Free Haunted (Wolf Lake) by Alzena Summers Page A

shower.  Insatiable, Jake would sneak into the bathroom while Amelia was washing her hair and climb into the shower behind her.  She’d jump, startled as his strong, muscular arms wrapped around her wet, soapy body, hugging her from behind. 
    Then his hands would take over, carefully rinsing the shampoo from her long red hair and lathering up her slick body with his bare hands.  Of course, no crevice or cranny was left unexplored.  By the time Jake was finished very thoroughly washing Amelia, she’d be squirming, flushed with desire.
    Jake’s favorite thing was to press Amelia up against the shower wall, the cool, hard tiles pressing into her erect nipples.  He had a playful and slightly dominant streak that excited Amelia to no end.  Once he had her pinned, he’d nudge her legs apart with his own and then thrust himself inside of her, taking her from behind.
    He was rough and tender all at once.  There was something about the fresh air and semi-seclusion at the Wolf Lake cabin that brought out the animal in Jake.  The way he stared at Amelia with carnal lust made her pulse race.  At the cabin, it seemed the two of them just couldn’t keep their hands off each other.
    Amelia and Jake had had big plans for that cabin.  They’d talked often about how they were going to renovate it and add a second bedroom for when their family grew.  Thinking about the cabin was painful enough…thinking about the children she and Jake would never have together was absolute agony.
    She hadn’t been to the cabin since before the accident.  It was too painful.  But Amelia couldn’t bear to sell it and Jake’s parents had retired to Florida and had no use for it.  So, Amelia kept paying the utility bills. 
    She knew it was irrational to keep the lights on and the water running at an abandoned cabin, but she couldn’t bear the thought of letting the place Jake had loved so dearly lapse into a shell of its former self.  A retired man who was a long-time friend of Jake’s parents and lived out at Wolf Lake year round checked in on it from time to time.
    As the last long weekend of the summer approached, Amelia’s friends and family started making plans.  Her brother invited her to a backyard cookout.  Her co-worker asked her to a potluck picnic at the river.  But Amelia turned every invitation down.
    She didn’t know why, but something in her was telling her it was time to go to the cabin.
    Amelia didn’t particularly like the idea of going to Wolf Lake.  The place she’d come to love was tainted now with painful memories she’d rather not face.
    As Amelia rounded the familiar bend in the road that led to the cabin, her grip on the steering wheel tightened until her knuckles turned white.  Part of her felt like it was too soon.  She wasn’t ready to set foot in that cabin and see it just as they’d left it.  She wasn’t ready to go there without Jake by her side.
    But at the same time, she felt compelled to do it. 
    The pretty redhead climbed out of the red sports car that had been Jake’s pride and joy and wiped her hands on her denim cut-off shorts.  Her palms were suddenly sweaty – it was no wonder what with it being such a humid, sticky day.  It was still early in the day and it was already blazing hot outside.
    She looked up at the cottage.  It looked exactly how she remembered it: small, quaint and charming.  The rose bushes she and Jake had planted were in full bloom and their sweet scent wafted through the humid summer air. 
    Amelia’s breath caught in her throat.
    “Hello there, neighbor!”
    Amelia nearly jumped out of her skin.  She wasn’t expecting anyone else to be around given the cabin’s secluded location, a good half mile from anyone or anything else.  She spun around.
    It was Harold, the long-time family friend who kept an eye on the cabin for her.
    “Hi,” she managed to reply, not quite trusting her voice.
    He chuckled, pulled a comb from the breast pocket of his button