Almost Easy (Sinister Ascent Book 1)

by Brittany Clark

  “You got my name on you,” She whispered as she kneeled to the floor so that she was eye level with it.

  “Sure the fuck did,”

  “Why? I mean you once told me that you would never be stupid enough to put a person’s name on your body,”

  “Because I’m yours, just as much as you are mine. You put my name on you, but I also get to claim you every time you let me cum inside of you. You’ve claimed my heart baby girl, and I wanted to let the world know that I’m taken. Also, you aren’t just some person, and I would never put another person’s name on me. But you’re special, I will never regret putting the name of the woman who not only is my best friend, but the love of my life on my body,”

  Her mouth opened to talk, I knew she wanted to tell me how much this meant to her, but her eyes were filling with tears it was obvious that she was choked with emotion and couldn’t talk. There was a small smile on my lips as I watched her look at the tattoo with pure love. She brought one hand up and let her finger trace over her name. I sucked in a deep breath at the feeling. It was turning me the fuck on, her finger lightly brushing over my hip, sending jolts straight to my already aching erection, but I didn’t stop her, I knew what it felt like to want to touch my name on her body, that deep ache knowing that I was now a part of her. Then I growled deep in my throat when she traced the same route that her finger had just taken with her tongue.

  “Shit, Chloe, if you don’t want to be bent over this bed with my dick inside of you then you need to stop,”

  “What is that’s exactly what I want?” She breathed, her voice thick with desire.

  I reared up and grabbed her, dragging her onto the bed with me. Right when my lips brushed over hers, an annoying alarm rang through the bedroom. I dropped my head back and let out a groan. It was now the time that we needed to leave. The others were probably waiting at the studio for us already. We needed to head out for the tour right about now.

  “I forgot that we had to go,” she said letting her finger go back down and trace over my hip with a butterfly touch.

  “Please stop. I’m holding on to my restraint by my teeth,” I hissed out

  My body was shaking with need, I wanted nothing more than to lay her down on this bed and take her, but now was not the time. Chloe dropped her hand away from me and held herself still as I tried to regain my composure. Slowly I dropped my hands away from her and let her crawl off of me. Then I stood up and redid my pants before grabbing her and bringing her into my arms.

  “I love you, Chloe. You mean everything to me,” I whispered against her hair.

  “I love you, too,”

  I smiled and pulled back grabbing her suitcases for her. I linked my hand with hers and pulled her down to my car. It was hard as hell to hide the deep joy that I was feeling that she could go with me this time. Now I had no problem going on tour because Chloe would be sleeping next to me every night.

  CHLOE

  Time had seemed to pass by in w whirlwind of activity from the second I asked my boss for the time off of work. Since I had been storing up my sick days, she had no problem letting me go, I was now technically on sabbatical. After I got the time off, I had to find someone to check on my apartment every so often, set up automatic payments for my bills, and pay four months in advance on my place. Then I had to pack what I thought was needed and go about cleaning out my fridge and so on. Now, before I knew it I was sitting on the tour bus as we pulled out of the studio and onto the road. I was excited to be on tour with them for the first time.

  I had flown out a few times before and stayed for a couple of days, but I would be here for the duration of this tour and that was something that was new and exciting. Not to mention before when I was called to spend a few days on tour it would be so that I could be some sort of booty call for Zane. This time I was here as his girlfriend. I was practically bouncing in my seat over the happiness I was feeling. But no matter how excited I was, Zane had me beat. He was smiling from ear to ear, as he was fidgeting in his seat. The others saw the way he was acting and they were laughing at him, but he didn’t seem to care.

  “You’re acting like you’re going to the prom or something,” Cage teased

  “Dude, Chloe’s on tour with me. I get to have her pressed tight against my side in my bunk every night and make love to her any time that I want to. So I hope you guys are ready to hear us fucking every night because I’m not holding back,”

  I gasped as my face turned red. I quickly buried my face into Zane’s neck as the others laughed around me. That was so not funny, I honestly hadn’t thought about having sex on the bus, with nothing but a tiny sheet covering our bunks from the others. I wasn’t quite sure how I felt about that. Although I knew that there would be no telling him no, hell there was no way in hell that I could go four months cuddled into his side without straddling him.

  “I don’t know man, she’s blushing already. Are you sure she can handle having sex with us only a few feet away?” Blaze asked laughing

  “I might be embarrassed, but I’m not keeping my hands to myself, so wear ear plugs,” I spoke keeping my face buried in Zane’s neck the entire time.

  “That’s my girl,” Zane whispered in my ear, his hot breath tickling my ear causing me to shiver in his arms. “Chloe, come back to the bunks with me,” He said earning groans from the others.

  “What?” I asked them as I stood up with Zane.

  “You two are already going back there to have sex? This is going to be a long ass tour. We’re going to have to hear you two all the damn time,” Axel whined, and I in no way felt bad for him.

  “First off, I’m not going back there to have sex with her, I just wanted to be with her. Second of all, get fucking used to it. I’m not keeping my hands to myself because the rest of you don’t want to hear it. I’ve listened to all of you fucking before and I’ve never said shit about it,” Zane said

  I was laughing as he pulled me into the other room where the bunks were. The others had apparently decided to keep quiet about it because what Zane had said was true. Zane walked over to his bunk and pulled me in so that I was half on top of him, I snuggled in instantly. He reached out and pulled the curtain closed then wrapped his arms around me.

  “I’m so fucking happy that you’re here,” He said pressing a kiss to my brow.

  “Me too. Are you sure you won’t get tired of having me around?”

  “That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard you say,”

  “But,”

  “But nothing. I would glue you to me if I could. I want you near me all the time. My heart feels lonely when you aren’t near me,”

  “You’ve changed so much,” I whispered, hoping that I wasn’t overstepping my place by saying that.

  “What do you mean?” He asked hesitantly.

  “Never mind it was stupid,”

  “Chloe, I’m not going to run away from you, no matter what it is you’re going to say. Stop being afraid to say things to me,” I hesitated for only a second, then decided to go for broke. I opened my mouth, now I had to finish what I started.

  “You’re sweet now. I mean you were always a great friend, but when it came to treating me like a woman, you were mean,”

  “I know I was,”

  “I’m sorry. I just can’t believe that this big badass rockstar could be such a sweetheart,”

  “Chloe, I only treated you like shit because I was trying to keep you away from me. I wasn’t ready for the relationship that I knew we would have,”

  “What does that mean?”

  “I knew that when we got together that it would be for life. I honestly didn’t think I was ready for that type of relationship. Forever seemed so permanent, and I knew that if we became a couple and I hurt you, that I would lose you for good. I didn’t want to risk that, so I did the stupidest thing I could have,”

  “What made you change your mind about forever?”

  “I saw the possibility of someone else getting you for forever. That was not
something that I could live with. It made me feel fucking sick to see. There was no way in hell that someone else was going to get you. You have always been mine,”

  “Okay wait, let me ask something else,” He let out a sigh but gave in.

  “Go ahead,”

  “If you didn’t want forever, why the hell did you get married to someone?”

  “I knew it wouldn’t have been permanent,”

  “What?”

  “Getting married was something that everyone expected of me. I hit a certain age and people were getting tired of the rockstar lifestyle that I was living. My parents wanted me to settle down, it might seem stupid but I did it so that they would get off of my back, but I knew that I wouldn’t stay with her forever,”

  “Zane, that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,”

  “I know, I didn’t say it was my finest hour. At the time it made sense to me,”

  “Why didn’t you tell me all of this before?”

  “Because then you would have tried harder to get with me, I was worried that I couldn’t give you what you needed,”

  “What makes you think you can now?”

  “I love you, the rest is coming to me as we go. I like to think that I’m doing a damn good job so far,”

  “You are. I am so fucking happy,”

  “Good, that’s all I want,”

  “But are you happy?” I asked as I brought my lower lip into my mouth to nibble on.

  “Chloe, you shouldn’t even have to ask that,”

  “Why is that?”

  “Can’t you see how happy I am just by looking at me?”

  My eyes scanned over his face. Yes, it was all there. His face had an ongoing smile, it seemed to be a permanent part of his face now, when before he rarely smiled. His eyes were also always lit with happiness, and love. I nodded my head at him letting him know that I could see it.

  “Yeah, you look happy,”

  “I am, I don’t ever want to lose this feeling,”

  “You won’t, I’m not going anywhere,”

  “I’m holding you to that,”

  I snuggled into his neck with a smile on my face. Zane normally wasn’t the type of person to say romantic things like that. Hell I had never heard him speak that way to anyone in the past. That showed me more than anything that he really loved me. Zane tightened his grip on me and I closed my eyes, this was going to be one hell of a tour.

  31

  ZANE

  Two weeks had passed and I never lost that happy dreamy look in my eyes. If I had known how happy I could have been with Chloe I never would have spent all those years pushing her away. It seemed like everything in my life was clicking along smoothly now that we were together. Every single day she made me happier than I had ever been before. It was the little things she did, like rubbing my back after a long night of being on stage where my arms ached from playing the guitar, or running a shower for me, then joining me in there to help wash my back and then drop to her knees when I was lost in dream land. Just having her curl up next to me in my bunk and fall asleep in my arms was making me happy. My life could have been like this for fucking years, but I had been stupid and hadn’t allowed it.

  Chloe also seemed to have forgiven and forgotten everything from the past. She didn’t bring any of it up, and all she did was treat me right. I was one lucky son of a bitch, but even though I had it all, there was one more thing that I needed from her and I couldn’t wait any longer. I had originally planned to wait until we were off the tour so that I could do it right, but I just simply couldn’t. If I was being honest with myself it was because I wanted to claim her permanently. And I didn’t fucking mind that one bit, it didn’t bring the fear that I had thought it would. She was fucking mine, and she would never be with anyone else, I would make sure of it. This was my way of showing that.

  “Chloe take a walk with me,” I said getting up from the table then walking towards the door of the bus.

  Without hesitating Chloe said bye to the others and followed me out. We were in Tahoe at the moment and the place always seemed to be alive. I linked fingers with Chloe and pulled her in the direction of the building I had found the day before. Honestly until I saw that damn building the thought never entered my mind. Now it was all that I could think about, and I needed for this to happen. Chloe might not be on board with this, but I was pretty sure that I could convince her if I tried hard enough.

  “Holy shit, you’re Zane Wolfe,” A girl squealed from behind me. I put on my signature smirk and turned to stare at her.

  “Yes I am, are you a fan?” I heard Chloe let out a chuckle behind me and had to hide my smile.

  “Only since forever,”

  “Want an autograph?”

  “Actually can I get a picture with you?”

  “Sure, Chloe will you take it?”

  “Yeah, no problem,”

  “Oh is this your assistant?” The girl asked as she smiled at the camera.

  I waited for the flash then let my frown come out. What the hell was this chick talking about? First off why the fuck would she think I needed an assistant? Second off didn’t she see me holding Chloe’s hand a second ago?

  “No, this is my girlfriend,” I answered still frowning

  “You have a girlfriend and a wife?” The girl asked confused.

  I saw Chloe wince as my body tensed and my teeth clenched. It wasn’t public knowledge yet that I was divorced apparently. That pissed me off, I regretted my marriage with a passion and I never wanted to be reminded of it again, especially while Chloe was standing beside me.

  “No, I don’t have a wife,”

  “But I thought,”

  “You thought wrong,” I spoke cutting her off.

  “”I’m sorry,”

  “Don’t worry about it. Simple mistake,”

  The girl smiled wide and nodded at me before she walked off. Chloe looked up at me, I knew that I looked royally pissed off, and I was trying to calm down, it just wasn’t possible right now.

  “Why are you so upset Zane? The fans barely caught wind that you got married, it is going to take time for them to learn that you are divorced. Honestly the marriage was so short lived that a lot of people are going to be spinning from the news when they find out,”

  I didn’t answer her. Instead I grabbed her hand and practically dragged her where I wanted to go. I stopped in front of the building and stood with my back to her as I tried to calm down if only just a little bit. Once I was a little okay I turned to look at her. I knew that she could still see the anger in my eyes, but there was nothing I could do about it right now.

  “Why are you so upset Zane? You were married. It will take time before people learn that you aren’t still,”

  “Because I hate being reminded that I was fucking married!” I yelled dragging my hands over my face.

  “Zane, it really isn’t that big of a deal. You aren’t married anymore,”

  “Yes it is. I hate that I married someone. I can’t stand knowing that the world thinks I’m married and it isn’t to you. Do you know how much I fucking regret it? Knowing that I vowed myself to another woman when the only one I have ever loved is you?”

  “Zane, I don’t,”

  “Chloe, it doesn’t matter. I just hate it,”

  “What can I do to make you feel better?” She asked running her hands up and down my arms, then wrapping them around me.

  “Listen I go to sleep every night thinking how lucky I am to have you. But the reminder that I married someone else hangs over me wherever I go. So if you really want to make me feel better there is something that you can do for me,”

  “Anything Zane, just ask,”

  “Go with me into that building,” I said pointing to the building we were standing in front of, “And let me vow to be yours, and hear you promise the same to me,”

  Chloe’s mouth dropped open when she turned and saw the chapel behind her. We weren’t in Vegas and I knew she didn’t understand how there was a cha
pel like this here. But around the corner there were huge ass casinos, so it all made sense.

  “Zane, are you sure you want to marry me? I can’t give you an annulment in a few days if you change your mind,”

  “Chloe, we wouldn’t qualify for an annulment because the second we are behind closed doors I am going to be buried deep inside of you. Also the only reason I got the first annulment was because she wasn’t you,”

  “Then let’s go,”

  “Shit, really?” I asked stunned that she had said yes so easily.

  “If you want to marry me Zane, I suggest you start walking,”

  I didn’t have to be told twice. I swooped Chloe up into my arms and walked into to the chapel. The lady that was behind the desk smiled when she saw the two of us, but I didn’t put Chloe down. I walked right up to the desk sending the lady a megawatt smile.

  “One marriage please,” I said earning a laugh from both women.

  We went through the damn paperwork that seemed like it took ten fucking years to me, and then we were standing at the alter. I hated that this small wedding with no witnesses that we knew was our wedding when I had given my ex a big ass show. But the smile on Chloe’s face and the love in her eyes told me that she didn’t give a damn. Then I heard the best words I would ever hear,”

  “You may now kiss the bride,”

  My lips were on hers before the last word was finished. I claimed my new wife pouring all the love I felt for her into the kiss. Chloe kissed me back just as passionately which earned us a laugh from the person who married us. I didn’t care, Chloe was now my wife. We had claimed each other in almost every way that two people could. When I finally dragged myself away from her lips we were both breathless.

  “Hello Mrs. Wolfe,”

  Chloe smiled and pecked my lips again before thanking the guy who married us. She grabbed my hand and tugged me as fast as she could towards the bus which had me slightly confused. I had thought that she would want to go out and celebrate our marriage.

  “Chloe, what are you doing? Don’t you want to go out?”

  “Hell no. I want to go to the bus and have my way with you. No annulment for us,”