Chapter Twenty
Just three days to go, God I can barely stand the wait. Having her so far away is killing me but it is starting to feel a little easier I guess it's because I know she's coming home soon.
Trey: would you quit whining? Its three days Duck she'll be back before you know it.
Me: shut up and concentrate you
Trey: yeah because you've totally got your priorities straight right now? You can't stop thinking about Adrian
Me: hey I'm fully concentrated
Trey: yeah that's why you're reliving the phone sex you had with her the other night
I growl at him and he cowers away
Shila: easy Duck
Me: my thoughts about Adrian are private
Shila: then stop being so loud about them
I huffed, I suppose he has a point, I pushed my errant thoughts of my imprint to a quiet corner of my mind and tried to concentrate on the task at hand.
The vampire Seth and I had chased to Canada had tried to come back onto the Res this morning only to be chased off again by Embry and my Dad. So now we were sitting and waiting for the scumbag to come back but so far he hadn't reared his head. It was raining again, Washington hadn't seen rain so bad for a few decades according to the older wolves, usually I didn't mind the rain too much but sitting in it waiting for something that might not even happen sucked.
Six hours later Dad finally called us home and then he went on patrol with Seth and Kai to relieve us. I was about a mile from home when I caught something, it smelt like gingerbread men, but slight tangy citrus underlying tones and warm vanilla, Adrian. She was here she was home.
I pushed my legs to move faster and sure enough when I reached the drive way her old piece of shit hilux was there, I'd never been so happy to see that old hunk of junk in my life. I could hear them talking. "Oh man it's so good to be back" Adrian sighed and my heart swelled to hear her voice in a way that wasn't through a phone.
"Oh hey Adrian" I hear Leah say. I can hear Willow in the room with them.
"Ok so clearly I missed all the fun while I was away" Adrian laughs
"What do you mean?" Asked Willow
"Well you had sex, and you're pregnant" Adrian says. I grind to a halt and fall on my face in the mud. From what I could hear only Leah and Willow were in the room with her, if Brady had got my baby sister pregnant I'd kill him with my bare hands.
"What! I did not have sex" Willow says
"Oh yeah then what's with your radiant cheeks"
"Well we... but we didn't have sex Brady would never, not unless we were married he's not a got a death wish"
"Yeah Jake and Riddoc would rip him to shreds, and I am not pregnant" Leah says with a laugh
"Oh yes you are I have a sixth sense about these things" Adrian says. By this point I'd picked myself up off of the floor and made it to the front door, I phased onto bare and muddy human feet pulling on some jeans from the basket by the door. I pushed the door open and skidded into the entrance hall leaving a trail of muddy smears and footprints in my wake.
"Angel!" I called out; I hear Adrian gasp and her heart beat picks up. I all but sprint into the kitchen and when I finally lay eyes on her it's like a dream, it's like I've imprinted on her all over again. No words are said I just rush forward and pull her into my arms my lips finding hers and kissing her as if my life depended upon it. When I release her she's gasping for air.
"Why are you wet and muddy?" she asks still out of breath
"I was gardening" I lie, she frowns at me then I kiss her again before she can ask me anything else. When our lips part I dip my knees and pick her up, putting her over my shoulder, she squeals the starts to laugh.
"Riddoc what are you doing you cave man" she giggles, I laugh then cart upstairs much to the amusement of Leah and Willow but I don't care I just want to be alone with my imprint. We have a lot of lost time to make up for.
The plan was to tell her everything the second I saw her but thinking about it, I just got her back, she'd just had a long flight it would be unfair to do it now. And what if she was mad at me or upset it would only spoil everything; no I should definitely give it a day at least.
I set Adrian down on her feet and kissed her. "Missed you" I whisper against her lips and feel her smile.
"I missed you too" she sighs and wraps her arms around my neck.
"You're early" I say and she nods
"Couldn't wait any longer so I took an earlier flight" she tells me and kisses me "Do I get my surprise yet?" she asks and I laugh.
"Do I get mine?"
"You have to undress me for it" she whispers in my ear, I pull back and look at her letting my eyes trail up and down her body.
"Blue?" I ask grinning and she laughs.
"Nope" she shakes her head. I bend and pick her up wrapping her thighs around my waist.
"You first" I tell her and she giggles.
"Erm..." she says and looks down between us. I copy and notice I'm covered in mud up to my knees and elbows and dripping wet. I glance around the room and see mud all over my carpet and a muddy hand print where I pushed the door shut, my Mom was going to kill me.
"Give me one minuet to shower?" I ask and she nods. I dive into the bathroom pulling my clothes off as quickly as I can. I shower in what has to be record time and barrel back into my bedroom pulling on a pair of jean and nothing else. Adrian is just letting herself back into my room, she smiles at me.
"I just went to clean up, you got dirt all over my hands and face" she says wrinkling her nose and we both laugh. the laughter stops as we watch each other with two months worth of pent up desire. Adrian bites her lip then I press her against the wall just like I said I would.
We lie together on my bed afterwards as I trace the new patterns on her back, I chuckle to myself and she moves to look at me. "This is what you were worried about? That I'd be mad about this" I ask touching her newly tattooed skin.
"Well you only have the one I wasn't sure how you'd feel about me getting another one" she said her shoulders moving slightly with a shrug. Whilst she was in England she'd had ivy tattooed on her shoulder blade trailing down into a curve on her ribs. It was beautiful and I loved it.
"Do you like it?" she asks after a while
"I do, it's beautiful, thought it makes me keep picturing you lying naked in the grass" I tell her.
"Really? Well when the weather isn't so dammed awful maybe we could do that" she suggests.
"Yep definitely a good surprise" I tell her then kiss along the tattoo and all the way down to the base of her spine.
"Do I get mine now?" she asks shyly and I laugh.
"Ok, but it does involve getting up, and dressed" I warn her
"Hmm five more minuets then" she says as she rolls onto her back and pulls me on top of her.