RANGER (Forsaken Riders MC Romance Book 19) Page 9

  “I’ll get you some towels,” she said. “You can take your shower first.” She pointed to the corner of the room and to the door that led off to her adjoining bathroom.

  “Thanks.”

  “I’ll go and get us something to drink if you like. Are you a tea or coffee man?” she asked.

  “How about a whiskey?” Ranger tried his luck.

  “Very funny.” She scowled playfully.

  “Coffee then,” he said as he yawned and scratched the back of his neck.

  Nicole reached up into her closet and pulled down some fresh towels before throwing them over. He caught them with barely a glance up even though she was trying to catch him off guard.

  “Impressive,” she teased.

  Ranger winked. “I’ve told you, I’m always one step ahead.”

  Nicole smiled coyly and then she opened the door and walked out into the hallway.

  She heard him get to his feet and walk across the floorboards to the bathroom and wished she could’ve stayed and watched him. She felt hot under the collar as she imagined him undoing his shirt, exposing his rock hard and rippling abs before reaching for his belt buckle. She could see it perfectly in her mind’s eye… the image of his big hands snapping the belt open, pulling his jeans down and exposing his huge, thick—

  “Morning, darling!” Nicole’s mom bellowed up the stairs as she stood at the bottom.

  Nicole jumped, the fantasy of Ranger undressing fading away far too fast. “Morning,” she called back. She went to the stairs to see her mother smiling up at her.

  “How did you both sleep?” her mom looked far too happy for it being before ten am.

  “Fine,” Nicole said. “Ranger is just having a shower.”

  Her mom nodded enthusiastically and then continued down the hallway towards the kitchen.

  After they had both showered, changed, drank their coffee and made more small talk with Nicole’s parents, it was time for them all to go their separate ways for the day. Nicole was determined to get Ranger as far away from her family as possible.

  “I’ll show you around this part of town,” she said as they stepped out of the front door and started down the steps.

  They passed his truck and Nicole couldn’t help but think how long ago it seemed since they had arrived. They had been back under her family’s roof for less than twenty-four hours, but it felt like a lifetime, and now it felt as if she and Ranger knew each other very well indeed.

  It was funny what spending a constant period of time with someone did to you; it forged a bond quickly and deeply and Nicole was no longer stressed or panicked.

  “So, I suppose we should talk about tonight,” Nicole said as they wandered through the gates of a park just outside the border of her neighborhood.

  “Sure,” he said as he sat down on a bench and let his arms run along the back of it, opening his body up wide.

  Nicole sat next to him.

  “Are you going to ask my dad for his permission?” she said it almost in a whisper.

  “If that’s what you think is best,” he offered.

  He was so relaxed and cool about everything, as if not one part of it bothered him that it was making the whole situation feel very normal and natural.

  “If you do, then I think they’ll be more likely to agree to give me my money when I ask…” She hesitated. “But I don’t know.”

  She was still focused on getting what they had come for but after she had spent the night beside him, things felt different. She looked across at him and he smiled down at her.

  “Whatever you want, babe,” he said genuinely.

  Babe…

  He hadn’t called her anything but princess and wifey, mocking her and the ridiculous situation they were in. But babe, when it came out of his mouth, felt right.

  She could tell she was blushing and was so happy Nicole couldn’t keep the smile from lighting her face up.

  “I don’t want to keep pushing this if it’s going to make you uncomfortable,” she said. “I don’t know. At least I think they believe us, maybe we should just leave them with this and then see what happens once I’m back at school.”

  He nodded his head slowly.

  She didn’t know what she was doing or why she was stumbling over her words, but she didn’t want to complicate the situation any further. Maybe her parents would believe her to be in love and would listen to her for once in their lives. Maybe they could slip back to campus and never have to reveal that all this was a lie.

  But was it a lie anymore?

  Ranger reached out and took hold of her hand. It was the first time he had done something like that without her parents being there and it stunned her, but it also calmed her down.

  She looked up at him and into his eyes.

  “You know I want you to get the money for you,” he said. “But I don’t want you to pay me.”

  She hadn’t known what she was expecting him to say, but it certainly hadn’t been that.

  Nicole blinked and searched his face for answers.

  “I would have done this for free,” he whispered, and then he lifted her hand to his lips and kissed the top of it delicately before placing it back on her leg.

  Nicole’s heart was racing. Where had such a tender display of affection come from? She turned her body to face him and reached out and took hold of his hand again. He reached up and stroked her face and they stared into each other’s eyes.

  The world around them seemed to fall away. The park was deserted, and the sounds of the traffic in the distance all seemed to hum and blur to nothing. All Nicole could hear was the ringing in her ears and the sound of her own heartbeat.

  Ranger cupped her cheek and she squeezed his hand as he pulled her head toward his and kissed her on the lips. She ran her hands up his back and held him close to her. Being able to properly touch him was so exciting it was almost terrifying. It felt forbidden, but it felt right.

  His kiss was deep and gentle, their mouths fused together perfectly, and she felt tiny in his arms. She let her hands trail up to his hair and ran her fingers through it, gasping as how good it felt to be with him and to be finally be able to touch him.

  When their lips broke apart and they looked into each other’s eyes, they both felt overwhelmed with emotion and lust.

  “I’ve wanted to do that since the moment you walked into Tanners and started pissing me off,” Ranger said with a wicked grin.

  Nicole bit her lip and smiled.

  “Good,” she said. “Because so have I.”

  He kissed her again and they held each other tightly.

  Something big was happening between them. Something unexpected, and something real.

  In a split second things had gone from complicated to fucked up… to completely insane. But in the midst of it all, everything seemed to make sense.

  “What are we doing?” she whispered as she nuzzled into him and breathed him in.

  Ranger ran his fingertips through her hair and she felt a shiver roll right down her spine.

  “I have no idea,” he said. “But I don’t want it to end when we leave here.”

  Nicole couldn’t hide her smile. It had been what she had been hoping to hear. She had just never truly believed that it would happen.

  They walked back to the house and Nicole was delighted to see her parent’s cars had vanished from the driveway. Ranger’s truck was still parked at the bottom on the side of the street and he held her hand tightly as he pulled her toward it.

  “There’s something I want to show you,” he said with a grin as he moved to the back of the flatbed and started to undo the tarp that was secured over it.

  When he peeled it back, she knew what it was going to be immediately, she just couldn’t believe it had been there the whole time and he hadn’t told her it was there.

  Underneath the tarp lying on its side was his huge, glinting and dangerous motorcycle.

  “Wow,” she whispered.

  “Your parents aren’t home,” he
said mischievously. “Wanna go for a ride?”

  Nicole had never been on a bike before – any kind of bike – never mind one that looked as if you would have to be superman to drive it. Her heart picked up its pace and she faltered for a moment before she shook some sense into herself.

  This is who he is, she thought. If you want to know him, then you have to be open-minded just like he’s been. He came into your family’s home and he got to know them, and he hasn’t even really lied about who he is and my parents love him. This man is special. And he likes me.

  She smiled. “I’d love to.”

  Ranger brought the bike down out of the back of the truck and she watched as he maneuvered it onto the road. He held out his hand and helped her onto the back of it. When she felt the incredible machine between her legs, she knew that this was going to be the beginning of a great love affair. Both with Ranger, and with her need for speed.

  “Let’s do it.” He smiled wickedly as he climbed on in front of her.

  12.

  The bike roared to life beneath them and Nicole reached up to wrap her arms around Ranger’s waist.

  “Do you think they’ll come back?” he asked her over his shoulder.

  “Even if they do, I don’t care anymore,” she said. “There’s a part of me that wants to tell them the truth.”

  She rested her chin between his shoulder blades and he gave her forearm a reassuring squeeze.

  “If they see us on this, put it this way, I won’t be trying to explain it away. This is you. This is who you are, and I like that. I’m sure they will too. It’s not like you’ve lied about much so far.”

  Ranger laughed. “Yeah not much, just about pretty much my entire life.”

  Nicole hugged herself into him.

  “Take me for a ride,” she whispered into his ear.

  He revved the engine and swept the bike out down the street, circling it around quickly and sending her cascading to one side as she held on for dear life.

  “Oh my God!” she screamed with laughter at how unexpected it was.

  “Hold on,” he said. “Things are going to get much wilder than this!”

  He pulled out of the gates to the neighborhood and travelled down the quiet roads that led out of town and towards the barren lands of the desert. They were travelling far out of the city now and the suburbs were left behind. Nicole felt free and alive. As she clung to him, she felt truly awake and content for the first time in her entire life.

  She had never met anyone who inspired her like Ranger did.

  He had come into her life in the most bizarre way, and the circumstances had been stacked against them but somehow their connection had developed and strengthened, and now she never wanted to let him go.

  They rode until her legs were sore and she called into his ear that she was ready to go home. After having her legs wrapped around him, all she could think about was getting him back into her bedroom and finally doing what she had wanted to do since the moment she had set eyes on him.

  Ranger drove them back fast, but safely, and when they pulled back onto the foot of the driveway they could see the house was dark and her parents still weren’t home.

  “I’ll load this back onto the truck,” he said.

  “You don’t have to,” she responded. “I don’t care if they come back and see it.”

  The sun had set and there was a distinct chill in the air. They had been out riding for hours, swooping around the desert and stopping to steal kisses along the way. Ranger had shown her parts of the desert and herself she hadn’t even known existed, and she loved the way he had such a great knowledge of the world around them.

  They walked back up to the house and when Nicole unlocked the door and turned on the lights inside, the first thing she saw was a note scrawled and left on the table in the middle of the hallway. She crossed the marble floor and stopped beside it, picked it up and read it.

  “They’re out for the night,” she said.

  The note her mom had left told her that they were out for dinner with friends and wouldn’t be back until after midnight.

  She hugged her arms around herself and when she turned and saw Ranger standing in the doorway, she was again completely blown away. This man wanted her. She could sense it.

  And she wanted him.

  They looked at each other, completely silent, the only sound in the house was the rumble of the big double refrigerator down the hallway in the kitchen.

  “What shall we do?” she asked him.

  She was sure she saw the glint in his eye and knew it must’ve been reflecting the one in her own.

  Her pussy pulsed. She was aching for him.

  She had never wanted to be taken so badly in her entire life, and restraining herself from running over to him, ripping off his clothes and throwing herself at him was torture.

  Ranger didn’t speak, but he took a step toward her and her breath caught in her throat. He really was so incredibly handsome.

  He was tall and rugged and he had a danger about him that was very real, but his softer side had really shone through while they’d been on their own together. It was like he was a man of two halves.

  He had the side of him that could be the badass lawless biker, and then there was the side of him that he saved for those closest to him.

  Ranger the lover. Ranger the potential husband. Ranger the man who was about to make all of her wildest dreams come true.

  “Take me upstairs,” she whispered, not really sure where she was getting her nerve from but knowing she wanted it more than anything she had ever wanted before.

  Ranger stopped inches away from her and looked deep into her eyes before he ran his fingers through her hair and pulled her to him, kissing her hard and passionately on the lips.

  His kiss was so good, and the feeling of his stubble grazing against her soft face was enough to make her legs shake. She wrapped her arms around his neck and he lifted her at the waist, wrapping her legs around him, holding her there easily as if she were completely weightless.

  He walked backwards with her towards the stairs and before they knew what was happening, they tumbled down onto them in the throes of passion, unable to tear themselves away from each other.

  He pushed down on top of her hard and she moaned as she ran her fingers along his muscular arms. He was so strong. There was no doubt he could dominate her in every way possible. She mewed like a kitten as he thrust down onto her, pressing his groin against hers and grinding.

  She could feel he was hard for her and it was making her so wet she could barely stop herself from unravelling. She hadn’t been touched in so long; she had almost forgotten how good it felt to be chosen by a man… to be wanted, to be attended to.

  Ranger rose to his feet and grabbed hold of her, picking her up and throwing her over his shoulder.

  She squealed and laughed with excitement as he slapped her playfully on the butt and ran with her up the stairs and to her bedroom.

  He kicked the door open and grunted. He had a wild look in his eye that was pure need and lust. He was an alpha male, that was for certain, and he wasn’t going to let her get away. He had caught her and he was going to have his wicked ways with her.

  She wanted it so badly it hurt.

  She bit her lip and gasped as he kicked the door closed behind them and plunged his lips onto her throat, kissing her hard on the side, nibbling her with his teeth gently. It felt so good it made her tremble at the knees.

  He lifted her again and walked with her toward her desk where he sat her down on the edge and moved between her legs. She looked up at him and into his eyes as he breathed down heavily on her, his whole body heaving with want.

  “What if my parents come home…” she teased as she reached for his belt.

  He grunted hard and took hold of her on the chin before he kissed her again.

  “I’m going to fuck you so good it’s likely the whole neighborhood is going to hear us,” he said as he reached up and cupped her breasts, pu
shing them together and tweaking her nipples through her top.

  She gasped and moaned as she flicked open his belt and began to pull down his jeans. She had fantasized about what he would be like when she finally got to see him. She ran her hand down and took hold of his incredible length in her fist as she moaned and gasped with delight.

  He was so big, long, and wide. He was the biggest she had ever seen. She moved her hand up and down, keeping him tightly close in her palm as she jacked him over and over and made him groan.

  “Babe,” he whispered as he kissed her neck and slipped his hand into her panties. “You’re so good.”

  She moaned and threw her head back as his fingers pulled her panties down and his large fingers found her pussy. She was soaking wet and red hot for him and when he plunged his finger inside of her, she couldn’t help but buck her hips towards him and grind herself down onto her hand.

  His touch was so good, she needed it again and again. When he pushed her back onto the desk so she was spread out beneath him he ripped her panties off and threw them over his shoulder so they landed on the floor behind him. She had never felt so ready for anyone.

  He pulled her to the edge of the desk and held onto her legs as he gazed into her eyes. With his free hand, he took hold of his huge cock and rubbed the tip up and down her pussy, spreading her juices and making her wetter and more turned on than she could handle.

  When he pushed himself to her opening, she held her breath and bit her lip. She was almost scared to take him in, but she also knew that the pleasure would be worth the pain. He was made to give it good, and she had to have him.

  He reached up and took hold of her by the throat so he could look her deeply in the eyes as he pushed himself inside of her. He claimed her with his cock. He pounded into her, going so deep that she felt completely opened and deflowered all over again.

  The heat inside of her was rising, and feeling him so hard and hot for her was bringing her to the very edge within seconds. She wrapped her legs around his waist tightly and nipped his butt with her heels. She pulled him closer to her and ground her ankles into him, driving him deeper and deeper and hitting her in all the right places.