Eruption (The Hunted, #3)

by Ivy Smoak

"You know how good I am at getting information out of you." I trailed my hand down the front of his dress shirt, stopping at his belt.

"Well that wasn't awkward at all," Rob said as he leaned down and hugged me.

Penny, We have known James his whole life. He was at our house growing up almost as much as Mason and Matthew were. He's like a son to us. And we can't think of someone more perfect for him than you, Penny. We would be honored if you'd let us throw you a late engagement party at our house. Just something small, to officially welcome you to the family. Call us so we can arrange a date. And congratulations on your graduation! -Mr. & Mrs. Caldwell

But I wasn't sure if I could ever like them. Not after everything they had put James through.

"Please fuck me." He lightly bit my earlobe. "Not tonight." "Please." My voice sounded desperate. "I want to make love to you, Penny." His fingers thrust farther inside of me. "I want to make sure we always remember our first night here."

The fire in my stomach seemed to spread out in a million different directions. I would have melted into the ground if he wasn't holding me up. "James!" I moaned again as I felt his cum shoot up inside of me.

Mason lifted up his mug. "Here's to the start of a new chapter in our lives."

"Do you want a normal person tour?" I asked Bee. "Absolutely." She stood up and followed me into the kitchen. "They lost me at light fixtures."

"What if they don't like me?" I laughed awkwardly. "That's a stupid question. They already don't like me."

"They're the reason I'm not close to them. Just be yourself. I fell in love with you. If they don't like you, it's their loss, not the other way around."

"Yeah, my parents suck. That can't come as a surprise to you. They're the fucking worst."

"I do mean it. Don't you see what they're doing? They're trying to force Isabella back on me. They don't want me to marry you. They won't even give you a chance. They want me to be miserable. They don't care about me."

I pulled out my phone and called James. There was still no answer. I

"None of this is me. I don't belong here anymore. I'm not sure I ever did."

"You're my life, my heart, my soul, my everything."

Sometimes I just wished he could hear me.

"What I was about to say before she came in was that she's super jealous of our relationship," Tyler said. "And it doesn't matter if I love her. I'm not going to choose between you two."

Melissa and Tyler were the last parts of my old life I was holding on to. I didn't want to lose them too. But it wasn't my choice.

"We'll see about that." I had just gotten the perfect idea on how to get him to cave. "Goodnight, Professor Hunter." His throat made a low groaning noise.

"I love how jealous you get." "I'm not jealous."

"At that moment?" He ran his hand through his hair. "I think I was just terrified by my own reaction to you."

"You saved me."

"Suddenly the only thing I wanted in life was to see you smile." He reached out and took my hand. "So yeah, I thought we'd eventually be here. This is everything I've always wanted. We certainly had our ups and downs getting here, though." He smiled at me.

"No one's ever loved me like you love me. This is what planning a wedding is supposed to be like. I liked looking at venues, picking flowers, being excluded from helping you pick out a dress..."

"I've had fun doing all of it. This is going to be our wedding. And I'm so excited to marry you. I thought I didn't want this back then, but I want it now. I want to see you walk down the aisle toward me. I want our friends and family to clap when we have our first kiss. And I want to have a first dance. I want all of it with you."

Bee nodded. "But I don't know what kind of place Mason's taking him to. It could be really bad. Mason's really good at doing stuff like this. I'm worried he's going to take it too far."

I didn't know him at all.

"You know, you could have just asked me to buy you a drink. I didn't need the whole story. All a beautiful woman like you needed to do was say you were thirsty. The whole bar would be buying you drinks all night long."

"I cave," James whispered so quietly that if I had been sleeping, I definitely wouldn't have heard him.

"You win," he said and placed a soft kiss against the back of my neck.

"Penny." He poured more coffee on my stomach. I felt it flow downward and pool in my belly button. "How about you tell me why you were upset earlier." He kissed the side of my neck.

"We were never going to be just a one time thing, baby." He kissed the side of my jaw. "We never could be. I can't even role play that scenario anymore...Miss Taylor."

He laughed. "Penny." He stood up. "When you turned my parents down for money, I was so sure. I was so sure that what we had was real. That you weren't after me for my money."

"Yes you did. At 4 o'clock you transferred 20 million dollars of my money to Tyler Stevens' bank account."

Fuckig isbella

"I do. You have a great body. But clearly you're a shitty person. You're ugly on the inside. I see that now." He grabbed a glass from the cabinet. "I'll find another ten to keep the bed warm. Don't you worry about that."

"I'll figure it out. Just don't let anything happen to him." I walked away before he could ask me any more questions.

"So, he's addicted to me. I can't..." "No, Penny. He's devoted to you. There is a huge difference."

"Then I won't. But time is one thing you don't have much of. I already rented my tux for the wedding and I hate wasting money." "I thought James paid for the tux rentals?" "That's beside the point.

Freakin love rob

Call me. Say something. Anything. Give me something to hold on to.

And if this was what he wanted, I'd give it to him. I pulled the ring off my finger and set it down on the kitchen counter. If James needed me to disappear, I'd disappear.