Total pages in book: 206
Estimated words: 192184 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 961(@200wpm)___ 769(@250wpm)___ 641(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 192184 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 961(@200wpm)___ 769(@250wpm)___ 641(@300wpm)
I shook my head again and looked out the opened barn doors out at the pond.
“Your temper tantrum is over, Tia. Do I have to come get you?” he asked and I looked over at him and the look on his face made my blood run cold.
He was used to getting his own way. When things didn’t go the way he wanted them to go, he took matters into his own hands. He looked angry with me. Then his expression lightened and he tilted his head at me and smiled again.
I guess I was being a bitch. He’d brought me here to a place that was special to him in order to get us away from the chaos and I was, in essence, poo pooing all over it. He was trying. And he’d only been honest with me about my dad, and I took that truth out on him.
I walked over, put my knee to the bed and climbed up. I sat beside him and said, “It’s nice here. Sorry I’m being bitchy.”
He smiled at me and my heart lightened because I could see that the day might be salvageable by the look in his eyes.
“Come here,” he mouthed and opened his arms wide. I crawled over and he pulled me down on top of him and held me close, cradling my head against his chest with his hand. “You were right about what you said. Let me make it all up to you. I’ll work on making it up to you for as long as it takes.”
My heart swelled. “I lied,” I said softly. “I am warming up to you. I was just…” I didn’t know how to finish that sentence.
“I know. Kiss me.”
I kissed him quickly on the lips. “The things you said were really sweet. I like it when you’re sweet.” I put my head back on his chest, closed my eyes, and concentrated on the sound of his heartbeat.
“That’s all I get?” he asked.
“Mm.” I nuzzled in.
“Looks like I’ll have to take more, if I want it, huh?”
I shrugged. “Guess you’re not feeling sweet right now, huh? Well, if you think you can…” I looked up at his face and caught my bottom lip with my teeth.
His eyes lit up and he raised his brows. “Do you think I can’t?” His grip around me tightened.
I shrugged, “Dunno. You’d have to be pretty bold...” Goosebumps rose on my skin, but I managed to hold my gaze steady.
He growled and flipped me over so that I was on my back and he was on top of me, pinning my arms over my head. He kissed me roughly.
“You wanna see how bold I am?” He looked like he could barely restrain himself.
“Yeah,” I said, looking him straight in the eyes. I don’t know what made me decide to start this dangerous game with him, but I could feel my heart rate picking up tempo.
“You like provoking me? You like to play games, little girl?”
I shrugged innocently and blinked at him a few times. “I dunno what you mean.”
“You want me to take you,” he said, and his words and tone made moisture trickle down below. “I was gonna get you up here, serenade you with a picnic and be Mr. Romance. You might like sweet, but you don’t want sweet today, do you?”
I sucked in my bottom lip and shrugged, then said, “No.”
He gave me a knowing smile. “You’re perfect, Athena, you know that? You were made for me. Hide and seek. I’ll give you to the count of twenty. You’d better hide good because when I find you, I’m gonna fuck you so hard you won’t have any doubt in your mind about how bold I am.”
I gaped at him.
“1, 2, 3… better get moving. 4, 5, today sometime? 6…”
I gasped at the quickening pace of his counting, jumped up, and took off down the stairs. The barn door was closed. I knew it’d make noise when I opened it… so I swung it wide, but then ducked back in and climbed through the already opened back hatch of the jeep and got into the back seat as quietly as possible. A few seconds later I heard him leave the barn and I let out the breath I’d been holding.
Wow. This was a rush. And at the end I’d get sweet release. I could see how this could get addicting, especially with how intense I suspected he’d play. A few minutes passed and I hadn’t heard anything anywhere around me. In fact it was eerily quiet. I sat up and almost had heart failure when I realized he was standing outside the driver’s side door, staring down at me with a smile on his face. I shrieked and scampered out the passenger side and ran out of the barn.