Chapter 9
Chapter Nine
AVERY
The first thing to come to my mind when it comes to this man is something I shouldn’t even be thinking. For one, he’s older than me. A lot older, not just three or four years, no he has to be in his late thirties, early forties. So yeah, that shouldn’t happen.
Only I can’t help but think these thoughts that cause my panties to dampen.
I want him to touch me, but at the same time, I can’t allow myself to do so.
I mean, I’ve never had luck with men; granted, it always comes down to my family interfering, and they’re not here, but I’d never be enough for a man like Hammer.
Early this morning proved it when I heard that girl moaning Hammer’s name in pleasure. How could I compete? Why do I even care?
Hammer coming into my shop and throwing me over his shoulder, and storming out to his bike is maybe one reason.
I have to admit, though it infuriates me he could do something like this; it’d been hot.
Even hotter with him putting me on the bike in front of him.
I’m sure it’s illegal with the way he rode back to the clubhouse with me wrapped around him.
My arms and legs held on to him tightly to keep from falling off.
I realized by the time we pulled up in front of the clubhouse, I had nothing to fear in falling off because he’d made sure to take care in curves and such with me being in front of him.
Parking his bike, he doesn’t give me a chance to release him; instead, as he cuts the motor or engine, I don’t know what you would call it on a motorcycle and moves his hands to grasp me by my rear and lifts me up as he climbs off his bike.
Holy cannoli.
Without putting me down, Hammer prowls toward the clubhouse. Once inside, he keeps going. Men who hadn’t been with him at the coffee shop go quiet as they take in what he’s doing. Some even start to whistle and chuckle. During this, Hammer doesn’t say not one word.
Getting to his room, he opens the door, steps through, and uses his foot to kick it closed. The door slams closed as he moves a little further into the room, and then I find myself falling backward onto Hammer’s bed. The man comes to loom over me, his arms caging me to him.
“Don’t know what the fuck was going through your head leaving the clubhouse at two in the fuckin’ morning, Sunshine, but that shit ain’t happenin’ again.
Nor will you not getting any sleep be happenin’ again.
Last night I’d been reminded of some shit that fucked with my head, and I needed to be alone. ”
“I’m sure you did,” I grumble, interrupting him in the process as that woman’s voice pops into my head.
“I know I fuckin’ did. Not that I need to explain myself to you, Avery, considering neither of us knows shit about the other, you’ll come to find, I don’t fuckin’ bullshit, and I don’t lie.
Lie to me, and I’ll put your ass out. Or, in your case, tan your ass red for thinking you can do so.
I won’t put up with it. Now we’ve got a lot to talk about, but first things first, I didn’t fuck some bitch in another room last night or earlier this morning.
I passed out in my office after downing Wild Turkey.
Slept on the couch, which gave me a fuckin’ kink in my neck.
“Second thing, you leaving the way you did is stupid beyond doubt. You put yourself in danger. After what happened to your house, you shouldn’t be doing anything without having someone at your back.
So from now on, you’re gonna do that. You gotta be at the coffee shop at a certain time fine, but you’re also gonna do it with help starting tomorrow.
“For now, you’re gonna lay here and go to sleep. You’re dead on your feet and need to rest. I’m not playing games with you, and I’m telling you now, last night, I claimed you. You’re mine, and I’m not jokin’ around when I say I’m making you my ol’ lady.”
My heart is beating in my chest as each word sinks into my head. I don’t know what to feel or even think about any of it. What I do know is I’m not about to allow him to dictate my life.
“I’m not you’re ol’ lady, and you can’t tell me what I’m going to do with my own business,” I grumble in protest.
“Sunshine, I just did. I know you feel the connection like I do, and I’ll give you the rest of the day to come to terms with it, but you’re mine, Avery, and I ain’t lettin’ go,” he decrees, and my heart stutters to a stop right before it begins to beat again.
He can’t be serious.
“You . . . I . . . We . . . Ugh . . .” I stumble across the words trying to start a sentence to say something, but I can’t seem to get them to come out.
Hammer grins, and he lowers his head and presses his forehead to mine, and then steals my breath right along with a kiss so gentle if I hadn’t felt his lips against mine, I would have thought I’d imagined it all.
Sucking in a breath, my lips part, and Hammer takes that as his opportunity to take the kiss further and deepens the kiss.
His mouth seals to mine, and someone please save me before I combust. With only his tongue dueling with mine as he dominates the kiss, I yearn for more.
My panties become wetter than they already are as my back arches off the bed, leaning more into him.
At this motion, Hammer repositions us without breaking the kiss. Falling to his side, he pulls me in flush against him. One hand reaching down to cup my rear in his grasp, the other slides up my spine up into my hair, where he tangles his fingers in the strands.
I don’t know how long we lie there making out, but when he breaks the kiss, his hands still in the places where he’d put them, both of our breathing is heavy.
“Knew I’d fuckin’ love your mouth. Thought it would be around my cock but gotta say I’m not one for kissing and all that shit, but we’ll definitely be doing a lot of that,” he announces, causing my body to shiver. “Now you need to rest.”
Hammer rearranges us yet again on the bed, moving me until I’m lying with my head pressed against his chest and his hand that he has in my hair moves to trail up and down my spine.
“Sleep, Sunshine,” he commands ever so gently in a tone of voice I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone use with me, and I’ve got to say I really like it.
Closing my eyes, I do just as he orders and fall asleep feeling for the first time in a very long time, if not ever, that I can sleep without worrying about what’s going to happen when I wake up.
“Avery, baby, you need to wake up.” I feel my body gently being nudged as the person presses a kiss to my forehead.
“Hm, I don’t wanna,” I grumble sleepily and curl even more into the warmth as I sleep. This causes my pillow to move as I hear a chuckle. I also then realize I don’t have my head on a pillow but rather Hammer’s chest.
Holy crappity crap.
I slept the entire time in the same position without moving the slightest. Okay, well, maybe I curled my leg further around, but that’s it.
“Sunshine, you gotta wake up so you can eat and shit. Plus, need you to be able to sleep tonight when it’s time to go to bed,” Hammer mutters, his lips still against my forehead.
I slowly open my eyes and blink against the dual lighting of the room.
“What time is it?” I ask, snuggling into him more.
“Dinner time, baby. You’ve been asleep nearly eight hours, and if you have any hopes of getting more later, we gotta get up. Plus, I’m fuckin’ starving,” he says, and I immediately jolt to a sitting position to stare at him.
“You laid here with me this entire time?” My cheeks blush as I ask him this.
“Yeah, Avery, you were out, and I wasn’t about to move you. Stayed here, watched a game on the TV, and got some work done on my phone. You slept through it all. How about we go into the main room and get some food?” he suggests after telling me what he’d done all day.
My chest tightens, and I have the urge to jump him right then, but my stomach begins to rumble, which in turn causes Hammer to start chuckling.
“Come on, let’s get you fed, baby,” he says with a grin and climbs off the bed, reaches out, and snags me around the waist. He then proceeds to pull me out of bed, onto my feet.
Hammer keeps his hands on me the entire time as he leads me out of the bedroom and out to the main room. As he does this, all I can think about is when did my world get turned upside down.