Of course it didn't say what that mission was, but I've also been gathering some background info on my guy, to see exactly what his field of interest in the bureau was. From there it would be rather easy to decipher what exactly he was into, and who he was working with.
There was also the question of who had pulled the trigger. Carter's whereabouts can be easily verified. And as much of a dick as he is, I didn't think the prick would be so careless as to come all this way to commit the murder of a known colleague.
Not when you factored in his history with Shania, and the fact that only someone who knew the ins and outs of The Cove would’ve known to dump a body there.
But I did think he could be sick enough to use something she might've mentioned to him in passing, like the secret cove, as kind of a fuck you to her, or whatever fucked up reasons he had. With that said, he had to have had help. I just needed to find out who that might be.
The more I thought about it, the more convinced I became that he had something to do with this man's death, and not just because I wanted to nail him for what he did to my woman. It just made perfect sense to my cop brain. I mean, what are the odds that the body was dumped here and now Carter is working the case, I'm not that gullible.
If I pulled on that string, where would it lead me, or would it lead anywhere? And what game was he playing? Maybe he didn’t know that she wouldn’t be alone. Whatever he’d had planned, he had no way of knowing about me and what I was willing to do to stand between him and her.
If it turned out that I was pissing in the wind, and that this was all just coincidence, which I scoff at, then there was another reason for him being here, and that could only be her. Either way he was fucked.
My next step was finances. It's not easy getting financial records and if I log in with my badge it would leave a trail. I didn't want to send up any red flags, so I would have to do things in a less by the book way; but still in a way that would allow me to use my findings if the need arose.
Basically I'm fishing for now, but if I should catch anything on the line, I'll have to backtrack and get warrants and my boss's approval to go ahead.
The latter shouldn't be too hard, since he already had a hard on for the feds and Carter in particular, because of his douche bag attitude.
For now I'll conduct my search behind the scenes, since the feds had taken over the case officially. It didn’t bother me one fuck that I was deliberately going after this guy, he’s lucky that that’s all I’m doing for now. If I find anything at all that could hang his ass out to dry, I’ll trumpet it from the roof.
No one must know that I'm digging though, not until I had what I needed. Finances are always a good place to start.
Whether the deceased was dirty or not, I needed to eliminate him one-way or the other, and I needed to find the connection between him and Carter, because I’m almost one hundred percent sure that there is one.
If he had been on the take, then the money would be there no matter how hard he tried to hide it. That's the thing about criminals, they never learn, there's no perfect crime.
Even if it takes time, things always surfaced in the end. I got lost in thought as I tried to figure out my next move.
I got lost in thought as I let all the angles play out in my head the way I do when I’m working a case.
"What're you doing?"
I turned my head to look at her sleep-tousled beauty. I couldn't resist stealing a kiss, then a cuddle. Her sweet warmth sucked me in and she was soon beneath me again, her thighs opened to cradle me.
"Hi." I found myself smiling like a fool for no damn reason, other than the sheer joy that she was here with me after all this time.
My mind cleared of everything else, there was only her, only me, only us.
As I slipped into her once more I reminded her of the pressing matter left unfinished between us.
"Marry me princess." She studied me for what felt like forever before putting me out of my misery.
"Okay, yes." The smile that grew across her gorgeous face was more than enough to ease the tension that I hadn’t been aware of. I told myself to go slow and not fall on her like a starving wolf the way I wanted to.
It was soft and sweet as we whispered words of love, as our bodies moved once more in the age-old magical dance of a mating. “There’s so much I want to teach you.”
She pulled my mouth down to hers as I moved inside her, my head full of all the ways I wanted to take her. “Trust me.” It was the only warning I gave before slipping out of her and turning her to her hands and knees in front of me.
I slid back inside her, using her hips to pull her back onto my cock. Running my hands over her back and around to her nipples, I took nice, deep, long strokes into her. She was so fucking responsive, the way she flung her head back and tightened around me. “Harder Donovan.”
Music to my ears, I thought I would go out of my fucking mind if I didn’t pound into her. The headboard banged into the wall as I sped up my thrusts.
It was too much, having her like this, knowing that after today there was nothing standing in our way, after all this time. I wasn’t going to be able to hold on much longer.
I found her clit and pressed down on it as I fucked her even harder. She stayed with me, cocking her ass higher and arching her back deeper.
“Fuck Shania.” I slammed into her once until I had hit her cervix and beyond. She screamed so loud I thought I’d hurt her, until I felt the liquid heat of her pussy as it gushed all over my cock.
It felt like I came for hours, though I know it couldn’t have been more than a few seconds. Even after the last drop had been emptied into her, I didn’t want to move.
“I can stay inside you like this forever.” I wanted to turn her into my arms and hold her close, but I wasn’t ready to pull out.
Instead I took us both down to the mattress on our sides, spooning her from behind with my dick still hard inside her. It wasn’t long before I was moving inside her again.
“Tell me if I hurt you.” I cautioned myself to go slow, to take it easy even as I sought out her womb with the head of my cock.
Her sweet ass pushing back against me was more than answer enough, and the way she reached back for me.
I buried my face in her neck, nipping her flesh between my teeth as I stroked her pussy nice and deep from behind.
“I love the way you take me; like you were made to fit around my cock. And before I forget, thank you for saving you for me.”
She clenched around me hard as I raised my hand to her breast and squeezed.
“I can’t get deep enough this way, can you take me like before again, are you too sore?”
She shook her head and rolled over onto her stomach, pulling me with her. Lifting her to her knees with my cock still inside her, I reached under her for her fat clit.
I sawed in and out of her pussy going deep with each plow into her. I wanted to fuck her, make love to her, and consume her all at once.
“How does that feel baby, you like that?”
“Uh-huh.” Fuck, she had one of those sex kitten voices when she was hot.
I pulled her head back roughly so I could get at her mouth while I fucked her. It was wild and untamed our passion for each other.
I tried to get as deep in her as I could and she tried her best to swallow my dick with her tight pussy.
I felt the electricity run down my spine into my feet seconds before something powerful slammed into me. I only remember my body shaking as it felt as though there was fire in my veins.
I remember also, feeling as though I was pouring my life into her with my seed. When the haze cleared and I could think again she was buried beneath me with her face smashed into the pillow.
“Shit baby, sorry.” I rolled away from her and was not expecting the way she jumped onto my chest and started kissing me all over my face and chest.
“Thank you, thank you, thank you…” What the hell, she was thanking me?
“Why are you thanki
ng me again?” I pulled her up in my arms for a kiss.
“You lost control right? That’s what just happened?”
“I’m pretty sure it is showoff, why?” She turned shy on me again, which was funny seeing as she was draped over me in all her naked glory.
“I never thought I could do that; make someone lose control like that.” Her face was on fire and she tried to hide it in my neck.
“I had to fight not to hurt you babe, never doubt your affect on your man, if you got any better you’d fucking kill my ass.”
She liked that if her bawdy laugh was any indication and her next words told me a lot about the woman I was going to make my wife.
“Oh I don’t know, there’s still a lot that we haven’t done yet that I’ve always wanted to try.”
I had her flat on her back before the words were dry on her lips. “What do you mean always wanted to try? I’m the only one to have you.”
She rolled her eyes and petted my like I was losing it. “I know, but I’m an investigative reporter, we research everything, and there are a whole lot of things I’ve been dying to try, especially with you.”
She ducked under the covers to escape as soon as she’d said it, and got started on her experiment.
When her tongue touched the leaking head of my cock that was still wet with her pussy juice, I was grateful for her curiosity.
“Careful baby.” She choked on my cock twice before I tried to caution her. “I’ll show.” I taught her how to suck my cock the way I liked.
She was an apt pupil who had me at the brink in to time. I tried to pull her off my cock. “Babe I’m close, unless you want a mouthful of jizz you gotta stop.”
I felt the slight disappointment when she lifted her head, but I wouldn’t force her to do something she didn’t like for anything.
“What’s the fun in that? Plus I need to know for my research.” She sucked me back in to her throat and I started shooting.
“Fuck!” I went deeper into her throat until she pulled me out and sucked me until there was nothing left in my sac.
“Fuck babe, that was…” I had no words. I looked at her to see her reaction. She’d swallowed yeah, but will there ever be a repeat performance.
“Babe, please tell me you like the taste of my cum.” I think I would cry if she said no.
“Why?” she gave me a cheeky grin.
“Because I’d like what you just did to be more than just a birthday gift once a year.”
She nearly bust a gut laughing and rolling around on the bed, so fucking cute.
I waited until she calmed down to tackle her. “Anything else you have a burning desire to try will have to wait until I take care of you.”
“Where are you going?” She tried to keep me from leaving the bed. “To run you a bath.”
She pouted and lowered the sheet from her tits, a born tease. “Come back to bed, I’m not done with you yet.”
“I’ll fuck you after I take care of your little pussy, which is going to be sore any minute now.”
“Donovan…” She dragged out the end of my name as she buried her face in the mattress.
“What baby?” I placed one knee on the bed and leaned over her, nuzzling her neck.
“Those words.” I grinned at my little prude. “Baby in some of the holes you’ve been in, I’m sure you’ve heard worst.” I slapped her ass and went to run her a nice soothing bath.
She was almost asleep when I went back to get her and I took a moment to let the sweet warmth of possession glide through me.
I loved the way she melted into me when I picked her up and carried her into the bathroom. I ended up getting into the tub with her in my arms because she refused to let go.
I didn’t know it was possible to be in love like this, to have this much joy in someone else.
I felt strong as a lion and yet tender as a lamb. She was mine; seems the knowledge of that was very potent, because each time I thought the word, my cock jumped and became stiff.
That’s how I ended up filling my promise to fuck her in here. She was sitting sideways on my lap with the arm water lapping around our hips when I turned her to face me and sat her on my iron hard cock.
That time she cried because it was too much. “Shh, it’s okay baby, I won’t move; just take as much as you want when you’re ready.”
I gritted my teeth and tried to hold still, until the flexing of her inner muscles and her slight grinding motions told me she was ready.
Grabbing her ass in my hands I slammed her down on my cock over and over again until I thought I would lose my fucking mind.
I ended up pinning her to the side of the tub while I power surged into her clutching, gripping pussy, until I went blind and emptied my balls for what had to be the last time tonight.
I barely had enough strength to pick us both up and head for the shower stall for a quick wash off.
I took her to my bed when we were both dry. From now on that’s where I needed her always.
***
It was almost impossible to part with her the next day, but as much as I wanted to stay in bed with her all day, to explore our new closeness, to cement the newly formed bond, I had to go to work.
The sooner I got to the bottom of this case, the faster I could get Carter out of my town.
"I'll come get you after my shift is over, unless something comes up, in which case, I'll come get you later."
"You know, I do own a vehicle and I have been known to drive it on occasion."
"Smart ass, fine, I'll come follow you out, my place is pretty isolated I don't want you driving out there alone."
"Donovan, I wish you would stop worrying so much, nothing's going to happen to me."
"Humor me okay."
"Okay." She rolled her eyes like the brat she’s always been and I marked her, which made her swat at me with her hands, since she’d already complained this morning that she resembled a victim with all the marks I’d left all over here.
We kissed goodbye before I walked around to let her out of the jeep. Trapping her body, between me, and the open car door, I looked into her eyes, gauging her frame of mind.
We hadn't talked about Carter again after we made love; partly because I didn't want her to even think of him, and partly because he had no place in our personal lives, and definitely not in our bed
Now, since I'm going to be apart from her for the rest of the day, I wanted to make sure that she knew she didn't have to talk to him at all.
"Stay away from Carter." I know I’d told her before, but shit, she had to know it was different this time.
The first time I told her I hadn’t had her. Now that I’ve had her wrapped around my cock, now that I knew how fucking sweet she was, there was no fucking way.
"Donovan..."
"Princess, there's no discussion, stay away from that prick. No phone contact, no personal contact, nothing, he doesn't exist. If there's anything to be done, me or one of your brothers will handle it, but you have nothing to do with him."
"What if he wants to question me about the case, I am the one who found the body and he is working the case. And lest you forget, I have to meet with them down at the station later."
"Conflict of interest, if he tries contacting you that's what you tell him. Let his partner do it and I don't want you dealing with either of them unless I'm there, no questions."
"Were you always this bossy? Somehow I missed that." At least it didn’t look like she was going to give me much of an argument, even though she pouted.
"It's not bossy baby, it's called being territorial. I don't even want the kid you had a crush on in junior high anywhere near you. Get used to it babe, I have a feeling I'm always going to feel that way about you. Now give me a kiss so I can go deal with this asshole."
We shared one last kiss before I hopped back in the jeep and headed out, feeling like I was leaving the best part of me behind.
Chapter 17
Of course the first person I see is Carter when I
make it to the station. I tried to avoid him, because there was nothing to be said between us, unless I was saying it with my fists.
Shania and her family were due here a little later to meet with the agent and hopefully that would be the end of her part in the investigation.
"Chase, I want to talk to you."
"About what?"
"About the case, just because I can't talk to my...ex, doesn't mean that I can't talk to you."
The smirk on his face told me that he was trying to get a rise out of me, no dice. I got the girl that was all I wanted out of this equation, so he could smirk and sneer all he wanted, he wasn't going to move me.
Unless of course he said something about her, then I'd wipe the floor with his ass no question.
"I'll give my statement to your partner later." I started to walk away, but of course, being the asshole that he is, he couldn’t leave well enough alone.
"You'll give it to me now." He actually tried placing himself in my way. I hate to say it, but my baby had poor fucking taste when she got tangled up with this one. The prick had absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Unless you went for the boorish, overbearing type.
Somehow seeing this in him made me feel better. She’d been settling; that was obvious now.
There’s no way she would’ve gone through with it; I’m almost convinced of that.
I just can’t see her wasting her life on this piece a shit. No wonder she hadn’t slept with him; she never had any intentions to. I felt like smiling again.
"Fuck you Carter, you don't tell me what to do, you don't have any jurisdiction over me. And if you push this little power play, I will go over your head and bury you. I don't usually play dick games, but for you, I'll make an exception. I hate your guts, I hate everything about your rapist ass, you disgust me, now get the fuck out of my face. Oh and my princess isn't your ex, she was never your anything."
"Is that what she told you, because I..."
"Stop, stop, stop, you're lying, we both know you're about to lie, you were never there and you never will be." I looked him square in the eye as he fumed.
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