“Confused? Hell, I’m more perplexed than she is. She seems to know what she wants and tries her damndest to get it but we keep pushing her away. She’s not Mom, nothing like her-thank God-and we’re not like our fathers.”
“You don’t know what you’re saying,” Braden gritted out through clenched teeth.
“Maybe you don’t want to hear it.”
Evan stopped at the other end of the barn and looked back at his brother. “If you hurt her, so help me God, I’ll repeat history.”
“This is exactly what I don’t want to see happen,” Braden said.
“I’m not going to hurt her,” Kane promised, “But I am going to love her, and I don’t care if I have your permission or not. I don’t care if you stay up all night wondering what it might have been like if you’d swallowed your damned-ass pride. I don’t give a shit if you like it, agree with it, or downright hate it. I’m going to love her until she knows she belongs to me. Now, what she does with the two of you later will be up to her, but for tonight, she’s mine. Interfere or try to stop it, and so help me I’ll run away with her and never look back.”
Evan watched Peyton’s car until it disappeared between the gates. “I hope you’re happy.”
“What the hell did you want me to do?”
“I wanted you to swallow some of your big-brother pride and tell Kane for once he’s right.”
“He’s not,” Braden said.
“She’s not a little girl, Braden. She’s never been a little girl. You wanted to take her on to raise and someone already beat you to it. Her momma did a fine enough job before she died and the least you can do is notice.”
“Her mother should have left behind a how-to manual so I’d know things, understand how we were supposed to handle her and manage her life most effectively.”
“We’re not supposed to manage her life, Braden. We took her in as family. When we signed those papers, it wasn’t just about being her guardians. Hell, we could’ve pulled strings and helped her stay right there where she grew up. Instead, you took one look at her and wanted to save her.”
Braden scratched his head.
“Then, she came in here and made this place a home. Just seeing her first thing in the mornings makes my day better. I guarantee you feel the same way. In a few short months, she’s going to leave for college and start her life. Why not let her live a little before she does, even if it means including all of us in some kind of fantasy?”
“I promised her mother to take care of her. I did not promise her mother I’d fuck her silly and put her on the school bus each morning afterwards.”
“Damn it, Braden! She’s not a kid. She’s a woman. She acts like a woman, looks like a woman, and by God she knows how to turn a man on which is something I’d just about fight Kane for right this minute.”
“This is why it’s a bad idea. Don’t you see? Try and understand.” He picked up a bale of hay and tossed it to the side before he sat down and leaned his head back against a rusty post. “I’m doing the right thing by her, and you boys are trying your best to ruin it.”
“We’re not doing anything here. We’ve kissed her. She’s a damn good kisser too, I might add, and I’m sure you’d agree.” He smirked at his brother but didn’t wait for Braden to respond, “Now, no thanks to you, Kane is going to run off with her tonight, and you might as well consider her fucked.”
“He’ll make us think he’s gonna do it but he’ll probably love on her a little bit and then bring her home in the morning. He’s not going to keep her out of school laid up in a hotel room someplace.”
“I wouldn’t be so sure about that, Braden. He’s already tasted her tangy little pussy so-”
Braden quickly jumped to his feet. “He did what?”
“Yep, this mornin’ and he said she didn’t complain either.”
“You talked to them about this?”
“I didn’t talk to Peyton. Hell, I didn’t need to confirm it after the way she was makin’ eyes at him this afternoon. Kane just said things got a little out of hand when he drove her to school. I pressed and he told me everything. He pulled around there at the old Davenport warehouse and just went wild on her.”
“Damn it. I can’t even trust you boys to drive her to school.”
“Don’t blame me here. I didn’t give her a ride but I can tell you one thing right now. If I’d had my head between her legs even for a minute, she wouldn’t have gone to school today. I would’ve taken her someplace far away from everybody and my tongue wouldn’t have been the only thing in between her legs.”
“I imagine you’re right then. She’s fucked.”
“Yep, I imagine so, or at least she will be before the night is over.’
“You told them we weren’t going to the boathouse,” she said as they started down the curvy road toward the lake.
“They believed me too. They won’t look for us out here, and if they do, we’ll leave.”
The dark, lonely road leading to the lake seldom saw traffic. Kane turned on the headlights. He’d only made a few stops. He ran by the mall and picked up a few things he felt like he wanted Peyton to have and then ran into the convenience market to pick up a few snacks. Peyton loved junk food. He wanted to make sure he had a stockpile so he didn’t have to leave again once he tucked her in for the night.
He tried to concentrate on driving but it wasn’t easy. Her eyes heated him in all the wrong places. Ten more minutes, just ten more minutes. He stepped on the gas and accelerated.
“In a hurry?” she teased.
He ignored her. No, actually he didn’t. Every muscle in his body tensed because of her. He didn’t know how on God’s earth he’d gain enough self control, but he needed to find some element of it before they pulled up to the boathouse, otherwise, he feared what might happen.
Kane didn’t want to hurt her but right now all he thought about was pushing his way into her tight pussy and fucking her until dawn. These thoughts might get a man killed if he ever revealed them to Evan or Braden.
Her fingertips ran over his hard leg. She shifted in her bucket seat. Her palm caressed his inner thigh with more strength, and a firm command.
Clasping his hand over her wrist, he said, “Peyton, don’t. We’re almost there.”
“Yeah, well, you drive. Watch the road.” Her tiny hand inched closer to the bulge in between his thighs and soon his head strained against the headrest. His hand covered hers only tighter as he held her under his grip straining against his cock. He gritted his teeth and moaned as she stroked.
“Damn, woman, can’t you wait?”
Her fingers worked at unzipping him. She didn’t have a problem finding what she wanted. Her moist mouth nibbled at his earlobe. “Let me give you a blowjob, Kane. Right now. Drive us to the boathouse while you drive into my mouth.”
“Oh God, Peyton. You have no idea how much I’d like to take you up on the offer.”
She rubbed her hand over his cock before she tugged it from his boxers. “Let me?” She lowered her head, and he slammed on the brakes. The back of the car fishtailed.
“Peyton!” He pulled over to the side of the road and stared at her. “Peyton, not even ten minutes. We’re less than ten minutes from the boat.”
She didn’t say anything. She just stared back at him with her lips parted and her tongue where he could see it. How many times had he imagined what she could do with her tongue, her hot little mouth, her sweet little lips? Now, he was going to shove his cock back in his pants and say ‘no thank you’? No way. Not today.
The silence ripped through the car, the air thick with sexual tension, only breathing broke through the thicket of the quiet. And then it intensified, forming a racket all on its own.
He cupped her neck and slammed against her lips. Her wet tongue slid across his in a second, and he held her against his mouth, kissing her, making love to her mouth just as he would her body-fast and desperate.