Trouble Read online

  Table of Contents

  Chapter One – Brielle

  Chapter Two – Declan

  Chapter Three - Brielle

  Chapter Four - Declan

  Chapter Five - Brielle

  Chapter Six - Declan

  Chapter Seven - Brielle

  Chapter Eight – Declan

  Chapter Nine - Brielle

  Chapter Eleven – Brielle

  Chapter Twelve - Declan

  Chapter Thirteen - Brielle

  Chapter Fourteen – Declan

  Chapter Fifteen - Brielle

  Chapter Sixteen - Declan

  Chapter Seventeen - Brielle

  Chapter Eighteen – Declan

  Chapter Nineteen - Brielle

  Chapter Twenty - Declan

  Chapter Twenty-One - Brielle

  Chapter Twenty-Two - Declan

  Chapter Twenty-Three - Brielle

  Cocky, arrogant, brash….FEARLESS. I’ve heard it all and it’s all true. I can get a chick any day of the week and that’s exactly what I do. Every woman wants me and every man wants to be me. It’s just the way it is. I never wanted things to change, but then Brielle comes into my life and turns my world upside down. That tight little body makes the 9 inches of muscle between my legs stand at attention every time she’s around. She’s supposed to be off limits but I don’t care. This former Navy SEAL turned MMA superstar lives by his own rules, and no one tells me what to do.

  TROUBLE

  by

  Ashley Blake

  Sign up to be notified of my new releases!

  Copyright

  Copyright, 2017 by Ashley Blake.

  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, locations, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, or have been used fictionally. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental. No portion of this work may be transmitted or reproduced in any form, or by any means, without permission in writing from the author.

  Table of Contents

  Chapter One – Brielle

  Chapter Two – Declan

  Chapter Three - Brielle

  Chapter Four - Declan

  Chapter Five - Brielle

  Chapter Six - Declan

  Chapter Seven - Brielle

  Chapter Eight – Declan

  Chapter Nine - Brielle

  Chapter Ten - Declan

  Chapter Eleven – Brielle

  Chapter Twelve - Declan

  Chapter Thirteen - Brielle

  Chapter Fourteen – Declan

  Chapter Fifteen - Brielle

  Chapter Sixteen - Declan

  Chapter Seventeen - Brielle

  Chapter Eighteen – Declan

  Chapter Nineteen - Brielle

  Chapter Twenty - Declan

  Chapter Twenty-One - Brielle

  Chapter Twenty-Two - Declan

  Chapter Twenty-Three - Brielle

  Chapter One – Brielle

  The lobby of the hotel was packed with Spring Breakers and my best friend, Sophie, could barely contain herself as one sexy guy after another went by.

  “Brielle, do you see this? I am definitely in heaven right now. Come on let’s get to our room so that we can change and head out to the beach. If this is what’s inside, I can’t wait to see what’s outside!”

  “Hang on a sec, I dropped my room key. Do you see it? I swear it just fell out of my hand.”

  We looked around on the ground but couldn’t find my key.

  “This is ridiculous, I just had it!” I exclaimed in exasperation.

  “You gave it to the cute guy at the desk didn’t you? You want him to come to our room, right? I know you, Brielle, you little hussy!”

  I looked at my friend and burst out laughing. “You have officially lost your mind!”

  We were giggling and still looking for my key when I heard someone behind me.

  “Are you looking for this?”

  The familiar deep, rich voice wafted through the air flooding all of my senses and I turned and looked up into the most beautiful male face I had ever seen. Declan. Damn it. What is he doing here?

  My mind went blank as I stared into his hypnotic, crystal blue eyes and I couldn’t breathe. I really couldn’t catch my breath for a couple of seconds there. I realized that I had been staring at the gorgeous specimen in front of me for a while when I noticed a small smirk touch the corner of his mouth.

  “Brielle? This is yours I presume?”

  Crickets. I couldn’t think of a thing to say. Sophie had to jump in and save me.

  “Yes! Thank you! I guess Brielle must have dropped it in all the excitement of being here. How are you Declan? It’s good to see you.”

  I could hear the excitement in her voice and tried not to roll my eyes at the thought of having to hear her go on and on about him the second he left. As soon as Sophie had found out my mom was dating his dad she couldn’t stop talking about it. She was obsessed with him and the fight world and she was constantly begging me to hook them up. But there was no way I could do that because of the feelings I had for him. It pissed me off more than anything that he got under my skin. As much as I couldn’t stand his arrogant ass I could not stop thinking about him.

  He looked back and forth between Sophie and me with amusement. His eyes searched mine and he gave me a smile that made me want to melt.

  “Good to see you both.”

  I just stared at him and I’m pretty sure I looked like an idiot. A man had never left me speechless in my life! I was trying to think of something clever to say because well, hello, I couldn’t let him just walk away. Just when my brain decided that it wanted to start working, his phone rang. He glanced down at it and gave us a mesmerizing smile.

  “I have to take this. It was nice to see you ladies.” His eyes lingered on me as he walked away and I just stood there looking back at him.

  “Earth to Brielle! What is wrong with you? Why didn’t you speak to him?” Sophie was barking at me and the shrill tone of her voice snapped me out of my trance.

  “Sophie, I don’t know! I was totally paralyzed and couldn’t think of a thing to say!”

  “Why? You see him all the time, don’t you?”

  “No, I hardly see him at all. He’s just so full of himself it makes me sick and I guess I didn’t want to say anything to him.” That second part wasn’t really true but I was not going to let anyone know how I really felt about Declan.

  “Well, I’m sure we’ll run into him again.”

  “Great.” I kind of said it to myself but she heard me.

  “Brielle! He might be family one day so you better play nice!”

  What she didn’t know yet was that he was going to be family. His dad had proposed to my mom and they were getting married in a couple of months. I didn’t say anything to her yet because I needed time to digest what it was going to mean for me.

  She could see that I was bothered so she put her arm around me and smiled.

  “What do you say we push Declan out of our minds and go start our Spring Break?”

  I smiled back at her. “Sounds perfect.”

  Chapter Two – Declan

  I couldn’t believe Brielle was in Mexico. How the fuck was I supposed to focus on the fight if I knew she was there? I was slathering on sunscreen when Zach walked into my room.

  “Dude, did you see the chick across the hall? You know where there is one there are at least two other hot chicks.” Zach was being his overeager self as he walked into my hotel room.

  I glanced over at him and shook my head.

  “Man, keep it in your pants.”

  “You must not have seen her. She was super sexy.”

  “I’m sure there are at least 20 more just like her here.” I
gave him a wicked grin. “I’ll let you know.”

  Zach shook his head. “I wish I knew your secret. You get more chicks than anyone I know.”

  I looked at him and shrugged my shoulders. “It’s simple. I tell ‘em what they want to hear.”

  Yeah, I was a dick like that. You tell a girl what she wants to hear and nine times out of ten she’ll give it up the first night. Most chicks were so easy.

  I didn’t mention that I saw Brielle because no one knew what I felt for her and I didn’t want to have to explain myself. No one knew that she had turned my world upside down, and I needed to keep it that way. Cabo was filled with tons of people so I doubted I had to worry about running into her again. I had to focus on my upcoming fight and I didn’t need any distractions.

  I was in Mexico for the biggest fight of my career, and I had no idea it coincided with Spring Break. I stayed away from chicks before a fight because I wanted to be 100% focused on winning, and a sexy girl with big tits was the last thing I needed before a fight. If I were with someone like that before a fight, I would for sure not be at my best on fight day. No, women were off limits until I got my win. Now, looking at them? That was no problem. I appreciated women in all forms and I loved looking at them. A beach full of sexy Spring Breakers? Perfect…bring on the eye candy.

  Zach slapped me on the shoulder. “I need to follow your lead today, man. I’ll take the women off of your hands who will be falling all over you.”

  Zach was my trainer and my best friend and he made sure I was always more than ready on fight night. He gave me the nickname ‘Trouble’ because I didn’t let anyone tell me what to do. He was the best trainer I knew and he honed his skills in the ring for years before focusing on training. The day I met him my life changed for the better. Zach was one of the good guys and any chick would be lucky to have him. I needed to find someone for him because I could see that he was hard up for some lovin’.

  “All right, come on, let’s go find a lovely lady for you.”

  We went to the pool to check out the scene before we headed down to the beach and, as usual, the girls were ripe for the picking. One after another blondes, brunettes, and redheads gave me the look I knew so well. It happened everywhere I went, especially now that my picture was plastered everywhere. My latest sports drink sponsorship really blew up my fame. I let out a deep sigh. I could have had any one of those chicks but the last thing I needed was a leech. Once I let them get a piece of me they seemed to want to stick around, and I was more of a hit it and quit it kind of guy.

  I decided to catch some rays while Zach was chatting up some basic looking chick when I heard a familiar laugh and felt my dick twitch. I glanced up and 10 feet in front of me there was Brielle falling all over some guy. Fuck.

  She was the one chick that revved up my engine with just a simple glance my way, and it pissed me off. She was off limits. Or at least that’s what my dad said the day he told me he was getting married for the third time to her mom. I didn’t think that one would last too long; anyone could see from a mile away that the new fiancé was a bona fide gold-digger. He took her to Italy on our private jet for their first date and I could just imagine her reaction. My dad was definitely whipped after that night and he spent every free minute with her. I was waiting for the day that she showed her true colors and he showed her the door. But my reason for wanting her to leave was a selfish one. I wanted Brielle.

  When my dad met her mom he told me the next day that he knew he was going to marry her. I took that with a grain of salt because he had said the same thing about his previous five girlfriends, so I thought, yeah right. But I knew he was serious about her when he told me she had a daughter that I had to stay away from.

  “Declan, Valerie has a daughter close to your age and that girl is off limits. You keep your hands off of her and your dick to yourself. I mean it. If I find out that you touched her so help me you will wish you were never born, and you will never see one dime of your inheritance.”

  At first I thought, no problem, I can stay away from some random chick; but then I met her. She was the sexiest little thing I had ever seen. That milky soft skin was begging to be touched and when those stunning green eyes slid in my direction, for the first time in my life a chick left me speechless. I should have known in that moment that she was going to be trouble.

  My dad’s words echoed in my ear but I didn’t want to think about that. My father owned huge commercial properties all over the world and had a net worth north of four billion dollars. For as long as I could remember he had held my inheritance over my head, and that was a big part of the reason why I got into MMA after being in the Navy. The Navy was my escape, but MMA was my release. In the ring I was able to work out the emotional demons that plagued me.

  All my life I tried to distance myself from my father’s influence and money. He was appalled the day I enrolled in the military, and even when I became a Navy SEAL, the elite, the best of the best, it wasn’t good enough for him. He told me only people with no future enrolled in the military. He wanted me to work for him. I wanted no part of that and never did. I wanted to make my own mark on the world. I needed to, and I thought the military was the answer. However, the military didn’t love me as much as I loved it, and I can finally admit that my ego got in the way of my military success. I was so focused on showing my father I didn’t need his money, and working my ass off to be promoted to Lieutenant in my Platoon, that I made a lot of mistakes and enemies along the way. I decided to retire early to save as much face as possible in a messy situation.

  My father’s reaction when I told him I retired? He asked why I didn’t wait until the 20 year mark to get a full retirement package. He could be such a prick sometimes. So with no military options, I had to think of some other way to make a living and leave my mark on the world. A friend took me to a MMA fight one night and something clicked. I loved it and I knew I could do it. I also learned very quickly that I could make a lot of money if I won the fight. It was my way to claim my financial independence and not have to rely on my dad. I started winning big fights and the purses I qualified for were huge. Soon sponsors began calling, my pockets got fatter and I was finally able to make my own rules.

  I had deep-seated resentment against my father for always putting money first. He thought he could just buy something for me in place of spending time with me, so it was hard for me to respect his wishes. It wasn’t until I began to really make a name for myself and become well known that he showed interest in what I was doing and in spending time with me. So when he told me to stay away from Brielle, I thought, ‘fuck you, I can do what I want’.

  When I saw her for the very first time my cock twitched as her green almond-shaped eyes smiled at me. Fuck me if she didn’t have the firmest looking round breasts and the tightest ass I had ever seen. She was drop dead gorgeous. Stay away from her? No fucking way.

  Chapter Three - Brielle

  “Brielle!”

  I rolled my eyes as my blow dryer whirred in my ear.

  “Brielle!”

  I could hear Sophie yelling my name but we were not in a hurry. She needed to calm down. It was our first day of Spring Break in Cabo, and the beach wasn’t going anywhere, and neither were the guys or the booze.

  “Brielle Elizabeth Peterson! I know you can hear me!”

  When her voice got to that shrill pitch I knew I had to respond. The stray dogs were going to start barking if I didn’t shut her up!

  I turned off my blow dryer and fluffed my dark brown waves one last time. I adjusted my bikini top as I studied myself in the mirror. My boobs were looking good. They were one of the best gifts my mom had ever passed on to me. Normally I wouldn’t take the time to get all done up before going to the beach, but our mission was to meet guys and I wanted to look good. Sophie insisted that we get out early to meet the ‘best crop’, as she called them, before they got too drunk, and I kind of agreed with her. I grabbed my bag and met her by the door.

  “Sophie, you ne
ed to chill. It’s not like we’re going to miss anything. We have six full days to find someone for you to hook up with.”

  “I know, but our best chance of finding someone good is today, Brielle! Like that guy knocking on the door across the hall, for example. Did you see how built he is?”

  I don’t know that I had ever seen such desperation on my best friend’s face. Her bright hazel eyes were sparkling with excitement. Yeah, I saw the guy across the hall as he waited by the door and she was right, he looked good, at least his body did because that was all I could see; but he was just not really my type.

  “I saw his body but not his face. Did you even see his face Sophie?”

  “No, but the bod looked good, didn’t it?”

  “Yes, but you need to relax, girl.”

  “We should look for him and introduce ourselves. I’m sure he’s not here alone so maybe he has a friend for you. This is our last Spring Break and I want to go out with a bang. Literally.”