Painted Lines (30 page)

Chapter
48

By
seven o’clock, I was pissed and Nikki was scared.  I’d had enough, grabbed my
keys off the counter, and walked out the front door slamming it behind me.  I
didn’t think anything had happened to him.  He was avoiding me and scaring his
sister in the process.  We had tried calling him more than once and each time
it went straight to voicemail, he’d turned his phone off.  I heard the door
open and close behind me but didn’t really care at this point who was following
me out.  I quickly tied my hair into a loose knot then snatched my helmet off
the handlebars.

“Scout,”
I heard Simon say quietly, “calm down.”

“I’ll
call you once I find him,” I said climbing on to Stella.  “I can’t promise he
will be unharmed after that call, but I’ll call and let her know he’s still alive.”

Simon
opened his mouth again I’m sure to try to talk me out of looking for him but I
started Stella drowning him out.  I hit the throttle, kicked her in gear, and
hauled ass to his apartment.

I
pulled into the parking lot of his apartment pulling in beside his GTO.  I felt
my anger flare, I quickly made my way up the stairs to his building and pounded
on his front door.  He opened the door his eyes widening, he opened his mouth
as if he was going to say something but I didn’t give him the chance.  I quickly
swept his feet from under him, he landed with an ‘oof’ on his back, and I
glared down at him.

“Stay,”
I barked when he looked like he was about to get up.  He laid down and looked
at me bewildered. I quickly pulled out my cell phone hitting Simon’s number.

“He’s
alive, for now,” I growled.

“Scout,
calm down,” he said.

“Have
Nikki stay in my room tonight.  I’ll just crash on the couch when I get there,”
I told him then hit the end button.

“Scout—”
Thayne began but stopped when I growled at him.

“No
Thayne, do not fucking ‘Scout’ me.  You do not do that to your sister, you do
not ignore her calls when you’re late somewhere making her think you’re lying
in some ditch dead.  You do not fucking do that,” I yelled while standing over
him.  “You do not blow me off, if you don’t want to be with me then fine,
fucking grow a pair of balls and tell me that, but do not ignore me for three
days.”

“Hey
I do want to be with you,” he yelled back.

“Really,
then where the fuck have you been?”

“I
just,” he stopped and flicked his lip right, “I’ve been dealing with some
stuff.”

“And
you couldn’t tell me that?  Instead you ignore me as much as possible, slip out
when you think I wouldn’t notice?”

“It
wasn’t like that,” he growled.

“Oh
it was exactly like that.”

He
sighed staring straight into my eyes, “Can I get up now?”

I
shrugged, “Sure, but I may just put you on your ass again.”

He
nodded, “Think I will stay here.  Where did you learn that anyway?”

“My
brother is a Marine, do you think he left me unprotected?”

“Yeah,
that makes sense,” he murmured. “Okay, so what do you remember about the night
you came home from the hospital?”

“Which
time?”

“Scout,”
he groaned, “the last time.”

“Not
much, passing out and waking up.”

He
nodded, “Yeah, they gave you a lot of drugs.”

“Uh
huh,” I said making a hurry this up gesture with my hands.

“Okay,
well you kind of told me something, and then you didn’t remember in the morning
and it hurt that you didn’t remember.”

I
stood there trying to think back to that night, but it was all foggy.  “I don’t
remember Thayne.  I’m sorry I don’t remember but you should have talked to me
about this.”

He
nodded and bit his lip, “I was embarrassed.”

“You
were embarrassed?” I asked incredulously.

“Yeah,”
he said quietly.

“What
did I say?”

“Something
I’ve wanted to hear you say and then when I found out it was the drugs that
made you say it, it hurt and I didn’t know how to deal with that.  I’ve never
let anyone but my mom and sister really get in like this.  I’ve never in my
felt like this for a girl before.”

I
blinked confused, “Are we talking about what I said or are we talking about
something else here?”

He
shook his head, “It doesn’t matter,” he mumbled.

“No
apparently it does and since I came here expecting you to break my heart. I’d
kind of like to know what’s going on?”

“You
expected me to break your heart?”

It
was my turn to bite my lip and nod, “Yeah, with the way you’d been so
standoffish, I was sure you wanted to end things.”

“Ah
Bella,” he whispered, he reached up grabbed my hand and yanked me down to the
floor on top of him.  “In no way do I want to end things.”

I
nodded, burying my face into his neck, breathing him in.  “I love you, Thayne,
and that scares me.  You have too much power over me.  You could so easily
destroy me.  I’m not strong enough yet to lose you but I don’t know if I am
ready for where this is headed either.”

I
heard his sharp breath.  “You’re not going to lose me, Scout and we go at your
pace,” he murmured kissing my head.  “I love you too, Mia Bella.”

“So
what did I say?” I asked a few minutes later after just lying with him, feeling
him surrounding me, protecting me.

“That
you loved me,” he murmured.

I
snorted, “You hadn’t figure that out already?”

I
felt him shrug, “It’s different to hear the words.”

“Yeah,”
I said trailing my fingers down his chest, “it is.  Thayne, what do we do from
here?”

“That’s
up to you, Bella, but we don’t have to make any decisions tonight.”

I
snuggled more into him.  “You know I’m still pissed at you, right?”

I
felt his hand travel under my shirt and begin a slow leisurely stroke up my
spine, then the back of his hand brushed back down causing me to break out in
goose bumps.  I bit my lip against the moan that was building in my throat.  No
way was he going to distract me.

“Why
are you still pissed at me, Bella?” he whispered against my ear.

I
shivered with the way his breath puffed against me as he spoke, “You ignored
me,” I said quietly.

“I’m
sorry, Bella,” he murmured.  “How shall I make that up to you?”

His
hand continued to stroke slowly up and down my back while his other hand began
to stroke my cheek.  I knew I wouldn’t be able to resist his double assault for
long.

“I
don’t know, any ideas?”

“I
have a few,” he crooned, “interested in finding out what they are?”

“Mmm,”
I moaned when his fingers found my lips and brushed the pad of his thumb over
my lower lip.

“I
think I will start my apology here,” he whispered, “I do love your lips.”

He
turned us to our side keeping one hand on my back while the other went into my
hair.  He tilted my head how he wanted it before delving in slowly licking
across my lower lip.  I parted my lips for him, only instead of doing as I
wanted and kissing me hard, he traced my upper lip with his tongue.  He
followed the path back down and flicked my lip piercing with his tongue before
settling his lips over mine giving my tongue the same treatment.  Slowly
tracing it with his tongue, then flicking it, I mewled into the kiss wanting
more.

“Such
a greedy girl,” he murmured against my mouth then with more force began to kiss
me the way I wanted him to.  He kissed me harder, twining his tongue with mine
and I melted into it, letting him lead.

Finally
he broke us apart, both of us gasping for breath.  He trailed his lips and
tongue down my neck.  The feel of the cool piercing combined with his warm
breath caused me to shiver in an erotic anticipation.  His hand slid up under
my shirt along my side before finally gently cupping my breast through my bra,
rubbing his thumb across my nipple.

“I
want to try something, Bella, will you let me?”

I
nodded my consent, unable to actually form words with his hands on me.

“If
you get uncomfortable you tell me, all right?”

“Mmm,”
I agreed.

“You’re
wearing too many clothes, Mia Bella,” he murmured against my breast bone.  I
felt his hand slowly make its way back down from my breast then begin to pull
my tank top up.  I helped him pull it off my body.  His hand traveled back down
quickly popping the front clasp of my bra, his lips trailed across my shoulder
as he removed the strap.  I shrugged off the second he couldn’t easily reach. 
Then I felt his hands slowly slide down my body and then release the button on
my jeans.

He
sat up quickly removing my boots, socks and helped me shimmy out of my jeans.
Then he stopped and stared, I immediately began to squirm and look for
something to cover my scars.  He stopped me with a hand on my arm and shook his
head.

“You
are beautiful, Scout,” he said gruffly.

“No,
I’m covered in scars.”

“No
Scout, you are beautiful,” he said quietly before leaning down and gently
kissing me on the lips, “don’t hide from me.”

He
held his body weight off me as he slowly trailed down my body with his mouth,
tongue, and teeth, spending extra attention at my nipples.  Sucking and
nibbling on them until I was writhing underneath him.  By the smug grin on his
face, I knew he loved knowing he could do this to me. He continued to trail
down my body kissing, licking his way until he was kneeling between my legs
looking up at me.

“This
okay?” he asked quietly.

“Yeah,”
I whispered.

He
nodded “you’ll tell me?”

“Yeah”

He
watched me another moment before leaning down dragging my panties down my leg. 
I helped him by lifting my hips up, then he was lying on his stomach his head
between my parted legs.  I didn’t know what to expect, but then his fingers
parting the lips of my vagina, his warm breath bathing the sensitive area I
stopped caring what he had planned just wanting him to do something.  Then I
felt it, his tongue sweep across me and I shuddered my hips arching off the
floor.

“I
don’t want to hold you down,” I heard him murmur, “roll over on your hands and
knees.”

He
went back into a kneeling position and helped me roll over then get on my hands
and knees.  Then pulled me back towards him, I felt him push a finger inside
me. I moaned loudly, then his tongue was back, licking my clit slowly.  He
thrust his finger lazily in and out with his mouth doing wicked things to my
pussy. I didn’t know how long I could last without coming.  Only I didn’t want
to yet, I was enjoying this too much.  Just then his mouth latched on my clit
and sucked.  I couldn’t withstand it any longer and screamed his name.

He
stayed with me the entire time, slowly circling my clit with his tongue,
thrusting his finger in and out of me gently. When the waves finally ended and
I could see straight again he gently withdrew his finger.  I hadn’t realized I
had collapsed onto my elbows.  I looked over my shoulder and found that smug
grin back on his face.

“Liked
that, did you?” he asked cockily.

“Uh
huh,” was all I could say while trying to catch my breath.

“How
about we take this to a better place than beside the front door, huh?” he asked
then stood and picked me up bridal style walking us into his bedroom.

He
dropped me on the bed smiled down at me and began to quickly strip out of his
clothing.  My mouth went dry watching all of those muscles flexing.  I could
feel myself becoming even wetter for him.

“Sit
up,” he ordered so I quickly sat up and watched him sit on the edge of the
bed.  “Come here.”  I knee-walked to him and he pointed for me to stand in
front of him.  I climbed off the bed to do as he wanted.  He spun me around so
I was facing away from him.  I was now facing a full-length mirror on the back
of the closet I hadn’t noticed before.  He pulled me back between his legs and
gently moved my arm down, as I glanced over my shoulder.  “Sit down, Bella,” he
whispered.

I
slowly sat down on his lap.  He reached down grabbing my calf muscle placing my
leg over his, then did the same with the other.  He grabbed my hips and pulled
me up so that I was now raised over his cock.  I finally began to understand
what he wanted.  I reached down wrapping my fingers around his hard cock.  I
didn’t know when he had put on a condom, but I noticed the thin latex against
my fingers instead of his hot, velvety skin.  I placed him at my entrance and
he let go of my arms, so I began to slide down his dick, slowly, both of us
moaning at the sensation.

Once
he was fully seated inside of me, he pulled his thighs apart wide, which opened
me even wider.  I glanced up at the mirror and became hypnotized by the sight. 
I could see where his body entered mine.  With the mirror, I could see everything
and I couldn’t tear my eyes away from the sight.