I wasn’t going to be able to hold out much longer. I had to close my eyes and focus—all while not slowing down too much on my thrusts—otherwise, I was bound to come before him, and that just wouldn’t have been polite.
Ruby moved her knees in, lifting her ass higher in the air, giving me a tighter angle to explore. She rocked and swayed and met my thrusts with counter thrusts of her own. Our bodies smacked and pounded doubling the sound of the headrest banging against the wall.
I chomped down on my lower lip. I dug my fingers into Ruby’s hips, ran them up to her back then gripped and rubbed her shoulders.
Politeness be damned!
I pulled out and released onto her ass. Then my knees buckled, and I crumpled to the floor.
24
Wyatt
I’d lost my job. And for no good reason. I should have been upset. In fact, I should have been furious. Not only had I lost my job, but my boss threatened to go get a gun and start shooting if I didn’t vacate the premises immediately. I should have been angry and concerned—maybe even a bit afraid.
But it was quite difficult to be angry and afraid when I was walking through the stables buck naked with the sweet image of Ruby riding off across the fields still vivid in my mind.
I strutted past the stalls, humming and saying hello to the horses that stuck their heads out to watch me pass. At the last stall, it wasn’t a horse that stuck its head out but Teddy. He’d slipped on his clothes and was fastening his belt when he saw me approach.
“That wasn’t good,” he said.
I smiled, my head still in the clouds from the previous night’s activities. “That was great,” I said.
He nodded in the direction of the office. “I meant Wolf.”
I swatted his comment down. “Forget about Wolf. He’s not worth it.”
Grayson came out of the stall, looking worried. “What did Wolf say? Did he really fire us?”
I walked past him and entered the stall. “Gentlemen,” I said. “I’ve got good news and bad news.” I found my jeans and slipped them on. “The bad news is: Wolf fired us.”
I found the rest of my clothes and got dressed.
“What’s the good news?” asked Grayson.
I looked at him with a creased brow. “I just told you.”
The four of us—me, Teddy, Samuel, and Grayson—went into town for a late breakfast at Maple’s Diner. I, like Grayson and Teddy, ordered a nearly obscene amount of food. Samuel only ordered coffee and toast.
“What’s the matter?” I asked him.
He shook his head. “Nothing’s the matter. I just don’t have much of an appetite.”
“How could you not have an appetite after last night?” I said.
He shrugged. “I don’t know about you, but me, I feel completely emptied.”
I nodded enthusiastically. “I know, hence the need for food.”
He shook his head. “No, I mean emptied of everything, all my energy, my hunger, thirst, all of it, gone, satisfied.”
Grayson, Teddy, and I looked at one another and shrugged. “Me, I could eat a whole cow,” I said.
“Sounds about like what you ordered,” Teddy said.
Once the food arrived, we ate mostly in silence, despite my attempts to start a conversation. I wanted to talk about last night, revisit the fun we’d had. But Grayson and Samuel were concerned about our sudden change in employment status.
“In all honesty,” said Grayson, “I really needed that job.”
“I’ve got a cousin in Utah who runs a ranch,” I said. “He told me recently he was looking for help.
“You trying to get me out of the state?” said Grayson.
I looked at him, puzzled. “Why would I want to do that?”
“To have Ruby all to yourself,” he said in a matter-of-fact tone of voice.
“No, no. I was only saying, I know of some ranch work if you’re looking. That’s all.”
Samuel looked at us sternly from his corner seat in the booth. “It’s started already,” he said.
“What’s started?” I asked.
“The division, the suspicion, the jealousy.”
I glanced at Teddy hoping to find an ally, but Teddy dropped his eyes to his food and kept quiet.
“We can’t all be with the same girl and not have that affect our friendship,” Samuel said. “The infighting, it’s inevitable.”
“Is that what we’re doing?” I asked. “Fighting?”
Samuel waited a beat before nodding slowly. “It’s started already.”
I frowned at him.
He motioned to Grayson. “You tried to tell him about a job you heard about, and he thinks you’re plotting against him.”
Grayson tilted his head to the side and lifted his shoulders.
“The division, the suspicion, the jealousy,” Samuel muttered.
I addressed Grayson. “That’s not what I meant. I’m not trying to get rid of you.”
It was Teddy who replied, “You’re okay with sharing her?” he asked me.
“I hadn’t really thought about it,” I said. “I was just—you know—living in the moment.”
“And the next moment?” said Samuel.