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Niko
The plan was to drop the clothes off on the edge of her bed and walk away. I have shit to do, anyway. The map needs to be studied and I have guns to clean.
Instead, I’m standing outside of a slightly cracked door, holding my breath as I watch Lainey change into the flannel I’ve given to her.
Fucking hell!You’d think this was sleepaway camp, and I was thirteen, not forty. I will myself to look away, but my body stands in the same spot, peering through the crack in the door with a tiny prayer in the back of my head that the fabric will fall, and those heavy breasts will come into view.
I’m sick. I need help.
“Niko,” my father’s voice echoes from the end of the hall with a deep rasp.
“Jesus! I thought you were in bed for the night.” I snap forward and meet him at the end of the hall. I don’t need to draw attention to the fact that I was ogling the woman behind the door. He’s already seen me doing that. I wander by, hoping he’ll keep his distance, but he grabs my arm and pulls me back toward him.
“She’s here to hunt. That’s the deal. Don’t do the thing all you boys do. You hear me?”
“Thanks for the advice,” I spit, flinching away from him, but he steps forward as though he’s challenging me.
What the fuck is going on?He’s always aggressive, but this is a first.
“She’s off limits. You hear me? I don’t want you fucking with her. That father of hers could ruin our lives.”
“I’m not into her.”
“Might want to tell your dick that.” Dad holds eye contact with me for a moment before brushing past me toward his bedroom.
I ball my fist and try to calm the anger that’s building in my chest, but the tightness takes over, and within a second, I’m full-blown pacing in the hallway with no way out.
The nerve of this fuck! I go out, get him medicine to help his sorry old ass, and he runs his mouth like I’m the fucking problem? Fuck that! Fuck him! Fuck this whole fucking trip!
Footsteps stir behind me. They’re softer, and I know before I turn that it’s Lainey. I wonder how much she’s heard.
I turn back to see her sweet, curved frame standing in the hallway with my flannel cut and retied in various spots. She’s done the same with a pair of snow pants.How does she look so damn good?
“It’s not perfect, but I think it’ll do. What do you think?” She throws out her arms and spins in a slow circle showing me her work.
My cock reacts before my brain can catch up. “You look great.”
“Really?Great?It’s chopped up flannel that’s been retied. I don’t know if I lookgreat, but I think it will work for the hunt.”
The hunt.
“Right, well it looks like it’ll work. Good job.”
She narrows her brows as though I’m talking weirdly, then turns back toward the bedroom.
Iamacting weird, and as much as I hate my father’s opinion on the matter, he’s right about needing to detach from any attraction I have toward Lainey. First and foremost, I don’t need a relationship. I’ve known that all my life. Second, she’s not the kind of girl you fuck once and leave. Third, this whole thing would be messy as fuck. Between her father being cruel and my father being crazy we’d have a circus of insanity on our hands. I don’t need to bring that kind of drama into her life… or mine for that matter.
She gives me a soft smile then tucks into the room, shutting the door gently behind her.
What the hell is wrong with me?
I drag in a deep breath and shut the door to my room, pacing back and forth with a mind full or rage and sexual tension.
It’s been a while since I’ve been attracted to a woman. A long while. Even longer since I’ve had a meaningful conversation with one, and I’ve had two with Lainey now. The fact that I’m counting them is probably the beacon of truth to how fucked up this whole thing is. A normal person has conversations. They don’t think about them later and jump to conclusions. Because that’s what this is… it’s jumping.
Her smile a second ago meant nothing other than she’s nice.
The way she spun around and showed me her work meant nothing other than her need for approval.
