Page 19 of Affair
Gamble grinned.
God.
He loved seeing him all riled up.
“No, Doctor. It was an accident,” he said. “Do I look like the kind of person who would do something like that to you?”
Uh-huh.
Bullshit.
Poe knew the truth.
What gave it away was that boyish grin, and the twinkle in his gorgeous eyes.
Each and every time he saw that mischievousness in his eyes, it rocked Poe to his core.
“Oh, well, if that’s the case, Mr. Holloway, carry on then,” he stated, picking up the bucket of sudsy water to make it look like he was just going to keep scrubbing down Honey.
He wasn’t.
Instead, he could play that game.
Poe tossed the contents up over her, and they came splashing down on Gamble.
He gasped as he was hit with the soapy water when he hadn’t been expecting it.
When he looked around the horse, the man was soaked.
“Oops. That was an accident. I thought the bucket was much heavier,” he admitted, playing along.
That’s when Poe immediately realized that he had fucked up.
Gamble grinned wickedly, and Poe knew he was screwed, and not in the sexy way he wanted to be. He’d just poked a much bigger man.
That’s when Poe did the smartest thing that he could do, in the moment.
He.
Took.
Off.
He ran out of the barn, Rufus and Gamble chasing right behind him.
Oh, Poe was fast, but he wasn’t‘run from a Marine’fast, and certainly not in clunky work boots.
By sheer luck, he made it to the pasture, and as he just cleared the fence, he saw Gamble take it in a leap, landing beside him.
Oh, shit.
Someone was fast, and back to being rather physically fit.
As he tried to evade, he wasn’t as quick as the man who was dripping wet.
“Oh, Doctor, that was an accident, huh? My ass it was,” he stated.
Then, Gamble did something that Poe didn’t expect.
