The Champ: Bad Boys Book 5 (The Bad Boys) (11 page)

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Dinner was quite the affair. Ma kept nagging about people calling her all day with news of our engagement. She was not too pleased that she didn’t get the chance to have a big party and show off her hostess skills.

“You know I think we should have a formal announcement in the papers, and do things the right way.”

“Ma, why can’t we just get married and be done with it?” I guess that was the wrong thing to say because not only ma and Traci jumped on my ass, but my sister had her say as well. You’d have thought I suggested we get hitched at the drive through or some shit.

“Okay-okay but whatever y’all come up with it better be doable in a coupla weeks.” I stuffed a forkful of food into my mouth and ignored the screeching. Dad was shaking his head and Chad the ass was grinning.

“Boy you really don’t know your mother do you? You’re the first of her little chicks to tie the knot, we’d be lucky it don’t rival the royals.”

“Oh you hush Jack.”

“Just trying to help Marie, I’m with you all the way.”

“Traitor.”

“I like my nice soft bed son, you can’t fault a man for that.”

“Okay fine, ma, you can plan whatever you want as long as we’re married in the next two weeks, that’s nonnegotiable.”

“Two weeks isn’t time enough to plan a wedding this size.”

“What size, it’s going to be us, Jace, Cole and her girls and parents, that’s what, ten-fifteen people?”

They were off and running again, but funnily enough my girl had gone back into her shell. No worries, she was probably having cold feet again, I planned on putting an end to that shit tonight.

The talk at the dinner table was all about the wedding and from the way they were talking I was pretty much superfluous.

“Let’s go to the study son there’s something I need to show you.”

I winked at my girl before following dad out the kitchen. He looked around the door before closing and locking it. What the hell was he up to? He probably had a bottle of moonshine or some shit hidden away in there. It wouldn’t be the first time, but I wasn’t in the mood, I needed all my faculties about me tonight.

“Now listen, I know this thing is sudden and you haven’t really had time to plan. Have you chosen a ring yet?”

“No, I was thinking I’d take her down there and have her choose what she likes.” I had my own ideas about what I wanted her to have, but I was gonna give her first shot.

“Well, given the stuff that’s going on with this guy harassing her, I think you might wanna have her tagged.”

“Have her what?”

“It’s a chip, you place it in her ring, that’s about the only thing a woman never takes off, so you wanna use something that you’re sure she would have with her at all times. I put one in your mother’s when I took it in to have it reset. That’s just the excuse I used, but it’s the best peace of mind I’ve had in years.”

“Ma know you have eyes on her?” I barely kept a straight face when asking him that.

“Nope, and that’s the way it’s gonna stay. She goes off with her friends I don’t have to worry about whether or not she’s in trouble because I know where she is. This baby can track her ass to Siberia.”

“How do I get one?”

“I’ve already put in the call, I was getting your sister’s anyway.”

“Dad…”

“What? Until she gets married she’s still my responsibility, and don’t tell me you wouldn’t have thought of it if you knew this shit existed. Trust me, this thing will make you sleep better at night, especially with you being out of town so much, watch this.”

He did something to the watch on his wrist and a little green dot appeared. “You wanna hear?”

“Damn dad what else does that thing do?” For the next half an hour he showed me what his little toy could do.

“Thanks old man. I was leaning towards the RFID chip but I had a problem going under her skin, this is the next best thing.”

“That’s my boy, chip off the old block.”

Damn straight. It was just good to know I wasn’t the only one who felt this way. Of course because of the shit that was going on in her life she might not appreciate my efforts, but what she don’t know won’t hurt her.

After leaving him, I snuck upstairs for a quick set up. I found some candles and set them up around the room and set the iPod to a certain playlist, one that I was sure would be perfect for what was coming. It was still early yet so I left things as they were before heading back out.

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“Let’s go for a walk around the property baby.” I had snuck up behind her and whispered the suggestion in her ear after returning downstairs. I felt a weight lifted off my shoulder now that things were set in motion. Tomorrow I was taking her to pick out a ring and under the pretense of having it reset I will let the guys outfit it with her tag.

“Bye ma.” I left her and my sister snickering as we left the room for the outdoors. She hadn’t really had a chance to see her new home yet. I figured a nice walk around outside in the evening air might loosen her up a bit for what was to come.

It felt like I’d been waiting a lifetime although in actuality it had only been a few days. The anticipation was more than anything I’ve ever felt. In just a few short hours our lives will change forever.

Traci

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I tried my best to calm my nerves as he took my hand and walked me out of the house. I fought hard to concentrate on my surroundings, on how beautiful everything was. It was almost surreal to think this was going to be my new reality. That for the next forty or fifty years I would call this place home.

I had long made peace with the fact that my life had gone off the rails since that night just a short while ago when I met him. My friends all seemed happy for me, no one was telling me to put the brakes on and take it slow.

His mother was full of excitement. All she could talk about was the wedding and how great things were going to be. I think it was going to be a while before the butterflies in the pit of my stomach went away, but it was a small price to pay for the absolute happiness I was beginning to believe awaited me.

I’ve always been an observer, whether because of my career choice, the long days spent at my mother’s sick bed, I don’t know what it is, but somewhere along the way I had learned to silence everything else and focus. In the short time I’d known him I can honestly say I have yet to witness anything about him that was off putting.

Even with Carl’s craziness nipping at my heels, I felt no fear of taking this very huge step; in fact Wyatt made me feel safe, like nothing and no one would ever get to me as long as he was at my side. Everything was happening so fast though, but after listening to his mom and sister, I realize that it was just as fast for him too. That he was willing to take the risk, and that went a long way to putting me at ease. T              his amazing person was willing to risk everything on me, on us.

This morning while he’d been gone, I’d used some time between studying old case files to run a little research on him. It was better than hiring a PI. The Internet was a font of information.

I tried not to look too hard at the beauties on his arm as I scrolled but it was hard to since almost every frame captured him with his arms around some hot young thing. He’d already explained that to me and I chose to believe him. Not to mention his mom swore up and down that he had never brought anyone home, not since he was a teen and she had insisted.

“You’re thinking again, what is it this time, the wedding?”

“Among other things.” I swung our arms between us as I tried to get my thoughts in order. When I peeled back all the layers this was one of those things that you read about in books or saw at the movies, but never seemed real. I kept replaying our every moment together and trying to find that one thing that jumped out at me and said ‘here it is’.

We all knew how Wyatt felt, he had taken one look and fallen in love, or so his story goes. It had taken me a little longer, if you can call three days long. Even though I’d pretty much come to terms with my own feelings, I still thought it wise to ask one last time, kind of like giving him an out in case he needed one.

“Are you sure about all this Wyatt?”

“If you ask me that question a thousand times the answer’s not going to change. Look, I understand why you’re nervous, why you might even be scared, I can and will do whatever I can to alleviate that, but I’m not going to stop feeling what I feel and I’m not going to hold back.”

He didn’t give me a chance to answer, just turned and took my face between his hands. “Look at me sweetheart.” I lifted my eyes to his, my heart racing in my chest as I bit into my lip. His nose flared and there was a shift in the air as he drew me closer.

Whatever he was going to say got lost as his lips came down to cover mine in the softest, sweetest kiss we’d ever shared. When he finally lifted his head I was breathless and more than a little turned on. He had that strange affect on me, an ability to make me forget.

“You know when you go for a job and they want you to have experience first, and you’re wondering how you’re supposed to have that without having a job? This is kinda like that. How will you know if you never try? But there’s one thing I want you to think about, you see those two people back there, what they have; I want that. I’m not gonna get that by fucking around. I’m not gonna get that by cheating on you, lying to you or hurting you.

In all my years I’ve never seen my father make my mother cry not unless they were tears of absolute joy. That’s what I have to offer you. And since I love you I want the best for you, and baby that’s me. So you hold onto your fears and your doubts for as long as you need to, I’m not going anywhere.”

He says the sweetest things. All the things that make me feel silly for holding back like this. So what this was beyond unconventional? Haven’t I been happier in the last few days than I have ever been before?

And didn’t I sleep in his bed wrapped in his arms without being mauled? He’d proven time and again that he could be trusted and even more he’s shown that he does feel something for me. I can keep going around and around in my head with the same questions, but in the end I think I’ve already made up my mind. Still I couldn’t help putting him to the test, this was my life after all.

“Okay here’s the deal, can’t we just have a relationship first before jumping into marriage?” I can’t believe I found the courage to actually say those words out loud. I would die if he agreed but I had to know, had to give it one last shot. “I mean marriage is so final…”

He stopped moving and turned to me. “So what you’re saying is that you just want to use me for my body, but I’m not marriage material?”

“What?” My mouth hung down to my chin. He did not seem pleased, not one little bit.

“That’s what it sounds like to me. No deal cupcake, you get the whole package.” He passed. What guy in his position wouldn’t have gone for that? For some reason that one little thing removed the clouds and that nagging fear in my gut was gone. Now I had to make it up to him because he was steaming mad.

My smile when I turned it on him was from my soul. “What’re you grinning at Red, you playing me? What’s going through that head of yours now?” Before I could answer I found my lips captured once more, as he lifted me off my feet, the man was obsessed. “Fuck if I’m not marrying that.” He held onto my hand as we walked on as though afraid I was gonna bolt.

“You know I’m going to take you tonight don’t you?” It was good that he’d stopped us before asking me that, because my knees went weak.

“Do you do that on purpose?”

“Do what baby?” He trailed a finger down the side of my face.

“Make your voice go all seductive and dreamy?”

“Getting to you is it?”

At least it allowed me to sidestep his question. I wasn’t brave enough to have that conversation, because there was something he didn’t know, something that could be a dream changer.

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Wyatt

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She’s hiding something, I don’t know what, but I’m coming to know her, all her little nuances. Her eyes shift or changes according to what’s going on in her head. I think I’ll keep that little bit of knowledge to myself for now, but it sure did come in handy.

“Let’s head back in it’s getting cold out here.” The walk was meant to relax her a little and it had done its job. She was much lighter, her laugh less strained by the time we cleared the door. I took her straight to our room never releasing her hand.

I’d struggled with the idea of taking her to a hotel but thought better of it in the end, it seemed too much like something I would’ve done in the past and she deserved more than that. “I’ll be right back, I’m a little sticky after our walk.” She squeezed my hand before disappearing into the bathroom.

I looked around the room with a blank stare for a second. What the fuck? I was actually nervous; me Wyatt Hunter had flop sweat at the thought of taking her to my bed. I wasn’t afraid of the act itself or of disappointing her, but it was finally hitting home that this was it. I was about to claim my woman.

When she came out the bathroom I noticed the change right away. She was glowing. That look of uncertainty was gone from her eyes though there was something there that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. “Come here.” I reached out for her and she came to me without hesitation.

It had grown dark outside, and I had the lit the candles and the fireplace, and turned the bed down while she was making her transformation in the other room. “Close your eyes.” She complied and I attacked. Starting at her temple I placed soft kisses against her skin, making a trail to the corner of her lips where I licked her with my tongue.

She opened up, searching for my tongue with hers but I had other ideas. “I wanna play.” I teased her lips with mine before moving up the other side to her ear so I could nibble. “You’re so soft, so sweet.” I was suddenly overwhelmed with a feeling of such warmth, such emotion I had to draw her in.

When I finally kissed my way back to her lips we were both starved for the taste of each other. It was like sharing my first kiss, everything else that came before faded away to nothing. There was nothing and no one else in our world, just us two.

My hands trembled just the slightest bit when I released the buttons on her blouse. Her flesh was warm and soft beneath my lips as I kissed my way across her chest to the tops of her plump tits. I stopped undressing her long enough to heft the weight of her bounty in my hands while sucking her tongue deeply into my mouth.

Her soft groan was just the beginning of what I wanted to pull from her tonight. I wanted to make her body sing, wanted to claim her in every way possible, but I wanted to take it slow, make it last. I wanted to give as much of myself to her as I was willing to take.

I led her slowly to the bed without releasing my hold on her. I don’t think she even realized she was naked or that I was fighting my way out of my clothes. She was too busy sucking on my tongue and grinding herself against me in heat.

There was a touch of innocence about her movements, or it could just be her innate shyness at play. Whatever it was it begged me to go slow. “Open your eyes.” She’d held them closed since I’d ordered her to, but I wouldn’t have missed the heated look in them now for anything.

I held her eyes with mine as I led her soft hand to my hard cock while lying next to her. “Feel what you do to me. You can squeeze him baby you won’t hurt him.” She teased me with a light touch before she grew bolder and let her hand glide up and down my length.

Gritting my teeth I found the strength to let her explore without taking over and falling on her like a starving wolf. I didn’t touch her, not yet. I let her enjoy herself before taking over. My cock jumped and spat in her hand, as she grew more confident.

I looked down at her fingers as they stroked my cock. I could smell the heat from between her legs as pre-cum wet her fingers from the head of my dick. “Open your legs for me sweetheart.” She shifted on the mattress and her legs fell open as she kept working my cock.

I got to my knees between her thighs and her eyes flew to my meat for the first time. There was a flash of fear but she was quick to hide it. Looks like my work wasn’t done yet. I wanted her too hot to worry about my size and length, something I’d not given much thought to in my haste to capture her. I’m sure my size must be daunting for someone as tiny as her, but it was too late to turn back.

With her legs sprawled open before me I took my first real look at her cunt. “Beautiful!” She was like a pink flower with dewy petals when u opened her with my fingers. Lowering my head I took a whiff of her scent and felt my cock jerk in response.

I touched her for the first time with my heart in my throat. She was wet against the fingers that I slid through her folds, searching for her clit. When my thumb rubbed against her rapidly swelling clit I thought she would fly off the bed. Her reaction drove me insane and I did it again, using just the pad of my thumb to bring her off.

“Wyatt…” She moved like a dream beneath my hand and I kept my eyes on her pussy as it dripped juice around the fingers I used to fuck her. “So tight.” I don’t think I’d ever felt anything this tight before. And the way she moved against me, how would that feel around my cock?

Her erratic breathing drew my attention back to the plump mounds on her chest and my mouth watered for a taste. For a split second I felt an overwhelming joy that this amazing creature was truly mine. That with all the luck I’d had thus far, she was the best thing to ever happen to me. “How did I get this fucking lucky?”

It was almost too much to believe. Was it only a few days ago that our worlds collided? I pulled my fingers out of her and sent them back to her clit as I suckled her.

When her clit was slippery wet I let my finger dip back into the mouth of her pussy. She was tight and hot around the first one and she damn near broke the second. By the time I bit into her nipple she was grinding herself against my hand in release.

“Nice and easy baby.” She was fired up and ready to go, begging me without words to come to her, but I had a lot more in store for her tonight. This morning had just been an appetizer, tonight I mean to gorge myself on her, in her, until she knows without a doubt just who she belongs to.

Making my way down between her thighs I lifted her legs over my shoulders spreading her open before letting my tongue take the place of my fingers. At the first touch of my wet tongue against her heated flesh, her body arched and her hands grabbed at me. Spreading her open wider I looked at her pink pussy and the thought hit that I had never seen a prettier sight.