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Nah.
On the drive home, I wondered.
Chapter Eighteen
Val
After spending the better part of a day with Eve's family, I couldn't understand why she'd been so upset when they arrived. They knew what kind of resort she owned. They knew she spent every day hanging out with naked men and women. Her brother and sister didn't mind at all, and Andrew and his wife had brought their two children who were eight and nine. The children had been here before, Andrew told me, and were comfortable being around nudists.
Eve's parents didn't mind either, so I had to wonder. Why was Eve so frazzled? Was she ashamed to have her family find out she'd been sleeping with me? I knew she cherished her privacy, so maybe that was the only reason for her behavior. Our encounter with Quentin in the hardware store hadn't helped, for sure.
I'd wanted to belt that bastard.
Just after lunch, the FedEx truck arrived. Luckily, Eve was busy entertaining her family and didn't notice the delivery I accepted from the FedEx driver. I planned to surprise her in the morning, but for now, the package I'd ordered would stay a secret.
For most of the afternoon, I worked with Larry, Andrew, Jeremy, and a couple of the other guests to repair the room in the guest house. I wondered if Eve would make me move into this room once we'd finished the work. The thought of being relegated to the guest house bothered me more than I'd expected. I had gotten used to being mere feet away from Eve's bedroom, within easy distance if I wanted to sneak into her bed—or vice versa. Skulking across the dirt path from the guest house to get into Eve's home in the dead of night did not appeal to me.
Oh, but I would do that if I had to. No chance in hell I'd give up making love to her because of geographic inconvenience. I would've traveled to Siberia barefoot in the middle of winter, swimming across the Bering Strait to get there, if it meant I could feel Eve's body around me.
I liked her. Very much. For more than her body.
The realization stopped me for a moment. I stood in the damaged room in the guest house, a hammer raised in my hand, holding a nail in position to pound it into place. Was this what people called an epiphany? I'd never had one before. I liked Eve. That shouldn't have been shocking, but I'd never wanted a woman for much more than sex. The occasional dinner, maybe. Never more. Never anything…serious. With Eve, I wanted all of it. All of her.
"You okay?" Larry asked.
His question startled me out of my thoughts. "Fine, yes. Just thinking."
About his daughter and all the nonsexual things I wanted to do with her. Ah, but I did think about sex too. I could take Eve out to dinner and then for a romantic walk along the river in town, followed by hours of sweaty, dirty sex.
"We're almost done," Larry said, oblivious of my carnal thoughts. He patted my shoulder. "You've done great, helping out with the repairs. I'm sure Eve really appreciates it. And it was a wise decision to put on coveralls."
Yes, I'd given up my preferred state of undress during the repair job. When I had thought about doing construction work in the nude, I'd suffered visions of taking a nail to the dick or the balls. Sometimes, even a nudist needed to wear clothes.
Everyone ate dinner in the guest house that evening. Eve had ordered a feast from the local Mexican restaurant in honor of her family's visit, since they loved tacos and spicy queso dip. More laughter and chattering voices filled the dining hall tonight than on any other night since I'd been here. Ollie, the Norrises, and some of the other guests already knew Eve's family.
Krista, Eve's sister, sat next to me during dinner. Eve had taken the seat on the opposite side of me, so I was sandwiched between the two lovely Holt women. I flirted with Eve and only Eve. Krista was equally beautiful, but she had a fiancé. Besides, I'd realized during our time in the hot spring I had eyes for Eve alone. No other woman, no matter how beautiful, could compare to her.
Heidi sat beside Krista. Eve's parents along with her brother and soon-to-be brother-in-law occupied the chairs across the table from us. The next closest table stood a few feet away, so we could chat with Ruth, Sylvester, Ollie, and several of the Kittens.
Eve had been right about the Kitten Brigade. They were sweet girls, but they got boisterous whenever three or more of them gathered together. Those girls made every occasion a party but never took things too far. I could see why Eve liked them so much.
Conversation stayed casual until dessert, when Krista turned to me and asked, "So, what are your intentions with my sister?"
"Intentions?" I intended to fuck her every night and as often in the daytime as possible. Her sister wouldn't want to hear that, though. "I like Eve very much, but it's a bit early to be having intentions of the kind I think you mean."
"Hmm." She eyed me like she was sizing me up. "You're hot, and you seem nice. But Evie is my sister, and I don't want her to get hurt by some has-been athlete who likes to make DIY porn."
On the other side of me, Eve was engaged in conversation with Ruth across the distance between our tables. She seemed unaware of her sister's interrogation of me. Larry and Donna Holt had gone off to mingle with the other guests, and Heidi had moved into the chair beside Andrew, regaling him and Jeremy with stories of the Kitten Brigade's antics.
Krista had me cornered.
"I have no desire to hurt Eve," I told her. "She's a special woman. I enjoy spending time with her, but I haven't known her for long."
"Yet you're sleeping with her."
"Well—" I fidgeted in my chair but resisted the impulse to look away from Krista. Her interrogation would not unsettle me, that I'd decided. "I can't discuss it with you. Anything that happens between me and Eve in private stays private."
Krista locked her arms over her chest. "Does that mean you're not secretly taping it when you screw my sister?"
