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Chapter 10 – Beastly

Catherine POV

Come morning, we loaded up our things in the back of the black SUV that JT loaned to us before saying our goodbyes to our friends. Once we were on the road, it felt like a huge weight had been lifted off of my shoulders. I looked over at Vincent, who was driving, and noticed he still seemed worried, "Are you alright?" I asked as I placed my left hand onto his right leg, barely above his knee.

His jaw clenched as he took my hand into his right one and lifted my hand up to kiss it, "I am now."

I sensed he wasn't telling the truth but I didn't bother to further anymore questions because we were heading to Colorado and I didn't want to ruin the mood. He began smiling, "Why are you staring at me like that?"

"Like what?"

"I don't know. Like you want me to say that I'm happy about this trip, which I'm kind of not."

I sighed, "Vincent, can you at least try to be happy about it?"

"It's kind of hard when I feel like we have used our best friends."

Oh lord, here we go. This is what I was trying to avoid...

"We aren't using them Vincent. They offered this so lets make the best out of it, alright? Can we just be happy together and enjoy ourselves?" I looked at him with sadness in my eyes on purpose.

"Don't...don't do that 'feel sorry for me' look."

I sighed, still looking at him.

"Fine!"

As we finally arrived in Colorado, I felt relieved that the trip was finally over. It was highly difficult riding for hours in a cramped up vehicle...I mean yeah, we could have flown here but that would have only put our faces on camera and Muirfield would be on our asses in a heart beat.

But this? This is all just so amazingly beautiful. The snow capped mountains, the white sheets of snow on the ground, and then ice outlined every inch of every branch on every tree. I actually cracked my window to get a good whiff of the clean crisp, yet cold air and it filled my lungs satisfyingly. This was nothing compared to North Carolina, and it sure as hell wasn't in comparison with New York...this was my new safe haven and I knew that my heart would have issues pulling away from this scenery.

I could tell Vincent loved it here already too. It was peaceful and beautiful and..."Oh. My. God!" I said in a shocked tone, feeling faint as the driveway came to an end and the cabin was visible. "JT Forbes, how on earth did you afford this?!" I said under my breath.

It looked almost as if it were a painting. Pine trees had thin sheets of snow, the wood was a blonde caramel color and it all looked unreal.

"It's huge!" Vincent said in awe as he put the vehicle in park. We both starred through the windshield at it for a few moments then I said, "Well let's get inside before we turn into ice cubes out here awing it."

As I excited the vehicle, I walked around taking in the scenery in front of us. The view was out of this world and breath taking. You could actually see the whole city from here, yet it was extremely quiet. My senses told me that I was not the only one taking in this beauty, "We have a lot to do for JT and Tess when we get back home in order to thank them properly." I said to Vincent as he wrapped his arms around my waist from behind me.

"I won't argue with you there. Maybe we should go inside, yeah?" he responded and we turned around and headed towards the door.

A sudden sound startled me and I came to complete stop, "Do you hear that?" I said in a whisper to Vincent.

"Yeah. Sounds pretty close. Why don't you go inside and I'll check it out."

"No. I'm going with you." I said sternly and he huffed in frustration.

We walked towards the noise into the woods and were relieved that it had turned out to be just an animal. I actually felt relieved considering our situation.

Once we settled in the cabin, Vincent started a fire in the fireplace and then sat down behind me, wrapping us up together in a blanket until it warmed up. "This is really nice. I didn't expect the place to be so..."

"Huge? I know. It truly is beautiful here Vincent. You think we should call JT or Tess? Maybe let them know we made it safely and check on them?"

He nodded as he placed a kiss on top of my head and I began to dial Tess' number.

"Hey Cat! How's the trip?" Tess said.

"Great actually! We made it fine and found everything pretty easy. Are you all okay?"

"Yeah! Actually JT and I were about to go out to a movie. Just call me if you have problems finding anything in the cabin. It's a pretty big cabin and even I get lost in it sometimes." she said with a slight laugh.

"Yeah, no kidding. Tess? Thanks again for this. We truly appreciate everything you and JT have done for us. Especially this."

"No problem! Just remember that my brother might be over later to make sure your okay, he is freakishly weird enough to check up on things around the property. There are movies in the living room, oh! And wine is in the din on the wine rack in case you two are in a uhm...you know, mood."

"Tess!"

"I'm sorry, just being truthful here. Plus the place is pretty sensual at night so it kind of puts you in the mood anyways. Are you even sure that you can even..."

"Okay Tess, I will call you tomorrow. Thanks again." I said blushing, not really wanting to get into 'Beast Sex 101.' Vincent chuckled as he got up to go out and grab our bags. I too got up but I wanted to explore the cabin and get familiar with it. I mean after all, we will be living here for a while so might as well get started checking the place out.

Vincent POV

The winds were picking up slightly and the air was feeling colder as I removed the bags out of the SUV. That was a sign that it was preparing to get dark and we haven't even eaten dinner yet. I wasn't too sure what all was our choices as far as food went because Tess had mentioned that there wasn't much. So after sitting our bags down next to the couch I searched my way until I found the kitchen. Whoa! I thought to myself. This was a huge kitchen. I didn't know where to even begin. Not to mention, Catherine's heart beat was totally distracting. Almost seemed like it echoed off the walls in here.

After going through countless cabinets and raiding the fridge, it came down to either home made spaghetti with salad, steak with red potatoes, or tv dinners... scratch that, I am not feeding Catherine a damn tv dinner. That is not romantic at all. Catherine deserves an actual cooked meal with a glass of wine, not frozen lasagna being reheated.

Spaghetti it is!

Catherine POV

Did I mention that this cabin was huge? Oh my God! It feels like I'm in a maze but in a good way...I'm actually enjoying myself looking at all of the different yet unique rooms of this beautiful cabin. So far I have seen 2 bathrooms and a wreck room. The bathrooms were bigger than my bedroom at my own house and as far as the wreck room, it looked like a wonderful place to relax. Pool tables, an xbox, even a bar with beer drafts connected to it for God's sake. The wreck room must totally be JT's man cave.

My senses started toying with me again as I heard heavy footsteps outside of the cabin. I peeked out of the window in the wreck room and saw a man about Vincent's height but not as built. As he walked closer to the cabin, I couldn't help but wonder who the heck he is and then the connecting question, what is he doing here?

I supercharged down the stairs and grabbed my coat and started to put on my shoes. "Where are you going?" He said from behind me.

"I saw someone snooping around so I'm going to see what he wants." I said tying my boots' laces. As I stood up, Vincent supercharged for the door, blocking me from going outside, "Catherine, it's probably just a nosie neighbor trying to see whose here. I'm sure they are used to JT and Tess coming here only at certain times of the year. Don't worry about it."

"No, he seemed a little...off. Like he knew we were here or something... Now move out of the way, I can take care of myself."

"Not happening..." he said with a smile and crossed his arms as he leaned back on the door. I raised an eyebrow as I squinted my eyes at him. As we glared at one another, my eyes flashed to a gold color and I supercharged for the back door. He too did the same and beat me to it.

"Now that's not fair." I said crossing my arms.

"It's too cold to be out there right now Catherine. You could get sick, and besides if that guy out there needs something, he will knock on the door like most people do. I think your over reacting." he said with a slight chuckle.

I growled a defeated sigh as I said, "Your right, I'm sorry... And what smells good?"

He laughed as he wrapped me in his arms, "Well the choices were not big so I decided spaghetti sounded the best, plus it's one of your favorites...at least it used to be."

"Still is. Sounds and smells delicious." I responded as I rubbed my hands up his arms then cupped his face and kissed him. As the kiss started to heat up and both of us had half way beasted out, I stopped, hearing footsteps approach the front door. My eyes shot open as I pulled away from Vincent who I know had to have heard the same sound. I took one more look at him as someone knocked on the door, "Hello? Anybody here? Wanted to greet you with some cheesecake." a deep voice announced from the door.

We walked in sync towards the door and Vincent opened it to, "Hi! I'm Daniel... My baby sister said that you two would be here. I walked over so that I could greet you both to the area. I know Tess had mentioned that neither of you have been here before, plus she also mentioned your newlyweds?"

Vincent and I looked at each other as if we were lost. It actually took everything in me not to burst into laughter.

Then I remembered the ID's. Oh shit! I looked over at Vincent from behind the door and lipped ID to him. He welcomed our guest inside out of the cold as I ran to grab the one thing that gave us a temporarily fake life.

For the first time I looked at the ID's and almost laughed at the names JT had picked for us. I finally returned back to the men who seemed lost in conversation about hockey.

I slipped his ID into his back pocket unnoticed as I said, "Excuse our manors, I'm Katie Underwood and as you already have acquainted with my husband, James." and I extended my hand out to Daniel.

"Nice to meet you both." he said as he shook our hands. "But I'm afraid I must be going now. The wife will be worried if i stay too long. Again it was nice to meet you both and I hope you like the cheese cake."

"Thanks." Vincent and I said in an awkward sync causing the tiny man to look at us oddly.

"If you need anything, I'm just right down the road. My number is also posted on the fridge if anything needs to be fixed etc."

I nodded and smiled as the man stepped back into the blistering cold air and I finally released the breath I had been holding with his presence around once he shut the door behind him, "Well that was a little awkward." Vincent said as he took the cheese cake with him into the kitchen.

"Ditto! And how on earth did JT come up with Katie and James Underwood?" I asked almost bursting into laughter.

He shook his head and laughed, "Gotta love JT."

Once dinner was ready, Vincent had set up the table to feel more romantic. Two red candles sat in between two plates of spaghetti along with two half way wine filled glasses. He had dimmed the lights so that the candles could sensualize the room.

We sat down and gazed at one another with pure passion. He raised his glass, and did mine as he said, "To us."

"To us." I mocked as I took a sip of wine, not breaking eye contact with him.

During dinner we laughed at stories from back at war especially the time when Robert Lawson pulled a 'scavenger hunt' prank on Vincent, using his clothes after he showered because he was a new recruit and hated Vincent's tactics.

"Robert had you going all night long." I said with a laugh.

"Yeah, he sure did. I was all over base trying to keep from being spotted in a towel."

"You were spotted...by me." I said with a seductive smile on my face, biting my bottom lip as I went back to that wonderful moment with Vincent in my brain.

His heart was beating fast sending a rush of blood through his body. Was he turned on? I suppose there is only one way to find out.

Catherine stood continuing to gaze into the soul of the one person who meant anything to her, "I'm just gonna take these to wash them." and she grabbed his plate along with hers as she walked into the kitchen. She began washing the dishes and could sense her lovers eyes burning her. He swiftly made his way behind her, rubbing his hands down her arms (causing her to go still) and into the soapy water where he laid his hands on top of hers. She dropped the dish down into the water and closed her eyes savoring his touch. Her head leaned back onto his chest as he removed his left hand out of the water and placed it on her belly, pulling her closer to him. He swayed them extremely slow as his lips contacted her cheek.

He moved her hair away from her neck and it sent chills up her spine causing her demon to wake up inside of her. His too was waking up and they sensed that their beasts were wanting this just as bad they did. There hands were linked onto her stomach and he began whispering a melody into her ear as they continued to sway. A smile crept on her lips as he continued to whisper in her ear then opened her beastly eyes and turned her head to look at him, her body turning in his arms soon after and their lips came together.

Their kiss was animal like, almost like they were hungry and he didn't waist any time before he had lifted her up into his arms and like the flash, took off to the bedroom.

**A/N: MWAHAHAHA! Yes I ended this chapter there because I wanted to save the beastly nature for the next chapter lol. I went ahead and updated because yal have waited so long for updates to this story and you all deserved it. I might update by next week and try to update frequently every week. But again, this extra chapter this week was well deserved not only for you, but for me as well. I hope you all liked it and please excuse my errors, I am only human and I do make mistakes haha. Stay tuned for the next chapter probably by Monday. Thanks so much my darlings. Love you all! -Tiffany**