The Jilting: Summer (Mandrake Falls Series Romance Book 1) by Catherine Lloyd

Author:Catherine Lloyd [Lloyd, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Writewood Creations
Published: 2014-04-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine: Friends With Benefits

RYDER REACHED to the foot of the cot and drew a musty white sheet over their naked bodies.

“Are you cold?” she asked.

“No, but I thought you might be.”

Scout, on her back, stared at the moon-washed ceiling. They lay side-by-side like stiff soldiers in a box. “What happens now?”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean do we talk or eat or smoke a cigarette or what? What do you usually do with the women you sleep with?”

“We don’t smoke cigarettes.” His mouth pulled sideways to a smile. “We eat or talk and then I go home.”

“Shut up. You do not. You go home?”

He shrugged. “You want the truth or do you want me to start lying to you?”

“Let’s agree to lie to the rest of the world if we have to, but never to each other.”

“Agreed.”

“Then I think you’re a shit for leaving a girl after having sex with her. I don’t like knowing this about you. When I think of all the mean things I’ve said about your girlfriends over the years. Those poor girls—I’m glad I wasn’t one of them. It’s a good thing we dealt with my virginity tonight when you have no chance of escape.”

“Hey,” he murmured in the dark beside her. “Are you okay? Did I hurt you?”

Her eyes widened. “How do you mean?”

“Are you sore ... or ...?”

“A little sore—it’s not too bad,” she said hurriedly. The pain had been mind-boggling. It was a wonder there was a human race if that’s what it took, Scout thought. But she was also ecstatic and fulfilled and deeply in love with the man lying beside her. Losing her virginity was probably going to be the least painful memory she would have of this night, Scout thought ruefully. Ryder was already slipping away.

He shifted.

“Where are you going?” She propped herself up on one elbow, trying to keep the alarm out of her face.

“To get us some water. We have to stay hydrated. And you need to wash up.”

Her thighs were sticky. Cheeks burning, Scout lay back on the cot and pulled the sheet up to her neck. “Where is there water around here?”

“I stowed a five gallon thermos in the corner. It’s stale but it’ll do the job.”

He rummaged through the metal chest and retrieved a square of towel. Ryder soaked it and then filled their cups. He returned to her side and handed her a cup of water. Scout didn’t realize how thirsty she was. She drained it in one go. Ryder set his on the crate and lifted the sheet to her midriff. He cleaned her legs and thighs and then gently wiped the traces of him from her vulva.

Scout choked. “Do you do this for all your women?”

Ryder’s mouth pulled sideways, grinning like she’d seen him do a million times, but he didn’t answer. “Not too much blood. I thought it would be worse.”

“It never crossed my mind there’d be blood.”

“Are you hungry?”

“Not anymore.”

“Still, we’d better eat. There won’t be time in the morning.

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