Chapter 10: Myra

I took her by the hand and led her off the boat.

Neither of us talked.

We walked down the dock in the dark, and the gravel crunched under our boots, and the big shed doors stood open to the night.

Inside, the long workbench ran down the middle of the floor.

The crew's tools were still lined up on it in neat rows, left exactly where they had set them down.

Fourteen aprons hung on a hook by the door.

Moonlight came through the high windows, pale on the cedar planks and the half-built hull in the cradle.

I backed Myra against the bench.

She looked up at me with her chin lifted.

"This is my bench," she said. "I sanded the top myself."

"Then you know how it feels."

"Roan."

I put one hand in her braid at the nape of her neck and tilted her face up.

I kissed her hard, with all of what I couldn't say, and she kissed me back with both hands fisted in my shirt.

My other hand slid under her tank top and found her bare skin.

She was hot and soft and shaking.

"I don't want to be saved," I said into her mouth. "I don't want you to fix it."

"I know."

"I want you."

"Then take me," she said.

I turned her around and pressed her forward over the bench.

Her forearms landed flat on the wood, and her braid fell over one shoulder, and I wrapped it once around my fist.

She made a low, wanting sound.

I pulled the tank top up and over her head, and her bra with it.

Her breasts swung free, heavy, her nipples tight in the cool air.

I reached around and took them in both hands, squeezing, rolling her nipples between my fingers until she pushed her ass back against my hips.

"Don't tease," she said.

"I'm not teasing. I'm looking."

"Then look faster."

I laughed, a short rough breath against her neck, and bit her shoulder.

Her coveralls were tied at the waist, and I untied them and shoved them down with her panties, all the way to her boots.

She stepped out of them without turning her head.

She was bare from the waist down, bent over the bench, her thighs parted, her pussy wet and shining in the moonlight.

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