Lost Her (Lost #1) (13 page)

Livi goes to her bag taking out three towels. She places them on the large flat rock that we are all standing. She takes off her flip flops sitting down on her towel. I move in behind her scooting up until her back is against my bare chest. Henry is sitting on the cooler. He leans into the beer cooler and takes out four beers. He opens them handing one to each of us. Rosalie thanks him then she raises her beer, “To nature’s beauty!” We are about to clink the beers together when Henry says, “Thank God for no humidity.” We all laugh.

Livi shifts pushing herself up to stand. She takes off her shorts while still holding the beer in her hand. She lets them drop to the ground. I cannot peel my eyes away from her. She takes another drink of her beer and finishing it. She places the bottle safely in a bag. She walks back over looking down at me. “So you want to go in the water?” I jump up and she takes her top off. My eyes are instantly pulled to her bikini top where her breasts are barely covered with the thinnest material I have even seen. Before I could say anything to her, she jumps in the water. I watch her come up to the surface spinning around to look at me. She calls out to me, “Are you coming or are you scared?”

I laugh, “Yes, I am coming. I was just admiring the scenery.” I jump into the cool water and swim over to her. Then she takes off to swim over to the group.

Parker looks at her with a big grin and says, “I was wondering when you would be joining us.” He glances at me and continues to speak, “I was just telling them that there is a cavern to the left of the falls. We are going to make our way to it now.” We all swim over making our way up the rocks. I stay back to make sure Livi gets up. I smile at myself when I see her nasty bruise turning funny colors. Parker gives her a hand up and then me a hand up. I look seeing that Maribel is still climbing. Parker and I turn to pull her up and Tomas as well. I turn to see Marcus staring at Livi’s soaking wet breasts as she is pointing out to him the plant life. I step over to her taking her hand. Marcus’s eyes shift to me and he turns away. This guy is quite odd, I think to myself.

Parker goes in to the cave first since he has a dive flashlight with him. We go in deep when I see another lit up area. It was beautiful; there were holes in the top of the cave that allowed sunlight to light up the room. Parker touches that water. “Feel how warm that is. When Olivia and I found this cave a few months back when we were hiking, it appeared to be like a hot spring. Olivia did some research and found that the heat source is volcanic and completely safe to enjoy bathing in the water as we did.” I feel my blood boiling thinking about Livi and Parker alone here. This place is very sensual and romantic. I wonder how often they come here.

So I just open my mouth and ask, “How often do you come here?”

Livi turns to me, “All the time, it helps me with my stress just like the hot tub did at home.”

I turn look
ing at her, “All the time? That cannot be safe to come out here alone in the jungle.”

She grabs my hand pull
ing me toward the water, “I do not come here alone. You are right, not safe. Parker and I come here together. We have camped here too with Marcus over there. We tried to get Katie to come, but she refused. The bug and spider thing.” I shiver with those last words and Livi notices. She is entering the hot spring pulling me along with her. She crouches down so that the water is up to her shoulders. I look down at her and she is squeezing my hand to join her.

I say to her as I lower, “Spiders, huh?” She looks at me seductively with those eyes, “Like daughter, like father. The bugs here can kill you, but I will keep you safe.” She laughs, “Just like home in our hot tub, right?”

I looked at her with wide eyes, “Nice bottle of red wine, a few candles and me cleaning it out the next morning. No this is better than home. Speaking of home, I need to tell you something. I think it may confuse you, but you will understand. So here it goes, I sold the house. The closing is in two months. I hope the hot water is relieving that shock?”

She whipped her head around look
ing at me. She thinks for a moment, “I think that was for the best with everything that has happened and all.”

I look at her and she is smiling, so I continue, “I am putting the money back into your retirement account that you wiped out.”

She smiling at me big and wide before she speaks, “I am retired. I have money stashed away. I am just living on what the Providence pays me to teach. I do not need the money at all. Help Katie buy a condo, she will need a place to live once she is out of school.”

I place a kiss on her cheek, she is always thinking about others. I lean over to kiss her on the lips, but she take control. She slips her tongue over mine and continues to deepen her kiss. She breaks away being a little breathless. I am fully aware that I am erect knowing that I will have to get out without being seen. I lean over to her and whisper in her ear, “That completely turned me on you know.” Trying to get my mind off my throbbing manhood I continue to talk about our money. “So what will we do with the rest of the money? We can buy 12 condos for what I sold the house for. We can fix up your house here with some upgrades like a range oven. Maybe get us a townhouse back home for when I have to work or visits. We can make this work, Livi.”

She smiles seductively
with her eyes are very hooded. She runs a finger down my nose whispering as she leans in to me, “This is working.” She places her lips to mine and kisses me again. I feel myself just go right back to being excited again. She breaks the kiss again taking a look around to see where the others are in approximation in the water. I feel her hand slide down my wet chest to my swim trunks. She is caressing me on the outside of the material. Then I feel her tug at the string loosening the top of my trunks. She frees me and begins to stroke me. She is looking right into my eyes while she does this. She knows I can’t make a noise or we will be a dead giveaway to the others. I bow my head down and with my hand I reach out for her breast. She knocks away my hand. I look up at her in shock. She just shakes her head from side to side slowly. Her control of the situation had just heightened my desire. She is staring at my face watching my jaw muscles contract. She knows that she has me near the edge. She looks back up into my eyes wetting her lips with her tongue ever so slowly. I lost myself right there trying to be perfectly quiet while my nostrils flaring with my every breath. She knows it is the hardest thing for me in the world not to be loud, but I think I just made her proud containing myself. She winks at me as she puts me back in my swim trunks and ties the top of the trunks.

I look at her whisper
ing, “I have to get out. I am overheating.” She follows me out of the water taking my hand. She leads me out of the cave without a flashlight. Once we get outside, I turn to her, “You are amazing. You just led me in the dark without Parker’s flashlight.”

She looks at me confidently, “When Parker and I come here to relax, and we never bring a flashlight. He brought it today to make it easier on the group. Watch me closely
. Jump exactly where I do, but give me a few seconds to get out of your way.”

I look at her confused, my mind is still wound around her and Parker being here alone all the time. “What?
” I ask. Before I knew it she took a running jump off this cliff down into the water. I watch to see where she came up then follow her lead. I jump back down into the water following her back to the rocks. She was just about to pull herself up when I tug her back into the water. I wrap my arm around her waist speaking into her ear, “I am not done with you yet. My turn.”

She kisses me
pulling away to speak. “Later, I promise.” We climb up the rocks back up to the towels. I grab two beers and I hand one to Livi. She is looking around and she turns to me. “I do not see my father or Rosalie around.”

I look at her worried eyes try
ing to offer comfort, “They must have gone for a walk.” We both lie down on the towels and she rolls to her side looking at me smirking. I grin over at her, “What? Do you see something at you like?”

She then traces her index finger down my wet chest to my abs watching her own finger, “I always loved looking at you wet, but now your body is so tan
it is glistening in the sun. I am just taking it all in and I -” She stops midsentence and perks up her ears. Then I hear it too, the sounds of Henry and Rosalie climaxing off in the tree line.

Livi blushes
looking up at me. “And we thought we were loud.”

I look at her grin
ning, “No honey, we are louder, but they have the echo going for them.” She hits me in the arm.

We sit relaxing until Rosalie comes walking out of the woods alone. She walks over to us, “Oh hey, you are back from the cavern. I was walking with your dad.”

I look up at Rosalie
to see familiar bite marks and I laugh so hard. I look up at her asking, “What type of bug bites are those?”

She turn to me
pointing a finger shaking it at me, “They are Henry bites and I have needs too, you know.” Livi then sinks her head in to her towel sighing loudly. Henry makes his way back sitting on the cooler again. We keep perfectly silent as Livi and I stare at each other.

Henry then speaks up, “I had a nice walk with Rosalie and we saw a big old gray sloth.” I start laughing hard and
Livi is chuckling too.

She lifts her head
shielding her eyes from the sun to look at Henry, “Sure Daddy, you were the big old gray sloth and we heard you both screaming and moaning from here. The waterfall canyon makes everything echo.”

Henry pushes his overly large foot in Livi’s face while saying, “It was fun, being a big old gray sloth! I guess being all slow is the way to be, but sorry if I made you feel uncomfortable.”

Livi looks back at him, “Not as uncomfortable as seeing that woman chain you down on the kitchen island.”

Rosalie’s
head spin in our direction and Henry speaks sternly, “The woman told me after the fact that you were in the mud room, but the crazy thing is that she said that you watched for a while. What was that about?”

Livi looks up at Henry, “I was scared. I thought she was trying to kill my daddy. I was about ready to call the police until you started laughing.” Rosalie sits down next to Livi
stroking her hair like she is a small child.

Rosalie has a look of pity on her face for Livi then she speaks, “You poor thing. You had to be traumatized, your mom dies and seeing your father’s fetishes.”

Henry laughs out, “Traumatized, my ass! She was borrowing my S&M VHS tapes without asking and watching them with Chris at his house. I am really surprised Olivia and Chris were not experimenting, but I know Chris is a good boy. So scarred with the way his father and brother treat women pounding them with their fists,” Henry looks down at Livi smiling, “Yes, your brother told me that too.”

Livi looks up, “I figured that much.”

We hear a splash in the water and Parker’s group are heading back to us. Livi sits up on her towel
. I sit up too, getting ready to help them up. Parker is like a spider monkey, he just climbs up pulling himself up. He is pulling himself at the edge biting his bottom lip looking directly at Livi. I see Livi holding her breath as she watches Parker’s muscles that are all taut with his shorts are hanging extremely low to show his hair trail. Just then he winks at her.

Henry speaks my name loud
ly to get my attention, “Ryan, Son, join me for a walk back to the truck to get the bug spray.” I did not want to go. I did not want to leave Livi there with Parker.

I turn to Livi’s ear, “Baby, I will be right back. Please put your shirt on?” She looks me in the eyes
glaring at me. I hear Henry’s voice again calling to me. I give Livi a big wet kiss as I jump up to catch up to Henry. I am jogging down the path while thinking to myself I am going to have to start working out to bulk up to keep Livi’s eyes on me. I stop when reaching Henry.

He continues to look straight ahead, “I thought you woul
d need a cool down after that, Son. I saw that too what Parker did in front of Olivia and I am going to tell you something. So keep calm, you listen up now. He is making a play for your wife. Rosalie told me so and that Katie played into Rosalie and Parker’s ear. Katie was telling him all about your anger and control issues. How bad a husband you were and that you never let Olivia follow her dreams. According to Rosalie, Parker had a thing for Olivia but never pursued it until Katie said some of these things. She was basically pushing them together. So Olivia and Parker had a moment.”

I speak up in shock about Katie accusations, “Why
would Katie do this me? She is my flesh and blood.” I shake my head. “I know that Livi kissed Parker a week ago. She told me she was sad and confused.”

Henry laughs, “Figures Olivia would tell you that she is to blame. Parker made it happen. He basically set her up for it. With Katie, I think she too is going to need some counseling. I think she is extremely scarred with both yours and Briar’s anger issues. Then with Briar’s death, it was too much for her to handle with all the blame and fighting. You know that girl is a virgin because she is deathly afraid of what you might do to a boy if he touches her. She seems to think all men are just no good and like you, but she will change her mind when the right boy comes along. Funny, I thought you would be
angrier with Olivia than worried about Katie. You are progressing.” I take the bug spray from the truck and we head back to the rock.