21. Stella insists on seeing her horse.
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Drake heard her asking for help. He looked at her brothers, they were eating with gusto.
He walked into the girls room and picked her up, he put her on the toilet and waited until she was done going.
She didn't say a word to him.
He looked away.
When she was done he picked her up, pulled up her panties for her, and sat her back into her wheel chair.
He looked at her, she was so beautiful.
" Don't, don't feel sorry for me, I'm not a cripple." She had big tears in her eyes.
He nodded. " I wasn't thinking that at all. I thought you were looking very pretty in blue."
She blushed." Oh, thanks. I am used to people treating me like...like an invalid." She admitted.
" If you were still with me, I would treat you like you need to be treated, with me firmly between those tender thighs. I would make you shudder with pleasure as I lick your"...
David yelled in the doorway.
" You okay Stella, need help? It's been a while."
" I'm just washing up. I'll be right out." She said.
Drake took her to the sink to wash.
He touched her soft hair. He sniffed her. He just couldn't stop himself.
"I stole a pair of your panties, the little pink ones, they are under my pillow." He told her in her ear.
Stella said," That's not creepy at all."
He grinned.
She laughed at him.
Drake kissed her cheek.
She said," Can I see you again?"
He said," Not until you are married and very pregnant with my cousin's baby, then I won't want you so badly."
" Oh, we don't...he refuses to make love with me in my condition. We don't...we aren't intimate." She told him quietly.
He touched her breast, holding it in his warm hand.
She felt warm all over.
"Stella, what I want to do to you right here in the women's bathroom...mmm.mmm.mmm."
A woman came in, seeing them at the sink, she went into a stall.
Drake straightened his pants.
" I better get you back to your guards."
She stopped him."Are you seeing many girls?"
He shook his head. "Too busy working so my younger cousin can get you fixed up."
She said," Kiss me goodbye."
He bent down and gave her a peck on her lips. "You're far to crippled for me to kiss your ugly, grotesque face. I mean those lips." He pretended to shiver.
She smiled. " Chicken, I dare you."
He leaned down again and kissed her like she wanted to be kissed.
He moaned. "Like a dying man in a desert. Your sweet, sweet nectar gives me life."
The woman in the stall sighed, hearing his sweet words.
He adjusted his tie.
She touched his chest. "You clean up nicely ex fiancé."
He pushed her out the door and went back to pay his check.
She sat with her brothers. She ate a few bites and took the rest to go.
She had to leave. She had to learn to walk again. She wanted to run, she felt so good.
Drake had given her a gift. He made her feel loved, though she knew he would not say those words to her.
He was not able to. She took what he gave her.
Later that night Drake called Stella....
" Did you tell me the truth, my cousin isn't in your bed?" He asked.
Sam took the phone. " I'm very much in her bed Drake. Why are you calling my soon to be wife?"
Drake said,"Oh, Stella told me you two weren't screwing. So I called to tuck her in."
" Come on over Drake, I will tuck you in." He was very angry.
He looked at Stella. Fire in his eyes.
" You are seeing Drake?" He asked.
" No, I did run into him in the restaurant today. We might have talked, he kissed me goodbye. I'm sorry Sam. You know how I feel." She looked down.
Drake said,"Stella, forget about me, make love to Sam. He's the one you should love."
Sam said," Don't call her again Drake." He hung up on him.
Sam said," Do you want me to make love to you, is that it?
I have been trying to be patient, respectful of your...condition."
She sat up. "Yes Sam." She was angry at Drake's words, telling her to love his cousin, not him.
He kissed her. It was passionate.
He lay with her and carefully made tender love to her.
Stella wanted more. Drake gave her a special fire. He took her with wild abandon. Sam was a timid lover.
Still she knew he would love her and not leave her.
" Stella, look at me. Me Sam, me...Drake will only leave you again. He can't be faithful."
Stella knew this was true. She hugged Sam." What would I do without you?'
A bitterness started to broil in Sam's heart he was angry at Drake.
He banned him from seeing her anymore. He had her surrounded by tall D- named brothers, TJ and Teddy.
Stella was choking. She needed freedom. She was in a strange place, healing from her injuries.
She was surrounded by so many people, yet still felt so lonely.
Sam guarded her. He was driving her crazy with his possessiveness.
Stella demanded to see her horse.
He allowed Teddy to take her to the summer house.
He called his cousin, making sure he was working.
" Why are you calling me Sam, I'm working. It's what we agreed on. You get the girl, I become CEO."
Sam said," She's at the summer home with Teddy, seeing her horse. I need you to keep working."
Hmm...Drake wondered if he should tell Sam that he was working from the summer home.
He decided it would not be wise.
Stella arrived at the summer house. She let Teddy help her into her chair. He pushed her to the last stall.
" I'll leave you two alone, I'm going to talk to TJ a bit." He smiled at her pure joy.
Stella hugged her horse, she was getting so big now.
She suddenly moved and knocked Stella down.
Stella laughed.
Drake said behind her,"Careful Stella she might hurt you."
Stella smiled up at him.
" Help me up."
He shook his head.
" Get your ugly face up by your crippled self." He said.
Stella shook her head. " No."
He frowned. "Sam won't like me touching you."
She said. "I would like it. Oh, never mind. I'm way too crippled and ugly for a hot Stallion like you."
He laughed. " I haven't touched another woman since our engagement." He smiled.
She said," Why, you need the little blue pill now?"
He grinned,"I could show you how you are my little blue pill."
Drake took her hand and kissed it, "you are very lovely."
He knelt by her and held her to his heart as she looked up at him and smiled. "I still love you, I'm sorry. You and Sam will share my heart."
Teddy was coming into the stable. Drake pulled himself up onto the ladder and slid away from their sight.
Teddy ran to Stella. " I knew it, it was a bad idea to bringing you here.
Jonathan said you are never going to walk on that leg again, why do you insist on trying to prove him wrong?"
Drake frowned hearing those heartbreaking words. Never walk on the leg again.
Stella was so virile, she was a runner. She never sat still. This must be very hard for her.
He should have helped her up. He thought she was teasing him.
Stella said," You are all so wrong. When I am walking again, I'm going to run, I will run away. I'm going to South America, Australia, Asia, France.
Anywhere that I want to go. I will wear out my shoes from walking so much.
You will see. I will prove you all wrong." She was smiling.
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