Chapter Six
Wade
I wake up with Rosie’s body wrapped around me and feel myself hardening at just the sight of the curve of her breast splayed on my chest. I should be sated from the three times I had her last night, but I feel nowhere near ready to let her go. I look at the clock, seeing I still have a few hours before I have to head to work.
I spend the next few minutes staring at Rosie’s peaceful form, wondering what I did to deserve her. Ever since I left the military, I’ve had to live with this feeling that I would never feel happy or fulfilled, like my civilian life would always be missing something.
I don’t feel that way anymore, not since the moment I set my eyes on Rosie. She is everything I have been looking for, everything I’ve ever looked for. Everything I need. I love her . She stirs on top of me, disrupting my train of thoughts, but I know I need to tell her soon, let her know how important she is to me.
“Hi,” she says, pressing a kiss to my bare chest.
“Morning, honey,” I say back, kissing the mountain of her gorgeous clothes. She snuggles closer and I can’t help but pull her on top of me. I feel her already slick core against my skin and know I won’t be able to resist getting inside of her.
I weave a hand in her hair and pull her mouth to mine before reach a hand between her thighs and sinking a finger into her delicious warmth. She lets out a moan that goes straight to my cock.
“Are you ready for me?” I growl, pulling away from her mouth and holding her face to mine.
“I think you can feel that for yourself,” she says with a laugh. I return her snarky comment with a playful slap to her ass before lifting her hips. She sinks onto my cock in one smooth stroke and I feel like I could die happy right here and now.
“Guess you were,” I mumble, pulling her mouth back to mine before letting her go. She leans her head back as she finds her grove on top of me. She rides me slowly, lazily as if we have all the time in the world. I drive my hips up to meet hers and she gasps at the sensation.
“That’s it honey, you look so pretty riding me,” I say, leaning up and taking a perky tit in my mouth. I can feel her losing control around me and when I switch sides, I reach out a hand and strum her clit.
I feel her pulse around me as she moans my name. She collapses forward and I hold her to me, pounding into her through her orgasm until I find my own. We’re a sweaty heap when we finish and I can’t help but think that this is how I want to start every single day for the rest of my life.
I love her, I think over and over as I lift her and carry her into the shower. I think it as I wash her hair for her, as she scrubs my back, as she lowers to her knees and shows me she loves my taste just as much as I love hers.
***
A few hours later, I’m nearing the end of my shift. Sundays are usually much slower than Saturdays and today I’m very grateful for that. I can’t wait to see my girl. After our morning rendezvous, she told me Sophie texted her and was going to come over to look at the cottage and finalize some design plans.
I told her that sounded like a great day and I was grateful my sister was so willing to work on her place. I knew it was something Rosie never would’ve truly gotten around to on her own. Sophie can be pretty persuasive, so I’m sure her place will be looking good as new in all time.
Rosie needs that, from what she’s told me, she’s had a tough time settling in this year and I want her to love Whiskey Mountain as much as I do.
“Hey, Wade,” the deep voice interrupts my thoughts. I smile when I see Luke sitting across from me. He’s Ava’s partner and sort of a member of my family. He works here too and the friendship we’ve formed in the last year has held me together more than I can ever tell him.
“Lukey Boy, what are you doing here?” He usually doesn’t stop in on his days off, which leads me to believe Tessa must be around somewhere. Sure enough, she emerges through the doors a moment later, her little sister Ruby, and my sister and Ava right behind her.
“Ah,” I say, scanning behind them for Rosie. Hmmm, she must have stayed home after her day with Soph.
I pass Luke his beer before turning to the hoard of women that just invaded my bar. “What can I get you, darlin’?” I ask Ruby. She’s the best kid and has all of us wrapped around her finger, not that any of us mind.
“Shirley Temple!” she shouts, taking a seat in between Tessa and Luke. Tessa gives me a nod signaling its okay, so I turn away to make her drink and pour the other women their ciders. I notice the shopping bags filled with fabric beside them.
“What’s that all about?” I ask, pointing to the bags.
“Oh! These are Rosie’s new curtains. She had to stop and grab something at school, but she should be over in a minute,” Sophie tells me. “I had an amazing day with her today. She’s good for you Wade,” she says sincerely. I meet her gaze with a tight smile, unable to shake the feeling that something is about to go wrong.
“Thanks for going over there, Soph.” After a minute, I still can’t shake the feeling in the pit of my stomach. “How long ago did Rosie go to the school?”
“I don’t know, like twenty minutes ago? Why?” Tessa asks, clearly starting to get nervous.
“I-I just have a bad feeling,” I say, turning to Ethan and Scott and telling them what I’m thinking—what I think might be happening. “Go,” they say simultaneously.
“I’ll go with you,” Luke says, jumping off his stool and pressing kisses to Ruby and Tessa’s heads before booking it out of the brewery with me. I’m glad to not be alone on the jog to the school.
“God, I hope I’m wrong,” I say to Luke. “But something about that Steve guy tells me he’s up to no good and I don’t want her to be alone.”
We run up to the school, just in time to see Tessa emerging from the building, bag of papers tucked beneath her arm. She meets my eyes with a grin, but her face falls a bit when she sees Luke beside me, notices how out of breath we are.
“Is everything okay?” she asks as I pull her into my arms, desperate to touch her, to know she’s alright. That nothing, no one, has harmed her.
“It is now,” I say, setting her down and grabbing her hand. Luke looks just as relieved next to me. I’m about to tell her how stupid I feel when I notice something moving from the bush by the corner of the building, the flash of metal catching my eye. Without thinking, my instinct takes over.
I push Rosie into Luke’s arms and shout “RUN!” just as I hear that bang that became all to familiar during my time in the navy. I see a flash of a sweaty, greasy head before a flash of pain hits me in the chest.
At least she got away , I think before everything goes black.