Total pages in book: 23
Estimated words: 21169 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 106(@200wpm)___ 85(@250wpm)___ 71(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 21169 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 106(@200wpm)___ 85(@250wpm)___ 71(@300wpm)
And in the back of my mind, the solo from Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Free Bird starts playing. It builds slow, until the sound becomes overwhelming in my head. I release the guy’s face, feeling a twisted grin stretch over my face.
“Right. Your turn.”
He opens his mouth to speak, but before a sound comes out, my fist collides with his puffy cheek. He crumples to the ground. Two of his friends don’t like that and step up to me. The first swings, hits my chest, and then stares at me in trembling awe at how it didn’t make a dent.
The second comes in behind him, throwing another wild punch that I duck easily. He stumbles forward, losing his balance, and in his moment of weakness, I bring my head down against his nose. He tumbles to the floor, out for the count.
Another takes a swing at me, I catch the guy’s hand this time. I pull him toward me, raising my elbow in line with his path. His head strikes it with so much force, even I feel the sting.
Three down, one to go. But looking at him shivering in his boots behind Hailey and Lucy, I know he’s not going to put up a fight.
“Big man, huh? Taking advantage because you thought they were weak. Alone.” I step forward. Hailey and Lucy part to let me through.
“N—n—no sir,” he stutters, backing away so fast he trips over his own feet. “
“Is this the guy? He’s incredible.” Lucy says.
“I know, right? And he’s all mine,” Hailey’s response makes me smile.
“Now, you better start running, son. Better let everyone know what will happen if they fuck with what’s mine.”
He crawls backwards on his ass while I talk. Head bobbing up and down, with the obligatory yes, sir’s to everything I say. Noticing his window is quickly closing, he jumps to his feet and starts running. In a blink, he vanishes, and I know my job is done.
I turn around, ready to ask all the necessary questions about how she’s feeling, but Hailey launches into my arms, peppering my face and lips with a thousand kisses. I grab her by the waist, lift her up and kiss right back.
It’s not every day I get to be the hero. But if I’d known this was the thanks I’d get, I would’ve started being one a long time ago.
“How did you get here so fast?” she asks, when her onslaught of loving comes to an end.
“I didn’t,” I say honestly. Now’s as good a time as any to tell her the truth. Though, I might leave out the creepier bits about being a glorified stalker for two weeks. “Told you, I couldn’t take my eyes off of you.”
Slowly but surely, the others wake up and start running like their buddy did. None of them speak or take another swing at me. Smart of them, too. I wouldn’t have gone so easy on them the second time. And when the dust settles, Hailey hugs her wide-eyed friend goodbye, takes my hand and walks me to the car.
But we barely make it out of the parking lot and start crossing the road before her hand breaks from mine and finds its place on my growing erection.
“I hope you didn’t think you were in the clear,” she says, as we get into the car. “We’re not leaving this parking spot until I’ve given you a proper thank you.”
“I wouldn’t have it any other way,” I say, as she crawls over my lap, reaches down to free my cock and then under her skirt to pull her panties aside.
Yup, life’s about to get very interesting.
And it’s all thanks to her.
EPILOGUE
Rex
Six Months Later
Six months and nothing has changed. Deep down, I truly believed that time would slow my need to watch her. I was wrong. Even now, while I flip celebratory graduation burgers for Hailey and her friends, I can’t look away from her.
I guess it doesn’t help that she’s wearing a bikini and I know what’s waiting for me beneath it.
Once the cooking’s done, we settle down at the table outside. Everyone eats, sharing jokes and cheers for their successes. When eating’s out of the way, Hailey shuffles her way onto my lap, and lifts my hand onto the table.
“I’ve got another announcement,” she says. “Well, two.”
“Two?” I whisper against her neck. Her shoulders stiffen at the sensation, and her giggling tells me that was more ticklish than either of us expected it to be.
“Uh-huh.” Hailey lifts her hand up to my head, stroking the side softly.
“Oh, come on,” Lucy jumps in. “You can’t say you have an announcement and then keep us waiting in suspense.”
Everyone at the table laughs at her outburst. I’ve grown to like Lucy. Though she has a strange over-eager interest in our lives, she’s a great friend to Hailey, and that’s all I could ask for.