Chapter 12
Chapter Twelve
AVERY
I sit in my office longer than I should, staring at the phone on my desk. It’s long since darkened, the screen hiding the image that is still open in the messages. I have two options, confront Hammer and tell him to leave me alone, or I get the first bus ticket so I can get the hell out of dodge.
Powering up my laptop, I pull up my bank account—the one I use for myself and not the business. I quickly calculate in my head how doable getting a ticket and leaving town is gonna be.
My head is a jumbled mess, and I can’t think straight.
What with my heart in shambles over a man I’ve barely known, I think it’s safe to say I’m entitled to be in a mess?
But as a pair of arms encircle me from behind, I wish I hadn’t been.
I let out a screech of terror and nearly jump out of the chair.
If not for the arms enclosed around me, I probably would have and, in the process, would have landed on my ass.
“Sunshine, what the fuck?” Nausea churns at the sound of Hammer’s voice behind me.
“Wh—what are you doing here?” I ask nervously as I pull out of his grasp, stand to my feet, and look at him. I don’t need him touching me right now. His hands on me will confuse me even more and make me feel dirty with the knowledge that I know I’m not enough.
How did I not see or hear him come into the room?
“Came to check on you,” Hammer says, crossing his arms over his chest. “Quinn and Willow were worried and asked Tap to get a hold of me ‘cause you hadn’t been in the front of the shop and weren’t in the kitchen. What’s wrong?”
Oh, God.
That question is hilarious, and if I could, I’d probably laugh my tail off at just how many things right now are wrong. But then again, I can’t get the image that’s now burned into my brain of him and those two bimbos.
Shaking my head, I cast my eyes down to the floor. “I think you should leave. I’m fine,” I murmur, unsure if I can handle getting into it with him. But this right here confirms I’ll have to make it work getting a ticket and getting out of here.
“You’re not fine, Avery. Now tell me what’s wrong, or I’ll find a way to make you tell me,” he demands, taking a step forward.
“Don’t,” I utter mutely as I step back, my thighs hitting my desk. I knew I didn’t have any way of escaping him.
“Don’t what, Avery? Don’t worry about what the hell has crawled up your ass? Or the fact, I came in here to find you completely out of it with tears in your eyes. Told you, babe, you’re mine, and I will protect you from whatever it is. Now tell me what’s wrong,” he growls.
I close my eyes, lower my head. He wants to know what’s wrong, but he already does.
But I’ll give him what he wants this one time.
Without opening my eyes, I reach out and snag my phone off my desk and open it.
I then hold it out to him as I give him his answer.
“I knew I wasn’t enough, so you don’t have to hide it anymore. ”
Hammer snatches the phone from my hand, and all of a sudden, I hear the sounds of my phone smashing against the wall.
“That shit, Avery, isn’t me. I wouldn’t do that shit to a woman I’ve claimed to be mine.
I’m a lot of things, babe, but I’m not a fuckin’ cheat.
This shit about you not being enough needs to stop,” he snarls, his fingers wrap around my biceps, and he pulls me into him.
“Look at me,” he commands, and I’m unable to go against his order.
I open my eyes and tilt my head to look up at him.
“I’m not goin’ to have you sittin’ here thinkin’ shit like that and looking at bus tickets. What the fuck?”
Um, ugh.
I decide to go with the only thing I can think of. “If I were enough, why haven’t you had sex with me?” I ask ever so quietly.
Hammer stares down at me for a brief second before he moves, and when he does, I’m not ready.
His mouth comes down in a crushing, bruising kiss.
Hands move, ripping my shirt from my body then he shoves my jeans down.
Without breaking the kiss, he leans me backward until my back presses into my desk.
My mind is reeling, and his hands don’t stop as he spreads my legs and steps in between them.
Hammer lifts his head just enough to meet my gaze at the same time I feel him release himself.
I open my mouth to speak, but Hammer has other ideas and slams his mouth on mine at the same time thrusts his girth deep inside my entrance.
I moan into his mouth, my body arching at the invasion.
He stills deep inside me for a second. I mean a second before he takes me with savage thrusts.
The entire time he powers into me, his mouth stays on mine absorbing the cries of pleasure and pain combined.
I’ve never experienced anything so raw and powerful.
If he didn’t have his mouth on mine, I know everyone would be hearing the noises coming from me.
Hammer breaks the kiss and lifts his body over mine; his thrusts don’t stop, but his gaze focuses on mine, and I see the harsh lines in his face. “You’re mine, Avery, say it,” he commands.
“Yours,” I whisper without hesitation because it’s the truth. Even if I were to leave, I’d never be able to find anyone like him. He’s it for me. Doesn’t matter the age difference. He consumes me.
“That’s fuckin’ right, and it’s my cock you’re about to come on.
I’m not lettin’ you go, Avery, you try to run, and I’ll find you and bring you back to where you belong.
I won’t have you leaving me. Not now, not fuckin’ ever.
I’ve waited long enough for you,” he growls, and his thrusts still long enough for him to lift me off the desk and turn us to press my back against the wall.
I cry out as he starts slamming into me once again.
“That’s right, baby, let everyone know who owns you,” he says through clenched teeth, and that’s my undoing.
My orgasm washes through me, and I call out his name as I do so.
Hammer follows suit several thrusts behind me with a roar of my name.
I can feel his cock twitching inside me as his cum leaves his body.
This action sends me straight into another orgasm that seems to have no ending in sight.
Panting for breath, I wrap myself tighter around Hammer as he moves us once again, this time for him to take a seat in my chair. With his cock still inside me, my legs fall to straddle him.
“Fuck, Sunshine, I didn’t mean for that to happen,” he mutters, causing me to stiffen. I try to climb off his lap, but Hammer has other plans and holds me in place. “Don’t, Avery. You gotta listen to me and stop jumping ahead on shit. I wasn’t done with what I was sayin’,” he growls.
“Then say it so I can get dressed,” I say weakly.
“Avery, babe, what I meant by that was I’ve been trying to do right by you.
Give you the time to get to know me. To adjust to being with me for who I am.
Wasn’t trying to rush you into anything you weren’t ready for.
With you, I didn’t want something that could’ve been seen as callus or some shit like that.
Fuck. I don’t do this whole relationship bullshit.
I’m new to this game, and I want to do right by you.
” My heart thuds in my chest, and I lick my lips nervously as I hold Hammer’s gaze.
I know in my heart I believe him, and my mind for once agrees.
“Is that why you would abruptly leave when we were . . . well, you know kissing?” I ask in a hushed tone.
“Yeah, Sunshine, it’s why I’d leave because if I’d stayed any longer with your mouth on mine and the little noises you make when I barely have my hands on you, I would have already sunk deep inside you.
Now I’ve had you, felt your fuckin’ tight as fuck pussy, I’ll be sliding inside you a hell of a lot more.
You can guarantee I’ll be inside you three maybe four times daily. ” He smirks.
I give him a small smile and take a deep breath. “What . . . What about that picture?” I ask, unsure of myself as the image pops back into my head.
“I’ll tell you that isn’t me, and I can prove it.
The dude in the image has a tattoo on his chest in the same spot as mine, but Avery, that tat isn’t mine.
If you look close enough, you can see it doesn’t have the wolf head in the middle of the hammer,” he says calmly though I feel him tense and take note of his eyes flaring.
“I think I’ll just take your word on that. I don’t want to see that image again. It’s already seared into my brain, and it makes me sick,” I mutter.
“Don’t worry, baby, I don’t want you seeing that shit again. But I’m tellin’ you now. Something like that happens again. You need to call me. Talk to me don’t go off the wall and decide to leave ‘cause that shit ain’t about to happen,” he declares.
“Um, okay. Ugh, does this all mean you’re only mine as well?
Because I’ll admit now, I’m scared. I’m scared you’ll decide I’m trash and throw me away.
That you’ll see me as nothing but scum when you find out where I come from and who my family is.
I don’t want to . . .” Hammer presses a finger to my lips to stop me from speaking any further.
“Avery, my cock is still deep inside you’re pussy, and I’ll tell you this.
Never had pussy as tight as yours, and I don’t think anyone could ever see you as anything but this bright light.
Everyone who is around you, baby, can’t help but smile because of you.
Now don’t ever think badly about yourself again.
We’ll get to the part about your family in a little while.
First, I wanna find out who sent you that image in the first place,” Hammer says, growling the last part of it out.
“But I know who sent it; it’s my brother, Aidan.
Or one of my sisters at his command. He and Adam are a part of a gang that thinks they’re unstoppable, and they refuse to leave me alone because they have plans for me.
It’s one of the reasons I wanted to run,” I mutter, being completely truthful.
Hammer deserves to know the truth, and he’s right about one thing, I can’t leave.
Not now, not after what he and I just did.
My heart’s too attached now for me to even think about running from my life, let alone this man.