Mountain Man's Secret Baby

by Lauren Wood

  The whole situation was mind boggling to me. This man, though he had helped me out of a jam that could have cost me more than I could have imagined, was actually a complete stranger and part of me wanted to forget that. I don’t know if it was because I felt like he wasn’t awake and I could do it without his knowing, but I wanted to feel him. His body was hard and hot behind me and it felt good to be with a man again, even if he didn’t know it.

  I had been alone for a while and I had been physically alone for even longer than that. Those few moments with Bill in the middle of the night set something inside of me on fire and I realized how much I missed not only sex, but the intimacy as well. It was something that everyone needed and I was no different. It felt good to be touched or to touch someone else which was the case at the moment.

  My face was burning up and I was ashamed to say that I was turned on to no end. It felt wrong to be feeling him up in such a way, but his arm was wrapped around me and there was nowhere for me to go. I tried wiggling around to give us some space in between us, but it wasn’t helping and when I heard his rough voice in my ear, I stopped dead in my tracks.

  “If you keep moving around like that Ayla, I’m not going to be able to keep it together.”

  I stopped and felt like I was going to die right then and there. It was hard to imagine that he was awake the whole time and I had a feeling that he knew what I was doing. Did he know that I had been rubbing against him to get him harder? I was mortified to say the least and I did my best to lie as perfectly still as possible. I was barely breathing and that seemed to amuse him because he chuckled in my ear.

  I tried to go to sleep. I was warm now, really warm, and almost to the point of being hot, but it didn’t do anything for how he felt behind me. It didn’t help that I was now wet and if I would have checked, I would have been squishy. I can’t believe that I had done this and I hoped that he was only half awake and that he wouldn’t remember this in the morning. I was certainly going to. I was going to remember the feel of his body next to mine and the way he smelled like smoked wood chips and tobacco.

  This wasn’t something I was ever going to be able to forget. It was the first time I had shared a bed with a mountain man and I can’t say that it was the worst thing that I had ever experienced. Was he right that Alaska was filled with men like him? I had a feeling that no one was going to be like Bill.

  Somehow I finally got to sleep, though I can’t tell you how it really happened. It was impossible when I was lying there, but I was exhausted and the heat from his body must have done the trick. Because it wasn’t long before I was waking up again and this time I wasn’t quite as cold as I was before, but the hot man that radiated heat was no longer next to me.

  He was gone from the bed, but there was still lingering heat from where he had been. I thought of how I had felt being held last night and there was a twinge of regret that I hadn’t awoken in his arms.

  I opened my eyes and closed them back up to the brightness of the sun coming through the several windows that faced the sun. It was hard to see, but the sun felt good and I was able to look around my surroundings for a few minutes without having Bill there to see me.

  When he came in, he had a handful of wood in his arms and our eyes met for a moment. Did he remember the night before and how I had acted? His blue eyes sparkled at mine and it took a lot of self will to not hide my head from his view. I think he remembered and I was embarrassed all over again.

  “Sorry the stove went out. I forgot to fill it up before bed. It must have been freezing when you woke up last night. Not that I am complaining mind you. I think I rather liked waking up with you snuggled up against me. A man could get used to situations like that.”

  I agreed, but didn’t meet his gaze again because I was so embarrassed of how I had behaved. I didn’t want him to know that I had liked coming to bed with him far more than I thought I would. It was just a weird situation and it was one that I was still trying to get a handle on.

  “Well I’m glad you are up now. Been up a while and I went and talked to a few people off the mountain that has agreed to come down and help with the cabin. It may take us a few days, but it won’t be too hard to get you all taken care of.”

  I was shocked by his words and a little surprised that he had went out of his way for me. This man didn’t really have to help me but he was in so many ways. I hadn’t expected the offer, but I was worried because I didn’t have a whole lot of money and I worried that I wouldn’t have enough for the things that were needed, not to account for the cost to pay all of the people that were going to help me. I was nervous and I tried to tell him about my concerns, but he just told me not to worry about it.

  “People around here owe me so we will have you fixed up in a week or so.”

  I didn’t know how to thank him, but I knew I was going to have to think of a way. It wasn’t hard to think of one way right off of the bat, but then of course that just made me blush some more and I tried to push it from my mind. This was really going to get complicated if I couldn’t keep my mind out of the gutter. What was this man doing to me to make me act this way?

  “When do you think I will be able to stay in the cabin? Do you really think it can be done in a week?” It just didn’t seem like that was possible from what I had seen the night before. That place was trashed and I felt like it was going to take months to make it habitable.

  I was still worried about where I was going to stay and I knew that there weren’t any places likes hotels this far north and I didn’t want to assume that I could stay with him, nor did I think I would be able to. It was hard to deny how good he had felt behind me when we slept together, but his words were still clear in my mind.

  “You can stay here with me if you want. I wouldn’t mind the company. I don’t get a lot of it during this season because most people are out working. Besides, you are very easy on the eyes and a good sleeping buddy.”

  I didn’t know how to thank him and when I got up I gave him a hug. I immediately rethought the touch because all of the feelings and desires were coming back and I had to pull away before I did something that I was going to regret later.

  “You’re like an angel Bill. I don’t know what to say. I hate to think about what would have happened if you hadn’t found me last night. I owe you my life.”

  He looked uncomfortable with me calling him an angel, but it was how I felt. I didn’t like to think about what it would have been like if someone else had found me. Or worse yet, if no one would have come at all.

  “Trust me when I say that anyone else would have done it. Seeing a beautiful girl like you on the side of the road was a blessing. No hot-blooded man would have passed you up.”

  Chapter 4

  Bill

  “Fuck you weren’t lying when you said she was smoking hot, Bill.”

  Charles was looking at Ayla with a gleam that I didn’t like at all. I wanted to claim her even though it wasn’t my place. Soon I would have her next to me. After feeling her curved body next to me last night, rubbing against my cock, it was hard to think of her as anything else but mine. I didn’t like the way he was looking at her at all, but I knew that every man there was going to look at her that way. Like I had thought before, Ayla wasn’t the normal type of woman that lived up here and she was like a special treat to all of us.

  “I told you that she was hot.”

  “Well I was thinking she was going to be like Gina hot, you know compared to all of the other women up here, but damn she is smoking hot. Those big titties of hers look like they belong in a magazine or something.”

  It was one of the first things that I had noticed when she had taken off her coat last night, but no one else was supposed to notice that. It was all supposed to be for my eyes only and the more he glared at her, the more I wanted to slam his face into the snow to cool him off. Charles was one of the only men that would give me any competition. The other guys were too young or too old, too fat and I didn’t find that a problem. Char
les could be, but I would be damned if I was going to let it go much further than a look.

  “So she stayed with you last night you say?”

  I knew where he was going with it and I smiled. I didn’t mind him thinking that I had gotten further than I had. Maybe then he would back off and leave her be. I had seen the way he had approached her like he was going to be her new best friend and I can’t say that I liked it all that much.

  “Yeah and let me tell you what, she has a hot little body underneath it all.”

  He looked at me with envy and I hoped that it would be enough for him to get the hint and leave her alone. She was mine. She wasn’t quite there yet, but it wasn’t going to take long. If I could get her in bed with me another night, I was sure that one of us was going to make a move. I didn’t want the cabin to be fixed too quickly because lying with her at night was something that I wanted to repeat.

  “Damn Bill. If only I had been on the road last night. I would have scooped her ass up and never let her go. I certainly wouldn’t be fixing this old place up. Once it is done, she is going to be on her way.”

  “Yeah well someone is going to have to keep her warm this winter.”

  He hissed through his teeth and I could tell he was thinking about the same thing that I was thinking about. What would it be like to have her underneath me and screaming my name? I was going to make sure that I found out soon, but he was right about the cabin. It didn’t need to get done too quickly because I was ready for all of her and I wasn’t ready to let her go just yet, even though I was the closet neighbor and I already planned to do the neighborly thing and visit often to see if she needed anything. I was also thinking about how I could fit her into my cabin. She did have a whole van full of stuff that I had noticed when I went to get it this morning. She was planning on staying and I was now convincing myself that it was what I had to do, convince her to stay and show her all of the beauty of Alaska. If that didn’t work, I could fuck her brains out and make her come so much that she never wanted to leave. Either way sounded pretty damn good to me.

  “Well when you get sick of her, just send her up the damn mountain Bill, I wouldn’t mind a round or two with her.”

  Did he really think that any man could get sick of her? It was impossible and if he didn’t know how sweet she was, he would have gotten how unlikely that was going to be. She was a delight to be around from what I had experienced and she had this innocence to her that drove me wild. The last thing I was thinking about was getting rid of her.

  We watched her sweeping out the snow for a while. Other men were staring as well but they were at least getting some work done. My mind was in the gutter and me and Charles were over by the van doing a bunch of nothing really. I knew that I had to get to work, but it was hard to with her ass swaying back and forth like it was. It was those damn leggings again and it didn’t leave much to the imagination. It didn’t help that I had already felt it all the night before pressed up against my junk. Damn this woman was driving me damn near crazy and this was only her second day in Alaska. I had a feeling that a lot of the men here were going to be jacking off to her later tonight, while I was hopeful that I could get some of the real thing. Fuck, it had been too damn long.

  “Alright enough gawking, Charles. We need to get some work done. Are you going to help me with those windows, or what?”

  He gave me a dirty look and agreed. I could tell that he wasn’t worried about the windows. He was worried about the same thing that I was worried about and it gave me hope that the cabin wouldn’t be finished as quickly as it could be.

  She bent over to pick up something form the porch ground and everyone there stopped. Mother of all gods, I could see right through her pants and all I could see was a thin string going up her derriere.

  “Fuck me.”

  I hit Charles in the chest and told him to grab the other side of the window. No, work wasn’t going to get done near as fast as it was supposed to, not if she kept bending over like that much more.

  ***

  We were back at my house and it had been a long day. I was a little tired, but there was still dinner to make. I didn’t know what I was going to make because Ayla was here, so I saw what I had in the fridge. I needed to wash up in the other room and when she saw that I was getting something for dinner; she offered to make something for us. I wasn’t sure if she could even cook, but I wanted to make myself a little more presentable.

  I had gotten so hot from working that I was sweaty, even though I had my shirt off most of the day. I had caught her eyes on me a couple of times and I wanted to see if I could get her attention more. The young woman made me think about women more than I had in a long time. I was drawn to her and it wasn’t just because of her beauty. She had been so naughty last night and I wanted more. I wanted to see how far she would go.

  I needed a haircut to clean up a bit, but at the very least I figure that I should trim my beard just a touch. Once again, I was worried about my appearance when I was almost never too worried about it before. Now that she was there though and I had seen the way that the other men were looking at her, I knew that I was going to have to stake my claim now before it was too late. Charles was trying hard to get her attention and I had seen her touch his arm and laugh at something he had said. It bothered me more than I cared to mention and I wasn’t going to lose such a find because I was too lazy to try. I had to try and with her staying with me, it was easy to see how it could all work out.

  Going into the small bathroom with the tub, I turned on the water heater and waited for it to heat up for a minute before I ran some bath water. It didn’t take long to get enough water, but I was still trimming my beard when I heard a knock at the door. Ayla needed help finding something and instead of just telling her, I wrapped the towel around my waist and made my way into the main room.

  Her eyes were on me and it made another part of me stand up and take notice a lot quicker than I would have liked. This woman was driving me damn near crazy is what she was doing and I had to wonder if she knew that or not. It was maddening and I couldn’t help but do my best to hide the needs I had. I caught her eyes wandering down to my waist and I knew that I was out and she was able to see me. I almost covered up, but since she was interested and I wanted her in that train of thought, I tried my best to fight that urge. It was the only way I was going to get what I wanted. I wanted to ask her if she liked what she saw, but I thought that would be too much, so I refrained. Ayla seemed delicate and I didn’t want to scare her off.

  I found her what she needed for gravy and I had to admit that it smelled good in there when I was checking. Ayla was paying attention to my face as well, telling me that I looked different with less beard on my face. She even touched it out of the blue and rubbed her fingers on the smooth skin. “You look so different Bill.

  I had a feeling that she liked it and it made the effort all worth it. I knew I was going to get ribbed about it tomorrow by the guys, but I hoped that it was well worth it in the end. If it got me the attention I needed, I was convinced that it was going to be worth it. She was already eying me in a new way. She had been eying me all day while we worked on the cabin, but now it was something more that she had in her bright depths that made me a little harder than before.

  When I came out, the whole cabin smelled good and I hoped that the food was half as good as the smell was. It would have just been another bonus, though I would rather have a hot girlfriend than a cook. I can cook well enough, but Ayla never ceased to amaze me it seemed like and I liked the idea that she did well in the kitchen too. Maybe she really was made tough enough for Alaska. She seemed like a city girl, but she had worked just as hard as everyone else today without a break and I was starting to think that I had underestimated her more than I had thought.

  “Smells great Ayla.”

  “Well I hope you like it. You guys helped out so much today. I think I should make the rest of the guys some cookies. Do you think that they would like that?”

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sp; I didn’t want to lie to her, but at the same time, I didn’t like the idea of her dropping off cookies up the mountain to the other guys, not until it was established that she was mine. They had behaved themselves before when we were all at the cabin, but one on one, I don’t think they would have been quite so gentleman like. They were animals, we all were and I know Charles in particular would be a lot more forward. I could still feel jealousy rising up in my throat with the idea of it all and I didn’t like the idea of it one bit.

  “I’m not sure. We can always go hunting and bring them all some meat as pay back if you like. Do you hunt?”

  She scrunched her nose up. “Not really, but I can butcher and cook it. It’s the killing part that I don’t like.”

  I chuckled at her. Yea, she wasn’t as tough as she looked. Ayla was far more delicate than I was used to and I hated to think of her getting all upset about killing Bambi. She was going to have to learn a few things if she was going to stay up here and I was more determined than ever to make sure that she did.

  “Well like I said before, you don’t have to thank them. They are doing it for me because I asked them to. You don’t owe anyone Ayla. We like to help each other out here in Alaska.”

  She was quiet for a time and I wondered what was on her mind.

  “You sure are quiet tonight.”

  “I know, sorry. I just… I don’t know. This is not how I envisioned at all coming to Alaska. I came here to get away from men and to find myself.”

  Her voice trailed off and I waited for her to say something else.

  “Why would you come here to get away from men?” It seemed silly when I am sure that anywhere she went she was going to be admired by a slew of them.

  “Because I just had a bad break up a while back and I have been single for a while. No one has really enticed me, so I thought that if I came here, out in the middle of nowhere, I wouldn’t really be tempted.”