Chapter 24

I mutter awkwardly as I crawl back out, peeking cautiously, picking the dried moss from my hair, and straighten up to scan the woods around me. “Keeping my distance, downwind of you, over here.” He calls back verbally, drawing me to him by voice alone. That explains why I didn’t feel or smell him approaching. He’s close enough to make me jump, and I spin in the direction his voice came from. I catch sight of him, jumping down from a rock overhanging the clearing to one lower as he pulls on a T-shirt over those sculpted, tanned abs and throws a backpack to the side of him. He must have carried clothes with him, and I have to admit, I’m a little disappointed but eye him appreciatively. My body is heating up with the insane lust I feel for this man because he got within fifty feet. My crazy hormones have had me dreaming of doing all kinds of naked things with him that a virgin shouldn’t know how to do. I move towards him, but he raises his palm and throws me a serious frown that stops me