Chapter 1
Kea
Not in a million years did I expect to be kidnapped, held captive and then rescued all within a few days.
My day started off the same as always. I got up, got ready for work and drove to my job. Job was the same as ever. Stressful. Being a social worker is something I love, don’t get me wrong, but it takes atoll on a person. Kids are my passion and making sure their safe is my mission. Walking to my car, as I bent down to pick up the keys I dropped and the last thing I remembered was a hand covering my mouth.
Waking up in a warehouse was scary, but it was also perplexing. Well at least initially. See when I finally came to, the person standing in front of me, was a freaking brick house. This man had to stand at least 6’5’’, weighing about 275lbs. He was covered in tattoos from the knuckles of his fingers up to his neck. Standing with his legs shoulder length apart he looked like an overgrown, steroid induced, giant G.I.Joe. Not to mention the fact that he is sexy as heck. His skin is the color of the golden sun and even from across the room I can tell that his eyes are the strangest color of blue. Blue is even an understatement. It’s more like a teal. I mean I have seriously never seen eyes like his and I could get lost in them. I even forgot for a second that he was holding me captive. His face has a hard structure to it. Like his jaw was built of steel, with an upturned nose that doesn’t fit the rest of him at all. However, the overall consensus is if this were ordinary circumstances, I would be drooling all down my shirt. He is totally my type not my type. You know what I mean? Like he is the type of guy I would dream about, but they are usually not into me.
See I am what you call a curvy girl. Or as some would say BBW. I am 5’2’’, 250 lbs and most of it is in my gut and my boobs. My gut I totally earned because I love cheese and pastries. Figure out to combine the two and I am in even bigger trouble. But my boobs, those are a curse. I mean who the hell wants to walk around with watermelons attached to their chest all friggin day? Although they are a men magnate, but lets be honest, a certain type of man. And not the long-lasting kind either.
Mmm…hmmm
Oh crap. Right. Kidnapped. This happens to me often. See I am what you call a glass half full type of person. I try to find the positive in everything and I guess being stuck in this…. place with Arnold Schwarzenegger junior will be no different.
“Do you know why you’re here?”
Holy crickets. That voice goes straight to my lady cave and now I can’t stop the downpour. It runs over me like the deepest darkest ripple from an ocean at nighttime…. in layers. Hitting my toes making them curl, traveling up to my nether regions finally making it to my boobs which I can feel hardening and begging to be in that deep dark booming voice box of his, as it slowly creeps up to my head lulling me into a false sense of security.
Who the hell is this man?
“No I don’t know why I am here. However, I can take one guess and I bet it would be right. My father.”
“Good guess little one.”
I can’t’ stop the snort before it leaves my mouth. Seriously?!? Little one. Now I know he is crazy. There is nothing little about me.
Wow. Can you imagine living your whole adult life with the knowledge that your father wants to do you harm? Well welcome to my life.
“So you’re going to kill me now? Or do you wait for him to come here and witness it?” I ask this with as much bravado as I can muster because I refuse to give the bastard the satisfaction of seeing me weep. But on the inside, I am slowly dying. Knowing that my father hates me so much he wants to kill my siblings and me is the only heartbreak I haven’t been able to talk myself out of feeling. I never gave much thought to how my end would come, mostly because I try not to allow negative thoughts enter my mind, or at least stay there for long. But, if I did give it a second, I always knew it would be my father that took my last breath.
“That is the plan little one.” The giant says to me. I am all out of pleasant thoughts at this point. I am so far into my head right wondering when was the last time I spend anytime with my brothers and sisters and told them I loved them, that I don’t notice he has moved directly in front of me until his fingers tip raise my chin. I gasp at the proximity of him and at the overall enormity of being this close to him. From afar he looks massive. Up close he is positively mammoth. He leans further into my face and says in the sexiest, Barry White voice I have ever heard, “That is the plan, but no one will touch you as long as there is air in my lungs. I protect what’s mine. And you my luscious beauty have been mine for a long time. You just never knew it. Do as I say, and we make it out of here alive and then I will protect you with my life.”
His?
His.
What the heck. I would lying if I said that didn’t somehow make me want to moan and say yes. But seriously, who talks like this to someone they don’t even know. I thought he crazy a minute ago, but now I am pretty sure he is certifiable. Even if he is freaking gorgeous. And what does he mean by ‘long time and I never knew it?’ Maybe I should take my chances with ED.
“I see your beautiful sunny mind working little one. Stop thinking and just feel. Do you feel like you’re in danger from me?”
Shoot. And then he had to go and ask me for the truth. Darn it.
“No.”
“Good. Because I would never hurt a single hair on your beautiful body. Well unless you asked me to.” He says with a smirk and suddenly the heat in my body goes up giving me the urge to fan myself. I refuse to give him the satisfaction.
“So what is going to happen exactly?”
“I am going to explain to you what is going on, then we are to go for a ride. From there we will take it a day at a time. OK? If you listen to me and don’t fight me, it will all work out. Especially since at the end of it I will get what I have been craving for the past 6 months.”
I am almost afraid to ask. But apparently I am a glutton for punishment because I do anyway.
“And what is that?”
“To sink my life into you so you can never walk away from me.”
Crap. I just had to ask.