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“Why didn’t you answer me?”

“I didn’t know what to say, at first. Then I thought I might have overreacted a little. Then I decided we wouldn’t work. I mean, where does a long-distance relationship lead?”

“Where do you want it to go?” There was something she wasn’t saying.

When she didn’t answer, I asked something else to take off the pressure.

“How about we just try it for a bit?” I suggested. “Let it run its course.” As if it would run out—which it won’t, for me. I’d never have enough of this woman.

“Okay,” she whispered, hesitant and uncertain. I kissed her forehead.

“Speaking of commitment, I’d like to make sure we’re on the same page. I’m a one-woman man, and I’d like to ask the same of you.”

“You want me to only see one woman?” she teased, and I chuckled, but I held out for her answer.

“You don’t even have to ask. It’s only been you since the moment I saw you slinging an ax.”

“Ax throwing?” I laughed.

“No, chopping wood, when I almost hit you. You’re all I could focus on.”

“Sex god,” I teased.

“Lumbersexual god.”

“I’ll show you limber,” I said, reaching out for her and tugging her over my chest.

“Lumber,” she corrected, giggling over me. “Lumber, like wood.”

“I can show you that, too.” And we headed off to round two for the night.

My body feels a little used and abused. Sex twice in a night and then a blow job in the morning—I’m one lucky man. Plus, she loves me.

I smile to myself.

She says she loves me.

I stretch and twist to sit up in bed when my phone beeps. Her name pops up on the screen.

“Hey baby,” I say after she whines my name into the phone. “What’s the matter?”

“The rental car won’t start. The desk clerk says he thinks the battery’s dead. I called the rental service, but I don’t have time to wait for a jump start.”

“I’ll be down in a second.”

28

Something new from the old

[Letty]

Giant to the rescue. It’s cold outside, and I’m inside the lobby, pacing while I wait for him to exit the elevator.

“Don’t fret,” he says when he sees me, and his warm smile puts me at ease although I’m freaking out. I don’t have time for a car breakdown, not after I took the time to satisfy this delicious man. I couldn’t resist. He was all long and hard, stretched on his back with his shaft upright and ready. I wanted to climb him, but then I’d be even later than I already am. “I have cables in the truck.”

It takes me a moment to realize he means jumper cables, and he leads me out to the parking lot. I’m parked facing a row of bushes with a car on either side of mine.

“How would you feel about me just driving you?” Giant asks, and I glance up at him.