Free The Choice - A Small Town Love Triangle by Piper Phoenix Page B

driveway.
    She didn’t drive far before she pulled off into the ditch, turned off the lights and cut the engine. Somehow her body seemed to have a mind of its own as she made her way through the trees towards Cash’s trailer.

 
     
     
    CHAPTER ELEVEN
     
    Traci looked back at Sawyer’s house as she approached the trailer. All of his lights were out except for the one in his bedroom. There was absolutely no way he’d be able to see her from his window, and even if he could, all he’d be able to see was the shadow of someone standing in the darkness. He likely wouldn’t be able to tell that it was Traci at Cash’s door.
    She probably should have kept driving until she got home, but she felt as though she didn’t have control over herself. It was as if she was running on autopilot and her brain and willpower were just along for the ride. Her hand was pounding against the thin wood like material of the trailer door before she even realized what she was doing. Almost as if she was watching herself in a movie. Out of the corner of her eye she noticed a light inside flick off. Then she heard movement inside. Her heart jumped into her throat. He was coming.
    The door creaked as it swung open. Cash stood there in his boxers, and Traci felt that familiar flip in her stomach at seeing him. The one she had every time she saw Cash’s perfect body. “Hi,” she said looking up at him.
    “Well, look here!” he said with a cocky grin, “Why, hello sweetheart.” He leaned against the door frame casually, “What are you doing here at this hour?”
    Shit . She didn’t know if he was messing with her. He must have seen her car parked at Sawyer’s when he drove in, “Just in the neighborhood… I guess.” It sounded more like a question than a statement.
    “Come in,” he ordered, “Sit.”
    Traci sat down on the couch and folded her hands in her lap. Cash sat down in the chair. It was the chair they had both sat in not that long ago. When he lifted her skirt and spanked her ass. She felt a little twinge between her legs and blushed at the memory.
    “I’m not exactly sure why I’m here,” Traci muttered, “Shit. I shouldn’t be.”
    “Glad you are,” he said gazing at her from across the room. He looked like a king perched upon his throne. He sat wide legged with his arms resting on the armrests, and his hands in loose fists. All he needed was a crown and a scepter. “I wanted to talk to you.”
    “Oh?”
    “About that night…,” he said waiting for her to understand, “at the beach.”
    Traci raised an eyebrow. She was unsure where he was going with this. Was he trying to entice her into yet another sexual escapade? She wasn’t completely sure she’d be able to refuse him, even with Sawyer so close by. She was still a little keyed up from what happened with Sawyer and it wouldn’t take much to send her back into that fiery mood, especially when it came to Cash. Her body shuddered at the thought of him finishing what her and Sawyer had started only a short time ago. That would be so wrong. Naughty. Sinful. “What about it?” she asked carefully.
    “I wanted to know why you ran off, I thought we had something going here,” he said getting to the point. “When you left I figured it was over, I left, I had work,” he added somewhat cryptically. Traci wasn’t sure what he was trying to say.
    “Well, that’s not new. You always have work. You come and go as you please, I never even had your phone number! I couldn’t just sit around and wait for you to show up!” she said shaking her head with frustration. “I assumed I was just a one-night thing for you, like all the others, and I went on with my life!” she said telling herself it was mostly true, except for the fact that she hadn’t been able to get him out of her head.
    “You did something to me, sweetheart, you are all I can think about. All day. All night. All I can think about is you. I told myself to leave you alone that you’d never be