Lark grins. “I was talking about you.”
I shake my head. “I don’t think you were.”
“Think whatever you need to, but I promise, I was.”
“And on that note,” Jimmy cuts in, “we’re going to watch the rodeo. You ladies have a great night.” He looks to Suzanne. “Good luck, kick ass. We can’t wait to see you win again.”
“Bye, boys,” Suzanne says, waving the tips of her fingers at us before turning to walk away.
I watch her go and then, like the ass she said I am, I call her name: “Lark?”
She turns, her eyes wide in surprise. “Yeah?”
“You have some hay in your hair.”
She lifts her hand, pulling out a piece of straw and huffing. “Thanks.”
“Anytime.”
And only we know exactly why she has it there.
Chapter 24
Lark
“All right, the game is called Go Fish,” I say, pulling the cards from my bag, tossing them onto the blanket as the fire roars beside us on the ridge.
“Really?” he asks, lying with his head resting on his arm.
God, he looks hot.
I really wish he didn’t, but he has that just-fucked look from my fingers running through his hair, messing it up as I held on while he brought me to my last orgasm. Tristan’s lips are a little swollen from where I kissed the life out of him.
All of it is very, very sexy.
“Yes, really. It’s a very easy game—you might even be able to comprehend the rules.” I sit up straight and shuffle. “Now I think we can complicate it just a little bit and make it five cards instead of seven.”
Tristan rolls his eyes. “Yes, let’s make it interesting.”
I give him a saucy grin. “Interesting? How so?”
“Loser gets to make the other do something.”
“Sexual?” I ask.
I mean, I’m not opposed to it.
Tristan leans in, hand resting on the deck of cards. “No, sweetheart. I think we can get more creative than that. It can be sexual, but I was thinking more of a…retribution type thing.”
“What the hell do I need retribution for?”
“Calling me an ass might be one.”
I laugh softly. “You are an ass.”
“I like your ass.”
I have a great ass. Not that I’m conceited or anything, but it’s the one part of my body I’m actually really impressed with.
