West (The Henchmen MC 19)

Che was currently bent forward, hands on his thighs, sucking in greedy breaths, while the girl he'd been chasing—one of Auggie's friends—a tall and athletic redhead—was barely winded at all.

"On the daily, not that protected," Huck said, making my focus pull back to him, trying to remember what we were talking about. Right. The Russians. "They're cocky. They think they can protect themselves. But on shipment days, they tend to have a few hired hands watching out too. So we go after them on the off days."

"Alright fuck this," McCoy said, stalking over, slapping my hand. "Tagging your ass in," he explained, pulling me onto my feet. "Those chicks are out for blood. I've given them enough of mine," he added, holding out his arm, showing actual scratch marks, the skin raised and painful-looking. "Your sister is requesting we get subs," he said, nodding at Huck. "You coming?"

"Yeah. We'll talk more later," he told me, giving me a nod as my gaze moved to the group standing around waiting.

"Come on. Don't be a pussy," Auggie taunted, smirk pulling at her lips. "There's nothing to be scared of. There's no snakes here," she added, eyes dancing.

"Oh, pretty girl," I said, shaking my head. "You're going down for that," I told her, catching the ball when Remy tossed it to me.

The two of us went to line up, bending forward near each other while our teams got behind us.

"Luckily," she started in a voice just loud enough for me to hear, "I don't mind going down," she said, making my gaze shoot to hers, finding her eyes heated. "Actually, I'm pretty fucking into it," she told me. "Good luck trying to concentrate now," she added, doing a little shoulder shimmy that made her tits bounce around, barely contained by her bikini top.

The game could have been called right then and there.

She'd done it.

Proved her sex was superior.

Because I couldn't think about anything but her on her knees for the next twenty minutes, leaving me as winded as Che, as scratched up as McCoy, but still as enthusiastic as Remy.

I was just about to give us all a little hope, arm raised to pass the ball to Che who was close enough to our makeshift end-zone to finally get us some points.

And five-feet of determination caught me around the middle, sending the both of us flying.

"Fuck," I hissed as I landed on my back, Auggie sprawled across my front. "Sand looks a hell of a lot softer than it is," I added, realizing my arm had anchored around her midsection to anchor her to me as we went down, feeling her warm skin under my touch, forcing myself to make it drop down at my side instead.

"Your chest isn't any softer," she added, pressing her hands into the sand at my sides, pushing up, but only far enough to look down at me. "I think you deflated my tits. Which is impressive. Because they're real."

"You're going to need to have a little fucking mercy, sweetheart, and not talk about your tits right now," I told her, taking as deep a breath as I could with her on my chest.

"Why? Is it a problem?" she asked, wiggling her fucking hips against me, the friction making it damn near impossible to force my brain to keep my cock out of the equation.

"You know what, babe?" I asked, watching as her lips curved up.

"What?"

"I think you need to cool down," I told her, knifing up, crushing her to me so she couldn't scuttle away. Getting to my feet, I tossed her up over my shoulder.

"No. I'm sorry. I didn't mean it!" she squealed, pounding her fists against my back.

As it turned out, Auggie wasn't afraid of anything, but she was damn sure squeamish about the disgusting shit that could be found in the ocean.

When Huck told me, I had just cataloged it away as something interesting to know about her. I didn't think I could use it against her at some point.

Life could be pretty serendipitous at times.

"Nope. Someone needs to teach your ass a lesson," I declared as we moved past our teams, all of the members on both sides grinning at the sight.

"I am going to scream," she declared, pounding harder.

"Yeah, honey, you are," I agreed, going ahead and letting the desire she'd been shamelessly stoking slip into my voice since we were getting close to the water, out of earshot of the crew. My hand went up, slapping her ass hard. "And that is just going to make me love it even more," I added, feeling the cold waves lap at my feet, ankles, shins, as I moved in.

"Let me go. I'll do anything you want."

"Too late, baby, you've had this shit coming to you for a while," I told her, sliding her down my body, and tossing the two of us into an oncoming wave.