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Ch13: Going For Broke

Feeling like you peaked in college, finding the man of your dreams, only having a brief island fling with said man of your dreams and wondering if you should take out a restraining order on your formerly quiet, nice with a hint of anger issues ex-boyfriend instead of just changing your number like you opted to do was enough to make a girl go for the Krispy Kreme doughnuts and the Chunky Monkey ice cream.

Leah wondered if she should take her sister in law up on her offer. Working for Harrington Enterprise wouldn't have been that bad. The import-export business of dealing with cement and oil refineries was probably more interesting than she imagined… Not.

At least she wouldn't have to worry about Sam Uley sabotaging her and belittling her left and right.

After a week of dealing with her jerk of a boss, ignoring Paul's apologetic phone messages and not hearing a word from Jacob, her life was just as crappy as it had been before she had taken the trip to Blake that was supposed to help her get her groove back.

Granted, she shouldn't have expected to hear anything from Jake since she hadn't left him any of her contact information.

But a small part of her was hoping.

So, instead of having a Saturday night out with her girls, or hanging out with her brother, sister in law, niece and nephews or even spending some time with her mom, she was in her condo. Her hair was up in a haphazard ponytail and she was wearing a pair of ripped up shorts and an old SPU T-shirt, eating a pint of Chunky Monkey ice cream and watching a marathon of old romantic comedies.

Seriously, why couldn't her life be like Julia Robert's or Sandra Bullock's or Meg Ryan's? Well, maybe not their lives exactly, since the actresses were probably as unlucky in love in their real lives as she was. But definitely the characters they played in those little movies Keilani had gotten her hooked on.

A perfect job—well, with the exception of Vivian Ward, Julia's hooker with a heart of gold in Pretty Woman—a perfect man to sweep her off her feet and a perfect life…

Was that really too much to ask for? Really?

She was just at her favorite part of Notting Hill, where Julia's Anna tells Hugh Grant's William that she's just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love her. That part always guaranteed a good cry, and she needed a good excuse to cry, otherwise it would seem like she was sitting in raggedy shorts, stuffing her face, moping and crying over Jacob Black.

And she was not doing that! She was just in a little mood, that was all, and it would pass soon.

There was a knock at the door and then a prolonged press of the bell. If her nose hadn't been so stuffy from crying she would have been able to smell who it was. She touched her mark as she shivered involuntarily.

Weird.

She huffed and put the movie on pause knowing she had to get up to see who the hell it was. If Paul had taken to showing up at her door now that she had changed her number, she was going to give him something that would make him never come back. Fuck a restraining order.

She looked through her peephole, and what she saw there shocked her to her core. Jacob was leaning against her door like he didn't have a care in the world. How he'd managed to get her address and why was he showing up at her place took second place in the line of questions running through her head. Those sensible questions had no billing with her.

No, the top thing on her mind was, Do I look presentable enough for him to see me?

"One second." She took the scrunchie out of her hair and gave her hair a quick finger toss. She looked down at what had formerly been her favorite pair of black shorts but had suddenly morphed into a fashion-don't now that Jake was going to see her in them looking like a slouch.

She opened the door, and her breath caught in her throat. Jake pulled her into his arms and kissed her, sending her world into the stratosphere and making a pretty shitty week all of a sudden the best week ever.

Jake knew he should have said something first before he just attacked Leah's lips. But seeing her there looking so adorable and clearly shocked to see him, made him want to kiss her and shock her even more. The more he tasted her, the more intense his feelings became.

She had left him, left him without a care or a way to contact her.

She had left him as if it had been the easiest thing in the world to do and gone back to her cheating ex-boyfriend.

His lips stopped mid kiss and he pulled away. He touched her face, stroking and caressing it lovingly as all the questions he wanted to ask her bounced around in his head.

"Is your man here? You said the two of you broke up. But he answered your phone when I called you and staked his claim…" He took a deep breath, but he didn't take his hand off of her pretty face.

"My man? When did you call me? I don't have a man. No man should have answered my phone. And I just got my phone number changed because my ex wouldn't stop calling. He was still here when I came back from Blake. So I had to make him leave, and then I had the locks changed in case he had more copies of the keys. I left to go to the store while I waited for the twenty four hour lock smith to show up when it seemed like he was getting a little extra upset about the breakup. When I came back he had trashed the place and smashed my phone."

Jake nodded and walked into her condo. He probably should have waited for an invite, but…oh… well…

"Sorry about that. He probably decided to wreck the place after talking with me. He didn't seem to like what I had to say. And for the record, you do have a man. And that would be me." He gave her a pointed stare that he really hoped she wouldn't argue with. They had wasted an entire week apart. That was too damn long. "And we are renegotiating your ground rules. I'm not letting you go."

He walked over to her sofa and sat down. A movie was on pause and a bunch of DVD cases from other movies were all over the place. You've Got Mail, When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, Runaway Bride, How to Lose A Guy In Ten Days and a bunch of other chick flicks were scattered all around.

Someone must be in an interesting mood, he mused.

He sat down on the sofa and picked up the empty pint of Chunky Monkey ice cream that was on the end table.

Yes, someone must be in a really interesting mood. Regret maybe?

He turned and saw that she was kind of stuck in the same spot. She hadn't moved at all. "Are you going to stand there all night?" he asked.

"No. I'm just wondering what you're doing here, Jake. I thought we agreed that we would have an island fling. No questions. No promises. No problems."

"And I told you I was agreeing to that mess under duress and I retained my right to change my mind. I've changed my mind. Come sit down by me, Leah. I've missed you."

Her eyes widened even more, but she came and sat down next to him. He fought the need to close his eyes and inhale her scent, just because he knew that he could.

His heart was beating like he had just run a marathon. He didn't know if he was truly ready to put everything on the line just for Leah to tell him no. He wanted so much more than to just continue their island fling.

He wanted to build a relationship with her. The truth was, he had finally found a woman that he wanted to be his wife, to have his children. And he didn't think he could take it if she turned him down once he put his entire heart on the line.

His mother was right. He was scared to lose, especially when it mattered. He now realized why the student government presidential election had plagued him for all those years. It wasn't losing the election that had hurt him. It was losing all of the possibility sparked by that one kiss with Leah that had hurt the most.

"How did you get here?" Leah asked. She had an expression on her face that was a mix between confused and irritated. "You're not supposed to be here, Jake! Why do you think people have boundaries? Just for you to stomp all over them whenever you like?"

The shock was wearing off, and she clearly had her guard up.

Jake turned to face her, pulled her into his arms and kissed her. She needed an outlet for all that fire, and he was more than willing to provide one.

Their heated passion took over in seconds, and she kissed him back instead of questioning his motives. He decided he would do that before he answered any of her questions, especially the ones where she had an attitude.

"You don't get to just put up boundaries when there are two people involved, Leah. Especially since we're marked. It's unfair. I'm not going to be my dad and let you string me along for thirty something years just because you think it's some kind of test of how much I care. You ran this time and I found you, but you can't keep running just because, Leah. You're not the only one who is scared."

He realized he had revealed way more than he had intended, but he couldn't stop himself. His stomach felt queasy, his throat was dry and his palms were sweating. He felt like he was walking a tightrope without a safety net. He usually enjoyed the thrill of risk taking. It lit fire to his blood. But risking things like money, property, status and anything else that didn't involve feelings was pretty easy for him. This kind of risk was not.

This must be what it feels like to go for broke…

He didn't like the feeling at all.

"It was hard enough to leave Blake—" she started.

"Didn't seem like it was hard to me. You just left me there without a word or a backward glance." Jake interrupted.

"It was hard, Jake! And now you're here and I don't think I'll be able to walk away from you again." She nibbled her upper lip and shook her head. "Don't you get it, Black?"

He traced her lips with his tongue deliberately, as though he had all the time in the word. And then he slowly snaked his tongue through her lips and touched hers ever so softly. It only took that moment of contact for her tongue to wake up and start dueling with his. Their tongues danced for several minutes before he pulled away.

"Good. I'm glad it will be hard for you to walk away again. It should always be hard for either one of us to walk away." He kissed her again before standing. He held out his hand. "Can we please go to your bedroom so I can show you how much I've missed you?"

She took about a second to contemplate before she followed him.

Leah let Jake into her bedroom. If Jake was determined to carry on their affair beyond the beautiful blue skies and teal waters of Blake, then she would just have to put on her big girl panties—or take them off, in this case—and have him for as long as it lasted.

She slowly undressed him, taking her time to appreciate every bulge and muscle she had thought she would never see again. His skin beckoned for a kiss and then a lick. So she kissed and licked every area she stripped. Soon he was standing in front of her naked in all his beautiful male glory. His manhood jutted forth like a very long, very sturdy rod. She dropped to her knees and took his shaft in her mouth, kissing and licking it the way she had the carious other parts of his body.

Just as she had wondered when he was giving her oral pleasure on the island, she again pondered how she could have gotten it all so very wrong.

Fellatio wasn't overrated at all. It was her new favorite thing, both the giving and receiving.

When she had driven him almost to the point of no return, he pulled out of her mouth with a gasp. He pulled her up and made quick work of her shorts and SPU T-shirt.

"Hey, be careful with the threads, dude. They're vintage." She joked when he yanked down her incredibly torn shorts.

He laughed, grabbed a condom from his pants on the floor and covered himself. When he came back to her, he tried to walk her backward to the bed. But she flipped the script, turned him around and walked him backward instead. She straddled him once she got him where she wanted him and eased down his shaft like she was coming home.

It felt wonderful.

She moved her hips up and down, riding him like a cowgirl riding a horse. She bent down and continued tracing the contours of his chest all the way up to his marked neck with her tongue as she rode him. He grabbed her hips and bucked upward, proving to be a pretty wild stallion indeed.

She clutched her inner thighs as her inner walls clutched him and held on for the ride of her life. They both rode until they found completion in sated bliss and then rode some more until she had fallen asleep in his arms.

On Sunday, Leah was laying half on top of Jacob and half on her bed in a food coma or something close to it.

"You want the last piece of pizza babe?" he asked.

Leah shook her head while she listened to the steady rhythm of his heart beat running her fingers through his silky black cropped hair on top of his head. "God no, if I ever see another slice of pizza in my life I'm going to..." She moaned not even bothering to finish her sentence.

Jake chuckled pulling the lower half of her body until she was straddling his stomach. She could feel how hard he was behind her because both of them had been sans clothes since the night before. She didn't comment on it since he always seemed to be that way anytime he was close to her.

"I told you, you couldn't hang with the big bad wolf." He kissed the top of her head as she let out a low growl, he chuckled again. "It's okay i promise not to damage your precious little rep Clearwater."

"Whatever Black…" she leaned her head up to look up at him as she continued running her fingers through his hair.

He had a soft smile on his face, and his eyes were closed. She might have thought he was sleep if he wasn't running the palm of his hand up and down her back, or if he didn't speak with that stupid half smirk. "Just admit it your wolf has nothing on mine. One for the wolf man and zero for the she-wolf."

"Turn that man into a boy and that sounds just like you. And you don't get a point for that." Leah scoffed until his fingers started to tickle her, she giggled for a few seconds before she said seriously. "You know I don't even know anything about your wolf side."

His eyes opened when she stopped rubbing his head and the most adorable pout came onto his face. "If you want to hear anything you'll restart what you were doing before." He said seriously as his hands began walking up and down her back slowly.

She tried to hide her laughter as she moved her fingers back to his hair and he immediately closed his eyes.

"You are such a baby." She rolled her eyes.

"I can live with that if you never stop." He sighed before opening one eye to look at her. "Please don't stop." He said closing his eyes again.

"Talk." She poked his forehead before continuing her massage.

"Ow fine woman." He slapped her behind before he began talking. "The first time I phased I had to have been…" he paused trying to think. "sixteen or seventeen. Before that I was a level headed kid but I remember getting pissed at how one of the guys was talking to my mom. The guy was messy drunk calling her all sorts of names and my dad was at work so I felt like the man and I had to step up." He started until Leah started cackling hard.

Jake opened both his eyes and stared down at her in confusion.

"Sorry." She took a breath. "I just pictured a smaller, less beefier version of you and—" she cut herself off. "—never mind continue…" she put one hand over her mouth to stop laughing.

Jake sat up fully pulling her with him as he leaned against her head board. Now she was straddling his lap with his erection between them as he grabbed both her wrists kissing both before he looked her in the eyes. "Be serious woman. You wanted to know and I'm trying to tell you." He clasped their hands together as she finished laughing and nodded. "So anyways I go off. I don't remember all of what I said, you would have to ask my mom about that part. But I remember feeling like my body was literally on fire. My mom didn't know what was going on but she got me out of there real quick. She thought I was dying, in fact I thought I was dying from all the pain I was in, until my dad came home and explained it all. It turns out a vamp had moved down the street, between the rum shack chump and the vamp that all triggered it for me. My dad said it skipped him because there were never any vampires around since it was always sunny—"

"How about your siblings?" Leah asked as he let go of her wrist to touch the mark on her neck. Leah shivered.

Jake shook his head as she reached out to touch his. He closed his eyes as he answered. "My sisters are completely normal, it was just me. Hints 'the lone wolf' title I wore so proudly. That was until I met you." He opened his eyes and locked eyes with her. "You're going to have to tell me your story later on, I want you so bad right now." he didn't wait for her to respond as he leaned forward and brushed his lips across hers.

All it took was that one bit of contact in order for the sparks to fly and for her to give into the kiss. She moved to her knees settling herself over his hard rod just as he reached over on the bedside table, ripped open the condom packet and rolled it onto himself. Then she lowered her hot heat onto his hard length, they both groaned in satisfaction when they were completely joined together.

He flipped them over and they made love well into the night. And when he left, telling her that he would be back on Monday evening after work, she was okay with that. She was going to ride this ride for as long as it lasted and worry about the consequences later.

Hahahahaha I was considering them meeting under different circumstances but that just wouldn't have been as fun as the next chapter is going to be

Plus Jake and Leah needed this talk... at least I think so.

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