“Break’s over,” Micah said in the deepest gruff voice I’d heard from him. I knew that whole thing had pissed him off just as bad as me.
Tori had to be the prettiest woman I’d ever laid my eyes on, and the way she held herself was magnetizing.
I led her back to her horse, reaching out and petting him. “Take good care of your owner.” The horse puffed out air before nodding his large head, and I grinned. “You’re a smart one.”
“He really is,” she murmured, glancing up at me briefly before turning back to the horse and kissing his forehead.
My heart seemed to stutter in my chest at the way her big blue eyes had stared up at me in the dark.
There was barely any light out as the sun dropped below the horizon and the crescent moon started to rise.
I glanced up toward the sky. The sunset had faded into twilight, and we still had a good few hours left until we made it back home. “Need help up?” I turned toward her, but she had already hauled herself up on the horse.
She let a slow smile spread over her lips as she shrugged. “I think I’ve got it…but thanks.”
Spencer hopped up behind her sister and winked at me. “We got it, but Tori will definitely need your help later.”
“Spence!” Tori’s cheeks tinged with pink, and I sent her a large smile before winking and making my way toward Micah, who was already up on the horse.
I put my foot in the stirrup and moved myself up onto the saddle. The saddle was big, but I hated how it still managed to squish Micah and I together. I’d much rather have ridden bareback. My ass hurt.
“Did you have to flirt so openly at a time like that?” Micah asked once we were settled on the horse.
I shrugged. “I wanted to hit on herandcomfort her. That’s all.”
“How much longer do we have?” Grace asked as the horses started to get into a rhythm toward our home.
“Few more hours, I’d say,” Micah grumbled. “We have to keep going. If we stop, the horde will catch up, and I don’t want to go out that way.”
The group fell into silence again, and the farther we rode into the forest, the darker it was.
I was impressed the horses were doing so well.
“Fuck,” Micah cursed as a branch whacked him in the head.
I stifled a laugh, and he grumbled something obscene under his breath at me.
“What are the treehouses like that you live in?” Tori asked, her voice stark against the quiet night.
“Micah’s is the biggest,” I told her. “Mainly because he built it before all this, but the layout is similar in each one.”
“Two rooms, an area for the living room and kitchen area, and a bathroom with a toilet,” Micah explained.
“What about a shower?” Spencer asked, and Micah chuckled.
“We have an outdoor shower. It’s in a shed so you have privacy, but getting a shower set up was more difficult than you’d think. There’s a sink in there, though.”
“You’ll all have to pile into the guest treehouse to ride out the horde,” I added as the horse picked up its speed.
“Have you ever seen a horde before?” Jay asked, and I immediately recoiled at the sound of his voice.
How could Tori deal with someone like him? How could he even bring himself to cheat on a woman like that?
Her infertility shouldn’t fucking matter if he cared about her.
“Seen a few hordes run through,” Micah bit out.
“We want to go home after this though,” Grace said softly. “The ranch is our home.”
