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dealing with the ranch stuff.”
    “I bet the cowboy life tends to do that to you. Does Jason
get up early too?” Damn, Peyton! Just shut
up about him. “Never mind. None of my business.”
    “Are you two having a fight or somethin ’. ”
    “No, why?”
    “Well, you left with him earlier and came to the bonfire
with him.” He pulled her hand out from around his arm. “I don’t mess with my
brother’s girl.”
    “I’m not his girl.”
    “Then why did you leave with him?”
    “He offered to wash my clothes after I got in the mud.”
    “You were naked at his house?”
    Well, fuck a
duck. She stepped from his side to take a seat on one of the
rockers. “Yeah, I guess you could say that, although I wore one of his shirts
the whole time my clothes were in his washer.”
    “Listen, Peyt on. You’re a really
nice girl and I think you’re hot, but I won’t come between the two of you.”
    “There isn’t anything between me and Jason, Jonathan. Trust
me. He doesn’t want me.”
    “I can’t see why not. You’re beautiful.”
    “Thanks, but apparently he doesn’t think so. I mean he could have had me any time he wanted me, but he won’t. I
don’t know what to think.”
    Jason’s voice penetrated the darkness as he came around the
corner. “Jonathan.”
    “Jason.”
    “Peyton.”
    “Jason. What do you want?”
    “ Nothin ’. I wanted to mak e sure everything was okay.”
    “Everything is fine. I’m having a great conversation with
your brother.”
    “It’s not what it looks like, Jase .”
    “It doesn’t matter, Jonathan. There isn’t anything going on
between me and Peyton anyway.”
    Just as I thought.
    “I won’t step on toes, Jason, you
know that.”
    “No toes here, buddy.” Jason clapped
Jonathan on the shoulder. “Go for it.”
    Bastard. “Thanks for giving him permission to pursue me, you asswipe !”
    “What?”
    She stood up, bringing her five-foot-nine-inch frame as close to Jason as possible. Intimidation wasn’t her strong
point, but rage at his audacity washed through her now. “Just because you don’t
want me, doesn’t mean other men don’t. I can get a guy if I want one whether
you think so or not. I don’t need your f ucking
permission to date someone. There are plenty of men out there.”
    They stood nose to nose.
    “I didn’t say you couldn’t. I just didn’t want there to be
any mistake that we were a couple.”
    “We aren’t.”
    “No, we aren’t.”
    “Then leave me the fuck alone. If I want to date Jonathan, then I will.”
    “Go ahead.”
    “Fine!” She turned around only
to find Jonathan had melted into the darkness leaving her alone with
Jason…again.
     
    * * * *
     
    “What an absolutely infuriating female you are!” He took
two steps back and raked his fingers through his
hair. He’d never understand women at this rate. “Why can’t you leave well
enough alone?”
    “I wasn’t doing a damned thing but talking to your
brother.”
    “He’s not your type.”
    “What the hell do you know! ”
    “I know you.”
    “You don’t know shit about me.”
    “You’re independent, hard-headed, impossible, stubborn,”
his voice dropped an octave, “sexy, gorgeous, and hot.”
    He watched her breath catch in her throat. What the hell
was he getting at? He didn’t want her, right?
    “Leave it be, Jason. Yo u don’t
want me, remember?”
    “I never said that, you did.”
    “Then why push me away?”
    “Because I don’t want you…”
    “See?”
    He grabbed her arm, dragging her back until her breasts
brushed his chest. Her nipples puckered at the friction.
    “Let me finish.” With he r lips
pressed together, she tempted him beyond reason. He wanted her in the worst
way. “I want you between my sheets. Me between your legs eating you until you
come all over my face. I want my dick buried so deep in your pussy, you scream my name
loud eno ugh to disturb the cattle. My cock aches for
the warmth of you wrapped around it.”
    “Then