Chapter 34

Easy’s eyes dipped down, and when they rose to meet my eyes, he had the sweetest smile on his face.

Yeah. I guess we were married.7

I reached across the space that separated us and touched Nick’s hand. I’d been uncertain how he would react when the word honeymoonslipped from my lips—I hadn’t even planned to reveal I thought of us as married—but I shouldn’t have worried. First he looked dazed, then aroused, and finally happier than he’d been since…

I had to smile. Truthfully, since we’d been able to slip away shortly before we broke camp and I’d given him a blowjob that caused his eyes to cross.

I drew my mind from those pleasant moments and gazed across the space that separated us from the men we needed to speak with.

A group of young people sat under the sun in a semi-circle around a couple of older men who were dressed pretty much like everyone else, in tanned hides. The youngsters were reciting something, and as we got closer, I was able to distinguish the words: