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The next night I met him down the street after dark, hopping into his truck and ducking down to avoid being seen as he drove me back to his barn. After a night of sex—before bed, awoken once in the middle of the night, and then once more before the sun rose—he drove me back to the motel.
The danger of knowing the Copperheads could show up at any moment didn’t deter me. If anything, it added another layer of excitement to our affair. It gave our vigorous lovemaking a sense of urgency.
Sex was incredible when you thought it might be your last time.
Fortunately, the Copperheads didn’t bother Jayce. Word around town was they were moving extra loads of meth back and forth from Macon, so the town was nearly empty of gang members except for the few Copperheads who had been left behind. Soon it seemed like Jayce might make it to the end of his community service after all. Especially if I could convince him to leave once it was done.
But for now, despite all the talk of keeping it physical without any strings attached, we were like a new couple who couldn’t keep our hands off each another.
One day we were picking up trash on the far end of town when a thunderstorm came out of nowhere, dumping a torrent of rain on us in seconds. We were too far from the truck, so we abandoned our trash bags and sprinted into the surrounding forest where the thick canopy above shielded us from the worst of the rain. I clung to Jayce’s body for warmth, and he began kissing me.
“I want you,” he growled in my ear.
“Oh?”
“You’re a drug, Peaches,” he said in a deep whisper, “but without any kind of crash.”
I raised my lips to his. “Maybe you just haven’t gotten that far yet.”
Jayce grinned. “I doubt it.”
I gasped as he bent me over against a tree and pulled down my cut-offs and panties. I pressed my cheek against the wet tree as he entered me in one passionate thrust. Even after being together plenty of times, I was always shocked at the way he filled me so completely. It made me realize just howemptyI was without him.
Jayce took me fast and hard. The moment his shaft filled me, I had to hold onto the tree trunk to steady myself from the intense ecstasy pulsing through my body. There was nobody around for miles to hear the cries of our unrestrained lust as we shook and shivered in release.
The rain faded enough for us to run back to the truck for cover, but it was drizzling too much for us to retrieve our trash bags and resume cleaning the road. Jayce opened a big bag of Doritos and we relaxed while passing it back and forth inside the truck while the rain pattered against the roof.
“You’ve never said much about your parents,” I said while munching on some chips.
“Not much to say.”
“I take it they don’t live in Eastland?” I asked. “Otherwise I’m sure you would have introduced us by now.”
He looked at me. “You didn’t see them?”
“Your parents? Not that I’m aware…” I gasped. “Wait. Flop and his ex aren’t your parents, are they? Thatwouldexplain why you were sick of his Vietnam stories.”
I expected him to laugh and quickly deny it. But he said with a stone-face, “Their gravestone. It was next to my sister’s.”
My heart exploded, then clumped back together with duct tape and super glue, and then sank down into my gut. “Oh no!”
His mouth twitched in a half-smile. “It’s all right.”
I put down the bag of chips and twisted to face him. “Jayce! I’m so sorry! I didn’t know.”
“Seriously, Peaches. It’s fine. They’ve been gone fifteen years.”
He didn’t offer to explain how they died, and since I had already put my foot in my mouth, I didn’t ask. I rubbed his arm. “Aww. You’re an orphan. Like Annie!”
“Or like Batman,” he said with a small smile. “I’m a lot more like Batman.”
I leaned over to hug him tightly. He tolerated it but didn’t hug me back. “Whatever you say,Annie.”
He groaned and looked out the windshield. “Rain doesn’t look like it’s going to let up.”
“It’s really coming down,” I agreed. “But I’m sure the sun will come uptomorrow.”
“Stop it.”
