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Yeah, that’d show her.
Only when I got there, the house was dark and closed up tight. There was no porch light turned on like there usually was, the garage door was pulled down, and the windows were closed against the cool night breeze. I parked the bike and walked toward the trailer. The moon moved out from behind a dark cloud and illuminated the front yard. For a minute I thought all the drugs and sex and alcohol had finally done me in, but when the moonlight shone on her face, I knew that I hadn’t lost my mind and that it really was Liddy sitting out on the small porch.
She had a beer in her hand and a fresh pack of smokes on the table. Her long hair was loose and damp. Her toned legs were bare, and she was wearing a short pair of cotton pajamas. It was cute as hell, but for some reason those little pink rose buds and clusters of seed pearl buttons pissed me the hell off. When Liddy looked at me, her eyes were steady and watchful. I stepped up on the deck like I had every right to be there and leaned my hips against the railing. Then I reached into the open cooler sitting between us and slowly unscrewed the cap of the cold brew. Liddy’s eyes flickered from me to the beer in my hand and back again. I took a hit off the brew, and let my eyes wander slowly over her body. I watched with satisfaction as the pulse in her sexy neck began to beat faster and faster. I held back a smirk as Liddy’s nipples hardened and strained against the light cotton, and she shifted slightly in her seat.
Up to this point, I had not been able to get a real close look at her. But damn if the years hadn’t been real kind. Liddy had been pretty before, but now she was beautiful. Her hips and breasts were fuller, and her body was toned with small curves in all the right places. Liddy’s eyes had always held more than their share of disappointment, and no doubt about it she had been a fierce little thing. But now there was something else in her eyes, something sadder, something stronger, something wiser. Liddy had left a girl and had come back a woman.
I pulled my hips away from the railing and took a step toward her. When I reached for the smokes on the table, Liddy’s body visibly stiffened. I made sure that my calloused fingers brushed against the top of her leg long enough to make me want to grab the other one, stretch her wide and plant myself nice and tight between those beautiful thighs.
“What are you doing here, Kid?” Her tone was so icy that it was like getting a cold bucket of water thrown in my face.
“Visiting an old friend, Liddy.” I made my tone casual…glib. “What else would I be doing?”
“Cut the bullshit, Kid.” Liddy said fiercely. “You’ve been following me around town for weeks and you come by my house and sit in the dark staring at my bedroom window. Tonight, after buying me a drink, you hook up with some poor misguided woman who lets you chair fuck her in the middle of the bar. Classy.”
“So, you been keeping track of my comings and goings, Pretty Liddy?” I winked at her.
“Fuck off, Kid.” Liddy huffed at me in a way that made me want to take her over my knee and spank her ass red. Of course, that thought led to a million more images of what I’d like to do to her. I flexed and leaned in, so my face was inches from hers.
“You’re jealous.”
Liddy
You’re just jealous, pretty Liddy.
That did it. Suddenly, I was plunged back into grade school with Kid taunting and torturing me and it made me want to scratch his eyes out.
“And you’re an idiot, Kid Harding.” I glared at him. “I don’t give two shits if you want to make a fool of yourself with a sick public display of your obvious sexual deviance.” Then I crinkled up my nose like I was smelling something rotten. And because Kid Harding still managed to bring out the absolute worst in me, I lied to him. And I did it right to his face with not the least bit of hesitation or compunction.
“Besides, I’m seeing someone.” I straightened my spine when I said it.
I was gratified—and maybe just a little bit scared—when Kid’s eyes flashed with jealousy and his fists clenched and flexed by his sides. Then his eyes narrowed, and he leaned his hips back on the railing. Kid folded his big arms in front of his chest and crossed his legs at the ankles.
“Who is he?” He growled.
“Who is he?”
“Yeah, Liddy. What’s the fucker’s name?”
“He’s not a fucker and his name is…” I desperately tried to think of a name. Then I saw it. Guy Potter had his car up on a hydraulic jack waiting to repair his back tire.
“Jack.”
“Jack?” Kid’s eyes narrowed. “Jack who?”
“Jack None of your Goddamn Business,that’s who.”
“Definitely my business. Jack who?”
My eyes did another quick scan of the area. “Hammer.”
Kid raised an eyebrow. “You’re seeing a guy named Jack Hammer?”
“His father is in construction.” I didn’t miss a beat.
Kid looked at me for a full minute. Then, with eyes bright with hilarity, he said “Guy must be a real tool.”
All of a sudden Kid Harding slapped his knee and bent over with laughter so hard that he had to wipe the tears from his eyes.
