Fight of Life (Perception Book 3)

by Shandi Boyes

  “Congratulations” I say, while wrapping my arms around Emily’s stiff shoulders. She seems hesitant in hugging me back until Jacob wraps his arms around both of us hard.

  “Group hug!” he declares loudly “Too bad you are in that bed Noah, as you are missing out on some sister action” Jacob declares cheekily.

  Emily and I both try to hold in our laughter, but the instant we spot Noah’s furious face, we both start giggling like teenage girls. Jacob loves teasing Noah, nearly as much as I love teasing Emily.

  Not long later we were soon joined by several more members of Noah’s inner circle. My mom cried happy tears when Emily informed her that she was pregnant. Tom looked over at Noah sternly with his eyes narrowed, causing Noah and Jacob to both start laughing loudly as if they had their own private joke that they were not willing to share. When Jacob noticed my confused gaze he whispered in my ear “I will tell you later…when you’re naked in bed” instantly making my pussy tingle. God dam Jacob and his teasing. I haven’t been wound up so tight in weeks. Not even Bob has been able to touch the surface of my horniness.

  It was only a couple of hours later when an attractive, but stern looking lady, entered the room telling us all that we had to leave, did the party like atmosphere in Noah’s room slowly dissipate. I hugged Emily and Noah farewell, before moving out in the corridor to wait for Jacob to give me a lift back to Pete’s. I watched as he interacted with the blonde lady that had just entered the room. They both smiled as they bantered back and forth, like they personally knew each other. She then leans over and gives Jacob a hug and kisses him on the cheek, causing my eyebrows to raise into my hairline.

  “Are you ready?” Jacob questions, while waggling his eyebrows, as he moves to stand in front of me.

  “If you keep teasing me, I am going to have you castrated. Then, I am going to get your cock stuffed for my own personal use” I respond sternly, before pushing off the wall to walk briskly down the corridor, with a chuckling Jacob following closely behind me.

  Chapter 52

  Jacob

  Okay, I will admit it, when Lola first said she was going to have me castrated, I did swallow harshly. She isn’t the type of girl you should mess with, but I loved seeing how my little sexual teases caused her eyes to slightly gloss over, or for her voice to get a little more throatier. She has been adequately given the nickname of cock tease from me for the way she has sexually teased me the past two years, so I thought a little bit of revenge was in order. I also realized I have an upper hand in our relationship after I had kissed her against her jeep two weeks ago. It wasn’t until after she had left, that it dawned on me that she let me kiss her like that before she even knew that I didn’t have sex with that girl at the buck’s party. That in itself proves that Lola has feelings for me.

  Lola wouldn’t stop squirming in the passenger seat of my car for most the drive back to Erkinsvale. When I peered over towards her, my dick instantly stiffened when I saw the hunger in her eyes.

  “Fuck it” she breathes out heavily, before she removes her seat belt and crawls over towards me. She then urgently slides down the fly of my pants, forcing me to grip the steering wheel tightly. I don’t know I managed to get us back to Lola’s apartment in one piece, but that was one of the most exhilarating drives I have ever had in my whole fucking life. We eventually made it up the several flights of stairs and I spent the next several hours making sure I returned the thrilling experience to Lola.

  “I don’t think I will ever regret the day I showed you that tongue move” Lola giggles as she lays next to me naked on her bed.

  “You taught me?” I reply cheekily, cocking my eyebrow at her. Lola slaps my bicep as her eyes narrow into thin slits.

  “Do you want me to show it to you again?” I reply while pulling her red and swollen lips back to my mouth.

  After we kiss for a few more moments, Lola briskly shakes her head. “Not yet, I need to recover” she replies as her face grimaces like she is in pain. She then hops off the bed and puts on my shirt that I had left in the middle of the floor.

  “Did I hurt you?” I question panicked, as I jump out of the bed to follow her into her small cramped bathroom. Lola turns to face me with a seductive grin on her face. When she bites down on her bottom lip, she shakes her head. I let out a relieved breath at the fact that I hadn’t hurt her. Lola is tough, but she is also a tiny little thing and I am…. not so tiny. I hate the thought that I could have accidently hurt her during our romp around the bedroom.

  “Don’t look so worried Jacob. It’s not a bad type of pain” she giggles as she puts toothpaste on her toothbrush and commences brushing her teeth. I continue to watch her as she does the simplest of tasks and still find her incredibly arousing. Her hair is a mess, her mascara is smeared under her eyes and her lipstick is no longer existent, but she is still as hot as fuck.

  “Don’t even think about” she states after spitting foam out of her mouth. When I look at her curiously, her eyes narrow down towards my crutch. I can’t help but laugh, it has a mind of its own and I can’t help that it finds Lola brushing her teeth attractive. All it took was a wink and a smile and I was rewarded with a minty fresh version of Lola for the next thirty minutes.

  ****

  “Who was that lady in the hospital room today?” questions Lola as she joins me on the couch in her small and badly decorated lounge room. We had just sat down to start eating the Chinese we had delivered.

  “Which one?” I respond while I shovel fried rice into my mouth to try and get my hunger pains to calm down. I am beyond starving since we had just spent the last several hours cooped up in Lola’s bedroom.

  “The blonde” Lola replies quietly. When I peer over towards her, I notice that she has her eyebrows slightly pulled together and is staring off into space.

  “The one that kissed you goodbye” she continues before her eyes flick to stare directly into mine.

  “Oh that’s Rachel” I reply casually as I continue eating. Lola’s eyebrows lift into her hairline as she continues staring at me.

  “What?” I respond confused. Lola breathes out of her nose harshly while she crosses her arms. What the fuck did I do wrong? The vibe in the room has just gone from cheeky and playful, to me being concerned that I am about to get my dick cut off.

  “She is Noah’s physiotherapist” I inform while trying to work out why Lola seems so pissed off.

  “The record company paid for her to work with Noah while he was in a coma” I continue, noticing that Lola’s angry glare seems to lessen as I continue talking.

  “She is just a friend” I inform. The instant the word friend came out of my mouth, Lola smiles, before she commences eating her Chinese food like nothing had just happened. I watch her curiously as I continue to eat and then it suddenly dawns on me. Oh my fucking god. No way!

  “You were jealous” I declare excitedly. Lola will never admit her feelings for me, but the fact she just got so jealous, shows she cares for me.

  “I was not” she responds angrily as she grabs the remote control off the coffee table and flicks on the small television in the corner of the room.

  “You were so” I reply while grabbing the remote out of her hand and turning the TV back off. Lola’s angry eyes turn to face me and I notice that not only have her eyes thinned, but her lips have too.

  “I don’t get jealous Jacob” she advises sternly as she sits on the couch with her legs crossed, wearing nothing but my shirt that is far too big for her small frame.

  “I don’t get jealous” she repeats more sternly, when she notices that I am staring at her while smiling. Even angry she is incredibly beautiful.

  “Whatever” I mumble, while grabbing her gently by her arm to pull her closer to me. Once she is sitting on my lap, her confused eyes turn to stare into mine.

  “I am not that type of girl Jacob. I have never been a jealous type of girl” she advises slightly hesitant. I try hard not to chuckle at her confusion, but it’s so hard when she
looks so worried. She looks like a lamb that is about to be released into a pen of hungry wolves. If anyone in this relationship is the lamb, I certainly didn’t expect it to be Lola.

  Lola and I spent the next two days in our own little cocoon. I was thoroughly enjoying finally being able to have a normal existence again. I did call and text Emily and Noah several times over those two days, but I am pretty sure they were also enjoying the benefits of a little bit of privacy as well. We only emerged back into reality when Lola had to go to work Monday afternoon. I dropped her off at Pete’s and then headed to the hospital to visit Noah and Emily.

  “You may want to knock before you enter” states a female voice behind me just as I was about to walk into Noah’s room. When I spin around, I spot Rachel smiling at me cheekily from the nurse’s station desk.

  “I have learnt the hard way the past two days” she informs, half mortified and half giggling.

  “Oh really” I respond while I move over towards Rachel and give her a quick hug in greeting.

  “Were have you been this weekend Jacob. I have missed our talks” she whispers into my ear as she returns my hug.

  “I have been staying with Lola, my…” I suddenly stop talking as I don’t know whether I can just give Lola the title of my girlfriend without official asking her, or am I supposed to ask her first? I should probably ask her first.

  “Well your back now and that is all that matters” Rachel replies kindly. “Nevertheless, I still wouldn’t recommend walking into that room without knocking” she giggles while she goes back to filling out the paperwork she was working on when I arrived.

  I am glad that the friendship I have formed with Rachel the past few weeks is still going strong. Once Noah was stabilized after his cardiac arrest, I went to Rachel’s office to apologize for the way I had reacted. Neither Emily or myself had told Rachel that we were wanting to keep the baby a secret from Noah, so how was she supposed to know that he wasn’t already aware of what was happening that day. I found out that Rachel reacted so badly to thinking Noah and Emily had lost their baby, as she herself had lost one not long before her husband passed away.

  “Did you want to grab some dinner tonight?” Rachel questions, interrupting me from my thoughts. I quickly look down at my watch and notice it is a little after four pm. Lola is working at Pete’s until close, so I won’t see her again until tomorrow.

  “Yeah dinner sounds good” I reply as I turn to walk into Noah’s room. “As long as it isn’t at the cafeteria” I continue. That one time I ate there with Emily still rates as one of the most disgusting meals I have ever consumed in my life.

  “I will work something out” Rachel responds laughing, as I walk into Noah’s room not bothering to knock.

  “Perfect timing” Noah informs just as I hear the bathroom door closing. I chuckle loudly while I move over next to Noah’s bedside.

  “Two days still not enough time to get it all out of your system?” I question while waggling my eyebrows. Noah has a hard enough time keeping his hands off Emily in general, so I could imagine how pent up he felt not being able to touch her in months.

  “I will never get enough time with her” Noah responds quietly as he stares at the closed bathroom door.

  “You do know she is going to come out of that bathroom eventually. It could be two minutes or it could be twenty. That is the mystery of these things we call women” I inform using my best mysterious voice. Noah’s gaze flicks to mine, allowing me to see the torment that has settled in his eyes. I haven’t seen Noah look so scared since the day his brothers died.

  “What’s going on in that head of yours?” I question concerned, as I sit on the edge of his bed. Noah takes in a deep breath while his eyes turn back to the bathroom door.

  “I thought I had lost her Jacob” he whispers painfully. My eyebrows drop down low on my face as my eyes roam over Noah, trying to comprehend what he just said.

  “I thought Emily was dead” he whispers extremely softly that I can barely hear him.

  “She was here the whole time Noah. She never left your side” I inform concerned.

  “That’s not what in here is telling me” he responds painfully as he taps his head with his fingers “or in here” he continues as he taps his heart.

  When his eyes turn back towards me, I can see they are full of unshed tears. Maybe Rachel is right and a majority of Noah’s recovery, even now that he is awake, should remain focused on his emotional wellbeing and not just his physical injuries.

  “It still feels so fucking real” he whispers roughly. I just stare at him, unable to form words to offer him comfort, since I can’t fully comprehend what he went through in his coma.

  I watch as the façade on Noah’s face changes the instant he hears the bathroom door open. He quickly runs his hands down his face, before he smiles at Emily walking into the room. He obviously hasn’t told Emily what he had just informed me. When Noah’s gaze flicks to mine, I silently tell him that I still have his back, like I always have.

  “Hey Jacob” Emily greets friendly as she moves beside me and wraps her tiny arms around my shoulders. “Where have you been the past two days” she questions while giggling.

  “A real man never kisses and tells” I reply while waggling my eyebrows.

  “So you might need to go and get yourself a real man” I respond while raising my eyebrows, causing Emily’s cheeks to go a light shade of pink.

  Lola wasn’t joking when she said you can make Emily blush on cue.

  Chapter 53

  Lola

  I am seriously surprised that I can even walk today after all the sex Jacob and I have been having the past two days. Even if I am walking bowlegged, it was totally worth it to finally get all of that pent up sexual frustration taken care of. Jacob and I didn’t spend the whole weekend naked, well actually we kind of did, but we weren’t having sex the whole time. We talked more the past two days than we have the past two years. Our subjects ranged from what food we liked, what music we listened to and what Jacob was planning on doing for a career now that Noah is awake and recovering. He had dropped everything in his life to be by Noah’s side and I don’t think he even realizes exactly how much he has given up.

  I also ended up telling Jacob about Hank’s living situation and that he was in the process of closing down the gym before he stumbled upon Jacob. Jacob had no inkling that Hank was living out of his office, but he vowed to help me get Hank back on his feet. We just haven’t quite worked out how we were going to do that yet.

  The only awkward moment we had for the whole weekend was right at the start when the Chinese food arrived for dinner. Jacob tried to make out I was jealous over Noah’s doctor kissing him goodbye. I wasn’t jealous, I was just curious as to who she was since Jacob had not mentioned her at all the past couple of weeks. Jacob was adamant that they were just friends, but I still have a weird feeling that there is something a little more going on between those two. Does that mean I am jealous? I don’t think so. I would be lying if I said my feelings for Jacob aren’t scaring the hell out of me. I am petrified! I tried so hard to not fall in love with him, but Jacob is the type of guy that you can’t help but love. Where do we go from here, who knows, but I am going to try and enjoy it while it lasts.

  “A whole weekend without seeing my pretty lady made me worried enough to come and check on her and what do I find…. Her staring into space with a goofy look on her face” chuckles a deep voice interrupting me from my thoughts. When I turn to face the voice, I see the cheeky smile of Hank who is standing at the end of the bar.

  “Did you miss me?” I question while walking over to stand in front of him.

  “I wouldn’t say miss. More like I couldn’t work out why this nagging voice wasn’t yapping in my ear every five minutes anymore. It’s been peaceful” he replies smiling.

  “Peaceful enough you had to come and track me down” I reply sarcastically, making Hank chuckle.

  “I can’t help that I have gotten used to ha
ving your around. Where did you disappear to anyway?” He questions. Oh my god, I had completely forgotten to call Hank to tell him that Noah was awake.

  “Noah woke up Saturday morning” I inform guiltily.

  “Thanks great news Lola” Hank immediately replies, not even concerned that he is only finding out a few days later.

  “How is he? Is there any side effects?” Hank questions concerned.

  “No, it’s like he just woke up from a nap” I reply unbelievably.

  “That’s one long nap” Hank chuckles loudly.

  “Yeah it is” I reply while laughing.

  “Alright, now that I have seen that you are okay with my own eyes, I better get going” Hank informs.