Page 6 of In a Bind

"That's my favorite part too." She reached down and lifted off her t-shirt, revealing the bright blue bikini underneath. She had a nice top half to go with the amazing ass. She pushed her sandals off and wiggled out of her shorts. I watched the entire display with keen interest.

"Are you just going to stand there and watch me, or are you coming in?" she walked carefully over the rough ground toward the water.

"I was thinking about just watching. But it is getting pretty hot out." I reached back to pull off my shirt. I heard a splash before I had it over my head.

Concentric circles billowed out from where Raini had dunked under. The water was made opaque by the shade from the tree canopy, but I could see her long body moving lithely along below the surface. Then her perfect bottom bubbled up above the water for a second as she dove deeper and disappeared. I waded in, pushed off the muddy bottom and floated to the middle. I looked around for Raini.

She surfaced just a few inches in front of me. Her long lashes clumped together in dark, wet spikes, highlighting the pearly blue color of her eyes. Up close, I could see a light spray of freckles across her nose, which made her look even younger than twenty-two.

"I like this." She ran her finger along the t-rex skeleton tattoo I had on my right pec. It was just the tip of her finger, but I found myself holding my breath until she pulled it away. Her eyes glittered as she caught my profound reaction to her touch. I wasn't sure how the hell it had happened, but somehow, she had taken control of this whole thing. It was supposed to be me causing her to lose her breath with a casual touch or a bold raking gaze, but she was spinning this thing to her side. I wasn't completely sure how to handle it, but something inside of me wanted badly to gain back that control.

Raini's feet popped up as she floated onto her back, making sure that her breasts poked erotically above the surface of the water. "So, I suppose my dad was telling you about his out of control daughter and how I caused him all his gray hair."

I swam along next to her. "He might have mentioned it."

She laughed. "He does like to exaggerate."

"Well, in his defense, you did arrive at the ranch on the back of a motorcycle, behind, as you noted, a stranger, who I have no doubt is telling all his beer drinking buddies about getting the best thank you tip ever from a hitchhiker."

She pushed her feet down. "If you think that's the best tip ever, then you should talk to the truck driver who drove me the first fifty miles of the journey."

I stared at her, trying hard not to show any judgment. Apparently, I wasn't trying hard enough.

She splashed my face. "Gotcha. Now I know two things about you. You're lined up to date my sister, and you are a little gullible. Or maybe you were just hoping that I wasn't teasing, which would mean I'm that loose and you'd hardly have to whisper my direction to get into my panties."

"First of all, I'm not lined up to date Mindy. And secondly, I'm not gullible. As I mentioned earlier, I did watch you kiss a complete stranger on the front steps of the house. And it didn't look like a chaste kiss."

"No?" she blinked her wet lashes for effect. "I thought it was very chaste. But maybe we have different definitions for the word. Although, knowing that you are a sex toy salesman and all . . ."

"You know something? You're kind of irritating. Cute but irritating. Think I'll head back." Holy shit, I was feeling like an idiot. How the hell did that happen? I was the team asshole, yet the sweet faced woman in the water had just stomped over me like I was a frail fucking daisy in a field. I hated that as much as it was fucking making me want nothing more than to bend her over my lap for a well-deserved spanking. And that notion led me right back to a damn erection. Not wanting to reveal the obvious, I slowed my pace in the water to let my cock think twice about the whole situation.

"No, don't go," she called. "I'm sorry for being irritating. It's kind of my thing. Just ask my siblings."

I waded out of the water. "I need to get back to the party anyhow."

I heard the water move behind me as she followed me out. I picked up my shirt and realized that it was my only towel. I patted my chest dry with it, working my hardest to pretend that there wasn't a hot, bikini clad and completely aggravating woman standing behind me.

"Do you want to borrow a towel?" she asked. Her tone had softened and it seemed the sweeter, gentler Raini had arrived.

I turned to look at her just in time to see her untie the string on her bathing suit.

The strings dropped and her nipples pointed my direction as she reached behind her back to untie the rest of the top. "The towel is on my bike," she said airily as she pushed the bottom of her bikini off, revealing a Brazilian wax job that was going to invade my dreams tonight.

She was good. I was supposed to be one of the notorious playboy owners of the Plaything company, but instead of playing the part of the playboy, I was being played. I ignored the raging pulse that was making its way from my chest to my cock and pulled on my shirt as if she wasn't standing stark naked in front of me.

She wrung out her suit and turned around to the pile of clothes she'd left on the ground. There was a delicate spray of stars running down her back and along her hip. A neatly drawn rose tattoo finished the piece of art on the smooth white cheek of her ass. She leaned down to pick up the clothes, giving me a first class view of everything.

"Fuck," the word rumbled up from my throat.

"Did you say something?" She pulled on her shorts and turned around, still topless and pretending that her nipples pointing at me was no big deal. Of course, it probably wasn't to her. But it was a plenty big deal to me. Suddenly, I was feeling like a horny teenager who just got his first glimpse of a naked woman.

I almost had to mentally leave my body not to feel the physical reaction I was having to her. I wasn't going to let her win this round.

"I didn't say a word." I walked casually back to the bike or at least I tried to look casual. My jaw was clenched like a steel trap, and my cock was throbbing like she had wrapped her lips around it.

No fucking wonder Carter had gray hair.

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