Chapter 31
Colt
“I’m not running from you Colt. I just don’t want to do this. If you haven’t noticed, I’ve had a hectic day.”
“Me too. I found out that my wife was pregnant, and I was going to be a dad.”
She started to bring up the fact that it could be Jax’s and I told her that I didn’t want to hear it.
“The baby is mine, end of discussion.”
“Well, if that is it, then I think I’m going to go.”
I stopped her with a light hand on her arm.
“We are going to the hotel or your place. That is the only place you are going, and we are going together. You’re my wife.”
“So, that doesn’t mean I’m your property.”
“No, but it means that you’re mine. I don’t want to be apart anymore. I didn’t want to believe that you would do that to me, and you didn’t. We need to stop letting everyone else get in the middle of us. When it is just me and you, everything gets worked out.”
“That’s because we haven’t been around each other that much. When we are alone, all we do is have sex Colt.”
“I didn’t say that it was a science.”
“Really Colt, is that all you think about?”
“I don’t know. Give me a few years with as much as I want and I’m sure I will think of something else.”
“You’re a mess.”
I agreed and tried to pull her in for a kiss. It was a strange place to be doing that, the steps of the courthouse. It was even weirder if I thought about the fact that we had came there to get divorced. Everything had changed so quickly.
I pulled back from her and cursed.
“What’s the matter?”
“I forgot that Ralph was here. I completely forgot and left him back there. I will be right back. Don’t leave because I know where you live.”
I kissed her again and checked behind me after a moment to make sure that she wasn’t leaving. I don’t know when that feeling was going to stop, but it was still there. I didn’t want to look behind me and see that she was gone. I didn’t want to have to look, but I was going to have to for a while.
Ralph was smiling at me and he of course went right into how he had told me so. I wasn’t usually too keen on hearing that, especially from Ralph, but I did like the fact that he was right. He’d known her better than me in that instance. I should have known that she wasn’t going to do that to me. Candy wasn’t that way.
“So, you two are going to work things out?”
I agreed.
“Good. I like you better with her around. Before you were a whore, and after Candy, you were too sappy. It was hard to watch. She is what you need.”
“I didn’t think that I needed anything.”
“Now you know.”
“Yeah.”
“And you’re going to be a father?”
“Yeah.”
“Well I am going to go see my family for a couple of days. Call me when you’re ready to go back. Make sure you get her on the plane with you.”
“That is the plan.”
“Just remember, you are wrong, ninety percent of the time.”
Before I would have protested that fact, but I was starting to wonder if he was right. I had certainly been wrong about a lot of things when it came to Candy. I wasn't going to make that mistake again.
I gave him a hug, because Ralph had always been so much more than my butler. He was the voice in my head half the time and I wish I would have listened to him before. I would've saved myself a lot of grief.
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When I got back to the stats, there was a moment that I didn't see her standing there because someone was in front of her and I panicked. I don't know why, but I was just waiting for her to run away again. I had to think that I might feel this way for a while, every time I woke up. Ralph was right though, I needed to get her on the plane with me.
“Let’s go to my place. It’s small, not as grand as your place, but it is a lot cozier than a hotel.”
I didn't care where the hell we went to, as long as she was next to me. I let her drive, because it is been so long since I had driven, and it gave me time to take her in. It felt like it had been forever since I had seen her face.
“Why are you staring at me?”
“Because I can.”
She slapped my shoulder and told me that it was making it hard for her to drive.
“I can always get you a driver.”
“This town isn't made to have a driver, Colt. This isn't Las Vegas.”
“Who says you have to stay here?”
“This is where my life is.”
“Your life is with me Candy.”
“What about my family?”
“I think would be good for you to take a little time away from your family. don't you?”
I might have pushed it a little bit with that last comment because she gave me a dirty look, but then she relented and told me that she did want to get away from her mom for a while. I didn't blame her. I knew all too well the pressures of family, but I was in a point of my life that I didn't have to worry about it as much anymore. To me, Candy needed to get away, or she was never going to get the freedom that she needed.
“Are you talking about me moving to Las Vegas?”
“I am talking about my wife coming home.”
Before I would've been worried about saying such a thing, but I had so many other things to worry about now. I wasn't going to let another moment go by without my true thoughts being known. I had done that before and I wasn't going to do that again.
From the look on her face, it seemed like Candy was over that part of being upset. She smiled at me in the most perfect way and I couldn't help the contagious gesture.
“So, you’ll come with me?”
She made a turn, and all of her attention was on the road in front of her. I had never seen someone pay so much attention to the road before and I knew that she was just avoiding my eyes.
“Yeah Colt, I think I will. I love my new job here, but I love you more.”
It was the first time that she is said that out loud and it hit me like a ton of bricks.
Why did three little words change everything? I was never going to know how or why Candy came into my life, but I wouldn’t have changed it for the world. Each time that I was with her, she had touched me in a way that no one else had been able to. I couldn't wait to live with her and wake up every morning with her next to me.
“But I have one condition.”
That had her finally looking at me and she asked me what it was.
“You can never leave me again.”
Candy was quiet for a moment. It had been said as a half joke, but she was taking it seriously and that settled my nerves more than anything else.
“I promise Colt, I'm not going anywhere.”
That was all that I wanted to hear. Literally all that I needed. If I didn’t have to worry about her disappearing again, I would be able to breathe and enjoy it all that much more.
THE END