One Last Love kdp

by Wood, Lauren

  ONE LAST LOVE

  A CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE AUTHOR

  Contents

  © Copyright 2018 – All rights reserved.

  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

  FIRST TIME (SAMPLE)

  A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

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  This book is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locations is purely coincidental. The characters all are production of the author’s imagination. Please note that this work is intended only for adults over the age of 18.

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  Description

  A girl could never forget her first love, or her first night of bliss.

  He leaves me lost, unsure what to do next.

  For a while, I waited for him.

  When he called me from jail, I knew that I wasn’t the same girl.

  I was with another man now, his friend. It just couldn’t be.

  With all that in mind, why was I so damn worried about it?

  In school, Frank was the bad boy. He was the one getting sent to the principal’s office.

  It had done it for me then.

  I’d wanted to be the girl on his arm and we were inseparable for almost a year.

  Then out of the blue, Frank takes off without much of an explanation.

  Why in the world did I still quiver inside, just thinking about Frank on top of me?

  ***

  Prologue

  Gemma

  “Damn Gem. This isn’t going to end well.”

  “Why not? Just pull over. It’s just Rusty. I don’t know what the problem is. He’s going to do anything but tell you to slow down.”

  “This isn’t exactly my car.”

  “No. You said it was your uncle’s, right?”

  “Well, not really.”

  I was starting to get nervous. He was leaving a lot out and I was sure that I wasn’t going to like what was being omitted. There was always something more when it came to Frank.

  “What do you mean Frankie? Don’t mess around with me.”

  “I mean that this is a stolen car and it goes faster than Rusty’s old squad car. So, put your seat belt on Gemma. We’re going for a ride.”

  That wasn’t at all what I wanted to hear. Frank was always doing crazy shit like this and I wasn’t too inclined to jump into it. But I was in it, so I really didn’t have a choice. That’s how he got me wrapped up in his hare-brained ideas over and over again. I should have learned my lesson by now, but apparently, I hadn’t. I put my seatbelt on and glared at him.

  “What? At least we aren’t on the bike.”

  I sighed to myself and imagined the same scenario on a bike. Yeah, that could have been worse I suppose. But once he started putting the pedal down, my heart started to beat a little faster. He was going fast already, but in seconds he was going a whole lot faster. Frank was a damn good driver, but that didn’t mean that the world was going to play along. I was worried about something pulling in front of us. We were on a state highway and people could pull out around any bend.

  My heart was racing, and I looked over at Frank and he had the biggest grin on his face. I wanted to yell at him to slow down, but I was more worried about taking away his focus more than anything else. I needed him to focus on the road, not me.

  He finally started to slow down and I looked behind us. Rusty was becoming further back in the mirror and then he disappeared as we went over a hill. Frank started to slow down and then made a hard right down a dirt road. The tires spun, and I didn’t think it was going to right itself after it fishtailed. I couldn’t hear anything over the blood pounding in my ears and before long I was cursing myself for getting in the car with him. I might not make it out.

  The car started to slow down enough where I could breathe, and I hit him as hard as I could across the chest. I couldn’t believe he’d done that and I wanted to make sure that he knew it was not okay.

  “You should have just stopped.”

  “Not likely Gem. You know that I can’t get anything else on my record. I’m getting too old for juvie.”

  “Then stop doing crap like this. Why did you steal this car?”

  “The guy owes me money. He’s trying to get it back without paying me. I needed something for collateral.”

  He was slowing way down while he was talking. “You need to keep going. Rusty is going to see all the dirt you flew up. It’s not like he won’t know we came down this way.”

  Frank looked at me like he hadn’t thought of that and I sighed louder. “Seriously? Tell me there is a way out of here?”

  I was now looking at the road in front of me that was only big enough for one vehicle at a time. We weren’t going to be able to get around this. Rusty was going to have us boxed in.

  “Well we have to figure out something. There’s a circle to turn around up ahead, but that’s it. This is a nature reserve or something.”

  When we got to the end and I told him to get out.

  “What?”

  “Get out because I’m going to tell Rusty that someone took me and ran off in the woods.”

  He looked at me like I’d lost my mind, but it wasn’t like that at all. I knew what was going to happen now and he was just going to have to go with it.

  “You’re going to hide in the woods and I’ll get him to go the other way. You take the car and get out of here. We both will.”

  “It’s scary how quick that mind works.”

  “Well you always do keep me on my toes. You really got to stop this crap. Drop the car off. A few bucks isn’t going to hurt nothing.”

  “It’s more than a few.”

  I told him that I didn’t want to talk about it right now. I was just going to be thankful that it was gullible Rusty and not the new deputies brought in. They would give more chase than Rusty was going to. He pulled to the left and took out the other direction. Frank left the car door open and I waited until I saw the police cruiser to get out. I was full blown crying by then and he pulled up next to me, out of the way to see if I was okay.

  “What the hell is going on?”

  “I don’t know. This guy just picked me up in this car and started driving crazy. He ran over there into the woods when he saw this was a dead end.”

  “Yeah, pretty damn stupid of him.”

  I agreed in scenario and in real life. He looked the direction that I’d pointed him. I knew that he couldn’t see anyone, because there was no one that way. But I said something about seeing movement and I could tell he was ready to take off to save me.

  “Get him Rusty. Don’t let him get away!”

  Rusty bought
it and ran into the woods. They were dense and as soon as I couldn’t see him anymore, I made a sound to tell Frank that it was time to go. He got back in and drove us back out the dirt road where we had just come.

  “You’re brilliant. But what are you going to tell him when he comes by? You know that he’s going to come see you Gemma.”

  “I know, but he can’t prove anything.”

  “Your parents are going to be pissed.”

  “Yeah, probably.”

  “Why did you do that then?”

  “Because I don’t want you to go to jail baby. I thought that was obvious.”

  “I don’t know how I ended up with you Gemma. But I’m sure glad I have you. Now come here and give me a damn kiss. I’m horny as hell.”

  I pushed him off of me. He was always horny, and I told him so. He just looked at me like I was going to be as wet, as he was hard. The moments in the car were scary and only a little exhilarating.

  “Get off of me. Have you lost your mind?”

  “A little. You know that you get me that way and the way you handled Rusty. I’m sorry Gemma, but that shit was hot as hell.”

  I didn’t want to hear it. We were parked off by the Duston Farm and we were supposed to be figuring everything out, not doing this. He came closer and pulled me back into his arms. I thought he was going to kiss me and I puckered up, closed my eyes, but it wasn’t those lips that he wanted. The next thing I knew, he was sticking his hand down my pants and wiggling his finger in between my lower lips. The feeling made me jerk and I tried my best to hold it together. It was impossible to really.

  Frank found out what he wanted to. I was soaking wet and I didn’t know why that was. I don’t know why I was wet when I was genuinely scared for my life in all reality. I thought that he was going to kill us both. Obviously, my body was an idiot and I was about to push him off of me when his finger went inside of me deep and made me moan. It was just too much, and I was wiggling into his grip as much as I could. All I could think about was wanting more. Being with Frank was never enough. I had to have more, and I lifted my leg up, providing him more excess to my sex starved needs. It was all I could do.

  His hands move quickly, and his lips were on my neck, nibbling and tasting my flesh. I could still feel his heart racing in his chest and I knew that he was still reliving the ride. I wished that I could say that I wasn’t ready for him, but by the time he pulled his fingers away, I was soaking, and he was hard as a rock.

  We moved to the hood of the stolen car and I sat up on it, my legs welcoming him into the folds. I felt the first bit of penetration from his tip and my head went back. This was always exactly what I needed, and this moment was no different. I needed Frank and I clung to him as he made me his, over and over again. There was no denying the hold that he had over me. I was like a slave to him.

  Chapter 1

  Frank

  “Just get off of the bike and turn the engine off.”

  “What is this about officer? I was following the speed limit and adhering to all of the safety signs.”

  The officer snorted. “I bet you were. What are you doing here?”

  I got off the bike and turned the engine off and walked towards the cop. His mirror glasses were on and I wanted to see his eyes. That voice sounded really damn familiar. I had heard it before, but I couldn’t place it. Coming back home to Hartford was like getting a blast from the past. There were so many people here that I knew, but time had changed everyone, including me.

  “Step back.”

  “Do I know you?”

  “Take your glasses off and freeze.”

  It was an oxymoron and I couldn’t do both. He wanted to see my eyes, as much as I wanted to see his. Where did I know that voice from? Hopefully it was someone that I got along with because his hand was hovering on his gun.

  I did as he asked, in the order asked and waited for him to do the same.

  “Franklin Ashby. I should have recognized your tattoo. I remember thinking what a dumb ass thing that was to do. It looked like shit then and I see now you got more.”

  I sighed to myself. “Matt.”

  “It took you long enough.”

  “I seem to remember you have some of your own shitty tattoos. Remember the one that you got of that one chick you were dating. God, what was her name?”

  “Anna.”

  “Yeah, that’s the chick. Do you regret that shit now?”

  “No, I married her.”

  “No way. You went to military school or something.”

  “I enlisted.”

  “Right, right. So how did that go? She met you there?”

  “It’s a long story.”

  “I bet. Well congrats.”

  “Yeah, thanks.”

  He was not happy to see me, and I couldn’t say that we were at odds with each other when I last saw him, but I was always seen as the troublemaker in high school. Matt had ratted on me a couple of times. He was always into doing the right thing and I wasn’t. It was a fundamental difference that had put us at odds before. It looked like it was going to do it again.

  “Well now that we know who each other are, am I going to be able to go now? I have a party to get to and this isn’t a good start to it. You know how my mom is. She hasn’t changed.”

  “You never did answer the question what you are doing here. We don’t tend to like your sort here. The bikers have been gone from this area for a long time and we want to keep it that way.”

  I pressed my lips together and tried not to say anything. I knew that this was going to be a problem. Matt was going to be a problem and he wasn’t something that I was looking forward to. I just wanted to get home and chill out. The party was a homecoming and I could see that the local cops were going to be a problem. Some things never seemed to change.

  “I see you took the way of law enforcement. It suits you. You always were a prick.”

  Matt pulled back and hit me in the face. My head went back a bit and I spit out a little blood. He’d gotten better at hitting. The military must have buffed him up.

  “That seems like excessive force officer. Why don’t you just let me go and I won’t press charges. We aren’t kids any more Matt and you’re no longer the hall monitor.”

  He was struggling with it and I could tell that he wanted to hit me again. I had given him the first one free because I was just getting back into town, but that didn’t mean that I was going to let it go much further. I started to wonder who would win if we went at it. The military had him looking buff and hitting hard, but the streets were different. We didn’t have any rules.

  “Let’s see that license and registration. If everything checks out, then you can be on your way.”

  I didn’t have a choice but to agree. I could tell that coming home may have been a mistake. But I wanted to bring my club back home. It was time for it to be here in Hartford. It was small and though Matt the Deputy was all gong-ho to start problems for me, I knew several people in his office that didn’t feel the same way. I wasn’t going to try paying off Matt. He never was that sort of person and it didn’t look like much had changed.

  Giving him the identification that he asked for, I watched him walk back to his car and waited. I was watching him through the rearview mirror and I could see that he was talking to dispatch. He got a smile on his face and I knew then that there was going to be trouble. He’d found something on me or my bike that made him happy. Guys like Matt didn’t get happy for little things. I had a feeling that he had a reason to smile and it was going to end up with me in handcuffs.

  There was a moment where I almost took off. I could feel it in my bones that I had to get out of there, but Matt must have known that I was getting antsy. He was back out of the car and moving towards me.

  “It seems like it’s been a long time since you’ve been home. You must have left without taking care of a few things.”

  “Yeah?”

  He agreed, and
I blew out a breath. “Can I at least take the bike home before you lock me up? I have people waiting.”

  “No, I think it would be better to tow it, don’t you?”

  I just shook my head. There was nothing that I could do about it, nothing at all. I had to ride it out and as he put the handcuffs on me non-too loose, I asked him what it was about.

  “Have you done so much shit that you really don’t know what you have an outstanding warrant for?”

  He had no idea, really, he didn’t.

  ***

  When I got to the police station, it was a sight that I was used to. As many times as I’d been here in the past, it was nice to see that there wasn’t anything changed. It was the same and as I was pushed into the police station by Matt. That man was still causing me trouble.

  “You know, this place actually brings back good memories.”

  Matt just shoved me ahead of him and I was more worried about why he was so pissed off at me, than I was the fact that I was getting booked. It wouldn’t be the first time and it sure the hell wouldn’t be the last.

  “So, what did I do to you? Did I take your girlfriend or something?”

  He just shook his head that I didn’t. “There is no way that Anna would have touched you. You’re not her type.”

  I took offense to that, but I didn’t say anything out loud. I had a mind to find out where Anna was and do that very thing. See how high and mighty he was when I was banging his wife. The idea of that made me smile and I could see that we were alike in some perverse way. We both smiled about the strangest things.

  “There aren’t any more of you guys coming I hope. Hartford is a peaceful town and we don’t want this sort of trouble here.”

  I held up the cuffed hands and told him that it didn’t appear that way.

  “Just don’t think you’re setting up shop here. It’s not going to happen on my watch.”

  “Whatever you say, Chief.”

  He took his time booking me and letting me get access to the cell. It had a phone in it and I was sure that it was Matt way of making me a little more miserable. I must have done something to him for him to be this way, but I wasn’t stupid enough to ask. It was big enough that I was going to have to figure it out and I should have remembered what it was all about.