“Can I help?” The words tumbled out before I could stop them.
Grayson stopped walking and turned to face me. The look in his eyes made my heart flip. “You can help by giving me a rain check.” His voice dropped low and intimate. “You have to let me finish what we started.”
Heat flooded my cheeks. “I… yes. Okay. Yes.”
“Tonight?” Hope flickered across his rugged features. “Dinner? I’ll pick you up at the Summit House.”
“Tonight,” I agreed, my voice barely above a whisper.
He nodded once, something fierce and satisfied settling into his expression. “I’m going to drop you off, then go get Brady.”
We continued walking, but my mind was elsewhere. I kept replaying what had just happened, the way he’d felt inside me.
Grayson had looked at me like I was precious. He definitely knew what he was doing compared to my previous boyfriends.All I wanted was to ride his cock and finish what we hadn’t started.
But as I thought about the Summit House, worry crept in.
All thoughts of leaving Iron Peak had fled my mind, replaced by a desperate desire to stay. But how could I afford it? The bed-and-breakfast wasn’t cheap, and my savings wouldn’t last forever. I’d only planned to be here for one night. And now it was already two nights.
Even more pressing than that, should I evenwantto stay?
Was Grayson so into me because he knew I was just passing through with no chance of getting attached, no messy complications? Or would he welcome me if I decided to stick around?
I glanced at his profile as we walked side by side through the forest trail that only he could see. I studied the strong line of his jaw and the scar that made him look dangerous and beautiful all at once.
His face was one that I’d happily look at forever. He was a man worth settling down with.
But those were dangerous thoughts. It was ridiculous that I was already falling for him. I could feel it happening, as inevitable as gravity, and my heart clenched with fear.
I was going to get hurt before this ended.
Then I thought about my consolation prize. At least I was going to get fucked by his wild mountain cock. Hopefully, it would happen every day until I had to leave.
How many days was that? I started calculating my bank account balance in my head. What had felt like a lot of money started to dwindle quickly as I calculated the cost of even a week at the Summit House. For me to stay after tonight I’d have to find somewhere cheaper to rent.
Chapter 9
Grayson
As I pulled up in front of the Summit House, the yellow Victorian with its green shutters looked like something out of a postcard. But I couldn’t appreciate it. Not with my cock still aching in my jeans, a hard angry throb demanding that I stop everything and sink into Amelia’s pussy. I’d been so close!
But there was a life on the line. And in these mountains, every minute counted.
I put the truck into park but didn’t kill the engine. “Should I come by when I’m done?” I asked quietly. “Or give you my number.”
Amelia immediately pulled out her phone. “What is it?”
I rattled it off, watching her fingers tap across the screen. A moment later, my phone buzzed in my pocket.
“There,” she gave me a shy smile. “Now you have mine too. Call me when you’re done. No matter how late it is.”
The look on her face hit me square in the chest. She was falling for me. I could see it in those clear blue eyes and in the soft curve of her lips. She was falling just as fast as I was falling for her.
At least on a physical level.
I had no idea how permanent she might want to make things, and that gnawed at me. But there wasn’t time to think about it now.
I leaned across the seat and kissed her. It was quick and rough, no time for anything longer, but I felt her melt against me for that brief moment.
