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Everything comes rushing back as she snuggles her head up against my chest. I try not to move so I don’t wake her up. She looks so peaceful when she sleeps.

She squirms, trying to get comfortable again, and the blanket falls down her shoulder.

“Holy shit,” I mumble when I realize she’s still completely naked underneath the covers. If I didn’t have a morning wood before, I sure as fuck do now. I selfishly let her lay there sleeping so I can have a few more moments next to her. She reluctantly let me hold her last night, but we were both asleep in no time. It was a long day. Add on the weed, alcohol, and fucking amazing sex, and we were both out. Who knows how she’s going to feel about this when she wakes up, but I swear, it’ll be the end of me if she really did just need to get me out of her system.

I close my eyes, pulling her in closer to me but making sure to keep my hands outside of the blanket. Even though the couple blankets we bought barely provide any cushion, I’d do anything to stay here in this position a little longer. That was until I heard someone driving up the road.

“Fuck!” I shout, panicking.

She squirms, peeking one eye open. “What’s going on?” she asks, her voice not fully awake.

I grab my shirt and throw it on as fast as I can, sliding to the end of the truck bed and hopping out. “Someone’s coming. Come on,” I say, extending my hand to her.

She sits up, holding the blanket up to her chest and smirking at me. “Oh? Are your parents going to find out you’re here?”

“Thea. You are naked.”

She glances down at herself, frowning when she realizes I’m right. I don’t have time to find her clothes as a ranger SUV approaches. I run over to the side of the truck, reaching over and scooping her up in the blanket. She squeals when I lift her. “What are you doing?” she asks, tipping her head back in a laugh.

I lean her against the truck, yanking the passenger door open and shoving her inside. “Just be cool.”

She rolls her eyes at me. “What? Like I’m going to say you kidnapped me or something?”

“Thea…” I warn because she absolutely would do something like that because she thinks it would be funny, and there’s no way in hell I’m going to be able to explain to a park ranger that I’m a grown ass man that has a beautiful, naked woman in my truck in the middle of nowhere.

I jog to the back, closing the tailgate and trying to get in the driver seat before the SUV stops. No such luck. Fuck.

A park ranger hops out of his SUV and saunters over toward my truck like some kind of prick. “How you doing?” he asks like I don’t know he’s trying to pin something on me.

“Good,” I say with a nod, hoping he’ll drop it and let me leave.

“Whatcha folks doing around here?” he asks with fake friendliness.

“Uh…” I look back at the truck, trying to reason my way out of this. “Just came out to watch the sunrise.” I place my hand on the door handle. “We were actually just taking off. Is this a restricted area or something?” I know it’s not.

“Nah,” he waves it off, dropping his hardass demeanor a little. “I’m just patrolling the area. Usually only find a bunch of horny teenagers in these parts if you know what I mean. It’s unusual to find anyone here in the morning.”

I give an awkward chuckle. “Oh, I’m sure. Have a good day,” I say, hopping in the truck before he tries to ask me any more questions.

Thea is sitting there wide-eyed with a huge smile on her face. She looks ridiculous wrapped up in the large blanket, but I can’t very well try to find her clothes now. “Shut up,” I say with a laugh, starting up the truck. “You can get dressed at the rest stop on the way home.”

???

Thea

“Whore,” I whine into the phone.

Amanda laughs. “Be for real, is this an actual emergency or are you just creating some unnecessary boy trouble?”

I clamp my mouth shut, knowing she’s right. “Fine! Go to your cousin’s birthday party, but when I make a horrible decision tonight, and I will make a horrible decision, you are fully responsible.”

“I’m already halfway there!” she protests. “You can swing by if you want.”

I sigh. “No, it’s okay. I’ll be fine. But we need to talk, for real. Tomorrow?”

“Sure, what time?” she asks.

“I’ll text you in the morning.”

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