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If the bank with its century-old building is the most magnificent thing ever created by man, then this waterfall is the perfect masterpiece created by nature. The cascading water, shimmering under the sunlight, rejuvenates my weary soul. It’s worth all the trouble we—I went through to get up here. Jax barely looks out of breath.
My gentle giant, sensing my fatigue, smiles and suggests we take a break, one suggestion I am happy to follow. I drop onto the grass and fall back on my back like I did when we arrived at the cabin a few days ago, and when I turn to look at Jax, it’s to find him staring down at me with something close to a smile on his lips.
I flash him a smile back, expecting him to join me, but instead, he drops his backpack to the ground, and my cheeks flush pink when he strips down to his boxers and dives into the crystal-clear pool underneath the waterfall. The water envelopes him, and I watch with rising lust as the man surfaces out of the water like he is freaking Aqua Man or something. His body fits the bill with those perfectly sculpted muscles that I may or may not have drooled on while sleeping in his arms.
“Jump in, Gwen. The water will help you relax after the hike.” He extends his hand for me to take, and I force myself to my feet. I strip out of my shorts and top, leaving me in only my panties and bra, which has my cheeks flaming in embarrassment.
Jax has already seen every part of me. After everything we’ve done back at the cabin, there is barely anything mysterious left about us, but it doesn’t help curb my nerves as I approach Jax and take his hand with mine.
He pulls me in, his massive arms catching me before I can fall face-first into the water. He’s right, the water feels amazing, a bit cooler than it looked, but once my body has adjusted, it’s almost blissful.
Even so, nothing compares to the feeling of Jax’s muscles and how they feel against me. We’re supposed to be enjoying the scenery, but his heated touch is enough to have me forgetting where we are.
Anything beyond his touch blurs into the background.
“Are you alright?” Jax whispers, but his eyes have already dropped to my lips, and the fact that I can already feel his erection pushing against my stomach only makes my sex pulse with need.
“I’m fine,” I whisper, wrapping my arms around his shoulders and my legs around his waist, rocking hard against his erection. He makes a strangled noise as he tightens his hold around me, and I whimper when his erection brushes my pulsing sex. “Want you, Daddy,” I moan, and those seem to be the magic words as the next thing I know, Jax has stripped both of us bare, and he’s driving his cock into me like a maniac. My bra hangs loose around my waist as my lover sucks roughly on my pebbled nipples.
I have no idea how I went from knowing nothing about intimacy to jumping this man every time he’s near. I can’t get enough of him, and by the looks of things, it seems the sentiment is returned.
I lose myself in the desire this man draws from me, and when I climax with his name on my lips and—in my heart—I realize that I am well and truly fucked. Both literally and figuratively.
Falling for this man when our future is so uncertain is madness on my part, but I can’t help myself. I refuse to focus on how much of a bad idea it is, and instead focus on this man and this moment.
The day only gets better when we spend a little more time by the waterfall before heading back to the cabin where we spend the rest of the afternoon fishing in the pond. Well, Jax does all the fishing, and I talk his ear off about my life, but he doesn’t seem to mind. He even lights a fire outside where we grill the fish, and everything feels perfect.
Until it doesn’t.
After dinner, I go inside to use the bathroom, and on my way, back, I hear my name. For a second, I think Jax is calling out to me, but soon realize that’s not the case. He’s on a call on his satellite phone and he’s talking about me, but I only catch his end of the conversation.
“. . . how much longer do we need to stay here, Matthew?”
His brother must say something he doesn’t like, because he lets out an annoyed huff. “You need to hurry up and catch those bastards, so Gwen can get back to her life. I know you’re working hard, but you need to work harder. We can’t hide in this cabin forever; we both have lives.”
I wince at the roughness in his voice and his harsh words, feeling a bit sorry for the officer. I bet he and his partner are doing their best to track down everyone involved in the robbery and don’t deserve to be bossed around by Jax in this way.
A heaviness settles in my chest when it slowly dawns on me that no matter how many smiles Jax offers me or how much he touches me, he’s still counting down to the days until I will be out of his hair. If that is not the case, then why wait until I am gone to make the call? And why does he sound so desperate for us to return to our normal lives?
Who knows what else he could have said behind my back?
Christ, I feel so stupid. This is the second time this week I have been duped. The first one I could have claimed ignorance when the mechanic tricked me out of so much money and time wasn’t my fault. I had no way of knowing the man wanting to open a safety deposit box was actually a bank robber.
But this time, I jumped into crocodile-infested water knowingly. Hell, I practically begged the crocodile to jump in with me, so who I am to complain when his bite stings?
I don’t bother walking back to Jax, the night has already been ruined. Instead, I walk back to room in the cabin where I’d gone to bed that first night and lock myself in. It’s evident that I have been nothing but a nuisance to this man, and I refuse to throw myself at him any more for the remaining time we have to spend together.
My heart aches something fierce when I slip into bed and question whether I would have been able to save my heart from this pain if only I hadn’t left my bed to go to his. I probably would have found another way to get closer to him, considering how much chemistry there is between us. Unless that was all a ruse to keep me occupied while we’re stuck here. Has he been faking his attraction to me this whole time?
“Gwen?” A deep voice calls out followed by a knock, but I don’t get out of bed to open it for him. “Hey, are you okay? Why didn’t you come back?”
“I’m fine,” I croak, hoping Jax will leave me alone to wallow in my self-inflicted misery.
Christ, I am not having a great week. First, I get held at gunpoint, then sent into hiding, only to fall in love for the first time in my life, and almost immediately lose my first love. All in less than one week.
The knob moves, but the door doesn’t open. “Hey, you don’t sound fine. Let me in, angel.”
“I’m promise, I’m okay,” I call out again. “I just have a slight headache; it’ll go away after I get some sleep.”
