Page 41 of The Lies You Love
She raises our linked hands. “This is the in-between?”
When we’re in the tree line, near the stream, I stop. “I don’t know what this is anymore. I’ve stopped trying to label it.” Cradling her face in my hands, I lose my breath, and a little of the sadness goes away. I kiss her, and I forget the nightmare, at least for the moment. “Hold that thought,” Auden says, pulling away from the kiss, her pointer finger in the air. “I’ll be right back. Don’t move.”
Grinning, I cross my arms and nod. She runs back to the campsite and comes back with the air mattress on her back. I make a move to help her, but she shakes her head and calls for me to stay where I’m at. She’s so tiny, and it’s a cumbersome shape, but she makes it back to the bank.
“What are you doing with that? We have to sleep on that tonight.”
She grins. “We both know you and I don’t sleep, and I have something in mind. Something I’ve always wanted to do while camping. I need you to go along with it. Agree?”
“I suppose I don’t have much of a choice, plus I have a feeling there’s something in this for me.”
Her giggle is music to my ears. “We need to take this to the lake in the clearing. Now you can help me.”
“Wait, Auden, public sex is one thing, but sex on a rubber mattress in a lake can probably get us rolled up if someone sees us.” She continues laughing as we walk, me carrying most of the weight. “I’m serious. Jail isn’t a place I’d like to go tonight.”
“No one is around but us, Beck. It’s dead here.”
The lake is small and surrounded by trees on all sides. There aren’t any campsites, and I wonder how she knew it would be so quiet.
Reading my mind, she says, “I did my research.”
She starts taking off her clothes on the bank, her feet sinking into the white, marshy sand. I swallow down the last of my hesitation when the light in her eyes gives me all the encouragement I need. Auden squeals as she hops on the air mattress and watches me undress. “The water is treated in case we… fall in. We shouldn’t get a flesh-eating bacterium.”
“You really did do research.”
Kneeling, she extends an arm out to me. Her smile is so big, I don’t have any other option. “I’ve been waiting my whole life for this.”
Biting my lip, I shake my head. “You are the most persuasive person I know.”
“Good. Float with me.”
I let go of the mattress and hop on. It floats away from the edge immediately and fear turns into excitement when she laughs. I grab her, lying down, propping her head on my forearm. “You’ve got a wild streak, huh, Annie?” I mutter, teasing my lips across hers.
“Annie would never do something so wild. This is Auden. Auden knows life is too short.”
A breath catches in my throat, and I press my lips against hers to hide the emotion pumping through my body. Between thinking of Maisey and being in the presence of Auden, it feels like I might implode. “Naked Truths,” I say, sliding my tongue along her bottom lip.
“Yes,” Auden says, nipping at my tongue with her front teeth.
“The idea was you wanted to fuck out here, right?”
She reaches down and grabs my cock. It’s been hard since the moment she took off her clothes—from the second I saw her carrying a mattress toward me if I’m being honest. “Do you think you can keep us on this?” Her eyes sparkle, and I lose my breath.
“My balance is most excellent,” I reply, letting my hand fall between her spread legs. “You’re so wet.”
“Keep the wetness between my legs and win a prize,” Auden claps back.
I laugh, leaning in to kiss her neck and lick a trail behind her ear over her jaw back to her mouth. The mattress rocks as I shift my weight and we both still to keep from tipping. I stoke her clit, and her hips work against my hand, greedy for more. I slide a finger in and moan when her tight pussy grips me. “I want my cock here,” I say, leaning my forehead against the side of her face.
“I want your cock there,” she says, panting between words as I stroke her G-spot. “I’ll be on top,” she adds.
I swallow and inhale her sweet scent as I draw my finger from her and wipe her wetness over her clit. As is our ritual, I always make her come before I fuck her. Always. Closing her eyes, she chases her first orgasm because she knows she doesn’t get the dick until she’s coming undone. “I want you inside me when I come.”
“And break our rule?” I ask.
“Please.” A breathy plea.
“When you put it like that,” I growl, gently moving to lie on my back in the center of our floating fuck bed.
