She backed away and held up her hands. “No, no. I was just getting your attention. We’re going to play this out. I’m going to be you and you’ll be West and Hayes. Okay?”
“Sure. Go on.” I yanked my shirt off and shoved my joggers down before jumping out of the truck. My boots cut through the mud easier than her bare feet and I saw the moment she realized it. Her eyes went wide and she shook her head as I stalked her. “Play your role, baby.”
“Cash!”
“Why are you screaming your own name?”
She squealed and tried running. “Cash! Stop it! I can’t be serious about this role playing if you’re chasing me!”
“Woman, you took your clothes off, bent that sexy ass over in front of my face, and mentioned role playing and you think I’m going to be able to think about my brothers right now? Give it up.” I scooped up a pile of mud and laughed when she did the same. “What are you going to do with that, Cassidy?”
“It’s self-defense!” She pouted. “I didn’t mean to distract you. You need to talk about everything.”
I snatched her to my chest with an arm around her waist and smiled down at her. “That’s going to be an issue tomorrow, too. Right now, I just want to be with you, doing something that doesn’t feel so heavy.”
She sighed dramatically and just when I thought she was going to insist we talk I felt the wet splat of mud smashing into my hair. Her giggle was sexy but the way she screamed when I did it back to her was even better because it reminded me of the sounds she made as she came.
“You arenotgetting hard right now!” She pushed me away and quickly grabbed more mud while shuffling away. “Tell your trouser snake that I’m not getting mud up my vag.”
“Is that how they dirty talk in LA?” I lowered my voice. “Yeah, baby, take this trouser snake up that dirty little vag. Yum.”
Her cheeks went red and she sucked in a deep breath before throwing both handfuls of mud at me. With a loud cackle she made it to a part of the yard with less mud and took off running.I got to see first hand just how fast she really was but I was motivated. I tackled her, twisting so I landed on bottom, but then rolled us over so she was in the mud. Rubbing it all over her while she cackled and struggled to fight me off was the most fun I could remember having in too long.
“Truce! Uncle! White flag!” She waited until I went still to slap a big clump of mud on my cheek. “Sucker!”
I let her slip out from under me just to watch her ass as she crawled through the mud. Grabbing her ankle before she got too far away, I yanked her back to me and slapped her ass. “Is that all you’ve got, Strawberry?”
That earned me a kick to the shoulder and then I really had to work to chase her down again. She was covered in mud from head to toe, her white teeth and eyes the only things the color they were supposed to be. We were both breathing hard, panting as we faced off, and I felt like I’d won the fucking lottery.
I’d just caught her and had her back pinned to my chest when I saw headlights pulling up the drive. I went still until the truck got closer and I realized it was West’s truck. “The cavalry has arrived. You’re finished now, woman.”
“How’d they know we were here?”
I pressed a muddy kiss to her shoulder. “I told them. I knew they’d want to be here instead of at whatever party’s happening tonight.”
She looked back at me over her shoulder with surprise all over her dirty face. “What?”
I held her tighter. “We’re all crazy about you, Cassidy. Playing in the mud with you is better than any party. Now run over and give West a big kiss hello.”
She jumped when I slapped her ass and flung more mud at me before taking off at a run for West and Hayes. I watched as both of my brothers acted like they didn’t want to get muddy while opening their arms and moving towards Cassidy. They looked ashungry as I felt and I knew that Cassidy was going to end up with mud in a few unsavory places before the night was over.
“Can you imagine the PR team seeing us now?” Cassidy laughed as she looked down at herself and then back up at where Hayes and West were looking at the mud she’d left behind.
“Fuck them and how we’re supposed to act or look. This is fucking better.” Hayes shrugged. “Now, come here. I need to inspect just where all you got mud.”
60
***Cass***
“You naughty, naughty thing. You didn’t come home last night.” Aunt Jolene circled me on the couch and frowned before bending over and scratching at a dried fleck of mud I’d missed while scrubbing myself clean. “Well, hell. I think I need this story. Hurry up. I have ten minutes before my new beau shows up.”
I’d tried to sneak in that morning and I thought I’d succeeded but I should’ve known better. I’d been embarrassed at the idea of getting caught doing a walk of shame but as I looked at Aunt Jolene, fully engaged and eager to hear what I had to say, I decided I needed to stop being ashamed. I told her everything, laughing when she guffawed, loosening up with every word.
“Then we tracked mud all through Sam Ford’s house and used his very fancy bathroom to get cleaned up.” I grinned up at the ceiling and shook my head. “We slept under the stars in the back of Cash’s truck. I never thought I’d say something like that but it was perfect.”
Aunt Jolene whistled. “You’re in love.”
That knocked the smile off my face as I tried to deny it. It was one thing to admit it to myself and to West in the throes of sex but admitting it to Aunt Jolene made me feel silly. The way I’d always felt with Cole at the end of the day. “N-no.”
