Page 18 of Red Rabbit
“Well, I’m not the best at it either,” I admitted.
I could do some rudimentary things but woodworking was not a skill of mine either. This smoker was only going to be functional, not win any awards for aesthetics.
“Not a woodworker, got it.”
I raised my eyebrows at her again and the subject dropped but I knew everything I said was cataloged away in that brain of hers. The next few hours passed quietly and I got blissfully lost in my work, happy to finally have something to do to occupy my mind and time.
“How are you going to keep bears away from this?” She asked some time later.
“Luck.”
“That’s it?”
“Nothing in nature is guaranteed, princess.”
She stood up and tossed away the charcoal she’d been doodling on a tree stump with then brushed her hands off on her jeans.
“How much longer are you going to be here?”
“Why?”
“I want to wash off in the river.”
My mouth went dry at the thought and I stopped what I was doing. I smirked as I purposefully looked her up and down slowly as I pictured her naked in the river. When I met her gaze again, I saw the blush I was hoping to pull from her and the visible swallow.
“Don’t do that,” she said a little breathlessly. I shrugged and turned back to the smoker.
“I’ll be here for a bit longer.”
But shit, now I wouldn’t be able to think of anything else but what she would look like as the water dripped down her body with the sun shining down on her like a damn water nymph and those sultry green eyes—fuck. I was glad she already walked off through the trees and couldn’t see the half hard on in my pants after that thought. Damn this woman. I already told her I wouldn’t touch her until she begged and I meant it. Even though from the looks of things all I’d have to do is ask and she’d be melting in my hands, specifically between her legs—shit.
It took me about thirty more minutes to finish the smoker and I stood up and dusted myself off. I went over to the fishing hole and prepped the fish. Now I just needed a flame from our main fire which meant going back to camp. I’m sure forty-five minutes was enough time. I walked back towards camp but as I passed the wood stump she was doodling on I froze. She’d drawn the most incredible bear I’d ever seen. The bear was in a river with a fish in its mouth—very appropriate. When she shrugged at my quip about her not being creative, I obviously was very wrong. And all of it was drawn with only a small piece of charcoal from the fire.
I continued on to camp and as I came out of the trees, I stopped again. If I was an artist I would have stopped everything to paint the scene I saw in front of me. It was even better than I imagined. Kaelin stood up in the river as water streamed down her naked body. Her back was turned towards me but I followed the curve of her shoulders down her back to the most perfect ass I’d ever seen before it was cut off by the water as it lapped near her hips. As she started to turn I was about to look away when her eyes met mine. I saw a surprised look quickly cross her face and then it was replaced by something else. Something darker. The heat I saw there seared straight through my soul.
I was fucked. Absolutely fucked.
Unlike most women who would have been embarrassed and tried to hide, she didn’t. She wrung out her hair, still only half turned towards me as she watched my every move. She moved her arms and I saw the curve of her breast—my mouth went dry.
“Can you bring me a blanket to dry off with?”
For once I didn’t have anything sarcastic to say and I grabbed the blanket and walked over. I should have just walked away because the closer I got the better the view was. Her skin was pebbled with goosebumps as she shivered.
“I’m going to come out now,” she said slowly. I knew I should turn around but I didn’t.
“Don’t worry, you’re not my type.”
I don’t know what made me say it but I needed her to not look at me with all that lust in her eyes. It worked, she frowned and held her arms around her breasts and one between her legs as she walked out of the shallows. I couldn’t help it, my eyes traveled down her body. When I came back up to her eyes, the shadows were suddenly gone and she smirked. She grabbed the blanket from me and for one glorious moment she let her hands drop and was completely naked in front of me. I saw a flash of hard nipples and a pretty pussy before she wrapped the blanket around herself and hid the view.
She came closer and as she went to pass me she leaned in.
“I know you’re lying,” she said quietly and her gaze dropped to the obvious bulge in my pants. Damn.
“You’re playing a dangerous game, princess,” I said, my voice strained.
“I thought you were a dangerous man.”
What. The. Fuck.
