“Tonight,” Theo agreed.
She made a clicking sound and turned the mare to head in the direction she’d come. Seeing her astride a horse made me think of her riding me. Or watching her take all of Theo.
“Damn,” Theo murmured as we watched her go, shifting his dick in his jeans.
“Right?”
Once she’d disappeared over the rise, we turned back to the ruins. My wolf wanted to chase after her, pull her off the horse and take her in the tall grass in the most primitive of ways.
But she was human.
She was the daughter of our pack’s enemy.
We had to do this right or it could go so fucking wrong.
Theo pulled his cowboy hat off and rubbed his head. “I’m not sure how she’s going to get past us putting her father in prison.”
My shoulders sagged because Theo was right. We couldn’t miss the chemical scent in the ashes. We didn’t need the lab tests to prove anything. This old cabin burned down as a result of a chemical fire.
Someone had cooked meth here. On the land our mate was to ranch.
ALI
After seeing the destruction to the cabin and the limited access to it if help was needed, I decided that anything other than the main house wasn’t going to work. If I didn’t know the place had burned down, did my dad, or anyone else who worked at the ranch? If a lightning strike had been what finished the old place, then it could happen while I lived there.
Firefighters couldn’t get a big truck down the rustic dirt road to put it out. There was phone reception, but who would I call? What if I got hurt? No one would be able to help me.
I might be eager for a little space, but I wasn’t stupid. I’d have to think of something different. After handing off Daisy to a hand to be brushed and fed, I showered, taking my time to wash off the sweat of the day.
What the water didn’t do was wash away the thoughts of Holt and Theo. Of their kisses. Of me saying yes to having dinner with them. Them! My nipples were hard and my clit throbbed with the need to come. I hadn’t been this aroused—and they weren’t anywhere near me—in… ever.
I’d been hot for them since I opened the front door to them the day before. Those kisses and Holt touching me so intimately—even over my jeans—had made me needy. I had to come. While dinner at Holt’s house might lead to something, I knew how to get myself off. It wasn’t the same thing as a hot guy, but I hadn’t had tons of luck in that department. I needed relief, and my fingers could give it to me. Leaning against the shower wall, I touched my clit, rubbing it in the small circular motion I knew worked.
What was different was that I thought about Theo’s blue eyes. His strong body. Holt’s dimples. The skilled hand he’d had between my thighs.
I came on a gasp in less than a minute. I had been that needy, and the man-candy porn in my head had made it easy.
I slumped against the shower wall and caught my breath. Thought about how I’d just masturbated to thoughts of being with two men.
While it was a new fantasy for me, both of them being interested in me seemed to be a thing for them. Not a one off, but more of a way of life. They dated and touched a woman together. Although the concept of that was somewhat crazy, they seemed to be anything but.
Clear, level headed.
The fact that they’d come to the house with suspicions of meth coming from Granger County and then them being at the destroyed cabin only showed they were diligent in their jobs. It didn’t feel like they were trying to pin something on anyone in the Jenkins family. In fact, it felt as if they were trying to rule us out, to steer their investigation elsewhere.
I didn’t think my father would see it that way though.
An hour later, when I caught up with him on the back patio, I confirmed I was right.
“What do you mean, it burned down?” he asked.
An empty tumbler was on the wrought-iron coffee table in front of him. I didn’t know if this was the bottom of his first or fifth glass.
Instead of sitting, I set my hands on the back of the large outdoor sofa and faced him. I’d left my hair long down my back, and I’d put on some makeup. Eyeliner, mascara, and colored lip gloss was the extent of my routine, but I wanted to look pretty for Holt and Theo. Sure, they’d kissed me when I’d been sweaty and smelled a little like horse, but even I wanted to feel special. To be looked at with appreciation.