Son of a bitch, I thought as I saw the strobing red and blue lights outside of my barn. The music cut off and people scattered as I saw two large men exit the police cruisers that had just arrived and ruined the evening for my friends and I. Being twenty years old, I was not yet legally allowed to drink, but I mean come on, I only had three more months. The first officer spotted me up on the loft and motioned to me saying "Hey Erin, come here for a second, please". I groaned as I realized it was my brother's best friend, Rio. Just what I needed, for him to show up and start ragging on me like he always did. I mean sure, he was gorgeous, and we flirted some, but he also annoyed the hell out of me sometimes.
I walked over to the ladder and began to climb down. When I was about 2/3 of the way down I felt two large, hard hands grip my waist and heave me down onto my feet. I stumbled a bit and fell back into a sculpted chest with an undignified oomph. Rio's hands gripped my shoulders and turned me around to face him.
"So... when the parents are away the kids will play?" he asked as he looked at me, one black eyebrow quirked up and a slight smile on his lips. I stuck my tongue out at him, choosing not to speak. Classy, I know. Rio let out a rumbling laugh and tugged on one of my blonde pigtails.
"Girl, you know you can't be having all these underage kids out here drinking and carrying on. This here's my partner Noah." My gaze shot over to the tall man behind Rio. He merely nodded when my gaze met his.
"What're you gonna do Rio, arrest me?" I asked, sticking out my lower lip a bit and looking up from under my eyelashes at him.
Heaving a sigh that made his broad shoulders flex, he rolled his eyes. "How much have you had to drink, Erin? You didn't seem too steady on your feet when I sat you down."
"I only had two beers so far, I swear. I only stumbled because my boot heel got caught on that damn wood plank." I answered nodding towards the busted board laying on the floor.
Rio eyed me skeptically then turned to his partner and spoke. "Noah, you can go ahead and head back out, I can handle this. Seems that most of the kids have fled anyway." It was then that I noticed that all of my friends had, indeed, gotten into their cars and fled while the officers' attention had been on me. The man named Noah nodded and strode back to his car then drove down my long dirt lane.
Rio turned back to me and reached out, snagging me by my belt loop and dragging me closer to him. His gaze searched mine and I could not tell what he was thinking at the moment. Rio was hard to read like that.
"Why do you insist on getting me into predicaments like this?" he asked in a low, deep voice. I scowled at him, not fully understanding. After all, I hadn't forced him to come here and break up my party.
"Like what?" I asked, cocking my head to the side a bit.
Rio stepped back and his gaze slid down my face to my button-up blue and white plaid shirt. The top three buttons I had left undone showed quite a bit of cleavage and Rio's eyes remained on that spot for a few seconds before his gaze traveled lower. My nipples tightened as his gaze locked on them. It was obvious I was wearing no bra. My tight jeans fit my toned legs like a second skin all the way down to my worn out cowgirl boots and Rio took his time staring at that as well.
"You've put me in a tight spot, baby," he said slowly and his gaze flickered down to the bulge in his uniform pants. "Ya see, now I'm all hard from watching that tight ass of yours climb down that ladder earlier. I can't very well go back out on patrol with a raging hard-on."
Understanding finally dawned in my mind. I smiled slightly and looked up into Rio's meadow-green eyes. Desire was raging in their depths as I took a small step forward bringing my soft, pliant chest into contact with his hard, unyielding one. I placed hands on Rio's lean hips, right above his gun belt.
"Lose the belt Rio. I don't want a bullet in the face when I'm down there," I whispered softly, letting my lips lightly touch his ear as I spoke into it. I felt his tense body shudder before he quickly took off the belt and hung it on a peg on the wall.