Chapter Two
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Jag
I have to keep telling myself to pay more attention to the fucking road than the woman sitting beside me. She is cute as fuck, and she doesn't even realize it. I love the pink blush that stains her cheeks every time she catches me looking at her. I have three days to get her comfortable with me, to see that I'm not such a bad guy, and talk her into seeing me after we get off the mountain.
I chance another look over at her. She's young. I think I remember Rani saying something about her best friend turning eighteen just a few months ago. Hell, I kind of remember her saying something about having to take her out for a girl's night because her friend wouldn't do anything big to celebrate without her pushing her into it. I frown at the thought of just what the girls did to celebrate.
"Dude, is everything okay? You look like you're about to commit murder or something."
The Rookie's question snaps me back to the now. I glance over at my passenger to find her eyes big and round and a worried look on her pretty little face.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine, Mark." I look in my rear-view mirror at him before going on with some last-minute bullshit I come up with to be frowning so hard. "I was just worried about the weather this weekend."
In reality, I can't remember if I even heard the weather report for this weekend. I hadn’t intended to come this weekend but Charlie begged me to. Thank God he did. If I had known I was missing Milly I would have kicked my own ass. I'm going to have to find a way to quiz Rani about that birthday party without her knowing I'm asking about Milly. Is she as innocent as she seems? What does she think of me? Would she be willing to entertain the notion of maybe getting serious with someone like me? I'm a good ten or more years older than her. That might freak her out. She might think of me as too old.
All these thoughts keep swirling through my head until I'm pulling off the main road and going up a narrow mountain one. On one of the hairpin turns Milly gasps and reaches out for my arm. I'm sure she wasn't specifically reaching for me, but her hand does land on my arm causing my cock to jerk in my jeans.
"It's alright, Milly." She jerks her hand away from me quickly once she realizes what she's done but I don't give her room. Instead, I follow her hand and clasp it in my own for a quick second giving it a squeeze. "I've got us."
She gives me a nervous smile that has my attention turning to her mouth before I quickly bring my focus back to the little two-lane road. It turned into a dirt road after about thirty minutes and before I'm ready to, we are pulling into a cabin hideaway in the mountain. The log cabin looks cozy in the dying light of the spring evening. There is a wide front porch that looks like it wraps all the way around the house. Beside the cabin is a little pond that fills the air with the soft lapping sound of water meeting the shore. It's big enough that a little canoe sits on the sandy edge waiting for a couple to take it out for a row to the middle where they can be alone.
Yeah, I can't say I'm not going to owe Charlie big time for this weekend away. I turn back to see Milly stepping out of my jeep, the wind catching her dark hair and whipping it around her face. I would be down for taking a midnight jaunt to the center with this woman.
I don't see much of her for the next little while since I'm helping unload all the SUV's and she's inside unpacking with the rest of the ladies. Talk turns to the women staying with us. One of the guys I don't do a lot of work with starts talking about how hot the unattached women are. He's quick enough to mention the 'unattached' part so he doesn't get his ass handed to him by Charlie.
"Did you all check out the hot blonde with the grey eyes? Man she could come spend a couple of nights with me and I wouldn't mind at all."
"What about the redhead?"
"Watch it, Andy!" Everyone turns to look at the Rookie. He's not smiling like he's joking though. I guess he called the little redhead that drove up with us already.
"What about the brunette she walked in with? Her tits...," I have the guy who said it up against the car and my forearm pushed to his throat. Several of the guys try to break me off of him.
"That one isn't up for discussion."
The guy puts his hands up in a sign of defeat. By now the ladies have all come out on the porch to figure out what is causing all the commotion. I let the guy go before he passes out and turn to look at Milly standing close to Rumer and Rani. Hopefully, she won’t be too put off by my slightly violent nature. I use it only for good and would never hurt her.
She has her lips curled around her teeth as her big eyes trail over me, touching my body like a caress. I head off the other way so no one sees the hard-on fighting to get out of my pants. I don't have another chance to be close to Milly for the rest of the night. I'm not ashamed to admit I kept asking until I found out which room she's sleeping in though and if I find out one of the guys here gives her any problems, I will make it my mission to fuck them up like they have never been fucked up before.