I was cruising down the South King's Highway, through Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, from the airport to my hotel, the Royal Garden Resort Oceanfront, on the beach in Garden City near the Indian Wells Golf Club and maybe driving a bit faster than the speed limit. But I'd been given a passion red Nissan 370Z convertible sports car at the rental, and I rarely got to drive in New York City. There wasn't much traffic on the road anyway.
I was told that the hotel wasn't the best, but it provided me with a one-bedroom condo with ocean beach frontage and I wouldn't be spending much time there anyway. I wasn't going to be all that busy with the job, but this was the beach. I'd rarely been to an ocean beach. I was from Colorado and even after ending up in New York City as a male model, I'd found most of my out-of-town work to be at snow ski resorts, as I had been an Olympic Team skier. That's where my face and build mostly fit in my line of work. But when a chance had come up for a busman's holiday to a southern beach--a little bit of work and time for fun--I'd grabbed the opportunity.
I had the radio on pretty loud, as did most of the other fine-looking cars gliding down the road, some of them keeping pace with me for the companionship and some with drivers as good-looking as I was, even some who were flirting with me. Having both women and men pay attention to me wasn't something that was strange for me. I don't know how long the siren had been going behind me before I noticed it. It wasn't a cop car; it was a cop motorcycle. I glided over into a parking area in front of a store with soaped-over windows and the motorcycle pulled in too. A burly cop, all tricked out in cop gear, climbed off the cycle and slowly walked up to the side of the car. The top was down, so there was no need to open up for him.
What I could see of him behind the reflective-lens sunglasses was both all hunky Marine style and business. He was muscular on top, tapering down to a narrower waist that was supporting a tool belt with a complete collection of cop gear hanging off it, teasing me to try the tired "Is that I big gun I see you packing?" joke. His tight navy-blue trousers descended down from a full basket to shiny black boots.
As he approached the car, I said, "Sorry, officer. Officer Brand, is it?" I was looking at the name tag on his heavily muscular chest. "Was I driving too fast? I've just come from the airport and haven't seen a speed sign yet. I thought I was going with the pace of the traffic."
"So, this isn't your car?" he asked.
"It's a rental. I've just flown in from New York."
"City? License and registration, please."
"Yes, New York City." I handed him the documents. I wasn't afraid the license wouldn't pass, even though it was fake. My employers used only the best forgers and I'd been Ken Taylor for some time when I was on the job--quite successfully. Even those who somehow had dredged up how closely I looked like the former Olympic skier Kevin Tyler were willing to be convinced I wasn't him.
"It says here you're twenty-two."
"That's right, officer."
"You don't look that old. That's one reason I stopped you. You didn't look old enough to own a sweet ride like this."
"I'm old enough, but not rich enough," I said, giving him a model's smile. "It's a rental. My agency rented it for me. They take good care of their boys." Yes, I was flirting and beginning to open up to him, in case he was interested. He'd taken his sunglasses off to read my license and he was one handsome dude--a rough rider type. Rugged features. The smile he'd given back to me indicated he might be a player. I enjoyed being ridden by his type. He put a gloved hand on my shoulder, which advanced this possibility. Rather than shirking away, I looked up at him and batted my long eyelashes.
"Your agency? What sort of agency would that be?" he asked.
Here we go, I thought. It was fish or cut bait time. "I'm a male model. I work for an escort agency in New York."
"An escort agency?" he said.
"Yes. Escorting men," I answered.
He smiled again and the hand on my shoulder slid down the front of my shirt. I wasn't wearing an undershirt and the silky material of my white shirt lay on my chest in a way that my puffy nipples tented the shirt and showed that I had silver bars pierced there. His gloved fingers easily found my left nipple and rested there, flicking the silver bar through my shirt material. That I had the piercing and didn't pull away from him told him everything he needed to know about me, even if I hadn't openly said it.
We were declaring our interest in each other right out here on the side of the street with cars gliding by and everything.
"There were a couple of other reasons I stopped you--other than that you were going seven miles over the speed limit."
"What other reasons, and is seven miles really bad, officer? I thought I was going with the flow."
"Not too bad, but I could ticket you for it. And, yes, I can be pretty bad. One of the reasons is that this is a bad-ass car. I haven't seen the inside of one of these 370Z babies before."
"Feel free to take a look, officer. Feel free to do whatever you want." I flashed him "the" smile.
He leaned into the car and his hand slid down to my crotch. I spread my legs and pushed my basket up into his gloved hand.
"Anything you want, officer," I said.
He took his time looking over the dash board. But he eventually straightened up and stood beside the car. He didn't move on to doing anything else, though.