Jamison
R egan lied, she fucking lied and that was the one thing that he wouldn’t stand. He grabbed the keys to the gator and just about made his escape when Ash came barreling into the barn with a murderous expression on his face. Of course, he would take Regan’s side in all of this, he was pretty sure that his best friend was already ass over tea kettle for her.
“You made her cry, . You need to go back in there and make this right because I’m not willing to let her go just because you are hung up on a number. That’s all age is—a number. She doesn’t care how old you are why should you care that she’s a few years younger than she originally told us?” didn’t want to talk about any of this right now. He just wanted to get on the tractor and pull in the cattle from the field, but he knew Ash enough to know that he wasn’t going to let it go.
sighed, trying to find his control. “She lied to us, man. She took our job and didn’t come clean until she spent the night between us. How can you stand there and defend her?” Ash crossed the barn to stand face-to-face with and for a split second, he was sure that his friend was going to punch him in the jaw. Of course, it wouldn’t be the first time an argument had come to blows between the two of them.
“She was in a bad situation, you heard her. She was living with that sleazy stepfather of hers after her mom died. Regan was looking to get out of there any way that she could. I’m happy that she landed on our doorstep and not dead in a ditch somewhere because no one cared for her. Would you have given her a second look if you knew that she was only twenty-two?” thought about it and fuck, Ash was right. He wouldn’t have agreed to hire her no matter how gorgeous she was in her profile picture. He would have told Ash to forget it and find someone else.
“No, I would not have considered hiring her let alone agree to make her ours. Sixteen fucking years is a big age difference. Hell, I could drive a car by the time she was born.” Ash smirked, and knew that he was going to say something that would completely piss him off.
“Don’t say whatever you were thinking, Ash. From that goofy crooked grin on your face, I’m betting that you’re going to be a complete smart ass and it’s going to just piss me off even more.” Ash laughed and clapped ’s shoulder.
“So, no jokes about you being a grumpy old man or anything like that? Got it.” Ash sighed and looked down at his boots. “I like her . I want her to stick around and hell, I want her to be ours. But I won’t do anything without you, and judging from last night, neither will she. It’s the three of us or none of us, that’s the deal.” Ash waited him out, the hopefulness on his face nearly did in.
“Keep in mind that we haven’t been entirely honest with Regan either. If she finds out that we hired her based on her profile picture and the fact that we both wanted to fuck her before she even got to our house, she’ll turn tail and run back home.” Dammit, he hated when Ash made a good point and made sense.
“There is no fucking way that she will ever go back home to that asshole stepfather of hers. I won’t allow it; I’ll take her over my knee first.” The thought of pulling Regan over his lap and spanking her ass red made his cock stand at attention. There was no way that he would let her go now, he wanted her too much to walk away.
“Fine, I’ll apologize to her tonight when we take her out to dinner.” Ash’s face split with his killer smile that all the ladies in town went crazy for. growled and jumped on the gator. “Tell Regan that I won’t be in for lunch, I have to go over to Gentry’s farm and see if he’ll make us a deal on that little piece of land he wants to sell. It would be the perfect place to put a pond in for the cattle.”
“Or skinny dipping,” Ash yelled over the engine. flipped him the finger and drove off and fuck, now he was thinking about going skinny dipping with Regan Starr.