Total pages in book: 62
Estimated words: 78696 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 393(@200wpm)___ 315(@250wpm)___ 262(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 78696 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 393(@200wpm)___ 315(@250wpm)___ 262(@300wpm)
I didn’t back up in wake of his anger.
No, not Lenore Lane Drew!
“I didn’t forget you,” I hissed, leaning into him. “What is your malfunction?”
“You’re here kissing him when you should be kissing me,” he growled.
I narrowed my eyes.
“You just told me three days ago that we couldn’t be seen together! And I wasn’t kissing him out of passion! He kissed me because the kid was found!” I growled.
“I don’t care if it was on your fuckin’ pinky toe. Your mine, not his. So his goddamned lips don’t need to be on you without my explicit say so,” he continued, leaning closer to me.
My back hit the tree, and my knees started to go weak.
“Okay,” I breathed, the only thing I could think to say.
He blinked, I guess surprised by my easy acquiescence.
“You’re such a weirdo,” he said.
“I’m your weirdo.” I said. “What’s that say about you?”
Only inches separated our lips, and I couldn’t help it.
I closed the distance.
My lips pressed firmly to his, his tongue licked across my lips seeking entrance into my mouth.
“We shouldn’t be doing this,” he whispered. “It’s going to backfire.”
“Everybody already knows we’re together. Everybody. Everywhere I turn people are asking me where you are. I lie, and they know I’m lying because I’m a shit liar,” I told him breathlessly.
He sighed.
“Should’ve know this wouldn’t work,” he said under his breath. “I know this’ll backfire. I know it with every fiber of my being.”
I shrugged. “Well then, protect me. I’m not a stupid girl. I’ll do whatever you want me to do, all you have to do is tell me. And I only go one of two places, work or home.”
“What about when you volunteer?” He countered.
I shrugged. “I just won’t do it until we have this figured out.”
He rose a brow at me. “You’d be willing to do that?”
I nodded. “Yeah, I would.”
He let out a slow, relieved breath.
“As long as you listen, we won’t bother to act like we’re not what we are,” he grumbled, looking into my eyes as he did so.
I smiled, and his eyes dropped to my mouth.
But when he leaned in for a kiss, my father’s rude voice interrupted us. “Get your hands off my daughter.”
Chapter 14
Dad’s. Scaring men, law abiding or not, since the beginning of time.
-Lenore’s secret thoughts
Griffin
I watched in stunned silence as Rodney leaned over, picked up a massive fishing pole with a lead weight the size of a small pinecone on it, and casually cast the monster across the water at the boat that had just passed.
The lead weight smacked the boat so hard on the aluminum side that the boat driver instantly let off the throttle and shifted into neutral to find out what had just hit him.
“This is a no wake zone, asshole!” Rodney yelled, sounding so much like Lenore that I wanted to laugh.
I didn’t dare, though.
The man that’d been driving looked livid. So mad, in fact, that he turned the boat around and did it three more times before Rodney picked up a different pole.
This one he picked up had a weight that was just as big, if not bigger, than the previous one, but this one had a sharp edge on it.
I never worried that Rodney would hit the person for some reason.
I knew he had excellent control. It was likely that this wasn’t his first time doing this.
And he hit dead center on the boat’s hull, right under the letters that marked it as a registered boat, just at the water line.
No sound was made this time due to the water muffling it.
The weight didn’t completely puncture the aluminum in the same size diameter of the weight, but it did enough that the water started to pour inside the boat, and the man didn’t even realize it.
He was oblivious and continued to do donuts in front of the dock.
A dock that was moving, due to the waves put off by the stupid man’s boat.
When the boat turned, Rodney yanked, and the weight popped free of the aluminum siding.
He reeled it in slowly, and I watched avidly while the man’s boat slowly started to fill with water.
“Shit!” The man suddenly shrieked, the horrid sound carrying out over the water.
I snorted.
“You do this often?” I asked him.
A grin kicked up the corner of my mouth as the man had to go tie to the dock four down from us.
The one that marked it as private.
He was able to get himself onto the dock just in time for his boat to sink under the water.
The man snapped his gaze up to Rodney’s, and I could tell there was a fight on the horizon.
Rodney surprised me, though, by standing up and making his way to the other dock and pressing a button at the very end of it.
Then, as if in an action movie, chains started to move up around the sunken boat, where earlier they’d been hidden by the water. Lifting the boat up and out of the water, allowing it to drain.
Rodney had clearly done this before.
Twenty minutes later he was back, none the worse for wear.
“Can’t stand it that they continuously disregard the rules of the lake. If you’re not going to follow them, then you shouldn’t be able to be on it,” he grumbled, taking a seat once gain.
I smiled and raised the beer I was holding up to my lips.
I was ‘officially’ off duty.
Although I’d been doing a whole bunch of nothing all day.
This was one of the drawbacks of being stationed here.
There was a lot of traffic on this lake, but it still wasn’t the same ‘pace’ I was used to.
After doing it for a year now, it was still just like it was yesterday, and the day before that.
Boring as fuck.
“So, tell me, how did you meet my daughter?” He asked, looking over at me.
I sighed. “I met her at her store when I came in for batteries.”
“She made you buy a dildo, didn’t she?” Rodney laughed softly.
I turned to look at him, “Actually, yeah. She did.”