Chapter 47

Hunter

I lay Kelly back on the bed and kissed her deeply. I meant what I just told her. I didn’t fucking understand it and the words just slipped out of my mouth, but I meant it. It came as naturally to me as anything else in my life and, as I felt her naked body pressed against me, I knew that this girl was not just some girl. She was the girl.

The way she looked at me with her beautiful green eyes, the way she stayed put and wouldn’t leave when she had every fucking reason to run, how she was just as beautiful standing there as she was when I drove my cock into her and opened her up, she was my fucking girl and I needed to accept it. There was no more fighting it and she was as much a part of me as any darkness that ran through my veins. There was no more me or her, just us. Maybe that meant we were fucked, but it was the way it was always meant to go down.

“Hunter,” she moaned into me, “Hunter, fuck me again.”

My cock started to rise in my jeans and I moved my lips from hers down to her breasts and took one of her nipples in my mouth, tracing the outside in a circle with my tongue.

She breathed out, a slow, stuttered breath.

“Hunter, fuck me, baby. I’m wet for you.”

I reached down to my jeans, undid my belt, and grabbed my cock. I was about to squeeze it inside her again when a voice called from outside.

“Hunter, Hunter, can you come here for a second?”

What the fuck, Lucas? You’ve got to be fucking kidding me, pal.

I pushed myself up off the bed and looked toward the window.

“I’m going to kill that kid. How could he be done with that barn already?”

Kelly looked up at me and smiled, batting her eyelashes and sighing deeply.

“Just go and see what he wants. I’ll be waiting right here.”

She was gorgeous. There was no way I was leaving her to go deal with whatever the fuck her little brother wanted.

“Not a fucking chance, darling. Not with you lying here like this.” I put my mouth on her again and moved my hand between her thighs.

“Hunter, just go,” she whispered as she gently pushed my hand back. “I’ll be waiting right here. All of me will be right here.”

I’m going to kill that motherfucker.

“Fuck,” I declared as I stood up. “This is bullshit. You better take care of this fucking hard on when I get back up here.”

Kelly just laughed as she lay back on the bed.

“You want me to start without you?” she teased.

I looked down on her as she slid her hand over her breasts and stomach, reaching between her legs and licking her lips.

“Fuck you,” I laughed. “Fuck you and your brother. Are you two trying to kill me?”

I couldn’t be mad at them, at either of them. They were my family now, and I wasn’t going to create a family like the one I’d suffered in when I was young. No, if I was going to create a family here with this woman, it was going to be fucking happy.

She giggled and rolled her face into the pillow before she looked back up at me, smiling. Goddamn, she was beautiful.

“I’ll be right back as soon as I get that kid locked in the barn and I don’t want you to fucking move. You lie there and wait for me. That pussy is mine. You’re forbidden from satisfying it without my help.”

Kelly took her hand away from her wet pussy and lay back on the bed.

“Don’t take too long now,” she said, teasingly.

I turned and walked out of the room, doing up my jeans and trying my best to hide the massive erection that stretched down my thigh.

I swear to God kid, whatever the fuck you want better be at least mildly important or I’m going to be mad as fuck.

As I walked down the stairs, I couldn’t help but wonder what the fuck I was doing. Forty-eight hours ago, I would have fucked her brains out as I made her brother wait outside and listen. Hell, forty-eight hours ago I wouldn’t even be at this fucking place with her, let alone her and some goddamn kid. This whole situation was profoundly fucked up, but, at the same time, it all felt right to me. Even the kid.

Even as I left the most beautiful woman I had ever seen lying on a bed waiting for me to take her, I wasn’t as angry as I fucking should be. I liked the kid. He was a fucking smart ass and a thorn in my goddamn side, but a part of me actually liked having him around.

It was the life I’d always thought I didn’t deserve. And here it was, coming to me like a gift from God.

You are fucking out of your mind, Hunter. If the lads back home could fucking see this.

But they wouldn’t see this. I was beginning to finally understand that. I may be the same fucking lowdown, murdering criminal, but I wasn’t in Boston anymore and any motherfucker I saw from that city was going to be showing up to kill me. I was the same person, but my life and the people around me had changed forever. Kelly was a part of me and the kid was a part of her. The whole family was now my people and, if I was being honest with myself, I knew that it was what I wanted. Even Grace had a place in my new life. No more Hunter Donnelly, the lone fucking wolf. I was never going to be Mister Family Man, but I was coming to terms with some blurry place in between.

What a fucking day.

“Luke? Luke? Where the fuck are you, pal?” I called out the door as I got to the front hallway.

“Hey there, Hunter boy.”

I stopped dead in my tracks and felt my hands ball into fists.

Fuck. Fuck no. Fuck No.

I knew that voice. That fucking disgusting, entitled voice.

I looked up and out the screen door. Old man Donnelly was standing in front of Kelly’s car with a knife to her brother’s fucking throat.

I’m going to pull your goddamn eyes out with my bare fucking hands, old man. That kid is my people now.

I burst through the screen door, rushing toward Lucas, when I felt a crack on the back of my head that sent me flying, face first, off the porch and into the dirt. I’d been clocked by a baseball bat before. I knew what it felt like. Some motherfucker had been on the other side of the door, waiting for me, and I should have known that.

“Hope you don’t mind us showing up like this, Hunter, but you haven’t been exactly returning my calls lately.”

I could see him walking toward me as my vision started to fade in and out.

Get up, Hunter. Get the fuck up. Now.

I started to push myself off the ground and then I felt a boot come down hard between my shoulder blades, forcing my face back into the dirt.

All right, how many of you fuckers are there?

I felt the butt of a bat come down on the back of my skull and the warm sensation of blood running down the side of my face. The last thing I heard as I passed out was footsteps coming closer and Lucas screaming into the old man’s hand that covered his mouth.