Sea Breeze 03 While It Lasts (4 page)

             
“So, you getting a break anytime soon?” she ask
ed
,
staring up at me with a ‘
fuck me now
’
grin on her face. I was real damn tempted. I could have those tight little shorts off and
her bent
over my bed in no time. But something was stopping me. Maybe it was the innocent way her blond
e
curls floated around her big brown eyes or maybe
it wasn’t something that moral
at all. Maybe it was the fact she’d
be harder to get rid of out here in the country once I’d finished with her.

             
“I’m heading out to ba
l
e
hay. Jeremy just went to get us some water,” I explained
,
making sure she understood just how disappointed I was that I wouldn’t get to see exactly what those perky little
titties
looked like bare.

             
“Oh… well, maybe tonight you would like to come down to the lake? I’m having a bonfire and invitin
g over a few friends. My parent
s are out of town…” she trailed off. Not getting some sexual relief from this pretty little number was going to be hard. But I wasn’t going to turn down her offer at something to do tonight. I was already bored as shit.

             
“I’m in need of a ni
ce cold beer. Any chance that’
ll be
available?
” I asked.

             
Becca
nodded her head and bit down on her bottom lip teasingly. Yeah, she was hoping for more tonight. Maybe if I just enjoyed having a female in my ar
ms for a little while. No sex, j
ust some playtime. I fucking needed something.

             
I checked to see if Eva
or her dad
w
ere
standing around anywhere watching us before closing the little bit of distance
Becca
Lynn had left between us. “That sounds like a real nice offer,” I lowered my voice and placed a hand on her hip. Her mouth made a small little round O as I pulled her up against me. “Do you think you might
could sit o
n my lap while I dri
nk that beer?”

             
Her breathing was accelerating and the tits she wanted me to notice were bobbing against my chest. I slid my hand
up her ribs until my thumb grazed the under
side of her soft heavy breast. Yeah, that was nice. I needed to get fucking laid.  She managed to nod her head as she stared up at me.  Her brown eyes were pretty but
not enough to put up with a clingy female the rest of the summer. That reminder
had me slipping my hand away and taking a step back.

             
“I’ll see
ya
tonight then,” I replied
,
suddenly thankful that Jeremy was headed our way.

             
“Okay,” she sighed and flashed me one last smile before turning and running up toward the house. Shit.
I wondered if she was
going to go tell Eva about this. I hadn’t done anything wrong.
Maybe Eva wouldn’t go running off to her daddy to tell him that I was playing with
Becca
Lynn’s tits
. But somehow… I seriously doubted it.

Eva

             
My face felt hot. I stepped away from the bathroom window and closed my eyes tightly. When I’d seen
Becca
strutting up to Cage I should have stopped washing my hands and turned away from the window. No. When I’d realized Cage was shirtless and pouring the last of his water over his bare chest I should have stopped looking. But I hadn’t. I couldn’t. It had been fascinating. I’d never seen a chest or arms like his. They were so…
so…
so sculpted
and muscular. I fanned my face
glad I had a moment to recover before
Becca
found me in here.

             
Becca
had been real close to that naked che
st. Those large tanned hands ha
d touched her waist and from what I could tell he’d touched a little more
than that
. I
was surprised
Becca
hadn’t crump
led to the ground. The girl didn’t
even have on a bra! Did she have
no shame? I was torn between disgust and jealousy. Yes
,
I might as well admit it. I was jealous. The guy was gorgeous and
Becca
was free to enjoy just how gorgeous he was. I was jealous of that. Because I knew I
wasn’t.
I’d never be free.

             
Even if my daddy
were to
approve of someone like Cage, I could never move on with someone less than worthy of filling Josh’s shoes. Josh wanted me to move on and I wasn’t sure I ever could.
If I did…
If I ever attempted to— it would have to be with a guy Josh would
approve of. Cage York would never be that guy.

             
“EVA! WHERE ARE YOU?”
Becca
Lynn’s voice called out down the
hall
as she got closer to the bathroom door I knew she would bang on any second. Taking one deep breath I wiped my hands on the hand towel and opened the door.

             
Becca
had just stopped outside the door and had her fist up ready to knock.

“There you are!
Ohmy
god
Eva! I think I’m
gonna
kiss your U
ncle Mack next time I see him. I swear my body hasn’t gone this crazy over a boy ever. Cage makes me feel like I’ve just had the world’s best orgasm when he hasn’t done anything more than smile at me with those
delicious f
ull lips of his. DEAR LORD HAVE MERCY h
is thumb touched my boob and I’
m more than positive I D
ID have an orgasm right there i
n your yard,”
Becca
pushed past me
, closed the toilet lid,
flopped down on it and began fanning herself.  “I am so going to do him tonight. I don’t care that I just met him. I want that boy naked! Did you see him out there with his shirt off?”

             
Yes, I’d seen him.

             
“Don’t have sex with him
,
Becca
. He probably has STDs. He will screw you today and move on to someone else tomorrow. Don’t give him that part of you.”

             
Because I was pretty sure I’d die of jealousy at having to hear her relive it over and over again.

             
Becca
Lynn rolled her eyes,
“Whatever Eva. He does not have STDs.
That
’s silly. It isn’t like he screws prostitutes. The boy can pick and choose. Besides, I will make sure we use a condom. An
yway,
who
else is he going to move onto? He’s stuck here all summer. Other than you and me, no one else is coming around here for him to move on to.”

             
I thought about the girls who would be at the lake party tonight and wondered if that had ever crossed her mind.

             
“
Deedee
and Farah are coming tonight
,
aren’t they?” I asked
,
leaning a hip against the sink.

             
Becca
frowned for a moment then lifted her gaze to meet mine, “
Deedee
is back with Brett and
Farrah
is seeing Hayden Morris, you know the boy who was quarterback at Sea Breeze our junior and senior years. Josh outplayed him during the championship game and we…” she trailed off like she always did when she mentioned Josh’s name. It
was as though
she was afraid I’d b
urst
into tears and
fall
to the ground.  I couldn’t blame her. I had been a major recluse for over eight months
after Josh was killed. Other than Jeremy I had closed everyone else out during
those months
.
Becca
had been away at college most of that time so it hadn’t been difficult to hide from everyone. Jeremy had dropped out that semester and I’d been so wrapped up in my pain that I hadn’t thought about how my grief was affecting him. When I’d heard my dad talking to Jeremy one night after he thought I’d gone to bed, I realized what I was doing to him. Dad had been telling him that he needed to go back to school that fall. He couldn’t stay here with me forever. Jeremy had refused to leave me.

             
I’d done everything I could to prove to him that I was better.
That I
could make it without him.
I
n the end it had been pointless. He’d enrolled at a local college and he commuted. By the winter semester I’d enrolled too. We commuted together. It had worked.

             
This was our last summer together. Things were changing. Jeremy wanted to go to LSU. He had family in Louisiana and he wanted to get an apartment with his cousin. He had no idea I knew all this. But I did. I was doing everything I could to prove to him that he could tell me his plans. I would be okay. It was time he lived his life and stopped holding my hand.

             
“I didn’t mean to…”
Becca’s
voice broke into my thoughts and I
realized
she
thought
my quietness was because of her mentioning Josh.

             
I smiled, “It’s okay to say his name. I don’t want to pretend he didn’t exist. I can hear his name now and not
fall
apart. Josh was the biggest part
of my life for eighteen years. I like remembering things about him,” I assured her and reached out to squeeze her shoulder.

             
“He was awesome that game. We were the ones picked to lose and he dominated that field. He showed all those college scouts that
the
hot shot quarterback Hayden Morris wasn’t so big and bad after all.”

             
Becca’s
smile was sad. “Yeah, he did
,
didn’t he? Why didn’t he take that scholarship to South Carolina for football?”

             
My chest tightened. I wasn’t ready for that just yet. Shaking my head
,
I straightened up from my relaxed stance. “Because he said life was more than football. He wanted his life to mean something more.”

             
That was all I could manage. I turned and walked out t
he door. I needed a moment.  I
thought back to that day he’d left for boot camp and I’d cried my eyes out begging him not to join the army.  I had promised him I would go to South Carolina with him. We wouldn’t have to be apart and he’d be safe. Away from guns and bombs.

Cage

             
I knew enough about country music to know that it was George Strait’s voice singing over the speakers. 
Becca
Lynn’s hand squeezed mine as she
walked beside me toward the big ass fire they had going.
T
he moonlight was the only
other
light out here in the woods. The small area was crowded with unfamiliar faces. A couple of them I wouldn’t mind getting to know a little better.  A flirty little brunette flashed me a teasing smile before pressing her nice size
d
chest against the arm of the guy she was holding onto.

             
I surveyed the rest of the crowd
.
I still wasn’t sure I was going to be doing anything with
Becca
Lynn tonight. I couldn’t make up my mind. I just had a feeling she was going to be the kind you couldn’t get rid of after the one-
nighter
. There were a few other options out here in the dark. My mind went to Eva and I wondered if she’d be here. This probably wasn’t her scene. I doubted Eva Brooks went to bonfires at night.
But damned if the idea of getting her snobby little ass pressed up against a tree didn’t sound real good. She might be a bitch but she was so fucking sexy it didn’t even matter.  I’d have to keep reminding myself that she was off limits. I had too much riding on her daddy liking me to get too attached to the idea of getting her out of her panties.

             
“Let me go get you that beer,”
Becca
said
,
reminding me she was beside me.