Chapter 20 #2
I’m being too obvious, but I’m beyond caring anymore. I need her.
Now.
She’s not even made it to the top of the stairs before I’m racing up them and grabbing her. I spin her around and pin her against the wall. My hips hold her in place as my lips descend and I claim her, pouring all my love into this kiss.
Mine. She’s mine.
My tongue thrusts deep, stealing everything she’ll give me, it slides against hers again and again. I’m completely lost to her, to this moment. My hips are thrusting between hers mimicking the kiss.
“Fuck, baby, I need you so bad,” I groan into her mouth.
“What the fuck is going on here?” The voice booms from behind us. A voice I definitely do not want to be hearing right now. Not when my tongue is currently half way down his daughter’s throat.
Fuck.
We’ve both frozen, still in a completely compromising position. I pull back from her slightly and stare into her eyes, still not looking at the man behind us.
I press my forehead to hers and whisper the words I know she needs to hear right now, the words we both need to hear, even if I don’t believe them.
“It’s going to be alright, baby girl. Let me handle this.” I place a gentle kiss to her skin and turn towards George — my best friend, and Bella’s father.
His face is beet-red and if steam could actually come out of someone’s ears, it would be pouring out of his right now.
“Tell me this isn’t what I think it is? Tell me you haven’t been taking advantage of her, Reed? Tell me you haven’t—” he pauses “—touched my daughter.”
“George, why don’t we go somewhere private to talk? We can sit down and discuss this properly.” I might as well have banged the nail into my own coffin, my words confirmation enough that Bella and I have indeed ‘touched’.
“You fucking piece of shit,” he roars and storms up the remaining steps towards us. “My own daughter? You couldn’t keep your dirty fucking hands off my daughter?!”
He swings before I see it, his fist connecting with my jaw.
Fuck me, that hurt.
Thankfully, I see the next one coming and manage to deflect his hit before it connects.
“Dad!” Bella screams next to me. “Stop it! Oh my God, what are you doing?” She makes a move to step between us, but like fuck is that happening. Her father is not thinking straight right now and there is no way she’s getting anywhere near this.
“Get back, baby,” I rasp. “It’s okay, I’m okay.”
“No, Reed, it is not fucking okay. He does not get to hit you. This is as much me as it is you, he needs to be angry at me, too.” George is breathing heavily but his hands are currently clenched at his side, rather than flying towards me right now.
I turn slightly so I can see my girl but am still able to keep an eye on George.
“Baby girl, if he laid a finger on you, I’d kill him. He’s got to get his anger out in some way, and for now, that’s through me.”
“Don’t talk about me like I’m not here. Go to your room, Bella.”
“Watch it!” I threaten. “Treat her like the fucking adult she is.”
“Like you have been, you fucker?” He turns his eyes back to her. “I said get to your room. Your Mother and I will be speaking to you about this. Right now, I can’t stand to look at you.”
“That’s your daughter, George. You show her some fucking respect. You can make digs at me, I expect that, but you make one more fucking dig at her and I will bury you.”
“Fuck you, Reed.”
I hand her my keys. “Go wait in the car for me, baby. I’ll be out soon.”
“Don’t you dare take another step towards that door, Bella.” My brave girl doesn’t even look back as she carries on down the stairs and out the front door.
She chose me.
Without even a single glance backwards, she put all her belief, her trust, in me.
Fuck, I love her so much.
“Get back here,” he shouts after her. When she doesn’t acknowledge that she’s even heard him, he turns back to me.
“You piece of shit,” he spits. “What have you done to her? You’ve poisoned her.”
“No, George,” I murmur. “She’s just finally realizing she’s not a little girl anymore. She’s a grown fucking adult and she’s acting like one.”
“Acting like one?” he splutters. “Her sneaking around and making out with you is not acting like an adult. It’s fucking childish and it’s not who she is.”
“Goddamn it, George. We’re not just messing around. You think I would risk everything — risk my friendship with you — to mess around?”
“No,” he whispers, the color draining from his face. “Tell me you didn’t, Reed. Tell me you haven’t slept with her. Not you.”
Fucking hell! I’m not going into detail about what we have and haven’t done.
“I love her, George. I am completely and utterly in love with her.”
“You bastard; she was a virgin.”
Well, shit. I definitely could have done without him knowing that.
“I’m not getting into details about our relationship with you, George. Neither of us wants that and I respect her too much to ever discuss anything with anyone.”
“How could you? I trusted her with you, I thought she was safe with you. Oh my God…the panties — no,” he gasps.
Yeah, I'm not touching that one.
“She is safe with me. You know me. Fuck! I would never do anything to hurt her. Damn it, George, I’d rather cut off my own arm than hurt her.
” I take a deep breath, raking my fingers through my hair.
“You think I wanted this?” I half shout.
“You think I wanted to find the girl I’ve known for nearly two decades attractive?
You think I wanted to fall for my best friend’s daughter?
I fought this with everything I had, George.
But, Christ, she’s amazing. You know how fucking incredible she is. How could I not fall in love with her?”
“Love? You don’t know what love is. You saw a fresh piece of pussy and you pounced,” he snarls, his lip curling in disgust.
I clench my fist at my side, far too tempted to knock that look off his face for the way he’s talking about my girl. His own daughter.
“This is your last warning, George. You talk about her with anything other than the utmost respect she deserves and I will lay you out.”
He shakes his head at me, his eyes cold; there’s nothing in his gaze to show the eighteen years of friendship we have, and I know I can’t talk to him now. Not like this. Not tonight. He needs time to cool off, and to think.
“I’m going to go for tonight,” I continue before he can interrupt, his mouth already opening to make some, no doubt, snarky comment. “But we’ll be back tomorrow. We can all sit down and discuss this with everyone present. Valerie deserves to hear what we have to say as well.”
I don’t wait for an acknowledgement or a response, knowing I won’t get anything actually worth hearing from him — not tonight, if ever.
I make my way downstairs and out the front door, to find Bella waiting for me on the front steps.
“I thought I told you to wait in the car.” Will this woman ever listen to me?
“Please,” she huffs, “I needed to be on standby in case an ambulance needed to be called.” I pull her into my arms and place a gentle kiss to the top of her head, breathing in her scent and feeling myself calm immediately.
“Is everything okay?” she queries.
Not even close.
“For tonight it is,” I say instead. “Let’s go home, baby.”
Bella
Well, that went to shit fast. We went from the high of saying ‘I love you’ for the first time, to getting caught making out by my father. Definitely not how I planned the evening going or how we wanted to break the news.
We’ve just walked through the door of Reed’s house, he didn’t say a single word during the drive from my parents house. His jaw — which is already starting to show signs of a bruise — was clenched the whole way.
I know he said he was okay, but he most definitely isn’t and I’m starting to worry that this has become too much for him. That he’s regretting it… regretting us.
I kick off my shoes just inside the entrance hall and make my way to Reed’s room, needing a shower to rid myself of tonight.
By the time I’ve stripped, allowed the water to warm and stepped into the shower, Reed still hasn’t appeared. I hold my face under the steady flow of water and feel the first tears fall.
Suddenly, Reed’s arms wrap around me from behind, shocking me as I hadn’t heard him come in, too absorbed in my own thoughts.
“I’m sorry, baby. I should let you go, I should stop this and let you fix things with your father.
But I’m a selfish bastard and I can’t lose you, Bella.
I can’t give you up, not for anything. You’re my fucking life, I don’t ever want to do this without you.
” I spin myself in his arms, wrapping my own around him.
“I don’t want that, Reed. I don’t want you to give up on us, I don’t care who does or doesn’t approve of us. I just want you — I always have. And maybe that makes me selfish too, because it’s risking your relationship with my father, but I don’t care, Reed. I just need you, you’re all I want.”
“I love you so much, baby girl.” His lips lower to mine, slowly rubbing against them, his tongue gently runs along my bottom lip and I open for him. His tongue glides along mine, his lips sipping from me, the kiss is sweet and gentle. He pulls back and presses his forehead to mine.
“I have no idea what we’ll be walking into tomorrow, but I need you to know that no matter what is said, I will not give you up. You’re my everything.”
“Same,” I whisper.
He reaches for one of the bottles along the side of the shower and gently begins to wash my hair. It’s soothing, loving and exactly the kind of comfort I need right now.
A while later, after I’ve dried my hair and Reed has locked up the house, we’re lying in each other’s arms, talking about things we haven’t discussed before — things like the future, our future.
“Do you want children?” I ask him.
I’ve always wanted a big family. I can’t imagine not having that one day, but I also can’t imagine that it’s something Reed would want. Otherwise, surely he would have had them by now.
I know he made that comment when he was fucking my tits, but that was in the moment, so I’m not taking it as gospel.
“I only want your children. No one has ever made me think of being a father, but with you? Fuck, baby it’s something I want now.” I release a breath I didn’t even realize I’d been holding. “Were you worried about my answer?” he chuckles, having felt my body’s response.
He rolls us so I’m on my back and he’s hovering over me.
“You have to know I’d do anything for you, give you anything you want.
You want five children? Fine, five is what we’ll have.
You don’t want any? Then you’ll be enough for me.
Baby, nothing is too much for me when it comes to you.
I will spend the rest of my life giving you anything and everything you want. ”
My heart flips at his words. For someone that hasn’t ever had a real relationship before, he’s nailed it first time round.
“That’s not how this is going to work, Reed,” I smile up at him. “We’re both in this relationship and I want to give back to you just as much as you do for me. I want a life with you, a life we both love.”
“Fine,” he huffs. “I want to fuck you at least twice a day for the rest of my life.” He smirks down at me and I can’t help the laugh that bursts from me.
“You’re something else, Reed Burke.”
“Is that a yes?” He lowers his mouth to my neck, sucking the skin between his teeth and gently biting down. “Because I’ve only fucked you once today, you’re already reneging on me.”
“Not true,” I rebut. “You fucked me twice this morning.”
“Baby girl, I’m talking about fucking this tight cunt.” His finger slides inside me at his words. “Every other part of you is a bonus — a bonus I expect on a daily basis too,” he grins. My insatiable man.
“Well, you’d better hurry up, then,” I moan as his finger pushes deeper inside me. “Just one more thing,” I add.
“Anything,” he breathes.
“Fuck me hard enough to still feel you tomorrow.”
Of course my man delivers.