"Look at the size of this baby." Joe's fist tapped against the rough bark of the tree. He propped an elbow against its solid trunk and looked around at the growing forest.
"Yes, it's a big tree." Britney, a full figured blonde who had hiked down the path with him agreed in a bored voice. "Just one more thing the developer will have to deal with when clearing the lot."
"Oh, no. You don't want to knock this baby down." Joe ran an affectionate hand along its bark.
He stepped away from the tree and looked back down the path they had just walked. "It provides great screening from the highway. It helps cut down on the traffic noise and such. Now that little crap over there could just be bulldozed under, but not this one."
"So you like this tree, huh?" Britney asked her tone turning seductive. She walked over to the tree and leaned her back against it. She pressed her shoulders into it and arched her back. Her fingers moved to the opening of her shirt and she played with the top button that sat low between her ample curves. She spread her legs apart and wiggled her hips suggestively.
"It's looking better ever minute," Joe answered, his eyes feasting on her hands willing them to open that button she was toying with.
Britney smiled and let the button slide out of the buttonhole. Her shirt gaped open enough to display the red lace edge of her bra. Joe licked his lips and moved in quickly. He put his hands on the tree on either side of her head and pressed his already solid erection against her hips, pinning her to the tree. His hand felt a warm rumbling in the bark and Joe thought it must have been echoing the lusty pounding of his wife's blood. He lowered his head to the side of hers.
"You know we've never done it outside," he whispered into her ear, lightly kissing the side of her neck.
She tilted her head to the side giving him access to her perfectly tanned skin. "So does this mean that you're coming," her lips purred over that word, "around to my point of view on what to do with this land?"
"Let's save that discussion for later, okay?" Joe answered as his hand traced down her neck into the sweet valley between her breasts. His fingers slid inside her shirt and fanned over the breast contained in soft lace. His hand settled around the firm mound and lifted and squeezed as his thumb brushed across the hardening nipple.
Britney leaned forward pressing her breast firmly into his grip and moaning softly as he thumb teased the sensitive tip. She let her teeth graze his ear before replying, "That's what you always say. We need to make a decision soon before your brother gets his way and this area is turned over to the state for a park."
"Not now." He slid his hand out of her shirt and down to her waist, then dipped them inside the top of her shorts and skimmed them across the smooth flat skin of her belly. "I've got better things on my mind."
She gave him a quick shove and ducked away from him. She moved quickly to the other side of the path. "Then maybe I need to keep my distance from you, so you can focus."
Joe collapsed against the tree with a heavy frustrated sigh. "Come on, honey. Let's not do this now. Can't we just have a little fun and not think about the future?"
"No, because this is our future and you're throwing away a golden opportunity."
"He's my family. You don't just stab your brother in the back for handful of dollars."
"I'm your family too and he's a lunatic sitting in a cabin in the woods waiting for some earth fairy to come back and visit him again."
"I know he is a little off his rocker, but he loves this property. It's his life and he's done miraculous work here. I mean just five years ago this was a barren field that all the experts said nothing would grow in and now look at it. Look at this tree," Joe said pointing at the large oak tree behind him. "This thing is only five years old yet it looks like it's been here for a hundred years."
"I agree. He's an amazing gardener. But if we don't do something soon, he's going to give all this away."
"Maybe that's what should be done with it. After all there maybe some weird toxins in the soil here that's causing the trees to grow so fast. It might not be worth building anything here."
"Well it's worth 1.4 million to the developer I talked to yesterday and he's willing to take the risk. This land is way too valuable to give away."
"Well, it's my brothers to give away if chooses." Joe felt stronger in his resolution then he had before. It was as if the tree and the forest were supporting him. He pushed away from the tree and stared firmly at her.
"No, it's not." Britney changed her tone and pressed her shoulders back. She squeezed her arms against the side of breasts pushing them forward and letting them strain against the lace cages. Once she had his attention again she continued. "You cosigned all those papers with him sweetie. You gave him the down payment money he needed to build that log cabin of his. He is in debt up to his eyeballs and a lot of it is to you. If he gives this land away, you'll never see that money." She paused and tilted her head letting her long perfectly tinted blonde hair fall over her shoulder. "We'll never see that money. The money that could buy us that big house with a backyard perfect for kids. Not to mention," she bit her lip and looked sadly at the ground a few feet away, "the chance to have kids."
Joe sighed and rolled his eyes upward. He knew he was being played, but she knew the right buttons to push. Ever since they got married two years ago they had been trying to have kids and he longed for a large family. "There is no reason to think we're not going to be able to have kids yet."