arms and smirked. “I’m sure you’ll enlighten me.”
“You answer to our father and uncle. Neither of them would be pleased to learn you’d screwed my sister over after you’d screwed her. It sounds as though your new job at my father’s firm might be very short-lived, especially if I have anything to say about it.” Observing as the realisation dawned on the pet projects smug face, I smirked triumphantly “Not so cocky now, are we?” I asked, swigging on my beer.
His puffed-out chest deflated. As I said, limp. “Look, we only just met, and we haven’t exactly talked about having a relationship. I assumed it was only going to be a one-night thing.”
My expression hardened. Rushing to my feet, I closed the gap between us placing Damien’s terrified face only millimetres from mine. “You either have good intentions, or you don’t? Simple.”
“I need to find out what Dominique wants first,” he nervously spluttered, tugging the short sleeves of a plaid shirt over his arms. “She might not want a relationship, and truthfully, neither do I. As you clearly stated, I have only just started at the firm…and besides, she was the one who threw herself at me!”
Outraged by the suggestive insults directed at my sister, I swung a fist, the impact sending him toppling backwards. Like the bag of shit he was, he dropped, hitting the timber decking with a resounding thud. “Now get out, before I throw you out!”
Touching his swelling nose, he winced. Then he proceeded to wag one of his bony fingers up at me. “Don’t even think about touching me again!” he uttered through clenched and bloodied teeth.
I snorted. “Or what, you’ll sue me? Go your hardest.” Glowering, I squatted; the pet project clearly required one of my stern warnings. I kept my voice intimidatingly low. “Are you incapable of saying no? You’re a grown arse man who has choices, and if I ever catch you sniffing around my sister again, you’ll be extremely sorry.”
Having heard the commotion, Dominique hurried from the pool and gaped, boorishly sharing her mortification.
“How dare you do this to Damien, Ari!” she screeched, squatting to give him a towel for his profusely bleeding nose. “Stop trying to run my life! You’re as bad as mum and dad! Actually, no rephrase that – you are worse than they are. And whom I see is my business, not yours!”
“Having a devil may care attitude won’t help anyone, Dom. Especially you, taking up with the impertinent one.”
Helping Damien up off the ground, she shot me a deathly glare. “I’m not interested in your opinions, Ari!”
“Of course, you aren’t,” I mocked unconcerned until I spun around spotting both Teddy and Poppy frozen to the spot. Their eyes wide after having witnessed the volatile argument unfold in front of them.
Poppy cleared her throat, excusing herself, “Um, I’m leaving you both to it. Good luck,” she whispered sympathetically to Teddy before disappearing inside.
“Thanks, I’m going to need it,” she uttered, grabbing the knitted cover-up from the back of the chair and slipping it over her head. Rigid arms folded over her chest, covering her soaked breasts from my wandering gaze. “Do I dare ask what that was about?”
“Damien made my sister sound easy,” I grumbled sheepishly.
She scowled. “So, your way of dealing with Damien was to punch him?”
“He deserved it.”
Her scowl deepened. “Nobody deserves getting punched in the nose, Ari.” Teddy exhaled roughly. “In case you failed to notice recently, Dom’s an adult now. Meaning she’s quite capable, and old enough, to make her own decisions. She needs to learn to make mistakes and to grow as a person without you. You can’t go controlling every aspect of her life, Ari, that caveman behaviour,” she purred, waving a hand in the air, “only pushes her away.”
A ghost of a smile twitched at my lips. Yep, Teddy had my number. “…Caveman behaviour?”
She bit down on her bottom lip as a feebled attempt to curtail her laughter. “Out of that entire conversation, that’s all you heard?”
“I’m a caveman, am I?” Tickled, I shook my head and chuckled. “Wow, never have I ever been called that before.”
Hazel eyes alight with amusement, begged me to challenge her.
Rubbing my chin, I swiftly left gentleman Ari behind and ran at her, throwing her over my shoulder as I made a beeline for the pool. She objected, loudly and crudely, slapping my back as I jumped in, sinking her screams below the water’s surface.
In a spluttering rush, she resurfaced, angrily shoving sodden hair off her face. Her eyes narrowed as I rose calmly beside her. “That was mean! Nor was it funny!”
“You needed cooling off.” I shot her a mock glare and yanked at her arms, violently crashing our mouths together. She melded against me, pushing her soaked breasts against my chest.
Between soft, chaste kisses, Teddy mischievously glanced up. “Nice distraction there, Mr Jaeger.” Sharp fingernails scraped over my soaked abs. “Hmm, what do we have here?” Untying the string to my shorts, her hand slowly shovelled its way inside, springing my flaccid cock back to life with each teasing stroke of her fingers. In turn, she smirked proudly.
I inhaled sharply, surrendering to the audacious touch. My arm snaked around Teddy’s narrow waist. “That was impudent. Now, what am I to do with this?”
“I don’t know. But I’m sure Mrs Palmer and her five daughters would happily oblige you,” she simpered curling her arms and legs around me. Bloody monkey.
Haughty laughter escaped me. “That would be your Mrs Palmer and her five daughters, not mine,” I murmured, bending my head to capture her mouth. My tongue leisurely dipped inside, licking, and tasting as we moved towards the edge of the pool. I slid my splayed hands inside her bikini bottoms and tantalisingly caressed both cheeks.
Teddy’s mouth curved wickedly against mine. “I’ll see what I can arrange,” she said, gasping as the pad of my finger grazed the puckered rosebud between her buttocks. “Let’s take this inside.” She climbed off me and hauled herself up onto the edge of the pool, tugging the drenched cover-up over her head. It dropped to the ground from an outstretched hand before she reached around to undo the straps of her bikini top. Her stiffened nipples puckered against the light afternoon breeze.
My tongue swept across my lips, perfect little mounds.
Teddy’s crooked fingers grasped the side ties of the bottoms and tugged, promptly peeling them off her wet behind and dropping them at her feet. Her naked body now indecently and unashamedly on show, making my cock harder than the stone wall behind me. I’d come harder than the waterfall rushing from the stainless-steel spouts too if I wasn’t inside her soon.
An impassive Teddy clutched one of the large beach towels slung over the back of a lounge chair. “Surely you realised I wasn’t going inside all wet now, did you?” she purred, wrapping it around her slender frame. The little minx strutted towards the house only to pause in the doorway.
What was she up to now? Curious, I took a few tentative steps, bringing my hands to rest on the coping. My heated gaze piqued as she glanced over her shoulder and cheekily winked, before venturing inside – without the bloody towel!
I had to stop my jaw from hitting the bottom of the pool. Clambering from the water, I pushed my wet shorts down my legs in double time. “Right, if this is how the cheeky wench wants to play, then so be it.”
Determination had me taking Teddy against the wall the instant I reached the shower. Splayed fingers wrapped around her throat from behind, brushing the edge of her jaw with the tips.
She moaned. “About time you joined me. I was beginning to think you weren’t coming.”
“Oh, I have every intention of coming…inside of your tight little pussy,” I