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“Mmm.” The sound he made caused a vibration against my skin that made me shiver. I ran my fingers through his hair and closed my eyes. His hands caressed my bare back and slid into my bikini bottoms. He pushed them down, and I helped him by adjusting my legs so that the material fell to the floor. Then I leaned forward and ran my tongue up the column of his neck while his fingers found my wetness.
“Do you want me as badly as I want you, baby?” Mack groaned against my ear. “It’s like I can’t get enough of you. Being with you is all I think about. You’re all I think about.” He pumped two fingers inside my warm center, and I let my hips move against his hand while looking into his half-lidded gaze as his eyes grew darker with each of my breathy moans. Finally, I pushed down his shorts and grabbed a hold of his stiff erection and wasted no time sinking down onto him. We hadn’t used protection since the first night at his house. We’d never officially made the decision to stop, but neither of us brought it up anymore.
Plus I loved the feel of him without any barriers. I knew it meant something significant. We were giving parts of ourselves that we’d never offered to anyone else.
“Come with me, Firefly.” He grabbed the back of my head and covered my mouth with his. Our tongues plunged together rhythmically in time with our hips. I wrapped my arms around his neck and let my body follow him over the edge as he swelled and pulsed inside of me.
I was in love with him. I knew it as surely as I knew my own name. It was a different kind of love than I’d felt for Dylan. First love felt like floating. Our hearts were pure, and we were naive enough to believe we had forever. True love felt like falling. It was out of my control. My soul craved his attention, my body longed for his touch, and my heart ached for him to love me in return.
I was also worried that it wouldn’t last and it scared the hell out of me.
We spent the rest of the day in paradise, swimming in the cove, then floating on our backs for a while with our hands joined. It felt like we were different people out there. No stress, no worries. Anything in the world seemed possible. I wished Mack could pull up the anchor and we could go anywhere the wind decided to take us.
Mack also did something he’d never done before. He talked about himself. I learned that he was twenty-six and his younger brother Brandon also known as Brando was three years younger. He told me about his childhood and how his father was an alcoholic who didn’t pay much attention to them. He wasn’t abusive, but just seemed to have checked out of his family’s life and made booze his number one priority. Their mother worked two jobs to make ends meet, yet they were still barely getting by. When Mack was fourteen his father went to jail for drunk driving and leaving a woman paralyzed after crashing into her car.
He talked about how his mother couldn’t afford to buy food sometimes so he and his brother had to find ways to earn money. They tried the legitimate way and got jobs doing various things like mowing lawns, working in fast food, and the usual sort of part time jobs most teenagers try out. When Mack’s uncle gave him the Shelby he was introduced into the world of racing, and once he figured out how to make money, it was the start of the life he now led. His mother remarried and moved to Arizona, so he didn’t have much of a relationship with her anymore.
“You’re smart and I know if you put your mind to it you can have your own performance shop or something and make tons of money, legitimately.” We were swaying with the movement of the water while we lay together on the mattress in the cabin below deck. The soft glow of the moon through the small porthole windows was the only light around us.
“I know.”
“You said you would stop.”
“I am.”
“How?”
“Don’t worry. It’s all going to work out.”
“Mack.” I hesitated. “I need to tell you something.” I felt his body stiffen underneath me so I lifted my head to look into his eyes. “First, I want you to know that I had nothing to do with it and I hate that it’s even happening.” He lifted up on his elbow and furrowed his brow as he looked at me.
“What are you talking about?” he asked. I took a deep breath.
“It’s about Detective Rollins.”
“What about him?” It was now or never.
“Woody cut some sort of deal with Rollins. In exchange for Woody’s freedom, he would pass along any information about you.”
“I know,” Mack said matter-of-factly as he rested back down onto the mattress.
“Wait? What?”
“Rollins thinks he’s been watching me, but I have people watching him too.”
“So you knew already?”
“Yeah.”
“Are you mad at me?”
“Why would I be mad at you?”
“Well, probably because my brother is helping Rollins build a case?”
“Woody only knows what I want him to know. The kind of stuff anyone can find out if they look hard enough.” As if it finally occurred to him he turned to me. “Is that why you disappeared on me for four days? You thought I would blame you for what Woody was doing?”
I nodded slowly, and he grabbed my face between his hands. “No, I never thought that for a minute. Plus Woody came to me the morning after the fight. He didn’t know the real reason behind how he came to have the money to pay off Knight. He said that he hadn’t told Rollins anything yet, but he was in a tough predicament, so I gave him information to feed to Rollins while I continued to work things out on my end.”
