Norma Jean (20 page)

He grabs my wrist gently and start tugging me over to his truck. And yes it’s the same old white one he has in high school. “What are you doing?” I ask as I try to pry his fingers off of me. No use, he is just stronger than me.

“Kidnapping you.”

Chance

“Just get in the truck Norma.” I say when she folds her arms over her chest. It is the only thing I can think of to keep her safe. Creed doesn’t know where I live in Fayetteville. I talked to Marley before the funeral and he is going to keep an eye on his mom and aunt.

“No. You have no right to do this. It’s my life and I’ll do whatever the hell I want.” She sneers at me before turning to walk away. Caden blocks her path which only makes her stomp her foot like a little child. “What the fuck, Chance! I can take care of myself!” she practically screams at me.

“I know you can Norma, but the circumstances are against you. Creed is out there hurting people you love. I won’t let him get to you.” I pull her back into my arms holding her close. “I couldn’t live with myself if something happened to you and I did nothing to protect you.” I whisper close to her ear.

Her limbs loosen but I can still feel the fight in her. “And I couldn’t live with myself if something happened to you. Do you think he is just coming after me? No he’s going to come after you too. I need to be far away fro
m you so that doesn’t happen.” she pleads.

I turn her in my arms to face me. I gently push her hair behind both ears and stare into her violet eyes. “Nothing is going to happen to me, I swear it. He doesn’t know where I live in Fayetteville. He doesn’t even know who I live with. He can’t find me there and that means if you come with me, he won’t be able to find you either.”

She huffs before replying. “That doesn’t matter. He can still hurt the people I care about here. He won’t stop until he completely ruins me.”

“Mason and Marley are on it. Do you really think I would leave if my family wasn’t looked after? No I wouldn’t. I’m not that kind of man.” I see the fight leave her eyes. She knows like everyone else Mason and Marley wouldn’t let anything happen to anyone on their watch.

“Fine. But I’m not happy about this at all.” She shoves past me and climbs into the truck, slamming the door.

“What a firecracker. I bet y’all have amazing sex.” Caden chuckles staring at Norma in the truck.

“That’s none of your business. Thanks for helping though, I’ll see y’all at the house.” We nod and go our separate ways. It didn’t take any convincing on my roommates parts. After Creed went after Norma’s grandmother they want her safe from him. That bastard is lucky I haven’t found him yet. Going after a poor defenseless old lady is the lowest of lows.

I climb into the cab of my truck and turn the keys, the vehicle roaring to life. Norma sits with her feet under her and her arms crossed over her chest again. She looks completely pissed off and she will just have to stay that way. I would go to jail to protect her, kill even. That’s how much she means to me.

“I’m not sharing a room with you, if you think this is going to be about sex.” she says out the window, watching the scenery fly by.

“It’s not about sex. Though I wouldn’t turn it down if that’s what you want. I honestly want you to be safe and this is the only way I know how. I’m sorry you don’t like it but you can get over it.” She turns her head towards me with her mouth forming a perfect o.

“I don’t like it because I have another overbearing alpha man trying to control my life. I’m still dealing with the last one, I don’t need another one nipping at my heels.” She glares her violet eyes full of fire. When we were together in high school we never fought so this is all new to me.

I pull the truck over to the side of the road and grab her arms gently. I say making sure her eyes are on mine, “I fucking love you Norma Jean. That asshole doesn’t know what the meaning
of the word is. I would never control you, never lay a hand on you. I wouldn’t even make you fuck me in public. Don’t you ever compare me to that freak again. I only have your best interest at heart, like I always have and always will.” I kiss her harshly putting my point across.

When our lips part I think she might slap me but she surprises me by kissing me deeply, her hands fisting into my short hair. It quickly gets out of control with us trying to devour the other. The windows fog up making the outside world disappear and leaving us in our own little world.

Her hands leave my hair and trail down my body. I feel strung tight and I’m waiting for her to let me go. Her little hands find their way into my pants where she fists my cock forcing a groan out of my throat. “Smalls.” I whisper into the thick air.

She raises onto her knees kissing me like it’s with her last breath. Her hand pumps my cock until I feel like I’m ready to blow. I don’t know how we went from fighting to this but I hope I can pull it off again and again. I lift her dress up and rip her panties and throw the destroyed lace into the
floorboard. “Fuck me, Chance.” she pleads around our lips.

I shake off her hands and pull her down onto my lap, her sex sliding over my cock. I swear my eyes roll into the back of my head. “Anytime, anywhere.” I say as I enter her slowly. She is wet and ready for me. I want her like this every damn minute of the day.

Her hands grip my shoulders as mine grip her hips pulling her up and down. The sensations are incredible and I wonder if the sex will be this way the rest of our lives. God I hope so.

“Chance.” s
he chants over and over again. I grin against her neck as I place deep kisses along the sensitive skin. “God, I’m gonna come so hard.” she rasps out.

“Not without me.” I growl pulling her harder against me with each motion. “Look at me.” I pull her face until her forehead is against mine and that’s all it takes. Her eyes light up with her climax and I swear I see stars as I come inside her.

After a moment we catch our breaths and she slides off my lap. I grin at the dazed look on her face and stuff myself back into my pants. I sit back in the driver seat and she sits right in the middle. Just like she used too. She grabs my hand, lacing her fingers with mine and lays her head on my shoulder. “I love you, too.” She whispers closing her eyes. All I can do is grin like an idiot.

*****

“Dude are those panties?” Caden asks when I open the driver side door in front of the house. He opened the passenger side door to help Norma carry her stuff, which we stopped by her moms and got.

All I can do is roll my eyes. Figures he would see those even though it’s dark and the panties are black. “No seriously. You ripped them?” he questions sounding astonished, grabbing the lace out of the truck floor.

I hate to admit it but my cheeks flush. I don’t think I’ve blushed since I was a little kid and my mom said something embarrassing. “Shut up.”

“I knew you two had amazing sex. Dude give me details.” He looks generally interested but I flip him off and head after Norma who already headed into the house. “I haven’t gotten laid in months and you flip me off? I need to live through you! Come on Chance tell me!” he pleads following close behind me.

I turn forcing him to stop quickly. “What I do with her, is none of your business. It’s no one’s business except for Norma and me. Get that through your head.” I glare at him hard before I turn to actually make it into the house.

“You are a total buzz kill.” He mutters behind me, making me grin cockily.

I find an unexpected sight when I enter the living room. Teagan and Norma are sitting on the couch. There are sleeping bags laid out on the floor and a bowl of popcorn sitting on the coffee table. Caden heads straight for the food but Teagan slaps his hand away. “God Caden! This is for our slumber party, go away.”

Slumber party? I throw a questioning look at Norma who shrugs her shoulders. “Teagan and I were talking about how much we loved Pretty Little Liars. She happens to have all three seasons on DVR so she decided to have an all-night marathon.”

“Okay.” I say slowly. I kind of hoped she would be sleeping with me tonight but it looks like I get my cold bed to myself. Bummer.

“Sorry Chance. I figured Norma needed a nice little girl’s night. You understand, right?” Teagan says looking up at me expectantly.

I can’t help but to grin at her little girl demeanor. “Yeah, I don’t care. As long as you don’t make me watch any of that shit.” I walk over to kiss Norma on the head and whisper in her ear, “Love you smalls.”

She smiles up at me and I head up the stairs to my own room. Alone.

I pass Declan’s room and there is a card table set up. He and his little brother Marcus sit in two of the four chairs surrounding the table. “Hey since the girls are doing their thing I figured we could do our own. Though I’m not sleeping with all of you in the room.”

“Sweet cards! And whiskey!” Caden exclaims claiming the seat next to Marcus.

I shake my head at him and walk into the room. “Cool, I guess.” I mutter sitting next to Declan. He deals out the cards and we start playing poker. I’m not good at this game at all. I can’t even tell you the rules or even how to play. Though we aren’t using real money, so I’m not losing anything.

“So Chance you were going to tell us details on what happened in the truck with Norma.” Caden says slyly making me glare in his direction.

“We seriously just had this conversation. Shut up because I’m not going to tell you anything.” I set my cards down to smack him on the back of the head.

Of course this piques Declan’s curiosity, “What happened in the truck?” I glare at him as well and then over at Marcus for extra measure.

“Dude he ripped off her panties.” He smirks at me when my entire face flushes yet again for the second time tonight.

Marcus and Declan look over at me like that haven’t ever seen me before. “I honestly didn’t know you had that in you.” Declan states clearing his throat.

“Me either.” Marcus throws in.

I roll my eyes. “None of you has had or will have sex with me, so how the hell did you know what I had in me or not?” I ask raising my eyebrows.

Declan blinks several times before answering. “Well you have a point there.” He clears his throat again. “I just meant you don’t seem to be that kind of aggressive in the bedroom.”

Caden chuckles about to reply when the girls yell out downstairs. We all get up and rush to the landing but nothing seems out of place. “What’s wrong?” I call out.

Their heads turn up to us and Norma says, “Toby is dead!”

Damn Pretty Little Liars.

Chapter 14

Norma

“So what is your story?” I ask Teagan in between bites of ice cream she pulled out of the freezer.

“Oh good lord. It’s a long one, are you sure you have time? You might need some tissues as well!” she laughs but I have a feeling she’s serious.

“Yeah I want to know. I’m super nosy, I get it from my…Grammy.” I look down at my hands which are folded in my lap.

“Hey it’s okay, I think it’s human nature to be nosy. I hear though your Grammy was really good at it.” She smirks over at me before placing her spoon down in the tub of Southern Blackberry Cobbler. “Well I’m one of six. My five brothers and sisters are all from the same mom and dad. I’m not. My dad and step mom were going through a rough patch and he cheated which produced me.” She scowls before shoving more ice cream in her mouth. When she’s done swallowing she goes on, “My mom didn’t think it was a good idea for me to know about my brothers or sisters, not until I was ten and she was dying from breast cancer. I was devastated. I honestly didn’t know what to do. Caden and Jaden are two weeks older than me and were in the same grade as me! I’m like, you just decided to spring this on me just because you’re dying? Gee thanks mom.” She rolls her eyes looking up the stairs for a second. “I got over the pain and moved on with my life. Though Caden and Jaden like to think they control my life. I really don’t think Caden cared about my relationship with Declan. He didn’t even know about it till it was too late anyway. I was already in love with him. Like he has any room to talk. But thats a different story.” She shrugs her shoulders looking back at me.

“So they didn’t want you to be with Declan? Why? He seems to have his head on straight. He puts all the guys I know to shame, including Chance.” I stuff the spoon in my mouth savoring the deliciousness of the ice cream.

“Jaden has…issues. Declan was his best friend in the whole world. He didn’t want me to get hurt because I had been through enough pain in my short life.” She pauses taking in a deep breath. “Jaden didn’t even know until I had a miscarriage. And I didn’t even know I was pregnant. The entire family had sheltered me all my life so it’s safe to say I was pretty immature. I actually tossed Declan out of my hospital room and told him I never wanted to see him again. It took me months to come to my senses. I’m lucky he was still waiting for me.”

I grab her hand and squeeze. “Oh my god that is horrible! I can’t imagine that kind of loss. Children are precious and it hurts me to think of you losing yours before you even knew it existed.”

She looks up at me and smiles softly. “It’s okay. Yeah I’ll always be sad about it, but one day I’ll have more with Declan. They won’t replace the child I lost, don’t get me wrong, but it will fill in some of the hole in my heart.” A tear leaks out of her green eyes and I gently swipe it away.