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Prologue

Sinclair – Ten Years Ago

I had been in love with Wyatt Jones since I hit puberty and boys went fro yucky to yuirls in Salvation, Nebraska fell in love with hie; Wyatt was my brother Ryder’s best friend He spent a lot of tiot to know hireen-eyed, drool-worthy hottie He was sh he often seemed lost, which I suspected came from his home life that was rumored to be chaotic

What I didn’t knoas that Wyatt and Ryder’s being friends was a hindrance to h school Wyatt and I were helping my brother move out of our family home to his own little apart in the cab where a TV and ga equiper seat It was so cramped that I had to sit on Wyatt’s lap as we drove to Ryder’s new place

I, of course, didn’t coood, a mixture of the outdoors and soap His jeans were butter-soft underthe road, those jeans filled with so hard My entire body came alive with electricity when I realized what that meant Wyatt was turned on By me!

He shifted and cleared his throat Hehim to knoas okay with his response, I took his hands and set the thee of my cutoff jean shorts He stilled, but didn’t relanced over toward the driver side of the truck, but I could only see the top of e in his life where he could work full-ti ers under the he hiainst ain, and I wondered if that was to reduce the friction or increase it

Unfortunately, Salvation was a small town, so we arrived at my brother’s new place before I could really push my luck Once we moved Ryder in, we all drove back toout of the truck, I didn’t need to sit on Wyatt’s lap But I knehat I felt, and when I had a moment alone, I confronted him about it

He suy’s lap”

His coirl sitting on your lap, you’d…you’d…”

“Get a woody, yes” Hedeal, and wheniced tea, the conversation was dropped

I should have known, I toldhints about my attraction to hinored them or didn’t notice them

Later that night, I headed down to the little creek that ran through the back of e tree I

was still stinging from Wyatt’s comment that basically said I wasn’t special It wasn’t his fault he wasn’t into

“What are you doing?”

I looked up to see Wyatt leaning against the tree

I shrugged “Just sitting” I wasn’t going to let him kno o In a few e Like oing to work on his father’s cattle ranch

He cay”

“Why?” I kept looking out over the nore the heat of his body next to mine

“About today”

“You can’t help it if you don’t likerevealed so much

“Then I really do owe you an apology”

I turned reen eyes stared atme to him