Raging Love (26 page)

I took one look at Colt’s eyes and my stroking slowed. His utter sexiness was something I found impossible to resist. The water fell down his head, while he cupped my face with his hands. Perfect lips pressed against mine, followed by a very skilled tongue. As if it were in slow motion, I felt my body lifting up and being pressed against the shower wall. I reached my arms around Colt’s neck and felt it slide inside of me with ease. Our lips were still touching as low moans came out of both of us.

Our skin slapped together as he thrusted himself in and out of me. He continued to kiss me as he removed his entire penis, to only force it deep inside again, each time leaving me wanting it more. Just the size of his girth, rubbing against my inner skin forced a rush of bliss with each thrust. I played with his hair as he began to speed up the pace, no longer teasing me with pulling it out.

I could tell he was about to finish. He held on to me tighter, pushing me against the wall harder and harder, until he pinned me s
till, holding me tight, while his
lips stilled against mine.

My feet were slowl
y set
back down to the shower floor, while Colt leaned against the wall, trying to catch his breath. I had no idea how long we were in the shower, but the water was starting to get cold.

Colt leaned over and kissed me before grabbing me a towel and wrapping it around my body. I loved watching him walk around naked. His ass was sexy as hell.

As we entered our bedroom we could hear voices coming from downstairs. I instantly felt horrible for leaving the kids unsupervised for however long we had. Colt dressed quickly while I followed suit. By the time
we made it downstairs, we were standing face to face with Ty and Miranda, who were laughing their butts off.

“Care to explain what you two were doing up there?” Miranda was still laughing when she said it.

My face was turning a bright red shade. I shrugged my shoulders.

“Well, while the two of you were,” he stuck up his fingers to quote, “’cleaning the bedroom’, our children decided they wanted to have glasses.”

I had no idea what Ty was saying or why they were laughing. The kid
’
s backs were facing us,
and they seemed to be behaving.
“What are you talking about?” I asked.

Noah heard my voice and turned around. In black magic marker he had two giant raccoon circles on each eye, with a line connecting in the center. If that wasn’t funny enough, Bella turned around and had a matching pair of magic marker glasses. “Aren’t they cool, Mom?”

Colt just stood there scratching his head. Miranda buried her laughter in Ty’s chest, while he stood there waiting for me to respond. “Noah, where did you get the marker?” He was over four, obviously he knew where we kept them, but I had to ask.

“In Daddy’s office. We were just playin’.” Noah explained.

It took Miranda an
d
I
two kind of soaps to remove
the permanent marker from our children’s faces. Due to the fact that we got so occupied with the kids, Ty never brought up mine and Colt’s shower sexcapade. With the combination of Noah and my pregnancy, Colt and I didn’t have a lot of sex time. When it became available we took advantage.

My husband had patience, I had to give it to him, but everyone had their breaking point. Pleasing him and keeping him happy was something that I considered important. Was it really wrong to shut the door for some alone time? Noah knew where to find us and how to get our attention. He was famous for beating on the door, then asking why we locked it in the first place. There were a couple times I swore Colt was just going to sit him down and explain how we were making babies, so he would stop asking.

At any rate, we got the kids cleaned up and all headed to the main house for breakfast. The three older women were there at the table, drinking coffee. A buffet style set up was on the island, just like every breakfast at Colt’s mother’s house. Everyone greeted each other and started catering to the kids. Colt’s mom had bought them a little kid table and they felt all cool about having it for themselves. Us adults made our plate
s
and settled down at the table.

When the kids finished they went into the family room to watch television, while the adults stayed around and talked. Conner came walking in the door about a half hour later. He had some brunette
around his arm and a pair of sunglasses on his face, even though it wasn’t even sunny. In fact, it had been raining on and off for a couple of days. We all stopped t
alking and watched as he and his
flavor of the week made a plate. They took their food out to the pool y
ard without saying a single wor
d to any of us. I don’t know why, but I looked over toward Ty and Miranda. He was clenching his jaw and looking outside. Even though I was looking right at him, when his fists pounded on the table, I still jumped. Out of reflex I grabbed my belly while I watched Ty get up and start walking toward the pool yard door. Colt slid his chair out and followed behind him.

Miranda stood up and took off after the guys. I looked at the three older ladies, my mother in law, Aunt Karen, and Lucy, and wondered what in the world was happening.

Colt’s mother grabbed my hand. “Everything will be okay. Just let the guys handle it.”

“What do you mean? What don’t I know?”

Conner’s poor mother put her hands into her face and started shaking her head. “I can’t
believe
I let things get this bad. What am I going to do? He is going to end up hurting himself or someone else.”

“Let’s just hope that Colt and Tyler can help him.” Lucy added.

I tried to listen in, but could hear nothing. They weren’t really giving me any hints on what the heck was happening, so I walked outside to where Miranda was standing.

Conner and the mystery girl were sitting at a table eating their breakfast, while Ty and Colt stood over them.

I whispered to Miranda. “Are you going to explain?”

“Conner is out of control. He is partyin’ too much, drinkin’ himself
belligerent
. We don’t know how to get him to stop. He won’t even associate with us anymore. Colt is workin’ so hard to make this cattle deal work, and Ty and I can’t be
responsible
for him if he moves in with us. His parents aren’t goin’ to be okay with him comin’ in drunk every night. He probably doesn’t even know this girl’s name. It’s pathetic!”

“I guess I
haven’t
had very much time to notice. I’m really sorry. Between Noah and this pregnancy, I’ve been so preoccupied.” I explained.

“Exactly, I don’t want to be dealing with his drama with morning sickness. It’s bad enough.” Miranda stopped talking immediately. She looked at me and smiled.  “We just found out yesterday before we came. I just wanted to wait until I was further along to tell everyone. Please don’t be mad. I wanted to tell you last night, especially after Ty told me he slipped and told Colt. I honestly thought he would have told you this morning.”

I
looked
over at my husband and shook my head. “He is going to get it for keeping such exciting news from me.” I pulled her into a hug. “Our kids are going to be so close again. This is awesome, Miranda. I bet Ty is just out of his mind excited. I know he was counting down the days to start trying.”

“Oh my gosh, Van, you have no idea. He ran around the house jumping up and down for at least an hour. The car ride here was unbearable. Keeping it from Bella was even harder. His knee was shaking so bad in the car, it felt like we had a damn flat tire. Every second we have been alone, he is touching my stomach. My God he cannot keep a secret, it is ridiculous.”

We both started laughing. Our celebration conversation was cut short when we saw a paper plate being thrown toward Ty’s face. The mystery girl backed up away from the table. As Ty wiped the food off of the front of his body, Colt and Conner stood face to face, screaming at one another.

They kept pushing each other, finally Ty getting in on it, making it even worse, obviously.

“I am tellin’ you to back the fuck off, Colt. It ain’t none of your damn business,” Conner yelled.

Colt pushed him
back and got him sitting in the chair. “It is my business when you are supposed to be workin’. What the hell is wrong with you? What are you on, man?”

He stood up and pushed Colt to the side. “Get out of my face, Colt. Mind your business and stay out of mine.
Don’t
you
have a wife and
a
kid to tend to? It don’t matter what I am doin’, cause it ain’t none of your concern.
” He too
k his hands and motioned for Colt
to move out of the way.

Ty walked in front of Colt and shoved Conner to the ground. “This shit will not happen when you come to stay with us. I will not have my daughter and my pregnant wife seeing you this way. Get your fucking ass up, take that little bitch home and clean yourself up Conner, or thi
s whole deal between us is done!
”

Obviously
, Conner hadn’t heard the pregnant part. He shoved Ty hard, making him lose his balance. He went ass first into the pool. Conner
started walking away and I watched as Miranda went flying toward him. He stopped when he reached her. “Move, Randa.”

She didn’t say a single word, but instead, slapped him right across the face. He quickly grabbed her by the wrist and began to shove her out of the way, forcefully. Colt was coming from one direction as Ty leaped out of the pool and
clothes-lined
Conner to the ground. Wet fists pounded Conner in the face. “If you ever lay a fucking hand on my wife again, I will kill you. She is pregnant you piece of shit.”

Colt pulled Ty off of Conner and he just laid there looking at his sister. “Randa, I wouldn’t have hurt you, I swear it.”

She held her hand out for Ty and they walked into the house without saying an
other thing
to
him. I turned to Colt, who was running his hand through his hair
trying
to figure out what the heck had just happened.

Conner started getting up, but ended up just sitting up looking at both of us.

“Get your shit together Conner. If you ever come into my mother’s house and disrespect her again, you will have to answer to me. Dammit boy, grow up. I don’t know what you’re doin’, but you better stop. You ain’t got shit without this family, Cuz.”

Colt grabbed me by the waist and walked me back into the house. I still had no idea what was going on with Conner, but obviously I was the only one who didn’t know. I guess there were more things Colt hadn’t told me.

The three women had gotten up from the table and were helping Lucy clean up. I started to walk over to offer a hand, but Colt grabbed me by the hand and pulled me into the small powder room. The space was confined and I had no idea what was going on. “Are you okay?”

“I want you and Miranda to take the kids to our house.” Colt stared at me like I was supposed to read his mind.

“Care to fill me in on what the hell is going on? We were just having breakfast and then you’re outside fighting. What is wrong with Conner? What aren’t you telling me Colt?”

“Sugar, I’m not really sure. It’s definitely alcohol, but I reckon’ it has to be somethin’ else too. I don’t want you involved in this.”

“Conner has been fine, Colt. I don’t understand?”

He ran his hands over his face. “He has been actin’ funny for months, but the alcohol abuse has become an issue. He doesn’t have a father and neither do I. You know I feel obligated to look out for him. Can you just
please take the kids and Miranda and just go to the
house
. Ty and I will stay here and try to talk some sense into him. There is obviously something else goin’ on that we don’t know about.”

I put the toilet seat down and sat, giving us a bit more breathing room. “If he is abusing drugs or alcohol, how could we not have noticed? I mean, I know he likes to drink and go out, but I never thought Conner would get himself involved in something so dangerous.”

I was feeling like my breakfast was coming back up. Colt was very protective of Conner, so I knew if something was really going on, it was not going to be easy for him to deal with. With Miranda in good hands and living out of state, Colt had been able to relax more and worry about his younger cousins less. Now I wondered if he was somehow blaming himself for not noticing this before it got this bad. “Colt, this isn’t your fault. No matter what is going on with Conner, it isn’t because of something you did, or didn’t do. You have to know that.” I grabbed his hands and looked right at him.

He leaned down and kissed me on the head.
“
Darlin’, Krista’s dad was a big time drug abuser. I don’t know how many times I had to hear her talkin’ about him spendin’ all of their money and not takin’ care of himself. There were times where he wouldn’t even wake up for days
. I don’t want this from Conner. I won’t let him ruin his life.”

There was no use arguing with Colt about his family. He wasn’t going to give up until he knew Conner was going to be alright. I stood up and kissed my worried husband. “I love you baby. I will see you when you get home. Don’t forget that you promised the kids they could ride today.”