Lumberjack (A Real Man, 1)
closed my eyes. Of course, I imagined Jake in all his manly lumberjack glory. He was just so masculine, and the way he’d worked me over in less than a day had ruined me for any other sexual encounters I might have in the future.
    Who am I kidding? I didn’t want anyone else but him.
    I slowly opened my eyes as reality set in. I didn’t have to be trapped, stuck in this coffin-like existence. I could be whoever and whatever I wanted in this life. I only lived once, and why shouldn’t I be happy?
    All I’d been able to think about since leaving Jake was the words he’d said to me, and how he’d wanted to know me better. It might have been this insta-lust kind of deal between us, but it had been the most real thing I’d ever experienced. It wasn’t even just about the sex—although that had been hot as hell. It had been about the way he’d opened me up and made me feel things I’d never experienced before. Jake might never know that, probably hadn’t even realized how trapped I’d truly been, but he’d opened my eyes to what I could have.
    I grabbed my phone again, dialed my boss’s number to tell him I was taking a leave of absence. I could feel the rush move through me. I was feeling all kinds of jittery-goodness. I was doing this, just going to throw caution to the wind, and wherever I landed had to be better than where I was right now.
    Jake might know me intimately, but I desperately wanted him to know me as a person, mentally and emotionally. I hoped he was ready for me, because I was about to come at him with everything I had.

    Jake
    I ’d given her enough time to decide what she wanted. I was done standing back and waiting, done having her fill my thoughts all day, only to have the entire process repeat itself when I woke up. She was mine, whether she realized or understood it.
    Vivian was mine, and I’d make her see it. She belonged with me out here in the wilderness. If I had to throw her over my shoulder and drag her back here like a caveman, I sure as fuck would.
    I parked my truck at the only diner in town, cut the engine, and started running my fingers over the steering wheel. I might be a recluse by choice, but I was familiar with the town and its residents. The way they glanced at me curiously told me being down here was probably a shock, especially since it wasn’t time for me to do the monthly grocery run. I stared at the pay phone by the front door and had to shake my head. Before coming to live in the middle of nowhere, I hadn’t seen an actual pay phone in longer than I could even remember. But now that I didn’t even own a cell phone, this pay phone was my connection to the ‘outside’ world.
    I had a plan in mind, or at least I saw it playing out a certain way. Whether it actually happened that way, I didn’t fucking know.
    I climbed out of my truck and went to the payphone. I only had her name to go by, but at least I knew she was from the city. But knowing my luck there was probably a dozen women with her name.
    And I’ll hunt down every single one of them until I find her.
    That I’d held back this long when I wanted her so badly was a miracle. It hadn’t been about sex for me, not when it was all said and done.
    I picked up the pay phone, and just as I was about to dial the operator, I felt someone behind me.
    “Jake?”
    Her voice shot through me like an electrical current, and instantly, my cock got hard. I hung up the phone and turned around, seeing Vivian standing there, looking up at me like she was just as shocked as I felt.
    There was lot I wanted to say, but instead of speaking, I simply went on instinct. I reached out, wrapped my hand around her waist, and pulled her right up against my body. Taking my other hand and gripping her nape, I tilted her head back another inch and stared right into her blue eyes. She melted against me, placed her hands on my chest, and started chuckling. I knitted my brows. My dick was hard, my heart was thundering, and I didn’t know

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