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“Absolutely not. And I’m going to do everything within my power to prevent that from happening.”
“But?”
He looks at me kind of funny. “But you’re a grown ass adult who can make her own decisions.”
“Oh,” I say, caught off guard. For some reason, I wasn’t expecting him to give up control so easily. Like that was actually a reasonable statement. I can’t handle reasonable.
He smiles with all of his teeth. “You’re really into toxic relationships, huh? Not so healthy in the head?”
“Shut up,” I laugh even though he speaks nothing but facts. I go to grab the alcohol bottle when I notice a huge box of condoms sitting next to it. Like the biggest box you can imagine. It even says mega pack on the packaging.
I raise my eyebrows as I look back up at him with the box in my hand. “What the fuck? How did these get in here?”
“I put them in there,” he laughs like he forgot he even did. “I don’t actually need them. It was for dramatic effect. Although Mack did say to grab any other essential supplies. They aren’t even my size though.”
I hold the box closer to my face. “But these are the largest size they come in?”
He yanks the box from my hand, slamming it on the belt. “Just put the damn box on the belt. I never said they were too small. You don’t need to hurt a man’s ego.”
I can barely stop laughing even as the cashier greets us. “Shut it,” he says when I’m still giggling as we walk toward the exit.
“You know,” I say as we walk across the parking lot. “You may very well be the first man to ever joke about his dick being smaller than, well, anything.”
“Yeah, well, most men don’t think you’ll ever actually be able to verify that. I don’t hold those same beliefs.”
I stop in my tracks, glaring at him. “Excuse me?”
He leans down with a smirk, lowering his voice to a whisper. “I’ll let you be the judge when you’re choking on it.”
I glare at him with my mouth hanging open as he walks to his side of the car. “Keep dreaming, buddy.”
He laughs as he opens the car door. “Oh, I will. Trust me, I will.”
Chapter 10
Iglance over my shoulder again, checking if Declan arrived yet. I tap my phone to check the time. Past ten. Where the fuck is he?
I want to say that I haven’t been thinking about him the whole time I’ve been here, but that would be a lie. It’s not so much that I even want to spend more time with him. It’s the not knowing. The not knowing what he’s doing, who he’s with, what he’s thinking about, if he’s thinking about me like I’m thinking about him.
It’s not like I haven’t been having fun since I got here. We couldn’t do much on the water since everyone had work today, and it was late by the time most of us arrived. A few of us took the kayaks out on the lake, drinking booze while we watched the sunset. I’d usually be all about a night like this, but there’s just something missing. Something I can’t explain.
I lean my head back, tipping back the rest of my drink. A chill runs up my arms as the breeze from the lake picks up. The temperature took a big drop when the sun finished fully setting. I scooch my chair a little closer to the fire and run my hands up and down my arms.
Mack immediately sits up straight. “Let me grab you one of my sweatshirts.”
I stop him with my hand. “I can grab it if you let me know where they are. I have to use the bathroom anyway.”
He smiles and nods towards the house. “The hall right behind the kitchen, my room’s on the left. There should be some hoodies in the closet.”
“Thanks,” I say as I stand, heading into the house.
I giggle to myself as I pass the bowl of condoms I made up on the counter next to the s’mores supplies with a little card I wrote that says:
Be safe everyone!
-Declan
I run my hands under the hot water for a while to warm them up, taking a moment to gather myself and trying to figure out why my thoughts have been on Declan the whole night. That scares me.
