Chapter 9
Sadie Wilde
POV
Today is Saturday and Beck is spending the day with his brothers, they’ve gone to help their dad with something. Today I get to catch up on all the Naruto I’ve missed.
Or that was the plan until Tia showed up, when she started doing a load of my laundry and found it wasn’t just mine but a bunch of Beck’s as well. so that led to this very moment. Her staring at me with stars in her eyes. I have not said a word yet out of fear of what would come out if I did.
“So whose clothes are in the washer with yours?” she asks
I pause Naruto, I turn to my best friend. I haven’t told her anything about what has been going on between Beck and I. not that there’s much too it. we’ve been fucking each other every chance we get. I didn’t like cuddling with a guy because I felt suffocated but I don’t mind it with Beck because he has the most amazing way of waking me up in the morning. He wakes me with his face between my legs, I’ve been kind of missing that these last few days. I guess I’ve gotten used to him always being around.
“For Christ sake will you listen to me please. I asked you a darn question!” Tia says bringing me out of my thoughts of Beck…
Wait that’s weird why was I thinking about him just now?
“Yeah?” I shrug nonchalantly acting as if I was not freaked out by my thoughts.
“Is it King? His been walking around with an extra spring in his step lately and I think I saw the boxer briefs he wore last week in the washer.” She speaks.
I frown. “How do you know what underwear he was wearing?” I couldn’t help myself, something weird come over me at the thought of her seeing him naked. I have never felt this way before.
“Dante and I were making out in the Bunk room and he walked in with only those navy boxer briefs. believe me that’s not a sight I’ll easily forget.” She smiles.
I frown. “I wonder how Dante will react if he were to hear you now.” I say seriously.
She laughs looking at me as if there was something funny on my face…
“What?” I ask her.
“I’ve never seen you like this, you actually like him, don’t you?” she asks with the brightest smile on her face.
I roll my eyes. “Don’t be ridiculous, I did it for the bet.” I tell her.
She laughs even harder. “The bet required you to only sleep with him once. Not move in together.” She tells me.
I frown. “We haven’t moved in together.” I deny it.
“He’s moved in Sads.” She speaks.
I frown. “No, he hasn’t.” I shake my head. There was no way he’s moved in. Beckett hasn’t been over since Tuesday, he’s been sleeping at his parents place since I worked the night shift on Wednesday.
“Sadie he has moved in. his cologne in your bathroom, his hair products, his clothes in half your closet, sleeping in the same bed almost every night.” She states.
I frown. I try to recall when this started happening? From the time we started sleeping together, I’ve called him over and we would fuck and he’d bring an over night bag and throw his dirty clothes in the washer, he did our laundry because I didn’t like doing it. wait what?
Did we really move in together? How did that happen?
“Oh, you didn’t know did you?” she taunts.
I don’t say anything but shake my head, I get up and walk over to the kitchen. I open my freezer and take out some of the frozen hot wings Beck got me. I pause. I look at the contents of my freezer and realize more than half of the things in it were bought by Beck. I do not buy groceries, I normally just store water, sodas and a couple of frozen pizzas. Tia buys me things to store in my freezer and fridge.
When did this become our apartment and not just my apartment?
This is starting to freak me out.
A phone ringing brings me out of my thoughts. I take out my air fryer and put my wings in there, setting the timer and then I walk over and see Tia frozen on one spot. I walk closer.
“What’s wrong?” I ask Tia.
She looks at me as if she’s seen a ghost.
“What?” I frown.
“That was my dad. He tried to find you again Sadie. He put your brother in the hospital…” she whispers.
My eyes widen. “Bu-but ho-how did he find out I’m alive?” I stutter out.
Fear runs through my entire body. I start to shake. I cannot believe he found out I was still alive.
“My dad says he digged up the grave and when he saw it was empty he went crazy and confronted Vance.” She explains.
Tears run down my face. “His going to find me. He is going to find me. He is going to kill me.” I cry.
Tia takes me into her arms and hugs me. “He’ll never find you, he doesn’t know about your uncle and even if he searches your mother’s maiden name he won’t anything remember?” she reminds me
The reason I chose Chicago was because of my mother’s twin brother and because he had no idea my uncle existed because my mother got into trouble in her teens and her father disowned her she changed her surname and moved to Boston where she met my dad.
No body knows my mother is from Chicago. Not even my grandparents or my brother knows about my uncle. That’s how well my mother hid this part her life from everyone.
I breathe a sigh of relief. I was safe, I was safe from him for now. But I know I won’t be able to stay here forever. I know I won’t be safe until he is dead or he moves on.
“Come Sadie cheer up. We are going to the mall tomorrow on Dante’s account. We can shop till we drop…” she shrieks out in excitement.
I laugh wiping my tears. I remember tomorrow Dante plans to propose to Tia. And all of the guys at the Station even my uncle is going to help him.
It is going to be epic. I look down at my hands, it was still shaking, it was going to take a while to calm my nerves again.
Chapter 10Sadie WildePOVI’ve have not gotten over the phone call Tia had gotten from her father yet. It is still fresh in my mind. The fact that I can’t contact my family is even harder now than before, I noticed Beck’s absence more than usual now. I have no idea why he isn’t answering my texts.I got rid of Tia two hours ago, I couldn’t take her nagging anymore, when I couldn’t get any sleep, I got into a pair of tights and a pair of sneakers, one of Beck’s gigantic tees and went for a run.I’ve been running for two hours, I’m not even tired. I can’t get my mind to stop thinking about Beck.The bed feels empty without him, I couldn’t fall asleep without him there, but I think it’s because I was missing my family, and am worried about my brother and worried about him finding me.Two years ago, I dated a guy named Hunter Redding, he was great, we were madly in love, well that was until I found out he was cheating on me, we were driving home when she called him, we got into an argume
Chapter 11Sadie WildePOVI am dressed as casually as possible. The plan is to get our nails done first then go shopping. The guys will get us when we get near the food court. Dante got permission from the mall to do this thanks to my uncle.But that’s not what’s playing on my mind right now. No what’s on my mind right now is that Beck kissed another woman, and it ticked me off. it freaking ticked me off. this unexplainable rage filled me. I have no idea why, I don’t know why I’m angry; why was I so angry? Why did I feel the need to hide it?“Sadie?” Tia brings me out of my thoughts.“Yeah?” I frown.“We’re here…” she nods toward the parking lot.I look around to see we’re indeed at the mall.I nod taking my backpack out of the backseat and get out of the car putting it on.“So what’s got you in such a pissy me mood.” Tia asks.I shrug my shoulders. “I don’t know I’m just not feeling myself today…” I lie.It was embarrassing that I am upset about a simple drunken kiss. Why am I still
The next morning... "So how was it? Did she say yes?" Beck gives me a kiss on my shoulder while spooning me from behind. I smile opening my eyes. “Yeah, it was beautiful. she cried…” I say softly I turn on my stomach to look at him. “You’re really happy for them, aren’t you?” he asks. I nod. I fold my arms in front of me and lay my head on my arms. “Yeah, she deserves to be happy. No one in the world deserves it more than she does.” I say softly. Tia gave up her life to follow me to Chicago, this is exactly what she needs to be with the man she loves. He groans. “Oh God they’re going to be extra lovey dovey now, right?” he asks. I burst out laughing. “Oh God you’re right.” “You look good naked. A guy can get used to coming home to his girl naked in bed coming back from a shift.” He blurts out. I pause… home? What the fuck? No, no. don’t tell me he has feeling for me? I shake that thought out of my mind. “Do you really think they’ll stay together?” he asks me “We’ll see. I
Chapter 13One week later…Sadie WildePOVIt’s been a week since Beck took his things and left. True to his word his brothers came later that day and picked up all of his shit. Yet it felt like they were taking mine. It felt like they were taking a piece of me with them. I have no idea how to explain what that felt like that. I have no idea why Beck wanted to end things. Everything was going great. Better than great, until he went to sleep at his parents’ place and things changed. His older brother was oddly cold to me. Does he hate me? Is that why Beck ended things? But he didn’t even know about me… I’m so freaking confused and stuck in my own head.That is it, it has been confirmed, I am losing my damn mind, I can’t stop thinking about Beckett King. The hot firefighter, the sweetest guy I’ve ever come into contact with, I’ve never met another guy who is as sweet and as caring as he is. sometimes it feels so unreal how can anyone be like that.My bedsheets still smell like him, so I
Chapter 14Beckett KingPOVIt’s been a week since my hearts been shattered into pieces. I miss her, I miss holding her in my arms as we watch her Anime together, I miss playing on my Xbox while she sits on my lap on Instagram.The thing I miss the most is waking up with her in my arms. The way it feels when she’s close. I’ve been actively avoiding her for the last week, making sure I never work a shift with her on the ambulance van, I’m either with Smith or Gracie.I sit on the second floor looking down at the guys cleaning the rig. the ambulance van got called out to a call a while ago and they’re waiting to clean that next.Dante comes over and sits beside me. “Fuck I’m so fucking tired…” he slumps down looking up at the ceiling.I lay as well looking up. “Don’t I know it.”We do not speak again, just lay there in silence. I frown and look at the time on my watch. I sit up and look at the ground floor. Sadie them left three hours ago, why aren’t they back.“Hey, have you heard from
Chapter 15Beckett KingPOVHearing Sadie was okay, she just has a mild concussion, I could finally breathe easier. But I couldn’t stop the guilt from setting in, if I was actively trying to avoid her, I would have noticed she wasn’t back sooner. She has a concussion because of me.She gets to go home today. Smith and Russo will be stating with her, until she’s okay.I’m at my parents’ house because Damon and Jess requested to see us. So here we are all sitting in their living room. even Jessica’s mother Nash is here. I don’t want to be here, I would much rather be with Sadie making sure she was okay, but I don’t think it would be right of me to be there not after how we ended things. I doubt she trusts me to look after her now. not that she cares or has asked for me.“So yesterday I went for a check-up. We found out the gender of the baby. Damon didn’t want to know, but I was so excited I couldn’t help but tell him.” Jessica says excitedly. She reminds me so much of herself when she
Chapter 16Sadie WildePOVWhen I woke up in the hospital bed last night, I could not help thinking how lucky I was. They could have killed us, I could have died if they really wanted to hurt us, I would have been hurt a lot worse than what I was.When I woke up my first thought was not how lucky I was, my first thought was where Beckett was. My last thought before they knocked me out was always if I would ever see him again.But it’s been a whole day and I haven’t seen Beckett yet, everyone from out station has been over to check on me but Beckett.Dante told me they only realized something was wrong because Beckett realized we were gone too long. He searched for us everywhere, he even asked for help from his brothers to look for us.They haven’t found the men who raided the ambulance van, but I don’t think they’ll ever find them. that was a planned raid that much I know; from the look of the parking lot they planned down to a tee. the fact that they signal jammers was just as alarmi
Chapter 17Beckett KingPOVStanding in front of Sadie’s apartment reminds me of the first time I visited her place, it was the reason for the current pain in my chest. The reason I had an embarrassing panic attack in front of my older brother yesterday.He is never going to let me live that down. The fact that he needed to rope Axel into helping me is what made it even worse. Axel would not stop teasing me this morning. The worst way to wake up believe me. what surprised me most was how worried my father was, Damon told me he sat by my side the entire night.So why am I here right now? Why am I visiting the woman who is the reason for that pain? Because I am a damn sucker for punishment. I almost turned and left ten times already. Why do I feel this way? Why am I even here? why do I still want to be close to her even if she wants nothing to do with being with me.I sigh and walk into her building, I greet her doorman like I always did, everyone is friendly as if they don’t know my he