Page 56 of The Hermit on the Hill

"Oh, my god." Jenna jerked to alertness, her eyes wide.

"What? Did I hurt you?" I started to pull out, but she gripped my shoulders.

"I just figured out what the charm is."

I stared for a moment, thoroughly confused.

"The charm." She gave me a little shake. "The one you found in the oak tree."

"Okay."

"It's for impotency. Which means the missing ingredient is ginseng."

I groaned and pulled out, setting her lightly on her feet. "The location of my grandmother's ginseng plot was another secret she took to her grave."

Somewhere in my house, something banged and then banged again.

Jenna's eyes lit, and her smile was so real I had to grab her and kiss her hard.

She swatted my shoulder. "None of that. We have ginseng to find, and I think your grandmother might have just given us a clue."

I stole one more peck before backing up under the shower again. "I guess we better get started. Want to help me get clean?"

She laughed. "If I do that, we'll never get out of this shower."

"We might." I grabbed her perfect ass. "We might even make it as far as an actual bed."

Her smile lit her entire face and my world shifted until she became the center of it. I shook off the feeling.

"Bed will be our reward after we find the ginseng," she said. "Hurry and get clean."

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I hiked up the side of a steep ravine behind Jenna, ready to catch her if she slipped, and unable to take my eyes off her long legs, shown off to perfection in shorts that were just begging me to slide my hands up under them and feel the smooth skin of her ass. In hiking boots and rainbow knee socks she'd told me were to protect against ticks, she looked far from fashionable but one hundred percent adorable.

I was going to have to fuck her while she wore those socks later.

"You feeling okay?" I asked.

"I'm great. It's been too long since I've gotten out for a hike, and it's beautiful out here."

Together, we reached a peak where the land flattened out. "I wouldn't have taken you for an outdoorsy person."

She smiled, her face damp with sweat, her hair sticking to her forehead. "What gave me away?"

"Not many libraries outside."

"Is that all you think I do?" She spun, checking out the view.

When she turned back to me, I pulled her into my arms and down to sit on my lap as I dropped to a seat on the ground. "You should rest."

She straddled me, and I was instantly hard and ready to go. "I'm honestly not an outdoor person at all. I used to hate being dragged into the woods by my brothers and sisters, but researching history and folklore sometimes requires tromping around in wild places. I don't hate being out in nature anymore. It's so peaceful out here, so still and quiet."

I put my hands on her ass and kissed her and she responded immediately, like she'd been waiting for me. Our kiss went from sweet and lazy to desperate and hungry in seconds. Jenna leaned away to pull her shirt off, and I dove on her bare breasts, sucking each nipple in turn, loving the salty taste of the sheen of sweat on her skin.

"Are we really going to have sex in the woods?"

I didn't answer, just popped the button on her shorts and slid my hand down the front of them.

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