Chapter Six
“So, a little birdy told me that you and Katie are, like, an item,” Sarah said.
Hawk glanced across at his sister, who had driven him to one of the auto garages just outside of Hope. His dad was going to be another week before they could work on the truck together. He needed a car and not to rely on his sister so much.
“You need to stop listening to the birds. People might start to think you’re a little weird.”
Sarah threw back her head and laughed. “Trust me, I’ve got all kinds of people talking to me now. Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, you name it, I have it.”
“The pumpkin king?” he asked.
“Yep.”
“What are you teaching your kids?” he asked.
“Fear.” She winked. “Nah, it’s all good fun. Trust me. If you were a parent, you’d get it.”
Hawk looked away and moved toward a small car. It was plain black, but it wasn’t calling to him, as the kind of car he wanted.
“Wait, hold up, what happened to my brother?” she asked, reaching out to him and putting a hand on his shoulder.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Okay, past Hawk would tell me something along the lines of, ‘that is never happening,’ or ‘when hell freezes over.’ There would be some kind of witty retort that told me and the whole world that he was never ever going to be a parent. Nothing?”
“There is nothing to say.”
“And why is that?”
He shrugged.
“Hell, no, you do not get to just shrug and think that is the end of it. Tell me, is my little birdy true in that you and Katie are crazy for each other?”
“I’m not going to tell my sister about my love life, and in all honesty, it’s a little weird that you want to know.”
“I might get to be an auntie, do you know how amazing that is?”
“Well, I get to be an awesome uncle, so yeah, pretty cool.”
Sarah squeezed his shoulder. “Are you saying what I think you’re saying?”
“I don’t know what you think I’m trying to say.”
“That you are considering kids and a family and settling down, and everything you used to hate and despise.”
“I never despised it,” Hawk said.
Sarah snorted. “Please, you were, like, ‘marriage is for losers,’ and ‘there are too many fish in the sea to marry just one.’ I thought it was an asshole statement, and I also think it was made by someone who couldn’t catch the right fish.”
Hawk looked toward his sister and knew he shouldn’t have asked her to take him.
“Aha, I knew it,” Sarah said.
“You knew what? That I deeply regret asking you to take me to look for a car? Because, guess what, I do!”
“No, all this time you were not able to get the right fish, and you have known Katie a long time. You were in the same year.”
And a couple of classes, but he wasn’t about to tell his sister that. She did not need any more ammo for her interrogation. Since when did his sister think like this? It was exhausting.
“And you and her are hanging out so much, and oh, my God, how did I not see this before? This is just so perfect.”
“I think you need help and to get out a little more,” Hawk said.
“You’re in love with Katie, and you have been for a long time, and that is why you act the way you do. Why you never had a steady girlfriend, and just had a whole bunch of women rotating through your bedroom. You didn’t get the woman you actually wanted.”
He looked toward his sister. “Your point?”
“Tell me, how does the thought of marrying Katie make you feel?”
Now his sister had grabbed both his arms and was forcing him to look straight at her.
“What is the point of this?” he asked.
“Just tell me. How does it make you feel? Come on, I’m your sister and you know I’m not going to tell anyone else.” She let out a pout. “Please, for me. Consider it payback for all those times you teased me growing up.”
He sighed. “I ... like the idea.” He actually more than liked it, but Katie wore Adam’s wedding band. However, he had noticed on the morning he made love to her, there was no wedding band in sight.
The more he thought about the future, the only person he saw was Katie.
But he also saw her pregnant, with his kid.
They hadn’t used fucking protection either, not the five times they had sex.
He wanted to ask her if she was on anything, but at the same time, he didn’t want to know, so he could be excited about the possibility of becoming a dad. It was all messed up in his head.
Sarah squealed. “You want to marry Katie?”
“Yes, I do.”
He knew it hadn’t been a lot of time, but he was not the kind of guy to second-guess himself. He trusted his gut. He trusted want he wanted, which was why he was able to build up a successful company.
“I love her,” he said, finally revealing the truth. “I loved her when we were five years old. I loved her when we were ten through to eighteen, and I love her now.”
“Hawk?”
“And I’ve never told anyone,” Hawk said.
“Never?”
“Until you, right now, and a whole bunch of cars.” He sighed. “So, yeah, I love her more than anything in the world, and she was with Adam.”
“That’s one of the reasons you left?”
“I didn’t know they were getting married, but I also knew I didn’t have a chance with her.” He sighed and gripped the back of his neck. “I’m a loser, I know this.”
“You’re not a loser. Stop that,” she said.
He stopped at a minivan and saw Katie inside, but he also saw a couple of kids in the back.
Hawk turned toward his sister. “I’m not a loser?
I couldn’t even speak to her in high school.
You know what I did, I shoved her books to the ground.
Yeah, I was that asshole that pushed her, or shoved her, and was a total dick, and it was all because I didn’t know how to go up to her and say, ‘Hey, I like you, and one day I hope you like me, so how about we go out sometime?’” He shook his head. “Fuck me, I am an asshole.”
Sarah sighed. “Unfortunately, I can’t correct you on that. You were an asshole. A giant one.” She gave his shoulder a little thump. “But you’re not still an asshole. You’ve got a chance now, and you don’t struggle to talk to her now, do you?”
“No.”
“So, not all is lost. You and Katie have a chance, you’ve just got to be willing to give it a shot. Are you willing?”
“Yeah, I am.” He wanted to more than anything.
“Then don’t let the mistakes of the past cloud your judgement, be the guy that goes after what he wants.”
He nodded his head. “But what about everything else?”
“What?” Sarah asked.
“I had a heart attack, Katie. I’m living with my parents. I can’t ... go back to work. I oversee everything in emails, or in a conversation with my guy,” Hawk said.
“So?” Sarah asked. “The doctor didn’t say you’ve got to stop living. He told you to make changes, and working twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, was going to take its toll. They said you can make this work. Make it work, Hawk.”
****
Katie smiled as Hawk stepped into the shop.
“Did you find a car?” she asked, moving up toward him.
At first, she didn’t know if she should embrace him or not.
“Nah, I wasn’t able to find anything. I think I’m going to have to wait for my dad to get home so we can work on the truck together.”
“You can’t work on it by yourself?” she asked.
“I could, but my dad loves that thing, and if I ruin it, he might decide to disown me.”
She burst out laughing.
“He probably wouldn’t mind, but when it comes to that truck, it’s kind of a tradition that we both work on it, you know?”
“I do,” she said.
“It’s something my old man and I have in common.
Whenever we’d argue when I was a kid, and I’d scream that I hated him, or did some stupid shit, I’d go away and he’d leave me to stew in my problems. He’d go out to that truck, wait for me, and I’d go to him, apologize, and we’d just get to work.
He said that fathers and sons can say whatever shit they want to each other, but knew at the end of the day they were still their dads, they were still their sons, and they’d love them. ”
“Mr. Masters is a good man,” Katie said.
He laughed. “He prefers to be called Connor.”
She chuckled. “Not to me, until he gives me permission, it is going to be Mr. Masters.”
He stroked her cheek. “How has business been?”
“Busy. I think we’ve got a world record of tourists this year. I think it is leaving the Internet behind and just wanting to find real connection, you know.”
“That, I get. I didn’t realize how much I missed it until I came back home.”
“And now you’re glad to be back?”
“So glad.” He leaned down and kissed her.
They still had a few hours until closing.
“I missed you,” he said.
“I missed you too.”
“Do you have an office?” he asked.
She nodded her head, feeling the pulse between her thighs as she looked at him. She had never considered a door lock to be highly erotic but as Hawk reached out, flicked the lock, and slid the bolt in, she believed it to be exactly that.
“Do you want to get a head start?” he asked.
Katie didn’t think, she walked right into the back. The office was small. A couple of filing cabinets, a desk, no windows.
She turned as Hawk entered the office, and within seconds, she was trapped between the desk and his hard body. One of his hands stayed on the desk, the other touched her thigh, and he started to gather up her dress. She felt her heart race as he suddenly touched her pussy.
He tutted. “I don’t think I like it when you wear panties.” He tightened his grip, and with one jerk, he had them free from her body, and she watched, taken aback, as he shoved them into his pocket. “That is where they should be.”
“Hawk?”
“It’s okay, baby.” He pressed his palm flat against her pussy, and she let out a cry. His finger slid between her slit, and he worked the tip right over her clit, back and forth, keeping his movements slow, and then he glided down, going toward her entrance.
Slowly, he sunk a single finger inside her, and she felt him go deep to the knuckle. He added a second finger, and to try to contain the sound of her moan, she sunk her teeth into her bottom lip, trying not to make a noise. He kissed her, stopping her from biting her lip.
“I want to hear every sound you make,” he said. “Let me hear it.”
He wriggled his finger and she cried out, his name spilling from her lips as he added a second finger.
She couldn’t think, and when he added a third, she didn’t think she would be able to take anymore, and he twisted his fingers and started to wriggle his thumb across her clit.
The dual sensation was out of this world.
Katie had closed her eyes, basking in the pleasure, and they soon opened when she felt the buttons of her dress being opened. One by one, he worked them open, and she looked up at him.
He didn’t stop running his finger back and forth across her clit.
The pleasure was intense, and she didn’t want him to stop.
The top part of her dress was pushed off her shoulders and fell down to her waist. He reached behind her, flicked the catch of her bra, and it fell open.
She cried out as he pulled her bra off, then his lips were at one of her nipples.
He took one bud into his mouth and then quickly moved to the second.
The sensations went straight to her clit and built her orgasm up to a fever pitch, but he didn’t allow her to go over the edge.
He pulled his hands from her, and she heard the sound of his zipper. Hawk was still working between her breasts, licking and sucking at the hard buds.
She cried out, and then he worked his cock between her thighs and slid inside her. He was so big.
He stopped sucking her nipples and took possession of her lips, and she wrapped her arms around him as he began to rock inside her, going harder and deeper within her.
They were not using protection and she was not on the pill.
Katie knew the risks they were taking, but she wanted him to keep going.
He pushed inside her, and she moaned his name in between kisses. He rocked her world, and took her right to the stars.
Suddenly, he stopped, broke the kiss, and pulled back just enough so he could tease her clit. Katie felt that drive as it sent her higher and higher toward her peak, only this time he didn’t stop, and instead sent her over the edge, hurtling toward the abyss.
He waited, allowing her to fly high and then slowly come down, before he wrapped his arms around her and began to make love to her, taking her higher than ever.
She felt the moment he reached his own climax, and she didn’t let him go, but held him as he spilled his seed into her body.