Chapter 26

The moment I opened my eyes, I knew something was off.

My bed was empty, and it was dark. Except for Oreos purring, the camper was quiet. My chest constricted, and I couldn't breathe. Where the hell was Nathan? This wasn't the actions of a man who was trying to get back in my good graces.

And then the toilet flushed.

The light streaming from the folding partition for my bathroom didn't quite make my heart stop pounding, but I instantly relaxed. I collapsed back into the mattress and tossed my arm over my eyes. Oreo ventured from the foot of the bed and pawed at me, trying to get my attention.

The light clicked off, and the partition opened. Nathan's outline made its way out into the dark before the bed sank next to me. He lifted my cat, nuzzling her face, and then settled her at the foot of the bed, returning to snuggle by my side.

"You're awake?"

I huffed. "I thought you'd left."

Nathan grabbed my hand and kissed the back of it. "You have to know I'm not going to leave you like that again."

There was that glimmer again. I couldn't know that. I hadn't given him the chance to prove it yet.

We lie there for a moment to soak it all in, and then he opened his damn mouth.

"You trust me."

Did I? Where did he get that idea?

"How?"

He laughed, waving down his front. "You let me fuck you bare. Twice."

I closed my eyes and then opened them to stare at the dirty ceiling. It was peeling and needed some repairs. I worried it would leak once it started raining again. The place had served me well over the last few years, but this wasn't a long-term fix. Even if I was comfortable, I couldn't live here forever.

"You're..." I heaved a deep sigh, trying to figure out how to best form the thought. "You're different." Was he? It was reckless to give him that part of me, but he'd already had everything else. Why not this as well? He'd had it all from the start. Maybe he'd have it all forever.

Nathan said nothing, just trailing his fingers down my chest. Soft lips placed the most tender of kisses against my shoulder. My eyes stung with unshed tears as I tried to not think of what all this meant. This wasn't a hookup. I would be lying if I kept calling it that. It was hurtful, and I wasn't the asshole who did those things.

How did you allow the person who utterly ruined you back in?

"Catch it."

My eyes grew wide when a rag hit me on the side of my head. It fell to the floor before my gaze flittered to Nathan, who was fighting back a laugh. He still held the bottle of window cleaner as I glared at him.

"If you're going to throw things at me, make sure I'm paying attention."

Nathan doubled over in laughter, arms clutched around his stomach. "Maybe don't daydream while staring out the windows. We have a job to do, remember?"

We did have a job to do, and we'd been working like a well-oiled machine since the day I'd taken him out to the tree. The tension that had simmered between us had lifted, and it was almost as if things had gone back to the way they were before he'd left. The thought of being without him again was suffocating.

"I'll show you a job." I stalked toward him and Nathan's smile faded a little bit, which was quickly replaced with a smirk when I dropped to my knees.

That was the other thing.

We'd started giving in to each other a lot more often. It was so damn risky. Drew didn't check on us anymore, but the thought that he could walk in and catch us didn't seem to deter us. It made things feel that much hotter.

My hands hooked into Nathan's shorts as I pulled them and his boxers down his legs. His dick was still soft, but I had a way of fixing that. I nuzzled my face into the space where his groin and thigh met, taking a deep breath of him. Spice and musk and everything Nate. God, he was so damn delicious.

My tongue nudged at his balls as his cock jumped. My fingers wrapped around his length, and I angled it so that my mouth could sink around the tip.

Nathan groaned, knocking my hat from my head and threading his hands through my hair. It was part of why I liked keeping it so long. It gave guys something to grab ahold of, to yank, to do with me what they wanted. Maybe it was a little sick to love being used in such a way, but I got off on it, and that's what made the two of us so compatible. Nathan never questioned it.

"That's it. Suck me." My toes curled as I sank down onto his cock. Like a pro, my throat opened, and I swallowed around him. Nathan cursed as I slowly bobbed up and down his length.

My eyes watered as I continued to take him deep, but I loved the burn, the feel of his dick cutting off my air supply. When Nathan was fully erect, I slid off his cock and licked along the sides before digging my tongue into the slit, savoring the taste of his salty precum. My hand fondled his balls before sliding back to play with his taint. Part of me wondered if he'd object if I slipped a finger inside.

It wasn't something we'd ever explored in the past, and I was more than happy to have him plow me, but how would it feel to take charge of Nathan for a change?

Before I knew what was happening, my finger circled his hole, and Nathan gasped. His hips rocked forward, and I wasn't ready for the way his dick stabbed into my throat. I gagged before he pulled back.

"Shit, baby. Are you okay?"

I laughed as I wiped drool and precum from my chin. "Totally fine. Are you okay?"

Nathan nodded before he kneeled to be at eye level with me. "What possessed you to do that?"

No judgment, only calm curiosity. "I want to know what it feels like with you."

"You want that?"

"You wouldn't?"

That's when the hesitation came in. "I've never... done it that way before."

My heart thundered in my chest. If it beat any harder, there would be no way Nathan wouldn't be able to hear it. He wasn't saying no, only that he'd never been fucked.

"You'd let me?"

Nathan's lips landed against mine, and we fell in a tangle of limbs on the floor. My shirt rode up, and his leaking cock rested against my abs as we continued to make out. Was this his way of saying yes to me? No way it was happening here. Not when we were supposed to be cleaning this house, and we were fucking around enough by me giving him the damn blow job.

I rolled him beneath me, and it was strange to see him so submissive, so plaint to what I wanted. I slid down his body, and my mouth wrapped around his cock once more. Nathan's moans filled the air as I sucked hard and fast, my finger finding its home in his ass again. The added stimulation brought him to the brink quickly. Before I knew it, my mouth flooded with his cum.

"Fuck, baby. So damn good. Always so fucking good."

I made my way back up his body and kissed him, his cum still on my lips. He licked me clean before reaching for the zipper of my jeans. I pulled back and shook my head.

"But... Chase?"

I chuckled before sitting back and pushing my hair away from my face. "Can't I ever just treat you to something special?"

That grin was back. "Oh, you're more than welcome to treat me special."

We got off the floor, and Nathan went to the bathroom to clean himself up. When he returned, we went back to work cleaning the windows, now exchanging knowing and playful smiles. This summer was shaping up to be an unexpected surprise.