Chapter 2“Ah, that’s better,” Jem said, stretching naked beside me on the blanket we had brought for this express purpose. He grinned at me wickedly, fair locks tousled, “Now I’m properly home.” And he leaned over me to steal a satisfied kiss.
A few days had passed since his arrival, and we were in our usual trysting place, a particular barn no one visited often, especially since it was empty of the leavings of the previous year’s crops, and waiting to be refilled from the harvest to come.
I put my arms around him now our initial hunger was sated, holding him so close that he must have felt the tumultuous beating of my heart. Eventually, he wriggled out of my embrace and lay by my side.
He ran his hand over my broad, tanned shoulders as though they were an exotic sight compared to the p
