Wanted

“What baby?” I said as I traced her beautiful jaw line with my finger.

“That was another first for me!” she said with a smile so sweet I just about had my heart explode in my chest. Fuck me.

“Jesus Ellie……” I cupped her face with my hand and kissed her. I couldn’t believe what a lucky son of a bitch I was to have her experience all these things with me. What did I do to deserve her?

Ellie pulled away from my lips just a little and whispered against them.

“I love you Gu

“I love you too Ellie, more than anything.”

Just then I heard Ari screaming at Jeff. “You fucking dick! You knew my top would come off if I did that! I HATE YOU…..you dirty bastard!”

CHAPTER FORTY THREE

E llie……

I had never in my life seen Ari so mad. Jeff was standing in the water holding her bikini top in his hand laughing his ass off. Just then I heard music and saw someone pulling up. Jeff turned and then swam over to Ari as quickly as he could and started trying to put her top on.

“What the FUCK are you doing? Get the hell away from me and give me my goddamn top back!”

“Stop moving the fuck around Ari and stand still and let me put your top on before Dewey gets here!”

Jefferson sounded panicked. I swam over and took the top out of his hand and gave him a look. I helped Ari put her top on just as Dewey jumped out of his truck with two other guys and two girls.

“Who the fuck are they Gu

“Hell if I know who they are; but I’m about to find out right now.”

Gu

I saw Gu

“What was that all about?” I asked as Gu

“Dewey had been drinking so I told him to take his friends and get them off of the ranch. I also told him if he ever did it again he would be gone. SHIT! I’m going to have to talk to Drake about this.”

“Well, I think I’m about ready to head back to the house. I kind of lost the desire to go swimming and fishing thanks to dickwad here!”

Jeff let out a laugh and looked Ari up and down. I just shook my head. Gu

“One More Night” by Maroon 5 came on the radio. “Jesus…..this is Jeff and Ari’s song!” Gu

I started to laugh and Jeff and Ari both said “FUCK YOU GUNNER!” at the same time.

“You want to go riding Ells?” Gu

“You mean horseback riding?”

He nodded his head yes and I jumped into his arms.

“YES! Hell yes!” I shouted as Ari and Jeff started to laugh.

The rest of the afternoon was perfect. Well almost perfect because Ari and Jeff argued almost nonstop. When Ari challenged Jeff to a horse race I thought I was going to scream out with joy! While they took off Gu

Speaking of, I could hear the two of them bitching at each other. I sighed loudly and Gu

“Come on sweetheart, let’s get back to the stable and get the horses taken care of.” Gu

After we washed the horses and put them in their stalls, Gu

Ari and I headed up to clean up and get ready for di

“Everything okay?” I asked as she was lying on the bed staring up at the ceiling.

“No….”

“Want to tell me about it before we head to di

“I hate your brother……”

“This is not new news to me Ari. What did he do? You were so happy when we first started riding.”

Ari sat up and sighed loudly. She ran her hands down her face and picked up the pillow and screamed in it. Shit, this was probably going to be bad.

“Why can he not admit he has feeling for me Ells? He is confusing me so much. One second he is dancing to a beautiful song and telling me how much he cares about me and then next he is pushing me away as hard as he can. I just don’t get it! Is he confused about how he feels? Scared? He treats me like a child one minute and the next second grabs my bikini top from me and he looks at my body like he wants to devour me.

I. Am. So. Fucking. Confused.”

I wish I knew what to say to Ari. I got where Jefferson was coming from with his feelings. I wasn’t sure why he was trying so hard to keep Ari in his life but at the same time he was pushing her away. I really needed to sit down with him and talk to him.

“Ari, are you happy with Jason?”

Ari sat up and looked at me confused. She sat there too long….almost like she was really trying to think long and hard about this question.

“Of course I’m happy with him! I mean he is my…..well he’s my boyfriend…..oh god….I’m so fucked up. I have a boyfriend and I’m pi

I let out a giggle…she probably was! “Ari, if Jefferson said to you right now…be my girlfriend, leave Jason….what would you say.”

“I would say Jason who?!” Ari said as we both busted out laughing! It was clear that Ari had feelings for Jefferson, she always had.

“How long will you wait for Jefferson?” I asked as I raised my eyebrow up at her.

She let out a sigh and fell back on her bed. “I really want to say forever but….” Just then we heard a knock on the door. I hollered for whoever it was to come in.

Gu

“OWWW! That hurt!” I said with a giggle. Gu

“We need to get you over that and back in the saddle tomorrow young lady.”

Di

Tonight the girls cleaned up the dishes while Garrett, Gu