Page 219 of Forbidden Heroes

“Where are we going?”

I’m kicking myself in the ass for waiting so late in the day to give the girl her present. The lighting in the barn sucks, but it’s better than using a flashlight, I guess.

“Now, Harper, girl, you don’t want to ruin the surprise, do you?” Hunter pulls on the door and flicks the overhead on. The smell of hay and horses greet us, but it doesn’t bother my Southern belle. I cup a hand over Harper’s eyes and my heart beats erratically at the tiny flicker of a moan she makes when her body leans into me. Her hands settle over mine.

Austin and Hunter have already disappeared and are in place by the time I’ve guided our girl into the barn. Her present is in the middle of the expansive barn. Semi-empty stalls line both sides of the barn, ready to receive this year’s boarding horses in a couple of weeks.

“Oh, come on, the suspense is killing me!” She bounces on the balls of her feet.

This is going to be good. I kind of want to drag it out a bit longer. But, maybe that’s only because I like the feel of her ass rubbing against my dick the longer she bounces in place. “Ready, baby girl?”

“Uh, yeah!”

The humor in her voice makes me chuckle.

“Ok, guys, have at it.” I drop my hands from her eyes and rest them on her shoulders.

Several seconds pass and I can’t tell if she loves it or not. But then, baby blues meet mine the second she twirls on the heels of her boots. “Oh my God!”

I hold my breath. She’s beautiful and doesn’t even have to try. She stands out in a crowd of a million people.

I don’t have more than a split second before I have my hands full of all of Harper. Her excitement sends my hat tumbling to the ground and me stumbling a bit before I catch my footing.

“Whoa there, baby girl. You're gonna knock us both into the hay pile.” I hold her tight and yeah, I’m liking how good she feels and if I’m to be perfectly honest, I’d give her a brand new truck every day of the year if this was the reward.

I look down at her and try not to laugh at the flushed surprise coloring her face such a pretty pink. I’m so fucking screwed. “Does this mean you like it?'' I ask close to her ear. I try not to breathe too deeply, but it’s a losing battle. I inhale and take a hit of her perfume one more time.

“Like it? I can’t believe it!” She bubbles up and my dick turns rock hard the second I feel her puckered nipples tease my chest. Nothing I can do to stop it. My body goes from zero to one hundred the second my hands touch her or any other part of me, for that matter.

She looks up at me and for a moment it’s just the two of us in the barn, everything and everyone nothing but background noise.

“Thank you,” she whispers sweetly.

“Happy birthday, baby girl, It’s all yours. Now go on, take a good look at your new truck.”

Smiling, she nods her head. “Okay.”

To my surprise, she leans in one last time and presses a tender kiss to my cheek, her breath a caress against my face before she walks to a smiling Hunter and Austin to give them a quick hug.

“Go on, check it out:” Hands on her shoulders, Austin and Hunter walk her around and explain everything to her like she’s never seen a four-wheel-drive truck before. The giddy look on their goofy faces says they’re enjoying this as much as she is.

I swallow hard. This problem I have is going to be a clusterfuck of epic proportions. I need to get out of here. Go back to the cabin. Get my rocks off in the shower and move on.

Harper bends and flashes me a hint of her silky white panties. The thin strip between her legs doing nothing to hit the pouty lips of her pussy from my view.

Fuck me, I’m gone. What does that make me? A monster? All I can think about right now is what else can I give her to make her jump in my arms like that again. Feel those soft curves melt against me one more time.

I retrieve my hat and force my cock to chill yet again. After tonight I’ll need five cold showers before I’ll be able to sleep a wink.

I lean against the hood as she takes in the pretty red sparkle of the paint job beneath the overhead lights. “Whaddaya think? Big enough to haul everything off to college come fall?”

She blinks up at me and tugs a portion of her bottom lip between her teeth. That one little move has me wanting to know what her lips would be like wrapped around my cock.

But it also brings another thought around. Harper is hiding something. The first time she did that was when she got her first period and didn’t know what to say to any of us so she walked three miles to our vet thinking something was wrong. The second was when she took the tractor out for a little joy ride in the back hayfield and tipped it over in a ditch. I lean a little more into the truck and prop the heel of my boot on the tire. This ought to be good.

“Harper?” Hunter probes. “What’s the matter?”

She looks at each of us. “Umm...I’ve been thinking. Maybe…uhu…I don't know if I am going off to college. Not just yet anyway.” She goes back to nibbling her lips.

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