Chapter Twenty Nine

We don't make it out of the car, as soon as I pull up out front and I see her unbuckle her seatbelt I grab her and haul her across the car. She yelps for a second then smiles as I sit her astride me. "You do know there's a perfectly good bed in there?" she asks as she tugs on my bottom lip with her teeth.

"Too far" I tell her and kiss her, she giggles and starts to undo my belt then the snap of my jeans. Adrian reaches down to the side of the seat and pulls the lever, I get the idea and use my feet to push the chair back. She slides down my legs and I gasp when she takes me in her mouth. I've been so horny this week while she was in LA every time I touched myself wishing it was Adrian I imagined those soft lips painted red and wrapped around me. She kisses up and down my shaft running the flat of her tongue along it then sucks gently on the head once and I hiss. "God Angel you gotta stop" I breathe as my head collapses back against the support

"Why?"

"Because I'm not gonna last much longer, it's been a week Babe"

"That's ok, I don't mind" she tells me then slides me into her mouth again until the tip touches the back of her throat and I nearly loose it, her mouth always feels so good.

"Angel please, I want to come inside you?" I groan and she continues for another couple of pumps before she's climbing back into my lap. In seconds I'm finally inside her, exactly where I've been desperate to be since I walked in and saw her stood in the kitchen in that tiny skirt.

I let her do what she wants only raising my hips against hers while she rides me and getting a gasp or a moan out of her every time I do. Adrian reaches behind her back and cups my balls and that's it, I all but scream out my release sparking hers too. I keep thrusting upwards until she calms down and I feel myself soften inside her slightly.

When I let her go inside we make love once more on the bed then again against the wall of the shower, I can never get enough of her. A few hours later Adrian is sat on the rug in front of the fire in a fluffy bath robe. I lean against the door jamb in just my sweats watching her for a second. She looks up and smiles when she sees me there but her eyes look sad. "What are you thinking about?" I ask her and she sighs.

"We need to talk Riddoc" she says gently and I gulp, this isn't gonna be good.

"Ok what about?" I ask her as I move into the living room; I sit myself in the armchair opposite her. Adrian crawls on her knees towards me and sits at my feet with her hands in mine.

"When I was at Marina's today, Leo asked me how I would feel about having Marina on a more permanent basis. He's flying out to Syria in two weeks. His mother normally has her but she's been distant since Leo's Father died" Adrian explains "That and she's going on a three month cruise"

"What does he mean by a more permanent basis? How long will he be in Syria?" I ask

"That's the thing I don't know and neither does he. They gave him a promotion I tried to talk him into staying with Marina I really did" she tells me and I nod

"I know you would have"

"But he said it was too big of an opportunity to miss. I told him yes for the three months while his Mom's away, I hope that's alright?" she says and I nod instantly, of course it is. "But I told him I had to talk to you before agreeing to anything else"

"It's a huge decision Adrian, have you thought about this?" I ask her

"Only the whole way home, I know it's big, I do. Financially it's not a problem, we have the space for her..."

"Adrian? Forget all of that, forget me... what do you want?" I ask

"I want Marina to have the things I never did. I want her to feel like she belongs to a family, like she has a real home, like she's wanted. I don't want her end up like me, I don't want her to be twenty one and it be too late for her Daddy to come home" she says and I brush away her tears with my thumbs.

"don't say that Angel, it's not too late for you and your Dad" I tell

"But it is Riddoc, I'm an adult now, I look after myself and I have you. I have a life and whole new family, a family that I'm starting with you. Your parents are so good to me and I love Willow like a sister. This is my family, My time being Daddy's little girl is long gone and I'm ok with that"

"You are?"

"Yeah, it's all ok, I'm over it. You know why because I'm happy. He lived his life and it upset me that it wasn't with me but I can't judge him for that. My father will be a part of my life when he's ready to be and not before. And I'm happy to just let that happen now. It's like all of the bullshit that got me here doesn't even matter, because I'm here with you and I'm happy. Does that make any sense?" she asks and I smile

"Of course it does Angel. I'm glad you're happy. And if Marina wants to come and live with us then I'm happy with that too, you know I love that kid" I shrug and she smiles.

"Are you sure because we can think this over as long as you need" Adrian tells me

"I know, but I'm ok with it, I'm actually really up for it. So it's your choice Angel, I'll go with whatever you decide" I tell her and she practically jumps into my lap sealing her lips over mine.

Two weeks later Marina came to stay with us and she never went back to San Francisco, we moved her stuff into the attic bedroom and she loved her new room. I was tense over meeting Leo again, but to my surprise he shook my hand and apologised for his behaviour the first time we met. Leo had wanted to avoid all the legal bullshit as much as possible, he made Adrian Marina's second legal guardian and they now shared joint custody of her. When Leo was on leave Marina would stay with him but the majority of the time she lived with us.

Marina started first grade this September with little Megan Ateara, those two had quickly become best friends forever, having sleepovers and whispering to one an other. The biggest shock though was when Collin came to the house to meet me for Patrol and ended up imprinting on Marina. I quickly dragged him outside and beat the crap out of him. I felt very protective of Marina; I saw her half like a daughter and half like a baby sister. Either way I was enraged at the thought of him any where near her, Adrian had been the one to remind me not to think of imprinting as a romantic thing. I calmed down after a couple days and now Adrian's talked me into letting Collin baby-sit so we can go out for dates on Friday nights. It's an arrangement that seems to be working out for eveybody.

Leah had a beautiful baby girl, she and Embry named her Danielle, and she looks just like Embry, poor kid. She was two weeks late and Kim had to force Leah's water to break. As you can imagine Leah was a joy to be around by the end of her pregnancy. Embry actually ended up crashing on Dad's sofa a couple of times just to keep from tearing his hair out, or Leah's it was hard to tell at times.

Adrian and I have been dating now for eighteen months, today is exactly a year and a half since we had our first date, and tonight I'm going to ask her to marry me. I'm nervous as hell, not because I think she'll say no but because I'm scared she might think it's too fast and say something worse then no like 'not now'. She had no idea about tonight I was gonna pick her up from work then drop it on her that I was taking her out and she had an hour to be ready.

Everything was going according to plan until I walked into the Surf Shack and saw Adrian sat on a stool on the stage with a band that wasn't hers. I recognised the song after a second it was the track she'd worked on in LA with her friend Josh, so this was Josh and his band. She didn't tell me they were coming to La Push, maybe she didn't know.

I stood at the back of the bar and listened, just watching my angel up there in her element, she loved the Surf Shack but performing and writing music was what made her really happy. Adrian sang and I closed my eyes at the sound of her voice, it was nice to hear it live without being matched with a heavy drum beat and fast guitar rifts. She said Josh's music wasn't really her usual taste, but I liked it, her voice and a country band somehow just worked. "You've been closing me in, closing the space in my heart.
Watching us fading and watching it all fall apart" I hated the lyrics when she first played the track to me because her singing such a sad song hurt my heart but she hadn't written the lyrics and I stopped being a baby about it after a while. "Such a beautiful myth, that's breaking my skin. Well I'll hide all the bruises; I'll hide all the damage that's done. But I show how I'm feeling until all the feeling has gone"

Then Adrian spots me and her eyes sparkle, I love how happy she is to see me, I love how one look from her makes my chest feel tight and my heart race. I love the way her face lights up like I'm her hero or something. I just love her, she's my everything.