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The woman in line behind me patted me on the shoulder and said, “You’re beautiful, sweetie. If the guy on the phone doesn’t want to dick you down, he’s not worth it.”
He heard. “Melly, where the hell are you?”
Maybe the bathroom line wasn’t the best place for this conversation, so I ditched my spot and moved further down the hall. It was darker and quieter the further from the main bar area. There was an emergency exit and a closed door which probably went to an office or a storage room.
“I’m at Kincaids,” I told him. “And you didn’t answer my question.”
“How much have you had to drink?”
“Not sure. It’s a never-ending cup of wine. An all-you-can-drink glass.”
“Who’s there with you?”
I thought I heard a door slam. Was that a car engine?
“There are men all around this place who could get their dick in me without doing geometry first, Daniel Pearson,” I told him instead of answering his question.
“Melly,” he growled. “Are you there with a man? Is he taking advantage?”
I shook my head, but he couldn’t see it. “No. I’m here with Mallory and Bridget and the only dick I want to talk about is yours.”
“That’s fucking right,” he breathed.
“Just because I’ve never had sex before doesn’t mean I don’t know what I’m doing. I have vibrators bigger than what you’re packing. And I know it fits.”
Again, more silence. Then a growl. “Stay right there. I mean it. Right fucking there.”
8
DANIEL
I was halfwayinto town by the time I hung up the phone. I was surprised by Melly’s call, not expecting her to talk to me again.
Ever.
Instead of mentally kicking my own ass, I went out back and decided to toss some logs. Running a landscaping and tree service meant I had access to timber and had cleaned up some logs so they could be used for caber practice: lifted, rested on my shoulder and tossed. While they were pine instead of larch like in Scotland, they did the job. With my backyard being big, there was plenty of room to toss trees. Usually I focused on getting the line perfectly straight. Worked on hefting it end over end. Tonight, I used my strength to heft and toss, working off my anger at myself over technique. Throw after throw, my frustration level didn’t lessen.
The first thing out of her mouth when I pulled my cell from my jeans pocket was about sex.Dogsex, which didn’t get me hard. It made me cringe. Especially when I was stuck having Earl hump my leg while she’d stormed into her house earlier.
I agreed that I’d been wrong but that hadn’t stopped her from continuing with the last thing I ever imagined her saying. She asked me if I could get my dick inside her.
Yeah, she said that. Filthy words from the sweetest mouth.
I was instantly hard, standing in my backyard with an eighteen foot log propped vertically against my shoulder. Exterior lights illuminated the closest portions of the field. While it hovered just above freezing and my breath was coming out in a white cloud, I was sweaty and my blood had been pumping, but her soft voice and…Fuck, those words.
I was ready to find her, get between her thighs and prove to her that I could absolutely, positively get all of my inches inside her.
But I was surelittle Melly Harwooddidn’t talk like that usually and that had me riled in an all-new kind of way. She was at a bar with random women in the background telling her she could get dicked up by any guy and I never felt so possessive in my life.
I had a kid and I knew the fierce protectiveness of being a parent. Since mine divorced when I was eight and my dad moved on from me and Deek to making a second family, I knew how important one solid role model was. That had been me. Sole caregiver for Danny and I’d made raising him my mission.
Sure, I fucked, but no relationships. I wouldn’t subject him to the same second-family arrangement Deek and I had. Sure, Deek and I got three cool half-brothers, but still. I wouldn’t know a legit relationship if it bit me in the ass.
But Melly Harwood and what she said? This wasn’t me being a parent, even though she was close to my son’s age. This was feral. Possessive. Her drunk dialing at the bar? Someone could mess with Melly and I couldn’t stand by and let that happen. She was kind and innocent and I didn’t want that to change.
Yes, I’d take that virginity, but I knew what hurt looked like on her face. I’d put it there earlier and I wasneverletting that happen again. From me or anyone else.
Leaning forward, I let the tree trunk fall to the ground with a solid thump, turned and cut through the house. On my way through, I grabbed my keys and was out the front door, all the while with Melly still talking.
