Page 74 of Fox (Road Rebels MC 4)
“Noelle…” he breathed my name and pulled me to him. I fell on his chest, and he wrapped his arms around me, and I could feel myself sinking into him. I had fantasized about being in his arms, I had fantasized that he would hold me close to himself and promise that he’d make everything all right. I just never thought that fantasy could ever come true.
As he held me and rocked me gently, I felt like I was finally home. I had no idea just how much I’d missed being in his arms. He gently kissed the top of my head.
“This is the best thing you could have ever told me, Noelle. That I’m going to be a father,” I heard him say. I moved in his arms to look up at him. Even though he was smiling, I was still finding it difficult to forget about everything and just pick up where we’d left off.
“So, you want the baby?” I asked, and Tank peered into my eyes, his hazel eyes bright and excited.
“There is nothing I want more than to have a child with you,” he said and then as fast as he had started smiling, he was frowning again. My heart dropped. Had he changed his mind so quickly?
“Fuck. This gives them the bloody leverage that they needed,” he said.
***
“What are you talking about?” I asked him, as he stepped away from me. I could see the panic in Tank’s eyes when he ran a hand through his hair. I wanted him to hold me again.
“Tank?” I begged him to explain, and he finally looked at me again.
“Noelle…I’m sorry that you’re involved in this because of me,” he told me, and I shook my head in confusion.
“Involved in what?” I asked.
Tank seemed to take in a deep breath, and he clenched his jaws before he spoke again.
“The reason that I forced you to stay away from me all those weeks ago, was because I was afraid that the Dragon Knights were going to come after you because of me,” he revealed, and my lips parted in shock. What he was saying was making very little sense to me.
“They wanted to come after me?” I asked in a small voice.
“They were tailing us, watching you. That’s how they knew we were at the restaurant together. I saw them there that night, which is why I brought you back to my place,” he said, and I noticed how he had his fists clenched angrily. I gulped, trying to assimilate the information he had just given me.
“They wanted to hurt me because of you?” I asked, and Tank glared at me, searching my eyes for a reaction.
“I knew they were going to use you, to hurt me, to trap me…to do something. I didn’t want them to find out that I cared about you,” he said, in a deep quiet voice. He cared about me? That was all that seemed to matter.
I stepped towards him, my hands shaking as I drew closer to him.
“And you broke up with me to keep me safe?” I asked, and Tank remained silent for a few moments.
“I thought I was keeping you safe, but the truth is that you’ll never be safe as long as you know me. I know that now,” he said, and his gaze dropped to my belly. I reached for him, for his shoulders…just to touch him again. I wanted him to know how safe I felt with him. That I had never felt more like myself, or safer, than when I was with him.
He caught my hand and lifted it to his lips and kissed my fingertips gently.
“Did he realize you were pregnant? ” he asked and looked at my belly again. “Do they?” he asked, and I gulped. My throat had run dry, I was slowly beginning to understand what he was talking about.
“Yes, he saw…he knows,” I replied and with one pull, he yanked me to himself, and we were hugging again. He stroked my hair, kissed my forehead, and I placed my head on his chest. I wanted to hear his heart beating.
“Now they know that I will always care for you…I will always care for our child,” I heard him say.
“So they will use our baby and me against you,” I added in a quiet voice, and he kissed the top of my head again.
“I’m sorry, Noelle, I should have stayed away from you. I shouldn’t have asked you out on a date. I don’t know what made me think that I could have a normal life with you,” he said, and I drew away from his chest, to look up at his face. I wanted him to see it in my eyes…how much I disagreed with that statement.
“Tank, I have never wanted anything as much as I’ve wanted to be with you. Please don’t say that…meeting you has changed me, it’s made me stronger and even though it hurt me to stay away from you, I never regretted my decision to be with you,” I told him and Tank stared into my face, searching me with his deep hazel eyes. Despite everything he had just told me, despite the fact that I should have been afraid for my life at that moment…I actually felt happy. I actually felt at peace to be in his arms.
Tank’s hands drifted from my arms towards my belly. Slowly, he stroked my stomach, where he imagined his baby to be, and a glimmer had entered his eyes. When he looked back up at my face, I could see that his anger had vanished, and there could have been a glint of happiness in his eyes.
“Noelle…I promise you that I will do everything to make sure that you and our child are always safe,” he said.
I nodded my head.
“I know you will,” I replied.
“I don’t want to push you away. I want us to be together, it’s the best way for me to take care of you…of you both,” he continued, and I nodded my head.
My heart was already leaping out of my chest with happiness. I didn’t care what the future held for us. I didn’t care who came after us. At that moment, all I really cared about was that we could finally be together again.
“I’ve been miserable without you, Noelle. You’re the only woman for me,” he said, and Tank leaned over to take my lips into his.
I melted in his arms, my body sizzling with desire for him again. I kissed him back with force, he nibbled on my bottom lip, our tongues crashing against each other hungrily. When he finally drew away from me, we were both panting, we both knew what we wanted.
My eyelids were heavy with desire, and he was glaring at my face.
“I want you, Noelle…I need to have you,” he growled, and I felt goosebumps erupt on my arms. Those words alone were enough to make me come.
“But I don’t want to hurt you,” he added and his gaze drifted down to my belly again. He made me smile.
***
I rolled my t-shirt up over my head and threw it on the floor. I knew he could see my pebbled nipples through the material of my bra. He was watching me with his eyes narrowed, looking over my body. I undid my jeans and then pulled them down too. Tank hadn’t made a single move in my direction. His gaze fell on my panties, on the spot between my legs. His mouth parted like he was in awe of my body. Like he had never seen a woman naked before.
I stood in front of him, offering myself to him again and when my eyes dropped to his pants, I could see that his cock was growing.
“Take those off too, Noelle,” he said, and with the knots tightening in my belly, I slipped my bra and panties off too. I was completely naked in front of him now, my skin covered in goosebumps, my nipples hard and aching for him, my pussy throbbing for his touch.
Tank’s eyes were darkened, just like his face, and he hadn’t looked away from me for a second. Then he started undoing his own pants, and I watched as he took his cock out. His enormous throbbing cock, which I wanted inside me.
I gasped with desire when I saw it, and a thrill ran down my body. There was still a few feet of distance between us, and I didn’t know what he wanted me to do. I could see it in his eyes that he was at war with himself. He wanted to fuck me, but he was afraid of hurting the baby. I had never seen him look lost and confused before.
Tank stroked his cock, pointing it at me and I watched as his biceps bulged and moved with every stroke. He had begun to breathe hard.
“I want you to touch yourself, Noelle,” he grunted, and I reached for my breasts. I pinched and tugged on my nipples, just like he would have if his hands were on me. My nipples were aching for his mouth, and the more I touched them, the more my pu
ssy throbbed.
He had started stroking his cock harder, his eyes focused on what I was doing to my breasts now. Then he looked at my pussy again.
“Touch your pussy,” he commanded, and I brought my fingers up to my lips, licking them seductively before they traveled down to the spot between my legs.
My pussy was already hot and wet and sticky with its juices. I rubbed my clit with my glistening fingers before gently, I touched the folds of my pussy and gasped.
Tank gulped, his neck growing dark red with every stroke of his cock.
He was standing with his legs parted, his hands working on his cock as he watched me pleasuring myself.
