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“No, not really. There’s still a lot of life out there, but it’s not a forest like this. It’s still beautiful in its own way, though.”
“Do you have a favorite trail?”
“Escondido Falls, out near Malibu,” she said, her face lighting up as she thought about her old home. “It starts out as this easy little walk, and you end up at a tiny waterfall, and then you have to climb up these rocks to get to a much bigger waterfall at the top.”
“It sounds beautiful.” It really did.
“I wish I had some pictures to show you,” she said. “I had a bunch on my old phone from hikes I took out there.”
“Maybe you’ll show me in person one day.” Whoa. Where had that come from? When had I started making plans with people? She blinked up at me but gave me a quick, shy smile before looking away from me. We continued walking in silence for another little while, taking in nature and each other as we went, the path continuing to wind through the trees and get more difficult as we went on.
“I was wondering, what’s the occasion?” she said, keeping pace with me easily as we went. “I thought that you were gung-ho for keeping me confined to the cabin.”
I rolled my eyes at her. “Contrary to what you might believe, I don’t actually get all that much out of having you there all the time. It messes with my concentration.”
“Oh, I’m so sorry,” she said, rolling her own eyes in turn, “that my imprisonment in your home is messing up your workflow.”
I chuckled at her phrasing, but only because she barely hid her own smile. “Thank you, but that’s actually not the thing that I find most distracting.”
We didn’t stop walking, but I was suddenly far more aware of her than I had been even a second ago. Her smell seemed to weave with the scents of the world around us in an enthralling mix, and I’d been craving the feeling of her body on top of mine since that night a few weeks before when we’d thrown caution out the window and I’d ripped down every barrier I’d put up without a second thought for the sake of that gorgeous face and mesmerizing ass.
Our eyes met as we continued up the hill, and the sunlight seemed to bounce off her clear blue eyes, turning them the color of a lake. She raised her eyebrow and tilted up the side of her mouth, and I knew immediately that I was in trouble. “Oh yeah? So, what’s been distracting you?”
I snorted, gesturing vaguely to her. “You. Just… everything about you is a distraction to me.”
She shook her head, her breathing picking up a little bit—so slightly I might’ve imagined it—as the incline got sharper. “Be specific.”
“Do I have to list them?”
“Of course. I go out of my way not to bug you, so I’d like to know exactly how I’ve been distracting to you. I’d hate to be guilty of keeping you from getting your work done.”
I chuckled, eyeing her as deliberately as I could, almost making it so that my gaze dragged over her with an almost physical touch. I knew immediately that the flush on her delicate cheeks was from the look I’d given her. She’d barely broken a sweat up till now, despite the fact that she’d kept up with my pace. She really must’ve been an avid hiker back in LA. Despite our difference in height, she walked with me. It wasn’t too much of a stretch, then, to think that I was the reason for her change in coloring. “I wouldn’t even know where to start.”
She came around in front of me so that she was blocking my path, looking up at me with that particular look I’d started to think of as her hidden grin. “Am I distracting you right now?”
I didn’t bother to hide the way my own breath seemed to tighten at the sight of her, when her crystal-blue eyes lit on me with featherlight touches the way prism rainbows seemed to land on my furniture from the dew that formed on the windows in the mornings.
“You have no idea,” I said, my voice hoarse.
She nodded, moving away from me and up the path, pulling her long hair out of the bun and shaking it out around her shoulders. The sun bounced off it, making it glow a fiery red. She gathered it back into her hands on top of her head, and as she stood up again, I knew I’d had enough.
I came up behind her, pulling her into me so she was pressed up against me. “Don’t put it up,” I said against her neck, leaning down to press my mouth to the soft skin under her ear that I’d learned, over the course of our nights together, was exactly the spot that made her melt.
She gave a breathy sound, her hands falling down to settle on my hands where they spread out over her flat stomach, and her head rolled back onto my shoulder. I didn’t bother to look into her eyes as I leaned over her and kissed her.
I hadn’t been planning to initiate anything, but as soon as I’d seen the beautiful sharp curves of her neck and the way that she meant to drive me insane, I knew I needed to return the favor.
She opened her mouth under mine, deepening the kiss and reaching up to wrap her hand around the back of my head, pressing it to hers as if she meant to devour me. I twisted around so that we were face-to-face and picked her up, backing her up slowly so that soon, I had her up against the thick trunk of an ash tree. She ran her fingers up my back, scraping my skin with her nails and scoring it gently but enough to let me know she’d meant to leave her mark.
I drove my hands up under her shirt, needing to feel her bare skin against my palms. She pressed herself up against me, and I reached down to wrap her leg around my hip so we were flush against one another.
She pulled her mouth away from mine, and I moved my lips down so they lingered on the delicate skin of her neck. I reached up and pulled the straps of her shirt down until it gathered around her waist, exposing the tops of her beautiful tits to the air.
“Be honest,” she said, sighing. “How many women have you brought out here to screw against a tree?”
“You’re the only one.”
She brought me up to face her again and kissed me savagely, her mouth moving with mine as our tongues started moving together savagely.
