Never let you go

Chapter 14

Hunter:

When she comes in my room with that huge bruise on her face my heart stops. I'm so filled with rage that someone would hit her. How could someone hurt her? I know I can barely walk but suddenly that doesn't matter because once Grey tells me who did this I plan getting out of this bed and kicking some ass. I may be a grade A dick but there is one line I never have and never will cross and that's hitting a girl.

I feel a little silly though when she finally tells me she got hit in a mixed martial arts class. Somehow I have a hard time seeing sweet innocent Grey beating people up but I believe her. I'm not all that surprised though when she tells me that I used to go to the classes with her. I used to love getting my ass kicked. Some things never change I guess.

When I ask her to come over to my bed I know I shouldn't do what I'm going to do but I can't help myself. I need to touch her. It's like I'm drawn to her. Her skin is even softer than I imagined and her dark blue eyes are even more incredible close up. She's still stunning even with the bruise on her face. She's perfect. When she closes her eyes I stare at her and admire how beautiful she is and I try to imagine how I got this girl to care about me in the first place. It didn't seem real to me. She didn't seem real to me. I wish I remembered her. Figures the one good thing to happen to me since the accident and I can't remember a damn thing about her.

Finally she opens her eyes and her eyes are so fucking gorgeous I could stare into them all day. When I ask her it if hurts and she answers like hell I have a feeling she isn't just talking about her face and I want to tell her how I know exactly what she means.

Our moment ends though as she breaks away from me and gets off the bed and heads off into the kitchen. She comes back a few minutes later carrying food and it smells fucking awesome.

"Did you make this?" I ask.

She smiles sheepishly at me. "Maybe" she says shyly.

"You didn't have to do that" I tell her even though I think it's sweet as hell that she did.

"I know but I wanted to" she tells me.

I convince her to join me and we sit and eat together and watch trashy reality TV and make fun of it together. It's nice. It feels normal and comfortable to be here with her like this, like this is where I'm supposed to be. I still haven't been able to convince my mother that I'll be fine here on my own but sitting here now with Grey I knew I couldn't leave her. So one way or another I was going to have to convince my mother to go back to Virginia on her own otherwise she was going to be staying here because there is no way I'm leaving.

"So where did your mom go?" Grey asks me randomly.

"Oh she um had her camera so I convinced her to go out and see the sights and take some pictures" I tell her. "She's a . . ." I start off but Grey interrupts me.

"Photographer" she finishes for me.

"I told you that?" I ask a little surprised.

"Yea" she says as she tucks a piece of hair behind her ear. Man, I love when she does that. "I asked you once about your parents and you told me how they met. It was a beautiful story."

I'm really surprised by this. I'm surprised that I trusted Grey enough to tell her anything about my life, not that she didn't seem trustworthy but it's just been a while since I have let anyone in. I begin to wonder what else I shared with her. Did she know about the accident? Did she know about Jess? I doubted it. I think if she knew about all that then she probably wouldn't be here now.

Grey must notice my discomfort because she says "In my defense you were the one who started with the personal questions so I figured it was only fair that I learn a little about you too".