by Kris Royce
He swept her up in his arms and took the stairs two at a time. When they reached his room he stood her up and wasted no time jerking her shirt off. She was shocked at what he had done and tried to slap him, but he caught her wrist and took her down onto the bed. She fought him as he pinned her wrists together above her head and used his other hand to take off her sweats. She kicked at him as he shoved them down to her ankles. Then he used his foot to take them all the way off. He kept her there as he reached back and grabbed his shirt and jerked it off. He snatched up the discarded T-shirt and used his teeth to rip it. He used the strips of it to tie her wrists together and then to the headboard while keeping her pinned with his body.
“W…what are you doing?”
“I think you have forgotten that you are mine, Tegan. I think you need a reminder of who you belong to,” he told her before he fisted her hair and took her mouth.
He plunged his tongue into her mouth, sealing his mouth over hers, taking what was his. He slid his hand down her body to the junction of her legs. He fucking loved the fact she was bare and wet as he moved his fingers over her to find her heat. He sank his fingers into her as he kissed his way to her jaw, nipping her neck. She cried out, and her muscles clamped down on his fingers, coating them with her cream. She jerked her hips upward seeking more of his touch. He realized she needed this just as much as he did.
He leaned back, searching her eyes as he worked her with his skilled touch.
“Oh God, Ash, yes, yes,” she whispered and shut her eyes.
“Open your eyes and look at me, Tegan,” he told her as he nipped her chin.
Her eyes fluttered open and met his own. He thought she was so fucking beautiful with her lips slightly parted and swollen from his kisses, her eyes filled with desire, and her body trembling under him.
“You see, Tegan, I am a selfish fucking bastard. I have known you were going to be mine the first time I ever laid eyes on you. I will never let you go, so fight me if you want to because it will make no fucking difference.”
More liquid heat covered his fingers at his words as a whimper escaped her.
“That’s it, Tegan. Let me hear you.”
The sounds she was making spurred him on. He wanted nothing more than to fuck her like an animal. His cock was larger and thicker than average, and Tegan was small. He didn’t want to hurt her by being too rough, but fuck he needed her, and he wasn’t sure he could be gentle.
With her trembling beneath him he moved down to her breasts as he kept his hand moving between her legs. The second his mouth took in a nipple she cried out, and more hot liquid coated his fingers. She was so responsive to his touch it was un-fucking-believable.
Tegan couldn’t believe what he had told her and the things he was doing to her. Her sluggish mind was trying to process it all. When he had stripped his shirt off, and she saw his ink she felt a fluttering in her stomach. The sight of his bare chest with that ink never failed to make her hotter for him. She wanted to lick that amazing design covering his chest. She felt strange. She knew it was from the drugs, but now she was having hot and cold flashes, and her body ached with the need for more of what he was giving her. Needing more, she lifted her hips to his touch. She wanted closer to his heat. She wanted him inside of her. She wanted him to fuck her—hard.
When his hot mouth closed over her nipple and sucked hard she about came off the bed as she cried out.
“Ash, please. I need you. Oh God, don’t stop,” she begged as he caressed her clit.
She didn’t see the smile he had on his face as she begged him. He liked that a lot. He liked that she remembered his touch. She began to protest when he released her nipple and kissed his way down her stomach. He spread her wide to accommodate his broad shoulders. He could smell the sweet scent of her desire and was dying to taste her. Her pussy was plumb, bare, and swollen with need. He slid his tongue through her folds and teased her by circling her clit but not touching it.
She screamed when he lowered his mouth over her clit while he lifted her up to by gripping her ass. He kept her there making her come over and over until she was begging him to stop. He rose up on his knees and flipped her over onto her stomach. She was no longer fighting him as he slipped a pillow under her hips. He moved between her legs and lined up his cock. He entered her tormenting himself by going slow.
When he felt her tight heat wrap around him all his good intentions fly out the window. He fisted her hair and leaned over her. Moving her long hair to the side, he kissed her neck. He lifted and gripped her sweet ass, and then he cut loose on her, stroking deep as his balls slapped her clit as she screamed until she lost her voice. He was relentless as he pounded into her until sweat covered both of them. He looked down watching as his cock moved in and out of her, stretching her, filling her. It took all of his self-control to keep from coming right then and there. He brought her screaming again, yet he did not stop. He kept pounding into her, pulling her back on his cock even when he knew she would be sore from being so roughly taken He couldn’t help it. He couldn’t stop. She felt so fucking good.
Still thrusting, he leaned over her. He bit her neck and then kissed away the sting when Tegan began working her hips and pushed back to meet his thrust. She stripped him of his self-control.
“Fuck. Come for me, Tegan,” he told her.
She came again, her muscles clamping down on him in a stranglehold and taking him over the edge with her. He came with a loud yell, jerking involuntarily a few times with his head thrown back.
When he could move again he gently pulled out. His dick was still half hard. Tegan groaned and her body went lax. He untied her, moved the pillow, and covered her up. She was already asleep when he washed her with a warm wet cloth. He kissed her temple before he went to clean himself up.
He was going to enjoy this after all.
Chapter 16
“Fuck you. I don’t want to take them,” Tegan yelled and threw the pain pills across the room at Ash.
“Tegan,” Ash said in warning, trying his best not to let his temper get away from him.
She had been slowly moving, staying on the far side of the room away from him. She was pushing him, testing his limits just like she had been doing for the last two days. She was playing with fire. His babe had one hell of a temper. He had taken to fucking her through her unpredictable moods, but until now he had been giving her shots of pain medicine. Afterward, she would purr like a kitten and snuggle on him or against him and sleep hard, letting her body recover.
When he had called the doctor he told him to stop the shots and give her the pills he had prescribed her to keep the pain away. Now they were having this argument because Tegan hated taking the pills and he wanted her to.
“Don’t you Tegan me. I am not taking those fucking pills, and you can’t make me,” she screamed at him.
Ash lifted a dark eyebrow at that.
If he hadn’t known better he would almost think she pushing him to punish her. No woman but her had ever gotten away with talking to him like that. Right now his hand itched to spank her exquisite little ass. He also thought she was sexy as fuck when she was angry.
“You need to take the pills. It will help you get through this,” Ash told her calmly, much more calmly than he was feeling.
“I don’t need you to tell me what to do. I am sick of you. I am sick of feeling like this. I hate you,” she screamed.
For some reason she was under the fucked-up impression that he only had her here taking care of her as a favor to Tina. She also was under the impression that he was keeping her prisoner. Now that part wasn’t far from the truth because he wouldn’t tell her anything about what happened or about who had taken her, nor would he let her out of the cabin. He had refused to let her talk to Tina or her family.
The doctor had met her father and had suggested that Ash not let her talk to the man or be around him until she was completely healed and over her addiction. He feared it would upset her more, and Ash totally agreed with him.
As for keeping her prisoner Ash liked having her all to himself. At times she fought him, but in the end she submitted to him and became the wild woman he had known before giving as good as she got.
He wasn’t expecting her to grab the glass figurine off the table and chunk it as his head. He ducked, and it hit the wall and shattered behind him. Tegan made it out the door and ran toward the woods. He took off after her and caught her in no time, taking them both to the ground. She cussed him like a sailor and fought him as she trembled.
He cursed because she was only wearing one of his shirts with nothing else on, and it was cold out here. He flipped her onto her stomach, jerked the shirt up, and brought his hand down on her plump bare ass. She screamed in outrage, and more colorful cuss words poured out of her mouth, so he did it again and again until she stopped.
“New rule, Tegan. You will not cuss me. If you do, you will get punished. Do you understand?”
She didn’t answer him, so he spanked her again.
“Answer me, stubborn woman.”
She nodded, and between sobs she told him yes that she understood.
He got up, pulled her into his arms, and carried her back in. She was surprisingly silent, except for her sniffles, as she trembled in his arms and clung to him.
They showered, and then he took her to bed. He knew it wouldn’t be long before the she was hurting again because she had refused the pills.
Later that night he woke up and, hearing Tegan making a run for it again, and jumped out of bed. He caught her at the door. What he had said earlier must have registered because she didn’t cuss him this time.
He knew that she was hurting so he just held her under him until the fight went out of her. Then he stood, tossed her over his shoulder, and carried her back to bed. She fought him again, but he took her to the bed and pinned her with his body until she quit.
He took her hard, making her come over and over and making her scream. When she was exhausted he took her some more. He was relentless showing no mercy. He took her until her little pussy was red and swollen, and both of their juices were running down her thighs.
He picked her up and carried her to the shower. He washed them both before getting out, drying off, and going back to bed. He ended up tying her wrists together and then secured her to the headboard just so he could get a little sleep without her running away.
Without the pain pills her body was soon racked with pain. Then she began sweating and was burning up only to be freezing the next minute. The pain became so bad that she was sick to her stomach. Ash untied her just in time for her to run to the bathroom.
“Just let me die in peace,” she told him as he wiped her face with a wet cloth.
“I am not going to let you die, Tegan. I want you to live. You will get through this.”
“Why do you care?”
“Because I love you, Tegan,” he whispered.
She froze and then slowly looked up at him as if she didn’t believe him, but she said nothing else.
Ash helped her through it, and then he ran her a bath. He got in with her and bathed her. Afterward, he put her to bed and just held her. For two days she did this and would not eat, so Ash made her at least drink instant breakfast drink that she was able to hold down. He was tempted to slip her one of the powerful pain pills in it so she wouldn’t be hurting but decided against it.
On the third day when he woke, she was gone from the bed. He ran down the stairs and found her in the kitchen cooking breakfast. He was relieved when she smiled at him, and he could see her eyes were clear.
Relief washed over him when he realized the worse was over.
He took a chance and walked over to her. When he pulled her away from the stove and into his arms, she came willingly hugging him back.
“Ash, I’m so sorry,” she whispered.
“Kitten,” he said, hugging her closer.
They had nice breakfast that Tegan cooked all by herself refusing to let Ash help. She made him sit at the bar with a cup of coffee so she could look at him while she moved around the kitchen. Afterward, they both cleaned up the kitchen. Then Ash bundled Tegan up and took her outside to see the snow falling. It was beautiful, and she laughed as she took in the mountains and the pines with the snow coming down. They held hands and walked a little ways before he took her back, not wanting to exhaust her.
Tegan felt really good, better than she had since she had been here. She was in love with Ash. She loved him so much so that it hurt. He had only told her once that he loved her, but that was enough. She longed for him to say those words to her again. She had doubted him, but then she had thought about how he has been taking care of her. He had seen her at her worst, and he had still stayed. He didn’t have to, but he had. She had been terrible to him, and he could have left at any time, yet he had stayed. There was no denying sex between them was amazing and hot.
Then last night she had a weird dream. She had been in the hospital and her father, her mother, and Roland had been there. They had been talking about taking her home. Roland was saying something about marriage, and Thomas was agreeing with every word he said. She had wanted to scream that she would never marry him, but she couldn’t talk. Then suddenly the dream changed, and Ash was there holding her. Tina and Marc were there, too, along with a priest. The priest was marrying them. She said, “I do,” and so did Ash as he looked down at her with so much love in his eyes that it made her heart hurt. He placed a beautiful ring on her finger. The dream ended when he kissed her. The dream had been so real. She wanted to hang on to it forever.
“Come on, cowboy. Let’s go make some hot chocolate and snuggle while we watch a movie,” she told him with a smile.
His heart constricted. That was the first time she had called him cowboy since they had been here. Ash smiled back at her. They spend their first normal day together enjoying each other’s company. That evening Tegan jumped him in a wild bout of hot and heavy sex.
Their night was marred when Tegan woke up screaming his name after having a nightmare. He held her and soothed her until she fell back asleep. It wasn’t as bad as the others, so it gave him hope.
The next two days were even better. Tegan was much better. She back to teasing him and giving him shit. Ash fucking loved it.
Chapter 17
Ash woke up to his phone ringing. It had to be early because it was still dark. Tegan was asleep in his arms. She never woke when he untangled himself from her and found his phone.
It was Tina so he answered it and walked downstairs.
“Yeah, Tina this had better be good,” he told her.
He and Tegan had only been asleep for about an hour. He had spent the night making love to her, okay fine most of it was rough and wild sex, but there had been a few minutes of slow lovemaking in there he was sure of it.
When he was drifting off to sleep he heard Tegan whisper to him. He knew that she thought he was asleep and wouldn’t hear her, but he was glad he had been awake.
“I love you, Ash.”
It was like music to his ears. Sometime later, he whispered those same words back, but by then Tegan was out.
Tina asking him if he was still there pulled his attention back to his phone.
“Yeah, I’m here,” he told her.
“Ash, Anne is in the hospital. I was told she was really in bad shape,” Tina told him in a sleepy voice.
Anne? Who the hell was Anne? He thought to himself then, and it hit him that Anne was Tegan’s mother. Well just fuck!
“Where is she?”
“Thomas didn’t say. He wanted to talk to Tegan. I told him Tegan’s phone was broken. He wanted your phone number, but I wouldn’t give it to him. He said quote unquote ‘Tegan needed to get her fat ass home and take care of her mother.’ Can you believe that prick? I wasn’t even gonna bother calling you, but I was afraid that if Anna was really sick Tegan would want to know.”
Ash cussed when he stubbed his toe on the way to the kitchen in the dark.
“Hang on
. Let me grab a piece of paper. Give me his phone number,” he said as he limped to the kitchen. “Okay. Yeah, I got. I will let you know something as soon as I find out,” he told her and then ended the call.
Two cups of coffee later he finally called Thomas. After they had it out at the hospital he didn’t trust the bastard one bit.
“This is Stone. What hospital is Anne in?”
Thomas sputtered.
“Where is Tegan? Why isn’t she the one calling instead of you? This is none of your business, Stone. This is a family matter, and Tegan needs to be here. Let me talk to her.”
“First of all Tegan is in bed asleep, recovering, and I am not going to let you talk to her. Tell me how bad Anne is and where she is at. Once I have some facts then and only then will I tell Tegan,” Ash told him.
He wanted to tell him anything that had to do with Tegan was his business, but he refrained. Thomas told him what hospital, but then Thomas told him she had been released and was home. He kept insisting that Tegan needed to come home to take care of her. Ash was suspicious. He knew something wasn’t right. Ash told him he would get back to him but made no promises that Tegan would call him back.
Ash made a call to his man Simon and told him what was going on. Ash wasn’t worried about waking him up in the middle of the night. He paid the man a lot of damn money to work for him. Ash wanted to know why Anne had been in the hospital. Then an idea popped in his head, and he asked Simon not only to look up all of Anne’s medical history. He also asked for Tegan’s while he was at it. Simon yawned, then apologized, and told Ash he would get right on it.
It didn’t take Simon long to call him back. He didn’t say much but told Ash he would e-mail everything he found. What Simon found and sent him blew Ash away. By the time he finished reading it, he was stunned. He made a phone call to Tina after he composed himself. She reluctantly confirmed what Simon had discovered and Ash was mad enough to kill Thomas, the fucking bastard. Thomas Ryann not only had a history of beating his wife Anne but his daughter as well.
