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“Hmm?”
“Call me Luca,” I explained gently. “I’m totallydonewith being called ‘sir.’”
An uncomfortable expression crossed the man’s face. He cleared his throat, then straightened his hard hat.
“Exactly what parts of this job were you planning on doing yourself?”
I knew from the start I’d bitten off a lot more than I could ever chew, even with Tyler and Jay’s help. Still, I supposed the contractors would need to know the full scope of the job in order to properly quote me.
“I guess I’m not really sure,” I shrugged. “But I’ll make a list.”
“Okay, then.”
He bounced off again, leaving me to my thoughts. It was strange as hell, finally being back. Knowing that this time I wasn’t just between tours, but that I was done with the Army entirely. For the first time in my life, I wasn’t waking up to a list of orders. There was no one barking at me to get to PT. No one telling me what to do, and where to go next.
It was as liberating as it was frightening.
That’s another reason you need this place, I reminded myself.To keep you busy. To keep your thoughts… on track.
My thoughts had been off track actually, but for once it had nothing to do with my new house or my new life. This time around, I’d been sidetracked by something completely different. Something entirely out of the blue.
I couldn’t stop thinking abouther.
Honestly, it had been a hell of a thing: breaking over a year of celibacy with a sizzling all night foursome. Sharing a woman with two friends I’d grown up with, and not just any woman but Tyler’s cherished ex-girlfriend.
We’d been close all the way through to my senior year. But then I’d gone off to serve, while Tyler and Jay stayed back in Northhold. From there we’d lost touch pretty quickly. Stationed deep in a hostile nation, you tended to focus more on staying safe and alive than on keeping up friendships from back home.
Because of this I’d never met Jenna, but that hadn’t stopped Tyler from mentioning her more than a few times. They’d only dated a year, however judging by the way he talked about her it must’ve been one hell of a year. Not to mention she was the only woman — from what I could tell, anyway — who’d actually broken my friend’s heart.
Now I knew who Jenna was… both inside and out. And damned if she wasn’t one hell of a woman. Amazing in so many ways I couldn’t even count, although it was fun to try.
Maybe that’s why I still couldn’t get her out of my mind.
I knew some of it was the shock factor of what we’d done. Nailing her beautiful body from both ends, trading up on her whenever we wanted. There was a taboo heat to what we’d done together; pinning this writhing, sex-starved goddess in the center of our little circle. Add to that the fact I hadn’t gotten laid in so very fucking long, and well, there was the recipe for some serious—
“When do you want us to start?
The tall contractor was smirking now, waiting patiently for me to say something. I hadn’t given him the job yet, of course. But he was circumventing that.
“Next week is fine,” I told him, my eyes drifting down to the floor. I thought about the pillows, the blankets, the firelight. The warmth of Jenna’s smooth, porcelain thighs, wrapping themselves around me as I sank into her.
“Maybe start with the master bedroom,” I said, patting the man on the shoulder. “As comfortable as that couch is, I’d like to get off it.”
Fifteen
JENNA
“Not bad!”
I turned at the hips, still wiping the sweat from my arms and shoulders as the class continued filing out of the studio. The advanced yoga class was smaller but much more intense than the more crowded beginner’s classes. It required a strength and flexibility that left me hot and breathless.
Especially after teaching my third class in a row.
I expected to see someone from the yoga studio -- an old classmate maybe, who’d come back again after dropping off for a while. Instead, I was staring right into Jay’s smiling, handsome face.
“Oh… hey!”
He stood with his arms folded, leaning casually against one of the pillars near the front windows. Immediately I found myself primping against the opposite mirror, trying to clean myself up.
