[Bad Blooded Rebel Series 06] - Deeper

by Mellie George

  I gently shook her shoulder and whispered, “Jess? Baby wake up.”

  Her eyes fluttered open and she pursed her lips together as she stretched out her arms. “Kris? Is everything okay?”

  “Yeah, everything’s fine, don’t worry. Uh…Ryder just called me.”

  She squinted her eyes and asked, “What time is it?”

  “It’s after four.”

  “Why the hell did he call this early? Are you sure everything’s okay?” she asked, slowly sitting up, a worried expression on her face.

  “It’s okay, I promise.” Sighing, I grinned at her and said, “He called to tell me he and Everleigh are getting married.”

  Her half-sleepy eyes widened and sparkled with happiness. “They’re what? Seriously?”

  “Seriously,” I replied, grinning. “Everleigh is booking the flights to Vegas right now.”

  “Vegas?” she laughed, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. “Well, they are just jumping in feet first, aren’t they?”

  “Ryder and Everleigh always jump into things feet first. If they didn’t I’d be worried,” I chuckled. “He said to pack our bags and once Everleigh gets all the flight details she’s supposed to text us.”

  Jessie pulled the covers off of herself and I stifled a groan as I watched her slowly get out of bed wearing her usual tee shirt and panties. I shamelessly stared at her long, gorgeous legs and I had to shift around to stifle my swelling erection. No matter how many times I’d seen her in various forms of undress, I still looked at her body as if I was just seeing her for the first time.

  “Well let’s get going then. If I know Ryder well enough, he’s probably having Everleigh book the next flight to Vegas so we’d better pack fast just in case,” she said as she walked to her walk-in closet and pulled out her large travel bag. “Can you call John and see if he have one of the security team pick us up and drive us to the airport? I really don’t want either of our cars being left there.”

  “Of course, I’ll take care of it,” I answered. As I was dialing John’s number on my cell phone, I shook my head and laughed. “I fucking can’t believe Ryder of all people is getting married, and before us on top of that.”

  “I know,” Jessie giggled as she walked back into the room and started tossing things into the bag. “I really thought out of the group we’d be the first down the aisle.”

  “You’re not upset, are you?” I asked her. “I know a few months ago you were ready to elope just like they are. Are you sure you aren’t bummed that we didn’t do the same?”

  She stopped packing and walked over to me. Placing her hand on my cheek, she answered, “Kris, I’m not upset in the least. Our friends are getting married the way they both want to but that’s not us. I really think we are doing the right thing by planning this wedding.”

  “You do?” I asked, wrapping my arms around her waist.

  “Absolutely. Yes, I am anxious to finally marry you, but we only have about three and a half months until that happens. You’re worth the wait, handsome.”

  I grinned at her and kissed her lips lightly before whispering, “So are you, beautiful. So are you.”

  “I love you,” she whispered back and before I could kiss her again she gently shoved away from me. “Come on, if we want to be ready in time we need to get moving. Call John,” she commanded.

  “Yes ma’am,” I replied. “Don’t think we aren’t picking up where we left off as soon as we are checked into our hotel.”

  “Oh I’m counting on it,” Jessie answered. “Hurry up and call him while I pack our bags.”

  “All right, fine,” I pretended to pout and she giggled. “You’d better make it worth it when we get there.”

  “Oh you know I will.” She winked at me as I dialed John’s number and made arrangements for us to be taken to the airport. I couldn’t wait for this to be us in a few months, packing for our honeymoon and ready to begin our already-joined lives officially by taking that final step into forever with her.

  “You know, for a quickie Vegas wedding, that was actually really nice,” Jude stated as we all filed into the elevator at the hotel.

  “Everleigh looked gorgeous,” Danni replied as she moved to stand between Jessie and Sadie. Danni was obviously trying to be as far from Beau as possible, who was leaning quietly against the elevator wall looking miserable despite his forced smile.

  “She really did, didn’t she? Did you see Ryder’s face when she came walking down the aisle?” asked Sadie.

  “Yeah, I thought he was going to start sobbing,” I laughed. “Ah well, I can’t joke because that’ll be me on our wedding day for sure.” I wrapped my arm tightly around Jessie’s waist and kissed the top of her head.

  Jessie beamed at me and snuggled her sexy body into my side.

  “Aw, that’s so sweet. You’re such a pussy,” Jude laughed.

  “For this girl you’re fucking right I am,” I answered.

  “Three months, girl. Are you excited?” Danni asked Jessie.

  “Hell yeah. In my opinion that’s three months too long, but Kris and I want to do this right. Besides, you girls will love the bridesmaid dresses I picked out.”

  “As long as it’s sexy, I’m good,” Sadie answered.

  “We’re having the wedding at The Phoenix, Sadie. I don’t think sexy is what we’re going for,” I replied, smiling.

  “Don’t worry, girl. You will look incredible, I promise,” Jessie offered. “We can worry about that later though because right now, we all need to get changed and ready to hit the strip with the newlyweds.”

  “Hell yeah, I want to get drunk as fuck and have a killer time,” Jude said loudly.

  Jessie turned into me and looked up into my eyes. “What about you? You ready to have a good time tonight?”

  “Of course, but I’m pretty sure tonight will end with you naked underneath me,” I answered, a cocky smile on my face.

  “You really think I’ll be underneath you, huh? You’re pretty confident.”

  “What? You think you won’t be?”

  “No. I just might be on top this time. Or in front, haven’t made up my mind yet.”

  I heard Sadie giggling and Jude snorting out a laugh as the elevator dinged and the doors opened. Her words had made me start to get hard and as we all poured out of the elevator, I practically dragged Jessie down the hall toward our room, only pausing to shout out, “Uh, we’ll meet you in the lobby in a little bit. We have something to take care of first.”

  I pulled her into our room and slammed the door shut in my attempt to get her inside and naked. As I unzipped her dress and it fell into a pool of delicate fabric on the floor, she breathlessly stated, “Kris I need to get ready for…oh my God.” She moaned loudly and lost her train of thought as my eager fingers sought out her entrance, which was already dampening with her arousal.

  “Don’t worry, baby, we’ll make it on time,” I promised and kissed her passionately as I led her over to the bed. I wasn’t about to waste this moment being anywhere but inside her, my favorite place to be. As happy as I was for my friend and his new wife, making love to my very naked bride-to-be took the ultimate precedence.

  The Wedding Day

  “You nervous yet, man?” Ryder asked me as he handed me a shot of Jameson.

  “Not at all. In fact, this last hour before the ceremony is killing me. How did you handle it at your wedding? Did you feel this, I don’t know, antsy?” I asked him.

  “Oh hell yeah, bro. The wait was horrible but you’re in the home stretch. Only one hour to go and you will officially be shackled to one of the most amazing women in the world. Next to my wife, of course,” Ryder replied with a grin.

  “Naturally,” I answered with a grin. “Okay, I need to talk about something to distract myself from charging out of here to find Jess and just marrying her now. How’s married life treating you?”

  “It’s awesome, man, are you kidding? Every day with Evie is better than the last.”

  “You still trying
to knock her up or have you already done that?” Jude asked, downing his shot in one gulp.

  “We’re still trying. I know this is probably TMI, but she started her period two days ago and she’s been a little moody because she hasn’t gotten pregnant yet.”

  “Yeah that was a little too much info, dude,” Jude replied with a grimace and poured himself another shot.

  “What? Girls have periods, Jude, it’s nothing to be grossed out about. It’s natural, they happen, learn to deal with it. You have to now especially since you are living with Sadie. You have a chick for a roommate and that topic is bound to come up,” Ryder said.

  After slamming back another shot, Jude answered, “Yes I am well aware that it happens but if Sadie gets hers it’s not like she walks out of the bathroom and announces, “Hey roomie, I’m menstruating, let’s celebrate’. That’s girl stuff and I don’t want to know about it.”

  “Okay let’s change the subject to something else, please,” Beau stated, tossing back a shot of his own.

  I patted Ryder on the back and replied, “Three months is nothing, man. You two will have your baby but you just have to be patient. You know what they say, the more you try the more stressed you get. Just relax and enjoy it and before you know it she’ll be pregnant and you’ll get to start your family.”

  “As will you, man,” he said sincerely.

  “I hope you’re right, Ryder. This new doctor sounds pretty promising,” I answered.

  Last month Jessie and I finally found a fertility specialist in town that was able to give us some good news. Because of the damage Crystal had done, Jessie had a problem producing eggs normally. However, the specialist was able to do a procedure that not only helped stimulate her egg production again, but he placed her on several different medications that were supposed to help us conceive. After years and years of heartbreak, our hopes of having a baby of our own was actually something that looked like it might happen.

  “Don’t worry, it’ll happen. Jessie deserves the chance to be a mom and if anyone can make that happen for her, it’s you.”

  “I really hope so. I’d hate to come this far just to have it not work out. I can’t watch her go through that heartbreak again,” I answered, voicing my fear. It had killed me for years that I couldn’t give her what she so desperately craved and now that it was within reach, I was more scared than I ever had been. This just had to happen for us…it had to. I wouldn’t love her any less either way, but a man is supposed to give his wife everything her heart desired and this was the only thing Jessie ever really wanted in life.

  At this point it was out of our hands so I decided to put the thoughts away and save the worry for another day. It was finally our wedding day and I was finally marrying the woman of my dreams, the girl I’d loved for most of my life and there wasn’t any man in the whole world that was happier than I was in that moment.

  “Well, let’s not talk about babies right now, we can save that conversation for another time. Right now I want to do one last shot with my brothers another one of us gets shackled,” Beau laughed (a hint of bitterness in his tone), passing around four empty shot glasses. He quickly popped the top off a bottle of whiskey and poured some of the amber-colored liquid into each glass.

  Once the glasses were full, Jude raised his first and toasted, “To my brother marrying his perfect girl. I love you and Jessie so much and this day has been a long time coming. I’m happy for you, man.” We all nodded and tossed back our shots. The whiskey burned down my throat yet it helped calm my anxiety. Fuck I couldn’t wait to marry this girl.

  An hour later, we’d finally taken our places for the ceremony. As I anxiously waited for things to get underway, I looked around and really took in all the décor and smiled with pride. My girl had planned an unbelievably beautiful wedding pretty much on her own. My pride had quickly been replaced with a small pang of guilt because I hadn’t been able to help with as much of the planning as I would have thanks to the douchebags that ran our record label.

  Thank God our contract was almost up and we’d be free to leave Bulldoze Records soon. On top of planning this wedding, Jessie had been putting that business degree to good use and had formed a record label, with Bad Blooded Rebel being the first band signed to the label as soon as our contract with Bulldoze Records was up. I was so proud of her and all her accomplishments. She’d worked so hard and had been so supportive of the band, helping us to get to where she always thought we should be and she deserved to relax and have a little fun. I couldn’t wait to surprise her with where we were going on our honeymoon. I booked us a small beach house on a remote beach in Hawaii, far away from cameras or anyone that would bother us. I knew a honeymoon in Hawaii was cliché, but after the hectic few years we’d had and the endless tours over the last few years, I wanted nothing more than to spend two weeks on a private beach relaxing with my beautiful bride, watching her walking around in tiny bikinis and seeing the sun glistening off her supple skin.

  Thinking of Jessie in barely any clothes was making my blood burn in my veins and I needed to think of something, anything, to distract my mind (and other things) so there wouldn’t be any embarrassing photos taken of our wedding. I blew a hard breath through my lips just as the string quartet began to play one of Jessie’s favorite songs, Edwin McCain’s “I’ll Be”, as the lights lowered. I watched as Everleigh walked down the aisle and looked back to see Ryder smiling at her with pride. Jessie had been right; the bridesmaid dresses were beautiful. I was a guy and really didn’t pay attention to that kind of thing but even I could appreciate how pretty Everleigh looked in her dress.

  My palms started sweating like crazy as Danni followed Everleigh, smiling at me and obviously trying her hardest not to look at Beau. Those two were exhausting as Beau fought to get her attention and Danni fought to stay away. We were all worrying more and more about Beau as he slipped farther into a bottle to cope with being without Danni. I really hoped they would find a way to work things out because my friend was becoming a shell of who he once was without her.

  As Sadie entered and began walking up the aisle toward us, my heart skipped a beat knowing that my gorgeous girl would soon make her big entrance. This moment was going a million miles a minute yet agonizingly slow at the same time. I almost wanted to shout at Sadie to hurry up so I could finally see Jessie but before I knew it, she was standing on my other side and beaming at me. She gave me a quick wink as the music changed and all eyes turned toward the entrance.

  This was it. This was the moment the woman I loved more than anything and anyone in the world would walk down the aisle toward me. This was when we’d finally start our lives together as husband and wife. As the wedding march began to play, I looked toward the entrance to the room and when my eyes finally landed on Jessie, my heart skipped a beat and I felt tears stinging my eyes.

  She was breathtaking; there was no other way to describe her. She was wearing a gorgeous white strapless dress that hugged her delicate frame perfectly and her long, light brown hair was swept up off her elegant neck. Jessie was so beautiful that she almost didn’t seem real to me. It was as if an angel was floating toward me.

  I tried my hardest to swallow the lump in my throat but it was impossible. Just as I knew I would, the tears that had been threatening to fall slid down my cheeks as she got closer and closer to me. I blew a shaky breath through my lips and smiled as I saw the sheer joy radiating from her gorgeous face. God, what had I ever done in my life that was so great to have deserved this beautiful woman? As she reached me and slid her delicate hand into mine, she gave it a quick squeeze and smile brightly at me.

  “You are so beautiful,” I whispered through the still-present lump in my throat.

  “So are you,” she answered breathlessly. “In every way.”

  “I love you,” I replied, and she mouthed “Love you more,” back to me as the minister began the ceremony.

  “I can’t believe I’m dancing with my wife,” I said as I held Jessie into my arms
as close to my body as I could.

  “I love the sound of that,” she answered, sighing happily. “I’ve waited for this moment forever.”

  “Well I hope it’s living up to the hype,” I replied, kissing her head softly.

  Humming lightly, she said, “It’s better than I dreamed it to be. This whole day has been absolutely perfect.”

  “Well it should have been. You planned it mostly on your own.”

  “Not completely on my own, I had some help,” she answered, looking up at me with those gorgeous blue eyes and smiling.

  “Jess, this wedding is beautiful, you should be proud. This is what I wanted for us, for you,” I said as we both looked around the ballroom. She rested her head on my chest as we both turned to look at everyone dancing and having fun on the dance floor.

  Ryder was holding Everleigh in his arms and guiding her around the dance floor like they were the only two people in the room. Beau had convinced Danni to dance with him and for just one brief moment they both looked like nothing that had happened in New York mattered at all and things were the way they should be. Jude and Sadie were dancing together as well and as usual, Jude was completely oblivious of the fact that Sadie was head over heels in love with him but it was shining out of her eyes as she laughed at something he’d said. Even John had taken a break and was dancing with a cute brunette. Everything was perfect.

  “And that is why I love you so much, Kris. You always wanted the best for me even when I didn’t feel like I deserved it.”

  “Jessie, you are the most beautiful person I’ve ever met and you don’t just deserve the best, you deserve the whole world. This wedding is just the beginning for us, you just wait and see.”

  She combed her fingers through my hair at the nape of my neck and whispered, “I can’t wait,” just before our lips met in a deep, warm, sensual kiss. I didn’t care in that moment if anyone was watching. Jessie was finally my wife and we might get the chance after years of heartache to be parents. I was the happiest man alive and couldn’t wait to begin the next chapter of our life together.