How Many Chances (7 page)

He slammed into her harder and harder. She could feel his cock throb inside her and it
sent shockwaves through her body. He pinned her tighter to the bed as he pushed into her and cried out as he came inside her. She gripped him tightly and pulled him deeper into her and she found her release too.

“YES! YES! YES!
” She cried out as her body shook violently before she collapsed into a lifeless mes
s
beneath him.

“That’s my girl,” he grinned down at her when she finally opened her eyes and looked up at him.

Ally just grinned up at him as her mind cleared and she realised what just happened. He had literally just fucked her into submission. What had she done? She had agreed to live with this crazy man she knew so little about.

“Don’t” Cole said, sensing the internal struggle inside Ally.

“Don’t what?” Ally asked, surprised by his command.

“Don’t over think this,” he said as he softly stroked her face. “We will do this together. I know you are scared Ally. I am scared too. This is all very new for me too. But we shouldn’t fight what is meant to be.”

Ally didn’t reply.

“Ally please,” Cole begged. “Trust me, I will never let you down again.”

“I trust you,” Ally reassured him, and was surprised she actually meant what she had said. She trusted him completely and truly. She was moving in with Cole Bloody Thomas.

As Ally took her seat on Cole’s private plane, she was still in shock. She, Ally Brody, was about to fly to London with her boyfriend, the man she had just agreed to move in with, in his private jet. How had this happened?

It hadn’t occurred to her when Cole told her that morning the flight to London was taken care of
, he meant his private plane was ready. She had stupidly assumed he had paid for her ticket.

But here she was, sitting next to him on his
private plane, waiting for clearance from the tower to take off.

“Are you ok?” he leaned in and asked her as
they began to taxi down the run way. Ally nodded and smiled but she wasn’t really.

She was still reeling from the fact she had just agreed to move in with him when he dropped the
news of his private jet on her. She knew he was rich, but it appeared she really didn’t have a clue just how rich he was.

“Ally, talk to me,” Cole said, as he watched her
tensely, his eyes almost burning into her. “Tell me what you’re thinking.”

She looked at him nervously for a few moments and thought about what she needed to say. If she was going to move in with him and try to make this work she needed to be straight with him.
But she needed to find the right words.

“You’
re very rich,” she said like it was news to him.

“I am,” Cole laughed and took her by the
hand. “But why does that matter?”

“I don’t get it,” Ally shrugged as it finally dawned on her what was really eating her. “You could have anyone
you wanted, why me?”

“Why not you?” he asked as he lifted her hand to his mouth and kissed i
t softly. It still surprised him just how much this beautiful creature doubted herself.

“Because I am just me,” she replied honestly. “I am nothing special.”

“Oh but you are,” he smiled with his usual heart melting grin. “And the fact that you don’t see this just makes you even more special to me. Don’t you see Ally, you are right. I could have anyone I wanted, but I want someone who wants me for me not for who I am. You fell in love with me. Not with my bank balance. You see past all this. You see me. You love me.”

“I see,” Ally replied unsure of how
else she should reply to that.

“I know the money is new to you and makes you uncomfortable,” Cole continued
as he nervously searched for the right words. “But it’s who I am. I have worked hard to make this life for myself. And I want to share that life with you, every part of it. Just give it a chance. Please.”

“Okay,” Ally nodded and smiled brightly at Cole. He really was perfect.

Ninety minutes later she was in the back of yet another Black Range Rover, speeding down the motorway towards the Centre of London, heading towards Coles London apartment.

“Sir,” the man driving the car
, whose name Ally couldn’t remember, said suddenly, sounding very serious and proper. Ally reckoned he was possibly in his mid-thirties, not unattractive, definitely ex-army.  “It would seem the vultures have already started to circle. There is a bunch of paps at the apartment. Are you sure you still want to go there. I could make arrangements in one of the hotels for you and Ms Brody.”

“No Nick,” Cole
replied. “I told Ally I was taking her home and that is where we are going.”

He turned to Ally and smiled, then once again took her hand and brought it to his mouth and kissed it softly.

“Gorgeous girl, it would seem we have company waiting for us,” Cole said constantly watching Ally’s reaction. “This is never really pleasant but it’s life here in London. I had hoped we would have gotten away with it for this evening but it seems they have their little spies everywhere. When we get to the apartment, we will pull into the underground parking but it can become crazy. But we have everything under control so I don’t want you to worry, okay.”

Ally just stared at Cole blankly, she had no idea what the hell he was talking about. She was just about to ask him to explain what he meant but she was suddenly blinded with a bright flash, and then another and then another.

Suddenly the car slowed and they were surround by more than a dozen cameras pressed up against the glass of the car. Flash after blinding flash lit up the car.

“Cole, what the hell is going on?” Ally said as pani
c took hold of her, the sounds of the cameras bouncing off the car was almost deafening and was possible the scariest noise in the world.

“Ally its ok, I promise,” he reassured her. He quickly wrapped her in his arms and pulled her to him. “We will be through this is a few moments. I have you.
Don’t worry.”

As quick
ly as it started, the flashing stopped and they were now plunged into darkness.

Ally kept her eyes pinched closed until the car had come to a complete stop.

“We’re safe” Cole whispered. Ally sat up and looked at him in complete shock. Fear and anger etched across her face.

“What the hell was that?”
Ally asked, and Cole cringed at the mixture of shock and contempt in her voice.

“That would be the wonderful paparazzi,” Cole replied staring at Ally hoping this wasn’t about to go
really badly. “They follow me from time to time, but since Ben, they have been camped out anywhere they think I might turn up.”

“And you brought me here,” Ally asked, even surprising herself with the anger in her voice. “Jesus Christ Cole, what the hell were you thinking?”

“I was thinking I want the woman I love to be with me,” Cole replied sounding a little angry too. “I wanted you to see my home, meet my family and most importantly meet my son. Is that such a bad thing?”

A
lly stared at him for a moment as she thought about how she should answer him, but words failed her. She knew she had bitten of more than she could chew. She knew that before she had even left her grandparents’ house the day previous.

She wanted to say
that she just wanted to go home but she knew she couldn’t. Instead she just sighed and climbed out of the car. She slammed the car door closed and turned and was surprised to be face to face with the driver.

“Miss,” he said looking at her straight in the eyes. He looked angry and a little scary
. His tone was one of impatience. Ally instantly felt uncomfortable with his close proximity. But she met his glare defiantly. “Don’t ever get out of the car until you are given the all clear. Do you understand me?”

“I am not stupid,” Ally snapped back, angrily and thought to herself.
Who is this asshole?
“I wasn’t aware I needed your permission.”

“Miss it’s for your own safety,” he explained
a little less forcefully, sensing Ally’s irritation.

“Nick this is my fault,” Cole suddenly appeared next to Ally. “I should have explained things better to
her, it won’t happen again, I assure you.”

“Very good, Sir,” Nick
replied before he turned and headed towards the elevator door to wait for Cole and Ally.

Ally looked at Cole in disbelief.  Cole looked at her nervously. By now he knew her well enough to know she was
really pissed and mad as hell. He waited for her biting comment but it didn’t come. Instead she just turned and walked in the direction of the elevator too.

Cole sighed deeply and followed Ally closely.

The three stepped into the elevator and Nick entered a code into the key pad on the wall of the lift and they travelled to the penthouse in complete silence. The whole time Cole watched Ally but she stared blankly at the elevator doors.

He sighed. Once again he had handled things badly and now she was mad at him
yet again.

A
nd Ally was angry. And in truth she wasn’t really sure what had annoyed her the most. Cole failing to tell her about the crazy situation she was about to walk into. The jumped up little man who spoke to her like she was some airhead bimbo. Or the fact that Cole had actually apologised to him for her.

She rolled her eyes and released an irritated sigh a little louder then she had intended to. She could feel both sets of eyes now fixed on her firmly.

The doors suddenly pinged open and Ally stepped out into a big hallway. The walls were cream with sporadic pieces of art hanging on them. The floors where high gloss, black marble and at the far end of the hallway, there was a huge set of black, wooden double doors.

Ally turned and looked at Cole. He was still watching her intently. He gave her a half smil
e and lifted his hand indicating she should head for the doors.

She turned and walked towards the door
s followed closely by Cole and Nick.

She stopped when they
reached the doors and it was Nick who stepped forward to open the doors for them both. He stepped back to allowed Ally and Cole to walk into the apartment first.

Ally stopped dead in her tracks when she stepped inside the apartment. It was
like nothing she had ever seen before. It appeared to take over the entire top floor of the building.  To her left there was a huge reception room. Like the house back in Dublin all the walls where cream and the furniture was very similar in style but everything was so much bigger and of a grander scale. It was breathtaking.

To her right there was a huge dining
room. There was a large glass table surrounded by 10 high back chairs standing in the middle of the room. A beautiful crystal chandler hung dead centre above the table and to the side, was a long glass topped lamp table with two matching lamps either side.

The whole apartment seemed to have oak wooden floors running through out it. Dotted around the walls
were more framed art work.

Everything looked expensive and big and so what Ally was not used to.

“Welcome home,” Cole said startling Ally, she had almost forgotten he was standing next to her. “The kitchen is just down the corridor to the right if you are hungry. Annette won’t be here till tomorrow.”

Ally just nodded silently as she continued taking in her surroundings.
She had no idea who Annette was, and if she was honest she didn’t really care.

“Would you like me to show you where the bedroom and bathroom is?” Cole asked watching Ally
as she looked completely like a fish out of water.

“
Sure,” she shrugged. He led her down the long corridor, passing by several closed doors until he reached the end and opened another set of double doors. He glanced back over his shoulder at Ally before he opened the door.

The
bedroom was stunning. It too had cream walls, well three were cream. The forth was a floor to ceiling window which gave the most stunning view of London. Against one wall there was a huge bed covered in the same kind of bed clothes from Cole’s home in Dublin. But this bed was so much bigger. Above the bed there was plumes of cream taffeta, creating a canopy which draped elegantly down each side of the bed. Ally walked to the window and stared out over the city.

“You like?” Cole asked as he walked up and slipped his arms around her waist from
behind and he nuzzled her neck and inhaling her perfume.

Ally didn’t reply she closed her eyes and leaned into Cole firm chest. She wanted to stay angry with him
but she couldn’t. Not when he wrapped her in his arms.
Damn my treacherous body!
She sighed to herself.

“Don’t worry about the paps,” Cole sighed against her neck. “They will get fed up now I am no longer MIA.”

“I hope so,” Ally said, frowning at the memory of their arrival down stairs. If was one of the scariest thing she had ever experienced in her life.

“And don’t worry about Nick,” Cole continued. “
That was my fault. I should have warned you that the paps may turn up and that you should never get out of the car until its ok with him.”

His word
s were like a red rag to a bull. Ally could feel her blood boil.

“Are you kidding me?” She asked cuttingly, turning to Cole and staring at him in complete disbelief. “I need his permission to get out of the car?”

“Well that’s part of the job, Ally,” Cole replied sensing this was not going to go down to well. “He is paid to keep us safe.”

“No he is paid to keep you safe,” Ally shot straight back. “I am nobody Cole, I don’t need protecting. And I certainly don’t need some jumped up little man telling
me when I can and can’t get out of a car. And further more Cole, don’t ever apologise for me again. Is that clear?”

She turned and
stormed out of the bedroom and marched down the hall, not even stopping to take a breath as she grabbed her handbag, before she headed straight for the front door.

“Miss Brody,” Nick said, suddenly appearing next to Ally from nowhere. “If you would like to go somewhere, I can have the car ready in two minutes.”

“I can walk just fine,” she snapped back without even looking at him as she reached for the door.

“I really must insist,” h
e said following her to the door and reaching for it too but Ally knew it was to stop her from opening the door, not to open it for her.