Grace
I woke up at 9:30. It was a little late for me but I was tired after staying up late. I walked into the kitchen to eat breakfast. I found waffles sitting on the kitchen table with a note in front of the plate. It said " Grace and Alex,
These are for you guys. Heat them up and enjoy. I went to the beach, come join me when you are ready. I should be pretty close to the house so hopefully it shouldn't be too hard to find me.
Ryder
I heated up two waffles and ate them. They were delicious! Then I took a shower and got changed into a bikini and went to find Ryder. After ten minutes of looking, I felt arms wrap around my waist. I turned and it was Ryder. I smiled up at him and leaned up and gave him a quick peck. He asked me "How did you sleep?"
" I slept fine." Then he took my hand and led me down the beach. We were walking hand in hand. It was nice to enjoy just walking down the beach together. As we walked I was just looking around at the people. I suddenly saw a face I didn't ever want to see again. I stopped dead in my tracks. Ryder noticed right away and turned to look at me. I just stood there shocked and whispered " No". I kept repeating it. Till I finally came to my senses and started to turn around and run. Ryder immediately started to run and caught up to me quickly. I was so wrapped up in the memories of what Carter had done to me so many times that I thought that it was him coming to beat me again. When I felt arms wrap around my waist I freaked out and started screaming. I didn't even know what I was screaming I was just screaming and crying. He turned me around and forced me to look at his face. When I finally did, it wasn't Carter it was Ryder. He asked me if I wanted to go home and I looked around him and saw Carter staring at us. I said that we couldn't go home until we lost Carter. So we stayed in the most popular part of the beach until it was dark. There was a party going on and we took the chance to sneak back to the cottage. We were walking hand in hand. We were walking in silence. Ryder then said " Whatever you do, don't freak out and don't look behind us. Someone is there. Lets keep walking until we're sure that its Carter." With that said, I tried not to freak out. Ryder gripped my hand a little tighter. We walked for a little while longer then he said
" Someone is still there, I can tell. Do you trust me?" When I nodded yes he continued talking. " We are going to turn around and start to walk back. Turn unexpectedly so that way if it is him, he won't have time to hide. If it is him and he is following us, I want you to get behind me and then when I have the situation under control I want you to run as fast as you can back to the house and get Alex and get back here as fast as you can. Don't stop running until you get the the house. If someone tries to do something take this." He held out a pocket knife. We turned around. I stood there frozen for a few seconds. It was him after all. I nodded at Ryder. He pushed me behind him and told Carter to leave. When he said no Ryder got angry and started screaming and running at Carter. He tackled him and started punching him as hard as he could. He was doing a great job of protecting me and a couple more minutes passed by and he nodded his head in the direction of the house. I started running as fast as I could. It was about half a mile away and I sprinted the whole way. I found Alex on the couch and he looked alarmed that I just burst through the door and I said " Hurry up and come with me! We're in trouble Carter is here!" Then I turned around a started sprinting back with Alex keeping pace as I directed him which way to go. We reached the place where I had left Ryder and Carter. Ryder was still winning except now he was kicking Carter in the ribs. He was screaming things like " How does it feel?!" And " Doesn't feel so good does it?!" And " You deserve much worse than this for what you did to her you sick son of a bitch!!" I kept running his way and put my hand on his arm and told him to stop considering Carter was close to being unconscious by now. He looked at me with a crazy, wild, and fierce look in his eyes. Lets just say he was in full on Marine mode. He was fiercely protective and would no doubt protect me from anything. He turned back toward Carter and kicked him in the face probably breaking his nose and or jaw with the sick crack that I heard. He then looked at me and just started to walk in the direction of the house. Alex went to see if he was passed out, which he was. We then looked at each other and started walking back to the house. Ryder was in his room and he was sitting on his bed and he had his head in his hands and was staring at the floor. I walked in and locked the door. I walked over and sat next to him. I laid my head on his shoulder and didn't say anything. I didn't even know what to say. I just sat there and waited for him to speak. He finally did. " I'm sorry you had to see that, I couldn't control myself once I started hitting him because I started thinking of all of the things he did to you. I had to inflict pain on him like he did to you and the training I received in the Marines just kicked in and I couldn't help myself." I thought about what he said for a minute. He didn't press me for an answer. I finally spoke. " I am grateful for what you did for me. I will never forget that. Ever. If he tries to come at me again, I might not stop you until you send him to the hospital and then I will call an ambulance and tell the doctors and police what he did to me." We looked at each other and leaned in until our lips met. It was a kiss that was passionate and that assured us that we would be okay. We pulled apart and we just say there and watched tv in his bed. We were cuddled up next to each other and I fell asleep. The last thing I heard and felt was Ryder saying goodnight and him going out the door.
A/N:
So so so so so sorry that this took so long! I don't have the next part written yet but I will get that done ASAP!!
I hope you enjoy!
Amanda
