“I need you,” Connor barked at Rylan. Then he glanced Lennox’s way. “You too, if you’ve got the time.”
Lennox rolled his eyes. “What else do I have going on?” He’d been bored to tears since he and the women joined up with Connor’s group.
Before, they’d been surrounded by people. Nomads who stayed at the house for a while before traveling on, strangers who needed a bed for the night, friends from other outlaw communities in West Colony.
Here, Connor discouraged visitors. He wasn’t keen on letting anyone leave the camp either, unless it was for a meeting with one of their allies, or a supply run. But they’d stocked up on enough shit to last them through the winter, so as far as Connor was concerned, there was no reason to step foot outside camp.
Lennox, on the other hand, was itching for action. And sex. Christ, he needed a good lay. With Piper and Jamie off-limits, Layla was the only available woman at the camp, and though he’d screwed around with her several times already, he enjoyed a little variety in his life. He’d been tempted to finagle his way into Connor and Hudson’s bed, but the couple didn’t seem inclined to include anyone but Rylan in their bedroom activities.
Fuckin’ Rylan. The man got to screw the delectable Hudson and the woman Lennox had fantasized about for years. Some guys were just born lucky.
As he stood up, Jamie marched in his direction. Her pale blond hair fell over one shoulder, hovering right above her cleavage. She had fantastic tits—which she never failed to remind him of, probably because he’d spent a good portion of their adolescence ragging her about her flat chest. She’d had the last laugh, of course, transforming from a scrawny girl to a curvy, sexy-as-sin woman right before his eyes.
Truthfully he would’ve screwed her back then, flat chest and all. Jamie had been his first crush. He sure as hell hadn’t been hers, though. She’d had all the boys in their camp panting over her, and she’d known just how to keep them wrapped around her little finger.
“I want to come to this meeting,” she announced.
Lennox smirked. “You weren’t invited.”
“Screw that. We’re a team. I go where you go.”
“Things are different now, love. You and I don’t run things anymore. Connor does.”
Her blue eyes flashed. “Screw that,” she repeated.
“You’re just pissed because you didn’t get to sit on Rylan’s dick.” He chuckled.
That got him a hard slap on the arm. “I don’t care about Rylan’s dick right now. I just don’t want to be kept out of the decision-making process. Blind obedience isn’t my thing, Len.”
She was right—she’d always had a mind of her own, and that was one of Lennox’s favorite things about her. The woman was outspoken, smart, and stubborn as fuck.
“It’s not mine either,” he admitted. “But we’re playing by a new set of rules. Connor took us in, and now we’ve gotta do what he says.” He tipped his head. “Unless you want to take off on our own? Because I’ll do it, if that’s what you think we should do.”
She went quiet for a beat. He could see her shrewd brain working. Then she raked one delicate hand through her hair and sighed. “Not this close to winter. If we want to find a new place, we’re better off waiting till spring.”
He nodded. “Agreed. But that means we defer to Con until then. Ergo, you need to go to your cabin while I find out what he has to say.”
“I hate it when you ergo me.”
A grin sprang to his lips. “Bullshit. You love everything about me.”
She responded with a grudging smile of her own. “Yeah. I do.” Then she reached around him and smacked him on the ass. “You better hustle, babe. Don’t want to keep our mighty leader waiting.”
Lennox was still grinning to himself as he left the barn. Darkness instantly enveloped him, the smell of pine and earth filling his nostrils. The camp was too damn rustic for his liking, but hey, at least the cabins were clean and cozy, the security was top-notch . . . and Jamie was here.
She was really the only thing that mattered, if he was being honest. He could be living in a volcano, inhaling ash and bathing in hot lava, and he’d be perfectly content with it as long as Jamie was by his side.