Althena Book 2

116. We'll Wait

I open my eyes and Conner's working on his laptop.

"Are you ok? You've been out for 4 hours, baby. You came hard as hell."

I giggle. "I want to do that again."

He laughs and pulls me up. "I knew you liked it. Your little body pulled the c*m right out of us."

"Did you like it?"

"Yea, I came hard too, baby. That was different."

"Would you do it again?"

He smirks. "Whenever you want."

"Sometimes."

"Sometimes is good. I don't get the cuddle girl after you pass out. I missed that."

"Yea, I need cuddles too."

He leads me to the bathroom. "Let's get clean, then we can get some lunch and cuddle."

We get in the elevator and go up 5 floors. There's a hot tub and a bunch of sun chairs here. "I don't see a place for food."

"Yea, this is the sun deck. Give me a second. We really need a tour." He pulls out his phone and calls someone.

Then we get back in the elevator and go down a couple of levels. We step out into a full outdoor kitchen with a huge dining area. This level has a pool and some sun chairs on one side. The back of the boat is a large sitting area with couches. The rest of my boys are at the table.

"Good morning." I smile.

Mike puts a plate together for me. "Good afternoon, babygirl. Sounded like you had an interesting morning."

Conner snorts. "That's what he gets for not knocking."

"Laid." Cyrus smirks. "I get laid for not knocking."

Drogon nods. "Nobody is ever going to knock anywhere ever again."

Mike rolls his eyes. "But in the water access room? You're lucky Clayton or Chris didn't walk in."

I crack up laughing. "Poor Clayton."

Cyrus nods. "He would have been traumatized. Maybe we should have locked the door."

"Where are they?"

"They took a helicopter to get Akmae and Lila. We're going to the island."

Mike crosses his arms. "You went unconscious for 4 hours afterward?"

"I know I fell asleep fast."

Conner chuckles. "It took everything out of her little body to c*m that hard. She did like it though."

"How are you feeling now?"

"Relaxed and rested."

Monte rubs my knee. He's not saying anything.

"Helicopter." Conner points.

It lands on the boat, then the 4 of them join us.

Lila smiles. "This is better than staring at the dining room walls."

Chris nods. "It's nice to be out."

"Are you going to the cheer camp this weekend at the college?"

I shrug my shoulders and look at the boys. "I doubt it."

"Oh, come on. You have to let her. You bought so much stuff so she could. She can't be grounded forever. It's a school thing."

"We'll talk about it with her."

"It's only 2 nights, Mike." Lila crosses her arms.

"I said we'll talk about it with her."

"You're all just being assholes now." She stabs a piece of chicken and takes a bite out of it, "Clayton, tell them."

"Nope."

"What?"

He kisses her head. "Let them figure it out."

"BUT."

"Her skin was shredded. She was scared to death. They are keeping everything calm and controlled right now. They know what she's ready for more than we do. Let them deal with it."

I look at my arms. Only discolored spots are left. Then a mark on my shoulder. I think it might scar. Monte kisses the mark when I stare at it for too long.

"Fine."

I plop my head on Monte's shoulder and sigh. Suddenly, I feel tired again.

Conner and I cuddle on the couch until we dock at the island with the resort going in. The boys take off to do their own projects. Chris, Lila, Akmae, and Clayton work on the pools. I don't know what to do. I wanted a monkey sanctuary.

I walk on the beach. This place is something special. It is paradise.

I hunt for seashells for a long time. I enjoy the breeze and smells. Then I go back to the boat. I want to get one of those sea bob things. It's a long ass walk through the dock. I don't know why the hell we had to park so far away. And the dock is all zig zaggy. It's like a damn maze to get there.

The water access boat room is set up a lot like my dad's. I put a couple of the sea bobs, snorkels, and scuba gear sets on a little speed boat. Then offload it into the water. Then I remember I need a swimsuit. I change fast. By then, the boat is floating towards the island. It's a lot of dock though. I run and catch it.

After a few wrong turns, I get close enough to jump on the boat. It's stuck on the dock. I push us away from the wood and float. I find the button to start it and push it about 84 times. It never does anything and I keep having to use my arms to keep us away from the dock. This is infuriating.

The damn waves won't stop.

Lila jumps in with me. "What are we doing? I got tired of working on the pool."

"Going to the island. I want to use the seabob and scuba stuff."

"Can't we do that here?"

"I'm not allowed to do it until Monte checks it."

We push ourselves away from the dock again. "Did you push the button to start it?"

"I tried that. You try."

She pushes it half a dozen times. "Maybe there's another button?" Then we slam into the dock.

We thoroughly check the captain's seat. There is no other button to start it. I push the button again. "Maybe we have to hold it."

She nods. "SHIT." She dives on me and glass falls over both of us. Then she gets up and brushes herself off. "We went under the dock. We're still good."

"At least we're floating towards the island."

"True." She takes her dress off. She had a swimsuit under it. "I love boating."

"Me too."

She brushes the glass of a seat. "I should have brought sunglasses."

"We are coming to the island quickly."

"We're making good time." She answers her phone. "No, we're on the little boat. We're going to the island with some scuba stuff. Do you know how to start it?... Yea, we tried that. It won't start... I don't know... Ok." She hangs up. "Clayton is checking for us."

"There's Chris and Mike." We wave at Chris. Mike has his back to us.

Chris grabs Mike's shirt sleeve. He turns around and stares at us. Then they get their phones out.

She puts her phone on speaker. "Where are you?" It's Clayton.

"On our way to the island."

"How? I have the keys to the boat in my hand. Where is the boat?"

"We're going to the island on the boat."

He doesn't say anything for a minute. "You mean you're drifting in the open ocean?"

"UGH. We're drifting to the island. Listen."

I nod. "We're making good time. But we're a little sideways. We'll be on the island in a minute."

He hangs up on us.

We wave at the boys. Now they're all standing on the beach watching us.

Lila looks around. "I think we're going more sideways now."

"Yea, this is taking forever."

We sit down. "This is impossible to rush. We'll get there when we get there."

I see Clayton driving towards the boys in the golf cart. Lila waves at him. We slowly make our way to the island. The waves push us right up on the beach and we stop. I jump and Conner catches me. "What the hell happened?"

I check out the boat. It's all banged up. I can tell it hit the dock a few times. The windshield is busted. The boat around the windshield is broken and looks like random white pieces sticking up.

"We brought the scuba stuff to the island."

"I got sea bobs too. I want to use those." I point them out.

Drogon picks me up. "Why is everything broken?"

"It kept hitting the dock. I couldn't get it to start."

Lila nods. "Then it went under the dock and the window broke. Can you reach that snorkel? I want to try that."

Clayton hands it to her. "Next time don't forget the keys."

"Yea, we won't. That was a long trip. We would have gotten here faster, but we kept going sideways to the island."

"I thought we were going to miss the island for a minute. We got here though." I hop down and Clayton hands me a snorkel. I shake the glass off and put it on my face. "I'm ready."

"Me too. Let's snorkel in that moon part."

Mike hugs me. "We're going to have a boat safety course very soon, and we're going to talk about what to do in certain situations."

Monte nods. "Maybe we can lock all the water access doors somehow."

"Relax." Lila rolls her eyes. "We just didn't know we needed keys. We know now." She pulls me away. "Clayton can put it back. He has the keys."

Cyrus laughs. "Put that back, Clayton. We'll wait."