Earning Her Love (7 page)

Opening one eye, she glared at him. “You don’t believe me?”

“Yes, of course I do. I just don’t want you to think someone my age wouldn’t know better.”

She closed her eyes and shrugged. “I should have learned my lesson. I forgot too. So it’s not your fault. I am on the pill, it’s implanted in my arm. It helps to regulate my periods. I promise I’m not trying to trap you.”

“Shit. That’s not what I think. I know you wouldn’t do that.” He sighed and laid back down, snuggling into her. “I’m the one who started this. I didn’t want you to think less of me for not being prepared. I’m old enough to know better.”

Smiling, she hugged him. “I started it. I kissed you. I don’t think less of you. I think very big of you. Thank you.”

“What are you thanking me for?”

“Everything. I’m feeling very lucky right now. You make me happy.”

“Good. I always want you to be happy.”

Content, she let sleep claim her.

* * * *

Mia awoke to her breasts being squeezed and her nipples being plucked. Alex’s cock rubbed against her pussy lips. She opened her eyes and took a deep breath as he held her tighter from behind and his cock slammed home. His head buried into her shoulder, and he nibbled on her bare skin. Mia screamed in pure pleasure as Alex’s dick hit just the right spot, and he hammered into her. Reaching out, she gripped the bedside table with one hand and the sheets with the other, moaning as he thrust into her over and over. Alex sucked on her neck like a hungry animal, and she felt her whole body go from a burning simmer to a blazing fire.

Alex was driving her mad. His hands tightened on her, and the slight bit of pain added to her already building pleasure. The drive of each of his thrusts had her grip tightening on her anchors as her body moved with the force of each slam into her. He’d been sucking on her neck and it throbbed, building her desire.

Alex started nibbling on her ear, pausing to growl, “You’re so damn tight,” before he bit the tip of her earlobe. Shards of ecstasy shot straight through her, settling at her core as he pistoned into it. Alex was pounding into her, and she was loving every minute of it. His hand came down, stroking her clit.

“Oh God, I’m gonna come.” She was so close. Mia could feel his muscles straining against her, and she knew he was close when she felt them tense up.

Alex’s teeth scraped over her earlobe before tugging it. “You’re mine.”

His whispered words of possession had her falling over the edge and crashing into rapture. Alex pushed into her, holding himself so he was as deep as could be before grunting and yelling his release.

Alex held her to him, and they both panted together, basking in their euphoria.

What had just gotten into Alex? Whatever it was she liked it.

* * * *

Alex couldn’t believe how he’d just treated Mia. He’d been like a crazed animal. Alex had awakened from a nap to the feel of her body against him, her arse nestled into crouch. His cock had been painfully hard.

At first he just basked in the feeling of her naked body against him, her hands clutched at his arms. In that moment he knew he’d never let her go. He’d been alone for way too long and planned on never being without her. Even with her being in the hospital, spending these last few weeks with her had been great.

Alex thought he was happy before he’d met Mia, he thought he was content with being a bachelor, to never have children or a wife to care for. He was wrong. Alex didn’t want to go back to the bleak existence he had before. He’d held Mia tighter, and she’d moaned in her sleep, and that simple sound had him pouncing on her.

“Are you all right? I didn’t hurt you, did I?” Damn, he shouldn’t have been so rough.

“Mmm, no. I feel great.”

He chuckled and kissed her head. Easing up, he looked down at her. Her strawberry blonde hair lay out around her on the pillow. Her eyes were half-closed, her lips full and puffy. He winced when he saw her neck. He’d never before marked a woman, or left her with hickeys like he’d given Mia. The love-bites that covered her neck would tell everyone she was taken. Alex wasn’t usually a possessive man, but with Mia, he was almost a caveman. The only thing that set him apart from them was he hadn’t thrown her over his shoulder and yelled
mine
!

He slid off the bed and glanced at the clock. It was late, almost dinner time. “We should gather the things you want and leave. It’s pretty late. Are you hungry?”

Mia groaned and stretched her arm up. His gaze homed in on her large breasts as they rose and fell. Scrubbing his hands over his face, he averted his eyes and looked for his clothes. He knew if he kept watching her his cock that was rising and his blood that was starting to simmer would have him taking her again.

“How late is it? I am pretty hungry.”

He looked at her to see her sitting up and moving to the edge of the bed. “It’s seven. By the time we get what we need and leave it will be seven-thirty or close I reckon.”

“That explains why I’m hungry. I eat dinner with Zane at six, and at the hospital they brought our meals at five-thirty. We missed lunch too.” She threw his jeans in his direction.

Putting on his jeans, he gathered his other clothes. Once he was dressed, he helped her get dressed and find the items she wanted to take with her.

“I’m going to buy us some takeout food. What do you feel like?” he asked. “We pass quite a few options on the way from your house.”

“Macdonald. I think this Macca’s should be better than our first.”

Alex winked at her as he flung her now packed backpack over his shoulder. “Yeah, this time you won’t have to pretend you’re not watching me.”

“Ha, I was not.”

Alex opened her apartment door and she hobbled to him. He closed the door, making sure it was locked, then leaned down and picked her up, cradling her in his arms and laying her crutches across her. She smiled up at him, and he could see how happy she was.

He was right, it took them a good half an hour to get dressed and finish getting what she needed from her place, before they sat in his car on their way to get food and go back to his house.

Chapter 4

Mia hadn’t stayed in the guest bedroom Alex had assigned her. When they got home she had every intention of eating, then maybe watching a movie or reading, but Alex was just so sexy. Mia had never gotten to enjoy her sexuality, and being with Alex was not only amazing, it was exhilarating. She told herself to have fun for once. Alex was old enough that he wasn’t scared of responsibility, and she was on the pill and a consenting adult. If Zane was around she knew she wouldn’t be acting so reckless.

Mia tested her feelings as she opened her eyes and stared at Alex’s muscular chest. Did she regret what she’d done with him? No. He made her feel so many things, like lust, passion, and pleasure, but right now none was regret. Since meeting him he’d treated her with respect and care. He was amazing with her son, and even knowing him for such a short time she knew he would do anything for her. That wasn’t all though. He made her feel beautiful. She got tingles and her stomach was full of butterflies just from just being close to him. It was more than she could ever hope to feel for a man.

“Morning, sweetheart.” His deep, rumbly voice was so sexy.

Easing away from him, she wiggled up to her pillow. “Morning. Do you want the bathroom, or can I take it first?”

“You can use my ensuite. I’ll use the one down the hall.” He sat up, and Mia felt heat rise on her cheeks as her gaze went straight to his abs and over to his tattooed arms. He was a masterpiece, and with so many tats she would never picture him for a cop. “I’ll be right back. I’m just going to get one of the large bags for your leg and the tape.”

He got off the bed naked, and she couldn’t help the giggle that escaped as his arse flashed her. Wow, he was perfect everywhere. Mia hadn’t known she was an arse woman, but damn, Alex had buns of steel. He didn’t seem to care that he was buck arse naked as he left the room.

Moving up to a sitting position and using her cast leg with its heaviness, she swung it around and shuffled her other leg to meet it, then slid to the edge of the bed, ready for Alex. He came in with the items and knelt before her like some knight as he placed the waterproof bag over her cast and used the tape to seal it on. Standing, he picked her up and carried her to the bathroom, sitting her on the toilet seat. He set the shower up and then helped her in. One of her hands gripped the soap holder and her other held his arm as she got her balance.

“Do you need me to stay?”

She bit her lips to hold her laughter in, he sounded so serious.

“I’ll go get your toiletry bag and a towel, but when I get back I can help.” He raised his eyebrow, and she couldn’t hold it in and cracked up laughing.

“Oh, I have no doubt you could help, but I think I can handle showering myself. I’ll yell if I need you.”

He smirked, nodded, and placed her hand on the wall to help balance her. “Be right back.”

He left and this time she didn’t feel as bad when she focused on his arse. When he was out of sight, she dunked herself under the water, enjoying the warmth on muscles she didn’t even know could ache, but it was a good ache because it reminded her of the wild night she’d had. Alex was insatiable.

When they’d arrived back at his house, he’d carried her up the stairs, and when he went up the second flight and didn’t even get winded, she’d kissed him and he’d changed direction and placed her on the bed in the end bedroom. She’d caught a glimpse of the room when he sat her down before taking her mouth again, and she knew he’d taken her to his room, because his clothes were on the floor and his watch and change sat on the bedside table. Alex made love to her and then later in the night awoken her to fuck her.

Mia was one satisfied woman. She didn’t even know she could orgasm as much as she had. She closed her eyes and dunked her head under the water.

“I have everything here. I’m sitting the towel on the bathroom vanity.”

Opening her eyes, she looked at Alex. He smiled and handed her the toiletry bag.

“Thanks. Give me a good fifteen. I want to wash my hair, and then can you come back and help me?”

“Sure.” He leaned in and kissed her, and Mia hoped that they worked out, because so far she was really enjoying having a boyfriend.

* * * *

Alex had never walked into his parents’ house with a woman. Not that his mother hadn’t asked him to bring a girlfriend, he just never had, but Mia was different. He knew even if they weren’t there to pick her son up, he’d still be bringing her around to meet his parents.

“Mum, we’re here,” he yelled as he slammed the door.

“Muuummmyyy!” A hurricane of blond hair and energy came running toward them, and before he had a chance to knock his target over Alex grabbed him.

“Hey, buddy.” He held Zane as he wiggled in his arms, eager to get to his mum. “Remember yesterday before I dropped you off at Grandma and Grandpa’s, that I told you when your mum gets home we have to be super careful with her?”

Zane nodded, but Alex had a feeling he didn’t understand.

“Hey, baby. Mummy missed you so much, but Mummy has ouches, so you have to be very careful. Can you be super careful?”

Zane nodded. “Uh-huh, but guess what?”

Mia chuckled. “What, baby?”

“Isa got a room here now. It has trucks on the wall, and Uncles Owens said he’d take me if you said yes to see some real trucks. How cool, Mum. Hey. You’ll says yes. I just knows you will.” Zane’s big eyes widened, and Alex walked slowly toward to the lounge room so Mia could sit down. “Yous knows what one of the bestest thing is, Mum? I gots a Skylander bedspread.” He was so excited he was practically screaming.

Alex glanced at Mia, and her smile and light in her eyes as she stared at her son was breathtaking. She was gorgeous. “Baby, you’ve been super spoiled.”

Alex couldn’t help but chuckle when Zane nodded. “Yeah, I have. Grandma and Grandpa have beens real good. I love them.”

Tears slipped down Mia’s cheeks, and she sniffled.

“Zane, how about we go get your mummy the cookies we baked her while Alex helps your mum get settled?” His mother took Zane from his arms. He hadn’t even heard her walk down the hall, because he was so focused on Mia. Alex loved his parents and knew how lucky he was to have them. He knew his parents would come to love Mia just like they did Lana, Chad’s wife.

* * * *

Mia was so overwhelmed. Her life right now felt like a dream. If it was, she never wanted to wake up. This amazing family had taken her and Zane in and treated them as if they were their own. They’d made a room for her son and looked after him as if he was their flesh and blood. The light in her son’s eyes as he spoke of Alex’s parents as Grandma and Grandpa was blinding. Zane was so happy. He was usually an easy going, happy little boy, but the joy and happiness she’d just seen in his eyes was like nothing she’d ever seen before. It filled her heart to almost bursting, and Mia knew she could never repay the Douglases for their kindness and all they had given her. Nothing had been this perfect ever.

“I don’t know how I’m ever going to repay you and your family,” she sobbed.

“Hey, no crying.” Alex gathered her to him on the sofa, embracing her in a hug that had her melting against him. “You don’t need to repay me or our family. We haven’t done anything special.”

“Ha. Yes, you have. Without you and your family I don’t know what I would have done these last couple of weeks.” Pushing against Alex’s chest, she eased back and stared up at him. “You have all been like guardian angels to me. And you, Alex, have been more of a father to Zane than any other man in his life. Thank you. I know
thank you
is nowhere near enough for what you and your family have done for me and my son, but I’ll say it to you every day if it’ll help.”

The sound of sniffling to her left had Mia glancing over to see Alex’s mother, Catharine, standing there with tears rolling down her cheeks. “Oh, sweetie, you have nothing to thank us for. Zane is a blessing, and you are a welcome new member to our family. There is no need to thank us.” Catharine walked further into the lounge room and came over, leaned down, and hugged Mia tight. After a good couple minutes or so Catharine patted her back and eased away, standing. “Enough crying now, love. Let’s go into the kitchen to eat some of these cookies your son helped me make, and then he can show you his room.” Catharine winked at her. “I wouldn’t worry about the room too much. It’s Alex’s old room. He wasn’t using it.”