Our Savior

Chapter Seven - Too Soon For I Love You

Chapter Seven - Too Soon For I Love You

Leland POV:

Today was a long day for work, we had a hard time finding the guy and when we did I got a little banged up in the chase. I was looking forward to returning home to Alayna and all the kids. I found it very hard this morning not to keep her all to myself and have my way with her. She was so sexy this morning once she cheered up, it was going to hard to wake up with her everyday and not be able to claim her as mine for a while. I need to keep reminding myself that she needs time, that she's not like any of the other women out there. She's special and she has already found her way into my heart, both her and her children.

"You really like her, don't you dad..." I looked over towards my son who was driving us back to the house and gave him a questioning look. "I mean I've never seen you so happy and antsy to get home. She rubs off on you well, you weren't as reckless today when on the hunt like you can be sometimes. You could have gotten even more hurt than what you have."

I smiled, I knew Alayna was going to be upset when I got home today, I probably looked pretty bad, after all the guy decided to run 10 blocks before I could catch him, dashing and dumping into a few moving cars and then decided to throw a few punches at me. I ended up winning, but I was still covered in the guys blood, my legs were probably covered in a few bruises from the cars and my arm was killing me from when I jumped him to the ground.

"I do like her son, perhaps I even love her. She's damaged though and it's going to take a while to help her heal."

"Well you can count on me to help with whatever you need dad. She seems really nice and a genuine person."

"Thank you son."

We were soon pulling up into the drive, and making our way into the house. By some miracle I was able to get my boots off and put some of my equipment away before Alayna came up behind me. I heard a yelp and turned to look at her.

"Oh my god! What happened to you? Are you alright? Do you need to go to the hospital?" I stopped all her question quickly with a light kiss on her lips.

"I'm fine beautiful, you should see the other guy." She didn't laugh, she simply wrapped herself around my good side and started walking me down the hall to the bathroom, yelling out instructions for Dakota about how to finish supper in the kitchen and that the boys had home work to finish. I couldn't stop chuckling the whole way there.

Once we got in the bathroom she closed the door behind us mumbling things about not wanting Rayne to get upset. She helped me over to the counter, rested me on it and made quick work of getting the bath going and rummaging under the sink for a first aid kit.

She turned to me, "Strip," she told me with such a straight face I couldn't help but laugh, "it's not funny Leland I need to see how badly hurt you are."

"Well beautiful if you want me naked you're going to have to strip me yourself." She turned red in the face, "I'm not joking I don't think I can lift my arm."

She walked up close to me and undoing the Velcro of my vest then started lifting my shirt up and helped me maneuver it over my arm. Next she moved onto my belt holding the rest of my gear in it un clipped it and moved it unto the counter. She stepped away and went to turn the water off in the tub. When she started making her way back to me I noticed fear in her eyes.

"I can get Dakota to come help me, it's fine." I told her.

"No it's okay, I went to school for nursing before I had Skylar so I know what I'm supposed to do, I've just never actually worked hands on on anyone but myself." She explained as she started to cry.