Light filled the bedroom as lightning lit up the night and an unexpected boom of thunder made the glass shake in the windows. “Wow, that was close,” Griffin said as he pulled his mouth off Jess’ perky breast.

She hated to admit that she didn’t want him to stop what he’d been doing to her. He was pushing all the right buttons. Hitting all the right places and the damn storm that looked like it was about to hit them wasn’t helping her one bit.

Pulling him back to look at her, Jess said, “You want to let me kiss you for a while?”

With a smile, he nodded and rolled over with her, leaving her on top of him. Pushing his shirt up, she moved her hands all over his tight chest and over the hills of his muscular abs. Then she ran her tongue through the valley that separated those abs.

With his jeans already open, she pushed the elastic of his underwear down, igniting a moan from him that made her smile. What she was about to do was the meanest thing she’d ever done. And she wasn’t particularly proud of herself for doing it.

It had her giving Griffin another shot at doing the right thing. Telling her about the bet and telling her he was calling it off. She looked up at him with a nervous expression. “Griff, I’ve never done this before. You promise not to make fun of me if I do it wrong?”

“You’ve never given a blowjob before?” he asked as he leaned up on his elbows.

“No, but I really want to please you. I’d never do this if I didn’t trust you.”

Jess watched his eyes go dark. “Is that so?” It wasn’t the reaction she thought she’d get. He looked a bit pissed. “Then don’t do it, Jess. It’s that simple.”

“Are you saying that I shouldn’t trust you, Griff?” she asked, hoping against all the odds that he was about to stop the insanity.

“Me?” he asked with a high voice. “Me, you can trust. I just mean you should only do what it is you want to do. Not what anyone else tells you to do. You know what I mean?” He was giving her the chance to come clean about what she and her sisters were doing. Trying to pin down some unsuspecting men to pay their bills for them.

“I guess you’re right.” She kissed his stomach with a hot kiss then dipped her tongue into his belly button.

He pulled her up by her hair and asked, “Does that mean you still want to do it?”

“Give you the first blowjob I’ve ever given?” she asked. He nodded. “Yes, I want you to be my first. I trust you that much, Griff.”

He didn’t know what the hell to say. He wanted a blowjob, for sure. But he felt like something was wrong. He shouldn’t let her do a thing like that if he wasn’t being real with her. She was kind of innocent and in the end, it might hurt her self-esteem.

When her mouth moved over his cock, he reminded himself that she too was playing a game with him. Why not get the blowjob?

Her mouth was hot as she moved it up and down his cock. He laid back and closed his eyes, letting himself get into it and trying to forget that this was the first time she’d trusted a man enough to be so vulnerable.

The way she used her tongue to run up the underside was surprising him. Then he started to think she was lying about this being her first time to do such a thing. “You’re kind of great at this, Jess.”

“Am I, really, Griff?” she pulled her head up and asked him. “Don’t say it if it’s not true.”

He raised his head to look at her. “And you shouldn’t either.”

“What does that mean?” she asked him as she was utterly confused. It was the first time she’d given a blowjob, she wasn’t lying about that.

“I’m saying that if you’ve done this before you can just say it. You can be truthful about anything with me, Jess. That’s all I’m saying. Anything at all, you can confide in me.” He gave her another chance to come clean and waited to see if she’d take his bait.

“I’m being truthful with you about this. Is there anything you want to be truthful with me about?” She was searching his eyes for any sign he was ready to let her in on what he was really doing.

She found only a certain hardness there that hadn’t been there before. Jess was pretty sure it was because he was mad about what he’d overheard earlier that day.

“All I’m saying is you’re making the moves of a woman who’s done this a time or two,” he said.

“Well, I haven’t. Should I stop?” she asked him.

He laid his head back and wondered what the hell he was doing to himself. Sabotaging a blowjob that looked as if it might be a pretty great experience for him. “No, go for it.”

“Fuck! Don’t be so damn enthused, Griffin!”

“You’re mad now?” he asked as he lifted his head back up.

By the pink color of her cheeks, he could see she was mad. And when she got off the bed and pulled her bra back to cover her tit, he knew the little make-out session was over.

Then it hit him that he still needed her. He still needed her to win the bet, and he needed to make her think he was looking at her as marriage material.

Changing his actions, he sat up and pulled her into his arms as he laid back with her. “Don’t,” she said with a muffled voice as he had her close to his chest.

“I’m sorry, baby,” he cooed. “It’s just that I had something I wanted to ask you to do with me this weekend and I’m kind of afraid to let you know more about me and those I come from.”

“Huh?” Jess asked as she pulled her head off his chest and looked at him.

“I want to take you home to Montana this weekend to meet my family. And I’m afraid of what you’ll think of them and the things we all do,” he said, looking sheepish.

“You want to introduce me to your family?” she asked, feeling kind of shocked he’d bring his family into his sinful bet.

“I do,” he said then ran his hands through her hair. “But I’ve never taken anyone home before. I’m nervous about it. And about how you’ll like them.”

Jess was unsure what to say. “Why would you be nervous about that? You see where I come from. What do you have to be embarrassed about?”

“Just some things,” he said with a frown. “Would you like to spend this weekend with me at our ranch in Montana, baby?”

“Um, maybe I should ask Kel.” Jess chewed her lip.

Griffin took her face in his hands. “You’re plenty old enough to make this decision on your own, baby. Now tell me what it is you want to do?”

“I’d like to see your ranch. I’ve never been up that way before.”

“So, you’ll make me happy and come with me then?” he asked with a grin.

“I guess so.” Jess wasn’t sure what Kel and Cait would think about her accepting his offer. But she wanted to go for some odd reason.

Another loud blast of thunder that accompanied a flash of lightning had them holding each other tightly. Both were a little afraid of what it was they were feeling.