Page 17 of Noah's Reckoning
Shit! I blinked my eyes open as it all came back to me. Olivia wasn’t with me. We had to sleep together because we were stuck in a cabin in the middle of a storm. Immediately, I moved my hips and my large boner as far away from her ass as I could.
Then, of course, I had to release her breast.
“Uh, sorry. Forgot where I was.” So fucking lame.
“You mean you were thinking about Jenny?”
“Jenny? No.” How the hell could I think about Jenny when all I ever thought about was Olivia? And why had she sounded so betrayed when she asked me that question?
I sat up. “Don’t make it a thing. I’m a man. I woke up with a woman. Shit happens.”
“You really weren’t thinking about her?”
I glanced at her. Fuck, she was beautiful. Her hair was spread out around her head. Her eyes were that deep blue color they got. Her cheeks were pink, probably from being out on the water during the storm, but the rest of her skin was like porcelain. And those lips. Fuck me, what I wanted to do to those lips.
“No. I told you. We’re not serious.”
“How not serious?” she pressed.
I sighed. It really was pointless to lie about it. “Not serious in that we’re not sleeping together. Okay?”
I got up fully and made my way to the door, grabbing my coat along the way. I snagged my boots from in front of the fire place and shoved my feet into them without bothering to lace up.
I needed to get out of this cabin now. I needed to not see her waking up after spending a night in my arms. I needed to lose my erection.
“I’ll be back.”
As soon as I opened the door, I realized we had bigger problem than me waking up horny.
At least three feet of snow had fallen during the night and the storm was still raging.
No one would come looking for us today. Which meant I was going to have to spend another night with Olivia in my arms.
“Fuck,” I groaned, my head dropping.
I stomped out into the cold a few feet away from the cabin. I needed to piss but I was still furiously hard. I contemplated jacking off, but fuck, it was cold for that. Ultimately once I took my dick out of my jeans, the cold did its thing. Done pissing, I zipped and thought about our food situation.
We could ration the cans of soup, but the smart thing would be to prepare for the long haul.
My guess is that the food cabinet would have what I needed. If not, we would need to find the key for the other cabinet.
“How is it?” Olivia asked as soon as I opened the door. “I think I can hear the wind howling.”
“It dropped about three feet of snow on us last night. And it’s still going. Although it’s hard to tell what’s snow fall versus snow drift.”
“Three feet! What does that mean?”
I didn’t flinch from her question. There was no sugar coating this. “It means we’re going to be here for a while.”
Her eyes went to the locked cabinet. “Maybe there is more food in that one?”
“We’ll find the key. But don’t worry about the food.” I knelt in front of the unlocked cabinet and opened it. I started poking around in the utensils. I tossed Olivia the deck of cards.
“I’m pretty sure these aren’t edible, and I don’t know about you, but I’m really attached to food. I guess we could go at least a week or so without it. That soccer team trapped in the caves under water, they survived like nine days—”
“Olivia,” I said. “We’re not going to starve. I can hunt, set traps, put together a fishing tool. Trust me, we won’t go hungry. The island is small, but it will have enough game to feed us.”
I checked under the pot and found what I was looking for. A roll of thin-gauge wire that could be used to make a snare, serve as a fishing line. Anything we needed. I pocketed it, shut the lid then started to lace up my boots.
