Текст книги "Wanted"
Автор книги: Kelly Elliott
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Chapter Five
Ellie …..
Holy shit! I had never seen a guy rush out the door as fast as Gunner did. The moment he heard me say I was hungry he practically jumped over the bar and offered to go get food! I had to giggle. There was just something about him…….what was it?
I mean this morning I woke up with a boyfriend and tonight I’m having fantasies about my brother’s best friend. What the hell was wrong with this picture? Maybe it’s because I know he is Jefferson’s friend. I’ve always been kept away from them so maybe it’s just the fact the Jefferson is okay with it that has me attracted to the guy? Who knows?
I walked up to a book shelf and saw a picture of both Jefferson and Gunner. Funny, I’ve never seen this picture before. They were both in their swimsuits and it looked like they were at the coast. I was going to have to wipe the drool from my mouth if I kept staring at Gunner like that. Hot damn he had a nice body. His tribal tattoo was gorgeous. Hmmm? Wonder if I’ll ever get to see it in person? I started to feel a dull ache between my legs and had to press them together to make it stop.
“That picture was taken this past spring break in Port A” Jefferson said has he walked up behind me.
Startled that I had just been caught staring at Gunner’s picture I quickly put it down and turned around and smiled. “You sure are one handsome fella Jefferson! I bet y’all had girls all over you down there.” I said as a way to divert him from what I was doing.
Jefferson threw his head back and laughed. “Nope, well don’t get me wrong, there were a few sluts that tried to make their way back to our condo! We couldn’t be bothered with most of the girls down there though. Most of them are just hoes.”
“Well gesh thanks for that. If you haven’t forgotten Ari and I went to Port A for a few days during spring break so are you calling us hoes?” I raised my eyebrows up at him, waiting for his answer.
“Now come on Ells, I would never ever say you were like those girls. Ari now….she is another story.” Jefferson said has he let out a laugh and walked into the kitchen and got out a beer.
“Hey! That is my best friend! She’s not a slut. I’ll have you know she has never even had…..” I stopped myself suddenly before I just announced to my brother that Ari was still a virgin. With the way their relationship had been lately he didn’t need any more to use against her. Jefferson stopped his beer at his lips and tilted his head. Oh shit….a smile slowly came across his face.
“So, squirt is still a virgin is she? HUH? This is news. This could be very informative news indeed!” He let out a gruff laugh.
“Jefferson Michael Johnson, so help me God if you even hint to her that you know I will never talk to you again. EVER!” I said as I got up and started poking his massive chest.
He just laughed and rubbed the top of my head like I was a child. “Don’t worry honey; her secret is safe with me!”
That reminded me….. I remembered Jefferson’s and Ari’s strange exchanges all day.
“Speaking of Ari, what was going on with you two today?” Jefferson stopped dead in his tracks and turned to look at me.
“What are you talking about? Nothing is going on between us. Why would you even ask that? I mean she is, well she’s just Ari.” Jefferson said to me with a shrug of his shoulders. The stricken look on his face was like I just asked him to solve the problem of world hunger.
“I didn’t mean to imply there was something going on. It’s just that you were bickering with her and it seemed like you were trying to just piss her off on purpose. She is my best friend Jefferson and I’m tired of you always treating her like a spoiled child. She is not a bratty child. She is a grown adult woman and she deserves to be treated better than that. I would expect that from you of all people.”
“Oh, believe me it’s not lost on me how much of an adult Ari is. I’m sorry Ells; I’ll try not to argue with her as much. I need to get ready for my date.” Jefferson said as he turned and walked away. He stopped and turned around and looked in Gunner’s bedroom.
“Where’s Gunner?”
“Oh…I just mentioned I was hungry and he pretty much darted out the door to go get food. He said he would be back in a few minutes.” I said as I sat down on the sofa and turned on the TV.
“DAMN Ellie! You got that boy going every which way but loose!” Jefferson said with a laugh.
“What are you talking about? He said he was hungry too and was going to get some food. Gesh Jefferson, you act like he was jumping off a bridge for me or something.” I said annoyed at where this was going. Jefferson turned back around to come and sit down next to me while he let out a small laugh.
“You really don’t see do you Ells?” Jefferson asked as he bumped into my shoulder.
“See what? What’re you going on about Jefferson?” I was really starting to get annoyed by him.
“Ellie, I’ve known Gunner for three years now. I have never seen him with the same girl more than a few times. He is so focused on football and school he pretty much has never given a girl more than five minutes of his attention. Don’t get me wrong, he likes girls!” Jefferson said with a laugh and a shake of his head.
What the hell did that mean?
Was Gunner a player? Did he sleep around a lot? I mean he sure had the looks to get any girl he wanted. My head was starting to spin again and the thought of Gunner with another girl had me feeling angry inside.
What the hell?
“I can honestly say I have never seen Gunner run and fetch dinner for someone!” Jefferson laughed again. “Ellie honey, I know you just had this whole bullshit thing with Ryan the douche bag this morning and you believe that bullshit mom feed you years ago but, Gunner is attracted to you princess. He is a good guy Ellie but…”
Jefferson cut off what he was saying and he looked down and away from me.
“But WHAT?!” I asked clearly anticipating Jefferson to tell me to stay clear of his best friend.
“Ells I want you to know I would trust my life and yours with Gunner. I trust him but this is you we’re talking about. I just don’t want him to break your heart or hurt you Ellie. I really don’t want you to jump into something you’re not ready for honey. Just promise me you will be careful.” Jefferson said as he took my good hand and brought it up to his mouth and kissed the back of my hand.
I busted out laughing and Jefferson just looked at me.
“What is so funny Ells?”
I just could not stop laughing…..”Oh my gosh! You’re what’s so funny! I mean come on Jefferson! I hardly think that Gunner is interested in me of all people! I’m sure he is only being nice to me because of you!” I said in-between laughs.
Jefferson dropped my hand and stood up. He looked down at me and sighed heavily. “Ellie, you are beautiful, inside and out. You’re very desirable princess and trust me when I say this, Gunner is interested. He’s a great guy, just be careful that’s all I ask. I have to get going or I am going to be late and the wrath of Rebecca will be upon me!”
My heart was pounding and I felt like I was going to be sick. No…I would not let this happen. Gunner was not interested in me! Was he?! If he was it was probably only for sex. No matter if Jefferson was his best friend or not, men were all the same. I was not going to have anything to do with it. I just had to make sure I kept it to the ‘friends’ level with this guy.
I looked over at his picture with Jefferson on the beach and sighed. Jesus, this was going to be hard. The guy was beyond good looking and his body…..I had to squeeze my legs together to ease the throbbing again.
Yep, this was going to be hard. Very, very hard….A second later the front door flew open and Gunner came in holding bags from my favorite sandwich place, Schlotzky’s.
“Hey you! Glad you’re still awake! I remembered Jeff said your favorite sandwich was the Turkey breast on Rye from Schlotsky’s! I hope you’re hungry sweetheart. I got you two!” Gunner said with that crooked smile on his face and those blue eyes sparkling down at me.
I let out a laugh as he sat down and set all the food on the coffee table. He started to take out 4 sandwiches, 5 bags of chips and two drinks. Good lord who was this all for?
“I wasn’t sure what kind of chips you liked so I just grabbed a few of them. You like sweet tea right?” He asked as he started to spread out the fest before us.
“Ummm……WOW Gunner! YES I love sweet tea! I would’ve been happy with just the sandwich thank you! The cracked pepper chips are my favorite though.” I said as I let out another laugh.
How in the world did he think I would eat two sandwiches? “I don’t think I can eat both sandwiches though, I’m sorry.” I said as I looked over at him. He was already taking a bite of his sandwich.
“No problem sweetheart! I’ll eat what you don’t want. We can just throw the chips in the pantry for later!” He said as he unwrapped the other sandwich he had bought for me. I smiled at how much he reminded me of Jefferson. Jefferson could eat a cow I swear.
My god Gunner was so damn cute when he ate. Shit he was just so damn cute period! No, he was beyond cute. He was handsome. I practically could feel the heat coming from his body. I needed to move away a bit before his leg touched mine. If it did I’m pretty sure I would fall apart.
I looked over at him just as he looked over at me.
“You okay sweetheart? Are you not feeling well? You need more medicine?”
I just smiled at him and shook my head no and took a bite of my sandwich. He smiled that big crooked smile and just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse, I noticed the goddamn dimple on his cheek.
FUCK ME…..this was going to be very hard.
Chapter Six
Gunner ……
Okay, I have seen plenty of girls eat before and I never thought twice about it. But when Ellie ate, my whole world about stopped. Who am I kidding; everything she did made my whole world stop. She ate all of her sandwich and finished off her chips and the brownie I bought her. Thank god she was not one of those girls who would only eat lettuce and snack on carrots. Jeff came out dressed and ready for his date.
“Alright I’m out of here. You sure you are okay with this Ellie?” Jeff asked as he bent down to give her a kiss goodbye.
“Yes! I said I was fine! Have fun tonight!” Ellie called out as Jeff slapped me on the back and made his way out the door.
“Did you get enough to eat Ellie?” I asked her as I cleaned up the mess on the coffee table.
“Oh my gosh YES! I’m SO full and SO tired! Thank you so much Gunner for getting my favorite! I’m surprised you even knew that.” She said as she looked up at me with those beautiful blue eyes that caught my breath every fucking time she looked at me.
“No problem sweetheart. It was my pleasure. I heard Jeff say enough times what he was bringing you for lunch so I put two and two together that this must be your favorite place.
“Do you mind if I watch a movie with you? I mean I’m tired but I don’t think I could fall asleep this early.” Ellie called over her shoulder to me as I brought all the trash out to the kitchen. Holy hell, just her asking to watch a movie with me and BAM…..hard dick! I needed to get it together or it was going to be a long fucking night.
“Of course I don’t mind! On the table next to the sofa are all of our movies if you want to pick one.” I called back out to her. “You want something else to drink?”
“Um…just water please.” She answered me with a smile so sweet my heart about dropped to my stomach. I would give anything to have that smile greet me each and every morning.
“Soooo, you really were planning on just staying home tonight and watching a movie? Seems to me you would have some hot date like Jefferson. A guy as good looking as you surly has a girlfriend.” Ellie rattled off as I walked up to the sofa and set her bottle water down along with another beer for me.
“Yes, I was really planning on watching a movie tonight and no, no hot date or girlfriend.” I said back to her with a laugh. “Jefferson would laugh his ass off if he heard you say he was on a hot date!”
I sat down on the sofa and reached around the back and pulled up a blanket for her.
“Do you want me to get you a pillow?” I asked as she looked through the movies.
“Oh no…I can get it. You don’t have to wait on me Gunner. I’m perfectly fine to get things on my own.”
Good lord I could watch her lips move for hours. I tore my eyes away from her mouth and looked up to see her staring back at me. Yep, this was going to be a long night. We sat there for I don’t know how long just staring at each other before I jumped up and walked into Jeff’s bedroom to grab a pillow and another blanket. I needed to adjust my growing dick as I walked down the hall.
I walked into my bedroom and quickly changed into some sweat pants. If things kept going the way they were my dick was going to be squished in my jeans all night if I didn’t change. On the way back into the living room I stopped in the kitchen to get a bag of ice for Ellie’s hand.
I sat back down on the sofa and handed her the pillow and the other blanket. I also grabbed the small sofa pillows for her to prop her hand up on.
“Thank you Gunner.” She said in the sweetest voice I’ve ever heard. There goes my heart again for like the umpteenth time today.
“Sure, um…got to remember to keep this elevated. You find a movie you liked?” She looked up at me with the most adorable smile. I couldn’t help but smile back at her. The things this girl’s smile did to me and in more than one place.
“YEP! I can’t believe you have this!!! I love this movie.” She said with such child like excitement.
I looked over to the movie she was holding and it was Cars. No fucking way!
“You want to watch Cars?” I said with a laugh.
“Hells yeah! This is like my all time favorite movie!! Ari’s little brother and I watch it all the time. You don’t like Cars? I can’t believe it?! It’s like…the BEST movie EVER! Why do you even have this movie if you don’t like it?” She rattled off so fast I had to laugh at her.
“No! No! Cars is perfect Ellie! It actually is my favorite movie also. I love watching it and I’m not afraid to admit I bought it. I have a secret love of saying Ka-Chow when no one is listening!” I said as I took the movie from her hand.
“Cars it is!”
I walked over and put the movie in the blue ray player. I turned back around and if I was not mistaken, I would say someone was just checking my ass out. I gave her a smile and a wink and watched that beautiful blush take over her cheeks.
“Are you comfortable sweetheart, need anything while I’m up?” I looked down at her poor hand. It was still pretty swollen but didn’t look to bad. She was trying to adjust herself on the sofa with all the pillows and the blanket. I let out a small laugh and she looked up at me.
“Glad to know I’m amusing you. I can’t do this with just one hand. ARGH! I feel so useless. Shit!”
She threw her head back against the sofa. Poor thing, I knew she was in pain and was trying to act like she wasn’t.
“Here Ellie sweetheart, let me help you.” I reached over and set the pillow on the end of the sofa. “Here, lie down.”
I picked up her legs and the instant I touched her I felt a jolt of electricity go through my entire body. Good lord I can’t even help her with the simplest of things without getting a reaction out of my betraying body.
“Really I’m okay sitting up Gunner. If I lie down you won’t have anywhere to sit!” She practically jumped away from me.
“Don’t be silly Ellie, lay down. Please.”
I smiled when I saw her relax. She lifted her legs onto the sofa and I adjusted the pillow for her. I took the smaller pillows and put them on the edge of the sofa so she could put her hand up. She took the ice and I saw that she winced when she put it on her hand.
“Do you need more pain medicine?” I asked her as I moved the coffee table over to where she could at least reach over and grab her water if she needed it.
“No, I just took some not too long ago. Gunner really, you don’t have to do all of this. I’ll be fine. Besides the fact that I’m just feeling sleepy I’m okay, really!”
I was now kneeling on the ground in front of the sofa adjusting her blanket.
I looked up at her and was stopped in my tracks. Her beautiful light brown hair was just past her shoulders and had a bit of a wave to it. Not curly but not straight either. Her blue eyes looked like the sky and her smile…… well damn her smile would always be my undoing I decided at that very moment.
I smiled at her and for some reason I reached up and pushed her hair behind her ear. Every time I touched her I felt her heat move through my body. I wanted so badly to reach down and just brush her lips against mine. And then it hit me, I would do anything for her. I would lay down my life for this girl.
“I know you can take care of yourself sweetheart. I just want to help. Now let’s watch this movie shall we?” I said as I stood back up and moved to the other end of the sofa.
I lifted up her legs, sat down and grabbed the last small pillow I purposely kept out to hide my hard on. I placed her legs on the pillow and hit play. It would take several minutes into Cars before my heart rate finally settled back down.
Chapter Seven
Ellie ……
The moment he pushed my hair behind my ear I knew I was in trouble.
He was being so thoughtful and kind. For a second I really thought he was going to lean down and kiss me. I almost was willing him to do it in my mind. How silly am I being? I know he is only taking care of me because I am Jefferson’s sister. There is no way a guy like this would EVER be interested in me. Jefferson was dead wrong. I’m so far out of Gunner’s league it was unreal.
Gunner sat on the other end of the sofa and rested my legs on his lap. Well, not really because he put a pillow in-between him and my legs. I must admit I felt a tinge of disappointment when I saw him do that. Ryan never would have sat on the sofa like this. He said he could not take touching me because it only made him want me more. Maybe he just didn’t want to touch me because I was never desirable for him. To be honest, I would have never have been ready to do anything with Ryan. We barley ever kissed and that was all. I guess he felt the same way. He never really wanted me.
You will never be wanted by anyone…………
“Hey, what are you frowning for over there? Do you want me to change the movie, cars not doing it for you sweetheart?” Gunner asked as he started to stroke my legs.
OH. MY. GOD. He really needed to stop doing that. This boy must have magic in his finger tips….holy fuck! There goes that pressure in-between my legs again!
“No, its fine I was just thinking about the whole thing with Ryan today. I’m sorry.” I said as I tried to relax while he was sending jolts of electricity up and down my legs. Gunner’s face immediately fell and he looked like he wanted to hurt someone. He stopped stroking my legs and pushed both his hands through his messy hair. I immediately missed his touch and regretted bringing up Ryan. As I watched him run his hands through his hair I licked my lips. What I wouldn’t do to straddle him right now and run my fingers through that hair. I wonder if it was as soft as it looked.
Oh holy shit! I needed to stop this! I tried to clear my head of my thoughts and looked back up at Gunner who was now looking at me. This was starting to get awkward the way we kept staring at each other.
“Hey, um Gunner can I ask you something?” I said as I sat up a little to get a better look at him. My god he really was breathtaking. He smiled at me.
“Always….”
Yep, I would never forget that smile for as long as I lived. The feelings it sent through my body were like nothing I had ever experienced.
“Why do you keep calling me sweetheart?”
SHIT! As soon as I asked him that his smile faded just a little bit.
“I didn’t realize I was saying it a lot. I’m sorry. If you want me to stop or it bothers you, I’ll try to be more aware of it.” Gunner said as he looked back at the TV.
Oh no….FUCK! I think I just hurt his feelings. FUCK! FUCK! FUCK A DUCK!
“No no please don’t stop. I mean, I like it. I mean, um, well…” Good lord what was I trying to say here?
“It’s just that you called me that the first time you touched me, I mean when you pulled me back away from Jefferson and Ryan. I guess I was just surprised to hear anyone other than Jefferson use an endearing name for me. That’s all.” I said as I laid back down on the pillow. Gesh now I felt like a complete bitch. Here this god of a guy was staying home tonight and waiting on me and I just insulted him. SHIT! I truly sucked at this stuff.
“Ryan never called you sweetheart or anything?” Gunner asked his voice filled with surprise.
“HA! No….about the only thing he ever called me was Ell or Ells. That should have been another sign.” I said the last sentence practically under my breath.
“Well I can tell you this Ellie, if you were my girlfriend I would let you know every day how much you meant to me, through words, and much more.” Gunner said in such a sexy ass voice.
I wanted to say show me this much more and show me now please!
Okay, that just woke up my whole body including my libido. WOW….no one has ever said anything like that to me before. Whoever snags this guy is going to be one hell of a lucky bitch.
“That is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me. Thank you Gunner, so much. I’m sure you are going to make some girl a very happy woman someday.” I said with as much of a smile as I could muster.
The thought of another girl in his arms drove me almost mad. What was wrong with me? God help me…..I turned my attention back to Cars.
Before I knew it he was stroking my legs again and I feel into a dream. I dreamt I was walking along a riverbank. It was me walking but I was also standing in the back ground watching it all play out. All I could see was my back walking away from me. Then to my side a man came running up and picked me up in his arms and spun me around. He gave me the most loving kiss. He whispered something in my ear and I threw my head back and laughed. He turned and I could now see the front of his body….it was Gunner. He had white linen pants on that were rolled up so the water did not touch them and a grey shirt. He looked like heaven. His smile was that crooked smile that I instantly feel in love with and would do anything to see every day. Just then I turned along with Gunner to start walking back in the direction I was watching my dream…..something was different about me but I could not see what it was. I barely could see my face or my body. Everything got blurry. Gunner dropped my hand and started to walk away from me. Wait! Where was he going?! Why was he leaving? He looked so sad.
I heard someone talking to me. It was my mother..…. Wake up Ellie..….you will never be wanted like this Ellie darlin’…... He does not want you Ellie wake up…...Does not want you……NO! That was not true. I saw the way Gunner looked at me in my dream……he loved me…..he had to love me….
Ellie sweetheart wakeup…….
