I slide my hand to the restraints and ease her wrists from them with no protest from her. She’s out like a light. I have a feeling the freshest bruise on her head is what’s causing this. My heart pounds in my chest. She’s fully dressed, and I can’t tell if she’s been touched elsewhere. But my heart hurts at the sight of her. She moans as I lift her into my arms and start carrying her up the stairs.“Asher.” she moans, I glance down at her face, but her eyes are still closed. I grimace a smile and shake my head as I exit the house with her in my arms. I look around at the police cars and see an ambulance.“You couldn’t wait?” a familiar voice says from beside me and I find Smith, my buddy from the police force beside me.“Not when it comes to her.” I say as I walk toward the ambulance.He shakes his head then claps me on the back, “Thank you for not killing the fucker, I wouldn’t want to put you in jail when you saved her life.”I nod I can feel her start to wake up more. She opens her
Lorelei I couldn’t believe it. Asher had saved me. I was fighting him being close to me, touching me. The disgust I felt in myself was drowning me. I didn’t deserve his touch. But he had saved me. I closed my eyes against the glare of the light above me in the ambulance as it sped down the highway toward the hospital. I took stock silently as I felt his eyes on me. I took deep breaths and grimaced at the smell radiating from my body. But I was free. My arms hurt from being above me for so long. I could feel the welts on my wrist and ankles from the restraints. My face throbbed from the multiple blows I had taken the last few weeks. My skin sticky from the disgusting things he had done. Asher had asked if James had touched me. He never asked if he had degraded me. If he had mentally or verbally abused me. There was so much worse that could have happened. Of that, I am sure. But at this moment I wasn’t sure it could be worse. Having Asher touch me, hold me in h
Asher Lori dosed off as I read to her. Peace taking over her features for the first time since her sleepy smile in my arms before she freaked out. I lay my head back against the chair and smile as the same nurse from earlier entered the room. “How’s our girl?” she asks me as she quietly checks the IV and other machines surrounding the bed. “Safe.” I growled as I adjusted into another position in the seat. These damn things were not made for a six-foot two man of my size. Or anyone really. Damn things hard as a rock. I had it leant back so I could stretch out but still didn’t make it comfortable. The nurse smiles as she takes Lori’s blood pressure without waking her. “Can I get you a blanket and a pillow?” “Please.” I say smiling as I exaggerate the sound. She laughed softly and wrote down her findings and left the room. She came back quickly with a warm blanket and fresh pillow and handed it to me. “Thanks.” I said before placing the pillow behind me and stretchin
Lorelei The days seem to fly by in a blur as I stay in Asher’s apartment. The nights only eased by Ashers presence beside me in bed his strong arms wrapped completely around me. Refusing to let me go even in sleep. After the first night of me waking up to nightmares Asher has been a constant presence in my bed. Just not in the way I used to always dream about.He even initiated multiple sleepovers with Eli. He would curl himself around me the big spoon to my little and have Eli curl against my front. Those were the nights I felt the safeties, the most secure.Yet my heart isn’t here anymore. I feel so numb to the world around me. I’m terrified most days to even open the blinds. I’m scared to look in the mirror. I can feel the difference inside of me. I am broken.The days are endless filled with fear and pain that break me in every way. I curl in a ball on the bed and cry. I can’t help the pain. I know I shouldn’t feel like a whiny bitch. I’m not the woman he killed. I’m j
. “He was murdered in a riot inside the prison he was being held in without bond.” I sat there feeling like I had been shot. He was gone...but how...no “You didn't?” I said softly refusing to voice my fear. “I should have done it myself that night, but you were more important.” “Tell me you didn’t have someone do that. Asher. Please.” “I’m not going to sit here and lie to you.” His eyes plead at me to understand. I want to understand I do, but I had told him not to do this. “Tell me you didn’t put Braylin in that position.” I whisper. She’s the only person I can think of who would have a contact that could kill someone even from prison. Her father's connections that she usually hates using but for friends like me I know she’d do it in a heartbeat. “Not going to lie to you baby girl. I would take on anyone to make sure you are safe.” He pulls me closer to him. My chest pressing against his. I can feel the rub of my
“Does it feel like I’m lying.” He growls. His fingers glide from my shoulders before digging into my hips. I shake my head. “Say it out loud.” he groans as he pulls me closer to his body. Not rubbing or suggestive movements but like he doesn’t want to let me go. Like touching me is his lifeline. “What?” I ask, biting my lip and focusing on the feel of him against me. I have never felt this before. Excluding the trauma James had brought to my body, I have never felt like someone was craving my body, needed just the feel of me against them to take their next breath. It was an intoxicating feeling. Overwhelming and terrifying. My brain was spinning trying to tell me that I needed to walk away, that this would lead to nothing but pain. That I should be ashamed that I felt arousal at his touch. “Look at yourself and tell yourself that you are perfect.” He growls into my ear. “No.” I whisper fighting myself, fighting him. He presses his lips a
Asher My eyes were locked on her. I could taste her skin on my lips when I rolled my tongue across them. Fuck, just the taste of her breasts was enough to make me weak. I grabbed the bottom of my Hennley and pulled it over my head. I smirked at the sound of her taking a deep breath as she took in my chest and stomach. I threw the shirt to the laundry basket and stood in front of her with confidence. I could tell from the change in her breathing she liked what she was. I lowered my lashes as I gripped the top of my sweats and boxers and started to push them down. I stopped when I heard her squeak, “What are you doing?” I grinned biting my lip as I pushed the top of my sweats down and my erection popped out, bouncing up against my stomach. “Getting in with you baby. What I want to do requires more than me reaching into a bathtub.” I grinned. I couldn’t wait to give her the pleasure she deserved. The p
Lorelei I woke up feeling safe for the first time in a long time. Last night changed everything. Feeling him touch me for the first time. having an orgasm not by my own hand for the first time, un-freaking'-believable. I curl myself deeper into his embrace. His arms tightened around me, and I could feel his breath gently blowing my hair. I open my eyes and look down at his arms around me and notice for the first time the tattoo running on the inside of his wrist. The tattoo is words that I could not decipher from this angle. I closed my eyes again and leaned back. I wanted nothing more than to turn over, wrap my legs around his hip and snuggle even closer with my face against his chest. But he would he notice that I was awake when I got there? I wondered to myself. I bite my lip and smile.I do it.I rollover quickly pressing my face against his chest, so he does not see that my eyes are open. I curl my leg over his hip, his morning wood pressing against the co