Isobel told me to shut up, she was fine, and she was happy my dad was with me. She also told me to be nice with Finn or else.
I figured if there was one time I could be nice to Finn it would be right now. Bless her but when I said this to her she told me to fuck off.
I wasn’t offended, that was just Isobel.
I yawned as we parked outside the cabin.
“Nap time for you,” Simon told me as we walked up to the front door.
A nap sounded awesome right now after going all night without sleeping. But I knew my body better than anyone else did and I knew what I needed. “Bath first. I need to relax so I can sleep. Otherwise it will take me forever to make it to dream land.”
“Okay. Bath then nap time. Works for me.”
I felt around with my magic, casting it out in a wide net. “Wards are still in place. We’re good here.”
He side eyed me, unimpressed. “I know, Ariel. It’s my job to know these things.”
Yeah, I wasn’t touching that one. Men could be really weird about things and I never claimed to understand them very well.
And he wasn’t wrong, after all. It was his job to protect me and maybe I just needed to relax and let him get on with it. I knew I could easily protect myself, he knew it too, but sometimes I had to let him think he had it all under control.
I guessed that was just a part of my job where he was concerned.
Being a girl surrounded by men was sometimes complicated, sketchy business. I thought I was becoming an expert at juggling them all but at this point I had my hands more than full. Boy, did I ever.
“I’ll start the bath for you,” Simon told me as soon as we were safely inside the cabin with the door locked behind us.
I didn’t know why he thought he needed to get the bath ready for me. It was a simple task and one I could easily do for myself but if he wanted to do it for me then what did I really care. I wasn’t about to argue with him.
It had certainly been a strange morning.
I grabbed my bag and set it down on the bed so I could dig through it. My clothes had been awesome for our morning adventure but now I needed comfort clothes.
I dug out a pair of short booty shorts and one of Tyson’s tank tops he worked out in that used to be a shirt at one point but he’d cut the neck wide and the arm holes were now huge. If I wasn’t carful I’d end up flashing someone a nipple. With my dad and his coven hanging around I didn’t want to risk that accident happening any time soon.
Besides, getting Simon alone in the bathroom was perfect for me. I had plans for him and I wasn’t about to pass up this opportunity. I had so little alone time with anyone that I wasn’t going to waste it.
Trenton could show up at any minute and they both deserved to get their alone time with me.
I carried my small pile of clothes to the bathroom. Simon was kneeling on the floor in front of the tub. The water was running and he held up two bottles in his hands and he was reading over the labels.
He had his back to me so he didn’t seem me strip out of my clothes and pile them up on the floor in front of the counter.
He looked up at me as I stepped into the tub completely naked. Simon looked up at me and the bottles slipped from his hands and dropped down into the tub.
“Ariel, what are you doing?” his mouth dropped open and he gaped up at me in shock.
I grinned at him. “Taking a bath, what’s it look like I’m doing. There’s plenty of room in here for one more, if you want to join me.”
He stood up in a rush and started stripping out of his clothing. “You don’t have to ask me twice. I don’t even care if Trenton gets pissed and wants to kick my ass later. I’d like to seehim walk away from an invitation like that while you’re naked and in a freaking bathtub. He’d break too.”
He didn’t have anything to worry about because Trenton had his hands full of something else right now and he wasn’t going to care. If anything I thought he’d be relieved.
Simon stripped out of his clothes so fast he was practically a blur of movement. I laughed at how over eager he seemed to be to get naked with me.
He climbed into the tub and I got an eyeful of his dick. I didn’t even pretend to not look at it. It was long and thick and I licked my lips hungrily.
He sat down in the tub and the bubbles covered his dick from my view. What a damn shame.
