Page 39 of Her Three Rangers

“Cody?” I asked, doing my best nonchalant voice. “Everything okay?”

He nodded, his eyes flicking from my face to my breasts and back again. “Every—” he stopped to clear his throat. “Everything is… is fine. Good, I mean. Really good.”

“Perfect,” I said, nibbling at my lip to keep from laughing again. This was too much fun. “Could you just start from my neck and work your way down, please?”

He nodded again, looking down at the hose in his hand, belatedly realizing he was now standing in a puddle, then stepped aside and pointed the stream of water toward me.

“Oh, and Cody?”

“Yeah?”

“Make sure you don’t get it in my eyes.”

“Oh, wow,” he said, laughing. “Jesus, you’re killing me here.” He shook his head again, as if he were coming out of a trance. “Are you ready? This is probably gonna be really cold…”

“I’m ready,” I answered, closing my eyes and bracing myself. “Go for it.”

I flinched when the water hit me. It was definitely cold. But it was a hot day, and this outdoor shower was very much necessary before I could even think about going inside and taking a real one.

Cody might have been looking at me like I was the best thing that he’d ever seen, the truth was that I was actually pretty gross after delivering that calf.

I let the water wash over me for probably a little longer than was absolutely necessary, but he just looked so cute and happy that I didn’t have the heart to make him stop.

But the water really was too damn cold to keep going like this.

“Okay, Cody,” I said, finally. “I think that’ll be good enough for me to make it through to the shower. But… do you think you could do me one more favor, please?”

He nodded as he walked over to turn off the water. “Anything. What do you need?”

“Do you think you could go inside to the bathroom and grab me a towel so I don’t drip water all through the house?”

He was moving toward the house before I even finished asking, and had returned with a towel before even a minute had passed. God, he was a sweetheart.

“Thank you so much,” I said, taking the towel from him and drying myself quickly before wrapping it around my body. “I should probably go in and take a real shower now.”

“Oh, right. Yeah.” Cody said, his eyes lingering on my body up until the moment I closed the towel. “I guess I’ll be going back to the tent. Talk to you later?”

“Of course,” I said, leaning in to plant a quick kiss on his cheek before he turned to go. I waited half a beat, just enough time to check out the way his muscular ass filled out his jeans, before I called out to him. “Hey, Cody?”

He turned on his heel and cocked his head to the side. “Yeah?”

I stood there for a minute wondering if I really should go through with the idea I’d just had. Then I remembered what it had felt like at that baseball game to nuzzle in close to his hard body and that was more than enough to make up my mind.

“I was just, um, wondering… if you might like to join me?”

He blinked.

Then he cocked his head to the other side like the most adorable puppy I’d ever seen.

And then he blinked again.

“I’m s-sorry?” he asked. “Join you… in the house?”

I smiled. “In the house, yes. But then also in the shower.”

That moment before, when I surprised him by stripping down before he turned the hose on me?

The look he had given me then?

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