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“The ski resort is about twenty-miles from my place. It has a top-notch kitchen with amazing chefs, who can make anything you might dream of, even if it’s not on the menu.”
“That sounds like it might be expensive,” Sadie says with a little shock of a laugh. “Ski resorts are expensive to start let alone asking for something not on the menu…”
“I can afford it, baby. You can have whatever you want, all you have to do is ask for it. If you want to get a degree or if you want to work, then that’s fine. I won’t tell you that you can’t do something you don’t want to really do, but if you don’t want any of that. If you want to be taken care of and be pampered instead, then all you have to do is tell me, Sadie. Because right now, what I want to do is wrap you up in my arms and make sure you have everything you could ever need, and keep everyone else away from you,” I add, watching her swallow before dragging in a deep breath.
“You mean that?” she asks as her eyes open, the longing for it shining from behind the worry in them, and I nod, sliding a hand behind her head, holding onto her a bit more.
I’ve grown to hate touching anyone outside of my family—especially women, but Sadie is the complete opposite of all of them. Whenever I’d touch another woman, even if it were simply a handshake of hello, they’d run theirs fingers along my skin or hold on as long as possible, and not once did I want to return the touch. With Sadie though, the thought of not touching her makes my heart hurt. Makes me want to shout in fury. But the way her eyes flutter shut at my hold, the way she relaxes and leans more into it, tells me I don’t have to stop.
“Every word, baby,” I promise her. “I work from my house most days, don’t go into the office unless it’s absolutely necessary, so I can be with you as much as you want as well. If you want to stay home, take care of the house, and the babies I intend to put into you, I’ll gladly get behind that as well.”
“Babies?” she gasps, her eyes flashing open instantly, meeting mine, before a trembling smile graced her lips seeing the seriousness in mine.
“Babies,” I state with a nod. “I had my brothers growing up, became dad to the youngest two in a way after my father died twenty years ago. I was seventeen and the man of the house suddenly. I made peace with taking on all that responsibility and grew to like it even. Been waiting for someone that I can spend the rest of my life with and spoil with what’s most important—love and family.”
“I dreamt of having a family one day, a couple kids at least because I hated growing up on my own,” Sadie says, leaning further into my touch making my cock pulse, wanting to touch her everywhere, give her those babies right this minute. “My mom and I were close, but she worked a lot, and I was always alone once I didn’t need a sitter. Even when I had one, I was still alone because they were teenagers and snuck their boyfriends over.”
“You don’t have to be alone anymore, Sadie. If you give yourself to me, you’ll have to tell me to when you want to be alone, not when you want me with you. I can’t see a time when I won’t want to be with you, won’t want to touch you, so you’ll have to learn to tell me what you want quickly. Can you do that, baby?” I ask, smiling fully at the shaky breath she drug in again.
“I feel like I can tell you anything and you’ll listen.”
“To every word you say. Although I’ll be honest. I can’t guarantee I won’t try to change your mind if I don’t like what you say or think it might hurt you,” I warn, not about to risk her safety for anything. “I’ve been called demanding more than once in my life.”
“I can imagine,” Sadie teases, her smile too much. I had to taste her once more, and the instant I claimed her lips, my resolve started to slip. My fingers itched to lift her onto my lap, push aside our clothing and bury myself inside her.
Only the reminder of her growling stomach, her thinness, stopped me, and I pulled back with a growl, resting my forehead against hers, getting myself under control. “Eat, baby. I need you to eat like a good girl, so you have energy for what I’m going to do to you later.”
“Is that so?” teases from her lips, making me almost cave, but her wellbeing is more important than even getting my dick inside her, and I hold strong.
“You’ve no idea just how much energy you’re going to need very soon, baby. Now eat,” I demand, and shit, a huge wave of desire floods me when she lifts her fork once more, watching me in between her bites of her food. I definitely think I’m going to enjoy having a good little girl doing what I tell her to do.
Chapter 5
Sadie
Holy crap. If I were wearing underwear right now, I swear they’d be wetter than mine were from the snow earlier. Every word Kellan utters makes my heart race in such a good way. It’d been stuck in high gear since dealing with Jonah, but that was pure fear. This…I honestly can’t put a name to what this is right now.
Okay, sure, I know what I’m experiencing physically with him when he kisses me is desire. I’ve read enough to know that even if I’ve never felt it before now. It’s the rest that I can’t put a name to—the sweetness that rushes through me when he touches me gently like when he was holding my head. Or the quiet peace that surrounded me when he kissed my forehead. I can’t put my finger on the right way to describe it.
Alright, if I were being really brave I might label it something I’ve only read about in books, but there’s no way that’s what this is. It can’t be, because who falls in love the first time they meet someone? Lust sure that’s feasible, but this can’t actually be love, could it?
I can’t say I don’t want it to be. Not with everything he’s offering me. Hell, I wouldn’t care if this was his actual house and not just a cabin for shelter. It’s nicer than most of the apartments we lived in for certain.
Not to mention the fact that I need five thousand dollars to pay off Jonah doesn’t seem to be an issue to him. It’s more money than I’ve ever had in my account even if it was gone in a flash. I couldn’t make that up to him if I worked until I was a hundred while covering bills to live.
It’s like I’ve woken up in a dream rather than running from the nightmare that’s Jonah. If I have—I don’t ever want to wake up anywhere else.
Even the food he made us tastes amazing. It’s clear he doesn’t agree with my assessment that it’s more than good enough, and I’ll admit, when he was talking about a juicy steak, my mouth watered at the idea of it. I haven’t had one since I was sixteen and we went to a buffet to celebrate my birthday. They had a carving station with some, and it was delicious.
Far better than the meat that we’d buy for home when we could afford something other than hamburger or pork. Thankfully chicken breasts could go a long way with the big packs, and we could find those at the cheaper stores and freeze the extra until we needed them.
I can’t imagine what Kellan usually eats if Spam is paltry to him. Or what his actual home looks like if this place is just a shelter to him. Everything he’s says to me has me never wanting to leave this warm cocoon he’s created, especially when combined with what he does to me physically.
“How many brothers do you have?” I ask him as I continue to eat the dinner he made us, enjoying the way he’s watching me. The look in his eyes is similar to the one in Jonah’s, deeper than the creeps but it’s far from making me feel the same way—so far from it that I want him to always look at me like this. It’s this mix of hunger and possession that warms every last part of me, even the ones that have been cold since losing my mother.
“Four,” Kellan answers me, and my brow lifted in surprise. “Jasper is three years younger than I am, Ashton is six, Carver is eight and then Rylan is ten, so he’s now twenty-seven.”
“Making him seven when your dad died,” I state, and he nodded at me. “You said your brothers use the cabin to have privacy with their wives. Are they all married?”
