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I winced and shoved my hands in my pockets. “I’m sorry, Aggie.”
She took a deep breath. “I’m over having men shout at me and treat me like shit today, Kyrin. If whatever is waiting at the end of this trail is anything like the day I’ve already had, I’m going to go back to the house and spend some time alone in a hot bath.”
“I’m not going to yell or treat you like shit. You’re safe.” Anger bubbled to life inside me as I thought about what all she’d said, about being shouted at. I was going to hand Zander his ass for being another screaming asshole. “Zander was wrong in his approach, but he was right in idea. If there are going to be assholes shouting at you on the street, you should have someone with you who could kick their teeth in.”
She snorted. “If I still have a job, I will not be leaving this house again. I had so much energy to take Monroe down. I wanted to destroy him and his repugnant company. Even in just the few days since being here as a nanny, I’ve already grown tired, though. Nothing is going to happen for me. I will be leaving this job with more money, but less opportunities to do what I want in life and in revenge. Now Monroe has taken me down another peg and I’m just…over it. There are only so many seats at this table in Dallas and no matter how hard I push, I can’t make room for myself.”
“You want to know the shitty part? If there is just one, I mean. You three are so worried about me being some secret spy, but the truth is so much more humiliating. I didn’t get sent here. I didn’t even choose to leave my job at his company. He implied that my time at his company, at the top spot, was basically an egg warming spot. He wanted me close until it was time to knock me up. He didn’t appreciate my skill, either. He clearly isn’t missing my work. I was just a hole with the means to make a kid to him. And when he realized that I was serious when I told him I wasn’t ready to start a family with him, much less leave the job I loved, he dumped me. I wasn’t even enough to wait for.”
I stopped moving and caught her arm. “Aggie…”
She blinked rapidly until it was like her eyes had never watered. “So, really, the idea you guys have of me being some important person to him is just preposterous. I’m no one. And now that he’s seen me being so pathetic,hiswords, I’m even less.”
“You know that you’re-”
“Save it, Kyrin. If this is your time to make some declaration that I’m worth something or that I mean something, just…don’t. I know that you three think even less of me than Monroe does. Honestly, I don’t care. I know that I’m smarter than all four of you and if given the chance, I’d run both companies in less than two years. Even when all of you see me as nothing more than warm holes and a babysitter, I know better. It’ll be all your downfalls in the end.” She sighed. “If I ever find my energy again.”
I found myself smiling for some ungodly reason. She was threatening us and showing the real strength of her backbone, but I liked it. I was glad she hadn’t let any of us break her. There was even something in the set of her jaw that made me believe her. I just didn’t care. If she took over the companies or if she babysat Gracie, her strength was impressive. It was incredibly sexy, too, but I felt too guilty to go down that road after what she’d just said.
20
***Aggie***
Afterspillingmygutsto Kyrin and then seeing the beautiful state-of-the-art barn, I was ready to retreat to the house. Kyrin had other ideas, though. He led me to his horse, a huge beast of an animal that he called Lucy, short for Lucifer. While I lost myself in watching Kyrin’s muscles and daydreaming about the bath I was going to take, I missed the part of the conversation where it was decided that I’d be going for a ride. I felt drained, but as soon as Kyrin nodded to Lucy and held out his hand, a surge of adrenaline shot through my tired body. Mostly fear-based adrenaline.
No matter the amount of protesting I did, I was eventually picked up and settled on the back of Lucy, wedged just in front of Kyrin. Once I was on top of the horse, I was too scared to wiggle around because we weren’t in a saddle. I sat frozen in front of him, hands clenched on his thighs.
“I’m going to fall off and do a head trauma!” I whisper-yelled at Kyrin as he squeezed his thighs and we started moving.
He laughed and held the reins with one hand while holding me with the other. His hand spanned my stomach and dipped low enough that I would’ve shivered had I not been scared for my life. “Do a head trauma?”
“Shut up! I’m panicking.” I grasped at his wrist and squeaked when he squeezed his thighs again and we started bouncing forward. I was instantly aware of the motion of his body rubbing against my ass and easily forgot that I’d been scared seconds before. “Oh.”
He pressed his mouth against my neck and let out a shaky breath. “Just relax into me. Let your body move with mine. Like that. Good girl.”
I did as he said and listened to his breathing grow faster the longer we rode. His hand had slipped lower and each rock of our hips had his pinky and index finger rubbing me through my leggings. I’d forgotten all about my crappy day and all I wanted was for him to pull his horse over so we could get off andgetoff.
“There, Aggie.” Kyrin nudged my shoulder and nodded ahead. “When we stop, let me get off and help you, okay?”
I nodded eagerly. “Sure. Yep. Anything.”
He groaned and held me even tighter. “I pray to god we’re on the same page, woman.”
I reached behind me to grab a handful of his hair sticking out under his cowboy hat and moaned when his teeth raked down my neck. “Same page. Same line if you hurry.”
He led Lucy into a cluster of trees with a clearing in the middle and hopped off like it was nothing. Then, his hands were around my waist and he was pulling me off the horse and into his arms. I wrapped my thighs around him and we met in the middle for a kiss that scorched and burned hot.
His lips moved across my jaw and then back to my mouth, only stopping to speak against the corner of my mouth. The gold inner ring of his eyes almost glowed in the sunshine as he broke away briefly to hold my gaze. “I see you as more than warm holes or a babysitter, I swear to god, but having you bounce around against me like that just fried my brain.”
I tugged at his hair, knocking off his hat, and breathed in harshly when his teeth snagged my bottom lip I tangled my hands in his thick, chocolate hair. “Doesn’t count when we’re doing this. That conversation, I mean. This is different.”
He gripped my ass tight as he lowered us to the ground. Running his hand up my side, he cupped my breast and growled. The hard muscles in his shoulders flexed under my needy grasp and his body covered mine, making me feel small. “You’ve got the best set of tits I’ve ever seen. I’m going to watch you ride Lucy by yourself later, just so I can see them bounce.”
I planted my feet on the ground and arched my back into him, the feel of his denim covered erection grinding against my core electric. “Never going to happen. You can just watch me ride you.”
Kissing me deep, his grip on my breast tightened when I sucked the tip of his tongue. With a deep groan, he sat up and reached down to grab the hem of his shirt and yank it over his head. Skin tanned from years of working under the sun shirtless and a dark dusting of chest hair that led down to a thin trail that disappeared into his jeans greeted me and left me even hungrier. Before his shirt hit the ground, I was pressed against his chest in its place, my mouth leaving open kisses on his warm skin.
Kyrin broke away long enough to reach down and pull my shirt up. “Cute shirt. Help me get it off or I’m ripping it.”
