by Brei Betzold
“Ah Bella, I doubt either of them would say you were a mistake, unplanned yeah, a surprise absolutely, but not a mistake.”
I shrugged, “It’s still unreal you know? That something I thought was absolute, was a lie, it’s just hard to fully grasp.”
“Yeah, I can understand that.”
I leaned over into him and put my head on his chest, enjoying the sound of his steady heartbeat, “I like this.”
“What?” he asked running his fingers through my hair.
“Being with you.”
“I like it too, Bella.”
“It’s weird, I don’t do well with strangers, but you never felt like a stranger.”
He leaned down and started kissing my neck, I shivered.
“Cold?” he whispered.
“No,” I whispered back.
He hummed then went back to kissing, sucking, gently biting my neck up to my ear then back down.
“So soft,” he murmured as he lapped at the skin behind my ear.
I turned my head capturing his lips with mine. He sucked my lower lip in between his teeth brushing it with his tongue. I moaned as he slowly slid his tongue against mine, rubbing his tongue ring across the side of mine, I turned so I was facing him. Still not close enough I turned around and straddled his lap, pressing myself against him.
“You sure, Bella?”
Instead of responding with words, I swiveled my hips causing him to groan. I leaned down and nipped his neck.
“Bedroom,” he said but neither of us made a move, he put his hands on my hips pulling me down rougher against himself.
We continued rubbing one another through our clothes, kissing, nipping any bare skin we could find. I quickly got tired of that and sat up to pull his shirt up and off with this help. Then I reached down and pulled my shirt off tossing it, not caring where it landed. I reached behind unclasping my bra pulling it off and throwing it. Thayne leaned forward and sucked a nipple into his mouth, circling the areola with his tongue over and over. My head fell back and I moaned loudly. I thrust against him again, but it wasn’t enough.
“More,” I whimpered.
He let my nipple go with a pop then leaned over to the other one licking it. “Bedroom,” he murmured, “condoms.”
“Can’t get pregnant and birth control,” I muttered.
He stopped and looked at me. “You’re sure, because I can go grab a condom.”
I bit my lip and looked down at him. “I…I’m not sure.”
He rolled me off him and stood up. “Take your clothes off,” he murmured kissing me before heading towards the bedroom.
He walked back in a moment later, very naked, and very aroused. My mouth went dry as I looked him up and down.
“You are gorgeous, Thayne,” I whimpered.
“Nah, that’s you, Mia Bella.” He sat down on the couch and pulled me back down so I was straddling him once again.
He went back to worshiping my nipples and breasts, and I reached down between our bodies and began stroking him softly at first but harder as I got more of a reaction.
“Feels good,” he moaned.
I leaned forward and started kissing his neck while he snaked a hand between us and began to slowly play with my clit. I pushed forward wanting more but he continued to tease me.
“Please,” I whined.
“Please what, Bella?”
“More,” I whimpered letting him go and trying to rub against him for friction.
He gripped my hips stopping me. I watched as he grabbed the condom I hadn’t noticed off the couch cushion beside us and opened it with his teeth while watching me. He reached between our bodies again brushing his knuckle across my clit and I jerked. I pushed myself up on my knees so I was kneeling above him. Once he had the condom on, I moved his hand taking hold of him myself and let my body weight push him inside of me.
“Fuck,” he moaned at the same time I moaned his name.
Once I was fully seated I didn’t wait this time, I just pushed back up until just the tip as inside me and slammed down hard.
He gasped out, “Is that how you want it?”
“Yes,” I whimpered.
“K, hold on to the back of the couch, Bella.” I did as he said and he gripped my hips hard and pushed me up then pulled me back down hard at the same time as he thrust up.
“Oh god,” I mumbled.
He pushed me up slowly then slammed me down hard again. Over and over he did this, but it still wasn’t quite enough. I took one of his hands from my hips and guided it to where I wanted and then took over rising and falling over him at a faster and harder pace.
“Oh fuck, that’s hot,” he mumbled looking down at where we joined. I followed his eyes and watched as he left and entered my body repeatedly.
I started to feel that tingling spread from my clit outwards, and I moaned loudly. “So close,” I mumbled.
“Ah fuck,” he grunted thrusting up into me hard almost knocking me sideways. I screamed when it hit me, my body tightened around him making him feel even larger. He groaned a second later, pulling me down on him once again then holding me there as I fluttered around him.
Once our breathing was more controlled, I raised my body letting him slip free. The feeling of him leaving my body through sensitive nerve rich flesh caused me to moan again. I rolled over to the side letting him take care of the condom, as my heart rate slowed.
He scooped me up from the couch and carried me to his bedroom, tucking me into his bed, then climbed in on the other side pulling me into his body. He curled around me, snuggling his face into my neck, pressing kisses onto it.
“Sleep, Bella,” he murmured, and that’s what I did. I fell asleep feeling safe and loved.
Chapter 39
I woke up with a warm body curled around me. I froze for a moment then remembered where I was. I looked over at the alarm clock and sat up straight. I turned and pushed Thayne’s shoulder, he grunted in return. Jumping out of the bed, I began searching for my clothes then remembered they were in the living room.
“Thayne, we’re late, get your ass up,” I shouted as I ran into the living room and started looking around for my clothes. I found my jeans and tank top easy enough though my bra and panties were another story. I looked around trying to figure out where they ended up when the front door opened and Nikki walked in, I shrieked and tried to shield myself with my jeans and tank.
“What the?” Nikki yelled and looked up and saw me and started laughing.
“Shut the door,” I bellowed.
She slammed it shut still laughing at me, “Uhm missing something?” she asked holding my bra up. I held out my arm for it and she tossed it towards me. I glanced around again for my panties.
“Ah fuck it,” I muttered and walked quickly backwards towards the bathroom. “Go wake up your brother,” I told her then remembered he was naked, she was about to walk in the room when I shouted, “No!”
“What the hell, Scout?” she asked, grasping her chest. “You scared me.”
“Sorry,” I said grabbing the door handle of the bathroom about to close it, “he’s naked.”
“Eww,” she screeched and turned quickly.
I giggled and shut the door to the bathroom getting dressed quickly, sans panties. When I came out Nikki was sitting on the couch watching Thayne run around the apartment trying to get ready to go. I sat down beside her and looked around for my socks and shoes. She pointed and I saw one of each. I got up and grabbed them then looked around for the others, which I found on the opposite side of the room. I sat back down and pulled them on. I knew I was forgetting something though, I looked around trying to figure out what it was.
“Meds,” Thayne said tossing the unopened bags from the pharmacy at me. I ripped them open and pulled out the bottles, I got what I needed and put the lids back. “Water?”
“Here,” he called out tossing me a bottle. I quickly took my meds jumped up ran to Thayne kissed him bye and ran out the door.
I showed
up at the garage with five minutes before call time and let out a breath then headed for the coffee pot. I quickly guzzled down my coffee and headed to the staging area where my team was waiting.
“Sorry,” I muttered when Simon glared at me, Liam just snickered and handed me a hair tie.
“Thanks.”
“Mmhmm,” he said trying not to laugh.
“That bad?”
“Uh huh, you have sex hair, Harper Lee.”
“Shut up, Li.” Which finally set him off, I ignored him laughing at me and watched as Thayne walked into the room and went to his team. Why was it so easy for guys? I looked like hell and he just meanders into the room looking perfect.
I pulled my hair up into a makeshift bun then faced forward and waited for Eddie to come out and tell us we could go and paint. I was thrumming with anticipation.
Once we had our times, I headed back to our stall ready to work. I got everything I needed and went to work making sure the tank was ready to paint. I was finished quickly and headed towards the paint booth, happy we were given two hours this time. I walked to the paint booths and waited for the okay to go in and get things together. This time they were keeping a judge in the booth with us the whole time, so I had to wait for him.
I quickly put on the protective clothing and mask then mixed up my primary paint color and had it loaded when the judge finally came in. I looked up and found Ace standing there smirking at me.
“What are you doing here?” I bit out.
“I’m your judge,” he said walking further in. “They called me in since one of the others was sick and Eddie isn’t allowed to do this.”
“Fucking perfect,” I murmured to myself then looked him in the eye and nodded, “Great, let’s get started.”
I turned on the air compressor and the clock started, with the noise of the air compressor it made it impossible to hear one another, which I was extremely grateful for right now. I slipped in my ear buds and went to work ignoring that anyone else was in the room. I laid down my primer then let it dry before going back with my base coat of satin black, let it dry, and changed my gun to a dull clear coat. After the paint had dried, I covered in the clear coat and turned everything off.
“You’re finished?” he asked incredulously.
“Yep,” I said stripping out of the coverings they made us wear and tossed them in the trash.
“That’s all you’re doing?”
I shrugged and went to inspect the tank triple checking the paint job.
I looked over and saw him shake his head at me then turn around and head for the door.
I was waiting for it to finish drying when the door opened again and I looked over to see Thayne standing there.
“What’s up?” I asked.
“Nothing, saw the light off.”
I nodded, “You can have the room soon.”
He walked over looking at my tank and whistled, “Nice customization.”
“Thanks,” I said smiling looking over Liam’s work.
“Though the paint is a little, uhm, well boring.”
I sighed, “I know, I wanted to keep it simple to show off the lines,” I lied.
“Okay,” he said looking back at the tank with an arched eyebrow.
“So Ace was here.”
He nodded, “I saw him leave.”
“No, as in he was in here, my judge.”
“Ah, you okay?”
“Yep, didn’t talk.”
He nodded looking back at my tank, “Are you sure you don’t want to add, I don’t know, something to it?”
I shook my head, “Nah I’m done in here.”
“Okay,” he said looking at me like I had lost my mind.
“So I have what, forty-five minutes left in here?”
He nodded, “About that.”
“Can’t move it for another fifteen or so, whatever shall I do with the time?” I asked batting my eyelashes at him.
“Hmm I don’t know,” he said walking towards me, when he was in reach he slipped his fingers through the loops of my jeans pulled me closer and kissed me.
The opening of the door had us splitting apart quickly. I looked over and saw Li looking between us smirking.
“You do realize there are cameras in here, right?”
“Ah fuck, I forgot,” Thayne groaned.
I glanced up where the camera was situated in the corner of the ceiling and flipped it off.
“What’d ya need, Li?”
“Just coming to check on you, Harper Lee.”
“Uh huh,” I said looking at him, “don’t believe you.”
“Wanted to make sure you remembered about the cameras,” he said smiling widely. “Glad I did or we would have had a Scout sex tape.”
I sighed, “Thanks.”
“Almost done?”
“Yeah, want to help me get this back to our bay?”
“Sure, Harper Lee” he said walking over and gently picking up the tank.
“Why not just put in the dry room so it doesn’t get messed up?”
I shrugged, “Because we want it in our bay.”
“Okay, if you say so.”
“I do,” I told him. “Talk to you later?”
“Yeah, what are you doing after?”
“Talking to Saul.”
“Mmkay, call me after?”
“Sure, see ya,” I told him and walked out the door.
“Alright Harper Lee, you have two hours and forty-five minutes to get it finished.”
I nodded, “K, let’s do this.”
“He doesn’t know, does he?”
“Thayne?”
“Yeah, Thayne.”
“Nope.”
He laughed, “This should be interesting.”
“What?”
“Watching you two compete.”
I shrugged, “Haven’t thought about it, really.”
We walked into the bay, I found everything I needed already out and set up. I leaned up and kissed Li on the cheek. “Thanks,” I told him.
“Hey I helped,” whined Kale, he leaned down so I could kiss him on the cheek also.
“Okay boys, let’s finish this.”
I stood up thirty seconds before the bell went off, bones popped and muscles stretched as I looked over at the others.
“So?”
“Damn, Harper Lee,” Liam said circling the tank.
“It’s beautiful, Scout,” Kale said.
Simon nodded, “Well done.”
I smiled at them then pushed them out of the stall. They had already cleaned the place up so we could get out and lock up as soon as I was finished.
“So what are you up to tonight, Harper Lee?” Liam asked swinging an arm over my shoulder.
“Going to go see Saul.”
“And after that?”
“Not sure, since Thayne has an added two hours after his stall time, I may be on my own for a while.”
“Come over for dinner?”
“I don’t think that’s a good idea.”
“Why not?”
“I don’t feel like fighting.”
He sighed, “He misses you, you know.”
“He hasn’t called, and I am not giving in this time.”
“Leave her alone, Liam,” Simon said. “She’s doing what she needs to.”
He nodded and hugged me, “See you tomorrow when we win this thing.”
“Yeah,” I said smiling and hugged Simon and Kale by then headed to meet Saul.
I walked out into the parking lot and found Saul leaning against Cas’s truck talking to Matt. I walked up and leaned against the truck beside them.
“So, what are you two doing out here?”
“Waiting on you, Girl.”
“Seraph, how are you?”
“Good Matt, and you?”
“Good, looking forward to beating you tomorrow.”
I laughed, “Yeah, good luck with that”
He smirked, “I know you’re up to something. There is no way in hell
you only painted that tank black.”
I shrugged, “News travels fast around here.”
“You know gossip around shops.”
I nodded, “That I do.”
“So what were you doing locked away in that bay?”
“Napping,” I told him smiling and looked over at Saul, “You ready?”
“Yeah, let’s go, Girl.”
We walked around the truck and I climbed into the passenger side. “So where are we going?”
“For a drive.”
“Okay.”
I sat there quietly waiting for him to start. I knew he would start when he was ready and nothing I did or said would hurry him along. I had enough experience with him to know that much.
“Girl,” he started after driving for a while, “I’m sorry we never told you the truth, and I understand if you’re mad about it, but we thought we were doing right at the time.”
“I know, Matt told me.”
“Yeah, we talked about it, and I understand why you are pissed at your brothers.”
“It’s not just about them keeping this from me, it’s everything they kept from me.”
“I get that, probably better than they do. I didn’t realize the amount of things they were keeping from you until the other night, or how your brother felt.”
I looked out the window. “I think we both said things that have been building for years now, and everything just finally erupted.”
“Yeah, but now you need to talk to him, you need to forgive them both.”
“I do forgive them for the lying and the hiding things from me. I can’t trust them, but I forgive them. I don’t know if I can forgive Cas though, not for some of the things he said.”
“Yeah, you can, and you will after you talk. It’s not in you to hold a grudge against Cas, others yeah you can hold a grudge with the best of them, but not Cas or Simon.”
“It just hurts that he thinks that I just let this happen, like he doesn’t know me.”
“I think it’s more that he let it happen, he doesn’t believe it was your fault, he believes it’s his fault and he’s looking for someone to help with that blame.”
“Why not pick Ace or him to blame, why me?”
“Because you were there, Girl, he wasn’t saying that shit to you, he was saying it to himself. All the thoughts he’s kept locked inside finally came out directed at you. He’s kept you so close, protected you to the point of suffocation, all of it, because he felt like he had to prove it to himself and you that he could take care of you.”