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Colt wrapped his arms around her and lay on his back. He never took himself from the depths of her body and she was so grateful for that. She straddled him. He pushed his hips up and bounced her on his cock. She moaned, and when her palms landed on his chest, the slapping sound echoed off the walls.
“I hope you weren’t looking to sleep tonight, sugar, because I intend to ride this sexy little body of yours until the buzzer sounds at sunrise.”
Chapter Three
Colt glanced over his shoulder at the bedroom door and tugged his shirt on. He had to hurry if he had any chance of sneaking out of there.
“Shit,” he hissed, when a shot of pain sliced through his ribs from the movement. It had been a rough couple weeks. Between his run-in with JJ last weekend followed by a bad fall and fresh injury, Colt was not only getting cabin fever, but about ready to go nuts with the constant replay of his encounter with the sexy teacher.
Air. He needed air.
“What the hell are you doing? I told you to stay in bed.”
Damn it, he was caught trying to escape. Colt swatted his ball cap on his thigh, then put it on his head. “Woman, your fussing over me is appreciated but not necessary.”
Lily McCade put her hands on her hips and tapped her foot. Even though she was Colt’s baby sister and about as threatening as a hummingbird with her blue eyes and sunny hair, she had a mean streak that could scare even the toughest man.
“The doctor said you had three bruised ribs.” She held up that exact number of fingers as if Colt didn’t understand how to count. “The same three you injured last summer. You’re supposed to take the summer off and rest. Rest, Colt. I wish that damn bull would have kicked some sense into that thick skull of yours rather than using your chest as a Riverdance stage!”
Great. She was yelling now. Lily neve
r spoke loudly in anger. But when she was anxious or terrified, her voice raised an octave.
“Exactly,” Colt defended. “Bruised ribs. Not broken. Few weeks tops and I’ll be one hundred percent.”
“It’s a reoccurring injury and this time you have to fully heal. I spoke with the doctor. Taking this summer off from the circuit is the best thing for you considering all you seem to do is hurt yourself out there.”
His sister had disliked Colt’s chosen profession from the beginning. It scared the hell out of her. And with good reason. This last go-around, he had come close, way too close, to getting his spleen stomped out by Big Sampson. And yeah, she had a point about the injuries. But that went with the job.
Lily naturally worried, and when the doc had told him to take a break, heal, and regain his composure, Lily loved that idea. It was beyond the bruised ribs, though they hurt like hell, it was taking a break from all of it. He’d been running hard and playing fast and maybe he did need a short vacation from the riding. He just didn’t think he’d be spending it in Diamond. But when Lily insisted Colt come stay the summer with her, and paired that with a pretty glare, a threatening tone, and a dash of guilt, he didn’t have much choice. No way in hell could he tell her no. Too bad no amount of rest and chicken soup would “right his composure.”
Shit, Colt hadn’t been feeling normal in over a week—ever since JJ had left him high and dry at sunrise.
This little accident wouldn’t have happened if his head had been in the right place. Instead he’d been thinking about a woman who was very specific about what she wanted from him. Normally, the notion of a one-nighter with no attachment would be ideal. So why couldn’t he get Jenna-Jayne Justice, with her sexy glasses and prim little skirts, out of his mind?
When Lily demanded he stay with her and her son Alex, Colt wasn’t as hesitant as he’d been in the past. He loved his family and friends. But while Diamond had a lot of good, there was a lot of shit Colt just wasn’t interested in dealing with. Like the fact that most people either whispered about him or winked at him.
He shook his head. He’d stayed a few days in the past, but the whole summer? A whole summer with his past thrown in his face and memories he couldn’t outrun? Where people either looked at him like some wild thing or playboy?
Apparently his drunken excursions when he was younger were still fresh in everyone’s mind. He had just lost his parents and didn’t handle it well. Trouble didn’t follow him, Colt created it. But he wasn’t the loose cannon he was back then, yet a lot of people still tiptoed around him. Except the women who looked at him like he was some damn carnival ride they were waiting to hop on. A thought that normally might thrill him. But there was only one woman currently in Diamond he was thinking about.
I wonder how JJ would look at me…
He grinned. Thinking of her tended to make him do that. That is, ever since last weekend. Maybe Diamond wouldn’t be so bad. He loved his nephew and his sister. But there was no way he could stay “under the radar” for three months. Between his few good buddies and the fact that Colt was already going nuts from the four surrounding walls, he would be out in town a lot more than in the past.
But he might get a shot at having JJ again. That was something.
“What’s it going to take for you to leave the rodeo and come home for good?” Lily’s voice was soft now. A tinge of guilt settled over him.
Colt couldn’t answer Lily’s question because the truth would break her. Never. He would never move home permanently. He was barely on board with staying the summer.
Though he visited Diamond and flew Lily and Alex to his place a couple times a year, it was still just them. The only three McCades left.
When their parents had died in a car crash Colt’s senior year, there’d just been too many memories in Diamond to stay. He was eighteen and he and his sister were suddenly alone. Colt was grateful Ryder and Penny’s mom, Mrs. Diamond, took Lily in for the remainder of her high school years. Truth be told, Colt had been useless to his sister and, to this day, he hated himself for it. He had been so consumed in his own grief and anger that he drank and fought and barely graduated. Once he did, he took off. Unable to stomach being in the same town he grew up in, the same town where he had his parents ripped away from him, any longer. The only time the pain let up was when he was away and riding. So he got out of Diamond and kept himself busy.
Another simple fact was that he wasn’t a permanent kind of guy. And he didn’t see that changing. Life was cruel and things, people, got stolen from you. Taken. The only things Colt would cling to were his sister and nephew. That was it. Getting attached to anything else was pointless.
He hugged his sister. “I’m here now. And I’m telling you, after a few days with a dirty cowboy in your house, you’ll be praying to get rid of me.”
