“It’s all coming back to me,” I assured her. I jigged the line slowly while Jocelyn got us moving backward, maneuvering the motor with one hand and her pole with the other. Her jigging was smooth and graceful. I felt clumsy by comparison. “When’s the last time you fished?” Jocelyn asked as we waite
“Put your lifejacket back on,” Jocelyn instructed hoarsely. I leaned closer to her. “Eh? Can’t hear you.” Jocelyn’s blush deepened. “Caleb, we’re not going anywhere until you have your lifejacket on.” “Okay, okay.” I held up my hands in surrender and clipped the restrictive, camo-colored lifejack
-Jacey- Caleb had kissed me. The thought rolled around and around in my mind. Caleb had kissed me. Caleb had kissed me! Sure, the events that followed after had momentarily washed the desire and confusion from me, but now that I was alone on my cot, there was nothing to do but think about his f
“Yes,” I said defensively. “Hmm. That surprises me.” Caleb regarded me for a long moment. “What happened with your mom...” I stiffened. I couldn’t believe he was bringing up my mother! “What does she have to do with anything?” Caleb’s expression lost its seductiveness, and he took a small step ba
-Caleb- “Caleb, we need to slow down,” Jocelyn said after about a minute. We were wearing life jackets, because Jocelyn insisted again. I could still see camp from where we were, so I shook my head. “No can do. If I squint one eye, I could probably see your father flipping me the bird.” “He... ok
“Jesus. Jesus FUCK!” I swore, gripping the back strap on her life jacket and pulling her with me as I set out for shore—any shore. I turned my back to the waves and let them carry us. It didn’t take long before I saw trees ahead. “Thank fuck,” I said just before my socked foot connected with a sha
That assessment hit me like a punch in the gut. I had been treating Jocelyn as though I expected her to be easy, ever since she’d seen me naked in the woods and telegraphed her clear desire for me. I should have known better. Jocelyn deserved better. “Look,” I said. “I have had a hard-on for you si
-Jacey- It was freezing, so cold that Caleb’s warm hand on my numb, wet cheek actually stung. That was not, however, the place where most of the warmth in my body was bubbling up from. My heart beat a ba-thump ba-thump when he touched me, and his words touched a broken place in my soul. I blinked,
“So, I think you’ve been doing some snooping,” Ike said, leaning in the doorway.My eyes snapped upward, and I was sure I wasn’t hiding the hatred in them very well. “What the hell is all this?”“Your inheritance. You know, this makes it easier. Your grandfather and I were trying to figure out how t
I dropped the headphones and was about to go striding into the office to break up their nefarious little clique when I looked at Dawn’s screen. She’d left it unlocked.There was a folder open I’d never seen on the server before.I glanced over the monitor to make sure Dawn wasn’t on her way back the
-Will-I sat behind my grandfather’s desk, bored again. After private schools, Yale, and Harvard Business School, I was bored out of my mind. I’d followed my expected trajectory. I’d done everything expected of me.Only once did I ever step a toe out of line. Well, almost. I suggested, at one of my
-Jacey-“Mom? Where did Uncle Billy put the Fruity Pebbles?” McKenzie asked.She’d been home from her first year of college a week and had already settled right in like she owned the place. Billy had taken to hiding the Fruity Pebbles they both liked, one, because he thought it was hilarious, and tw
Shower. SHOWER!!! I stopped her jerking me off and helped her into the tub then followed her in and closed the floral curtain.Jacey went immediately for the soap, lathering up her hands and then starting to scrub me.“You’re trying to kill me, aren’t you,” I groaned when she washed my rigid cock.“
I should have been overjoyed. On some level, I was ecstatic. But anger bubbled up in me as well, and I gripped her upper arms and pushed her just far enough away that I could look her in the eyes. “Jacey, you’ve been icing me out for almost a month.”Her eyes welled with tears, but she quickly dashe
-Caleb-A month later, Masterson was in prison, and Jacey and I were back on the farm. She had spoken to me less and less as the weeks passed and was now icing me out altogether. I didn’t blame her. I’d given her false hope.But I’d been so sure Masterson was going to bungle it with Will. A bad nann
“Good luck with that. Look, I really am on your side. This plea bargain is a good thing. Twenty-five years isn’t a short prison sentence, and maybe in that amount of time, he’ll be able to reflect on his actions. Hell, I don’t know, maybe he’ll find Jesus. What I do know is Masterson can provide for
“I hear what you’re saying,” Officer Alexander replied slowly. “And Lord knows I agree with you, but there’s nothing we can do, Jacey. Nothing. Do you understand? I want you to tell me you understand before we go back out there. You can’t make a scene.”My hands balled into fists. “If they don’t wan