Chase Me (22 page)

“Brooklyn Montgomery,” she answered on the third ring. I was almost afraid I wouldn’t get her.

“I hate the hold music,” I admitted right away. “Any news?”

“Sorry Kate, they haven’t found him, but his team agreed if he shows up for the game they will call the police. That was the whole purpose behind making bail, so if he is not at the game tonight then they will ask Mark and the other guys from the 19
^th
precinct to help out and put it out to the media.”

“How is the new job?” I asked and she sounded tired.

“Delayed. Taylor wants me to move in get settled and then join them. I think he is just giving me time to close this up with you. I do have good news though.”

“Oh?” I asked cause I wasn’t sure what I was going to hear that was good.

“Kurt’s lawyer lost the filing to have you charged with prostitution. They cannot say that you were hired to commit the act that day as some form of role play.”

“I didn’t understand why he would say that,” I admitted.

“To make you look like less of a victim to a jury,” Brooklyn replied. “How goes it with Eddie?”

“I told him I loved him,” I whispered and silence followed. I was sure Brooklyn was laying on a sidewalk dead somewhere in New York City from a heart attack because the word love left my lips.

“Tell me everything,” she said as she told some people around her to shut up and I had to laugh. I told her exactly what I said verbatim and his reaction. Then silence fell again. “I’m so sorry Kate. He seemed so into you I thought for sure it was love.”

“It’s okay,” I quietly replied wiping a tear from my eye. “I wouldn’t change a thing except the Kurt stuff if I had to do it all over again. From the first moment when I called him an ass hat.”

“There is a story for grandkids: I fell in love with your grandpa when I called him an asshat,” Brooklyn mocked me.

“Better than saying: I fell in love with your grandpa and let him go because I was a chicken shit,” I countered.

We both had our men issues and that was fine, but I needed to get away from Eddie for a while. I needed to clear my head, make adult plans, find a job, and move on. Even with Kurt lurking over my shoulder I would rather leave than stay with a man who doesn’t love me back.

Somewhere along the way I had found my self-respect. I had stopped using others like an addict uses drugs. I wasn’t partying and I acted like a grown up a lot more. Not all the time, but a lot more. I tried to pinpoint the moment, but I couldn’t it just sort of happened.

“Kate,” Eddie called and I peeked my head around the corner. “Want breakfast?” He asked and I shook my head.

“I’m going to take a walk up to your grandpa’s garage where the cars were if it is okay,” I asked hoping for some space, but instead Eddie was getting ready to go with me.

“You stay here, shower, change clothes, and do whatever you need to do and I will be back.”

I bolted off the porch wearing my flip flops, sweatpants and t-shirt from the day prior. I had to put distance between us. I needed a fresh start or a new life direction. Something.

By the time I got to the cabin and found the garage Eddie was dripping wet and waiting for me inside.

“What the hell?” I asked as Eddie turned to look at me. The sunlight hit him in the open doors and I bit my lip as the water dripped down his body. “Put a shirt on,” I chastised because he was a distraction from what I needed. I wish I had a sponsor for my addiction cause they would be proud here and now.

“Thought maybe we should talk and I heard I needed a shower, so I just swam across the lake.”

I looked through the boxes that were in the garage, ignoring shirtless Eddie when I came across a external oil filter.

“This is the one,” I said out loud.

“That is the box of parts Mike said we didn’t need.”

“Before I met you I worked on the Bel Air and I installed one of these. You had the cars I dreamed about, the vineyard I fantasized about, and everything I needed wrapped up in a nice little package with a bow.”

“I don’t know whether to take that as a compliment or not,” Eddie admitted.

I just put the things away and walked out the door. Life has the surreal moments where you don’t want to be in them. You don’t want to know about them, and most importantly you don’t know how to handle them. I was having one now.

“Kate wait,” Eddie called out as I got close to the lakes edge. I turned and looked at him as I had finally had my fill.

“I won’t wait. You see since I met you my mom was given a death sentence, my best friend yelled at me about being me, my dad called me a whore, and then the Kurt stuff happened, but you want to know what the one thing is that pisses me off?”

“What Kate?”

“You! I want to go home, and you are going to take me and leave me with someone else, because like that car part in there. I refuse to be left in some box to rot when I still have life in me.”

Chapter 19

I jumped in the lake clothes and started to swim back to the house. I was going to change and leave. My mind was made up and like a stubborn woman nothing was going to change my mind.

At least I thought nothing would change my mind, but then Eddie swim champ from 1995 swam right passed me. So I turned and started swimming back to his grandpas cabin and he started swimming circles around me.

I stopped swimming and just tread water across from him.

“Kate, you can’t be mad about last night,” Eddie yelled across the water.

“I’m not mad.”

“You are the worst liar in the history of women lying. You flair your nostrils, look to the left and blink fast when you tell a lie.”

“I’m not lying,” I tried to defend myself, but it wasn’t working. Damn him for being able to read me.

“Eddie,” I started and he cut me off.

“Shut up Kate,” he bellowed and it took me by surprise. I expect fear and I think he did too as we both treaded water silently. “I am not going to tell you how I feel when I think you are sleeping. I have balls, big brass ones, that give me the courage to tell you to your face, and I will when you are ready to hear it. Your pathetic attempt to purge me from your system with your confession when you thought I was sleeping won’t fix it and I won’t act like I heard a word. You have something to say good or bad you tell me to my face Kate!”

I couldn’t. I couldn’t look into those brown eyes and tell him how I felt. I had never said those words to anyone else so demanding that I say them to his face was just something I couldn’t do.

I started swimming and swam past him on the way to the house. We ate in silence. I showered and tried to burn the house down making dinner, even with that there were no words spoken.

I walked out to the hammock as the sun was setting and put my cell phone in my pocket. It was a little chilly wearing just a t-shirt, but I only had the one outfit so we had to wash it after I jumped in the lake.

I grabbed the railing and watched as the light faded and darkness filled the sky. I felt Eddie come up behind me and move my hair to the side. He placed a kiss on my neck and I leaned back into him. He pulled my shirt down my shoulder and kissed the skin that tingled for him.

He gripped my shoulder pulling my skin in a way that had me tilting my head to give him more access. Then just that quickly he spun me and sat me on the railing. He spread my legs and kissed me hard as I held on so I didn’t fall.

His fingers moved down to my clit and massage the bud just enough to make me cry out, but no words would leave my lips. I wasn’t going to be the one to talk first.

Eddie sensed the tension as I focused on not talking so he dropped to his knees, and looked up at me. Waiting for me to tell him yes or no or fuck me. Whatever the hell he was waiting for he wasn’t getting.

He spread my folds and blew warm air across my pulsating apex, and I bit my lip not to say anything. Then he sucked the tight little bundle of nerves into his mouth and gave it a few licks from his tongue. Then as an added form of torture he pulled back and waited for me to break.

I grabbed his hair and moved him back in between my legs hopeful that would be enough, but he merely toyed with me missing everything that was dying for his attention.

“Fuck,” I cried out as my frustration hit a new peek.

“That wasn’t so hard was it?” Eddie asked and then I knew I had screwed up when he looked up at me and said “beg me.”

“Please,” I cried out and he began and onslaught that was so fast and slick that I had to use both hands to hold onto the railing or I was going over. I sucked air through my teeth and curled my toes. I was on the precipice when he stopped and stood back up.

I wanted to run my hands under his white t-shirt and feel his muscles beneath my fingers. I could see his hardened cock through the blue boxers he was wearing. I climbed off the fence and dropped to my knees. Pay back was a bitch.

I pulled him out and licked the crown as I fondled his balls. Then I pulled the head in took it to the back of my throat and swallowed, but I started to choke.

My game had just turned into memory lane and not in the good way.

“Kate,” Eddie pulled me up off my knees and held my head while my heart raced. Then he took my hand and we walked around the front of the house and Eddie spoke to the officers.

We climbed in the back of the SUV and we just sat together. I was happy in vehicles; they were my passion so even though this wasn’t a classic this was where I wanted to be.

“
Are you okay?” He asked and I nodded my head. “Tell me what to do?” He told me to tell him, but that was always the problem. I turned my head and laid a softened kiss on his lips.

“
I want you,” I explained hoping the words carried the meaning I wanted them too.

He laid me down in the back seat and spread my legs apart.

“
I didn’t get enough to eat,” he growled, but my shaking stopped him and he looked up at me. He eased my fears; “You are beautiful,” Eddie spoke out into the darkness. He truly knew exactly what I needed when I needed it.

“
I’m scared,” I finally admitted. “I’m afraid that if I open to you then you will be gone and I will be devastated.”

“
Kate honey, hear me when I say this. You are a strong beautiful woman. I would want to be with you if you weighed five hundred pounds, with bad teeth, and no hair. Your personality is what makes you beautiful. Open to me and you will see I am not leaving.

“
I will be there for you whether you ask for it or not. I will cut through your bullshit and do things to make you smile. I will keep you satisfied, and not longing for anything. You can have all that if you just trust me to give it to you.”

“
I want to,” I whispered.

“
Then try to.”

“
Would you be more comfortable in the cabin?” I asked and he shook his head.

“
No, I think my girl has a thing for cars, new and old, so we will stay right here.”

I smiled a huge shit eating grin with his statement as he bent my knee and pushed it against the back of the seat. He put my other foot into the floorboard up against the back of the passenger seat. Then he rose up over me and laid a kiss upon my lips and send cascading goosebumps across my body as he would nibble on my skin, and then kiss it or rub it to make it better. It was an intoxicating combination.