening to him, and while she was listening to him, she was growing even more in love with him. The way the moonlight shone on his face made him so much more handsome than he already was and made her want to cry and want to beg him that they plan to elope. She lay down beside him on the bed and as he wrapped his arms around her.
He laughed a little and looked at her. “You know, I can stay in this moment forever. Every moment I spend with you, is a moment I treasure dearly. I don’t want to close my eyes tonight, I don’t want to fall asleep because I know that if I do, tomorrow you’ll be gone and I love you so much.”
“Duff . . .” She actually felt tears coming to her eyes. She didn’t want to leave him, she wanted to stay with him forever in this sweet embrace.
“I just wanted to hold you close like I am now. Feel your heart so close to mine. I just want to live in this moment for the rest of time.” He said. She nodded and looked at him. He smiled.
“Vanessa I’m going crazy for you and tonight didn’t help, if anything, it made it worse.”
“I am too Duff, I am too.”
“I mean, there was a time when I was so brokenhearted. You remember, my wife left me.” He said. He laughed a little and looked down. “Love wasn’t really a friend of mine at the time.”
“All I wanted at the time was someone I couldn’t resist, someone that couldn’t hurt me. I mean, I asked you out and you denied me in the cruelest way possible for me at the time. I was trying to forget you when you turned me down, but I just couldn’t get you out of my head. I was dying to get you. You were on my mind 24/7. Slash tried to get me to get some groupies, but I just couldn’t, I wouldn’t at all. All I was thinking about was you. Slash came up to me and asked what girl was on my mind now and all I could say was that, there was a certain something about this one girl that stayed on my mind and left me breathless every time I thought about her.” He said.
“Duff why are you so good to me?”
“Vanessa you’re my girl. I love you, I always will.”
She smiled and bit her lip as she got out of bed and slipped on one of his button-up shirts. “I’m going to go get a beer, want one?” She asked him. He nodded
“Yeah. Babe . . .” He said. She looked at him and he smiled lustfully at her. She stuck her tongue out at him.
“Come get it yourself then.” She said playfully. He grinned, threw the covers aside and hopped out of bed. He put on a pair of pants and walked into the kitchen with her.
She opened the refrigerator door and took out two cold beers and handed them to him. He popped the caps off of both of them on the counter and handed one to her. He took a swig as she went through his kitchen cabinets simply out of boredom. She looked confused and got out a jar of honey.
“You have honey?” She asked him, holding it out and looking at him over her shoulder.
“Shut up, I have a huge fucking sweet tooth.” He replied, laughing a little. She came up behind him and held her finger out in front of his mouth.
“What is it?” He asked her, looking down at it.
“What does it look like? Its honey?”
He smiled, took her wrist and licked the honey off her finger sensuously, his tongue swirling around the tip like he did with her nipple, breaking apart slowly. “How’s it taste?” She asked him.
“Good, ours tasted sweeter though.” He joked. She laughed as she leaned up against the counter, drinking her beer and staring off into space. She swallowed.
“Duff I love you.” She said quietly. He looked at her.
“Now did this love suddenly materialize before or after we had sex?” He joked; looking at her, his face had a look of fake seriousness on it. She grinned and laughed.
“I’m serious Duff.”
“I am too, now what’s your answer?”
“I don’t know for sure.”
She was still talking in the same, monotonous voice. She looked at him as he started flipping through a guitar magazine. She came up in front of him and wrapped her arms around his stomach and hugged him.
“Don’t make me go back to Axl Duff.” She whispered.
“You have to, you have Brandon.” He said. “If you didn’t have a son that needed you, you wouldn’t be leaving here you have my word on that.”
“Can I come back though?”
He smiled down at her. “Of course you can come back, I enjoy your company.”
“You do, do you?” She said.
Duff grinned and lifted her up onto the kitchen’s island counter. “Yeah I do.” He growled playfully through gritted teeth. She laughed and shrieked as she lay down on the counter and as she playfully tried to fiend him off.
He got down on his knees in front of her and moved aside part of her buttoned-up shirt and gently kissed her stomach; pressing light kisses to her skin. She laughed a little. He kissed her all the way up to her neck, not allowing his lips to leave her skin before he grabbed her wrists and pulled her back into a sitting position in front of him where he kissed her and as her legs wrapped around his waist.
“I love you Vanessa.” He whispered to her, kissing her lightly and randomly all the while. They smiled at each other when he pulled apart.
“I love you too Duff.” She whispered back, as he put his hands on her waist and as he kissed her again deeply. She put her hands on his neck and pressed him to her.
“Duff I hate to interrupt you but . . .”
She tried to turn her head instinctively to see who it was but she soon realized that Duff was forcing her not to look.
“Don’t look Vanessa.” He murmured in her ear without moving his lips. “W-what are you doing here this late Axl?”
She seized up. No wonder he didn’t want her to look. “I was just wondering if you had that flyer ready yet, I’m on a tight schedule and I have to get that flyer to Doc,” he said and Duff shook his head.
“No I don’t. I was working on it, but then I got a little distracted as you can clearly see.” He said, laughing a little. She could hear Axl laugh as she hugged Duff.
If Axl somehow figured out the girl was her, Duff would be the only thing that was standing between her and Axl trying to kill her. “So I take it you and Alicia broke up.” Axl said. She could feel Duff nod.
“Yeah actually I broke up with her amazingly.”
“Shame, she was fucking hot as hell.” Axl replied.
“Axl, you shouldn’t be saying things like that from behind Vanessa’s back. As you often say, things get back.” He said quietly.
He grunted. Vanessa had just kicked him hard in the leg. “Lighten up Duff, I’m only kidding.”
“Get him out of here now Duff.” She hissed in his ear so that Axl could not hear her. She felt her heart breaking as her arms tightened around him. She didn’t want to be around him. She was afraid of him and Duff being there didn’t help that much either.
“Axl we’re kind of busy . . .” He said uneasily.
“Yeah okay. Try and get me those flyers ready by Friday okay?” He asked. Duff nodded.
“Yeah, I’ll try Axl.” He shouted as Axl left. He let his head fall on her shoulder and he sighed.
“Goddammit, that was fucking close, too close.” He breathed. “This is so dangerous.”
“I know Duff but, its addicting just being around you.” She said. He nodded, leaning on the counter.
“I know, but it could’ve been a hell of a lot worse.” He sighed. “I could have been making love to you on the counter and he could have walked in. God, doesn’t he know how to knock?”
She looked at him. “Duff, I love you to death but, we can’t do this for long. He’ll eventually find out like he did last time.” She said. He turned his head to look at her.
“Vanessa I’m sorry, but I can’t fallow that rule.” He told her. “I know its stupid and dangerous, but we can manage. I’ll lock the doors when you’re here so he won’t be able to get in, anything. When it comes to our relationship, my will-power becomes very strong.”
She smiled weakly. “You really want to fight for me do you?”
“Hell yes, because to me, this relationship is worth fighting for.” He said to her as he took her hands.
“Vanessa, we couldn’t end it, we’re in too far to turn back now.” He told her. “We already had sex, and we did everything else. If Axl figures out we’re having another affair with each other, he’ll never forgive both of us. Hell, he still hasn’t forgiven me from last time.”
“Vanessa, he knows we love each other, and he hates that with a passion.” He told her.
“Then let’s run away Duff. You could get a part in another band.” She said.
“Brandon, Vanessa, Brandon. Think about him before you act.” He said.
“I don’t care Duff, all I know is that I love you and I never want to leave you.” She said. He nodded.
“You need some sleep Vanessa.” He said. “You’re not thinking straight.”