Road from Ruin

Chapter Six

RED
I close my bedroom door, lean back, rest my head against it and take a deep breath. I can't believe I just said that to her. This girl fucks with me. This isn't like me. Never talked to a women this much either. Usually they throw themselves at me at the bar, fuck em and get out of there. It's a mutual agreement I'm not a fuckin asshole. I love women. Worship them. But I've never met a women worth worshiping than the angel that's laying in my bed right now without me. What kind of fuckin luck is that? First woman I've ever brought back to my apartment, first woman in my bed and I'm not even sharing it with her. She's been through so much hurt she needs some time to recover so I can't exactly pounce on her the way I want to. But I could fuckin pounce on her stupid as fuck husband that laid his hands on her. I'm going to have to find out where that fucker lives, maybe I'll grab the boys and give him a little visit.

I head to the kitchen and grab another beer. There's no way I'm sleeping tonight, not with that woman so close to me, and there's no way my body can fit comfortably on my couch. My phone vibrates in my pocket.
Decker: ladies cars in the shop. prob be an easy fix. u take her to the motel??
Red: I'll be the judge of that. Thx tho. And nah, she's at my place.
Decker: inside ur apartment? I've never even been there wtf man?
Red: shut up. She needs my help. Talk to u tmr.

I put my phone face down on the table. Everyone's going to give me shit about this but I don't give a fuck. I ride my bike. I move mass amounts of weed and weapons in and out of state. I fuck who I want. Don't take shit from anyone. But this girl needs my help so I'll do what I want. I lay my head back on the couch, close my eyes and think back to the meeting I had with Buck our Pres. There's an unknown club moving in on a few of our clients out of town and we need to figure out who they are and how to get them the fuck out of our business. I figured that would be my biggest issue for the week but now I have a literal angel under my care. I must have dozed off for a moment because a sound wakes me up and I look at the clock and see that it's 3:04am. I stand up and grab my gun from it's hiding spot under the table and look for the source of then sound. Then I hear it. A sound I never want to hear again. Deltas screams. I run into the room with my gun cocked to kill whoever's touching my angel and find her thrashing in bed. Thank fuck she's just having a nightmare.

I put the safety back on my gun and stick it in the waistband if my jeans and rush to the side of the bed. She screams again when I sit down. I put my hands on her shoulder and face as gently as possible.

"Angel shhh it's okay. I'm here angel wake up."

Her eyes shoot open, she screams again and pulls away from me.

"It's okay darlin, you we're having a nightmare. You okay?"

"Yeah..yeah sorry. God I'm sorry Ben thats never happened before. Sorry I woke you."

"It's okay, are you okay?" I say as I run my hand over her cheek again. I don't know why I did that. It's like I'm a different person around her. She closes her eyes and leans into my hand so I know I'm not alone in this feeling.

"Yeah I'm okay, just freaked out. Thank you for checking on me." She says with her eyes still closed. God she's beautiful.

"Not a problem angel. I'll let you get some sleep." I say as I stand but she grabs my wrist and looks up at me with tear filled eyes.

"I know we barely know each other but, can you stay? Just for a bit..."

"Of course." I say as I move to the other side on the bed and lay down on top of the covers.

"Are you going to sleep in your jeans and tshirt on top of the blankets? This is your bed." She says as she rolls over to face me. I notice that she's wearing one of my T-shirt's. Looks like a god damn dress on her but I couldn't imagine her ever looking more beautiful. She's wearing something of mine.

"Ah I usually sleep naked darlin, don't want to make ya uncomfortable." I say with a wink. She laughs and settles in to the pillow.

"Just get under the blankets Ben you look uncomfortable." She says as she closes her eyes again.

"Yes ma'am." I reply with a laugh. I get under the blankets and think I must be the strongest man in the world. Being this close to her and not being able to touch her. She smells like coconut and sunshine like a god damn beach vacation and now I have a new favourite smell. After what seems like hours I finally fall asleep with dreams of crashing waves.