Woo Me: the Outback Bachelor Ball, #2 by Karina Bliss
Author:Karina Bliss
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Karina Bliss
Published: 2015-10-20T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter Seven
Most people camped as close as possible to the venue. Logan had done the opposite, with the result that his nearest neighbor was two hundred yards away. Heâd chosen a boundary site near a stand of tall gum trees, and parked his truck as an additional privacy screen.
As he switched on a couple of LED strips hanging from the two-person tentâs guy ropes, Jen saw a small circle of stones. They were filled with ashes, testifying to a previous campfire and heâd placed a fallen branch in front of it to act as a backrest. âIâve been here a couple of days helping Lily out,â Logan said, pulling a tarp out of his ute and spreading it over the log as a groundsheet before throwing down a blanket.
âYou didnât stay with her?â Jen blushed, suddenly shy. Would they get naked hereâ¦now? What was she doing? One-nighters werenât her style, too raw, too rash.
âMy sister is a wonderful person.â Logan chuckled. âAs long as you have a bolt-hole. Sit down,â he invited. âIâll build a fire.â He reached out and tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear, his blue eyes open and warm. âWould you like a hot chocolate?â
âLove one,â she said. This man understood foreplay. Her decision was rash maybe, but not sordid or desperate or alcohol-driven. And Logan was shy, too. It was in the way he looked at her, wonderingly, a little dazed. Neither of them had expected this rapport. Jen settled against the log, catching a pillow he tossed her to soften her backrest.
Curling her legs under her, she watched Logan move about his campsite, his movements efficient and unhurried as he lit a fire, boiled water on a small primus stove and spooned chocolate into a couple of tin mugs. âSugar?â
âNo. Thank you.â Being here felt easy, right. She looked at the gum trees, admiring the bone white of the eucalyptusâs trunk where the bark had peeled. In her state of sensual awareness she even fancied she could smell the astringent scent of gum leaves. Around the circle of smooth gray rocks, the red earth seemed to release its own glow as the kindling caught and the fire built.
When he carried over two mugs of steaming hot chocolate and sat beside her, she re-settled between his legs and leaned into his chest, still bare under the formal jacket.
âI expected your camp to be some kind of bivouac,â she admitted, throwing the blanket across her bare legs. âBut this is downright cosy.â
His laugh was a low vibrating rumble up her spine. âIâm enjoying the luxury of stuff now I donât have to carry my home on my back anymore.â
They lapsed into silence, a silence that was anticipatory and intensely erotic. Theyâd talked all evening and nowâ¦they didnât need to talk.
With Loganâs warm body behind her, the fireâs heat heating the rubber of her flip-flops, Jen savored her hot chocolate and watched bursts of sparks leap into the dark like escaping fireflies.
Their time together was so short.
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