Page 129 of Kaden & Keegan
She was dead serious.
“What?” Kaden stared back at her. “We… No…” He shook his head, tried to come up with a better explanation. Came up with “Uh…” instead.
Keegan laughed.
This time Autumn was the one to grin.
Kaden breathed a sigh of relief when he realized she was fucking with him. “I will get you back,” he promised.
“I look forward to it.” She leaned back again. “And I’m truly happy for you. Both of you. Assuming this is something you can afford to do.”
“Our parents are investing,” Keegan blurted. “Said they wanted to get in on the action, so to speak.”
Kaden held his tongue. He didn’t feel the need to explain that even without their parents’ money, they could hold their own for a while. He had been saving money for a good majority of their lives with this specific end goal in mind.
“This is somethin’ we’ve wanted our whole lives,” Keegan explained. “When the opportunity arose, we had to jump on it.”
“Gotta do what you love,” she said. “Otherwise, life ain’t worth livin’.”
No. No, it certainly wasn’t.
Two hours later, not long after the sun went down, Kaden was behind the wheel again, this time heading for the lake.
When Keegan told him this was the plan, Kaden admitted he was a bit hesitant. It wasn’t their normal outing when they were with a woman. And while he had nothing against the lake, he wasn’t sure it was an appropriate way to spend time with Bristol. She wasn’t simply some woman who was looking to slake her lust with them, so suggesting a romp in the bed of the truck seemed disrespectful.
Turned out, he was wrong to worry. Bristol seemed completely at ease with their outing. At least after they’d left the town proper, where no one could see her riding with them.
Her reaction was simply another in the list of things he hadn’t expected from her.
“Come on, darlin’,” Keegan summoned when Kaden backed the truck up near the water.
“Where’re we goin’?” she asked, turning to look out the back window.
“Nowhere.”
When she turned back around, her eyes met Kaden’s. She smiled and that sexy grin had him forgetting all his good intentions, wanting to be just as wild as Keegan in that moment.
“I’ll grab the blankets,” he told Keegan as the two of them hopped out of the truck.
While Kaden dragged their emergency blanket out from under the back seat and grabbed the two additional ones they’d brought from the house, Keegan lowered the tailgate. Kaden could hear Bristol giggle, figured Keegan had lifted her up and tossed her into the bed of the truck. By the time he joined them, he had some catching up to do. Keegan was standing, while Bristol was seated on the tailgate, her legs curling around Keegan’s hips, their lips locked together, Keegan’s arms wrapped around her, holding her to him.
Yep, they were in over their heads here.
While Keegan and Bristol made out like teenagers, Kaden stepped up into the truck bed, dropped the blanket, then joined the action, moving to sit behind Bristol. The move had Keegan stepping back before hopping up onto the tailgate beside them.
“Do y’all do this often?” Bristol inquired.
“What? Bring women here to make out?” Keegan teased.
“No,” Kaden answered. “We haven’t been to the lake since … probably not since early summer.”
“At the Memorial Day festival?” Bristol giggled.
“Yeah. Actually.” Kaden smiled. He loved to hear her laugh.
Bristol relaxed back against him, her hands resting on his knees.
It was funny but Kaden appreciated moments like this. When nothing was going on, the only thing they had to do was sit there, listening to the frogs and the crickets, watching the moonlight beam down on the glassy surface of the water. His brother was with him, the girl they wanted to spend time with. Not many moments compared to this one, when time seemed to stand still and all their worries remained somewhere behind them.
