Total pages in book: 56
Estimated words: 50561 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 253(@200wpm)___ 202(@250wpm)___ 169(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 50561 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 253(@200wpm)___ 202(@250wpm)___ 169(@300wpm)
“Your aunt and I have nothing more to do with each other. She knows that I know about her past, but she doesn’t know how.”
“I told you I don’t care if she knows I told you…”
“And I told you I don’t want you caught in the middle of this bullshit whatever it is.
You don’t go anywhere near her you hear me?” For some reason I have the unfathomable fear that she’d get hurt by all this. I had no doubt that once Jen found out about our relationship she’d try some shit, and I was trying to avoid that at all cost. I couldn’t very well take care of my girl if I was sitting in jail and I’m pretty sure that if her aunt touched one hair on her beautiful head I’d end her.
I didn’t tell her about my personal vendetta, that was mine to deal with, but her part in this was over. I just had to get it through her thick skull. “How did she take it?” My girl has a bit of a spiteful bent. For some reason that first weekend I’d missed her distaste for her aunt, but she’d taken every opportunity since then to let me know exactly how she felt about the other woman.
“She wasn’t too pleased but in the end there wasn’t much she could do. Now I want your word that you’ll leave this alone.” She pouted and did some shit with her eyes that I was sure was an insult, but my glare soon had her backing down. “Fine, but if she says shit to me I’m gonna pop her one.”
“Ashley.”
“Okay-okay, I’ll try not to leave her in the backwoods somewhere staked out on an anthill, but I can still imagine it.” Feisty little thing! “Come on, time for a bath.” I dragged her ass into the en suite and ran a bath for both of us to share. She was walking a little bowlegged so I added some shit to the water that was supposed to help with soreness.
Once in the tub with her head resting back on my chest, I brought up the other pressing matter. “Tomorrow, we talk to your parents.” She tensed up for a second but a soft kiss pressed against her temple soothed her again. “It’s going to be okay baby, I promise. No matter what happens tomorrow, you’ll be in my bed at the end of the night, nothing’s going to change that I promise you that.”
That seemed to calm her a bit but I was sure she’d have more moments like these before it was all said and done. I wasn’t giving it much thought for the simple fact that my mind was already made up and when that shit happened not even dynamite could change it.
I cleaned her up and took her to bed for some much needed rest. It was maybe four hours later that I was turning to her in the night, slipping into her wet heat until she awakened and accepted the tongue that I slipped into her mouth. “So sweet.” I whispered soft words of praise in her ear, telling her how much she meant to me and all the wonderful things I wanted to do and share with her.
“Why do you always cry when I love you like this?” She just shook her head and reached for my mouth with hers, rocking beneath me until I emptied inside her again.
***
When next I opened my eyes it was daybreak. She was snuggled up close almost buried beneath me with my arms and legs wrapped around her. Even in sleep, I found it hard to be away from her. She’d come to mean so much in so little time. How did I ever awaken in the morning without her here? It seemed unbelievable to me now. She was the answer to everything I’d ever wanted and didn’t know it.
Looking at her in the early morning light, so peacefully beautiful. It warmed my heart to think that she was my reward. After all the shit that life had thrown my way, she was like a balm to my soul. So much contained in that one little package. As usual I felt the need for her push at me, and though I knew she needed her rest after last night, I couldn’t help myself.
“Wake up baby, I think I need you again.” I nibbled her lips gently while turning her to her side away from me so that I could take her that way. In her half wake state she pushed back against me and lifted her leg over my hip, opening herself to me, letting me in.
I enveloped her in my arms getting as close as I could with the flat of my warm palm against the flesh of her tummy. A vision flashed behind my closed lids, a picture of a young boy playing in the fields behind the house, and Ashley. It was so real that emotion threatened to overtake me. “I’m going to give you my son.”