lips brushed by my ear. I reacted, my body tightening as my pussy throbbed. He did this to me every, single fucking time and didn’t even usually have to touch me. “You were the one who walked out on me and never answered the damn phone again. I tried tracking you down, but I kept running into Lawson when I was expecting Michaels. If you hadn’t lied to me—”
“You’d have never touched me in the first damn place.”
He let out a long breath. “Yeah, I’d like to think I’m honorable enough for that, but the night would have still ended the same way.”
That genuinely stunned me.
His lips pressed close again, and I was no longer thinking about anything other than dragging him back into my cabin. Or fucking him right here on the porch. It had been a long six-week dry spell. "Dylan, please,” I said, hoping to distract us both. “Let's not pretend this is anything other than you losing your toy before you were ready to throw it away."
The intensity changed, and what had been a slow simmering of arousal was now fury. He growled, slamming one of his hands on the wood wall beside my head. He pushed his upper body back so our gazes could meet. "You’re wrong, Brooklyn. This is not that at all. You were never a toy to me, and my fury right now is about you hiding shit from me. I should have known your damn name. I should have known where you lived. When you dropped off the face of the Earth, I should have known how to fucking find you.”
His biceps trembled near my face as he raged, but thankfully, he hadn’t completely lost control yet. "You're scaring me," I told him truthfully, and like I'd hit a switch, he sucked in a deep breath and pulled away, leaving me crumbled against the wall, once again staring at the restrained billionaire who had taken my virginity and a small piece of my heart.
"Obstacle course starts in five minutes," he said, voice controlled. "You might want to put on something waterproof."
When he was gone, I was left wondering how things could be worse than ever between us.
10
After digging out some waterproof clothes—thank god for Mary—I made my way toward where everyone was gathered. Matthew was front and center, giving out instructions.
"This is a simple course designed to test your strength, stamina, and flexibility,” he said. “It will also test your ability to work together as a team. Some of these obstacles are difficult to best alone."
A few of the guys groaned, but most of them took the opportunity to brag about their prowess, most of which had to do with their stamina in the bedroom. This camp had to up its game because so far it didn’t seem these rich assholes were any less cocky or any more skilled. Although, something told me Dylan and crew were only just getting started.
And should not be underestimated.
Case in point: Obstacle one on this obstacle course was a mud pit. Thanks to Dylan’s warning, I was the only one prepared for the icy sludge beneath a tangled mass of barbed wire. A sludge we had to crawl through for what looked like two miles. These guys, dressed in just light windbreaker jackets and jeans, would be soaked and frozen by the time they made it through.
As I stepped up to the front of the course, my stomach rolled, and I wondered if maybe I shouldn't have let my sandwich get cold before I ate it this morning. My stomach had felt off ever since, and right now I wondered if I might vomit up my breakfast halfway through this course.
Seemed likely. And with a set of piercing green eyes locked on me, that would be the ultimate shame.
Matthew blew his whistle, and the amped-up guys took off. Fuck. I’d missed the rest of his speech, but whatever. Follow the course; get out on the other side alive. Pretty straightforward.
As the morons in front of me pushed and shoved their way into the mud, some of them literally screaming like bitches as the ice hit their skin, I made my way slowly along the entire course, picking out the best route first.
The right side had about half the level of water as the rest, but no one had gone that way because the tangled wire there was the most hectic. But with less water and less debris, it was the easiest side to take, and