Chapter 2
Bill
We got back to my house and I was still a little bothered by the beautiful young woman that I had picked up on the side of the road. She was too pretty to be in Alaska and I had a feeling that she wasn’t going to be here too long. It was hard to tell her the truth, but girls like her didn’t last very long in the wilderness and even though her aunt was one that was able to, I didn’t think she was going to have the same grit as Angie did. Angie was admirable for how she had toughed it out up here alone all of these years. I didn’t think that her beautiful niece was going to be the same.
“Here we are. It’s not much but it will be warmer than your van and you don’t have to worry about being bothered by anyone.”
“Who would bother me? There aren’t any people around here from what I have seen.”
“There is actually. Quite a few men live in these parts but they don’t come down from the mountains very much. You’d be a sight for sore eyes for most of them.”
My words seemed alarming to her and though I was only semi joking, I realized that she was most likely feeling vulnerable in her current situation. I can’t say that she hadn’t been a sight for sore eyes when I had stopped to see what was going on. I had seen the van tags and figured that it was just a tourist that was passing through, but the sight of her had been alarming.
She had red hair that was flaming and bright green eyes that complimented the streak of freckles on her face. She was pretty petite, but it was hard to tell what she looked like under the two coats that she had on. The leggings were tight though and I could see a round ass and long legs that I could only imagine would be perfect wrapped around me. I was just as bad as any other man here. She was going to have her fill of suitors once people knew that she was here and I was thankful that I had found her first.
I got off of the snowmobile and helped her off as well. The snow wasn’t packed down that well so it was still pretty high and I didn’t want her to fall. I was trying to be chivalrous, but in the end I was trying to get her to see me as less of a threat because what I had in mind was going to need it. I wanted Ayla, it was just that simple. I didn’t imagine she was going to be staying long after she seen the state of her inheritance and I was an opportunist. I wanted to make the best of her short time in Alaska and her being under my roof and hopefully in my bed was going to make that easier.
She didn’t have anything with her and that was going to make it easier to carry out my plans. As soon as I saw her, I knew that I was going to find a way to make her mine and everything seemed to be working towards this cause. I couldn’t have been happier and the more I thought about it, the more I was sure that it was meant to be. I was meant to run across her and she was meant to keep me warm tonight. It had been too long since I had seen someone as pretty as her and even longer since I had had my hands on a woman. I was one of the mountain men that I had warned her about, though I wouldn’t say it out loud. I wasn’t that stupid.
“So how far are we from my aunt’s cabin?”
“Just a little over a mile. We were neighbors by Alaskan standards.”
She smiled at me in a way that made my heart melt a little bit. God, she was hot and I was ready to get her inside where the wood stove would get her out of all of those coats and I would be able to see what I was working with. Though Ayla was still nervous, I could tell that she was trying to at least pretend like she wasn’t afraid of me. That was going to have to be enough. I had her by a foot at least and I tried not to tower over her as much as I helped her off of the snowmobile and walked behind her to the cabin door.
The heat blasted our faces as we entered the cabin and her red cheeks were easier to see then. It was better to see her as well and I could tell that she was noticing the same thing as I was. She was looking at my face and it was the first time that I wished I had shaved this morning. I hadn’t in days and it was somewhat a strange thought to have because I never really thought much about my appearance all that much.
“Thank you Bill. I didn’t expect this adventure to go like this. I was hoping for something different. I was hoping that Alaska was going to be the answer to all of my problems. I guess I was more wrong than I could have guessed. I don’t know what Angie was thinking living all the way up here.”
“A lot of us live up here to get away from the rest of the world. Why did you want to come up here Ayla?”
She was silent for a minute and she wasn’t sure how to answer that question. Shrugging she told me that she guessed that was her reason as well. “I guess getting away from everything and everyone sounded good at the time. I guess I didn’t really think about how desolate it was going to be. Silly huh?”
“There are more people here then you know. Stay a while and you will see there is a community here. Not too many of us mind you, but we are quite a few, more than you can see in one night.”
“I planned on staying, but I don’t know how I’m going to be able to now.”
I waved her off and told her that it was going to be okay. She was already thinking about leaving and that didn’t sit well with me. I was going to have to show her the Alaskan hospitality that I knew was here and make her stay. If she didn’t, I was going to be saddened. A night or two with her wasn’t going to cut it. I was going to need more time and since I didn’t have much to do for the next couple of weeks, I decided then and there that I was going to make helping her a priority.
For now though, I wanted to get her comfortable so that she could see that it wasn’t so bad. I had never been one to take that much time in comfort, part of the reason that I was here, but at the same time, women were more delicate and I didn’t want to scare her off so soon. There was a lot to be nervous about her and I knew that I was going to have to figure something out to make her want to stay.
“Trust me Ayla; it’s going to be fine. I’ll help you get it worked out at the cabin. It’s not as bad as it looks. It just needs a little work.”
“I don’t really have enough money to do all of the fixing that the cabin needs. I sold everything to move out here, but I wasn’t prepared to spend so much in the beginning. I was thinking I would need it for food and supplies for the winter.”
I could tell she was overwhelmed and I made her sit down at the table and take a coat or two off.
“I got some stew that I made earlier. Get something in your stomach and a good night’s sleep and everything will be better in the morning, I promise.”
She smiled at me and I tried not to look too hard at the round breasts that revealed themselves in her T-shirt. She wasn’t dressed at all for the elements, but that helped me a little because her nipples were rock hard and begging for attention. It was going to be harder than I thought to ignore her.
The cabin was a one room style so while it was pretty big for just me; it was rather small in the grand scheme of things. I could see her looking around and when her eyes stayed on the bed for a little too long; I knew that she was thinking about sleeping arrangements and how that was going to work. I didn’t bring it up. I wanted her mind to go where it would and I wondered to myself if she was going to lay with me or insist that I sleep on the couch. Either way was fine, but I was practically hard just thinking about her lying beside me. I made a mental note to not load up the wood stove so much tonight. If I couldn’t get her in my bed as quickly as I wanted, I had a feeling that the cold in the cabin would do it for me.
We talked a little bit over stew and I tried to get to know her. She had been driving for a couple of days and it as clear that she was tired. It was also clear by the sideways glances that she kept giving to the single bed in the corner that she was worried about where she was going to sleep tonight. Finally she asked and I left it up to her.
“You can sleep there or on the couch. It’s going to be cold tonight and it’s always better to have a bed partner, but it’s up to you. You can have the bed if you want.”
“Can you even fit on that couch?”
I hadn’t slept there before save for a couple of times that I was reading and had fallen asleep, so I wasn’t so sure that I was going to fit, but I told her that it was fine. I was still hoping that she would relent, but instead she insisted that she not take my bed and she would sleep on the couch. I tried to talk her out of it, but she was insistent and I wasn’t going to push the issue. It was clear to me that there was something holding her back and if I was going to help her get the cabin together, I rationalized that I would have plenty of time to get into her panties, which was all I could think about at the moment.
“Not a problem. I’ve got extra blankets for you in the linen closet that I can get out. You look tired, are you ready to go to bed now?”
She shook her head that she was and I knew that it was as far as I was going to get at the moment. I knew that there was a part of me that wanted to push the issue, but I was a patient man, I had to be to live here.
“That’s okay. I’m ready too I think. Do you want something to sleep in?”
I could already see her in one of my big T-shirts and I liked the idea of it, but she said she was fine with her thin shirt and leggings. My only hope was that it wasn’t enough and I woke up to her crawling into bed with me at some point tonight. I was going to let it get cold in the cabin, really cold, to see if I could convince her to do what I wanted.