by Ford, Mia
The words I love you float around in the back of my brain, but I don’t let them free. Not yet. It’s too heavy, too much to put on him, so I just think it inside of me instead. I let the love fill me up intensely.
“Oh, is that a knocking at the door?” Jayden pulls away from me. “It might be Tommy.”
I nod and try to straighten myself out once more. I don’t want Tommy to see me in such a state as well. The door swings open and an intense bright light fills the room. The sun light of the day, which I can’t handle. I shade my eyes with my hand and wait for Tommy to slide inside. “Pippa is on the way,” he says gruffly.
“Is she okay?” I demand, worry flooding through my system. “Did she sound alright?”
“Yeah, she sounds fine. I do think she’s found something out though so that should be interesting.”
“Oh God.” I groan and flop back onto the bed and grab the pillow to push it onto my face. “More? Really?”
I can almost sense the boys exchanging a look. I bet they’re wondering why they got involved in all of this. I’m sure they must be wanting to walk away right about now. I wouldn’t blame them if they wanted to.
“Yeah, more. But think of more as a good thing. It’s just leading us towards Peter, so it’s good.”
I nod and try to digest this but still it makes me very nervous. More means this is deeper, more means it’s about to get even more complicated. I don’t want it to get deeper, I just want it to be over.
“Oh look…” Tommy turns and points towards the parking lot. “Here she is now with her car.”
Tommy races out to meet Pippa and I smile at his back thinking that he’s a good man. He and Jayden are both so caring, not like the guys I’ve been used to in my life. They’re different, and in a really good way.
Once he and Pippa come back into the room, a more business-like atmosphere overshadows. We all have our own stories to share, and since mine is the least informative, I go first. I repeat what I said to Jayden about my father wanting me to be with Bryan even now after all of this. Pippa is the most shocked of all.
“Well, we spoke to Hank Fry,” Jayden tells me. “And he basically confirmed that he and the Rice brothers were a part of a plot involving Bryan. Do you know the Rice brothers?” I shake my head because they aren’t names I know properly. I’ve heard that they are drug dealers but that’s about it. “Well, they were all paid to do something. And since we already know it wasn’t a hit and run, we can assume it’s what you remember.”
“Wait.” I hold my hands up to stop him in his tracks. “They said it’s a plan? To kidnap Peter?”
“Well,” Tommy interjects. “Hank didn’t say that but when we went to see the Rice brothers they suggested as much. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get too much information out of them because the cops arrived.”
“I think Bryan found out about us visiting Hank and he wanted to make sure the brothers couldn’t say too much. I imagine there’s a lot he could get them locked up for so he just went with that.”
“If Bryan knows that something is going on, then he’ll know that I’m out.” That strikes lightning bolts of fear through my system. “He’ll be on a freaking manhunt for me right about now.”
Jayden rests his hand over mine. I dart my eyes towards Pippa to see if she can see the thick chemistry between me and him but she doesn’t seem to spot a damn thing. She’s too lost in her own thoughts.
“You don’t need to worry. We’ll take care of you, okay?” I nod, trying to act like I’m confident. I have confidence in him, it’s Bryan I don’t trust. “So, while they didn’t outright say it, they pretty much said that Peter is being kept captive somewhere. And…” He bites down on his lip looking guilty. I can tell he’s unsure about saying the next part which unnerves me even further. “That it’s something to do with your father.”
I groan loudly, hating the man who’s raised me even more. How can he be such a horrible, callous person? What sort of father behaves like that? How can that asshole even call himself a man?
“Actually, that kinda confirms what I learned too,” Pippa jumps in. “I’m sorry, Savannah, but there’s definitely something fishy going on here. From the research I could do at work, your father’s business is still very successful, but he’s plummeting money. Like, hemorrhaging it at a ridiculous rate. People want to put out a story about it but without any indication as to why it’s impossible. No one can work out what’s going on.”
I stare at her, needing her to see just how much I need her right now. “What do you think? Why do you think this is happening? I know you can’t have anything solid to give me, but you must have an idea.”
“I… I…” Her whole face blushes, she mustn’t want to say this at all but I don’t want people to keep me in the dark any longer. I want to just be let in to whatever the hell is going on.
“Just tell me already.” I claw my nails downwards. “I need to know what you think.”
“I think he’s being blackmailed. I think that Bryan has something over him and he’s rinsing him for money. I imagine it’s something that’s been going on for a very long time, over a decade, and it’s getting worse.”
“But… if my father is being blackmailed then he must have done something that he doesn’t want to get out.” I flick my eyes over the three other people in the room, none of whom want to look back at me. “What do you think he’s done? Do you think…?” I clutch at my chest as it becomes a struggle to breathe. “Do you think he’s a criminal? Do you think he’s a bad person? Like, worse than I already think he might be?”
The silence is too much, no one dares answer me which speaks volumes. They all think that he’s a horrible criminal, someone so bad as to sacrifice his grandson, and probably his daughter as well.
The scariest thing is that I think they might be right…
“Oh God,” I groan loudly. “Where the hell do we go from here?”
Again, no one can answer that. There is no answer right now. I guess we just have to keep on digging until we find Peter. I hope we get to him before my dad or Bryan, that’s my main concern.
20
Jayden
“Are you okay?” I ask Savannah, the same question I always seem to be asking her at the moment, once Tommy and Pippa have gone to their own rooms. “I know this might seem like it’s a lot but it’s good news. It means that we now have a motive. There’s a blackmail plot going on and now we need to unravel it further.”
She paces up and down the room, her face pinched up in thought. I can just imagine all the worrying thoughts going on inside there right now. She must be in hell. Everyone wants to be able to trust their parents, it should be a God-given right, but unfortunately, that isn’t the case. As is being proven here. It’s all messed up.
“I just don’t want to think about my dad doing something bad, you know?” She chews on her thumb nail. “I can’t imagine it, even after what happened today, but he has to be. That’s the only thing that makes sense.” I open my mouth about to search my brain for some wisdom to offer her, but nothing comes to light, which is lucky because it seems that Savannah isn’t finished quite yet. “That’s why he’s involved with those guys. The drug dealers, I mean. And Hank Fry. They are terrible people, so he must be a bad guy.”
I take her hand and spin her around to face me. The panic floods her eyes, she’s really struggling with this. I need to do what I can to make it right. “We don’t know anything yet. We don’t know who is bad, who is good, that’s why we have to keep on searching. All we can do is keep on looking, alright?”
“But what if I don’t like what we find?” she whispers. “What if my whole life is about to be torn apart.”
I have to be honest with her. “That might happen, this might be the case, but at the same time that might have to happen just to make sure that you get your son back.” I rub up and down her arms. “It might have to happen to pave the way for better things in the future. Wouldn’t you rather be in the know anyway?”
“Hmm, yeah I suppose so. I haven’t really thought of it like that. It’s better for me to know what’s going on around me.” She sighs loudly. “I’ve been living in the dark for too long now. It’s time to break free.”
As she looks up at me I can feel the atmosphere in the room changing. It’s shifting from something anxiety ridden and terrified to a thick heady lustful feeling. Again, I feel her tugging at my heart strings, tugging me in a direction that I know is right. She might be married, but it’s a sham, she should have always been with me.
I run my fingers through her hair and knot them up behind her ears. Savannah looks at me with such a loving look in her eyes that it drags me in. She pulls me towards her and I go willingly, needing to feel the sensation of her lips against mine again. As our mouths crash together, I can’t stop the groan from flying out of my mouth. She just feels so fucking good. Being with Savannah feels so much better than I ever thought it would.
“You’re amazing,” Savannah whispers against my lips, her breath tickling me intensely. “Incredible.”
Her lips brush over my cheeks, she slides down over my neck and collar bone, kissing me everywhere. Her lips bring out a buzzing all over my skin. Electrical needles prick over me everywhere. I moan and let my head loll to one side as she slides down further and further, clinging onto my hips as she drops to the ground. It isn’t until she starts fiddling with the zip on my trousers that I begin to see where this is headed.
“Oh, Savannah.” Her name rolls off of my tongue like pure seduction. “Oh my God.”
She shoves my trousers all the way down and I kick them right off. Then she works on my underwear, getting them all the way off of my body, which causes my cock to stand free. Savannah takes my thick length in her fingers and she pumps me gorgeously. The buzzing sensations she has running through me are delicious.
“Oh fuck, Savanah.” She leans in closer. I can feel her blowing her breath out all over me. “Oh God.”
She flicks out her tongue, licking my tip like a damn lollipop and my head spins wildly. Guttural sounds fly out of my mouth, a sound like something I haven’t ever heard before, and that only intensifies as she parts her lips and she wraps her tight, wet little mouth all the way around me. I feel compelled to snap my eyes open, to watch those plump lips of hers tasting me all over… and fuck me, it’s the sexiest sight that I’ve ever seen.
“Oh, Savannah.” I use my hands in her hair to control her movements slightly, speeding up and slowing down every time it gets too much. I don’t ever want to pull her mouth off of my cock, but I also want to be inside of her. I want to feel her walls contracting around me as her face contorts with bliss once more. “Oh shit.”
I loll my head back and let her suck and lick me for just a little while longer, before I finally pull her off me. That feels good, too good, but so does burying myself into her, and that’s what we both need right now.
Once Savannah is in her feet again, we begin tearing the rest of each other’s clothes off like we’re a couple of wild animals. I feel unhinged, wild, animalistic, and I love it. The more of her sexy, milky skin that’s revealed to me, the higher I soar above the clouds. This woman is absolutely everything to me.
Once she’s naked, Savannah walks me backwards until I fall onto the bed. I flop back on the sheets, savoring the beautiful image of her climbing onto my lap to straddle me. With her pert breasts bouncing and beginning for my attention, my cock stands ever higher to attention. There’s an intense fire running right through me.
“You have no idea how fucking sexy you are to me,” she groans blissfully while tearing apart a rubber and sliding over my cock which is slick with the wetness from her mouth. “You really are something.”
Just as I’m about to answer her, Savannah steals all the breath from my body, and the words too, by sliding down onto me. Her walls clamp around me and her head tosses back in ecstasy. As her hair spills down her back I reach forward and grab onto her breasts, rolling them between my fingers, grabbing onto her nipples while she rides me. I’m literally in heaven, this is the best I’ve ever felt in my whole life. She’s better than a fantasy.
“Oh, Savannah,” I grunt as my hips buck towards her. I need to meet her thrusts, to crash against them, to hit her as hard as she’s hitting me. I can see in her eyes that the orgasm is close, that the pleasure is getting the better of her and that’s my favorite sight in the world. It coaxes the bliss from me too. “Oh shit, this is…”
I squeeze my eyes closed as the pressure builds up behind my balls. I’m trying to starve myself of this pleasure, to hold off for a little while longer, but it’s coming for me. It’s too close for comfort, if I don’t slow down then it’ll come for me and I won’t be able to stop it no matter what I do…”
“Oh fuck!” Thank God, Savannah’s walls clamp around me and I snap my eyes open. The bliss is there, the ecstasy is tearing through her body, she’s riding the wave of a shattering orgasm. With her face all pinched up like that, she’s stunning, the most beautiful woman I’ve ever been with, I want her to be mine.
I can’t control myself. The pleasure explodes free from me, and I see the stars. The hot pleasure shoots from my cock like lava leaving a volcano at a million miles an hour. I grip onto Savannah’s waist so I can enjoy every freaking sensation of this orgasm. It’s intense, powerful, overwhelming, it’s too much. Once I can move my body, I push myself up inside a sitting position to bury my face into her exposed throat while I ride out the last couple of seconds of the hot burning joy. I hear myself make grunts that I didn’t know I could, but they feel disconnected from me because I’m flying high, living in another place entirely. My head is churning, darting everywhere, my brain is consumed with loving lustful thoughts, my body is buzzing with love…
Once we collapse on the bed next to one another, I feel like it might be time to tell her how I feel. We’ve already overstepped the line that we probably shouldn’t have, and more than once so it can’t be misconstrued as a mistake. It’s time to let Savannah know that she’s everything to me…
“I’m falling for you, Jayden,” she half whispers, getting in there before me. At least she had the same idea as me and thank goodness we’re on the same page as well. “Like, I’m falling in love with you. Again.”
“Again?” I gasp in shock. “What do you mean, again?”
“I loved you before.” She traces her finger down my stomach. “I just got snatched away from you, and I still love you now. I’m just sorry that I married Bryan and that everything got all messed up. I shouldn’t have listened to my father. He made me turn my back on you and now I hate him even more for it.”
“Don’t hate him for it. You got Peter from that marriage. It wasn’t all that bad.”
“No, you’re right about that, but it did mean I had to miss out on you.”
I lean down and kiss the top of her head. “I love you too, which is a great place to start. I know it’s complicated now but I’m sure that if we both fight hard enough we can make it work in the end.”
“It’s hard to imagine a blissful time right now, isn’t it?” she sighs thoughtfully. “It seems like my life is always going to be this chaotic ball of drama, but maybe you’re right. Maybe it will be okay soon.”
We both lie in a ball of our own thoughts, I’m sure we’re both imagining that future that we’ve just described, I just hope it isn’t a pipe dream. I don’t really know what’s happening between me and Savannah here, if it can become real after all of this, but right now I need that hope. I have to believe, I don’t have anything else.
“Well, let’s not miss out on any more.” Savannah rolls onto her front and kisses me lightly. “We’re here together now, so let’s just make the most of it. We don’t know what tomorrow will bring.”
“You’re right about that. Carpe diem and all that.”
I grab her again and pull her back on top of me. We kiss again, deeper and more passionate. Her tongue rolls around mine until I pull her int
o my mouth and I soon feel myself hardening again. I have a feeling that being with Savannah is always going to be like this, too much, too intense, and far too sexual.
“I do love you, Savannah, I really mean that. I don’t think I ever stopped. Ten long years I’ve waited to be with you…”
All worth it to be with her right now. I wouldn’t change it for the world.
21
Savannah
“I won’t be long,” Jayden promises me. “We’re just going to find out what’s going on at the station…”
“I can go alone if you’re really freaked out,” Tommy offers. “It’s only to find out information…”
“No, please, you go.” I smile thinly. “I’ll be fine. You’ll only be an hour or so. I can take a shower in peace.” No one looks convinced enough for my liking. “I’ll lock the door. I won’t even leave the room.”
“Are you sure you’ll be fine?” Jayden’s eyes are filled with panic. “I don’t like this at all.”
I rub his arms reassuringly. “I will be fine. I can be by myself for a little while, honestly. This motel is out in the middle of nowhere anyway. No one knows that me and Pippa are here. Even if Bryan is out there looking for me, there’s no chance in hell that he’ll come here. I’m safer here than anywhere else.”
He doesn’t look impressed, so I act on impulse and push myself up onto my tip toes to kiss him. It isn’t until Pippa gasps loudly next to me that I realize what I’ve done. We haven’t exactly discussed keeping us a secret, even from our best friends, but it’s made a lot of sense since I’m married. At least for now.
“Oops,” I giggle and I smack my hand against my forehead. “Silly me.”
