“Wanna see one of my special talents?” Samuel calls out over the music.
“You have a special carousel talent?”
“Yeah. Wanna see?”
“It’s not dangerous is it?”
“Not technically,” he tells me.
I look at him warily. “Okay.”
“All right, you asked for it.”
“I—”
My words cut off when he takes one hand off the pole and places it on the rear end of his horse. Then, he startsridingit. And I mean, working that tight tailbone in a way that I would not have thought him capable. He slowly grinds and thrusts his hips as the horse rises and lowers, and I’m staring at him open-mouthed wanting to saythere are children here—and their mothers—but I’m speechless. My dick thickens as my circulation reroutes in an effort to fill it as quickly as possible.
“Samuel!” I finally manage.
He smiles at me—wickedly. But then he takes his hand off the horse’s ass, stops gyrating, and holds onto the pole with both hands. “Did you wanna try?”
“There are children,” I hiss at him.
“I bet you’d do it if I was a photographer.”
“Are you daring me?”
“Maybe.”
I roll my eyes and blow out a breath. “Fine. Let me show you how it’s done.”
Withbothhands, I balance them on the purple horse’s rear and throw my head back, give my face a perfect pout, thenbounce my hips a few times before I turn his way. “Can you do this?”
“Holy shit,” he says. “You wanna come ride my horse with me?”
I laugh and stop my little show. “How can you make a kids’ ride dirty?”
“Me?”
“I’m just going with the flow,” I say.
“Yeah, I noticed. I’m a fan.”
The way he’s looking at me. Damn. If this ride doesn’t end soon, Imightjoin him on his horse. Getting to know each other better suddenly feels overrated. Dating in general. “That tailbone flexibility is really coming along,” I tell him.
“I’ve been practicing at home.”
I shoot him a look. “With who?”
He laughs. “Yoga, Calyx. Every morning—in bed—I cow and cobra. And you know…”
“What?”
“Let’s call it re-building muscle memory.”
I can’t help but picture something very particular. Like what he just did with the horse, only horizontally. “Are you practicing for something in particular?”
“Do you really want the answer to that?”