"I don't remember..." Ugh! What the fuck possessed her to say that?! But she's so tight and the girls keep following her and she hasn't had a single second to herself since she got off the bus and he's standing there, so close and he looks so fucking good... his cock is right there, almost at eye-level...
"Excuse me?" Cole's voice, slightly incredulous, rips through the thoughts racing through Lacey's mind.
Fuck! Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck!! She knows he heard her, she heard herself... She practically threw herself at him and she can feel herself start to blush. He can't honestly NOT know what she meant... Can he?
But what if he didn't hear her? She's so wet and he was so fucking big. She wants to feel that again. Badly. She doesn't care that he's her cousin. Doesn't care that its wrong. It just felt. So. Good. So amazing. So intense. She wants to feel that again.
"I said," she drops her voice just a little, just in case, so the girls don't hear. "I don't remember how to untie these knots, Cole."
There. Its done. Lacey feels her nipples tighten and her stomach drop with dread, realizing that this can't be explained away by a simple 'I was just teasing' like it normally can with other guys. There is no mistaking the intent this time.
"If you ever lie to me again, I'll drag you out into the woods..." Lacey hears Cole's whispered threat run through her mind again. She's never wanted anything more.
Why isn't he saying anything?!
Lacey gasps as Cole's fingers slide into her long, dark hair and rips her head back. In this position, held like this, she has no choice but to look straight up into Cole's heavy-lidded eyes.
Green eyes, she thinks distantly. His eyes are green and right now, they are dark and full of the kind of driving lust that takes your breath away.
"Liars get punished, Lacey. You know that," Cole's voice is like velvet covered steel. Soft and thick on top but hard. Brutal underneath. Its also her last chance to back off. She knows this. She can hear it in his voice. But she wants this.
"I know."
Cole lets go of her hair abruptly and turns around.
"Get one of the girls to help you," he says, over his shoulder as he walks away.
Lacey feels like she's been punched. She couldn't possibly have been more clear about her intent. She might as well have simply said 'fuck me' and he's walking off? What the fuck! She was so sure when he grabbed her hair, it felt so fucking good, and so fucking bad! So dirty! But he didn't do ANYTHING! He just walked off. How could she have possibly been wrong?? He was just buried inside of her a few hours ago! Why isn't he dragging her into the woods?!
'Because you are surrounded by family,' the practical side of her replies.
As if summoned by this thought, Uncle Don and Aunt Kim come strolling down the dock. Lacey goes back to untying the knots in the two poles, trying not to gag at the smell of fish and lake. Without Cole so close to distract her, the smell is overwhelming. This is going to be a long, shitty day.
That night, sun-burned and sore, Lacey walks the half-mile to the showers. She knows this will be her only time alone, since her family always 'rinses off' in the lake when they go camping. Nobody wants to walk so far just to feel clean for a few minutes and then go back to smelling like fish and fire.
Normally, she wouldn't bother tonight, either. She likes feeling clean, but on the first night she doesn't really smell that bad and its a waste of quarters. Tonight, though, she walks up there just to get away. She needs to be alone. Besides, half of her is hoping that Cole will follow and make good on his threat. Will drag her into the woods and turn her ass red.
Lacey shivers at this thought. The one that's been racing through her mind all God-damn day. The real reason she's walking to those stupid communal showers by herself in the dark. She knows if she doesn't get off soon, she won't be able to think at all. She might even do something as dumb as crawling into Cole's tent when she thinks everyone is asleep. That would be really, really stupid.
Especially since Cole hasn't so much as looked at her since that fucking fiasco on that stupid dock with her stupid lie.