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“Thank you,” she sighs, sounding relieved.
Taking my hand in hers, she pulls me away from the angry group. Angry, but cowed. At the last second I pull free, turn around and punch that fucker in the jaw with every ounce of rage that I have. He goes down like the sack of shit that he is, and his cronies immediately race to his side. I fully expect Raven to go ape shit at me but all she does is shake her head a little and give me a smile.
This time when she takes my hand and leads me away I let her. We don’t make it far before I grind to a halt. She tugs on my hand but I refuse to move. Eventually she looks back at me, a question in her eyes.
A question I don’t answer with words.
Instead, I pull her into me and crush her lips beneath mine. I kiss her like I did that night in her bedroom: full of the promise of what’s to come. And I will not let her push me away this time.
“God, I wish I could fuck you right now,” I groan, exasperated.
“Go on then,” she teases. She probably thinks I wouldn’t dare on a public beach but she should know by now that I don’t give a fuck about anything. Well, almost anything. I very clearly give more than a fuck about her and Phoenix. And maybe the band of merry men Boy Scout assholes on the beach that are taking care of my daughter right now.
“Fucking...sand…” I complain between kisses. She laughs.
“Who’d have thought that big bad Baxter Branson is scared of a little sand.”
“Scared?” I scoff, still devouring her lips.
“Terrified.”
“I’ll show you terrified,” I threaten.
She grins at me. “Come on then.”
I’m surprised when she doesn’t head back to the others, pulling me up the beach towards the little hut that we rented instead.
“Where’re we going?”
“Need to clean that up before you get all that scary sand in it.”
“I thought we were going to fuck. Finally.”
“Oh we are.” She winks at me then points to my hand. “But let’s deal with that first.”
I glance down at my knuckles. They’re bloody but I don’t feel a thing.
“I always thought there’d be more blood the first time we fuck,” I murmur to myself.
“What?”
“Huh?” I blink, shake my head, look at Raven. She has the strangest look on her face.
“Nothing.”
We continue up the beach until we get to the wooden shelter we hired for the duration of the holiday. It’s just a little cabin with a mezzanine bed, a small kitchenette, sitting area and basic bathroom. But it’s great for storing all Thorn’s water sports shit, and I’ll admit it’s pretty handy right now too.
As soon as we step through the door, I push Raven up against it, kissing her mouth once more.
“Easy tiger,” she says a minute later, pushing me away. “Let’s get the first aid kit out.”
I sigh and take a seat, pulling out the knife I used on the beach and tossing it into the sink. Then I remove all the other knives and set them on the table. Raven returns and eyes my stash with a smirk.
“Really? You brought five knives to the beach?”
“Seven. One’s in the sink and I dropped one.” Which reminds me to pull out my phone and text Jax to pick it up for me.
“You’re ridiculous.”
