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I might have been slightly distracted.
“Just try it. Without throwing it.” Reed finally hands me the rough ball.
I motioned to throw it but don’t let it leave my hands as I repeated what Reed showed me. I did it three times, feeling just as awkward and uncoordinated as I always had with things like this.
“Well, I’ll throw this ball at Knox on one condition.”
“That is?” Landon hummed.
“No sex in the house for three days.” I lifted my chin rather smugly and Reed audibly groaned at the simple suggestion.
“Three?” Reed echoed astoundedly as if that was the largest number he’d ever heard.
“Deal,” Landon agreed before anyone could object further.
“Alright then.” I pulled my arm back ready to toss the ball with every ounce of strength I had. We clearly wasted too much time because Knox had made it pretty far across the yard now. The shed is back by the tree line on the other side of the house and he’s almost there.
“Wait.” Reed came closer.
Then he ran his index finger all the way up my bare thigh. “Stand with your legs apart, you need a strong base.”
Whatever preparation I had had before washed right out of my mind the moment his skin met mine.
“No touching, remember?” My smile was mocking enough it earned an eye roll from both boys. The taunting words almost made up for how breathless I felt.
I was completely unaffected by him. Or at least I pretended to be.
Until Reed took a calculated step closer, and pushed his big palm across my stomach, digging his nails into my side as he pulled me right up against him. “You mean like this?”
Pressure filled my chest and my bare thighs shifted but he never moved back.
“Or like this?” he whispered against my skin before pressing his lips slowly to my shoulder, his tongue flicking out to taste the heat of the sun against my flesh.
A big hand gripped his shoulder and Reed was shoved away from me in an instant. And I’d never seen how much anger lived in Landon’s amber eyes until that moment.
“Don’t fucking touch her like that,” Landon growled out, his jaw flexing so hard it made his eyes flash with deadly promise.
Reed held his friend’s gaze for several seconds before nodding as if he remembered their rule very clearly now.
“You got it,” he said with a tense smile. “Throw the ball, Dee.”
I arched a brow at them, but when I looked to Landon, everything seemed fine.
They had a strange, strange friendship sometimes.
I counted it down in my head, repeating the motion one last time, the ball finally leaving my hand as it arched in the air.
I did it! I did it! It spiralled.
Landon whistled as he watched it.
Reed crossed his arms. “You missed,” he said arrogantly before the ball even landed.
The asshole.
He wasn’t wrong though. The ball came crashing down, smacking a tree limb and bouncing off the ground near Knox’s feet.
Knox’s shoulders tensed and he turned back to face us. His eyes searched us for answers of who threw the ball. Without missing a beat, Landon and I both pointed at Reed, innocently.
