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“Stop.” “Stop what?” He sets a beer on the counter in front of me. “Who are you, and what are you planning to do with my lifeless body after your little ruse to charm and abduct me works?” He grins. “So it is working.”
“Sounds kinda dirty when you say it like that.” I step forward. He steps forward, too, so that our faces are mere inches apart. “I’ll make it as dirty as you want, Ava.”
“My wild’s not turning you off?” “Hell no. Your wild is the hottest thing about you.” She grins. “So is yours.”
grit my teeth. “You best not be playin’, pretty girl.” “I’ll play with you all I like, cowboy.”
Who am I and since when do I do dirty talk like this? I blame Ava. Honky-tonk queen. Barrel racer. Long-legged slayer of men.
“Just.” He blows out a breath. “You. So fucking pretty when you smile. I can’t—goddamn it, Ava.”
I think I’ve been dying of thirst for a while, but being with you makes me feel like I’m dancing in the rain. Water is suddenly everywhere.
“How ’bout you show me how good you are at swallowing? On your knees, Sawyer.” She puts her hands on my shoulders and pushes me down.
I carefully tuck the roses into the crook of my arm. Picking up the scooter with my free hand, I set it underneath the eave by the garage door. We’re supposed to get rain tomorrow, and I don’t want the scooter—or Junie’s day—to get ruined.
“Oh, honey,” I pant, curling my fingernails into the hair at the nape of his neck. “I like this.” “You like me,” he growls, sending a hot gust of air over my throat. “Only me.”
“Aw, baby, you got me.” He kicks the door shut behind us as he leans down to suck on my nipple through my shirt. “Anytime. For as long as you’ll let me stay.” Straightening, he looks me in the eye. “ ’Cause I wanna stay, pretty girl.”
“Let me,” he murmurs, kissing my mouth. “Let me, Ava.” He kisses one cheek, then the other. “Please let me stay.”
Sawyer groans again, this time loud enough to make me say, “Quiet.” “I can’t,” he grunts, pumping into me. I flatten my palm over his mouth. “You will.” His gaze goes feral. Oh, my cowboy likes that.
“Who?” I bite out the word. My pulse jumps, palms tingling. I feel my brothers watching us. Ava blinks, her throat working as she swallows. “What do—” “Who did this to you?”
“Never.” The word comes out as a growl. Ava’s eyebrows pop up. “Never what?” “He never talks to you like that. Ever. He ever speaks to you that way again, he’ll deal with me. You got it?”
Didn’t realize how dead I was inside until I met you, and no matter what happens, I’ll always be grateful that you brought me back to life.”
“For what? Lovin’ you for who you are? You don’t gotta thank me for that. Easiest, best thing I’ve ever done has been falling hard and fast for you.”
teeth. “I get that this is all so much messier than either of us hoped—” “Really? Because I’m not sure it’s very messy at all.” Her eyelashes flutter. “But we want—” “The same thing, Ava. Each other. And help unloading the dishwasher.”
“So, hey,” I begin, looking him square in the eye. “I’m gonna be nice to you in front of Ava and Junie, because they really do mean the world to me.” Dan peers at me from the corner of his eye. He’s gripping the door handle of his truck like a lifeline. “Okay.” “But you ever make my girl cry again, I won’t be this nice. Understood?”
“That was a misunderstanding,” Dan says at last. “I apologized to Ava.” “I don’t care. You make her cry, you’ll see a side of me you’re not gonna like.”
“Honey.” Her eyes are hazy. “What lesson is this?” “The one where you learn no one else is gonna fuck you like I do.”
She grabs the hat off my head and tosses it aside, trailing her lips up the column of my throat. “Like it’s just you, melting into me. Nothing else exists, only me and you and this bed.”
