Here's chapter 5! Two more to go, enjoy!
The following is a complete work of fiction. The following story contains erotic situations between consenting adults. If it is illegal for you to read this please leave now. Any resemblance between the characters and any real life person is completely coincidental. Please do not copy or distribute the story without the author's permission.
Big ups to my editor Angel. Thanks for all the help (((hugs))). I must admit I added a sentence or two after I received the edited copy back.
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Hawke
"Why can't you find her?" Holly cried. She was hiding her face in my suit jacket.
"It's been two weeks," she mumbled.
"I don't know, love. All I know is the longer she's missing the smaller the chance of survival becomes." I said the words gently, so Holly wouldn't freak out.
"Would you stop saying that? It doesn't matter how gently you say it. I'll never give up, don't you get it?" I realized that Holly's concern had turned into anger and it was squarely directed at me.
"You sit there and say things like "chance of survival" and "statistics predict". Well, what if Cheyenne was someone you were in love with? I know for a fact that if you went missing I'd go stark raving mad. Jordan is going out of his mind with worry and I'm just so . . . "
She broke down and started crying. I watched her as she sank to the floor onto her knees and wrapped her arms around her waist. I came to her and crouched beside her. I put my arms around her and tried to pick her up, but before I could gather her in my arms she went postal.
"Don't touch me," she screamed. "You're so thick sometimes, Brent Hawke. You think you can fix things by holding me. I'll never be fixed. This is supposed to be the happiest day of my life and I'm sitting on the floor of your office crying like a two-year-old."
I gave up on trying to hold her and got up from the ground stalking to my desk. I slammed my fist onto the desk. I was tired of walking around on eggshells all the time.
"What do you want from me, Holly? Do you want me to tell you that everything is going to be all right? I can't do that. I lost control of the situation and I'm losing control of my temper to. You go too far."
I was shouting the words. I was lucky it was after hours and only a handful of people remained in the offices and even more luckily none where on the floor they were on.
"I go too far. You have no idea, just how far I can go. Let me tell you something of the last two months I had." Holly got up from the floor and stalked toward me. She faced me across the desk and I knew I was in for a fight.
"Two months ago, my best friend got married. She was more than a best friend. She was my sister. We met in a foster home. We named each other, did you know that? I gave her a name and she gave me one. Our mothers never bothered naming us. That's the first of many things we have in common." Holly suddenly turned away from me, her back rigid.
"As if it's not enough that she gets married, I meet the most wonderful man. The type of guy I wanted to be with my whole life." I got a funny feeling in the pit of my stomach when I heard the words because I knew they were about me.
"Then ten weeks after," she continued, "both her and my lives seem to be on track, but then she was kidnapped and I finally come to grips with my feelings for this guy I like. I realize that in my time of need, he's there, holding my hand and talking me through it and I realize I'm in love with the one man I don't know if I can have." Holly stood in front of the big windows that covered one wall of the office.
"I so badly want to tell her that I'm in love with this man. To share my feelings and ask her for help. How to tell him what I was feeling. But I can't because we can't find her. Then, when things can't get any worse, I remember that she's pregnant and I have new fears because I'm wondering if she'll still be pregnant when we find her. Then one morning I wake up and as I lay in bed and wonder if today is the day I'll see her again, I realize that something is wrong and I feel ill." I walked toward Holly but didn't say anything because I was afraid she'd stop talking.
"I drag my aching sore body out of bed and go to the nearest hospital because I feel like I'm going to die and the doctor tells me that I'm pregnant and for a moment, a split second I feel happy. Then I remember that she's pregnant too. I also remember the man I'm involved with and wonder what he'll say when he finds out." Holly finally fell silent and I wrapped my arms around her while still standing behind her.
"I love you too, babe," I whispered and Holly started crying then. I felt the fight go out of her and she turned in my arms and wrapped her own around my waist. I held her and kissed the top of her head.
"Are you really pregnant?" I asked.
"Yes," she whispered. "Good, so you won't have to say no when I ask you marry me." I pulled the ring box from my trouser pocket that's been burning a whole for the last two days and gave it to a stunned Holly.
Holly
I opened the box and inside was the most beautiful ring I'd ever seen. Deep down I knew Hawke loved me when I saw that ring. It was very similar to Cheyenne's except flanking the square cut diamond were two smaller diamonds. I suddenly looked up and saw the look on Hawke's face and mistook it for something else.
"I won't marry you just because of the baby," I said and tried to give the ring back.
"I'm not marrying you for the sake of the baby, I wouldn't have had a ring if I hadn't planned this would I?" Hawke smiled and took the ring from the box and put it on my finger.
"No more excuses and no more objections. We'll keep it to ourselves until we hear news about Cheyenne." Hawke held me in his arms and I knew I loved him with all my heart and wished he could make love to me.
"I won't fight you," he said, and then realized I had voiced my wish.
He looked at me and smiled a devilish smile and I knew I was in for a good time. Hawke picked me up and walked me to his desk. He lifted me up so I sat perched on the edge.
Hawke