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“So, all I have to do is flash my boobs and you’ll be eating out of the palm of my hand, is that what I’m hearing you say?”
He nodded solemnly. “Absolutely.”
“Any chance your parents would come out here at this time of night?”
He shook his head. “No, it’s after eight o’clock. They’ll both be falling asleep in their recliners in front of the TV by now.”
“And your ranch hand?” I asked.
“Already went home for the day.”
I undid my top button, then two more.
“In that case then...”
Peter
My eyes bulged out of my head as Abby slid her shirt off her shoulders, revealing a sexy black bra.
“You had that under there all this time?” I asked, staring at her lace-covered breasts.
“I wanted to surprise you,” she said, unzipping her jeans and dropping them to the ground to reveal matching underwear. “Surprise!”
I advanced on her, grabbing a saddle blanket and spreading it on a nearby hay bale. I knew from experience that laying naked on hay was not pleasant. I eased her down onto the thick blanket, then spread out on top of her, my elbows on either side of her head.
“Hey,” I whispered.
“Hey.”
I lowered my head and pressed my lips against hers. Just like every time we kissed, passion seemed to flare between us immediately. I deepened the kiss, licking my way into her mouth and giving her a rough, claiming kiss. Abby brought her legs up to wrap around my jeans-clad hips.
“Hey little brother, are you and Annabelle...”
My brother’s words came to me like they were coming through a deep fog. The asshole always gave me a hard time about being too emotionally attached to Annabelle. He thought it was weird that I had a cow as a pet.
“Allen, what’s wrong? Why are you...? Oh! Oh!”
And there was my brother’s girlfriend, Clara.
Underneath me, Abby cried out in surprise. Our lips separated and we both turned our heads to see my brother and his girlfriend standing there. Allen was wearing a shit-eating grin, but Clara at least had the grace to look embarrassed.
“I’m so sorry Peter, we thought you were out here alone,” my future sister-in-law said.
“Alone with Annabelle,” Allen added snarkily.
Clara took a step forward and gave Abby an awkward wave. I kept myself on top of her so they wouldn’t get an eyeful of her dressed only in lacy lingerie.
“Hi there, I’m Clara.”
“Hi,” Abby said weakly. When I glanced down, her face was red with embarrassment.
“Can you two give us a minute?” I barked.
Allen laughed. “If that’s how long my brother lasts, you might want to find yourself another guy,” he said, his comment clearly directed at Abby.
“Asshole,” I retorted.
When he laughed it was all I could do not to leap across the barn and punch him in the face. It didn’t matter to me that he was a cop, I was younger, bigger, and stronger. I wouldn’t hesitate to kick his ass, even if we were both staring at fifty right now.
