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  I look at her whispering, “I have to get out. I am overheating.” She follows me out of the water taking my hand. She leads me out of the cave without a flashlight. Once we get outside, I turn to her, “You are amazing. You just led me in the dark without Parker’s flashlight.”

  She looks at me confidently, “When Parker and I come here to relax, and we never bring a flashlight. He brought it today to make it easier on the group. Watch me closely. Jump exactly where I do, but give me a few seconds to get out of your way.”

  I look at her confused, my mind is still wound around her and Parker being here alone all the time. “What?” I ask. Before I knew it she took a running jump off this cliff down into the water. I watch to see where she came up then follow her lead. I jump back down into the water following her back to the rocks. She was just about to pull herself up when I tug her back into the water. I wrap my arm around her waist speaking into her ear, “I am not done with you yet. My turn.”

  She kisses me pulling away to speak. “Later, I promise.” We climb up the rocks back up to the towels. I grab two beers and I hand one to Livi. She is looking around and she turns to me. “I do not see my father or Rosalie around.”

  I look at her worried eyes trying to offer comfort, “They must have gone for a walk.” We both lie down on the towels and she rolls to her side looking at me smirking. I grin over at her, “What? Do you see something at you like?”

  She then traces her index finger down my wet chest to my abs watching her own finger, “I always loved looking at you wet, but now your body is so tan it is glistening in the sun. I am just taking it all in and I -” She stops midsentence and perks up her ears. Then I hear it too, the sounds of Henry and Rosalie climaxing off in the tree line.

  Livi blushes looking up at me. “And we thought we were loud.”

  I look at her grinning, “No honey, we are louder, but they have the echo going for them.” She hits me in the arm.

  We sit relaxing until Rosalie comes walking out of the woods alone. She walks over to us, “Oh hey, you are back from the cavern. I was walking with your dad.”

  I look up at Rosalie to see familiar bite marks and I laugh so hard. I look up at her asking, “What type of bug bites are those?”

  She turn to me pointing a finger shaking it at me, “They are Henry bites and I have needs too, you know.” Livi then sinks her head in to her towel sighing loudly. Henry makes his way back sitting on the cooler again. We keep perfectly silent as Livi and I stare at each other.

  Henry then speaks up, “I had a nice walk with Rosalie and we saw a big old gray sloth.” I start laughing hard and Livi is chuckling too.

  She lifts her head shielding her eyes from the sun to look at Henry, “Sure Daddy, you were the big old gray sloth and we heard you both screaming and moaning from here. The waterfall canyon makes everything echo.”

  Henry pushes his overly large foot in Livi’s face while saying, “It was fun, being a big old gray sloth! I guess being all slow is the way to be, but sorry if I made you feel uncomfortable.”

  Livi looks back at him, “Not as uncomfortable as seeing that woman chain you down on the kitchen island.”

  Rosalie’s head spin in our direction and Henry speaks sternly, “The woman told me after the fact that you were in the mud room, but the crazy thing is that she said that you watched for a while. What was that about?”

  Livi looks up at Henry, “I was scared. I thought she was trying to kill my daddy. I was about ready to call the police until you started laughing.” Rosalie sits down next to Livi stroking her hair like she is a small child.

  Rosalie has a look of pity on her face for Livi then she speaks, “You poor thing. You had to be traumatized, your mom dies and seeing your father’s fetishes.”

  Henry laughs out, “Traumatized, my ass! She was borrowing my S&M VHS tapes without asking and watching them with Chris at his house. I am really surprised Olivia and Chris were not experimenting, but I know Chris is a good boy. So scarred with the way his father and brother treat women pounding them with their fists,” Henry looks down at Livi smiling, “Yes, your brother told me that too.”

  Livi looks up, “I figured that much.”

  We hear a splash in the water and Parker’s group are heading back to us. Livi sits up on her towel. I sit up too, getting ready to help them up. Parker is like a spider monkey, he just climbs up pulling himself up. He is pulling himself at the edge biting his bottom lip looking directly at Livi. I see Livi holding her breath as she watches Parker’s muscles that are all taut with his shorts are hanging extremely low to show his hair trail. Just then he winks at her.

  Henry speaks my name loudly to get my attention, “Ryan, Son, join me for a walk back to the truck to get the bug spray.” I did not want to go. I did not want to leave Livi there with Parker.

  I turn to Livi’s ear, “Baby, I will be right back. Please put your shirt on?” She looks me in the eyes glaring at me. I hear Henry’s voice again calling to me. I give Livi a big wet kiss as I jump up to catch up to Henry. I am jogging down the path while thinking to myself I am going to have to start working out to bulk up to keep Livi’s eyes on me. I stop when reaching Henry.

  He continues to look straight ahead, “I thought you would need a cool down after that, Son. I saw that too what Parker did in front of Olivia and I am going to tell you something. So keep calm, you listen up now. He is making a play for your wife. Rosalie told me so and that Katie played into Rosalie and Parker’s ear. Katie was telling him all about your anger and control issues. How bad a husband you were and that you never let Olivia follow her dreams. According to Rosalie, Parker had a thing for Olivia but never pursued it until Katie said some of these things. She was basically pushing them together. So Olivia and Parker had a moment.”

  I speak up in shock about Katie accusations, “Why would Katie do this me? She is my flesh and blood.” I shake my head. “I know that Livi kissed Parker a week ago. She told me she was sad and confused.”

  Henry laughs, “Figures Olivia would tell you that she is to blame. Parker made it happen. He basically set her up for it. With Katie, I think she too is going to need some counseling. I think she is extremely scarred with both yours and Briar’s anger issues. Then with Briar’s death, it was too much for her to handle with all the blame and fighting. You know that girl is a virgin because she is deathly afraid of what you might do to a boy if he touches her. She seems to think all men are just no good and like you, but she will change her mind when the right boy comes along. Funny, I thought you would be angrier with Olivia than worried about Katie. You are progressing.” I take the bug spray from the truck and we head back to the rock.

  “Livi said that she is going to set Parker straight but she did not want to do it on his birthday.”

  Henry nods, “I bet you he is not going to listen to her. He thinks she is scared to leave you. You have to see it from his point of view, Olivia did run away. He is not going to let her go that easy according to what he told Rosalie. Rosalie did tell him to back off, but she figures that he is not going to listen. Just be all sweet to Livi when the boy is around maybe he will get the idea and back off. Instead of you raging and doing something stupid, just pull her into your arms and hold her. If you hurt that boy, that will send Olivia right into his arms. Rosalie and I are here for you to set this right and you have been listening to the truths and working on it. But be ready, there are going to more hurdles in the near future.” I look at Henry and I can tell he knows more than what he is telling me.

  Henry looks at me before we leave the tree line. “Remember, you kids were meant for each other, not some tall skinny surfer boy.” He places his hand on my shoulder. “I couldn’t be any happier that day she brought you home and you made it through the night.” He winks at me and turns to head back toward the group. I follow up behind him.

  I am standing at the cooler. I get out 4 beers, trying to be nice like Henry told me to be. Livi is sitting with her legs draping over the edge with Pa
rker to her right side and Marcus on the left. I walk over handing a beer to Livi first, then Parker and Marcus. I sit Indian style behind Livi and move forward until I am touching her back with my chest. She leans into me when she feels my arm around her waist. I put my nose to her hair taking in her scent and softly kiss the top of her ear. Parker is pointing out all the different places on the falls he and Livi jumped down from in to the water. Then he was pointing to a rock that Livi twisted her ankle on a few months back. He was bragging how he had to carry her all the way back to his dirt bike. Livi laughs as he tells his stories.

  Livi jumps forward a little when my stomach growled. She turns her head, looking at me smiling, “Yes, me too. I am starved. I guess the hiking, swimming and rock climbing burned off my breakfast.” I lean to whisper, but made sure Parker could hear me, “Honey, we did not have breakfast. We were too busy hiding from your father under the house trying to keep quiet.”

  She smiles, “Yes, you are so right. Let’s eat.” We get up and Livi goes ahead of me to the cooler. I overhear Marcus telling Parker that he is stupid that he should just give up on Olivia since she is married. I smile at myself knowing Marcus is right.

  When we were done eating, we all were just relaxing. Again, I have Livi resting into my chest as we look at the falls. The group is chatting it up. I lean in to Livi’s ear whispering, but make sure that those close can hear me, “I would love to get you alone right now to do bad things to you.” She squeezes my ankle standing right up.

  She speaks loud enough to be heard, “I am going to give Ryan a tour of the falls now.” She takes my hand to pulling me up.

  Parker says standing up, “Marcus and I will join you.”

  Rosalie cut in, “No Parker, I need you here to help me.”

  Livi bends down in the cooler digging for two bottles of water and I see Parker staring at her backside. She turns to me handing me a bottle of water. She pulls her shorts back on and shirt. Then she coats up with bug sprays. She winks at Rosalie turning to me. Parker steps besides her speaking softly into Livi’s ear. Livi shakes her head no.

  She takes our towels and we are off. It’s about a fifteen minute hike to the top of the falls and she pulls me out of the tree lined jungle. There is an area to the right of the top of the falls of pooled up water that is mildly swirling. She points to it, “Ready to go for another swim?” I turn to look at the pool where the bottom is small grounds of pea gravel. She steps up beside me and I am still looking at the pool. She steps past me walking over the small gravel in to the water naked. She gets in turning to call out to me, “I thought you wanted to do bad things to me.” I smiled at her while I untie my trunks letting them drop to my feet to kick them off. I walk into the water after her. Before I could even touch her she jumps on me wrapping her arms around my neck and her legs around my waist planting herself right onto my manhood. She brings her mouth to mine thrusting her tongue over mine while she is wildly riding me. I feel myself getting close. I needed to stop her. I quickly place her down on the gravel at the water’s edge. I exit her as I am placing kisses, nibbles and bites all over her breast. She is running her fingers through my hair when I hear her speak, “Was I not doing a good enough job?”

  I look up at her with a grin, “I said I wanted to do bad things to you. Not have you doing bad things to me.” She lays her head back as I continue what I was doing. I move down between her legs with most of my body still in the water. I begin to touch her nether lips and then with my mouth. She is pulling at my hair scratching at my shoulders from time to time. Her hips are moving to make sure my tongue is in the place that she wants it. I pull up slapping her clit with my hand and she lets out an excited yelp. She starts moaning and growling back and forth. Keeping everything in place, I slip my finger into her. She moves her hips faster while she is cursing at me in her sexual way. Then she stops as her body is jerking. Her leg muscles are twitching while she is trying to pull away from me. I pull her up carrying her back into the water. She again places her hands around my neck. She is nibbling on my ear lobe. I pull her legs around me to enter her. I bite down on her shoulder which kicks her into start mode. She arches her back to give me access to her breast. I put my hand under her shoulder to lay her back so she is nearly floating on top of the water. I am looking down at her watching the water move over her breasts with my movements. I get rapidly excited watching her body and I climax, growling loudly with my grunts. She pulls herself back into my arms, just resting her head on my shoulder.

  “I am going to put you down now. Are you ready,” I whisper into her ear. She looks up at me nodding. I purposely hold her so she has to slide down my body to put her feet on the bottom gravel. Letting her go was like throwing a fish back during fishing. She just swims around me circling. I bend down to duck under the water. When I come up, she is just staring at me watching me like she has never seen me wet before. I grab her by her wrists pulling her into me and kiss her hard. She giggles pushing away from me. She gets out of the water, picks up her towel drying off. I come out of the water, dry, and get dressed. She sat down on a rock drinking her water.

  Walking over to her, I see this crazy animal with a spot. I stop in my tracks pointing to it drinking water from the side of the river. She yells out to me, “It is a Paca. It won’t hurt you.” I quickly walk to her side and she tells me all about the animal being a big rat. She looks up at the sun saying that it is time to go.

  We talk some on our way back down the hillside. Once we see the others, I wave over to Henry. As soon as we step foot on the rock, Parker runs up to Livi. He looks at her with cautious eyes, “Was everything alright up there? You were gone for a while, about two hours.”

  I shift in to Livi speaking for her, “Yes, twenty minutes up, twenty minutes down and an hour and twenty minutes of bodily exploration in the river pool.” Livi flushed red which I have not seen in a while as she walks away.

  Henry points at me to come over to him, “That boy did nothing but squirm the entire time you were gone. He kept insisting that something was wrong wanting to come find you. Rosalie set him in his place though. I think your problem with him may escalate tonight. Rosalie thinks that when we get back to the Cantina, you two should head home.”

  I nod in agreement with Henry looking up at him, “I am going to bring the Parker topic up on the way home. I think I may need reinforcements.” Henry pats me on the shoulder pointing to the cooler. We start down the path to the vehicles. We all hop in and drive down the rocky terrain.

  Livi- I am watching the trees as we drive down the hillside. I glance over to Ryan seeing that he is smiling while he is driving. So I decide it was a good time for me to bring up my phone call with Chris, but smartly I direct it to my father. “Daddy, Chris and the crew are coming down to see me on a mega yacht in a few days,” I say happily.

  Ryan shifts around in his seat, “Livi, please do not tell me that Chris and his friends are staying with you?”

  I look at Ryan like it is Christmas morning with our kids. “No silly, they are going to moor the yacht and stay there.”

  Ryan, being sarcastic, says, “Great, just more people that I have to share my limited time with you.”

  I glance quickly at Ryan pouting turning my conversation to my dad. “I am so happy that you are representing them and Chris said that he will need to see you when he is here about official business.” I see my Dad nodding like he already knows what Chris’s business is all about.

  Daddy looks at Ryan and then to me. “Honey, I do think Ryan is right about you spending most of your time with him. You both are in the process of healing and need to make this right. Once everyone found out from Katie where you were, they are all coming here to show you the love and support that you need. When I see Katie, that girl is going to get a swift kick in the ass too.”

  I spin my head around to look at my father and then Ryan beings to speak. “Livi, Katie needs counseling. She wants to break us up and for you to be with Parker. She has filled his head with
much information about us, most of it is true, but she thinks I am a hateful man.”

  Rosalie leans forward, “Yes, she was telling both Parker and I about how horrible your lives are. She played on to Parker to make you happy at all costs no matter what Ryan does. She has Parker convinced that Ryan is abusive, controlling and that you might be too scared for your safety to leave Ryan. She made Parker promise that he was going to be sweet and loving, to never hurt you ever. I tried to talk to Parker and he told me that he is not going to back down.”

  Ryan glances at me to speak while driving, “He is trying so hard to spark my anger. So I lose control and fight him, because he knows that will make you run to his side.” He looks at me with a pained look in his eyes as continues to drive.

  Then my Daddy speaks up, “Katie has told Parker everything he needs to do to get you. That kiss was a trap, honey. He knew he was going to do it before he did it. I am sorry for putting in my perspective, but Parker does not know who you are. He will run to the hills the first time you whip him, so he will never compare to Ryan. Ryan and Parker may have a lot of similarities. But Parker could never be powerful enough for your needs, to control you when need to be pulled back from your edge and you know where I am going with that.” I glance over to Ryan to see his reaction, but he continues to look straight ahead.

  I pause before reacting. “I will talk to Parker tonight.”

  Ryan looks at me, “No, tomorrow. When we get back to the Cantina this evening, we will unload for Rosalie and then head home. Now that Chris is coming, I need you to myself. I have to figure out a way to cut Parker off; he is driving so slowly.” We all laugh driving the rest of the way to the Cantina quietly.

  We arrive and unload. I put the food away. I need a drink. I am sort of mad that we are not staying for the party. I pick up a bottle of Tequila pouring myself a straight double and guzzle it down. Then I drink a second one. I turn to see my daddy leaning on the door watching me. Daddy comes into the kitchen and stops me by grabbing my arm. He looks me in the eye. “You only have a few days to tell him before Chris arrives. Stop procrastinating, Olivia.”