Off-Season Stud by Abby Knox

Author:Abby Knox [Knox, Abby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Author Abby Knox, LLC
Published: 2018-09-17T16:00:00+00:00

15

Gretchen

Waking to the sounds of cussing and an open screen door batting violently against the wood siding was not how she thought this day would begin.

Gretchen flew out the door, angrily shouting before she even laid eyes on the two men fighting. She didn’t need to assess what was happening. Nicholas and Matthew were at it again.

Punching, shoving, hurling.

“Stop it! Just fucking stop it, both of you!!”

The two grown men rolling around in the dirt, pummeling each other, did not seem to hear her. Or they were ignoring her.

Gretchen stomped off, grabbed a length of green garden hose from the side of the A-frame, and turned on the faucet.

She didn’t care who started what. These boys were getting the hose.

And it worked.

A surprised Matthew sprang off of Nicholas and was on his feet with the dexterity of a trained Special Ops man. He looked like he had barely exerted himself in the fight. Nicholas lay on the ground, breathless. His lip was bleeding and he was favoring one shoulder.

“Now, will one of you imbeciles tell me what happened? Nicholas, you go first.”

Nicholas gingerly got to his feet, wincing the whole way. “I don’t know, babe. He just came at me.”

To her surprise, Matthew went charging at Nicholas again, his finger pointing in his face. “Tell her the truth, asshole!”

“Whoa!” Gretchen exclaimed. “Matthew, speak to me, not to him.”

Matthew turned to her, his eyes blazing with fury. Yet, he spoke calmly. “You’re really going to marry a guy who goes around bragging the second he takes your virginity?”

Gretchen recoiled. She took a moment to process those words. And all this before she’d even had her coffee.

“First of all, my virginity is not a subject of discussion for either of you. But since it’s been brought up... Nicholas, what the fuck is he talking about?”

Nicholas put his hands up in fake surrender.

“Babe. I was going to surprise you with a proposal later. I didn’t mean for you to hear that. The virginity thing? It was just locker room talk. You know, to get this weirdo to back off. Leave you alone. You know how guys talk. We gotta mark our territory.”

Gretchen looked at Nicholas. For the first time since they met, she finally had the full picture of who he was.

He was too interested in money. He was always talking about buying up land in the area. He’d offended all of her friends and neighbors last night by talking about real estate developing with the help of their land and their hard-earned savings to boot. And now he was telling lies about her and trying to play it off as endearing.

“Well, the surprise worked,” she said with a smile. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Matthew’s shoulders droop slightly in defeat.

“So, you can go now.”

Nicholas turned smugly back to Matthew. “Hear that? You can go now, big guy.”

Gretchen cleared her throat.

“No, I mean, you can go now, Nicholas. How dare you talk about me like that? Honestly? Fuck you.”

“Babe, come on! It’s guy talk!”

Her arms crossed and she approached him.

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