Chapter 14
Mackenzie
“Ugh…” I groaned as I sank down into a squat by the water’s edge.
Any other time I would’ve been transfixed by the beautiful sight, the massive white barked eucalyptus trees creating a wall around the water hole, but right now, all I could focus on was getting my hands clean.
With some scrubbing, they emerged crap free.
Which only made clear how bad everything else was.
“Oh my god…” I’d tried so hard not to be a whiny city girl, but that evaporated now. Shovelling excrement was different to being covered in it. “This is so freaking gross.”
“Strip off.” I stared at the muddy boots that appeared in front of me. “I’ll turn around and give you some privacy, then once you’re in the water, I’ll jump in too.”
“Sounds reasonable.” Straightening up, I looked Troy up and down. “But won’t you need some privacy too?”
As if in answer to that, his fingers moved, undoing his buttons in seconds, then tossing his shirt into the water’s edge.
“I’m not shy.” That was confirmed by that cocky smile. The morning sun had turned his hair a dark gold. “If you want to take a look, I won’t stop you.”
That was enough to have me spinning around.
Not so much for modesty’s sake, but because I didn’t want him to see my cheeks burn like fire.
I’d felt him respond when we were trying to get out of the mud and that had me all discombobulated.
Gross mud and hot guy was not a combination that sat easy inside my head.
Gross won out and so I stripped off as quickly as I could.
Boots seemed determined to stay on my feet, my sticky jeans suctioned to my thighs, but finally I wrestled myself out of them and then stepped shivering into the water, naked as the day I was born.
Deeper and deeper I went, until I was crouched down in the water, only my head floating free.
“You can turn around now,” I said.
“Yeah, I’m good,” he said as he pulled his belt free, then toed off his boots.
It was when he started to ease his jeans down that I realised I should be giving him some privacy. Of course, the most perfectly formed, lily white ass, was revealed and all good sense went out the window. My hands moved without thought, washing through the water as Troy turned around.
Oh. My. Lanta.
It wasn’t just the broad shoulders, thick arm muscles and abs that flexed under my attention. My eyes trailed down as my brain went offline. Because when we were flailing about in the mud, I got a sense that my boss was particularly… gifted, and that was confirmed right now.
My boss had the biggest damn dick I’d seen, and I didn’t know what to do with that information. Thick, hard as nails, and curved upwards just slightly, my eyes followed every bob as Troy walked into the water.
“See something you like, Mackenzie?”
“What…?” I blinked as the realisation I was sexually harassing my employer filtered through. “Um, so, I didn’t mean—”
Dropping down into the water, he swam over in a few smooth strokes, only to come and stand before me.
“I told you if you wanted to take a look, I wouldn’t stop you.”
That growl of his transformed in this moment, becoming low and throaty and more like a purr.
“Is this what happens every time you have a farm stay worker?” I stammered out. “You go skinny dipping and—”
“No.” Watching his hand move in slow motion, I idly noted that it was clean now as he pushed a heavy strand of my hair back.
Both palms landed on my shoulders and then he turned me around so my back was to him.
Before I could ask why, I heard the sound of water being scooped up, then felt it run through my hair.
“Charlie’s always been on me to get more workers, but I always said no. Until you.”
Scoop after scoop of water, he rinsed my hair clean, then pulled me towards him so I was floating on my back.
“But if I knew what I was missing out on, maybe I’d have changed my mind.”
There was only a thin layer of water between me and him now, my breasts and belly pushing up and out over the surface.
Shame wanted to rush in, but his steady gaze, the slow stroke of his hands forced it to wait its turn.
This felt too good. Strong fingers massaging my scalp, removing all traces of the mess, then smoothing down my throat, over my shoulders and further down.
I wanted him to touch me.
That realisation came as a surprise and my eyes flicked open, staring into his, only to find he was watching my every response from behind heavy lids.
“Troy—”
“I know.” His palm scalded my skin, dispelling the cool of the water as it traced the slope of one breast. “Fuck, how I know. I’ve been dreaming of touching you since that night with the spider.”
“What?”
I frowned, the spell I was under ready to break.
“Charged into your room, expecting some other emergency, then was struck dumb by the sight of you.” I felt every callus as his hand cupped one breast. My back arched without thought, wanting to press harder into his grip. “Mackenzie, I don’t think you know how beautiful you are.”
A twitch of muscles, an involuntary frown, I couldn’t help my response.
Alex and the memory of the sneer on his face when he told me exactly why he couldn’t marry me appeared for just a second, but I shoved that away.
Rolling over, I caught Troy’s look of concern, but that evaporated when I rose up out of the water.
Mom thought I needed to get back into dating, but what I really needed was to see a hot Aussie farmer’s lips fall open as he watched every droplet roll down my body.
“Maybe I don’t.” My voice cracked just a little on those words, but I forged on. “That might be something you need to show me.” Reaching out, finding the length of his cock and tracing a line up the centre, then enclosing my fist around the head. Yeah, that felt like just what I needed.
Troy too.
A hiss of breath, then his hips rocked with my strokes as his hands went to my jaw. Cupping it in his grip, his head dropped down and right before he brushed his lips against mine, he groaned my name.
“Fuck, Mackenzie…”
I didn’t get a chance to respond. The first kiss was gentle, but the second claimed me.
Hard and searing, I was picked up, not to be carried over a fence, but so that my legs locked around his waist. Forced to let go, my hand released his cock, only for it to settle right where I needed it, nestled between my folds.
“Been waiting…” He mumbled that between kisses, but didn’t allow for verbal responses. Just tongues and teeth and lips, each trying to trace the shape of the other in greedy kisses. “Need…”
“Know exactly what you mean.”
My face pressed into his shoulder as I clung on, my hips moving in time with his. The friction wasn’t exactly right, but it’d do for now. As if sensing that tiny moment of dissatisfaction, his hands sunk into my buttocks, pressing me harder against him.
“Fuck…!” I hissed.
Water, my own lubrication, had him sliding over and over the most sensitive part of me. My clit had waves of pleasure radiating out through me, forcing out a small sob. So much pain had been endured, it was almost as if I forgot I could feel like this.
But I was intent on making up for lost time.
“I…” My voice broke as I opened my eyes and stared into Troy’s. “I’m…”
“Gonna come?” His voice was deep and ragged, as if dragged up from the depths of him. “Right there with you, love.”
I knew Aussies tossed around that word like it was nothing, but that’s not how it felt right now. He moved, I moved, reaching out now for something bigger than the both of us, and when the last pass of his cock across my clit had me shuddering, I grabbed for it.
Pleasure. Simple, amazing, easily overlooked pleasure.
Everything had hurt so much for so long, it felt twice as sweet when my orgasm rushed through me.
Troy’s arms held me tight, holding me through every shudder.
Then a low groan of his own and a hot splash against my body made clear the bliss was shared.
For some minutes, hours, years, there was only the chirp of the birds in the trees, the drip of water, but then just as I was feeling shattered, the sound of trail bike engines cut through the quiet.
“Shit…!”
Troy had me behind him in seconds, just in time for me to sink down into the water. Submerged up to my nose, I peered past him as three motorbikes appeared by the water’s edge.
“Having a morning swim?” Billy’s grin, the way he looked out over the water, made clear he didn’t believe that for a second. “That why you missed my call? The trucks are here to collect the grain shipment a day early.”
“Well, what’re you doing here then?” Troy snapped. “You know what to do.”
“But you always want to supervise…” Bronson shook his head in confusion.
“If you can’t handle it by now, I don’t know what to do with you,” he growled. “Mackenzie got thrown off the back of the ute. We’re just cleaning ourselves up and then I’m taking her back to the house.”
“That what happened?” Billy grinned at the other two men. “Well, you heard big brother. Let’s get this show on the road.”
I didn’t dare emerge from the water until the sound of the bike engines had almost completely faded away, but when I did, Troy was right there, a small smile forming.
“So that—” I started to say.
“Was fucking amazing.” Arms went around my legs and I let out a yelp as he carried me out of the water, not stopping until he sat me down on the back seat. As I blinked, his hands, his body slid down so he was kneeling between my thighs. “Please tell me that it wasn’t just a one off thing.”
The smart thing to say was yes, it was. That I was contracted to work here for six months and then I was flying back home. Trouble was, he pressed a kiss to my inner thigh and my body sucked up that sweetness like the desert sands do the rain.
Everything had hurt for so long, and with every kiss, he dispelled that pain.
Perhaps that’s why my hand went to the back of his head, sinking my fingers into his hair and feeling his groan as I pressed his mouth deeper.
Riding the face of a hot Aussie in the middle of nowhere was everything I didn’t know I needed.
“Not a one off thing,” I panted, feeling his tongue flicker, then gasping as hard fingers were pushed inside me. “If I knew that’s what you could do with your tongue…” That wave of bliss was ready to crash over me again. “I’d have made sure it was kept busy.”
His only answer was a dull grunt, then his tongue moving as I spread my thighs wide, letting him get deeper.