Free Falling

Chapter 15

Chapter 15

The next morning, I get up and get into the shower. I am standing under the stream of hot water, rinsing the shampoo out of my hair when I feel lips on my neck and his hands on my hips. Pushing me back against the wall, he picks me up and without a word, enters me slowly. Thrusting in and out at a steady pace. "Fuck Herman." I moan. "Say it again." he says. "Herman. More baby more." I moan in his ear. "Cum with me baby." he growls. A few more thrusts and we both fall over the edge. Taking a minute to catch our breaths, we shower and get out and get dressed for the day. "I swear I think shower sex is my favorite." I tell him. Laughing he says "Mine too." We head out to his bike and head to the lot.

Pulling up at the lot, Gemma is waiting there. Koz kisses me and heads to the garage. A little bit later, Gemma hands Koz the repo list and sends him and Jax out to work on it. I see a car pull onto the lot and see the same croweater that was pushing up on Koz walking towards the office. I step outside and go to say something her when she pulls out a gun and fires. I feel pain in my stomach before I fall to the pavement and it all goes black.

Beep...Beep...Beep. Is all I can hear. My head hurts and so does my stomach and I can't move my arm. Opening my eyes, I see Koz sitting there with his head on my arm and looks like he's sleeping. I lay there a minute before I hear Gemma's voice. "Charley, sweetheart. There you are." I open my eyes the rest of the way and Koz sits up and he looks so tired. "Baby. You're awake." he says. "Hey." I say to both of them. "What happened?" I asked. "Sweetheart, you were shot." Gemma says. "Fucking croweater." I say. "It's been handled." he tells me softly and I just nod. "I'll go get the doctor." Gemma says before leaving the room and leaving me alone with Koz. "You look tired." I tell him. "I'm okay. Didn't want to leave you." he says. "Come here." I tell him and he leans forward. I take my free hand and cup the side of his face before pressing my lips to his. "I love you." I tell him, not wanting another minute to go by that I haven't said it. "I love you too baby." he whispers just before the doctor comes into the room. Checking me over, she says "We're gonna have to keep you for a few days just to make sure you don't have any complications." I nod. "Uh, I know I was shot in the stomach but..." before I could finish, she tells me, the bullet missed your internal organs. You will make a full recovery." she says. I look at her and look at Koz and she senses what I was asking. Taking my other hand, she says "Everything is still intact." I smile softly and say "Thank you." Koz looks at me confused. "I was worried that where the bullet hit would cause me to not be able to have kids." I say and he nods. The doctor leaves the room and he asks "You want kids?" I cup his face again and say "Someday. Not right now but someday. But only with you. If that's what you want for us." I tell him. "It is. You know someday I'm gonna marry you right?" he asked. "I'll hold you to that." I tell him before he kisses me again.

The next couple of days go by and there are no complications. Koz pulls his truck around and helps me in before taking me home. Helping me into the house, he helps me to the bed and we just lay there watching tv all day. He orders takeout and then there's a knock on the door. He opens the door and sees Happy standing there along with Tig. "How you doing sweetheart?" Tig asked. "Better. Just glad to be home." I tell them. "We need to talk to you guys a minute." Happy says. "Looks like that croweater that shot you? Apparently had a boyfriend. Dude came to the clubhouse looking for her. Asking where she was." I look at Koz and he says "Fuck. What do we do about that? He won't stop until he finds her and he ain't gonna find her." I look at Tig and he says "We have him. He was running his mouth about how he was friends with your ex and how the plan was that she was going to get Koz and he was going to have you again." My eyes go wide. "What's his name?" I asked. "Jacob Williams." Happy says. "Okay." I say and start to pull away from Koz. "What?" Koz asked. "After Jeremy and I moved here, he started hanging out with this guy. There would be times that his friend would be waiting there on the front porch when he brought me home from work and they would both tag team me. Both would beat me but Jacob had this thing that he liked to do. He, uh, liked to, uh, use other things on me." I say. "Like what?" Happy asked. "Uh, he used a hammer handle once. Another time, the handle on his kbar knife. There was another time that he used a beer bottle. Just depended on what he had available at the time." I tell them. "I'm killing this fucker." Koz says. "Koz." I say as he gets up. The guys look at me. "I want to be there." I say. "No." he says. "Please. I need this. I need him to see that I'm still standing. That he didn't break me. Please." I beg. "Okay. But you stay out of his reach and as soon as you feel it's too much, you tell one of us and we will take you back to the van." He says and I nod before we start heading out the door.