Page 34 of Blinded
I pressed my hand against my growing hardness. "Stop teasing me. If I trip and fall it's your fault." I slid my hands along the wall until I found the edge of the doorway. Once I had that, I was able to walk into the kitchen, directly to the table. "Come here." I stood by my chair.
"Do you want me or the coffee?" Bayne slid his arm around my waist.
"You first, then coffee." I cupped his face to make sure I knew right where he was as I bent in for a long kiss. My body hardened even more at his closeness, and his scent grew stronger, making it nearly impossible to release him.
"I'll make it up to you tonight, love, but we need to get going. If I get you naked, you're going to stay that way the rest of the day." Bayne stepped away. "Sit down and drink your coffee. I'm going to go get dressed and we can go." He brushed another kiss over my cheek before leaving me alone.
I sat down, tempted to forget everything and strip for him, but I couldn't. We needed to search for the person attacking the wolves. I might not have joined Kurt's pack yet, but they were still mine in every way that mattered. And there was a brotherhood among shifters. We fought and supported each other. It was my duty to keep any more attacks from happening.
The coffee did wonders to wake me up and motivate me, but little to stop thoughts of walking back into the bedroom and forcing Bayne to his knees so I could find the release I needed. No matter how the day went, it would be thoughts of coming home and being able to have him that got me through the day.
"Ready?" Bayne asked from behind me.
"Yeah. Let's hope it's not for nothing." I stood.
Bayne came to my side. "We get breakfast if nothing else." He kissed my cheek before leading me out to the car.
As we drove into town, I mentally tried to make a list of places I'd gone with Bridger. I'd only been in town a day before the attack happened, but we'd visited a few friends, hit the store, and even gotten a few beers at the bar. I'd met several of his friends and had contact with a hell of a lot more people as we went from one place to the other. "We really can't go door to door at Bridger's friends' houses. I'm wondering, do you think that memorial his family is planning is public or just for the wolves?"
"I'm thinking it would be public since he had so many friends. I wouldn't be surprised," Bayne said. "What are you thinking?"
"That the memorial might be the place to check out the people who knew him. If it was someone he knew that did this, then they would probably make an appearance at the memorial. If we can't find them today, then that might be our next best hope."
"I'll call Kurt and talk to him. I was going to invite him and Josh to meet us at the bar later today anyway. Take him up on that double date offer. Besides, if we have Kurt with us, we drink for free. The owner of the bar is a pack member who refuses to charge Kurt for drinks. That includes anyone drinking with Kurt."
"Nice. That's good to know. I'll remember that if I ever want to go drinking." The car turned, then came to a stop. "Are we here?"
"Yep. We'll go in and order, then sit around while we eat. If it's not his friend, maybe we'll get lucky and whoever it is will come inside while we're there." Bayne got out of the car.
I opened my door and stepped out right as Bayne got to my side. "Thanks."
"Of course." Bayne shut the car door before taking my arm in his. "One good thing about you not knowing your way around yet is I get to keep my arm around you all the time."
"Even if I could see and lived here for years, I'd want your arm around me." I let him lead me inside. I inhaled the smell of sausage and bacon, my mouth watering. It sounded like the place was nearly empty as I tried to focus on the scent of the humans around. Somewhere near was a bear shifter, but I quickly ignored that scent and focused on the others. I smelled Bridger's friend almost instantly. He wasn't too far from where we were. I tried to remember his name, but couldn't. There were four other scents, all females, but none of them matched the scent from the attack. "Nothing." I sighed.
"We won't give up." Bayne stepped forward so we could order.
"Hey, you're Bridger's friend, aren't you?" The scent of his friend got closer. "I don't know if you remember meeting at his house, but I'm Jared."
I turned toward the voice and smiled. "I remember. Nice to see you again." I bit my lip, thinking how odd it sounded when I had two patches over my eyes.
"I heard about Bridger getting killed in an accident. I'm so sorry about that. Were you with him? Is that what happened to your face?" Jared asked.
I nodded, wondering what story Bridger's family was telling people. "Thanks, I'm going to miss him. He was a good friend." I didn't answer the other question, unsure how to lie. I didn't want to say something wrong and mess things up.
"Mary is devastated. She won't leave her house since she found out." Jared sighed. "I've been over there a couple of times and she won't even see me."
"Do you have her number? I'd like to at least call and leave a message for her. Maybe let her know some of the stuff Bridger said about her. It might help to hear how much he loved her." I was lying my ass off. Bridger didn't love her, but he liked her a hell of a lot. I just wanted to be able to get her scent too, even though I was pretty confident the scents at the attack site were male.
"Sure, let me write it down for you. I'm sure she'd like that. Maybe you can talk her into giving me a call too? I'm dating her best friend, and even she can't get her to talk." Jared sighed.
"Sure, I'll do what I can." I was pretty sure if her friends couldn't get through to her, I wouldn't be able to either.
"I got the number." Bayne rubbed his palm over the back of my shirt. "What did you want to eat?"
"Whatever you get, it's on me," Jared offered.
"Wow, thanks, you didn't have to do that. I'll just have a number two with a coffee." I tried to direct my face toward where I thought Jared was. "I'll do what I can for Mary, but grief can be hard. She hardly knows me. We only met once. I'm not sure she'll talk to me, but I'll try," I promised.
