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I have no fucking idea if she eats meat. But the way her mouth was moaning, I’d say she loves a good hog.
“You’re laughing. I am!” Her hands land on her hips in front of me. I tower over her small frame.
“Relax. You’re a carnivore like the rest of us here.” She eyes me like she doesn’t trust me. That look she’s giving me is getting old very fast. Crouching down, I pick her up, effortlessly sliding her from my front onto my back.
Her yelp rings in my ear.
“Fuck’s sake!” I holler at the sudden high-pitched sound. “If you let go, I’ll let you drop on your ass. Just hold on, and we’ll get to the pens faster. At your hobbling rate, we’ll get there after lunch.”
“Then maybe you should have left me to do the dishes instead of making me come out here.”
“What did I do to make you hate me, Gia?” I’m genuinely curious. I’ve been nothing but a saint to her since she smashed up my car.
“I like you fine. I just find you cocky, conceited, arrogant, and I don’t trust you.”
Her smooth arms willingly wrap around my neck and shoulders. She hasn’t complained about our position once. Progress.
“Stop smiling to yourself. It wasn’t a compliment.” Her comment only makes my grin larger.
I hike her up higher on my back. “Is this your girl version of a boy pulling pigtails?”
“Are you trying to say you think I like you because I keep putting you in your place?”
I keep teasing her, loving the way I’m riling her up. “It’s love. I know it.”
“How did I put up with you?”
“Typically, I would just shut you up by kissing the shit out of you. Want to try that?” My dick stirs, wanting to hear the answer from her mesmerizing lips. I walk a few more steps, almost to the pig fence, and she still hasn’t responded. “You’re imagining it, aren’t you?”
“You’re a pig.”
She’s not disagreeing. Interesting. I chuckle to myself, bending down to allow her feet to touch the dirt.
“Stay here, and I’ll grab some of their food.”
I should think about the task at hand. Instead, my steps feel lighter, and I’m feeling like a girl with my head in the clouds. As much as Gia is annoying with her constant talking, she’s kind of funny. She’s not the image she portrayed before the accident. I wonder if she hid who she was from everyone else. Her losing her memory may have liberated her.
As I round the corner with the pails of food in my hands, I watch as Gia climbs over the metal fence. The girl can hardly walk, and here she is climbing.
Dropping the buckets, I run toward her. “Gia,” I holler.
She’s at the top, attempting to put one of her legs over. The only reason I’m able to make it in time is because she’s slow as fuck. Grabbing her under her arm, I pull her back to me. She loses her balance, falling hard into my chest. I hold her suspended above the ground. Her heart is pounding against my hardly beating one. We’re nose-to-nose. Her breaths come out as short little pants.
“What the hell are you doing?” My jaw clenches, thinking she could have seriously been hurt. More people in America die because of pigs than sharks each year. And that statistic doesn’t even include the pigs that are used to get rid of missing people.
“I–I…,” she stammers.
Gaining control of my body, my fingers loosen around her arm, and I place her on her two feet, but I refuse to stop looming over her.
“I saw a shoe.” She tries to turn to point, but I keep her in place.
“Never go into a pen. One of those beasts will take off one of your fingers—” I slide my hand down her arm until I’m holding her fingers up. “—before you even recognize it’s gone.” I lightly nip at her ring finger. She gasps, flinching to move her hand away. But my grasp is too strong.
She nods. I can still feel my nostrils flaring, but my voice has stayed even, refusing to show any emotion that’s raging inside me.
“Are we clear?” My brow lifts, expecting a verbal answer.
“Yes. I didn’t know they were so dangerous.”
I let her hand drop and take a step back, not liking the tension that’s coiling around us. The air has a charge to it that I have never experienced before. When I’m certain she won’t be climbing any more fences, I turn and walk with my back straight to get the food that was tossed to the ground.
