People were looking and wondering most likely what we were doing together since I had her hand locked in mine, I didn"t answer any of the silent questions as we went towards the table where my crew and their families were sitting.
"h.e.l.lo ladies, this is Katarina."
I introduced her to each of the wives before taking a seat and seating her next to me, my first inclination was to pull her down on my lap but I didn"t think she was ready for that yet.
"I"m going to get you food, you want to come with or are you good here?"
She stood up with me, her face blus.h.i.+ng red.
"I"ll come with you."
"h.e.l.lo Colton, Elena said you"d be here soon." Jennifer blocked our path.
f.u.c.king b.i.t.c.h.
I felt Angel"s hand twitch I mine and gave it a squeeze.
Jennifer"s eyes dropped from me to our clasped hands and her face grew angry.
She opened her mouth to say something scathing no doubt, but was thwarted.
"We"re about to eat, later."
The enigma that was my Angel dragged me off towards the food table leaving a stunned Jennifer with her mouth hanging open, it might be in poor taste but I couldn"t help laughing.
I loved that fire in her, I will do everything in my power to draw it back out of her, to break open that sh.e.l.l and drag her out of it.
Jennifer wasn"t going to like being dismissed like that but who gave a f.u.c.k?
"I do not like that person, she"s so full of herself, I know she was about to start her "who is this" s.h.i.+t again...oh c.r.a.p, did you want to talk to her, oh my gosh I"m so sorry...I didn"t..."
"Don"t start second guessing yourself now, feel free to put Jennifer in her place anytime."
I wanted to ask if she was his ex or future or whatever but thought that was not my place, but then again the way he was holding onto me...
"Exactly what are we doing?"
"With what?"
I swung our joined hands up so he could see.
"Oh that, I"m getting you use to my touch, get use to it, there"s going to be a lot of that in your future." He smirked down at me.
Gulp, why is it that my underwear always suffered in his presence, the old me would"ve voiced that question, the new me was a little more cautious...what Colton doesn"t know is that there was more to the story, like the way people had turned against me and my mom for accusing one of the city"s golden sons of something as horrendous as rape.
Donna"s family had fled after her suicide, it was too much for two people who had had a late in life baby after years of trying People had made accusations, like Donna and I had asked for it, some said we"d lured the boys to the house, two young girls alone for the weekend, looking to have a good time, we"d probably been drinking at getting high, you know how all teens are.I guess we were in to being beaten black and blue too since we were both almost beyond recognition by the time the paramedics showed up.
There was a lot of scrutiny about the way I dressed, and since Donna was no longer there to carry any of the burden, I bore the brunt of it.
My every move was scrutinized, the way I dressed, my hobbies, which were all Tom boyish if you want to know the truth, but instead of being seen as a girl who liked riding bikes or skate boarding, like so many others before me, I was now the s.l.u.t who liked to hang around with groups of boys.
You try walking around in low rider jeans and tanks, or cute little skirts (which I use to love) while the world is calling you a s.l.u.tty teen.
So no, I didn"t use my usual snarky wit on him, I just enjoyed the feel of his thumb rubbing circles in my palm.
The BBQ turned out to be fun, his mom and her friend never mentioned what had happened earlier for which I was abundantly grateful, and I caught his dad giving him a thumbs up behind my head while puffing away on a joint.
When I looked back at Colton he was just shaking his head at him.
"Mom, your husband"s being embarra.s.sing again."
"Daniel put that thing out."
"h.e.l.l naw woman, as a matter of fact I forgot to show you something up at the house."
He wiggled his brows at her and I couldn"t help it, I laughed so hard I fell off my chair which made him laugh and then everyone was laughing.
That"s how my dad found me.
"What"s going on over here?"
He was smiling as he asked, smiling and looking at me with such happiness in his eyes.
G.o.d, had it really been that long since he"d seen me laugh like that?
"Here chief, have a pull."
"s.h.i.+t Daniel, you toked?"
"Perfectly legal big guy." He took another draw and went back to his eye wiggling.
"Yeah but some people should not take advantage of that fact."
"You trying to say I can"t handle my s.h.i.+t, I"ll have you know...wait how do you people keep getting me off track, Elena come I got something to show you."
"Please for the sake of my sanity chief shoot me now." Colton hung his head.
"Relax son your parents are doing it right."
"That"s easy for you to say."
Colton mumbled under his breath as he helped me up.
Dad arched his brow when Colton kept ahold of me after I was standing, kept ahold of me my a.s.s he had his arm around me and I was buried in his side like we were attached at the hip.
I could just imagine the questions dad was going to embarra.s.s me with when we got home.
"I"m guessing you"re not ready to leave bells?"
"I"ve got her chief."
There was a look pa.s.sed between them, a look that Colton refused to break first. I looked back and forth between them and saw my father drop his gaze first and with a nod looked around asking for a beer.
Chapter 10.
"Angel get your a.s.s down from there."
She"s going to be the death of me, it"s been two weeks since the BBQ and everyday since then has been a trial.
I didn"t know that breaking her out of that sh.e.l.l was going to unleash h.e.l.l on my head, the girl is always getting into s.h.i.+t.
She"s like a new born colt that finally finds her legs and starts galloping all over the place.
"Catch me Colt."
She let go of the hoisting rope and flew at me, f.u.c.king nut.
"What the h.e.l.l are you doing Angel?"
"Rappelling, you know practicing for when I go rock climbing."
"For when you what, who said you were going rock climbing?"
"Jared"s gonna take me, off the cliffs at Devil"s Walk."
Jared"s going to get my foot up his a.s.s, I"ve been slowly drawing her out of her sh.e.l.l, she"s been a little more relaxed here lately, especially since I started giving her self defense cla.s.ses in the evenings.
I keep after her, trying to build not just her body but her mind as well, Jared seems to see this new development to mean that the old her was back and kept getting her into s.h.i.+t, just yesterday I"d spent an hour watching her do stunts on the ramp outside that we used for the dirt bikes that were built for just that purpose.
I felt like a parent watching his kid without training wheels for the first time, I had to admit she was good though, but h.e.l.l, I wish she would pick up sc.r.a.p booking or some s.h.i.+t.
As if I didn"t have enough to deal with here at the office, her and Carol had become best friends and were always into some s.h.i.+t, my little sister was now interested in skate boarding and Angel was only too happy to teach her.
My mother was apparently hitting the pipe along with my dad because all she could talk about was when I was going to get my head out of my a.s.s and make a move on Kat.
She was petrified that Jennifer was going to get her hooks into me again, that"s why she"d told her I would be there soon that day at the picnic, she knew I would be with Kat.
"You"re not climbing any cliffs, don"t you have s.h.i.+t to be doing in the office, that is what I"m paying you for after all."
"Speaking of which, I need a raise, your sister"s always dragging me off shopping but I don"t think she realizes that we come from two completely different financial brackets, that girl has very expensive taste and she whines every time I refuse to let her buy me something."
"You just started working here what a month, and you"re already b.i.t.c.hing about a raise, you"re still on probation."
"What"s my crime...sir?"
Oh ho, that"s one of her new games, the sir thing, she"s just trying to get my goat, I know she"s no way near ready for what I want to do to her, at least that"s what I keep telling myself, but it"s getting hard to resist, especially when she wears one of her new outfits that my darling little sister had talked her into buying last weekend.
Short skirts and b.u.t.toned down silk s.h.i.+rts with just a hint of cleavage, I"ve spent more time talking to her chest in the last week than anything else.
Let"s not talk about the heels. s.h.i.+t, some of them had her almost meeting my shoulders, I"ve imagined f.u.c.king her all over the shop in them in a million ways, but each time I pulled back.
She needed a lot more time, but just this once I"m going to call her bluff.
"I like my s.e.x dirty Katarina, I"ll make love to you often, but I"d f.u.c.k you more, can you handle that little girl, if you can"t let me know, and I"ll ignore all these signals you keep sending my way, but if you keep it up, one day soon I"m going to take you to my bed and f.u.c.k the s.h.i.+t out of you."
"I"m a virgin." She bit her lip as I studied her.
f.u.c.k me.
Walking over to her I held her by the back of her head, my hand and fingers caught in her hair.
"That"s a deal breaker, it doesn"t matter if you can handle it or not, I"m taking you, you have one day to prepare, then I"m coming to get what"s mine."
I touched my lips to hers before walking away.
I could swear I heard a soft moan. Game on.
f.u.c.k, a man can only take so much, all the eye batting and sirs I"d been ignoring, maybe that was her way of telling me she was ready for more, it hadn"t been that long, but the tension was evident even to a blind man, even my guys were starting to smirk every time I walked into a room "til I wanted to smash their faces in. Clowns.