Caleb's Blessing(21)

Of course I had to listen to her heap praise on Simon’s head for the great job he’d done with that, seeing as how it was him who’d planted it.

I wanted to tell her that he went out there digging and planting whenever he got the urge to kill someone, seeing as how that’s what he’s good at. But that wouldn’t have been good sportsmanship on my part.

The lot of them just about made me sick the way they fought for her attention. It was only midway through, that I realized she wasn’t the least bit afraid out here with all these strange men.

She was laughing and joking with the guys like she’d known them all her life and those clowns were eating it up.

That meant she knew the difference between her abuser and the rest of the species though, and to me that’s a good start; it shows strength of mind at least.

I already had a list of the things I was going to do in the upcoming days to help her forget. It was going to take time, maybe more than I was willing to give, but I could be patient. At least I hope I can.

When the boys had gone for the night and the house was settling, I dragged her off to the den and sat her next to me on the couch to watch a movie.

“Choose anything you want to watch baby.” She was a little shyer now that it was just the two of us, but she walked over to my DVD collection and ran her finger over the titles.

She chose something sweet and smarmy that would probably give me brain damage, but I didn’t say anything as I took it from her and put it in the machine.

I sat with my arm around her as the scenes played over the screen, stealing kisses every once in a while, gentling her with my touch and getting her use to my nearness.

When the credits started rolling we both got up and stretched. It was getting late and there was nothing else to do for the night so it was time to hit the sack.

“Well, goodnight.” She made to turn for her room down the hall from mine but I grabbed her hand.

“You’re in here.” I pulled her along towards my room.

“Don’t worry, I’m not going to take you. I just don’t want you sleeping alone after the day you had.”

She was nervous as hell, and why wouldn’t she be? A man she’d only just met was dragging her off to his bed out in the middle of nowhere. I hadn’t thought this thing through.

What a complete and utter ass. But I still didn’t want her alone tonight, not with things still so raw. What the fuck do I do now?

Just when I was about to take her back and apologize, she made up my mind for me. “Can I at least get my nightie?”

“Sure thing sweet girl.”

We flitted around each other after she came back, fluffing pillows and smoothing sheets that didn’t need it, until I climbed into bed and held my hand out to her.

“Come on babe, let’s get some shuteye.”

She took my arm shyly as she placed first one knee and then the other onto the mattress.

She held herself a little away from me, not exactly board stiff, but nowhere near relaxed either. “You have nothing to be afraid of remember. I just want to watch over you for a little bit, reassure myself that you’re okay. You forget, you’re my responsibility now.”

She didn’t exactly melt into me, but she loosened up a little bit. I held her close until she fell asleep, after tossing and turning for a bit. The only problem is, on one of those last turns, she ended up with her ass pressed into my dick.

Well Dunbar you’ve well and truly fucked yourself now haven’t you? How are you supposed to sleep with your dick hurting like this?

I gritted my teeth and closed my eyes tight, fighting my natural instinct to turn her onto her back and drive into her.

***

After the most hellish night of my life, I opened my eyes to the early morning light peeping through the window curtains.

My heart gave a little jolt when I felt her weight on my arm and I remembered. With the memory of just who it was that was in my arms, my already hard morning wood turned to steel in five seconds flat.

“Shit.” She’d run screaming from the house if she saw this thing pressing against the flap of my silk boxers. It’s not that easy harnessing eleven and a half inches, and when that shit was at its full girth, watch out.

I eased my body away from hers, but couldn’t resist looking at her sleep warm face. “So fucking gorgeous.” I ran the backs of my fingers gently down her cheek, before placing a butterfly kiss there and rolling out of bed.

I figured I better beat tracks outta there before I went back on my word, but fuck it was hard to walk away.

I made the water in my shower as cold as I possibly could to help cool me down some, but it was no use.

“Fuck it.” I soaped my hands up and with my eyes closed and head back, pictured her just as I’d left her. Only in my salacious imaginings I didn’t let it end there, with the innocent kiss to the cheek.