Chapter 10

WALKER

I hopped in a cab and headed home, leaving Hayden at Tony’s. Once there, I took my laptop out to the deck.

I booted it up and typed Jess’s address into Google Maps. To my surprise, it was only a mile up the beach from my place.

My little vixen was closer than I’d realized.

Digging a bit deeper, I discovered that the house she was living in wasn’t even hers.

It was owned by a guy named Logan Felix, who worked construction.

Was Jess Logan’s girlfriend?

I didn’t give a damn!

I looked into Logan’s background a bit more, but found no wife or any connection to Jess.

Could Jess be one of those boarders Tony had mentioned?

Tony had said there were two boarders!

Could my vixen be the other one?

Holy shit!

That would mean she was right there, just a mile away.

I took a deep breath, trying to calm my racing heart.

This girl was affecting me in a way no one else ever had.

I’d had a few flings that lasted a month or so before I got bored, but this woman?

This creature?

I wanted to keep her all to myself.

Even though she’d hit me over the head with a rock, I still wanted her in my bed.

Maybe it was her spirit that drew me in?

Or maybe it was because she was new in town and not like all the other girls here?

I traced my finger over the picture of the house where Jess lived and smiled.

“I’m coming for you, minxy,” I whispered.

“Honey! I’m home!” Hayden called out.

He joined me on the deck and handed me a cold beer.

I let him take a long swig before nodding at him.

“That woman, Jess, lives in a house a mile from here. I followed her home and saw her go into a house down there.”

He pointed down the beach to show me which direction.

“Did you see our girl in the house?”

He shook his head.

“No. But an hour later some dude showed up and went in. I recognize him from somewhere but I can’t place it,” he said.

“I think our minx is a boarder there with that Jess and the man. His name is Logan.”

“Logan? Logan? I know him from somewhere, but I can’t place it!

“I don’t remember him from our school,” I said.

“No. It’s not school,” Hayden said, shaking his head.

I watched Hayden wrestle with his memory and shrugged.

“Want pizza?” I asked.

“You buying?”

“When don’t I?” I laughed.

I ordered our food on my phone and walked over to the railing, looking down the beach.

I didn’t see a long-haired vixen and frowned.

Why would she come walking down the beach again?

I leaned on the railing and looked at Hayden.

“Got any binoculars?”

“Sure.”

He jumped up and went back into the house, returning a minute later with a pair of black binoculars.

He handed them to me and I scanned the beach.

There were a few couples strolling along and a dog playing in the surf, but no vixen.

I left the binoculars on the railing and sat back down, waiting for our pizza.

“Good news. I’ve got a potential cleaner coming for an interview tomorrow at ten,” Hayden said.

“Finally. If you hire them, make sure they do all the stuff I hate,” I told him.

“So, everything?”

I threw my bottle cap at him and he laughed.

One of the gate guards brought our pizzas and we dug in.

“So this girl? What’s your plan?”

“I know what I’d like to do,” I muttered.

“And how are we going to do that?” he asked.

“I’m not sure. I want her to like us, so I can’t just kidnap her and keep her here with us, even though that’s exactly what I want. We have to earn her trust.”

Hayden made a face.

“I’ve never had to do that before,” he said.

“I want her to be ours. Forever. So we might have to be decent boyfriends?”

I cringed at my own words.

“Have you considered that she might not be into a polyamorous relationship?” Hayden asked.

“Then we’ll have to convince her. It’s all or nothing with us,” I said.

Hayden nodded.

“The thing is...I’m not sure what to do if she doesn’t want either of us,” he said, his eyes darkening.

“Oh, she does,” I assured him.

“How do you know?”

“When I was dancing with her? I could see in her eyes that she wanted something, but I don’t think she knows what it is?”

“And she needs us to show her?”

I nodded and licked pizza sauce off my fingers.

My little vixen wanted to be claimed.

I could sense it in her when I kissed her on the beach the other night.

Her response to me was intoxicating and I wanted more.

My dick stirred in my jeans as I remembered how she felt beneath me.

Soon, buddy, I thought.

Hayden got up and moved to the railing, picking up the binoculars.

If I wanted something, I’d do whatever it took to get it.

That’s the kind of man I was.

I ran my gang and this town my way, and I’d make sure that little miss minxy would fit right in next to me and Hayden.

Because I’d make her want to fit.

The temperature dropped, and I tossed my pizza box on a nearby table.

“Shit! I see her!”

I jumped up and rushed over to Hayden, grabbing the binoculars.

Looking through them, I saw two women sitting on the sand about a mile away.

They were holding glasses and seemed to be chatting.

I focused the binoculars on my vixen.

She was wearing grey leggings and a white tank top.

I felt my cock harden in my jeans.

“Damn. She looks better every time I see her,” I told Hayden.

“That’s definitely the Jess you had me tail, so I think you hit the nail on the head when you said she’s the other tenant in that house,” he confirmed.

“So, she’s not too far from us? I want to pinpoint exactly which house she’s living in.”

I watched my girl lean into Jess just before a blond guy joined them.

Could that be the guy named Logan?

“Take a look and tell me if that’s the guy you saw entering the house,” I instructed Hayden.

Hayden peered through and nodded.

“I’ve seen him somewhere before!”

I watched him adjust the focus on the binoculars and couldn’t help but smile.

“Are you trying to get a close-up of her chest?”

Hayden grinned and nodded.

“So, are we going with flowers, hearts, and all that mushy stuff to win her over?” Hayden asked.

“Do you think she’s the type of girl who’d appreciate that?”

Hayden just shrugged.

I nudged him to hand me back the binoculars and he did.

I only caught a glimpse of her before all three of them got up and disappeared over the grassy hill.

“We’re going to have to actually date her and figure out what she’s into,” I told Hayden.

“I can handle that,” he said.

Heading back to the seating area, I gathered our pizza boxes and carried them into the house.

I flattened them and tossed them into the trash while Hayden grabbed two more beers.

He perched on a kitchen stool and popped the tops off the bottles.

“After I meet with the cleaner, I’ll stroll up the beach and see if I can figure out which house she’s in.”

I nodded and accepted the beer from him.

I chugged half of it and let out a hearty burp.

“Feel like a game of pool?”

Hayden grabbed his beer and followed me to the game room.

I had a full-size pool table in here, complete with a mini bar and a jukebox that was synced to my phone so I could stream music through it.

I put on Bad Boy and watched Hayden arrange the yellow and red balls in the black triangle.

“Want to break?” he asked.

I picked my cue off the wall and positioned the white ball.

Leaning over, I lined up my shot and sent the white ball crashing into the others at the far end.

Hayden looked stunned as I sunk three red balls.