Firecracker Under Pressure - Firecracker #3 (Erotic Romance) Read Free

again. That conviction alone had served her well for years, until meeting Cy in the mountain village.
    Cy had changed everything, but she could still feel herself holding back emotionally by using sex as a buffer. She was playful and smiling on the surface, but largely removed on the inside, except during moments like these, as he finished tightening her flotation vest. Trixie could feel him sneaking through her armor as she warmed to Cy in more than a purely physical way. Whether he knew what he was doing or not, she could tell he wasn’t just interested in her body, but her company as well.
    Trixie interrupted him, cutting Cy off in the middle of some sentence about sharing waterways with other boaters, threw herself against his long slender body, and given him a prolonged kiss. She held his face in one hand, inhaling him, hungry for his lips. Cy didn’t resist until she was done.
    “What was that for?” he asked pleasantly, still locked in her embrace and thrown by her sudden affection.
    “For showing up when you did.”
    “What? At your doorstep?”
    “In a manner of speaking.”
    Cy smiled, not fully understanding, but Trixie was okay for that. The day was beautiful, they had each other, and that was all that mattered. Her chest swelled with a deep satisfying breath.
    “Take me out to sea Captain. I’m ready when you are.”
    Cy sat Trixie in front of him so he could steer more effectively, after which they pushed off into the water and left the cove community behind them. They were slicing through the water shortly thereafter, passing canoeists and sail boats while being buffeted by jet skis and speed boats. There was a whole other community on the water, complete with jellyfish skirting the surface and seals poking their heads up.
    Cy directed them further up the inlet, where there seemed to be less activity, and followed the shore. They spotted a deer grazing among the trees in a primordially undisturbed landscape. Trixie was in awe of their surroundings. After two hours of paddling, Cy steered them back into the inlet and towards a small island where he suggest they tie up. There was no dock, merely a pebble beach and some jutting rocks. He pulled the kayak out of the water while she was still inside and helped her out as if she were royalty descending a gang plank.
    “I have a confession to make,” he said.
    “Oh, what that?” Trixie asked, curious to know where this was going.
    “I’ve actually been to this island before. It was sort of my destination today.”
    “Didn’t you say something about wanting to explore this inlet?”
    “Well, I haven’t been back here for a long time, so it is kind of an exploration. It was a long time ago when I was still a teenager.”
    “So is this the same island?”
    “Yeah, this is the place. It was more than ten years ago. My parents and I were visiting their friends who have a house along the inlet. They had kids who grew up here and went boating all the time. Playing on the water was second nature. There was a whole mess of them. They took me out to this island one night and we built a bonfire.”
    “Sounds like a fond memory,” Trixie said as she began taking off her life jacket.
    “You could say that. I was there with a bunch of older kids, so it was very exciting, but there’s more to it than that."
    "I'm intrigued."
    "One of the older boys brought a date along. She was the prettiest girl I had ever seen. Freckles that wouldn’t quit. She pulled him away into the shadows after the fire got started. You cannot know how much I envied that guy.”
    “Raging hormones and all. I can imagine.”
    “At any rate, they were gone for a while. I ended up walking off by myself to take a leak and then spotted them on my way back. They hadn’t actually gone that far, maybe fifty feet away from the fire.”
    “You little pervert,” Trixie teased, as she began taking off Cy’s life jacket for him.
    “It wasn’t like that! At least not at first. But yes, I