Chapter 7
Stone
Hell’s bells. She’s so damn pretty. Her lower lip is caught between her teeth and she’s eyeing Honeypot happily.
But there’s something else in her soft gray eyes. Something sad.
“I hope you don’t think that it’s anything to do with you. I just don’t intend to get involved with any woman again. Nothing personal.”
She huffs and her pretty silver eyes slew my way. “Everything like that is personal. But I know what you mean. I’m just surprised is all. I can’t imagine any woman leaving you. I mean you’re….” Her slim hand waves at my body up and down and she flushes, catching her lip between her teeth again.
Lord, why is she so damn pretty! My cock stretches in my tight jeans and it feels like I’m getting a zipper branded on it.
But my brows lift and I grin cheekily at her. “Yeah? What am I?”
She growls under her breath, her full pink lips tightening. “You know that you’re good-looking. I don’t have to tell you that! Stop teasing me, dammit!”
Chuckling, I reach out to run my fingers down her arm. “You’re easy to tease, Sugar.” I lean on the stall and eye her closely. “Why are you not more upset about my mother’s machinations?’
She glances away and bites that full lip again and I really want to reach over and pull it out of her teeth, soothing it with my tongue. A flash of heat runs up my spine and around to settle in my dick again.
At this rate I’m gonna have to cut my damn jeans off!
Sighing, she leans against the wall between the stalls. “I’ve never really had a boyfriend. Or anything like that. I move around too much.”
Ice coats my veins when I think about her leaving. Shuffling my feet, I stare at the floor like it’s the most fascinating thing in the world. It’s either that or her and right now I don’t want her to know what I’m feeling.
“What about your family?”
“I grew up in the system. I was an only child of only children and they were in a car accident when I was twelve. Nobody wants a twelve-year old so I just aged out of the system. And as soon as I did, I started traveling.”
“Why?”
Her eyes come up, wary, guarded. Stormy as hell. “I don’t know. I guess maybe I’m looking for something. I haven’t found it yet if I am.”
“Maybe you’re looking for a man of your own?” I hold my breath, waiting to see what she says.
Shaking her head, she mutters, “I don’t think so. Each place is different. And although men check me out, I just don’t seem to be what they’re looking for.”
“That guy the other night sure thought you were.”
Huffing, she glares at me, steel in her gaze. “I’m not interested in being some guy’s one-night stand. That’s why I’ve never…”
This time I catch it. “You’re a virgin?” Satisfaction courses through my body when she nods and looks away. She waited for me.
Jerking myself up, I growl. “Not me. Knock it off, dumbass!”
Her head comes up and she looks around the empty barn. “Who are you talking to?”
“Nobody. Why don’t I take you home?” She nods her head and her hair flames in the barn lights, shimmering like wildfire.
But as she turns, she yelps and trips over…air? Her hand comes out as her knee hits the ground and her fingers curl around my straining erection.
Sucking in air through my teeth, I groan and close my eyes.
“Oh, oh! I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean to…I mean, are you okay? I didn’t hurt you did I?” Her hand starts to pat at my crotch and my dick gets so hard I could probably pound nails with the damn thing.
She gasps and her eyes go so round that she looks like a cartoon character. I don’t think she’s breathing anymore either.
Moving stiffly, I pull myself back from her then I reach out my hands to help her to her feet, grimacing as my dick jerks again.
“Are you alright?” She asks me softly.
“I’m good,” I growl roughly.
“You don’t look good. You look…”. She doesn’t finish her sentence but her eyes dart down to my erection and I groan again.
“Jesus…stop looking at it, Sugar. He likes that.”
Her scarlet brows climb and then she giggles. “Yeah?”
Rolling my eyes, I jerk at my pants and try to get comfortable. “I think you can tell that quite well.”
She doesn’t answer me but her eyes keep darting to my crotch and it takes everything in me not to throw her ass down in some hay and fuck her breathless.
But she’s a virgin and there’s no way in hell she should get fucked for the first time in a cold, drafty barn on a bale of hay.
There’s a soft mewl off to the side and for a minute I think it’s her but her head comes up, her eyes searching the darkness. Then she darts out of sight and I sigh, wondering what she’s gonna get into now.
The woman’s a terror for sure.
But then she pops back up in front of me holding a tiny smoke-gray kitten that’s almost the same color as her eyes. It’s so tiny that it just looks like a hairball but she’s smiling, her gray eyes gleaming.
“He’s so cute!”
“He’s a she,” I say, glancing at the undercarriage of the tiny animal.
“She’s so cute.” She wanders off to the door and waits for me.
“Do you think your mom would care if I take it with me.” Her brows scrunch again.
“It’s cold in here. She shouldn’t be out here.
Where’s her mom?” She searches around a hay bale like all of a sudden a smoke-gray mama is going to pop her head around the corner looking for her baby.
“Somebody probably dropped it off around here and she wandered into the barn.”
“Who would drop off this little tiny thing? What kind of people are out there?” She wanders off, muttering angrily under her breath even as she cuddles the little thing closer to her and wraps it up in her coat.
Shaking my head, I close the door behind us and help her across the yard and over into my truck. She immediately pats at the heater and sets it on a blast so hot that hell couldn’t possibly be hotter.
But I don’t say anything. Because she’s smiling and cuddling the kitten and it’s giving the occasional rusty purr and rubbing its filthy head on her arm.
“You’re gonna need to pick up some things at the store but stay here and I’ll get you a few things from the house. We have emergency supplies for these kinds of surprises.”
She nods her head but she’s chatting with the little kitten and a jarring shot of jealousy ripples through me. Which is ridiculous. It’s a helpless little kitten and I’m a grown man. One that doesn’t want a woman.
Right?