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“Gunner, about what my mother said. Well….um….I just wanted to let you know that everything she said was a lie. I mean….I’m not that way…I’m not a whore. I barely even ever kissed Ryan let al
one slept with him. I know you
probably already figured that out by the way Ryan left me and all. It was just really impor
tant for me to let you know what she was saying was not true
. Honestly
, I’
m not a hundred percent sure why I needed you to know this….I just…..
did. I jus
t needed you to know
.” Ellie finished and now she was lo
ok
ing right at me.

How could she even think for one minute I would ever believe her mother? My heart was bre
aking all over again. I was so fucking confused
. One minute she is calling me a good friend and the next she is telling me how important it is that I
know she does not sleep around.

“Ellie sweetheart believe me when I tell you this. I
NEVER
believed anything that came
out of your mother’s mouth. I’
m so sorry she hurt you and that you had to endure all that verbal abuse from her over the years. Please don’t ever let what she said to you ever stand in your way. You are a strong
,
beautiful
,
and very smart young woman. Don’t ever forget that Ellie…..never forget that.” I said as I reached over and to
ok
her left h
and in mine. I lifted it up and placed her
hand to my lips and pressed a soft kiss on the back of her hand. She gave me the sweetest smile in return. I let her
hand go to start rowing again.

Ellie threw her head back and started soaking in the sun again. I would never get tired of watching her. I could watch her eat, sleep, laugh, smile….god you name it. I had this incredible urge to spend every spare minute with her.
This was the perfect first…….day, not date, day.
The perfect first day of many more to come.

As I rowed the canoe up
to
the shore, the guy who rented us the canoe held out his hand to help Ellie out. The way he lo
ok
ed at her just
made my skin boil
. Did he really think I could not see what the
fuck he was doing?

Bastard!

Ellie laughed at something he said and I had to fight the urge to pound his face into the ground. I walked up and to
ok
her hand out from his hand. I thanked him and lead Ellie away from this dickhead.
I turned back around once to see him watching us walk away. Fuck wad
douche bag go
flirt with another
guy’s
girl.

Shit….
I needed to remember that
Ellie was not mine….but I was going to change that
and very
soon
.

We walked for a little bit along the trail as Ellie told me all about her plans for college. She was going to study
business
but was not one hundred percent
sure that was going
to be her major. After about fifteen
minutes of talking about college
,
a young
couple walk
ed by wi
th a baby and
I watched Ellie smile
at them as the
y
walked by. I thought abou
t earlier when I pictured her
on the ranch with our little girl and a
puppy. The idea made me smile
and filled me with a warm sensation. I wanted a life with her. I wanted to wake up every day and lo
ok
over at her sleeping by my side.
I wanted her.

Ellie was staring out at the water and I decided I had waited long enough. I walked
around
to where I was standing in front of her. She lo
ok
ed up at me and just gave
me that beautiful smile I had c
ome to love and need so quickly.

“Ellie sweetheart I
really need to do something I’
ve wanted to do since I fir
st laid eyes on you yesterday.”

I to
ok
my hands and cupped her soft beautiful
face. I leaned down and barely brushed my lips against her lips. Holy fuck…they were softe
r than I had imagined them
. I kept
my lips just inches
from her lips and waited just a few seconds to see if she would pull away. When she didn’t
,
I to
ok
that as a sign it was
okay
to kiss her.
I leaned back in and made the kiss deeper
this time.
I kissed her with all the passion
and emotion
that I had built up inside me from the moment I first saw her. She let out a small moan which vibrated through my whole body and instantly my dick started to get hard. God what this girl c
ould do to me was crazy insane.

I slowly slipped my tongue into her mouth and Ellie lifted further up on her toes and wrapped her arms around
my neck. Holy fucking shit….I’
ve died and gone to heaven.
Pure heaven………
I slowly starte
d to lift her off the ground as I
wrapped
my arms around her
. I knew my erectio
n was pressing into her body but
I didn’
t give two
shits
. All I cared about was showing her how much I wanted her. She needed to know she
was wanted.

If I died tod
ay I would die a happy man. I’
d never in my life experienced such a kiss before.
I wa
s overwhelmed by the sensation and m
y wh
ole body was on fire from her touch.

I slowly started to slide her body back down
along my body
until her feet touched
the ground. We both pulled away from each other only when we finally ran out of breath.
I was completely breathless. Ellie’s chest was moving up down at a rapid pace.
I stared into her eyes and she stared
back
into mine
.
I would remember this moment
for
the rest of my life.

I wasn’t
sure
what she was going to say or do
but the moment the smile spread across her face…..I wanted to jump up and down and
do a few fist pumps
.
YES!

My sweet beautiful Ellie.
I would never give up on her……ever………

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Ellie
…….

The moment Gunner’s hand came up to my face I
thought I was going to faint. His
touch was so much better than any dream o
r
fantasy could ever be.
But his kiss…
…

Oh. My. God! His kiss was my undoing. I had never felt so much emotion in just a
single kiss. I
wrapped my arms around his necked and prayed to God he would never let me go. When he picked me up I thought I was going to explode. I could not help the small moan that escaped from my mouth. I wanted to stay in this moment for the rest of my life.

Then I felt his erection. I could no longer doubt that this boy did indeed want me. Shit…I was going to owe Ari that purse. I had felt Ryan’s erection plenty of times but it
never
had this kind of an effect on me.  The throbbing ache in-between my
legs was
driving me crazy. I needed relief
and was not sure how to get it.

Gunner slowly started to slide me down his body. Holy fuck….I just wanted to crawl inside his body
and never leave
. My god he was HUGE from what I could tell. I mean…I don’t have much experience but from wh
at I could feel…..he was definitely
not on the small side.
My stomach was doing flips.
I was going to have to tell Ari about this and get her thoughts on the matter.

We pulled away from the kiss at the same time. I could hardly catch my breath. My chest must have been heaving up and down because he lo
ok
ed
down
at it and quickly lo
ok
ed into my eyes.
We stood there and lo
ok
ed into each other’s eyes
for what seemed like forever. I never ever wanted to forget this moment. I needed to lock it away so that I could pull it out anytime I needed it.

I was scared to death to say anything. That had been on
e of the most amazing moments of
my life. I have felt more alive with
Gunner in the last 24 hours than
I had my whole life.
The way he made me feel with that kiss
was beyond anything I had ever
felt before. He made me feel…
…..
wanted.

The warm sensation that was
still
traveling through my body caused me to smile. I needed him to know how he had just made me feel. As soon as I smiled up at him, he smiled that damn cro
ok
ed smile back at me.
I never in my life felt the desire I was feeling right now. If we had been alone somewhere I might not have been able to stop,
I would have wanted more of him.
I KNOW I would
not have been able to stop
.
I felt the blush creep up into my cheeks
for the thoughts I was having
. Gunner
reached up and ran the back of his hand down
the side of
my face.

“I lo
ve to see you blush Ellie. You’
re the most beautiful thing I have ever laid eyes on.” Gunner said with such
a soft sweet voice.

Oh wow!
Ohhh
……I mean…..wow……….
Okay
…
….
Breath
e
Ellie….
that was the most beautiful thing anyone has ever said to me.

I let out a small laugh and lo
ok
ed down. “Um, thank you Gunner
. That is
the nicest thing a
nyone has ever said to me
.”

He p
ut his
finger under my chin and lifted my face up towards him. “
Well that is a damn shame because I’ve wanted to tell you that all day.
”
He reached down and kissed me softly
one more time then said
against my lips…..

”Sh
all we head over to Ari’s house now? I’
m sure Jeff is waiting for you.”

Wait…
Jefferson was
at Ari’s house?

“Jefferson is at Ari’s house? Well that should be interesting the two of them together….alone. They
will
kill ea
ch other!” I said with a laugh
as Gunner
laughed along with me and grabbed my hand. We
started to walk back to his truck
and
I
thought about what he had
said
earlier to the valet guy about me being his girl
. My stomach was filled
with butterflies and I couldn’
t help but smile.
Could Gunner really be interested in me that way
?
O
r was this attraction just because I was something that was always “Off
limits” to him before
?

Was
I
some kind of challenge for him?

No, I really didn’t think so but….I was going to keep my guard up that was for sure. I would not all
ow myself to be hurt again. I’
d been hurt
enough to last me a life time.

I literally felt like I was walking on cloud nine all the way back to the truck. I kept lo
ok
ing up at Gunner who was walking with the cutest damn smile on his face. I wonder if our kiss had affected him as much as it had me. Gunner held my door open an
d helped me up in to the truck.

He picked up my right hand. It was not nearly as swollen as it had been. He gently brought it up to his mouth and kissed it. I smiled at him and wondered what type of a family he came from. His mother sure did raise this boy right! I loved that he had kissed my body three different times in the last few minutes. I loved how his lips felt against my skin. I would f
orever long for his kisses now.

“How does your hand feel sweetheart? Do you need t
o take a pain pi
ll?” Gunner asked has he pushed
a
piece of
hair behind my ear. Kisses and G
unner playing with my hair……..