Chapter 36
Eagle
My lids felt like lead and my side pinched. As I came out of the haze of what had to be a drug induced sleep, my body jerked and I sat up, yelling, “Lacy! Lacy!” frantically looking around. I pulled at something in my arm and winced as my body turned.
Suddenly, warm palms cupped my cheeks. “Shhh, shhh, shhh. I’m here. I’m right here.”
My hands went to Lacy’s face and my eyes were wide as they searched her for injuries. “Are you hurt? Were you hit?” I asked as my hands patted down her arms then her sides.
She steadied my head with her hands. “I’m fine. You saved me. You need to be still.”
I grabbed her neck and pulled her closer, her forehead pressed to mine. “I’m sorry I wasn’t there sooner. And your friend? Is she okay?” I asked as I fought to catch a good breath.
Nodding against me, she said, “We’re both fine.” Licking her lips and blinking away tears she said, “But you really fucking scared me, Eddie.”
I pulled her closer and she climbed onto the bed. “Ow, shit.”
“Oh my God, I’m sorry,” she said as she rolled over to the other side.
But I didn’t care about the searing pain in my side. I pulled her against me and pressed my lips to hers, peppering kisses over her cheeks and forehead. “I’m sorry, baby. None of this should have happened to you,” I said through ragged breaths.
“I’m not the one who got shot,” she laughed through her tears.
“I’m okay. And I love you, Lacy.”
She froze and stared up at me, those big blue eyes red-rimmed and shimmery from the tears.
“I should have told you a million times before, but I was an idiot. I thought I was protecting you. No, that’s not it. I was protecting myself.” I winced as I continued, “I was scared, Lacy. But I’d rather be crushed by you than not have you at all.”
She shook her head and fresh tears streamed down her face. “I would never hurt you, Eddie. I just didn’t want you to keep hurting me.” Her chin trembled and she bit her lip. “But I should have just told you that I loved you and fought for you. Instead, I just left.”
I gripped her neck and pulled her closer. “No. I’ll fight you for you everyday, Lacy. You should never have to fight for me. It was all my fault, but never again. I promise. And I hope you let me prove it every day.” Grunting as I shifted I said, “But do me a favor and tell me you love me again.”
She smiled and sniffled. “I love you, Eddie. I love you.”
I crushed her lips with mine, but pulled back enough to say, “I love you. So fucking much. Please come home, Lacy.”
Her tear-filled eyes glimmered as she nodded. “I was going to surprise you, but my things were in the car. I’m coming home.”
My jaw clenched, but I couldn’t stop a silly grin from spreading across my face. “Really?”
“I love you, Eddie. I don’t want to be apart. I never did. I just thought you didn’t want me, so it seemed like the right thing to do.”
I grabbed her cheeks, trying to ignore the sharp pain in my side. “Listen to me. I always wanted you. So much that it fucked my head. But I won’t make that mistake again. I want you to be my Old Lady,” I said as I pecked her lips. “My wife,” I said as I pecked her cheek. “The mother to my children,” I said as I kissed her lips again.
She let out a sob and threw herself at me, wrapping her arms around me. I let out a grunt and she tried to pull away again, but I held her close.
“I’m okay. Just let me have this moment,” I said as my chest swelled. “Wait, that was a yes, right?”
I still didn’t let her pull away, but her head bobbed up and down and she blurted out, “Yes! Yes!”
After snuggling most of the day, Dr. Raja, or Shiv as she insisted on being called, finally let me get up so I could take a leak. I was pretty sure she cursed at me in another language, but I didn’t need to know what she said. It was obvious it wasn’t good.
Once I got up to pee, Lacy helped me to our room. Squatch grabbed her stuff and her friend’s from the car and brought it to the clubhouse. By the time we made it up, her girly stuff was back where it belonged in our room.
“I think I need some help in the shower,” I said as I took my clothes off and tossed them to the floor.
She smirked and walked closer. “You need to rest and be careful. If you pop those stitches open, Shiv’s gonna kill both of us.”
I grabbed her wrist and jerked her to me. “I can be careful. And I’ll rest when I’m dead.”
She smacked my bare chest. “Geezus, Eddie. Don’t talk about that right now!”
“I’m sorry, baby. You’re right. But I just want to hold you. I took a bullet for you. Is it so bad I want to give you an orgasm, too?”
She tried to fight her smile, but my charm was winning the fight. She pulled her shirt off, then leaned down to turn the water on. “No fucking. Doctor’s orders.”
I held my hands up. “I can accept these terms–for now.”
Once the water was warm, she finished undressing, then pulled me into the shower with her. My wounds were covered with some kind of waterproof film, but I was told not to scrub around it.
Lacy grabbed my body wash and squirted it into her hand, then lathered them together. She lightly ran her hands over my chest, then over my arms, then back around to my abs. Her hands moved down my back then she squeezed my ass before running her palms over the cheeks in circles.
Her eyes never left mine as her hands moved forward, and she used both hands to grip my already hard cock. I sucked a breath through my teeth and she bit her lip as she worked her hands in circles as she pumped at the same time. “Fuck, Lacy.”
I leaned down, stealing a deep kiss as I pumped into her hands. She pulled back just enough to say, “Uh uh, no thrusting.”
With a growl, I stepped forward and pressed her against the shower wall, pressing my mouth to hers again and moving my fingers into her sweet little pussy. “Working me over turns my wife on, I see.”
She gasped as I slid my fingers through her slick heat, then deep inside of her. “Not your wife yet.”
I moaned as she moved her hands up and down over me. I pumped my fingers inside her and ran my thumb over her swollen clit. “You said yes. The rest is all paperwork, wife.”
She moaned, so I swallowed it with my mouth. I couldn’t help but move my hips as her hands worked and my balls tightened. Her hands were still wrapped around my cock, working it, but our bodies were pressed together and her nipples brushed against my chest as the warm jets of my come shot out, hitting both of our stomachs.
Grunting with each spurt, I kissed her hard, adding another finger inside of her. “You work me so good. Now come for me, wife. I want to feel you come all over my hand.”
I gripped one of her nipples with my free hand, rolling and pinching it as I thrust my tongue into her mouth. Her channel pulsed and she moaned into my mouth. “Eddie, fuck. Don’t stop.”
“That’s it. That’s my wife. I feel it baby,” I crooned as she clenched around my fingers. “I can’t wait for that to be my cock inside of you again.”
Her body relaxed and she worked to catch her breath. I pulled my fingers to my mouth and sucked her juices off. “I need a better taste later.” Gripping her pussy in my hand, I squeezed. “So perfectly swollen.”
Her lips were swollen as well as she stared up at me, water running down both of our bodies. Her skin was flushed and she looked satisfied.
I leaned down for another kiss. “I love you, Lacy.”
Her hands snaked up my body and went around my neck. “I love you, Eddie. My husband.”
A rumble came from my chest and my adrenaline had me ignoring the pinch from my gunshot wound. “Fuck. Say that again, baby.”