[Bad Blooded Rebel Series 06] - Deeper

by Mellie George

  However, I didn’t want any of the groupies or anyone with a camera to witness us going at it in the hallway, so I gently pushed against him and said, “Kris, not here.”

  He raised his head and nodded before he covered my chest. In an instant he scooped me up into his arms and carried me to the closest room, opening the door and slamming it shut with his foot. He carried me to the bed and before he laid me down, he whispered, “Jess you are so fucking beautiful.”

  “You’re not bad yourself, handsome,” I answered, combing my fingers through his hair the way he liked. He closed his eyes and sighed contentedly before he laid me on the bed and covered my body with his. I pulled his lips back to mine and we spent the next hour making love in that room as if we were the only two people there.

  “So, what made you decide to dress so sexy tonight?” Kris asked me as he buckled his belt.

  After I stepped into my heels, I smoothed out my dress and answered, “I just felt like dressing up, that’s all. Did you not like it?”

  Kris moved to me and wrapped his arms around my waist. “Um, I hoped that the hot sex we just had might have given you a hint that I liked it. I liked it a lot,” he said, kissing my forehead. “I was just curious, I guess. You’re usually a pretty laid back girl and you just surprised me, that’s all.”

  “Well tonight was the last show and we’re finally going to get a break for a while so I wanted to celebrate. I just wanted to look beautiful for you.”

  “Oh Jessie,” he said softly. He moved his hands from my waist and gently ran his long fingers through my hair before resting them at the nape of my neck, caressing me. “You are beautiful in every single way. Whether you are in sweat pants or a ball gown, you are breathtaking.”

  “I love you so much,” I whispered before lightly kissing his lips. “I can’t wait to finally marry you.”

  “Me too, baby. You’re going to look so beautiful in a wedding dress.”

  “You’re going to look so hot in that tux, too. Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever seen you in a tux before.”

  “You’re the only one in the world that can get me into a monkey suit,” he laughed.

  “Well you don’t have to wear one, you know,” I stated.

  “What do you mean? Should I wear a suit and tie instead?”

  “What if we just eloped instead?” I blurted out, surprising even myself.

  Kris leaned back and looked at me, a confused expression on his face. “Jess, are you serious right now?”

  “Yeah, why not? We both love each other, neither of us want to wait, and everyone we care about being there is under this roof. I’m serious, Kris. We could just spread the word to the guys, find an all night wedding chapel somewhere, and just do it.”

  “Just do it?” he repeated, frowning.

  “What’s wrong with that? I’ve waited forever to marry you and I don’t need to throw some big expensive party just to do that. Our love is what’s important, nothing else.”

  “Jessie, come here, I want to talk to you,” he said, taking my hand and leading me back to the bed. I sat down next to him and waited to hear what he had to say.

  “You know I love you and would do anything for you, but before we run off and elope I want to say something, okay?”

  “Okay, I’m listening,” I replied. He cleared his throat and tucked my hair behind my ear before he began.

  “Ever since I was a little kid, I would wake up in the morning and instantly realize that I had nothing to look forward in the day. Like literally the moment I opened my eyes I would instantly feel sad.” My heart constricted as I remembered the pain of our childhoods. “Every day was like that until my first day of second grade when I met this beautiful, scared little girl with the biggest blue eyes I’d ever seen. Defending that little girl was the best decision I ever made because suddenly my life had a purpose.”

  “Kris,” I whispered, squeezing his hand as I felt my eyes starting to sting from unshed tears.

  “I loved you then, Jess, but it took me a really long to finally realize that I was in love with you. All it took was you brushing that sexy body against me after the show at The Metal Cage and my whole world changed. I knew I wanted something with you but the night of your birthday changed everything in a huge way. Making love to you that night was literally the moment I fell so deeply in love with you and I knew right then that I’d do whatever I could to make you happy.

  “It’s been such a hard road for us to be where we are now and even though there are things I’d definitely change, one thing I will never ever regret is loving you and wanting to give you everything this world can offer. You’ve lived such a hard life and it’s my job as your fiancée to make the rest of your life beautiful.” At this point I could no longer hold back my tears and they were freely falling down my face.

  “Listen, if you really want to run off and get married tonight, tomorrow, or whenever you want then that’s what we’ll do because I want you to have the wedding you want. I just…”

  “Just what, Kris? What do you want?” I asked him, swiping at a few tears that were rolling down my cheeks.

  “I know this is going to lose me some guy points here but when I thought of marrying you, I always imagined it would be the traditional way, you know. Me in a ridiculous tuxedo with Ryder, Beau, and Jude standing next to me while you walk toward me wearing this incredible white dress and looking like an angel. When I see you for the first time I cry like a pussy because you look so beautiful and I would wonder how in the hell someone like me was marrying an incredible woman like you. Then we’d have one hell of a reception and party the night away with our friends before I whisked you off on a romantic honeymoon anywhere in the world you wanted to go. Then we’d-”

  I pressed my fingers to his lips to silence him and said, “Kris, I want that. I want everything you just said.”

  “You do?” he asked, cocking an eyebrow and smiling.

  Sighing, I replied, “I was so busy thinking of how I want to be your wife so badly that I didn’t stop to think of what you wanted out of all of this. Let’s plan a wedding.”

  He smiled at me and asked, “Are you sure? If this isn’t what you want-”

  “You’re what I want, Kris, and I want to make you happy too. Let’s do the whole thing…the cake, the limo, the dress, the honeymoon…let’s do it all.”

  “I love you so much, Jessie,” he stated before pulling my face to his and kissing me. “Are you sure this is what you want? I don’t want to push you into doing something you don’t want to do, but I just think that you deserve to be treated like a princess on your wedding day,” Kris declared.

  “You treat me like a princess every day and I’m sure about this. Sorry I wasn’t looking at the big picture.”

  “You’re amazing, Jessie Monroe,” Kris stated as he stood up off the bed and pulled me to my feet before wrapping his arms around me in a warm hug.

  “So, you ready to go join the madness downstairs?” I asked him.

  “As long as I don’t walk into a room and see Jude’s bare ass, I’ll be fine.”

  I giggled and replied, “Tell me about it. He’s got a nice ass and all, but I think I’ve seen it more than yours.”

  “Okay let’s not talk about Jude’s ass any more, I still want to have a good time tonight,” Kris said as we left the bedroom and walked downstairs to the party.

  After Kris and I had begrudgingly decided to rejoin the party (which was now almost wall-to-wall with rock groupies of every kind and, thankfully, a heavy security presence), we found the guys hanging out around Beau’s pool table in the game room. Each of them had at least two women hanging on their every word and I rolled my eyes at them. One girl in particular was trying her hardest to get Ryder’s attention but he wasn’t having any of it. I smiled to myself because I knew his inattention must have been about this girl he’d met tonight. After I kissed Kris on the cheek, he joined the pool game and I walked over to Ryder and took a seat next to him.

/>   I nudged his arm playfully and asked, “All right. Spill.”

  “Spill what?” he asked before taking a swig of his beer.

  “What’s her name?”

  “Who?” he asked me, trying his best to look dumbfounded.

  “Cut the shit, Matthews. I heard all about the girl you went all stupid over backstage tonight. Tell me. What’s her name?”

  Ryder broke into a face-splitting smile and answered, “Everleigh.”

  “Ooh, that’s a pretty name.”

  “It is, isn’t it?”

  “What does she look like?”

  “She’s got this long black hair that I just want to run my fingers through, these insane whiskey colored eyes, and her lips…fuck, they were just begging for me to bite them,” he replied with a love-drunk look on his face.

  “Wow, sounds like love already,” I teased before taking a bite of my food.

  “Whoa, I wouldn’t go that far. She just got into my head, that’s all.”

  “Ryder, give me a break! I’ve known you for more than twenty years and I have never ever seen you look, talk, or act like this over a girl. Don’t insult my intelligence, man.”

  He sighed and took another long drink from his bottle of beer.

  “What the fuck am I going to do, Jess? It’s only been a few hours but I can’t stop thinking about her. I tried to fuck a groupie in the bathroom after she left but I couldn’t get it hard. This is killing me.”

  “Why don’t you look her up? Kris told me that she was from a town in Indiana that’s not too far from here.”

  “Yeah, her friend said they lived in Muncie.”

  “So find her,” I insisted.

  “I don’t know. She was pretty standoffish and would probably shit bricks if I showed up there.”

  “Well you will never know if you don’t take a chance.”

  Ryder shook his head and said, “I don’t know, Jess. I really think if I show up now it will do more harm than good. I’m going to give her time to maybe thaw that frosty exterior of hers before I try to find her.”

  “But you are going to go after her?”

  Sighing, he leaned his head back on the wall and replied, “I don’t know Jess.”

  “Yes you do,” I answered, When he looked back to me, he was smiling so wide that his face probably hurt. I clapped him on the back and replied, “Atta boy.”

  Ryder nudged me and we finished off our beers and continued talking while the rest of the guys were all playing pool. I was so happy that Ryder had seemed to have met his match with this Everleigh girl and that life had finally seemed to slow down for everyone. Of course I should have known that just when things began to look up for everyone that’s when things came crashing back down.

  Over the next three months, Ryder had talked about Everleigh every single day (even if he didn’t realize it) and I was so happy when he finally went to Muncie to find her. Despite a rocky start for the two of them, they pretty much fell into a relationship as soon as he showed up. However, sadly a few days after they’d reconnected, Everleigh’s father Max passed away from pancreatic cancer.

  We were all so worried that Ryder would slide backward after literally being there and watching Max die, but he didn’t. In fact, he showed so much strength and really took care of Everleigh in every way she needed him to. He was absolutely amazing to her and it warmed my heart during that sad time to see how much he’d grown and matured in the short time he knew her.

  The first time I met Everleigh and her friend Danni was at Max’s wake at Everleigh’s house. I really had hoped to have met her before she lost her father but by the time Ryder had finally decided to make a move everything happened too quickly. When I finally met her, I wasn’t only shocked by how beautiful she was on the outside, but on the inside as well. It was no wonder that Ryder had been so drawn to her; she was just so easy to love with her sweet and genuine personality. The one thing I loved most about her instantly was that she was the most down to earth person I’d ever met and she fell for my friend for the man he was. That alone made me love her.

  Her friend Danni was also just as beautiful and fun and it wasn’t a huge shock that Beau fell under her spell. They became friends and emailed and texted a lot after the show. When the guys followed Ryder to Muncie, they immediately fell into a “no strings sex” relationship. Unlike Ryder, Beau was a bit more stubborn when it came to admitting his feelings for Danni and their relationship was brief and came to blows when we went to New York.

  I used to love going to New York City but after the hell that we’d all endured once we had to go there, I personally never wanted to go back if I didn’t have to. Everleigh’s ex-boyfriend Scott had gone completely off the rails once she had started dating Ryder. I still don’t understand why he went as crazy as he did. He broke up with her after they slept together once and she asked to wait before they did it again. He completely lost it, telling her heinous things and destroying her confidence. If I had to guess, I’d say that was his way of making sure she didn’t attempt to be with anyone else. When Ryder showed up in town, the crazy switch in Scott’s mind obviously was flipped on and he had not only caused a scene at Max’s wake, but he tried to rape her before we left and three weeks after we’d arrived in the city he murdered her friend Trisha Cramer before following her to New York City.

  Everyone was on edge and we all were under constant protection after that. Danni, Everleigh, and I never went anywhere alone and Beau’s sister Sadie had to leave in the middle of her final semester of college and come to the city because the guys felt like having her close to us would keep her safer. Everleigh had even begun taking shooting lessons at a gun range after Ryder forced her to learn to use a gun. No one knew what Scott was capable of so Ryder wanted her to have a way to protect herself just in case the worst happened and I couldn’t say I blamed him.

  On Sadie’s twenty-first birthday, we’d all decided to get out and have some fun because frankly we all needed it. As a gift to Sadie (and I think more so for Everleigh) Ryder sent us all to a high end salon in Manhattan to get ready for the birthday girl’s big night out. It was so sweet of Ryder to treat us all to a day of pampering and by the time we were ready to hit the club, we all looked smoking ass hot.

  Sadie had chosen to spend her birthday at Shadow, a hot club that always had amazing bands playing. I thought we’d be able to let loose and have a good time but of course that didn’t happen. Scott ended up showing up at the club and after attacking Ryder from behind and leaving him in a crumpled heap on the men’s bathroom floor, he abducted Everleigh at knifepoint before anyone could stop him.

  The hours that followed were pure agony as we waited at the police station for any news on Everleigh and Scott’s whereabouts. Everyone was upset and visibly shaken, but Ryder and Danni were inconsolable. After what felt like days rather than hours, Ryder’s cell phone rang and it was Everleigh calling to tell us that not only was she alive but she’d been forced to do the unthinkable…she had to kill Scott in self defense.

  My heart was leaping yet breaking at the same time. I was relieved that Everleigh was safe and unharmed (for the most part anyway) yet what she had to do to not only save herself but Danni, Sadie and I after Scott had threatened our lives as well. Everleigh was an amazing girl and I would be forever indebted to her for saving all of us.

  After Everleigh had been checked out at the hospital and was informed by two detectives that she wouldn’t be facing any charges in Scott’s death, we left for Cincinnati the next day and I personally was so happy to be going back home to where things made more sense. At that point Kris and I hadn’t slept in our own bed in over a month and I was desperate for things to calm down and get back to normal so I could finish planning this wedding. I couldn’t wait to finally start our lives together without anything else happening to stop that from happening.

  Chapter 15

  Kris

  I groaned as I heard my cell phone ringing. I didn’t know what time it was but I did know
for sure that it was either too late or too early to have a fucking phone chirping in my ear.

  Grabbing it angrily off the nightstand, I swiped the screen and held it to my ear. “This had better be good,” I grumbled.

  “Get up and pack your bags, man. We’re heading to Vegas tonight.”

  I rubbed my eyes and asked, “Ryder?”

  “Of course it’s Ryder.”

  “Dude, do you have any idea what time it is?” I snapped, glaring at the clock on the wall that read that it was just after four in the morning. I looked over at Jess, who was still sleeping soundly like a beautiful angel.

  “Come on, this is important. Seriously, get up and get dressed. Wake Jess up too.”

  “What the hell is going on man? Why are we flying to Vegas?”

  “Because I’m getting married.”

  I sat up and flicked on the light. “You’re what?”

  “I just asked Everleigh to marry me and she said yes. We don’t want to wait so we’re leaving on the next flight out and I need everyone there. Evie’s calling the airport right now and booking the flight.”

  “So…you’re serious? This isn’t a joke?”

  “Kris, why in the hell would I call you at four a.m. and wake you up to tell you I’m getting married and then say ‘psyche, just playing’?”

  I rubbed my scruffy cheek and smiled. “Well fuck me, man.”

  “No thanks, I’ll let Jess do that,” he laughed.

  “I’m happy for you, Ryder, seriously. I’ll wake Jess up and we’ll meet you at the airport. Have Ev text us the flight info.”

  “I will. I’ll see you soon, man,” he said.

  “See you bro,” I replied before hanging up the phone and running my hand through my hair. I laughed to myself before turning to Jess and watching her sleep for a few more moments before I woke her from her sleep. She looked so gorgeous while she slept and I truly hated to wake her but I knew she would want to know about Ryder and Everleigh right away.