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The annoyance in my voice flowed right over his head, not even affecting him in the slightest.

I glared at him while he got in the boat, then smiled when ‘Thief’ came up to me and placed his head in my lap.

“Ohhh,” I cooed sweetly. “You’re just the cutest thing I’ve ever seen!”

“Don’t give him too much love,” Drew ordered as he sat in the very back of the boat. “He’ll get a big head.”

I glared at him, then proceeded to love and hug on Thief all the while PD continued to put the boat into the water.

The massive motor started up, scaring the bejesus out of me, and continued to rumble loudly as we waited for PD to come back from putting the trailer up.

“So can you tell me what we’re doing yet?” I asked hopefully.

PD looked at me like I was stupid. Drew looked at me like I was adorable.

So I chose to flip PD off since he was the one giving me the biggest insult.

PD grinned and turned away, his eyes on the nearly black surroundings as we moved.

The only thing that I could see was the area directly in front of me. Two huge spotlights illuminated the lake as we glided noisily through the water.

My soul, despite the crazy circumstances, was happy.

I didn’t realize just how bad it’d gotten until Drew had taken me out. Even the truck ride had been excellent.

Now I was getting fresh air that wasn’t on my front lawn, and I felt like I could breathe deeper.

I was ecstatic. I didn’t care what we did.

***

An hour later I was in hell.

I was freezing. I was sitting hunkered down in the chair, and the two men behind me were having the time of their lives.

I, on the other hand, was not.

That was because we’d hit two trees so far, and one of those trees happened to be dead, making a part of it fall off into the water just a few inches from Drew’s head.

He’d laughed about it.

I, however, had not.

I was not in a good mood.

That could’ve taken his head off. Yet, he didn’t seem to care about that…and we were still in the goddamn trees.

And my tits and toes were freezing.

“That was close,” Drew said as he flung water off his arm. “That could’ve hit the motor and we’d have been fucked.”

I stared at the trolling motor that’d previously been on the front of the boat, but was now most likely becoming a permanent fixture in the water’s depth below us.

Hopefully, the fish would enjoy it.

As well as the light that I could even now see shining at the bottom.

“Ummm,” I said. “Did y’all need that trolling motor that just fell off?”