“I want something that will explode on my tongue with every lick into my mouth,”
I growled at the image she had just painted for me. “Oh yeah? And what might that be?”
“A big bowl of ice cream!” She yelled laughing as she pushed out from underneath me.
CHLOE
Zane was laughing as he went to grab for me but I side swept him and ran out of the room. The others looked up at the commotion and sent me a raised brow look but decided to stay out of it when Zane appeared behind me chasing me through the bus. He caught up with me right when I reached the freezer and tossed me easily over his shoulder. I laughed harder and squealed when he smacked my butt. The others couldn’t help but to laugh at us, but I was distracted by the way Zane was laughing with such abandonment. It was obvious that he was insanely happy now, and it was a first to see him this way.
“You’re being fucking punished for teasing me like that then leaving me hanging,” Zane said turning to take me back to the bunks.
“What about the ice cream?” I asked him as I tried to wiggle out of his arms. I really wanted that damn ice cream now.
Zane let out another laugh as he turned on his heel to walk back to the freezer. He grabbed the carton of ice cream then quickly turned once again to head towards the room. We passed the others and Zane sent them a huge smile before continuing on earning another round of laughter from everyone.
“Dude, don’t you need a spoon?” Axel shouted out causing me to rest my elbow on Zane’s back so that I could prop my head up.
“Why the hell would I need a spoon? Zane has the right equipment for me to eat this,”
Zane tossed his head back and laughed loud, we had been married for less than five hours and he had already laughed more than he had in the past few years combined. I was going to take that as a good sign, I was going to give this marriage my all. It was easy to see myself spending the rest of my life with him, after all he was my match in every way. Zane dropped me in our bunk and handed me the ice cream. When sat beside me I looked into his eyes and knew that he was once again deep in thought. So he wasn’t prepared for me to tug his pants down and cover his already hardening dick with the cold ice cream. His mouth dropped open and his body shivered as a surprised gasp tore from him. The groan turned to a grunt of unbearable pleasure when my hot mouth wrapped around his cold dick. The shock of the two different elements shooting pure ecstasy through him. Yeah I could definitely see myself living like this for the rest of my life, just the taste of him made me happy. When Zane pulled me up his body and rubbed ice cream on my nipples I lost all thought completely.
33
ZANE
The next morning I woke up with my wife’s head resting right above my heart. The feeling that entered me was so strong that I was knocked back with it. A warm feeling ripped through my body as the knowledge that that is where she belonged, right above my heart, where I knew that she would always stay. As the days passed by the pain that I had caused in the past lessened more and more and I hated myself less. Chloe was always quick to remind me to let the past go completely but I didn’t want to. I wanted to always remember the pain I had felt when I thought I had lost her so that I never fucked up again. Because I was damn sure that if I messed up one more time I would absolutely lose her for good and there was no way in hell that I could live without her.
I brought my hand up rubbing it through her hair as I was still deep in thought. It still awed me that she had so easily agreed to marry me. I was sure that I would have had to argue with her for at least five minutes before I would get her to agree, but she needed me as much as I did her. However, I was a greedy man. Although I was happier than anything that the love of my life was my wife, it wasn’t all that I wanted. No I was used to getting it all, and what I wanted was a family. I wanted children with Chloe, there was almost an animalistic urge inside of me to see my child growing inside of her, resting under her heart as she kept it safe.
Whenever I thought about having children however it brought me pain. If I had stopped being such a dumbass sooner than Chloe and I would be a lot further along by now. There was no doubt in my mind that I would have married her years ago and already be working on either my first or second child with her. Because I didn’t, I knew it would be a while before I could bring it up to her. She might have loved me for half of her life, but we were still technically a new couple and I had already won a huge battle by getting her to marry me. I knew that the smart thing to do would be to wait before we moved forward. Even if that was the last thing that I wanted to do.
I felt Chloe begin to stir and smiled when she snuggled closer into me, placing her face into my neck. There were times where I would never have held her like this, now I couldn’t imagine going a night without her body pressed closely into mine. I wasn’t a very religious person but I was thanking anyone that was out there for giving me Chloe and for making her forgive me. I was so sure that I had fucked everything up but our love was so fucking strong that we had survived it.
“Hey, are you guys awake?” I heard Cage ask through the bunk curtain.
“I am, what’s up?” I whispered trying not to disturb Chloe.
“We’re stopping to get some breakfast, you two want to come?” As if on cue my stomach began to growl.
“Yeah, let me wake up Chloe and we will join you,”
I heard Cage’s footsteps walking away as I tilted my head down to look down at the sleeping beauty in my arms. I bent my head down pressing my lips to hers, moving them gently until I felt her begin to respond to me. She whimpered into my mouth which had me losing my mind before I slowly pulled back. I watched as her eyes slowly opened and found mine, and a beautiful smile came to her lips.
“That was a nice way to wake up,” She croaked in that sexy ass raspy voice a woman has when she first wakes up.
“You’re so fucking beautiful Chloe,”
A bigger smile lit her face causing my heart to skip a beat. I would never get over just how lucky I was to have her. She didn’t know this but she had me wrapped around her finger. I would do anything for her, give her anything within my power that she asked for. I used to make fun of people who were this in love because I didn’t understand them. Now I knew, they weren’t being pussy’s they were being men who weren’t afraid to treat the woman who held their heart right. I would gladly allow people to call me names as long as I got to go home to her at the end of the day. She made everything worth it.
“The guys want to go grab some breakfast. Want to go?” Chloe let out a cute little yawn and nodded her head. I pressed my lips to hers again in a fast kiss before pulling the curtain back and climbing out of the bunk. Chloe followed me out so that we could get ready.
Twenty minutes later we were all sitting in a booth in a country kitchen waiting for our food to be brought out. I tossed my arm around Chloe’s waist and snuggled my face into her neck as the conversation droned on around me. I felt the other’s eyes turn to us, I looked up at them and saw that they all had huge smiles on their faces. There were times that they had all thought that I had fucked everything up, so I could only imagine how happy they were to see me like this.
“I still can’t believe that the two of you are together,” Axel commented getting me to look at him.
“Why not?” I questioned
“Because you were such a fucking asshole. Hell I thought that you had fucked up every chance you could ever have had with her. But now here you two are, married and very happy,”
“If it weren’t for Blaze I don’t know where we would be,” I mumbled
“Which I will gladly take all credit for. I’m happy everything worked out,” Blaze chimed in, “Just remember that you owe me one,”
“Sure. I just wish that the fans know that I am now married to Chloe and not my dumb ass ex,”
“What do you mean?” Cage asked
“The other day this girl came up and asked me if Chloe was my fucking assistant, when I said she was my girlfriend, sh
e asked me how I had a girlfriend and a wife,”
“Dude, you were married a few months ago it will take time,” Blaze supplied.
“I know, but I hate having my name linked with anyone that isn’t Chloe,”
“Don’t worry about it Zane. It will happen soon enough,” Chloe answered pressing a kiss to my cheek.
“What you should be happy about as opposed to thinking about the fact that people still think you’re married to her, is that you were able to get a very easy annulment, and that you had her sign a pre-nup. She probably would have tried to take everything you had,” Axel said.
“Yeah, well Chloe told me to do that and I am glad as fuck that I listened to her,”
The conversation we were having stopped when the waitress brought our food over. We all dug in, but Chloe seemed to be lost in thought. She was picking at her food, taking small bites as her mind wandered somewhere else. I would have to ask her about it later.
CHLOE
During breakfast I couldn’t get my mind off what Zane had said. With his first marriage I was the one who had advised him to get a pre-nup in the first place, should he have gotten one with me? I wasn’t broke, but he had a lot more money than I did. It wasn’t that I thought our marriage wouldn’t last, but I wanted him to be protected in case anything did happen. I would have to bring it up to him later. If I was any other woman Zane wouldn’t have hesitated to ask for a document stating that his livelihood was protected, it shouldn’t have been any different with me just because we were so close. Even if we both knew that I would never rip him off even if we did get a divorce.
After we had finished eating we all began to walk back to the bus when Zane tugged my hand pulling me in the opposite direction. Without question I followed behind me. After all the last time he had done this I ended up married, so this had to be good. Zane pulled me a few blocks down then stopped in front of a jewelry store. I shot him a questioning look earning a small smile from him.
I need to put a ring on your finger, and have you put one on mine. I realized at breakfast that I hadn’t gotten you one yet,”
I smiled as he dragged me into the jewelry store where we separated. I went over to the men’s section and within minutes found a ring for him. The second my eyes landed on it the ring jumped out at me and screamed that it belonged on his finger. I had it paid for and was heading for the door when Zane met me linking his hand with mine. Once outside he turned to me with the biggest smile I had ever saw on his face. I gave him a confused look when instead of one, he pulled two boxes from his pocket. The first one he opened and revealed a simple cushion cut ruby ring and slid it onto my finger.
“I didn’t get you and engagement ring either,”
He said before tossing the box back into his pocket then opened the other one. This box held a beautiful eternity band that had both rubies and diamonds going all the way around it. He gently gripped my hand and slid the ring onto my finger, then twisted it around as his eyes watered up.
“My ring is on your finger, my name is on the same wrist, and you’re truly mine. Do you know how happy that makes me?” Zane leaned down and went to press his mouth to mine but I turned my head and pulled back a little, “What’s wrong? Do you not like them?” he asked nervously as he began to shift his feet.
“Of course I do, they’re beautiful, I love them and I’m proud to wear them. But you can’t kiss me until I put my ring on your finger,”
Zane laughed as I grabbed his hand. I opened the small box that I was holding and let him get a good look at the black band that was pretty fucking awesome. I pulled the ring out of the box and slid it onto his finger.
“The first time I got married, the ring felt like a noose around my neck. Now I feel the added weight and I’m already adjusted to it. It’s your ring on me, I’m your husband. Shit, Chloe, I love you,” His smile got even bigger as he brought his arms around me resting his hands on my lower back. “May I now kiss the bride?”
I nodded and raised up on my toes so that I could meet his mouth. Zane let out a groan when my lips met his. At the moment I was beyond happy, there was just one small thing that I had to do when I got back on the bus.
It took my lawyer three days to get the documents to me, but now I had them. I organized the stack of papers in front of me as I gathered my thoughts. When I had what I was going to say in order I walked out to where Zane was sitting. The others were out getting something to eat, so I knew that I had some privacy to talk to Zane about what had been on my mind. It was obvious that Zane hadn’t even thought about signing a pre-nup, but I wanted to sign one so that he would know that I didn’t want him for his money. It was the least I could do after talking him into having the document with his first marriage. Something that in the end proved to be a very good idea for Zane in the end.
“Hey baby girl,” Zane said the moment I sat down beside him.
“Hey, Zane. Listen I wanted to talk to you about something,”
“What’s up?”
“I’ve been thinking about something that was said the other day about pre-nups,”
“What about it?”
“Well I was thinking that we got married sort of fast that we didn’t really have the time to talk about if either of us wanted to sign one. So I wanted to bring it up now. Would you sign one Zane?” Before I could finish telling him that it wasn’t to protect me but to protect him he was up and yelling at me.
“Are you fucking kidding me! You want me to sign a fucking piece of paper that ultimately says that we are going to break up? I have a lot more money than you Chloe, why the hell would I sign a pre-nup when I didn’t make you do it?”
“Actually that’s what I’m trying to say,”
“What? That you’re so sure that we’re going to end that you want to protect yourself? Are you fucking kidding me with this shit?”
“Zane, if you just let me explain,”
“You already have the paperwork in your fucking hands. I can’t believe this shit Chloe, fuck and you made damn sure to get me back here as fast as you could so that we couldn’t annul this wedding so that we would have to get a divorce. Was that your way of making sure that you would get something from me? Hell had I known that a few days into our marriage that you would be thinking about divorcing me I wouldn’t have fucking married you in the first place,” I had been trying to stay calm this entire time, but that drove me over the edge. I saw Zane flinch as anger flashed through my eyes. That went too far.
“So that’s what you think of me?” I hissed.
“Isn’t that what you’re showing me by pulling this shit?”
“Do you really think that I would want anything from you if we didn’t work out? You should know me better than that Zane. Honestly though that doesn’t even matter right now, the pre-nup isn’t,”
“I don’t want to fucking hear about it. You’re so fucking sure that we’re going to end, so let me make this easier for you. I am not signing shit except for divorce papers, why don’t you go and call your fucking lawyer and have him start drawing up that paperwork?”
This time it was my turn to flinch, his words were as sharp as knives. It would have been less painful if he had slapped me. I calmly got up and walked past him into the backroom where the bunks were. If Zane had any brains at all he would have been worried about how calm I was, but he wasn’t a smart man right now. His mind was playing tricks on him because he thought I was saying something I wasn’t. Instead of letting me explain he was lashing out at me. I couldn’t do this anymore, after everything we had been through he should have known me better than that. Now I was hurting and I didn’t like feeling like this again. If the man wanted a divorce then I would give him one, I was tired of the same shit every damn day. I was calling it quits.
34
ZANE
I let out an aggravated noise right when the guys all walked back onto the bus. They saw the look in my eyes and could tell that something bad had happened while they were gone. I plopped back down at
the table and waited for the rest of them to join me. I was still so fucking pissed off. Why the hell would she ask me for a pre-nup? Was she so fucking sure that what we had would end in divorce? I couldn’t believe the nerve of her, especially after she dragged me back onto the bus to fuck my brains out making anything but a divorce go right out the window.
“What happened?” Blaze asked clearly dreading whatever it was that I was about to tell him. I understood it, Blaze had worked hard to get me and Chloe together and he would probably blame himself if we didn’t work out.
“She asked me to sign a fucking pre-nup.” I said gesturing to the papers that she had left on the table. Blaze raised a brow and grabbed the papers so that he could read over them.
“So? What’s the big deal? You had your ex sign one,” Axel said
“I know that, but fuck man I have way more money than her and I didn’t ask her to sign one. It’s like a slap in the fucking face knowing that she thinks that one day we will split up,”
“Wait dude,” Blaze spoke halting our conversation, “Did you say anything stupid to her?”
“Why?” I asked hesitantly. Obviously Blaze had found something in the paperwork that had put him on her side and not mine.
“Just answer me,”
“I told her that I had more money than she did, and that I never thought that she would have wanted this from me. Then I told her that she brought me back here to fuck me so that she could make sure we had to get a divorce instead of an annulment because she knew that she would get more out of me that way. Then I said something that I really didn’t mean,”
“Which was?”
“I told her that the only paperwork that I would sign were divorce papers, and for her to have her lawyer get them ready,”
“You fucking retard,” Cage breathed out.
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