Page 125 of Crazy Thing

I’m nibbling on the trail mix she made when Ziggy crawls up behind me on her knees and starts massaging my shoulders.

I let my head fall forward, groaning and shutting my eyes. “Fuck. Your hands feel good.” If I hadn’t just gotten the best night’s sleep with Ziggy’s body curled against me, I’d probably fall fast asleep out here.

A few minutes later, I tap her hand. “Okay, your turn.”

I switch spots with Ziggy, and I happily return the favor, rubbing her muscles.I admire the delicate curve of her shoulder and the elegant length of her neck. I lean closer, breathing her in and opening my lips against her throat for a kiss.

As soon as she starts moaning, I forget all about her shoulder muscles and my hands ‘accidentally’ venture south. I cradle her breasts, squeezing gently and feeling her nipples pebble against my palms. When her moaning grows louder, my mouth ventures south, too.

“Darius…Please…Fuck me…” she whimpers, instantly waking the horny giant in my pants.

The next thing I know, I have Ziggy sprawled out on the forest floor, her skirt bunched around her middle. All the while, I’m fucking feasting. She tastes sweeter than any of those wild berries we just picked.

I throw an arm across her hips to keep her still as she wiggles and thrusts into my face. She can’t get enough. Fuck,Ican’t get enough.

As soon as she explodes on my tongue, I crawl up her body and give her that dick she’s been begging for.

Pine needles are falling on my ass. Raspberries are getting squashed beneath my knees. Birds and squirrels are getting the show of their life, as I shamelessly rut into my half-naked fairy girl.

Meanwhile, she’s whimpering about how my cock issobig andsothick. I’d laugh if she didn’t feel so good wrapped around me.I don’t stop until we’re both crying out, scaring off whatever wildlife is hanging around in the trees.

Then I collapse onto the fallen leaves next to Ziggy. We lay there, cuddling on the riverbank, her skirt still out of place and my pants around my ankles. We remain like that for a long time. I’m just listening to the frogs croaking, the birds chirping, the water splashing in the waterfall and Ziggy’s heart pounding.

It’s this moment—lying by the riverbanks with my dream girl—that I realize, I never want to leave.And that right there should scare the living hell out of me.But it doesn’t. Instead of scaring me, it comforts me. Because it means that Ziggy is my home and there’s no feeling like that in the world.

I prop myself up on my elbow, so I can peer down into my favorite blue eyes. I can’t help but grin. “Do you think what they say about the waterfall is true, Fairy Girl?” I murmur.

“What do you mean?” she questions me.

“That it makes people fall in love?” I brush pink tendrils from her face. I take a shallow breath and start rambling. “Because I…I love you, Ziggy. I fucking do. I wasn’t expecting to feel all this, but it hit me like a goddamned truck. Actually, I think I fell in love with you that summer by the falls. And I never stopped. I’m so in love with you. Do you think the waterfall did that to me?”

Ziggy’s eyes glisten. “You…Wow…I…Jeez,” she spits out. Then she jokes. “It was either the falls, or all those love potions I was whipping up back then.”

I completely roll over her now, hovering above her surprised face. “I knew it. Now tell me how to put a spell on you.”

“You’re too late,” she responds softly.

“Am I?” I ask, rolling my pelvis against her middle.

She shivers, her hips rising to meet me. “Yes, because I’m crazy about you.” She hesitates. “Darius?”

“Yeah, Fairy Girl?”

Ziggy holds her breath. “I love you, too.”

A grin explodes across my face. My heart explodes at the same damn time. “I love you, Ziggy. I love you so much.”

She gives her head a little shake, laughing. “Never in a million years did I think I’d be saying this, but…I love you too, Darius Brighton.”

49

DARIUS

“Why are you making us take the long way?” I grumble as I follow Archer down the sidewalk.

“What are you talking about? This is the short cut,” he retorts, speed-walking ahead of me.

My brothers and I just finished a vigorous game of basketball at the community center.

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