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and kisses me hard on the mouth. For a second, I get caught up in the feel of his tongue sweeping my own. I get lost in his big hands as he cups my chin with one, and tugs my hair with the other, forcing my neck back. For a moment, I get caught up, and forget the resolve I had back in the car, and then reality comes rushing back and I push him away. He stumbles into the picnic table.
    “What the fuck, Hols?”
    “What are you doing?” I demand.
    “Well, I thought I was about to get laid right here on this picnic bench, but I’m guessing we can rule that out now.”
    “We need to stop this—”
    Elijah clears his throat behind us, and I jump back from Jackson like he’s a grenade I just pulled the pin from. He and Ana are staring at us with different expressions etched on their faces. Cade looks like he’s about to high-five us both, but Ana’s expression is wary. Wary, and also kinda frightening.
    “Given that we all just narrowly escaped being eaten alive by a killer wombat, I’m thinking we should maybe move to the other side of the camping ground and get the tents set up before it gets too dark,” Elijah says.
    “Yeah, let’s do that,” Jack replies, but he pins me with his gaze as he says it, which makes me think he’s responding to my statement and not Elijah’s.
    The boys gather the tents, poles and pegs, and move them to the clearing just beyond the Ute. Thankfully, the campsite is completely deserted, so encroaching on another’s camp isn’t an issue. While they set up the tents, Ana and I sit at the picnic table and start preparing a salad for dinner.
    “Hey, you’re okay with this, aren’t you?” she asks.
    “Yeah, of course. Why wouldn’t I be?”
    “It’s just, we haven’t really had a chance to talk lately, with the plans for getting Belle’s Pies back up and running, and the funeral and the—”
    “Smoking hot sex-tapes you’ve been making?” I supply helpfully. “Aw, I totally just made you blush. So he hasn’t turned you into a complete porn star yet?”
    “Shut up,” she says, and throws a carrot stick at my head. It lands in my lap, and I pick it up and start munching. “What’s going on with you and Jack? And before you try to tell me nothing, that kiss was not nothing.”
    I shrug, and open my mouth to tell her she has the wrong idea, but Ana just barges on through with, “You know, I got up to go to the bathroom the other night, and I heard noises that a girl should never have to hear her hot older cousin make. So, unless he’s started bringing women to the house, I’m pretty sure they were your chants of, ‘Fuck me harder, Jackarse’ that I heard coming from the bedroom.”
    I smile to myself, and then see the warning in her gaze. It makes my smile vanish as quickly as it came. When I open my mouth, I find myself repeating the same bullshit excuse for our idiotic behaviour that Jack fed me the other night. “It’s not complicated, Ana. I like sex; he likes sex. Sex together makes sense for us right now. There’s no strings attached, no messy break-ups involved, and everyone walks away happy.” I shrug, “Or, at the very least, a little bow-legged with a happy ending.”
    “I’m not going to try and talk you out of this. God knows I didn’t listen when everyone warned me to stay away from Elijah, but I just don’t want to see you get hurt. I know how you feel about one another—”
    “Ana, baby, chill. It’s just fucking.” I shrug off her concerns as though I haven’t already been going over and over this in my head for the last two weeks. Truth is, whether we’re pretending there isn’t more to this than there is, or we really are just going through the motions and coming out with a blissful glow, deep down I know I’m completely screwed when it comes to Jackson. And not just by his massive cock.

“N ICE SAUSAGE,” Hols says as she sidles up beside me at the barbecue.
    “Oh, you like that, huh?” I reply, with only half my usual