BONUS CHAPTER
THE STRAGGLERS - BOOK 2 OWN
HUNTER VAUGH
I have a feeling there’s a heavy metal band playing only in my head, I open my eyes very slowly and light hits my iris like a thousand needles.
With difficulty I sit on the bed and look around, two naked women sleep entangled together and I make and effort to remind me how did I end up here. This is not my bedroom, I drag myself to the edge of the bed and I get up, stretching myself. The sheet falls off and I hear one of them whistling, provoking me.
“What a tasty little ass, right, Sickle?”
I smile ratter yellow and get the sheet from the floor, covering myself again.
ADAM VAUGH I first open an eye and after a few seconds the other one, the lights bother me, my head throbs as if a heavy metal band was playing an inferno guitar solo on my temple. I’ll never drink like this again, getting wasted definitely doesn’t agree with me, I spend thirty five years without getting drunk once and now I can figure out the real motive: I’m an intelligent guy, I was right in being sober. The wet umbrella taste in my mouth, the sore muscles as if they had been crushed in a grinder. Anyway, all this torture after a drinking day, it’s definitely not for me. I get up towards the bathroom, walking like an eighty year old man and when I look
SAMANTHA THOMPSON I’m still shaking after Sheriff Vaugh’s visit and there’s no lack of reasons, the aura strength and raw masculinity around him is irresistible. The way the undressed me with his eyes, the comforting touch of his hands on mine, brought me an entanglement of scary and conflicting feelings. When I saw that huge man standing at my door, the first thing that came to my mind was how I felt alone and vulnerable. His tanned and well shaped arms and the muscled manly body visibly strong, even covered by the uniform, give out a COZINESS and PROTECTIVE feeling.&
ADAM VAUGH Today it’s my turn to make breakfast and thank Hunt for his kindness. He gets at the kitchen wearing nothing more than red boxer shorts and this sight it’s not a funny one for me. That can be really exciting to the immense amount of bad girls that sigh for him, but for me, man? Sincerely, to see this adult man shaking his ass when getting a glass of water is not one of the best scenes to watch right in the morning. I give him a cup of coffee and a plate full of blueberry pancakes, waiting for the moment he’s going to stab me with questions about Samantha.&nb
SAMANTHA THOMPSON I haven’t been able to get out of the house for two days, I called the diner and told them I had the flu, I need to know what I’ll do from now on. There’s no way of pretending that Igor’s thug will leave me alone. I don’t know if I should pack my bags and try to run away from this hell or if I look for help. There are so many doubts without answers, I wash my face and look at the mirror, still without believing in everything that happened to me the day before yesterday. The memories make my
ADAM VAUGH Another typically calm morning, I wake up hearing Connor arguing with Kayden and I think: “fuck, I’m getting old for this.” I’m already angry because they woke me so early and I come across Hunt trying to hit Kayden with a rolling pin. “What the fuck is going on? Where are your manners? Aren’t you embarrassed of behaving like two brawler brats.” Kayden is still a brat, but c’mon! Connie is 28, he’s passed the time of competing testosterone. Connie gets his underwear from Kay and starts to complain.&
ADAM VAUGH She looks at me disturbed, with no understanding of how we end up in that humid and desert alley. She lowers her legs from my waist and cleared her blond hair out of her face. How can she be this pretty? Delicately I get a handkerchief from my pants pocket and clean between her legs, I still want to keep myself warm in this piece of heaven. I’ve received pictures and some information from the New York Bank robbery and I can’t really say a women as sweet as she was the coauthor of a robbery. Something is wrong or doesn’t fit. I’m still going to find out who is it. However, my instincts tell me I can believe in her, even though she’s hiding somethings.
ADAM VAUGH If there’s anything better in this world than waking up with the woman you desires by your side, I sincerely don’t know. Sam is laying down on my humble bed, with half her face covered by a cascade of golden hair like the sun and her lips half open, like they have been prepared to be kissed by me forever. I look and look again, still excited by conflicting feelings that invade me. I want this girl to me, with a huge intensity that scares me, but Sam is a huge mystery. She claims she’s not involved in the bank robbery, but she doesn’t give me proof, she doesn’t give me the possible suspects. And there’s still photos with that guy that’s is considered suspect in the crime,
SAMANTHA THOMPSON Adam brought me home, like the true gentleman he is. I open the door in an automatic way, still in ecstasy from the wonderful night I had and I kept thinking: I don’t know if I did the right thing in telling him about Igor and the New York robbery, but I’m a bit tired of all this. I’m tired of hiding, of running, of being afraid… If all my fears were only about my relationship with Adam going wrong, it would be way more simple, I’m truly scared about the cold blooded murderer I was sleeping with. I fear for Adam and for his brother’s lives. My god! How can a woman not fall in love with them?&nbs