Chapter 16
***Aggie***
It occurred to me that I hadn’t seen any of the guys with their shirts off right around the time Knight was taking his shirt off.
After eating his weight in cake and ice cream, he’d decided to join me and Gracie in the pool.
I’d felt his strength the day before, but I was still floored when he dropped his shirt on the back of his chair and stood before me with the body of a professional athlete.
His chest and abs instantly had my mouth watering and I had to turn away to hide the look on my face.
I’d already applied sunscreen to Gracie and most of my body, but I couldn’t force my legs to carry me to the pool, not when Knight was going to have to apply sunscreen and I was close enough to see it smooth over each divot of his abs. I was hovering, something I had no business doing.
“Are you coming, Aggie?” Gracie splashed in the shallow end, entertaining herself with a pool float.
“Um, in just a minute, Gracie. I’m just letting my sunscreen dry.”
Knight moved closer to me and scoffed. “Liar.”
I chanced looking over at him and had to lean against the table. He was working sunscreen into his chest and my body went weak. My brain, too, apparently. “You work behind a computer as much as me, if not more. How?”
He quirked an eyebrow. “How what?”
“How do you look like you work out every day? How do you not have the same softness that I have? Working in an office doesn’t exactly make for a super tight ass typically. At least not for me.”
Turning completely to me, Knight narrowed his eyes at me. “You’re talking to a man who saw you completely naked last night, Aggie. I know exactly what your ass looks like and every place you’re soft. It’s all the good places, by the way.”
I bit my lip and looked back at the pool. “You still didn’t answer how you look like that.”
He lowered his mouth to my ear. “I swim. I run. And I fuck.”
“Good to know.” I hated how breathy my voice sounded. “Are you as good at the first two as you are at the last one?”
A surprised laugh stopped him in his tracks. “Wow.”
I looked up at him and grinned. “What? I’m not going to deny it. Would you believe me if I did?”
His pupils dilated as he slowly shook his head. “Not a fucking chance.”
“Aggie! Uncle Knight! Come on!” Gracie was growing bored and it wouldn’t be long before she was out of the pool and coming for us.
“Did you know he was checking you out in the kitchen?” Knight looked away from me and finished rubbing sunscreen on his abs. The stiffness of his shoulders told me he was uncomfortable with the topic, despite being the one to bring it up.
“Jamie?” I took the bottle and squirted some out in my hands, damning myself to an afternoon of being turned on with no end in sight.
I pulled him around so I could reach his back and sighed at the feeling of his muscles rippling under my hands.
“I figured it out in the end. When you grabbed my neck and all but pissed on me.”
“I didn’t—I just didn’t like the way he was acting.” He shuddered when I rubbed his sides and down to his hips. “There was no pissing.”
I couldn’t help leaning in close to him and letting the warmth of his body sink into me.
My hands moved slower and slower, my movements distracted as I inhaled and let my chest graze his back.
“I’m not enjoying this, by the way. I just..
.like being a decent person who doesn’t want others to burn in the sun. So, don’t think anything else.”
“If we didn’t have an audience, I’d ‘not enjoy' bending you over this table and taking you right now.” His voice was pure gravel as he spoke and he growled under his breath when I fully pressed myself into his back. “Goddammit, Aggie.”
“You guys are slow!” Gracie’s drawn out declaration shook me from my lust haze.
Pulling away from Knight, I rubbed my hands down my shirt to wipe off the excess sunscreen and muttered to myself. “Worst fucking nanny in the history of nannies.”
Knight caught my hand. “Best nanny to fuck, though.”
I smacked his hand. “That’s not a compliment. How many came before me?”
“None! I mean, there were nannies, but none that we...” He trailed off once we were in hearing distance of Gracie. “You are the only one.”
“Want to see my flips, Uncle Knight? I can flip better than Aggie, but only because she’s got boobs.”
Knight slowly turned his head to face me, a giant smile transforming his already handsome face into something that should’ve been illegal. “Oh, yeah?”
I grunted and walked towards the deep end. “Worst nanny ever.”
Gracie spent forever forcing us to watch her pool moves, but I realized that I was having fun. Knight wasn’t so bad to be around when he wasn’t being an asshole and standing in the way of my career. In another time and place, I would’ve loved to pick his brain about the work he did.
It was only when Kyrin showed up in a dusty pair of jeans and a cowboy hat that we all knew it was time to get out of the pool. We’d been in for too long and I still wanted to show Gracie a movie from my childhood before dinner.
Kyrin stood next to the pool with a couple of towels in his hands, raised eyebrows and tired eyes focused on me.
He handed Gracie her towel and nodded at her to go inside and find Mary to ask about a snack.
When I got out, he didn’t let go of the towel he handed to me.
He stepped into my space and looked me over slowly. “Thought you’d be gone.”
“You thought wrong.” I held up my arms sarcastically. “You going to dry me off?”
A hint of a smile touched his lips. Instead of laughing me off, though, he unfolded the towel and slowly worked at drying me off. “Arms up. The shirt has to go. It’ll never dry enough.”
I looked over at Knight and saw he was waiting to see what I’d do.
Not wanting to back down, I lifted my arms in the air and held my breath as Kyrin pulled the wet shirt over my head, leaving me in just my wet bra and panties.
He continued drying me, even going down to one knee so he could dry my legs.
Staring down at his cowboy hat, I chewed on my lip.
It wasn’t fair for them to start playing nice.
Kyrin stood up and gently squeezed my hair with the towel. His face was pinched with frustration as he worked and it was impossible to not see that something was bothering him. The lines across his forehead were etched deep, even as he forced a smile when my hair was dry. “All done.”
I was a sucker because I couldn’t ignore his mood. I touched his arm and stared up at him, eyes protected from the sun by his hat. “Are you okay?”
His shoulders sagged and he pulled his hat off, revealing matted hair and even more dirt. “We lost a mare today.”
Knight blew out a harsh breath. “Shit. I’m sorry, Ky.”
I wrapped my arms around his waist and hugged him tight. “I’m sorry, too.”
He accepted my hug for less than five full seconds and then pulled away roughly, shoving his hat back on his head and turning towards the house. “I’ll be down for dinner.”
Knight stared after his twin with a deep frown on his face. He glanced over at me once before walking after his brother. I stood there, feeling rejected for no reason and pissed at myself for feeling that way.