Page 10 of Breaking Her In

She thinks she’s free. Wild and untamed.

And like a punch to the chest, I realize that I don’t want her to be free. I want to own her. I want her chained to me with something thicker than blood and hotter than fire and deeper than the core of the Earth. I want to be the only man who ever sees her like this. No, Ihaveto be.

A twig cracks beneath my foot. Lena gasps, twisting in the water.

And then she sees me.

I brace myself for her scream. The panic. But instead, she simply smiles. A naughty little smirk like she knows she’s just caught me looking. And just like that, I’m fucking gone.

“Spying on me, cowboy?” she calls out, her sensual voice echoing mischievously off the trees.

Lord help me.

She paddles slowly to the shallow edge of the creek and pulls herself onto a rock, water streaming down the slick curves of her body like liquid temptation. She doesn’t even cover herself or shrink back. Her breasts hang with perfection, plump and perky, gleaming and slippery.

She’s not even making anattemptto hide herself.

No. She’s flaunting it.

“Well?” She smirks. “Do you like what you see?”

Something in me snaps.

“What the hell do you think you’re doing?” I bark, stepping out of the trees as my heart pounds hard in my chest.

Lena simply tilts her head to the side, pretending to be confused, while she bites her lower lip. She knowsexactlywhat she’s doing and the effect it’s having on me. “I’m taking a bath,” she replies innocently. “There’s no tub in my barn loft.”

I grit my teeth. “You’re completely naked and out in the open, Lena. Anyone could come by and see you!”

No one gets to see Lena like this. Not now, notever.

“Anyone?” she echoes, stepping completely out of the water like some forest goddess, water trickling down her nipples and down her flat stomach. “Oryou?”

My eyes follow the droplets to the tiny little slit just barely visible between her legs–

“Fuck,” I growl beneath my breath.

I turn my back on her before I do something really stupid. I’ve got my jaw clenched so tight I may just crack a molar. “Get dressed!” I snarl back at her, my voice low and threatening. “Now.”

Lena laughs.

She actuallylaughslike I’m playing some goddamn game with her. Like she’s not driving me completely insane, twisting me up from the inside out.

“And if I don’t?” she asks softly. “Why are you turned around, Colt? I like when you look at me like that.”

I whip around so fast her eyes widen as she’s caught off guard. “You don’t know who you’re playing with, little girl.”

Her lips purse, and she stretches a hand over her head, tossing her wet hair. “I’m not a little girl anymore, Colt.

“Oh, you’re not?” I ask, stepping forward, fists clenched. “Then stop acting likethis–”I wave my hand between us. Between her prime, naked, teenage body and my throbbing cock, pulsing with desire. “This is dangerous, Lena. You think you’re grown up enough to handle it, but you’re not. You don’t know…you don’t know what I’d do to you.”

I’ve said too much. I’m running my mouth like a moron. Christ, how did I let things get to this point? How did I let her drag me here?

The thought of another man seeing her like this has me crazy. Her body is a masterpiece, and while it may be off-limits to me, her dad can’t keep her away from every guy out there.

A flash of jealousy hits me like a hot blow to the gut.

Lena lifts her chin defiantly, causing her tits to sway, mesmerizing me even more. “Oh, no? Try me, cowboy.”

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