My Guys by Tanya Chris

Author:Tanya Chris
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781536891676
Publisher: TC Publishing
Published: 2017-06-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Back at the campground after a long dinner and a couple of drinks, everyone headed straight to bed. With my headlamp clipped to a hook in the ceiling of Derek’s tent so that it cast ambient light, I smoothed out my pad and sleeping bag next to his. I wished I’d brought something cuter to sleep in than flannel pajamas bottoms and an oversized t-shirt. I also wished I could take a shower. After a hot day of hiking and climbing, I was sticky and smelly.

I found a handwipe in my pocketbook and used its woefully inadequate surface area to swipe at a few of the more offending spots.

“OK if I come in?” Derek asked, his voice coming from directly outside the tent.

I unzipped the flap and scooted away from it to give him room. He maneuvered around me to the far side of our small shared space and turned off his headlamp, tucking it into a side pocket.

“Do you need a minute?” I asked, moving towards the door.

“Nah.” He pulled his shirt off over his head and slid into his sleeping bag. A few moments of contortion later he pulled his shorts out from under the bag and threw them to the foot of the tent. “I’m good.”

I assumed he had boxers on, but I couldn’t tell. His unzipped sleeping bag covered him from the navel down—his stomach, chest and shoulders tantalizingly bare above it. I crawled into my own bag, unzipping it slightly. The temperature had cooled when the sun went down, but it was still a pleasantly warm night for early June.

We faced each other, no more than a couple of inches separating our sleeping areas. I wondered if I’d get any sleep. I put my hands into my bag before they got away from me.

“You’re so tan already,” I observed, my words going where my mind had been—to his body.

“I’m part Asian. This is as light as I get.”

“I didn’t know that.” My mind pictured that sweet caramel color extending the rest of the way down his body.

“My mom. She’s a mix of all kinds of stuff.”

“I bet she’s beautiful.”

“And smart and strong and a lot of other things.”

“What about your dad?”

“My dad’s crazy about her,” he said, as if his father could have no higher calling.

“So loyalty runs in your family.”

Derek sighed and rolled over onto his back, the sleeping bag shifting further down on his stomach so that the taut pit of his navel was clear against the hard background of his abs. I wanted to stick my tongue in it.

“Sorry. I didn’t mean to bring up a touchy subject.”

“It’s stupid to be loyal to someone who’s not loyal to you.” He put one of his arms behind his head and the sleeping bag shifted again. “Did you have fun today?”

“I really did, and I learned a lot too.”

“I should have been teaching you more, like Pam said. I know it’s not right to do it all for you.”

“I guess it’s a man thing—thinking women need help more than they do.

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