Total pages in book: 81
Estimated words: 75734 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 379(@200wpm)___ 303(@250wpm)___ 252(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 75734 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 379(@200wpm)___ 303(@250wpm)___ 252(@300wpm)
This wasn’t the conversation I had wanted.
Saxon was verbalizing my insecurities, making them feel legit rather than something I’d made up in my head. Knowing he thought I didn’t compare to his previous girlfriends wasn’t easy to hear.
“I don’t know why he came over here and why he is …” What, dating me?
We never had that talk. Instead, we’d had sex again. He had called my vagina his, but that was about it. I was pretty sure that had been a heat-of-the-moment thing.
“What are y’all?” Saxon asked me.
I was the one studying my plate of food now. I could feel Saxon looking at me. He was waiting for an answer I didn’t have.
I managed to shrug. “I think we are dating.”
“Exclusively?” he asked.
I turned to meet Saxon’s gaze. “I’m not sure. It happened fast. We kinda let the moment and all we were feeling happen.”
Saxon scowled and turned his eyes to look out the window. “The moment, huh?”
I didn’t reply.
“Did he say when he’d see you again?” Saxon asked through clenched teeth. He was angry, and although I knew that, I was surprised he was letting me see it.
“He’s picking me up tonight,” I replied.
His gaze swung back to mine. “To stay with him overnight again?”
I started to nod, but the sound of heavy footsteps caused me to pause, and we both turned to see Huck walking into the kitchen. It was odd to see him inside the Houstons’ house.
Was Blaise back already?
“Those sound like questions you might want to let go of, Sax,” Huck said and gave him a tight smile that didn’t meet his eyes.
Saxon looked stiff as he stood up from the stool. “Yeah.” He took his plate from the bar. “Didn’t know you were here. Looking for Dad?”
Huck shook his head as he studied Saxon. “Nope. I know where he is. I was just out, checking on things. Thought I’d step inside. See if Mrs. Jolene had any of her sweet tea made.”
Huck had just been walking around Moses Mile? Since when did the rodeo squad show up here?
Saxon didn’t look confused. He simply nodded and put his plate in the sink.
“Might want to go on out yourself. See how things are going. Think your dad might be looking for you,” Huck told him.
Saxon took a deep breath and gripped the edge of the sink before nodding. “Okay,” he finally replied, then gave me one last glance before leaving out the back door.
I stared at the door, trying to make sense of the scene I’d just witnessed, then remembered Huck was still here. I looked back at him.
He gave me a nod, then walked over to the fridge. “Sax is a good kid,” Huck said as he looked around. “But he’s a guy. Sometimes, a pretty face can make us stupid.”
I said nothing. I was waiting for him to get to his point.
He reached into the fridge and pulled out a gallon of tea. “Takes us males a while to grow up. Understand what’s more important,” Huck told me as he placed the tea on the bar. He smiled at me then, like he was having a chat with an old friend.
“Is there a point to this?” I asked him finally.
He nodded. “Yeah.” He pulled a glass down from the cabinet. He had been here enough times to know exactly where the glasses were. Maybe he had come to check on Empire or something, and I’d never seen him. “Sax might say something stupid that could end real bad. Don’t want to see that happen. If he’s your friend, then you don’t either. You got questions, ask Blaise. You get asked questions, tell them to ask Blaise.”
He poured tea into the glass and took a long drink. When it was clear he wasn’t going to say any more, I stood up.
“I’m not even sure what Blaise and I are. We haven’t talked about it. I don’t think that after one night in his bed, I’m now supposed to go through him for all communication. Sax is my friend. We talk. I trust him.”
Huck put the glass back down and sighed loudly. “In the kitchen this morning,” he began, “he called you his.”
He had. We’d kinda talked about that. We had sex again after that, and he made me think nothing in the world mattered but the two of us. But that had been in the moment. Out here, away from his private cave, things weren’t so clear. This was new. We were new. There were no actual ties, except the sex and obvious attraction.
“You might not understand it yet. But Sax does,” Huck said, then drank the rest of his tea in one long gulp before placing the glass in the sink and heading for the back door.
I wanted to stop him and tell him to explain to me what that meant. Something was wrong here. I could tell myself I was overthinking it all. I wanted to, but there was a secret I didn’t know. A secret where Blaise was dangerous or obeyed or whatever.