Dani René

Hot and cold at the same time. It feels like I’m burning, but I’m shivering.

“Go into the house. Don’t come out here again.” I shouldn’t be mean to her. But I can’t help it. She shouldn’t be here, be near me again. This is wrong.

She doesn’t respond. Something drops to the sandy floor of the pit, and then silence. I’m alone now, and I scuffle through the dust to figure out what she threw into

the hole. As soon as I see it, I know. Fear prickles through me.

She’s come to warn me.

He’s not trying to cure me.

He was biding his time.

Fuck.

The sun is high in the clear blue sky, and I’m tempted to head to the small lake not far from the house. I know Ginnie will follow me. She has been at my side since she had her birthday two days ago.

Perhaps she feels since she’s older now I’ll be nice to her, but I can’t. Not because I like being mean, but she’s changed. Every time I look at her, all I see is how her body is turning from girl to woman.

Even though I can’t stop my eyes drinking her in like an iced tea on a hot summer day, I know I shouldn’t. In my mind, I scold myself. In my chest, I feel the guilt, but I’m a broken man. I know she’ll be the one to end me one way or another. She will break through my walls, because just the sight of her makes me want to break all my rules about stopping this thing between us.

My groin tightens when I recall walking into the bathroom and seeing her naked under the spray of water. Every drop that trickled down her skin made me thirsty to taste her.

Smooth, alabaster flesh, curves that seem to have appeared overnight, and her supple tits that I’m aching to thrust myself between. She does things to me that I know are wrong. But I love the feel of her touching me, licking at me. There are places she makes me go in my mind that feels like I’m