Challenge Accepted
Cody – Chapter Eleven
You can’t run from the subconscious mind
“You’re going to love this.” Jessica looking sexy as hell pulls off my shirt before I can even get my bearings. “Damn, woman, let a guy catch his breath first.” Pulling back, I grab her and lift her onto the kitchen counter, holding her hands behind her back.
“Have you been a bad girl while I was away? Do I need to spank that sweet ass of yours?” She’s giving me her naughty girl smile and I can’t wait to taste her. “Naughty girls need to be punished don’t they darlin’?” She slowly nods her head up and down.
“Cody, I need you inside me now. It’s been six months and you smell so good I want to eat you.” I let go of her hands and she’s grabbing my belt buckle loose and pulls down my pants. “Oh God Jessica, you taste like heaven, I missed you so much.”
I’m kissing my way down her neck to her color bone. She grabs my erection and slides her hand up and down. “Yes, right there.” I pinch her nipples and squeeze her breasts while kissing my way down her belly to her honey pot.
She’s leaning back on her hands giving me full access by parting her legs for me. I pull down her panties and latch on, sucking her into my eager mouth. “Oh, that feels so good. Oh, God Cody.”
I can tell she’s about to cum but I’m not going to let that happen just yet. “Does the naughty girl want to cum?’ I reach down and slide my finger through her slick folds and bring my thumb down hard on her clit.
She’s moaning softly pulling my head down even further into her sweet juices. God, I love the sounds she makes while I’m going down on her. Before she can cum, I pull myself up and plunge into her as far as I can go. She has her hands in my hair pulling me down over her as I pump into her hard and fast.
She’s screaming as we both cum and I fill her canal with my juices. We are both covered in sweat and our breathing is coming back to normal. I pick her up and she puts her legs around my waist as I carry her into the bedroom. I gently lay her down and I climb in next to her. Exhausted, we fall asleep and rest up for round two.
A Harsh reality sets in
There’s a loud knocking on the front door that jars me from my sleep. I look around getting my bearings but find that Jessica is gone.
I slide on some sleep pants and run to see who is banging on the door. “Just a sec, I’ll be right there.” I open the door to a police officer. “Is there a problem officer?” He takes his hat off, holding it in his hand looking somber. “Are you Cody Dalton?” I nod and give him a confused look, “Yeah”.
“Mr. Dalton, there’s been a robbery a couple blocks down at Emily Kate’s Bakery.” Still confused, “I’m sorry to hear that but why are you here knocking on my door?” “Well, sir do you know a Jessica Collins? You’re listed on her phone as an In-Case-of Emergency contact.”
My stomach has dropped to the floor, “Oh my God, is she alright? Where is she now? I need to talk to her.” “Mr. Dalton, Jessica was waiting in line for her order when the assailant came into the bakery. He grabbed her putting a gun to her head.
Another customer tried to take him down from behind, but the assailant’s gun went off shooting her in the head. Ms. Collins died at the scene.”
I’m just staring at him shaking my head back and forth. Someone is screaming in the background and I realize it’s me screaming at the top of my lungs, “Nooooooooooooooo.”
it was only a dream
I jump up and fall out of bed. I reach up and feel the moisture on my cheeks. Briefly, I’m disoriented and look around seeing Paige still fast asleep. She’s breathing in and out softly with a soft smile on her lips.
Jessica is haunting my dreams again. It’s been months. She had left a note that I found later that fateful day when she didn’t come home from her bakery run. She had woken up and decided to surprise me with some fresh croissants.
I should have been there. I could have saved her. But instead, I slept through the whole ordeal as she lay bleeding out on the floor of the bakery. For months she had worried about my safety.
Every time I deployed on a Special Ops mission, she’d cry and hold on to me so tight not wanting to let go. Never knowing if I would be the one returning draped in an American flag over my steal box.
Running my hands up and down over my face and up through my hair, I expel a frustrated breath. Paige looks like a sleeping angel and gently I run a hand down her face and my thumb over her bottom lip. With thoughts of Jessica, guilt washes over me for wanting to make love to Paige. I haven’t felt this way about a woman other than Jessica for a very long time and I just want to keep Paige safe.
Hopeful for a new beginning
She gently stirs and readjusts her position going back to making soft breathing sounds of her unencumbered sleep. Walking over to the couch, I pull out Jessica’s journal from my pack. Her family thought I should have it since it was the story of our life together. A life I couldn’t wait to share and was ripped away
Fanning through the pages, I stop on the page that holds her picture. My eyes crinkle as I smile back at her, I trace her face, hearing her soft sigh of contentment like a whisper from the past. I tuck her picture back in the journal and lay it down to search through my pack for a clean shirt but no luck.
I realize all my clothes must be in my other bag still on the bike. The pink and purples of a new day are filtering through the soft white curtains. Deciding not to wake Paige just yet, I decide to go into town and get more of Betty’s Cinnamon rolls to give us some fuel for our extracurricular activities later.
I quietly open and close the front door and walk out to my bike. I find a shirt in my bag and slip it on. Loading my pack into the side compartment, I put on my helmet and roll the bike far enough away from the cottage, so I don’t wake Paige up.
Breakfast in bed – The envy of her friends
I walk through the front door of Betty’s and I’m greeted by Rhonda. “Cody, nice to see you’re still alive. I’m telling you, I really thought Sheriff McGregor was going to have your hide. Good lord, I was convinced you’d be locked up in a basement cell by now. I’m glad to see that you still have all your” she pauses and looks down at my package, “Yeah well I really thought you’d be singing in a higher register next time I saw you if you know what I mean.”
“Uh yeah no, we managed to evade Paige’s Dad after we left your house. I have to say the velvet Elvis is a nice touch.” Rhonda shakes her head at me, “We both know velvet Elvis has got to be one of the most God-awful paintings you’ve ever seen. I call bullshit on you. How’s my girl this morning?”
Cody smiles and looks down seeing a menu and motions to Rhonda if it’s ok to grab it. “To be honest, I’m not sure yet. I left her sleeping in her cottage while I came into town for some breakfast for us both.”
Rhonda gives him another once over, “Oh sweet baby Jesus, you mean to tell me that you are going to take Paige breakfast in bed? After her daddy ran you’ll all over town in the middle of the night? Why couldn’t you have just come into town first? I never get a crack at the good ones. It’s totally not fair, Paige always gets a first crack of whoever comes into town.”
Cody is laughing, “You’re really not kidding are you?” She quirks up her right eyebrow, “Do I look like I’m kidding? I tried to get her to share, but nooooo. Rhonda starts laughing, “Do you have any brothers you can introduce me to?” Cody is looking at Rhonda like she is insane.
“Such is my life in this blasted small-town kissing toads every day looking for my prince charming. Well, I’m sure you’re not here to chat me up all day, what’ll you have?”
“Well, Paige mentioned that she loves Betty’s Cinnamon rolls last night.” She practically licked all the frosting off my fingers and lips before we had to bug out of Rhonda’s. “So, I thought I would come in and bring some back before she wakes up.”
A job for the special forces
“Did I hear you are taking Paige breakfast?” Mary comes over flashing her cleavage at me. “Yes, ma’am. I figured it’s the least I could do as I guess me coming into town caused such a stir yesterday with her Dad.” “Mary, go on now and get an order together for Cody to take to Paige. This here hot guy is taken and if Paige won’t share with me her best friend, she sure as hell is not going to share with you.”
Cody is laughing at Rhonda, “Uh ladies, I’m standing right here. I’m beginning to feel like a piece of red meat. You ladies sound like you’re in dire straits with a hot guy shortage in Alma. I might be able to assist you with that.” Rhonda perks up, “Please tell me you have your special forces team on speed dial and you’re going to activate your bat signal! Please, please, please!”
Cody is grinning and shaking his head back and forth at Rhonda, “I don’t know Rhonda, I think you may be too much woman for my guys to handle.” She throws her hands on her hips, “Seriously! I have to say I’m disappointed, I thought you were in the Special Forces, she emphasizes with air quotes, not the mediocre forces.” She winks at him and begins to walk away.
“Hey Rhonda, challenge accepted.”
