Total pages in book: 86
Estimated words: 81009 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 405(@200wpm)___ 324(@250wpm)___ 270(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 81009 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 405(@200wpm)___ 324(@250wpm)___ 270(@300wpm)
Nina smirked at me and took a pull from the cigarette in her mouth.
“I’m not a child,” Salem said, bringing my eyes back to her. “I’m an adult. They didn’t let me do anything. I did it.” She placed one of her hands on her hips and wobbled some.
Dammit. She could drown like this.
“Calm down. She was nervous about wearing a bikini. Something about her butt being too big for it, which is bullshit, but she’s convinced. Anyway, drinking calmed her nerves,” Nina informed me.
“I did tell her to take it slow,” Goldie added, sounding apologetic.
“She could fucking drown if she fell in,” I snapped as I reached her.
She tried to move back but lost her balance. I grabbed her wrist with one hand and her waist with the other to steady her.
“She’s not going to drown. I’m here,” Pepper called to me from inside the gazebo, where she sat with Dolly. “Let her have some fun. It’s been a shitty week.”
“Yeah, lemme have some fun.” Her words ran together, and she leaned into me and laid her head on my chest and sighed. “You still smell the same,” she mumbled, burying her nose against my chest to inhale. “Mmm.”
My arms wrapped around her of their own accord and held her there against me. I liked this too much, and the idea of her moving away made me feel violent. My left hand rested just above the swell of her ass, and the urge to slide it further and get a handful was strong, but she was drunk, and we had an audience.
She shivered against me. “You’re warm,” she said. “I’m cold.”
My eyes searched for a towel to cover her up. I’d turned her so the dicks down at the bonfire could no longer see her ass, and that had calmed me down some.
“Where’s a towel?” I asked them.
Nina pointed toward a stack of them just as Salem shook her head.
“No. Don’t go. This is nice.”
Fuck. Yeah, it was nice. It was the kinda nice that fucked a man up.
Pepper came walking out of the gazebo, holding one. “Here, I’ll take her inside.”
Salem’s hands fisted my cut as she held on to me tighter.
I held out my hand. “I’ll do it.”
Pepper raised her eyebrows. “She’s drunk, Tex.”
As if I wasn’t aware.
“I picked up on that,” I replied with sarcasm lacing my tone.
“You take me where it’s warm,” Salem said against my chest.
I glanced down at her, then back at Pepper. “You heard her. Give me the towel.”
Pepper reluctantly held it out to me. “She’s vulnerable. Especially where you’re concerned.”
What had Salem said to Pepper? Had she been talking about me?
My arms tightened around her, and she made a soft purring sound. Damn my dick for getting hard. There was no way I was touching her while she was trashed. When I sank my cock into her again, she would remember it.
Taking the towel, I wrapped it around her back. “Come on,” I told her. “Let’s go inside.”
She didn’t move. “I like this. You feel good.”
So do you, Angel Face.
“Let me wrap you up and get you inside. Once you get dressed, you can do this until you fall asleep,” I said close to her ear, not wanting the rest of the women who were all watching us to hear me.
She tilted her head back and gave me an endearing smile. “Really?”
I nodded.
She let go of me then, and I was able to get her fully covered. At least the parts that had the other men ogling her up. Her body leaned into my side, and I kept my arm around her shoulders as I walked her back to the clubhouse.
“I didn’t think you’d notice me with all the naked boobs down there with y’all,” she said as we reached the door.
“Angel Face, I don’t think there’s a man down there who didn’t notice you. And I was never down there. I was in a meeting. I walked outside and came straight over to you.”
She looked up at me as I led her inside. “Why?”
I smirked. Was she serious?
“Why do you think?”
“Because I could drown,” she said slowly.
Chuckling, I nodded. “Yeah, that was a reason, but not the initial one.”
We reached the steps, and she paused, glancing at them as if they were an obstacle course. I gave her two solid seconds to think about it, then figured fuck it and scooped her up. She squealed as I did so, and her arms flew to my neck.
“Why’re you carrying me?” she asked, then sniffed my neck and made a pleased hum.
“Because it’s quicker and I don’t have to worry about you tripping.” And it gives me a reason to hold you against me without taking advantage of you.
“M’kay,” she agreed, snuggling against me as if she was trying to burrow into my chest.