Breathing Without You (The Courtlynd #2)

13. Creedence

13

CREEDENCE

After Emerald leaves, I head to the bathroom to shower and get ready for my day. I need to run to Crazy’s Tattoos to get some sketches done for the upcoming week and I’d rather do them there with less distractions. Whenever I try to do them at home, I just say fuck it and never get them done. Before I head to the car, I check the mailbox and smile because my packages are here. This will be so much fun using these on Emerald.

I head to my truck tossing the package into the passenger seat and head on into Crazy’s. As I walk in, Kane is standing behind the counter.

“Hey man, how's it going?” he says to me when he looks up and see’s that it’s just me walking through the door.

“Sup Kane, it’s going, just another lovely fucking morning.” I laugh. “How about you?” I haven’t seen him in a few days. The last few times I worked it was either by myself or with Carsten.

“I feel that. It’s going, just another busy week coming up for me, I have a lot of my regulars coming in to either finish up a piece or start something new.” He crosses his arms leaning against the counter next to the register.

“Damn that’s awesome, I’m about to draw up some sketches here myself for some of my regulars comin’ in this week too, I think Carsten has a busy schedule as well. I know he was drawing shit up at home yesterday while Winter was working,” I tell him, it’s always good when we all have busy weeks. I love my job and love giving people new pieces of art. I wonder if Emerald will ever let me tattoo her. I’ll have to ask.

“Awesome, if we get any walk-ins and we're not busy you can either take it if it won’t cut into your time with any of your regulars or schedule it for a future time with yourself that way we stay busy. Or schedule it with one of us if you’re going to be busy.” He says as he starts walking towards the back room.

“Alright cool, I appreciate you doin’ that man.” I follow behind him to walk into the room I always work in, my office. I don’t share it with anyone else, actually none of us share, our office is ours to set up how we please with our supplies.

I set up everything for my sketches and hear my phone ding. Looking down I smile, seeing it’s a text from Emerald.

Emerald

I miss you, you handsome, handsome man

I love how she does that, the way she says it twice, for some reason it makes it more unique to me.

Creed

I miss you too Sugar. Wanna get dinner later?

Emerald

what do you have in mind?

Creed

well, I already know that I want your pussy for dessert

Emerald

mmm promise?

Creed

Pinky promise

Emerald

Can’t wait ;)

Emerald

now what about actual food lol

Creed

I have something in mind, just be ready by 7 is that okay?

Emerald

perfect how should I dress

Creed

wear something sexy for me Sugar, please?

Emerald

got it you sexy, sexy man you

Creed

we can go get drinks after, I got a surprise for you so the alcohol may help when we get home ;)

Emerald

ooo I love surprises

Creed

good, this one will be different than normal, I’ll text you in a bit someone just walked in the shop. Love you Emerald.

Emerald

Love you babe

I walk out the front to see someone standing there that I definitely wasn’t expecting or wanting to interact with at all, especially now that I’m with Emerald. “Fucking shit,” I mumble to myself, but it must’ve been loud enough to hear.

“Well hello to you too, Creedence.” She rolls her eyes.

“What do you want Daisy? I thought I told you we were done seeing each other.” I cross my arms already annoyed by her presence and she just got here too. I don’t know why I ever gave her the time of day, she’s annoying and needy.

“I wanted to see you; I miss you,” she pouts, an ugly ass pout at that, it’s not even cute at all. Usually when a girl pouts it’s a weakness of mine but when she does it, I want to smack it off her face. I obviously would never touch a girl like that, but you get what I’m saying.

“Well, that sucks, I just said we aren’t seeing each other anymore. I told you that. I also have a girlfriend, I’m dating Emerald. So, you can leave now,” I say, turning around to walk back to my office, but she stops me.

“Wh…what? You’re dating someone?” Her whiney voice gets even whinier than it is naturally, and I roll my eyes before I turn around to look at the ugly pout that’s still on her face. I don’t know what I saw in her, I know it’s not all about looks but now that I’m with Emerald I see that she is just an ugly person because of her personality, she’s very selfish and always has been. But I know when we fucked it was just for that and that only. We weren’t a couple ever, I only called her to fuck her and that was it.

“No wait, remember I have an appointment today with you?” She panics, trying to stop me before I walk away.

“What?” I turn around to go look at the book on the desk that we keep our appointments in so that way when we have walk-ins, we can schedule things easier. “Fuck,” I whisper shout, already wanting her appointment to be over.

“Gee thanks, sound a little more excited why don’t ya.” She rolls her eyes this time, while blowing out an annoyed breath.

“Sorry I just forgot I had an appointment today, I’m not mad at you,” I say trying to change my attitude. I don’t want to be annoyed for the next hour tattooing her left side, plus I don’t want to come off as rude and make her feel uncomfortable while tattooing her, I gotta be professional still, just in case.

“It’s fine, I can wait out here until you’re ready.” Her mood changing back to her annoying whiny voice.

“Nahh, you can follow me back. I already have your stencil drawn up, I can put it on you and we can let it dry while I set the rest of the stuff up for it,” I tell her as I walk back towards my office, looking back to make sure she’s following me.

“Cool thanks.” She follows me down the hallways and makes a left into my office with me.

This is the last thing I wanted to do today; I can’t believe I forgot about the fact that I scheduled this over a month ago. I was that booked up that I had to schedule over a month out. Which is good that I’m busy but fuck I don’t want to deal with her bullshit today. Or ever really. I wish I would have just listened to Carsten or thought about the bullshit he went through with Brynn before I got involved with Daisy. Hopefully she’s just not as psycho as Brynn is who faked a pregnancy with my best friend, more like a brother to me, to try and trap him into staying with her and loving her.

An hour and a half later I’m finally done with her side tattoo, she had me tattoo flowers connected with vines going down her side. Covering her whole left side.

“I’ll meet you up front for you to pay, I just have to throw all this stuff away real quick,” I tell her as I dispose of the needles in the hazard bin and throw the used paper towels and stuff away.

I walk up front to see her standing by the window waiting with a smirk on her face. I don’t even want to question it. So, I charge her for the tattoo and of course she pays for it with daddy’s money , like everything else she gets to buy, daddy pays for. After she’s done, I walk out from behind the counter at the same time the door opens, making the door ding and Daisy rushes into my arms hugging me, too tight wrapping her arms around my neck and kisses me right on the lips. I push her away as fast as she kisses me, curious as to why she fucking kissed me, or even touched me.

“What the fuck Daisy?” I say the same time Emerald says. Shit this isn’t going to be good. What the fuck.

“What the fuck is going on?” Tears form in her eyes as I look at a smiling Daisy and a crying Emerald.

“See you later babe,” she says, winking at me. The amount of anger that builds up in me, she’s lucky she’s not a guy because I’d love to fucking punch her right about now.

“No, you fucking won’t. What the fuck was that about?” I yell at her as she walks out the door the same time Emerald sets the bag and coffees on the counter and runs out.

“No Emerald, stop,” I shout after her.

“I’ll be right back Kane,” I yell down the hall as I rush out the front door down the sidewalk to catch up to Emerald.

“Emerald… Emerald please stop.” She's opening her car door and now it all makes sense. She parked in front of the coffee shop across the street and walked over. Daisy probably saw her and that’s why she was smiling the way she was, because she knew she was coming here next. What a fucking psycho bitch, I can’t believe she would even do this.

“Fuck.” She speeds off in her car before I can get to her and I run back inside to get my keys and phone so I can go after her, I am not letting her leave here thinking I just cheated on her. Or that I was planning on cheating or have been cheating because I’m not that kind of guy, if I was going to cheat, I wouldn’t be in a relationship to begin with, I’d just sleep around and stay single. I run through the front door of Crazy’s and practically run into Kane.

“Fuck dude, sorry I gotta go, I can explain later.” I rush out running back into my office to grab my truck keys and my phone, rushing out the front door not even hearing his answer. I run to my truck, unlock it and get in. I feel like a dick for leaving without explaining more to him about what happened, but I can’t stay any longer, the further Emerald gets from me before I can get to her the more fucked I am.

I start the ignition and speed off, checking for cops in the town center where the speed limit is ten mph less than the main roads, but I don’t care. I need to get to Emerald to clear things up. I can’t believe Daisy did that, or how she even saw Emerald, but it must’ve been perfect timing when she walked up to the window. It all makes sense now as to why she was smiling that way she was when I walked out of my office, that fucking bitch. What is it with her and her friends wanting to ruin other people’s relationships?

I finally pull into my driveway eight minutes later, my heart racing like crazy. I’m scared she won’t believe me when I tell her what Daisy did. Now I sort of know how Carsten felt when he went through everything with Winter. I can’t lose her. I won’t fucking lose her; she means too much to me already to lose her without a fight.

I practically jump out of my truck after taking the key out and rush over to her front door. I knock a couple times before Winter comes to the door with a confused look on her face.

“I need to see Emerald. Daisy fucked things up and I need to talk to her. Please,” I rush out so quickly, I’m surprised she even understood what I was saying.

“Of course, fucking Daisy and Brynn, messing up shit for everyone. Stupid bitches,” she says, talking to herself like she forgets I’m here.

“Umm Winter, I need to get to Emerald please,” I rush out again.

“Oh, shit sorry, she’s through the kitchen, down the hall, first door on the left is her room,” she says pointing as I realize her room is like mine through the kitchen and down the hall. I run through their kitchen down the hall and knock a couple times not saying anything because I don’t want her to ignore me anymore.

“Come in Winter, gosh you’re so impatient.” I hear her laugh through her sniffles, and she freezes when she sees it's me instead of who she originally thought it was.

“Get out.” She might be tiny but she’s scary when she’s angry. “I don’t want to see or talk to you, Creedence. I can’t fucking believe you.” She sniffles as fresh tears form in her eyes. Her tiny fists balled up at her sides. She looks so sad it’s fucking crushing my heart.

“Please. I promise you Emerald, she planned that, and I can explain the whole thing, please?” I pause, out of breath a little from sprinting from my truck and through their house, plus rushing my sentences out without breathing. It’s kinda catching up to me now.

“No, I don't want to hear it, Creed. I saw what I saw and there’s no excuse for her kissing you. Her lips touched yours, what don’t you see?” she shouts. Her chest rises and falls quickly while she tries to control her anger. Her cute little fists now in front of her like she’s about to punch me or something. I try not to smile at her anger, Emerald is tiny so to see this adorably angry, yet scary woman look like she’s about to pounce on me, fuck. Is a turn on. But she’s too tiny, she couldn’t hurt me even if she tried. I’m willing to stand here though and let her take her anger out on me if that’s what she needs right now. I’d do anything for this gorgeous girl right in front of me. So yes, even if she wanted to fight me right now, I’d stand here and take it if that’s what she needed to feel better about this situation. Then I’ll punish her for it later. I’ll be rough with her pussy and make sure she’s sore enough to remember everything I did to my pretty pink pussy and make sure she enjoys every minute of it.

“Listen to me, please. I pinky promise. Are you listening? You know I take my pinky promises seriously, Emerald.” And her head snaps up as she wipes her eyes, still sniffling.

“Fine, I'll give you five minutes to explain.” Her voice is so sad. It breaks my fucking heart, but the look on her face is fucking soul crushing. I never want to be the reason she has this look on her face again.

I come over and kneel on the ground in front of her, as she sits on her bed. I want her to see the sincere look on my face as I talk to her.

“Daisy had scheduled an appointment with me a month ago before you and I started dating and she had already put a down payment on it to keep her appointment. When she came in today, I completely forgot she was getting tattooed. I was originally going in to draw up sketches for my future appointments. But then she came in, reminding me that she had the appointment.” I pause taking a couple breaths since I got all of that out without breathing.

“I told her I had a girlfriend. That I was dating you and that I had ended things weeks ago with her. We weren’t even a thing, we just hooked up a couple times, the worst mistake ever,” I state because it’s true she was nothing but drama, I should have ended it after the first night. Or listened to Carsten when he tried to warn me. But sometimes good pussy makes you blind and stupid and it’s too good to pass up when they’re practically throwing it at you. I’m probably an asshole for even saying that. But do I care? Ehhh not really. Especially when it comes to girls like Daisy and Brynn who are so desperate for attention, they’d do anything for you even if that means to use them.

“Then when I was getting ready to charge her for the rest of the tattoo she was staring out the window with a strange smirk on her face, so I think what happened was she saw you, then as she was paying she kept staring out the window until you finally walked in and she rushed over to hug me and she kissed me.” I rush out the rest of it taking a deep breath. I need to stop doing that to myself where I hold my breath while talking.

“So, she did it on purpose?” She looks so small and fragile right now. Like if I say the wrong thing I’ll break her and that’s the last thing I want to do right now. You can tell she’s not sure if she wants to believe me, and I don’t blame her. I haven’t really given her much to go off of besides what truly happened and even that can come off as iffy.

“Emerald, look at me.” I reach out tilting her chin with my fingers. “I wouldn’t lie to you; I have no reason to go into a relationship and lie to you. I wouldn’t be in a relationship to begin with if I wasn’t serious about that person. I was never serious about Daisy, we slept together a few times, and I broke it off because I was interested in you.” I smile at her thinking back.

“Remember when Carsten and I went to your house looking for Winter and I kissed your hand.” I smile at the memory because I was so fucking nervous about seeing and talking to her that day. I just tried to play it cool in front of Carsten before we left because I didn’t want him to see how much of a pussy I was being crushing over a chick the way I was. But to her I wanted her to see how much of a gentleman I could be before I introduced her to my darker side.

“Yes, that was the second time we met, and I couldn’t believe you kissed my hand, it was something so sweet and so simple, yet it made me feel so special.” She blushes and it’s so adorable. I love the fact that she’s being this honest with me even if it involves watching her cheeks turn a couple shades of pink. Although I wish it were her ass I was watching turn those shades of pink, because the things I’d love to do to that perfectly plump ass of hers. Mmm, shit. I need to get my mind out of the gutter and my thoughts back on the right track.

“I did it because the first time I met you, I was with someone, so I didn’t really pay much attention. I was pretty buzzed and just being stupid. But damn, Sugar I kept seeing you in the driveway every morning when we would both leave for work. I wasn't sure if it was on purpose or coincidence, and I couldn’t get over how beautiful you are. I wanted to just go over there and say hey, but I didn’t know if you had a boyfriend, so I didn’t.” I pause just staring at her for a minute. At her natural beauty that her body just naturally carries. The way her tattoos hug her skin just right, the way her curves are in all my favorite places. I slowly move my way up her body with my eyes, trying not to think dirty thoughts as I come back to her beautiful face, and I just can’t get over how beautiful she is.

“Then that day Carsten was looking for Winter. I took it as a sign that we were meant to talk to each other that day. Then when I saw you up close and really paid attention to you, god you are just so beautiful, but I knew right then and there that I had to have you because I knew I was going to love you.” I laugh for a second. “Call me crazy but I do believe in love at first sight, and I swear that’s what I experienced with you. I love you Sugar, I’d never do anything to hurt you.” I lean in and kiss her, not even waiting for a response or an argument. I need to feel her lips against mine. To show her that I can love her in more ways than one. I open my mouth swiping my tongue against her lips, she opens for me, she never hesitates, allowing me to slip my tongue into her mouth, swirling my tongue with hers. She lets out a whimper as I wrap my arm around her waist and pull her closer to me, her arms come around my neck fisting my black T-shirt in the process. I let out a low growl because everything she does turns me on, including gripping my shirt. I stand slowly, not breaking our kiss and push her down onto her bed as she wraps her legs tightly around my waist. She starts thrusting herself into me making it hard to resist her, but I have plans for her tonight and I want to make her wait, make her beg for me to fuck her pussy. I pull away from the kiss leaving her breathless while I stand up.

“Get ready, I’ll be back to get you for dinner in an hour,” I tell her before walking out of her room leaving her there in shock. I know we just made up from our first argument, but I have things I need to get ready before we go to dinner.