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“Hey, where are you going?” Cadence asked from where she swam gracefully near Kru.
“Beer run!” she said in the most chipper voice she could muster. “Anyone want anything?”
They answered but she wasn’t paying attention. There was a roaring in her ears and her animal was clawing to escape her skin.
Being alone is also a hard way to live.
Lucas’s voice filled her head, and she swam harder, and faster. She wanted to be anywhere but here.
God, that had felt so good. Sooooo good. Someone had touched her like she was worth a damn. Like she was normal. Like she was a person. And now everything felt worse! She wished she had never kissed him.
She struggled into the shallows on the other side, dragging her legs through the lapping waves as fast as she could.
Yeah, being alone is a hard way to live, but she had been lucky enough to not know anything different.
Now she would want too much.
Now she would yearn.
Now…everything had changed.
Chapter Five
What the hell had just happened?
Lucas stared at the mouth of the waterfall, where Jenna had disappeared. He could hear the others coming, but his body was so goddamn revved up right now. Rage bubbled through his veins and he turned away from the mouth of the cavern, beat his fist against his chest and tried to stifle the snarl in his throat. He hadn’t kissed a woman like that since his first love, who was about to walk into this goddamn cave, and everything was so messed up.
Fuck, fuck, fuck, he had hurt her. He had hurt Jenna and he hadn’t meant to! He hadn’t fucking meant to!
This. This was why he couldn’t have a woman. He broke everything!
He beat his chest again just to try and stop the ache there. The chatter of the others was getting louder.
Jenna Brown. The way her tone had that hint of disgust in it when she’d repeated her name. He hadn’t meant it like that. Had he? Fuck, he didn’t know what he’d meant. He didn’t freaking know how to process anything he was feeling. His animal was all revved up and wanting something he didn’t understand. What the fuck was wrong with him?
It was these mountains.
They messed with his head and made him want things he had no right wanting.
It still smelled like blood in here from her scraped knees. If she knew the monstrous things he’d thought when they’d been together, she would’ve run sooner. He’d wanted to take her. He’d wanted to pull her little bikini to the side and slid into her and fuck her senseless. Fuck her until she forgot all the things her beautiful, overthinking little brain thought. He wanted to make her head go quiet. He wanted to carve her fucking name right beside his and mark it out on the other wall.
She belonged! Fuck! She belonged here. It was him who didn’t.
He strode for the waterfall and made it just as the others were breaking the surface.
“What’s wrong?” Nox asked immediately.
“Nothing. I don’t know,” he said, pacing the edge of the water.
“What happened?” Cadence asked, and it was just the wrong moment.
“None of your business,” he growled.
There was immediate fire in her eyes. “Figures.”
He shook his head. She had no right to judge him for anything.
“You can’t!” she yelled at him, and he rounded on her as the others came out of the water.
