Page 23 of Noah's Reckoning

And Olivia was not about fucking around.

So let her think I was with Jenny. Let me remind myself she was completely off limits. Let’s get through this next day or two without issues and everything would be all right.

While I couldn’t control my dick, I damn sure could control what I did with it.

Two days. Three, tops. I could already hear the wind calming down. The storm would probably pass by tomorrow and Cal would come looking for us shortly after that.

I didn’t say anything about Jenny. Instead, I just mumbled goodnight and hoped she thought I was drifting off to sleep.

But I didn’t sleep right away. Instead, I listened to her breathe, felt her relax in my arms and was content in the moment.

This time with her was limited.

I was going to make the best of it.

6

Ark

I was going to kill her.

This morning I woke up and she was draped all over me. Her face pressed against my chest. Her leg over my thighs.

Her hand firmly on my crotch.

I was hard, aching and irritated. It was like she was doing this on purpose. Tempting me. Baiting me. The frustrating part was I knew she wasn’t. She was just being her.

Yes, I wanted to enjoy being with her. I didn’t necessarily want to suffer while doing it.

“Olivia, you need to get up. Now.”

She popped her head up and I could see she was still mostly out of it. Then she killed me even more by running her hand over the bulge in my jeans clearly not realizing who she was with and what she was doing.

I groaned and something about the sound must have alerted her to my state of mind when she started scrambling away from me.

“Oh, sorry. I didn’t know…I didn’t mean…”

“Yeah. I know.” I jackknifed up. “I need to take a piss. Stay here.”

I shoved my feet into my boots, grabbed my coat on the way out of the cabin and slammed the door behind me. The snow had stopped, and the wind had died down significantly. The storm was passing. This was good news. For the second time in two days I stomped around outside waiting for my ardor to cool until I could finally take a piss.

Then I walked around some more, checking the snares I had set yesterday. Anything to keep me from going back into that cabin. From looking at her when I could still feel her stroking me, even if it was over my jeans.

“Get it together, Ark,” I said aloud to the quiet of the woods around me.

Now, one more day. Two more days, tops. We could do this.

“Noah!”

I turned when I heard the scream. I wasn’t that far from the cabin.

“Help! Noah!”

I raced back, plunging through the snow, my heart in my freaking throat when I saw the cabin door open with smoke pouring out.

Olivia was standing just outside. “I just wanted to start a fire.”

I didn’t listen to her. Instead, I ran inside to see what she’d done.