Page 90 of Holding The Reins

Thanks for the summons, Sarge.

Mama

She and Nash are working.

Cole

On a Sunday?

Mr. Carter

These festivals don’t plan themselves. We have shit to do. You boys should be practicing… we have enough for a game. Only three weeks to go before I whoop your asses. Like old times.

Cole

A: I taught you everything you know and B: Mabel is beside me she says you owe her two dollars.

Wade

What’s this guy gonna do when we break his ankles? Embarrassing.

I laugh at Wade’s age old saying for skating circles around someone.

Mr. Carter

Wade: Bring it and Mabel, you’re a cheater.

Wade

Come in an hour.

We’ll be there.

Mama

I’ll make lunch, glad you two could pull yourselves away from work for an hour.

I flip over and eye the scrumptious man beside me. “Guess our weekend is over.”

“Game face, darlin’,” Nash says as he pulls me by my wrists and I groan.

The drive from my house to the ranch is short but that doesn’t stop me from wishing I could pull over and take CeCe in the backseat of my truck at least five times. It’s been three hours since I’ve been buried inside her and I’m already desperate for her again. Every time I take her, I tell myself it will be the last, and every time we finish, I know I’m lying to myself. I can’t bring myself to stop, nor can I bring myself to admit that I’ve lost control of this entire situation.

“Drop me off at Stardust and go to the big house. I want to shower and change then I’ll be down,” CeCe says. She doesn’t look at me; she’s looking out the window at nothing. There’s something about seeing her overnight bag in the backseat that I hate.

I pull up to Stardust and all the words I want to say are stuck in my throat.

CeCe turns to me. “See ya there.” She smiles that earth shattering smile and gets out of my truck before I can say anything.

“Fuck,” I say, resting my head on the steering wheel. I knew what this was when it started but some way, somehow, it’s me who is breaking the rules, not only her no feelings rule, but all my own rules.

I can feel her pulling down the walls around me that I’ve spent years building. I’m on a freight train going warp speed to breaking every fucking rule I’ve ever had with CeCe and there’s not a damn thing I can do to stop it. I huff out a breath and get my shit together, readying myself to face the family for Wade’s announcement.

“Nash?” Cole pulls me from my daydream of CeCe bouncing on my cock in the black strapless sundress she’s wearing at the opposite end of the table.

“Sorry, what?” I ask.

“Did you like Ivy when you met her?”

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