The Champ:Bad Boys Book 5(14)

Cris had said that there were tons of women who would kill to be in my   shoes, that's another thing. "What about other women?" I held my breath   as I awaited his answer. Somehow I expected him to tell me the truth;  he  didn't give me the impression that he was ever anything but honest.

"What about them?"

"The girls looked you up and in almost all the pictures you were with a sexy blonde."

"Smoke screen. Some of them I never saw after the one time and no I   didn't sleep with all of them. Sometimes it's easier to have someone on   your arm than to be fighting off women at every event. Sometimes me,  and  some of the models or starlets I was often paired with were helping   each other out. They wanted a stress free evening and so did I, so our   agents or managers would hook us up. It also made for good press."         

     



 

"So you were never serious about any of them? That seems hard to believe, they're all gorgeous."

"And yet none of them can hold a candle to you. Do you have any idea how   fucking gorgeous you are? Damn babe, I had to fight off two men for  you  last night. I'll probably spend the rest of my life fucking  people's  shit up for trying to steal my girl."



Wyatt





The day turned out even better than I could've imagined. By dessert she   was more relaxed, and the way ma and dad involved her in the   conversation seemed to remove some of her angst. Her girls kept giving   her the thumbs up when they thought I wasn't looking, but my eyes were   always on her in some way.

I hated when the night came in and I knew I would have to take her back.   I couldn't come up with a good enough reason to get her to stay, so in   the end I buckled her into the car and took her home after the long   goodbyes. Ma locked her into coming back the next evening to trim the   tree and she accepted.

All the way back to her place I kept thinking of ways to keep her with   me but nothing gelled. I could always sleep on her couch again, but I   wanted her home with me, in my bed. I was so preoccupied when I took her   up to her place that I didn't do my walkthrough.

"I have to go to the restroom, be right back." It was cute the way she   still blushed as she said that before turning to leave the room. I was   about to walk to the windows looking out over the woods but she came   tearing out of her room white as a sheet.

"Hey-hey-hey what's going on?" She had run right into my arms and I   could feel the vibrations of her shaking. I looked around for the danger   but nothing looked out of place. "Talk to me baby; what scared you?"

"In my room … " She pointed back down the hallway with her face buried in my chest.

I pulled her along behind me as I headed in the direction of her room.   Leaving her at the door I looked around inside but again found nothing   that would put that type of fear in someone. "What am I looking for?" It   didn't matter that I couldn't see it she'd seen it so it was real.

"On my bed." She gestured towards the bed where a laptop had been left open.

"You didn't put that there?"

"No, I left it on the desk over there."

"Does anyone else have a key to this place?"

"No-no one." I walked back to her and took her in my arms but she pulled away and headed for the laptop. "Look."

She turned the screen towards me and I couldn't quite make sense of what   I was supposed to be looking at. On the screen there appeared to be a   picture of her asleep in bed. "What the fuck, is that here?" I looked   around the room and saw that it was.

"Yes, but how did he get it?"

"Grab some stuff you're not staying here." She'd refused to spend the   night at my house and I'd respected her wishes, but this shit just   changed the game.

"You know where this asshole lives?"

"I think he used to stay in the dorms but I heard he moved so no I don't know."

I'll get Jace on that later but for now my only interest was in getting   her out of there. She was going to have a fit but once we walked  through  that door she wasn't coming back, fuck that. She might want to  take  things slow but life was throwing a monkey wrench in that shit.

"Move baby, grab some stuff that you're gonna need for the next few days you're not staying here."

"I can call Cris or … "

"No, I don't think your friend would appreciate having me under foot and   after this shit there's no way I'm letting you out of my sight. I  don't  want you here any longer than you have to be so grab some stuff  and  let's go."

I kept my voice and my face calm, but inside I was anything but. This   was serious shit. What if I hadn't been here, what if I'd let her   hardheaded ass walk up alone as she'd wanted?

She moved to her closet and started throwing shit in a bag before   shutting down the computer and putting that in the bag. Next she moved   over to the nightstand where her phone was flashing. ‘You have thirty   new messages. New message, Thursday, ten twenty-eight am-‘Hi beautiful   just calling to wish you a happy holiday, sorry we couldn't be together   this year, but maybe next year huh."

Thursday ten thirty-two am-‘Hi it's me again, where are you? I know you   didn't go home are you at one of your friends?' Each call came within   five minutes of each other until about noon then they spread out to   about every half an hour. With each, he escalated until the last few he   was demanding to know where she was-and who she was with.

"Is there a tape in there?"

"No it's saved in the phone."

"Bring it." I didn't want to scare her any more than she already was,   but this fucker was off his fucking nut. Even if she thought in the past   that she could handle this shit on her own, I was here now and there   was no way that shit was gonna happen.

She was taking way too fucking long to get her shit together so I just   grabbed her hand took the bag from her and headed for the door. I had no   idea where this guy was, for all I know he could be watching the  place.  In one of the messages he'd mentioned me, not by name, I was the  guy  from the bar. The guy from the bar was going to break his foot off  in  his ass.         

     



 

Outside I looked around before taking her back to my ride and buckling   her in. I looked towards the woods, which was probably the best place   for a predator to hide if he was indeed out there. She was still pale as   she looked around as if expecting him to jump out at her.

Talk Wyatt get her mind off this shit. "You work tomorrow?"

"Uh yeah, nine o'clock, you can just take me to Cris' I'll be fine there."

"Sweetheart, I think I'm falling head over ass in love with you, but   shut up. You're going home with me and that's final. And after seeing   and hearing this shit, you're not staying in a guestroom either you're   staying with me so I can be sure you're okay. So, get that settled in   your mind." Good, that ought to take her mind off of it.

I drove like a bat out of hell to get her back to safety. Because of the   holiday and being so wrapped up in her, I hadn't had a chance to look   into this guy, my mistake. There had to be a way to put his ass away  for  harassment, and that shit with the pictures in her bedroom, oh fuck  no.  He'd be lucky if the cops have anything left when I was through  with  him.

I took her in and up to my room since my parents had turned in for the   night. Ma would be tired from all the running around the last few days   and dad would be in bed reading. Those two were never far from each   other. In all the years I can remember, my parents were always pretty   much in each other's pocket, a tradition I think I was going to carry   on.

"The shower is through there or you can take a bath if you'd like. Yeah   that might be better, a nice hot bath to relax you." I didn't wait   around for her okay just headed in there and got it started while she   stood in the middle of my room looking lost.

I'd been trying to get her up here all day, but she kept outsmarting me,   too bad it took something like this to get me what I want. With her   bath running I walked back into the room and took her face in my hands.   She was still shaken up and her eyes were teary.

"You're okay baby he can't get to you here and I promise you with   everything that is in me, he never will." She didn't seem capable of   speech or even moving so I started to remove her top. That broke her out   of her haze fast enough. "I can do it thanks."

"Fine I added some bath salts to the water already and made sure it   wasn't too hot go soak and relax. Should I get you a glass of wine?"