Page 74 of Intolerable Bishop

“I’d never admit it to them, but yes.” Theo kissed me hard as he lifted one side of my dress and slipped his hand underneath.

“What if someone sees?” I panted as he ran his finger teasingly over my clit.

“Let them watch. Nothing turns me on more than being watched. I’d fuck you in the middle of Times Square if you let me,” he groaned, and I gasped as he pushed my panties aside and slowly pushed a finger into me. “Damn, you’re so wet.”

“I’m not sure I’m ready for the entire school and their parents to watch us. Is there someplace we can go here?”

“No, but we have tomorrow night. You still good for our date?” He pumped his fingers a little faster, scattering my thoughts, but I managed to nod. Theo kissed me again, harder and more demanding this time. The teasing was gone, and I gripped his shoulders as his finger drove me higher. I was so close that I could feel it coming, and just like that, Theo pulled out. I glared at him while he smirked as he slipped the finger into his mouth and sucked it clean.

“Until tomorrow.” He turned and started to walk away but then looked over his shoulder at me as I stood there in disbelief. “Are you coming?”

“Not anymore, apparently,” I grumbled but pushed away from the wall to walk around the pavilion with him. Jerk knew exactly what he was doing to me. My body was hot and bothered, and even the soft material of the dress brushing against my legs was enough to drive me insane. I’d get him back. I didn’t know how yet, but I would.

JULY 5 – WEDNESDAY 7:08 PM

Theo

I hadn’t laughed this hard in forever. Glancing in my side mirror, I watched Ren as she lifted her hands in the air and cheered. The only thing that would’ve made this moment sweeter was if I could see the smile on her face.

“Better hang on. I need to get on the freeway,” I said, and she immediately wrapped her arms around my waist. There wasn’t anything quite like the feeling as she pressed herself against me tight as we sailed along on my bike. Signaling, we turned onto the ramp, and I opened the bike up to merge with traffic and then sailed along in the passing lane. She always tucked her head in, and even though I couldn’t see her, I knew Ren’s eyes were closed. I wanted to take her to a race here where I knew the streets and the racers, and showing her off would be for real this time.

“Why are you not scared going so fast,” she asked, making me smile.

“I don’t know. There is something special about being out here with the world flying by.”

“It’s like you have an alter ego,” she said, making me laugh.

“I guess that was how Murk was born,” I said.

“Do I want to know how you came up with the name?”

“Probably not,” I teased, knowing she would picture far worse than anything I could tell her.

We’d been out since one this afternoon and had already completed a large loop. Dinner was at a local pub, and now I was taking her to one of my favorite spots. Peeling off the freeway again, I was surprised when Ren didn’t resume her freedom cheer, but I didn’t mind and laid my arm over hers. How had she captured me? I still couldn’t wrap my head around what happened. One minute, she was a stranger, and then a threat I didn’t want anywhere near my boys. Now, here she was on the back of my bike, and I wanted and willingly put her there. Nash had one thing right: she was infectious.

“Are you okay,” she asked, startling me.

“Why wouldn’t I be?”

“I don’t know. You just sighed like something was wrong.”

I hadn’t even realized that I did. “I was just thinking about how I want you to stay with me and Liam one night soon. If you want to, that is?”

“I’m not so sure that’s a good idea,” she said as I pulled out to pass a car on the two-lane road and then slipped back over.

“Why?”

“For starters, Myles may lose his mind if I don’t stay at the cabin. But even if I could get him to stop worrying, I hardly know Liam. I may like sex, but I don’t know about jumping into bed with him. He doesn’t seem interested either, which makes the whole thing really weird.”

She had a point. I was pushing for something that might never work with the way that Liam was acting. He seemed totally put out by Ren, and I didn’t understand. I genuinely thought we got it sorted out, but Liam had been distant, canceling our dates and hardly answering my texts. He flat-out refused to pick up my phone calls, and at the picnic yesterday, he didn’t speak to me at all unless we were together in a group. He was great at pretending all was fine in front of everyone else. Maybe I was desperate to fix us, and as much as I wanted to add Ren, trying to push the angle was making things worse. Shit. I just didn’t know.

“Are you mad that I said that?”

“No, I’m just thinking.” A cop car whizzed by going in the opposite direction, but I recognized the driver as Deputy Ellis when he looked over at us. He wouldn’t be able to tell who we were, and yet, a moment later, a black SUV caught my attention behind us.

“So where are we going?”

That was a good question now. I turned onto a boulevard, and sure enough, it followed. It was keeping a fair distance, but it still stood out with its blackened windshield. Fuck.