by Lauren Wood
Before she could get me, all worked up, I told her that I was going to go.
“But I gave you a ride here Candy. Don’t be silly.”
“Yeah, I know. but I think I will get a cab or something. I don't really feel like riding with you right now. The plan that you and the lawyer cooked up was really something. I think you out did yourself this time.
By the look on her face, it was clear that she finally understood what I was talking about. It was ridiculous what she had done, and I don't know if I was ever going to be able to forgive her. Part of me wondered if I had been waiting all this time for her to do something this stupid, so I would never have to see her again. Now I had the best excuse ever.
I was just getting over the fact that she had walked away, and I was able to breathe again, when I saw Colt walking towards me. He looked so damn good and immediately my heart started racing in my chest. I was nervous, scared, so many other things, but more than anything, I just missed the sight of him and it was really good to see him now.
“Well that was unexpected.”
“What, the fact that I wanted to take all your money or that we can't get divorced?”
He chuckled at me and told me a little bit of both.
“Yeah, sadly this happens more than you would think. I would like to say that this is the first time that my mom has tried to take over my life, but it isn't.”
“So, you don't want my money?”
I shook my head that I didn't. I had told him that I'd never really worried about money. I always had enough, for what I needed and that was all that mattered.
“So, what happened?”
“My mom and my lawyer tried to get what I deserve apparently. Though I am sure that they would have gotten their fair share as well.”
I used air quotes to tell him that I was not of the same ideas as them. I didn't want to divide with his money, and I certainly didn't earn any of it.
“So, you're pregnant?”
“Yeah.”
“When were you going to tell me?”
“I don't know Colt. You don't know how many times I've tried to call you.”
“I can take a guess because I didn't change my number like you did.”
“I didn't change my number. I don't know what happened. I just know that all the sudden it was disconnected and now I have a different number.”
He didn't believe me and it, bothered me because I was still trying to figure out what happened. It was a company that I had used for many years and they had never dropped the ball so badly before. Even they we're trying to figure out why my number had been disconnected and changed. I was going to be getting a call back from them shortly with the answer.
“Well, at least you couldn’t avoid me here. I wish you would've told me Candy. I didn’t like finding out from my lawyer that you were pregnant. I would have rather heard it from you.”
“I'm sorry Colt. I didn't really think about how it's going to affect everybody else. I knew was that I needed some time to wrap my brain around it. I haven't really thought about kids, not really. I thought about starting a family, but it certainly wasn't going to be like this. I had never in million years imagined that I would be talking to my child's father in the courtroom, with no end in sight.”
“So, what are we going to do Candy? It looks like we're going to be married for several more months.”
“We have a married for years colt, I don't think that really matters, does it?”
“It always matters to me.”
He always had the right things to say and I just kind of shook my head. I wasn’t sure what to say back. I wanted to tell him that if I had mattered so much, he would not let me go, but I knew that was too confusing. He let me go because he didn't want to be one of those guys, but it made me feel like I wasn't worth fighting for.
“Well, I am sure you got to get back home Colt. I know that you are busy there. I want to make sure you know that I will never ask you for any money. If you are the father, which I hope you are, I hope that you can put this ugliness between us behind you, so that you can love our kid the way that he deserves to be loved.
“It’s a boy?”
“I think so.”
“We have a lot to talk about Candy. I’m not going anywhere until we figure this out. I’m not going to let this go on. You can’t keep running away.”
I was running away. I knew that, but I didn’t think that I had much of a choice. I wanted everything to be peaceful and I was so embarrassed by what my mother and lawyer had done, that I didn’t even want to face him. I didn’t think I was going to be able to in a month, certainly not today.
“I just need some time to think Colt.”
“You’ve had enough time.”
He wasn’t listening to me and I wasn’t sure what to say to him. I hadn’t had enough time for any of this. I was still trying to get used to the idea of being pregnant. Now I was pregnant, married still and my mother had betrayed me, again. I definitely needed time.
I started to argue with Colt and he told me that he wasn’t going to hear it.
“I’ve given you enough time Candy. It’s time that we had this talk. You can’t run from me anymore.”
Chapter 31
Colt
“I’m not running from you Colt. I just don’t want to do this. If you haven’t noticed, I’ve had a hectic day.”
“Me too. I found out that my wife was pregnant, and I was going to be a dad.”
She started to bring up the fact that it could be Jax’s and I told her that I didn’t want to hear it.
“The baby is mine, end of discussion.”
“Well, if that is it, then I think I’m going to go.”
I stopped her with a light hand on her arm.
“We are going to the hotel or your place. That is the only place you are going, and we are going together. You’re my wife.”
“So, that doesn’t mean I’m your property.”
“No, but it means that you’re mine. I don’t want to be apart anymore. I didn’t want to believe that you would do that to me, and you didn’t. We need to stop letting everyone else get in the middle of us. When it is just me and you, everything gets worked out.”
“That’s because we haven’t been around each other that much. When we are alone, all we do is have sex Colt.”
“I didn’t say that it was a science.”
“Really Colt, is that all you think about?”
“I don’t know. Give me a few years with as much as I want and I’m sure I will think of something else.”
“You’re a mess.”
I agreed and tried to pull her in for a kiss. It was a strange place to be doing that, the steps of the courthouse. It was even weirder if I thought about the fact that we had came there to get divorced. Everything had changed so quickly.
I pulled back from her and cursed.
“What’s the matter?”
“I forgot that Ralph was here. I completely forgot and left him back there. I will be right back. Don’t leave because I know where you live.”
I kissed her again and checked behind me after a moment to make sure that she wasn’t leaving. I don’t know when that feeling was going to stop, but it was still there. I didn’t want to look behind me and see that she was gone. I didn’t want to have to look, but I was going to have to for a while.
Ralph was smiling at me and he of course went right into how he had told me so. I wasn’t usually too keen on hearing that, especially from Ralph, but I did like the fact that he was right. He’d known her better than me in that instance. I should have known that she wasn’t going to do that to me. Candy wasn’t that way.
“So, you two are going to work things out?”
I agreed.
“Good. I like you better with her around. Before you were a whore, and after Candy, you were too sappy. It was hard to watch. She is what you need.”
“I didn’t think that I needed anything.”
“Now you know.”
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nbsp; “Yeah.”
“And you’re going to be a father?”
“Yeah.”
“Well I am going to go see my family for a couple of days. Call me when you’re ready to go back. Make sure you get her on the plane with you.”
“That is the plan.”
“Just remember, you are wrong, ninety percent of the time.”
Before I would have protested that fact, but I was starting to wonder if he was right. I had certainly been wrong about a lot of things when it came to Candy. I wasn't going to make that mistake again.
I gave him a hug, because Ralph had always been so much more than my butler. He was the voice in my head half the time and I wish I would have listened to him before. I would've saved myself a lot of grief.
...
When I got back to the stats, there was a moment that I didn't see her standing there because someone was in front of her and I panicked. I don't know why, but I was just waiting for her to run away again. I had to think that I might feel this way for a while, every time I woke up. Ralph was right though, I needed to get her on the plane with me.
“Let’s go to my place. It’s small, not as grand as your place, but it is a lot cozier than a hotel.”
I didn't care where the hell we went to, as long as she was next to me. I let her drive, because it is been so long since I had driven, and it gave me time to take her in. It felt like it had been forever since I had seen her face.
“Why are you staring at me?”
“Because I can.”
She slapped my shoulder and told me that it was making it hard for her to drive.
“I can always get you a driver.”
“This town isn't made to have a driver, Colt. This isn't Las Vegas.”
“Who says you have to stay here?”
“This is where my life is.”
“Your life is with me Candy.”
“What about my family?”
“I think would be good for you to take a little time away from your family. don't you?”
I might have pushed it a little bit with that last comment because she gave me a dirty look, but then she relented and told me that she did want to get away from her mom for a while. I didn't blame her. I knew all too well the pressures of family, but I was in a point of my life that I didn't have to worry about it as much anymore. To me, Candy needed to get away, or she was never going to get the freedom that she needed.
“Are you talking about me moving to Las Vegas?”
“I am talking about my wife coming home.”
Before I would've been worried about saying such a thing, but I had so many other things to worry about now. I wasn't going to let another moment go by without my true thoughts being known. I had done that before and I wasn't going to do that again.
From the look on her face, it seemed like Candy was over that part of being upset. She smiled at me in the most perfect way and I couldn't help the contagious gesture.
“So, you’ll come with me?”
She made a turn, and all of her attention was on the road in front of her. I had never seen someone pay so much attention to the road before and I knew that she was just avoiding my eyes.
“Yeah Colt, I think I will. I love my new job here, but I love you more.”
It was the first time that she is said that out loud and it hit me like a ton of bricks.
Why did three little words change everything? I was never going to know how or why Candy came into my life, but I wouldn’t have changed it for the world. Each time that I was with her, she had touched me in a way that no one else had been able to. I couldn't wait to live with her and wake up every morning with her next to me.
“But I have one condition.”
That had her finally looking at me and she asked me what it was.
“You can never leave me again.”
Candy was quiet for a moment. It had been said as a half joke, but she was taking it seriously and that settled my nerves more than anything else.
“I promise Colt, I'm not going anywhere.”
That was all that I wanted to hear. Literally all that I needed. If I didn’t have to worry about her disappearing again, I would be able to breathe and enjoy it all that much more.
THE END
FIRST LOVE (SAMPLE)
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He was just as handsome as before, but this time he was looking at me with need in his eyes.
All I needed was to feel his arms around me, his lips on mine…”
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“Why did my brother’s best friend have to be so damn sexy?
Teddy was back, and lightning strikes the same place twice.
I didn’t want to say no to him anymore.”
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David wasn’t supposed to fall for his best friend’s little sister. But he couldn’t help it.”
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Table of Contents
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Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
FIRST LOVE (SAMPLE)
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