ADAM VAUGH
A country band plays a beautiful song on the stage of the kermess and I hold Sam by the waist even tighter, I’m in ecstasy with the smooth scent of flower and freshness that’s coming from her sun colored hair.
My hands go up her blouse and tremble to touch her the naked skin of her back, my mind swirls in one question: what if she doesn’t accept? And what if Sam realizes that staying with me is just a stupid thing? I keep imaging how dad felt when he asked mom to marry him, the fear of being rejected and the decision to honor the name Vaugh and throw myself in the unexpected. The right thing to do is to take the risk and hope she wants me and loves me the same way I love her, from the first time I put my eyes on heres, through the half open door of her house.
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ADAM VAUGH We were out two nights in a row, I look through the car window and is cloudy, a storm is coming. Afternoon falls, soon it will be almost three days that Samantha was kidnapped and we don’t have get a clue. I called my brothers and set up with Hunter and Kayden at our meeting point, we got in a diner near the road that goes to Mount Hood Meadows, one of the main ski resorts in the state of Oregon. I ordered three double coffees and Hunter and Kayden ordered a large rare porterhouse steak portion. Our wolves are on the surface, I can almost feel the pleasure of a deadly hunt, of feeling in my throat my prey getting destroyed in my mouth. We were making an effort to control the beasts that live inside us, but because of the stress we were under, I don
SAMANTHA THOMPSON Adam open his eyes and before he closed them again, he smiles at me, I kiss him on his warm lips and he falls asleep again. He’s fever has gone down, but my heart is recoiled, sad, for seeing my love like this, so frail. Uncle Quinn knocks on the door and enters with Hunt, Connor and Kayden, asking me: “How’s Adam?” I touch his forehead and watch his appearance that’s visibly better. “It seems that his fever broke but he’s still very weak, uncle Quinn.”
Peace? Tranquility? That is for common men, mere mortals, not to me, the leader of a pack of straggler wolves, damn messy guys that because of a Mother Nature’s joke, are my brothers. Even though I live is a short distance from these guys, still, there’s no day that they don’t knock on my door to bother me and my female. I open my eyes annoyed for having to wake up so early and then I stare at the alarm clock, I confirm it’s eight o’clock in the morning, hell, eight o’clock, I’m going to get to the police station late again. I was a punctual sheriff, until my little bunny got pregnant and her huge belly bothered her when it was time to sleep.&nbs
BONUS CHAPTERTHE STRAGGLERS - BOOK 2 OWN HUNTER VAUGHI have a feeling there’s a heavy metal band playing only in my head, I open my eyes very slowly and light hits my iris like a thousand needles.With difficulty I sit on the bed and look around, two naked women sleep entangled together and I make and effort to remind me how did I end up here. This is not my bedroom, I drag myself to the edge of the bed and I get up, stretching myself. The sheet falls off and I hear one of them whistling, provoking me. “What a tasty little ass, right, Sickle?”I smile ratter yellow and get the sheet from the floor, covering myself again.
ADAM VAUGH I first open an eye and after a few seconds the other one, the lights bother me, my head throbs as if a heavy metal band was playing an inferno guitar solo on my temple. I’ll never drink like this again, getting wasted definitely doesn’t agree with me, I spend thirty five years without getting drunk once and now I can figure out the real motive: I’m an intelligent guy, I was right in being sober. The wet umbrella taste in my mouth, the sore muscles as if they had been crushed in a grinder. Anyway, all this torture after a drinking day, it’s definitely not for me. I get up towards the bathroom, walking like an eighty year old man and when I look
SAMANTHA THOMPSON I’m still shaking after Sheriff Vaugh’s visit and there’s no lack of reasons, the aura strength and raw masculinity around him is irresistible. The way the undressed me with his eyes, the comforting touch of his hands on mine, brought me an entanglement of scary and conflicting feelings. When I saw that huge man standing at my door, the first thing that came to my mind was how I felt alone and vulnerable. His tanned and well shaped arms and the muscled manly body visibly strong, even covered by the uniform, give out a COZINESS and PROTECTIVE feeling.&
ADAM VAUGH Today it’s my turn to make breakfast and thank Hunt for his kindness. He gets at the kitchen wearing nothing more than red boxer shorts and this sight it’s not a funny one for me. That can be really exciting to the immense amount of bad girls that sigh for him, but for me, man? Sincerely, to see this adult man shaking his ass when getting a glass of water is not one of the best scenes to watch right in the morning. I give him a cup of coffee and a plate full of blueberry pancakes, waiting for the moment he’s going to stab me with questions about Samantha.&nb
SAMANTHA THOMPSON I haven’t been able to get out of the house for two days, I called the diner and told them I had the flu, I need to know what I’ll do from now on. There’s no way of pretending that Igor’s thug will leave me alone. I don’t know if I should pack my bags and try to run away from this hell or if I look for help. There are so many doubts without answers, I wash my face and look at the mirror, still without believing in everything that happened to me the day before yesterday. The memories make my
BONUS CHAPTERTHE STRAGGLERS - BOOK 2 OWN HUNTER VAUGHI have a feeling there’s a heavy metal band playing only in my head, I open my eyes very slowly and light hits my iris like a thousand needles.With difficulty I sit on the bed and look around, two naked women sleep entangled together and I make and effort to remind me how did I end up here. This is not my bedroom, I drag myself to the edge of the bed and I get up, stretching myself. The sheet falls off and I hear one of them whistling, provoking me. “What a tasty little ass, right, Sickle?”I smile ratter yellow and get the sheet from the floor, covering myself again.
Peace? Tranquility? That is for common men, mere mortals, not to me, the leader of a pack of straggler wolves, damn messy guys that because of a Mother Nature’s joke, are my brothers. Even though I live is a short distance from these guys, still, there’s no day that they don’t knock on my door to bother me and my female. I open my eyes annoyed for having to wake up so early and then I stare at the alarm clock, I confirm it’s eight o’clock in the morning, hell, eight o’clock, I’m going to get to the police station late again. I was a punctual sheriff, until my little bunny got pregnant and her huge belly bothered her when it was time to sleep.&nbs
SAMANTHA THOMPSON Adam open his eyes and before he closed them again, he smiles at me, I kiss him on his warm lips and he falls asleep again. He’s fever has gone down, but my heart is recoiled, sad, for seeing my love like this, so frail. Uncle Quinn knocks on the door and enters with Hunt, Connor and Kayden, asking me: “How’s Adam?” I touch his forehead and watch his appearance that’s visibly better. “It seems that his fever broke but he’s still very weak, uncle Quinn.”
ADAM VAUGH We were out two nights in a row, I look through the car window and is cloudy, a storm is coming. Afternoon falls, soon it will be almost three days that Samantha was kidnapped and we don’t have get a clue. I called my brothers and set up with Hunter and Kayden at our meeting point, we got in a diner near the road that goes to Mount Hood Meadows, one of the main ski resorts in the state of Oregon. I ordered three double coffees and Hunter and Kayden ordered a large rare porterhouse steak portion. Our wolves are on the surface, I can almost feel the pleasure of a deadly hunt, of feeling in my throat my prey getting destroyed in my mouth. We were making an effort to control the beasts that live inside us, but because of the stress we were under, I don
ADAM VAUGH A country band plays a beautiful song on the stage of the kermess and I hold Sam by the waist even tighter, I’m in ecstasy with the smooth scent of flower and freshness that’s coming from her sun colored hair. My hands go up her blouse and tremble to touch her the naked skin of her back, my mind swirls in one question: what if she doesn’t accept? And what if Sam realizes that staying with me is just a stupid thing? I keep imaging how dad felt when he asked mom to marry him, the fear of being rejected and the decision to honor the name Vaugh and throw myself in the unexpected. The right thing to do is to take the risk and hope she wants me and loves me the same way I love her, from the first time I put my eyes on heres, through the half open door of her house.&
SAMANTHA THOMPSON It’s hard to admit that the feeling of being protected, scares me as much as it comforts me. I left home really young, I always had to get by on my own from a very early age, so all this interaction with a man that opens his arms to me and protects me from danger is a new experience in my life. Since the investigators Taylor and Lopez are after me, following my steps, Adam accompanies me everyday to Mathews. Sitting in a corner table at the bar, investigator Lopez laughs at the irony of me arriving with Adam another day. “Well, well, if it isn’t waitress Samantha and her new nanny arriving to work. From what I can see, things at the police station must real
ADAM VAUGH If there’s anything better in this fucking life than to wake up being kissed by the woman you love, I honestly don’t know. Sam moves around in bed, taking over the space she can and she slides one leg over my thigh, by her eyes I can see she’s still sleeping, but I don’t care, I let myself be wrapped by her sleepy lips, enjoying my little present accompanied by the first beams of light of the morning. Ah, life’s good!!! I have by my side freeloaders and messy Connie, Hunt and Kay. I live in my land, small, precarious, but I have my home and finally, Mother Nature graced me with this tasty little bunny, with lively blue eyes, frisky, her little girl ways and this mouth that drives me
SAMANTHA THOMPSON Adam parks the car by the ranch door and I get out of the car pulling down a huge shirt that’s working as a dress right now. I’m not wearing underwear and that’s because “caveman” Adam, I would complain, if it wasn’t for the huge pleasure I felt when he tore my panties away from my sex. Adam gets my purse and rests his hand on the small of my back conducting me home. He’s wearing my purse over his shoulder and without letting me know he picks me up in his arms, kicking open the door. When we enter the living room we face Hunter, Connor and Kayden sitting on the couch and a strong burnt smell invade my nostrils. The boys yelled and whistled with joy when they saw us
ADAM VAUGH It’s been two days that I’ve been watching Samantha from a distance, but when I try to approach her, she runs away without giving me a chance to come closer. I tried following her to the diner kitchen, but John, who owns Mathews, seeing my misery, held my arm and said to me: “Leave her alone for some time, Adam, give her the time she needs, otherwise it will be worse.” My mind is turning over with only one thought: “WHAT THE FUCK DID I DO…”, Samantha left the ranch after catching me revealing my feelings to Hunter, and now I’m here, again, standing by Mathews door, with this idiot face of mine, desperately wanting her to come home, our home.&nbs