“Thalia, we’re going to go and hang out around the lake today and maybe go swimming. Do you want to come?” Mia smiled warmly at me, which seemed strange. I may be one of her bridesmaids, but she was anything but nice, usually.
“Ah, maybe I’ll hang around here today. I don’t swim. Sorry.” I shrugged my shoulders and carried on eating, as my throat seemed to have relaxed some.
“You don’t need to swim, you could just stay on the bank and watch us,” Mia replied relentlessly.
“She said she couldn’t swim. Leave it alone.”
“Jack. I was just thinking about her being alone, that’s all.”
“She won’t be alone,” he quickly glanced at me then back to Mia, “I have some work to do in one of the fields on the tractor so I’ll be around.”
Phoenix’s statement was met by silence.
“Um, are you sure that’s a good idea?” Liam frowned looking between the two of us.
“No, but it’s what’s going to happen.”
As I finished eating, I looked up to see Mia staring at me with a worried look on her face.
Standing up, Liam pushed his chair under the table and placed his dirty dishes into the dishwasher before taking Mia’s hand into his. “Come on Mia, let’s head out.”
He pulled her up from the table and after saying goodbye, both Mia and Liam disappeared from the house and a few moments later we heard Mia’s car starting up and disappear into the distance.
Being alone with Phoenix wasn’t the best decision I’d ever made. As soon as I knew he was staying around I should have changed my mind and gone with Liam. “I can’t keep doing this with you. It hurts too much.”
He clasped my hand in his. “I know... It hurts me too, but I can’t stay away and I’m sick of trying. Mia knows it’s you I want and she knows, that I know, it’s Liam she wants. Everything is just so damn tangled right now, but I’m working on a solution...and that’s all I’m going to say.”
I brought our joint hands up to my mouth and kissed his knuckles, before I met his eyes. “I don’t want you to stay away. I miss you and it hurts not seeing you around.”
“I wasn’t lying about working in the field, but I want you to come with me on the tractor...please.”
Grinning, I teased, “Are you begging me to come with you?”
He smirked. “I can pretty much guarantee that I won’t have to beg you to come with me,” he whispered.
Blushing, I smacked him on his arm as I stood and loaded the dishwasher with my dirty dishes before turning back to him, and answered, “I’d love to spend some time with you.”
Chapter 45
Jack
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I’d woken up this morning with the nerves gone. I was excited about my day with the first order of business being to head home to Thalia.
I still had trouble understanding why Lewis would force his only child to marry someone she didn’t love. I had no doubt that he loved Mia, so forcing her on to me when she loved Liam didn’t make any sense.
As I’d pulled up to the house, I’d caught Mia and Liam involved in a rather heated kiss on the back porch. I’d been surprised at first that they’d be so open with their affection and then laughed, telling them to carry on as I’d walked into the kitchen.
Inside I’d found Mom in one of her moods, slamming everything she could lay her hands on. Apart from telling me she’d made everyone pancakes, she stormed out the front door and within minutes I’d heard her drive off in her car. My only guess had been that she’d caught my brother on the back porch with my fiancée.
Slowly pushing away from the table, I walked towards Thalia who was watching me with all her emotions laid bare for me to see.
There was maybe an inch between us as I bent my head and placed a gentle kiss to her lips. I knew if I touched her anywhere else we wouldn’t make it outside.
Caressing down her arm I slid my fingers between hers before tugging her with me to the barn and the tractor.
I’d lived here all my life and even when I was a horny adolescent I’d never had a girl ride the tractor with me, but all that was about to change, and yeah, I was still horny.
Thalia climbed aboard first, which gave me an amazing view of her denim-clad butt with her sexy long legs.
Before joining her in the extra large cab of the new tractor, I quickly rearranged my dick in my jeans. After I maneuvered myself down into the seat, I took hold of Thalia’s hips and brought her down on my lap.
I caught my breath. She was wriggling around on top of my over excited cock. “Thalia,” I groaned.
“Just trying to get comfy...I’ve never done it in a tractor before.” She gave me a hopeful look and had me laughing when she batted her eyelashes.
“And you’re not going to today either. We’re going to behave and work the field, and then I might take you down to the pool and teach you to swim. On second thought, we’ll go to the smooth part of the river because being close to you with clothes on has me hard, but being close to you in next to nothing will be damn impossible and I’d rather not have witnesses to how hot you make me.”