ADAM VAUGH
She looks at me disturbed, with no understanding of how we end up in that humid and desert alley.
She lowers her legs from my waist and cleared her blond hair out of her face.
How can she be this pretty? Delicately I get a handkerchief from my pants pocket and clean between her legs, I still want to keep myself warm in this piece of heaven. I’ve received pictures and some information from the New York Bank robbery and I can’t really say a women as sweet as she was the coauthor of a robbery.
Something is wrong or doesn’t fit. I’m still going to find out who is it. However, my instincts tell me I can believe in her, even though she’s hiding somethings.
ADAM VAUGH If there’s anything better in this world than waking up with the woman you desires by your side, I sincerely don’t know. Sam is laying down on my humble bed, with half her face covered by a cascade of golden hair like the sun and her lips half open, like they have been prepared to be kissed by me forever. I look and look again, still excited by conflicting feelings that invade me. I want this girl to me, with a huge intensity that scares me, but Sam is a huge mystery. She claims she’s not involved in the bank robbery, but she doesn’t give me proof, she doesn’t give me the possible suspects. And there’s still photos with that guy that’s is considered suspect in the crime,
SAMANTHA THOMPSON Adam brought me home, like the true gentleman he is. I open the door in an automatic way, still in ecstasy from the wonderful night I had and I kept thinking: I don’t know if I did the right thing in telling him about Igor and the New York robbery, but I’m a bit tired of all this. I’m tired of hiding, of running, of being afraid… If all my fears were only about my relationship with Adam going wrong, it would be way more simple, I’m truly scared about the cold blooded murderer I was sleeping with. I fear for Adam and for his brother’s lives. My god! How can a woman not fall in love with them?&nbs
ADAM VAUGH The sharp pain I’m feeling on my shoulder make me howl in pain. My body is still confused, as if something in me was still kind of out of place, I open my eyes very slowly and the sun light is on my face. My entire body shivers with the breeze that blows on my skin and I realize that I’m naked, naked and in an open space. I breath agitated and lost, with an anger that is hard to contain, the wolf in me is quiet and I’m still adapting to my skin, the man Adam. I get up tasty and scared, I look ahead and Sam is laying down in the middle of the woods, my shoulder is throbbing and I see a deep wound, but nothing that scavenger Kayden can’t fix.&nbs
SAMANTHA THOMPSON It has been two days since I’ve talked or spoke with Adam, it’s hard to concentrate at work, I’ve been having agitated sleepless night and I wake up in the middle of the night scared, still hearing the shots echo, the growl of the wolf that protected me in the middle of the woods, a swirl of thoughts and feelings that has been giving me more anxiety every day. Even though I know I acted correctly, that I’m protecting Adam and the boys, I miss my Damy, I miss hearing his low raspy voice, his male and delicious scent, his soft mouth stuck on mine, so yummy my sheriff, ah! Damy and his cuffs, the mean things he does with my hands tied and his mouth… I was released earlier from M
ADAM VAUGH I can’t remember when I slept so good… In my entire life, my sleep has always been agitated, so many worries, so many responsibilities on me. Sometimes I close my eyes and it’s so livid in my memory the image of my father’s pale and cold body. Uncle Quinn, from Garret pack, because he’s such an old family friend, helped me to dress dad, but I made sure to dress him to the funeral. My father was a handsome man, dark long hair, with livid brown eyes like Connie’s. I remember I combed his silky hair, so like Kayden’s, and without anyone seeing, I cried hidden. An
SAMANTHA THOMPSON There’s nothing better than a day off work, and it’s even more perfect if that day off happens to be a sunny Saturday, as beautiful as this one. Or am I seeing the day so pretty because I’m ridiculously in love? I sincerely don’t know how to answer this question, but you know something? Fuck it, I’m happy and I don’t want to think too much about it, after all this state of wellbeing is so unknown to me, I just want to live it, just feel it. Also, what woman would’t be in the clouds? I sit up
SAMANTHA THOMPSON Kayden finished his conversation with Mr. Quinn and they said good bye to each other, I thought that their conversation was so weird, the way that Mr. Quinn named the Forest. I don’t recall the entire conversation, but I do recall him saying something about trackers, packs, our people, after all, what people is this? Will it be something related to the Cherokee blood of the boys? I think about asking Adam about what they were talking and what made them so apprehensive, but if I ask about the conversation I heard, it will seem like I’m prying in their lives. And they were all so kind in welcoming me in their
SAMANTHA THOMPSON TRACKING DANGER Kayden said good bye yesterday to look for the murders of some friends, at least that was what I got from this crazy story. Adam gave him some weapons and a necklace that it seemed to me part of the Cherokee belief, as if he was blessing him, and he was gone. Hunter told me they are different, and there’s a lot of difference in there! But how? Why? No one tells me. My shift as a waitress at Mathews today is in the morning, Adam surprises me and comes by at lunch
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