I would’ve wound up in the ditch for sure. I decided it would be safer just to send her a text back while I drove.
“Got stuck in a storm, but still on my way.”
I put my cell phone down and continued driving along as I sang Christmas carols to myself. The snow was getting heavier and heavier as it fell from the sky.
Every so often I’d run into a snow drift with almost no visibility, but I managed to make my way through it. Eventually I received another text. I picked up my cell phone and looked at it.
“Laney, you should have been here by now.”
At that point I started getting frustrated. Didn’t they realize I was trying to drive? Driving in those conditions was hard enough as it was without them texting me constantly. I took my hand off the wheel to text her back.
“I’m on my way, stopping texting me.”
Just then I drove into white out conditions and another car veered in front of me. Within seconds my car hit the other vehicle and spun out of control on the icy road. I smashed into two other vehicles before my car finally toppled over into a ditch where it continued rolling.
Chapter 5
Nate
When I headed up into the mountains, I hadn’t realized that the weather was going to be so bad. I usually checked the reports before heading out at this time of year, but the sky seemed clear when I left. Now the roadways and highways had slowed down to a snails pace as people tried to control their vehicles along the treacherous mountainside.
I leaned over to turn on my radio, but every station was playing that blasted Christmas music. The last things I wanted to hear about were reindeer, snowmen, and Santa Claus.
Why couldn’t just one station play normal music? Not everybody celebrated the season. I couldn’t understand why all the radio waves were giving in to the many that did instead of having a few that accommodated those of us who don’t.
As I drove along staring into the snow, I became almost hypnotized watching as it pelted down against my truck. I kept thinking about how much better I would feel once I got up to the cabin and how much better everything was going to be.
There’d be no more thinking about Christmas, no more thinking about the office, no more thinking about anything. It was my time to just relax and let it all go.
As the snow came down harder and harder I noticed something in a ditch as I drove by. At first I thought it was nothing, but the sight of it haunted me for seven miles up the road. Finally, I couldn’t take it anymore and I realized I had to turn around and go back.
I shook my head and got off the highway at the next turn off. When I circled back, I pulled over beside the object that I’d seen only to find bright red blood covering the pure white blanket of snow. Beside some of the blood was a vehicle, but when I looked inside I couldn’t find anyone.
I stood up and looked around shocked at the accumulation of blood that covered the ground. It was evident that whoever was in this accident hadn’t survived.
I looked up at the sky as my memory flashed back to that awful night twenty five years ago when I was ten years old. It was Christmas Eve, and I was waiting for my parents to come home so that we could have dinner together and wait for Santa to arrive.
But my parents never came home. Instead, a police officer came to the door and told my aunt and uncle that my parents had been killed in a terrible car accident.
As I stood there and stared up at the sky a tear trickled down my cheek. I didn’t understand why God took people that way. It seemed like such a horrible way to go and it didn’t seem fair.
It was then that I noticed something else. I followed the trail of blood splatters to a woman lying there lifeless in the snow. She had the most beautiful blond hair, although it was now matted with blood and stuck against her pale skin.
Had it not been for the accident, she would’ve been gorgeous. I stood over her for a few seconds before I reached down to check for a pulse. There was a slight pulse, albeit a faint one.
I couldn’t believe she was still alive after being thrown from the vehicle like that. I couldn’t let her go like this. I couldn’t leave her there. She was so lucky to have survived, and I knew I had to take her back to my cabin with me.
“Well, it looks like you’re coming with me,” I said as I picked her bloody body up off the ground and walked her back to my truck.
I laid her down in the back seat before returning to her car. I reached into the front seat, popped the trunk, and grabbed her bags out before throwing them in the back of my truck. Then, I drove her up to my mountain cabin where I laid her down by the fire and covered her up with blankets.
“Now let’s get you cleaned up,” I said as I grabbed a warm cloth to wash the blood away from her face and hair.
Chapter 6
Laney
“Who are you?” I shrieked as I grabbed the fireplace poker and pointed it at the shirtless man in front of me.
“It’s okay. Calm down,” the strange man said as he held his hands up to let me know that he was harmless.
“Who the hell are you and why am I here?” I asked as I sat there glaring at him.
He was amazingly calm and incredibly handsome. He had the bluest eyes I’d ever seen, and they looked intense with his dark hair. In any other circumstances, he’d be the kind of guy I’d like to date. But somehow I got into his house, and I had no idea how. For all I knew, he’d abducted me.
“I’m Nate,” he said as he extended his hand. “I found you in the ditch the other day and I rescued you. I brought you back here to bring you back to health. You’re a very lucky girl because I don’t know how you survived that accident.”
“An accident,” I said as I stared at him. “What do you mean an accident?”
“You’re driving up into the mountains and somehow you wound up in a ditch. You had been thrown from the vehicle and you were covered in blood. You barely even had a pulse when I found you.”
“Why was I driving up to the mountains?” I asked as I shook my head and closed my eyes. I tried so hard to remember, but nothing was coming back to me. I sat there trying to recall anything at all, but my mind was a blank.
“I don’t know that,” he said. “I just know that I found you and brought you back here. You never did tell me what your name is.”
I sat there for a few seconds, almost embarrassed because I didn’t know the answer. I thought and thought, realizing that I should know, but I didn’t.
“What day is it?” I asked.
“It’s Wednesday,” he said.
“Wednesday the what of what?”
“Wednesday the twenty-first of December,” he said as he gave me a questioning look.
“Okay,” I said, appearing to look satisfied as I stared into the fire.
“So are you going to tell me your name or do I have to guess?” he asked with a laugh.
I wrapped my arms around my knees wondering whether to make up a fake name or confess. I finally decided it was easier to just tell him the truth. He’d been kind enough to look after me. I turned to him and looked deeply into his eyes.
“I… I can’t remember,” I said. “Since the first time you asked me that question, I’ve been trying to remember, but it’s not coming back to me. The only thing that I can remember is waking up here by the fire. The rest of my mind is foggy and I can’t remember a thing.”
“Okay. For now I’ll call you Blondie,” he said with a huge smile on his face as he patted my head.
“Why Blondie?” I asked curiously as he brought out a hot chocolate and handed it to me.
“Because of your hair silly,” he said.
I reached up and touched my hair, bringing it in front of my face so that I could see it. Sure enough, it was a soft champagne color, blond as he had said.
“Blondie it is,” I agreed.
“Well make yourself comfortable Blondie,” he said. “The storm’s supposed to last for a few more days and you’re still convalescing. You might as well stay here so I can loo
k after you.”
Chapter 7
Nate
After Blondie woke up, she started returning to health quickly. She was eating and drinking and her vitals had returned to normal. I was really enjoying having her around the cabin. We sat and talked for hours and had so much fun together.
I just wished I knew who she really was. Heck, I wished she knew who she really was. Nevertheless, there was something special about her, something that I hadn’t seen in any other woman.
“Hey, Blondie, want to go get some more wood for the fire?” I asked her as I headed out the door.
“Why not,” she said. “I’m always up for some hard work.”
She put her coat and boots on and we headed into the forest. I was surprised at how much effort she put forth as we carried loads of firewood back to the cabin.
It was rare to find a woman that wasn’t afraid of getting some dirt underneath her fingernails. She was the kind of woman I’d been looking for all my life.
That night at dinner we got bored while we were eating and I picked up a french fry and threw it at her not knowing what to expect. I should’ve known that Blondie was up to any challenge.
“Oh, you think so,” she said as she threw one back at me.
“Yeah, I think so,” I said as I threw three back at her.
Before we knew it, we were throwing everything off our plates at each other and the room was covered in food. We were laughing like two little children on the floor covered in ketchup and butter. There was something majestic about her free spiritedness that I loved.
As we sat there together laughing in front of the fire I reached out and touched her cheek and we stared intensely into each other’s eyes. The laughter suddenly stopped.
I inched in closer and closer to her face, unsure whether I should make my move. Just as I was about to give up, Laney broke the tension by leaning forward and kissing me with her sweet baby pink lips.
Chapter 8
Laney
Nate’s lips felt like heaven against mine as he kissed me there by the fire. As soon as they met mine, fireworks sparked within my soul and my legs went numb.
My body melted into his as he ran his fingers through my hair while his lips lingered down to my neck. My hands reached up under his shirt to trace his muscular torso before I lifted it over his head.
He looked magnificent when his shirt fell to the floor behind him. I had to sit back and admire his perfectly toned body. As I stared at him silently, he pulled my t-shirt off roughly and then unhooked my bra before slowly sliding it off my shoulders.
As he sat there admiring my breasts I felt so free, and my chest heaved just waiting for him to touch them. My nipples tightened when I felt his warm breath blowing gently on them before he started licking and nibbling them. I kissed his neck and moaned softly as I worked my way down to his chest.
His hands wandered down over my stomach to my navel. My body shifted uncontrollably to give him access to my clit. I wanted him to touch it, to feel it, to feel me. I felt like I was going insane with anticipation. As his fingers made their way down to my special place I bit my lip and sighed into his ear.
I could feel the tension growing in his body and see the tent growing in his pants. Needing to know what he felt like, I reached in and grabbed hold of his throbbing cock.
His eyes rolled back in his head and he let out a sigh as I held it in my hand. I started stroking it, wondering how I would ever be able to take it all in as he rubbed my clit through my jeans.
The vibration of the denim and his fingers moving along my clit vibrated throughout my vessel as he massaged me. I felt myself getting wetter and wetter as my juices started flowing.
I was desperate with a wanton hunger and I needed him. As I felt his cock become even more engorged, he let out a grunt, before he unzipped my jeans and pulled them off.
I sat in front of him wearing only my panties. I was about to pull them off when he stopped me.
“No,” he said. “I want to look at you for a minute.”
I laid there going insane waiting for him to touch me again. My panties were damp with my excitement and my clit was on fire. The more he stared at me laying there desperate for him, the harder it was for me to lie still.
Finally, he leaned over me and started kissing my thighs one by one as he inched his way up. His warm breath moved closer and closer to my clit, although he was careful not to touch it.
The madness was becoming too much. With each kiss against my thighs, his soft tongue dampened my delicate skin and sent me into a frenzy. Sensing my desperation, he finally slid my panties down over my hips and tossed them to the floor.
I closed my eyes waiting for the touch of his fingers, when I felt the soft sensation of the warm tongue that I had just felt against my thighs. As it encircled my clit I felt like I was going to explode and I started moving my hips as I moaned.
Grabbing them and holding them still to keep me from coming too quickly, he continued lapping at my clit and giggling as I groaned. The groaning sent a vibration through my body that made me want to come even more. His magic tongue turned me into a slave to the sensations that permeated through me.
I grabbed the back of his head and ran my fingers through his hair to pull him closer to me while he circled around my little nub. As I let out a gasp, he pulled away, and sat up.
Desperate to have him, I raised my body up and pushed him down on the bed before straddling him and taking his long, hard shaft deep into my alcove.
Watching his eyes close and his mouth open as he slid into my warm, wet cave made me lose all sense of control. I started riding him wildly as I bucked my hips and glided up and down along his shaft. Wanting control, he grabbed my buttocks to hold me still so he could control his thrusts.
I tried to move my hips as he thrust in and out of me, but he wouldn’t let me. I thought I was going to go wild with desire. My clit wanted to explode so badly and I was dizzy with passion. I panted to try to control myself when he suddenly rolled me over.
Feeling the weight of his body over mine sent a warmth through me that made the fire burn even hotter. His cologne captivated me and only intensified my desire as I bit his earlobe gently. He entered me once again and reached down to rub my clit with his fingers.
I could feel the heat radiating up from my pelvis and I wrapped my legs around his back and started moving my hips with his. I knew I was going to come soon when lightning went off in my brain and heat started spreading throughout my body. I grabbed onto Nate tighter and kissed his neck.
“I love you,” I said just before I cried out in ecstasy.
“I love you, too,” he whispered as he kissed my forehead.
The ripples of orgasm overtook me and my body quivered and shook. Every thrust made me whimper and moan as intense pleasure soared through me. He held me tight until every wave of my thunderous orgasm had passed before he started thrusting harder and deeper.
As I felt the power of his massive thrusts, my clit started tingling again and I knew I was only moments from riding another climax. I cried out as my body trembled while I felt his dick getting larger. His entire body tensed and I could feel his heart beating against my chest.
Just as my body was on the edge of orgasm, he let out a shrieking howl like nothing I’d ever heard, before filling me with his come. Immediately, my entire body shook and vibrated in orgasm before we collapsed there together on the blanket in front of the fire.
* * *
When I awoke in the morning with Nate’s arms wrapped around me, I felt as if I had finally met my true love. He seemed like the perfect man, gentle, loving, and handsome. I cherished every single moment that I spent with him. There wasn’t a second where we weren’t laughing or having fun.
“Good morning, handsome,” I said as I wrapped my arms around him and kissed him.
“Good morning, Blondie,” he said before he sat up and started getting ready to get up.
“Where are you going?” I asked.
> “To make your breakfast,” he said. “After a night like that, I thought we both worked up quite the appetite.”
I stayed there and lay in the bed as he left the room. The night before had been amazing, and I was looking forward to breakfast. I knew that the day ahead was going to be perfect. As long as he was by my side, nothing could go wrong. I didn’t care who I was before. It didn’t matter anymore. All that mattered was that I was with Nate.
Chapter 9
Nate
As Blondie and I were eating our bacon and eggs I heard some rustling outside the cabin. As the grunts and groans got louder and louder I realized something was wrong. Trying not to alert her, I looked out the window to see if there was anything suspicious out there.
“What is it Nate, what’s going on?” she asked as she finished her orange juice.
“I’m not quite sure,” I said, “but whatever it is doesn’t sound good.”
The sounds were coming closer and closer, and I knew I was going to have to do something. I started putting on my coat and boots thinking that looters had come to vandalize my cabin.
“Don’t go out there,” Blondie said with a terrified look on her face.
“I’ll be fine,” I told her. “It’s just some thieves that need to be reminded that this cabin is occupied.”
As soon as I stepped out the door, I knew exactly what the problem was. It was the bear shifters from two county’s over. I had no idea why they had come to mess with me, but they should’ve known better. I looked over at the cabin, hoping that Blondie wasn’t watching before focusing on transforming into my wolf self.
Feeling my claws and fur come out was like letting my spirits soar free. It was the first opportunity that I’d had to let the wolf in me be exposed during my entire trip to the cabin. As my arms dropped to the ground and my feet and hands turned into paws I began running and howling ready to take on those bears. They didn’t know what they were in for.
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