Country Love by Chelsea Dorsette

injury. All she wanted was to be back in his arms and his bed. She texted him back.
    Perhaps I’ll just have to use other parts of my body to thank you!
    When his text quickly came back, she laughed.
    Yes you will. I know someone likes being bad.
    As the song was coming closer to the end, Paden sent one final text.
    Perhaps if I’m too bad, you’ll have to punish me again.
    CJ loved how naughty she was with him.
    You can count on that!
    Over the few days that Paden had been recovering at his house, CJ spent most of that time writing new songs while she napped. The drugs that the hospital had sent her home with made her sleepy, but it was just as well because they didn’t want her moving around that much.
    CJ knew he had fallen head over heels in love with her and began working on crafting a song that would express his deep feelings for her. He never made mention of this to Paden , because if he could ever write the perfect song, one day he would surprise her with it. During those three days that she stayed with him, everything started to calm down. The police had even stopped by and told them Roxanne had admitted to everything and that she was going to be put away for a very long time. Both CJ and Paden felt like a huge weight was lifted off their shoulders and resumed their relationship right where they had left off.
    CJ had missed her the past two weeks and he was thrilled that she was feeling well enough to rekindle their sexual relationship. The stitches were still in her arm, but she didn’t need the sling anymore. They would just have to be careful being physical for a little while until she was completely healed and the stitches came out.
    As CJ headed over to her house with some Chinese take out and wine, he was looking forward to spending time with her. It had been a lonely month when they were apart and then two more weeks with him being mostly on the road after the attack. CJ was just happy that he was going to be with her tonight, sex or no sex. He missed her beautiful body, but he missed the beautiful woman she was even more.
    Pulling into her driveway, he grabbed the bottles of wine and headed for her front door.
    Hearing CJ pulling up the driveway, Paden ran to her front door and yanked it open. She was dying to see him and her heart skipped a beat when their eyes locked. Pulling him in with her good arm, she stood up on tip-toes and gave him a big smooch on the cheek.
    “Well now, how’s my little cripple girl doing?” CJ said with a wink.
    Taking the bag of Chinese food from his hand, she gave him a big smile and replied, “Much better now that you’re here.” Pretending to sound very serious she continued, “Alas, I didn’t have much luck the past two weeks finding a tall, good looking and talented man to take care of me!” Keeping up the joking charade, she said in a southern belle voice while wiping the back of her hand across her forehead in feigned distress, “I just had to fend for my little ol’ self with no big strapping man to come to my aid.”
    CJ loved her silly side and gave her bottom a swat . “Well, little lady, today is your lucky day because your knight in shining armor has returned!”
    Continuing their banter as they went into the kitchen , Paden chuckled. “Well, it’s about time, ’cause I’m starving!”
    Laughing at the bluntness of her desire for food, they set the table and opened the wine. For the next hour , CJ and Paden talked at her kitchen table, sharing the various cartons of Chinese food he had brought and drinking wine.
    CJ told her all about the gigs he had just got home from and she filled him in with things going on around the radio station. They did n’t speak about the attack, as they both wanted to forget that terrible time and all the havoc Roxanne had brought down on them.
    As they sat talking companionably all through dinner, Paden had never been happier. She hadn’t dated a lot of men in her lifetime but of the ones she did date, they weren’t