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Chapter 13 - Marcus: Paperwork
The first thing I noticed when I woke up the following morning was that I was not in my bed. More importantly, I was in an empty bed.
I blinked a few times, trying to rid my eyes of sleep. I looked around her room searching for any sign of her. When I looked down at my body, I was naked.
Maddie and I had gone at each other like animals. We had fucked in the living room, and we had fucked in every other room after that. It was a glorious night. It was also unexpected. I hadn’t been with a woman in months. I didn’t make a habit of sleeping around.
I had so many other things going for me in my life. I had work at the station and my family, not to mention just my own personal downtime, which I took very seriously.
I pulled the sheets off my body and walked into her bathroom in search of a towel. My clothes were still downstairs. We had all but forgotten about them while we were attacking each other and making our way to her room.
Her bathroom was exactly what I had imagined it would be. It was white and aesthetically pleasing to the eye. There wasn’t a thing out of place, much like Maddison. She was always so put together. It was annoying at times.
I wanted nothing more than to ruffle her feathers a bit and get her a little messy. She always had this character on her at all times. She never uttered the wrong thing, and she never dared to leave her house without looking perfect.
I found the towel and put it around my waist. I walked out of her room and made my way downstairs. I wasn’t on duty today, thankfully.
My feet padded against the hardwood floors. I stopped when I heard voices coming from the kitchen.
“I wasn’t expecting you today, Mr. Wishfer.”
“Come now, Maddie. You can call me Arnie. After all, your dad was my best friend. You don’t have to be so formal,” Arnie’s voice rang into my ears.
What is Arnie talking about?
“Okay, Arnie.” The name rolled weirdly off her tongue. “If I had known you were coming, I would have prepared you something.”
“I only wanted to drop off the first few documents you have to sign on the ranch. And I would be lying if I said that I wasn’t hoping to steal a glance at your mystery man.” Arnie let out a loud laugh that had the walls in the house shaking.
The dots were finally connecting. I couldn’t believe it. She was the mystery owner who was going to take over Pete’s ranch. The same ranch my sister had worked at and cared for years. My heart thundered in my chest.
Then Maddie’s words from last night rang in my head.My dad isn’t my real dad.
“Shit,” I gasped a little too loudly.
“Is that him?” I heard Arnie say, and immediately, I went to turn and run back up the stairs.
“Babe,” Maddie called me. The word sounded weird, foreign. “Come and say hi to Arnie.”
I debated on whether I should pretend like I never heard her, but it was too late because, before I could decide anything, Arnie peaked his head out by the archway.
“Well I will be damned.” He smiled at me. “Marcus Anderson? You are the lucky man who is marrying Pete’s baby girl.”
Maddie walked through the archway and looked up to where I stood on the stairs. Her eyes were wide, and she stared at me as if trying to give me some kind of secret message.
I turned my gaze back to Arnie and I smiled. “Yep, that would be me.”
“I can see that I caught you both at a bad time, so I will just leave, and you two can get back to your business,” he said with a smirk playing on his lips. “Maddie, sweetheart, you can just send those documents back when they are signed.”
Maddie gave him a tight-lipped smile and ushered him to the door. It was then that I noticed that she was wearing my shirt.
My dick stirred at the sight of her bare legs that went on for days, and I had to hold myself for a moment because I was acting like a hormonal teen boy.
When Arnie was out the door, Maddie closed it and, letting out a relieved sigh, leaned against it. When she looked up at me standing on the stairs, her eyes took on a pink hue. She looked away quickly and scurried into the kitchen without a single word.
I rolled my eyes and followed her into the kitchen. “You can’t possibly be shy when I had my tongue inside you last night.”
Maddie looked up from the papers on the counter and gasped. “Don’t be crude, Marcus.”
