The Ranch

What’s happening?

I just told Jeff I can’t be here at the ranch no more.

Now he come over…

And he kissing me.

Just a second ago, Jeff don’t say nothin. Like the situation gonna be what it gonna be. Not raising a finger to stop me.

Had to be the worst moment of my life.

I hearda heartbreak. Think it something people sorta make up cuz they sad about someone they love hurting them bad. 

Never thought that shit happen to me. But this…

He got me feeling ways I swear to myself I would never feel bout someone. 

When it happen to me just now…

It really do feel like my heart getting smashed in my chest. 

Painful as all hell.

Now Jeff telling me he don’t want me to go,

I don’t understand what the hell he mean by that.

He don’t want me to go cause I’m his responsibility? Or he just want me here cause he want me?

Then he  come to me and start kissing me.

I still feel the pain in my chest, but it grow bigger. Spread to my stomach and head, filling it with a million things I don’t understand…

Nah…That ain’t true.

I understand some of them things.

I hate to say it but,.

 I’m scared. Don’t know where this gonna go, If it gonna go anywhere. 

Then there the thing that come hand in hand with all that. Much harder thing to grapple , but I can’t even think that right now….

Now his lips press against mine so soft. A lot softer than I expect. 

 He ain’t even put his hands on me. He just standing as close as he can to me and lean forward, push in and part my lips with his, taste my tongue, and the whole world’s gone away. 

When he finally pull away, his teeth gently tug at my lip sending shivers down my body.

I know it sounds pathetic…but, I nearly cry for him to not stop. 

Then Jeff stay right there. His forehead resting on mine, breathing hard through his nose, his big chest rising and falling. He shut his eyes real tight and starts shaking his head saying my name, whispering it real low. His breath starts coming harder, and I can tell he got emotions tearing through him like a tornado. 

Not sure what the hell to do. 

My hand keeps trembling, going up to take hold of his arm, but I can’t quite do it. I’m too unsure bout what’s going through his head. 

Too confused.

There is one thing I know without a doubt though.

 If Jeff turn away from me now, there ain’t nothing he could do or say to get me to stay at his ranch any longer. 

As I think this, He does the last thing I expect him to do. 

He laugh. 

Low and small, but he laugh.

“Look at me. Now I’m actin like you pup. Just like you…”  He say in his deep voice, soft and rumbling,, like he was talking to himself, leaving me more confused.

“Jeff…” 

“Yah Mac?” He answer 

“What you doin?”

“What you mean?”

I push his head away from mine, but keep hold of his arm.

“The fuck you laughin for?” I say, more force comin with my words.”Cuz you really doin my head in.” I let go of Jeff’s arm, feeling a lump of frustration come up my throat.”

“Just don’t want you to leave…” Jeff say. I throw my hands up, and my face starts to heat up again.

“Then what the fuck you want from me?” My voice raise in a way that’s almost like a laugh. I’m done with all the crying and sad shit. Now I”m pissed and confused. “First you act like you glad I”m here, then you go off and act like you don’t want to have anything to do with me. You do that shit again and again. Now you fucking kissing me and tellin me you don’t want me to go.” I turn my back to him, my hands on my hips, my face hot and my breath coming hard.  I take in one last deep breath then say.

“Just tell me what the fuck you want Jeff. and don’t you sit there and say nothin while I’m fucking losing my shit over here. You gonna talk to me old man if it the last thing we do together-”
I whip round and step right in Jeff's face, my finger ready to poke him hard in the chest.

The hell…?

This mother fucker got a smile on his face like  I just told a joke.  

It take me a moment to get my brain back into place, but then my words come back in a fuckin fury.

“I swear to God Jeff. What the hell’s going on with you?”” I’m shouting now, my face comin an inch from his. He don’t even flinch. 

“You…don’t want me kissin you no more?” He say.

Jeff might as well dumped a bucket of ice water on my head. I sit there in front of him, my mouth hanging open tryna say somethin, but nothing coming. 

Course I want him to kiss me. 

I didn't want him to stop the first time…

Fuckin Jeff…

He say one thing and that’s all he have to say to get me stuck for words. 

Now I’m thinking bout it, that’s how he always been since I got here. 

One of the reason why I fall for him so fucking bad…

He just knows what to say and how to say it when it need to be said.

All my bluster gone now. 

I just look into his soft blue eyes, and he keep on smiling at me, always a bit a sadness coming with it.

“So you want me to stay then?” I say, feeling a bit stupid, but think of  nothing else to say.

“Whatever you wanna do Mac…I’ll try and make it happen for you.”
Once again I got no words for him. I look out the small kitchen window above the sink. The sun making everything out there and in the kitchen yellow, waking the world up. Jeff ain’t got no animals except horses, so there no noises except for the birds. I just sorta notice all this all at the same time, and my chest start to fill up bout how much I don’t want to leave this place, and I pissed off that I’m thinking like that, and even with how much he driving me nuts…

 I don’t want to leave Jeff. 

Worst thing is I can’t say any of that cuz I  know soon enough I’m gonna have to go. After the summer ends and my parole finish.

Jeff watch me as I think. 

His eyes never leaving my face. I kinda hate that he doin it, make me feel nervous. 

“Come with me boy…I think I know what you need.”

The hell he do. That’s what my face show him, but he don’t pay it no mind and walk out the kitchen door into the yard.

“Let’s go Mac.” He say nudging his head away from the house. So I follow him, and Jeff lead me to the stable. At first I think he just gonna put me to work to blow off some steam. Honestly I don’t think that too bad an Idea, but it won’t change nothin or answer any questions.

Instead, Jeff go to the back end where we stack the hay bales , and he turns around and fall down into them with a grunt, then he lean back and say nothing. I figure he want me to sit down with him or something, but I don’t, just look down at him, not sure what the hell he thinks this accomplishing. After half a minute of silence, Jeff finally starts speaking.

“Before you come here, I used to sit in here like this on my own before work start. I like it cuz I’m alone, but I also got the horses surroundin me, so there still a sort of presence that make it….you know. Not lonely. Been doin it for bout as long as I been workin here. When I got no one…”

“When you got no one?” I ask. I ask it cuz I ain’t never hear Jeff say this much about anything other than when he teaching me bout horses. It a bit of a shock, and I  want him to keep going.

“Yah...after my boys graduate from school, Mike go off to college at Arkansas State. Bout two years ago. He got a life there now. He don’t usually come back for summers no more. Then JJ live with his fiance for the last year or so. He stayin with her in a little apartment in town. He come on Sundays, but as you know rest of the week he off with her. I’m happy for both ‘em of course, but I miss ‘em real bad sometimes. They men now though. Can’t keep hold of them for too long.”

“What bout your wife Claire. You think she ever coming back?”

 “Don’t know…Probably not. She ain’t really talk to me for last few years. Boys gone and there ain’t nothin for us to talk bout no more. Not like I say much for the last nineteen years…God damn…nineteen years of marriage. Life go by faster then you think. Anyway, come in here last few years. Sit with the horses…and just think bout all the shit I’ve done in my life, good and bad. Like to think it mostly good, but I think we all think that way you know. Try to forget all the fucked up shit we do in our lives. Act like we the heroes of our own stories or some shit like that.”
“Alright…” I say looking down at my feet. He right bout one thing. The horses do got a presence bout them. The way they shuffling their feet sometimes. They’re heavy breathing. Even their smell. They’re really there with us.

 I still tryna figure out why we out here though. Why Jeff philosophizing all of a sudden.

What you gettin at Jeff?” I know it sound a bit cold when I say it, not that I ain’t marveling at how much he talking, but he rambling on, and I really don’t know why.

Jeff eyebrows raise like they shrugging, and he start picking at the hay underneath his fingers.  

“Just tryna give you what you want Mac. What I think you need from me. You want me to talk so I’m talkin. You wanna get to know me, so now I’m gettin you to know me. I ain’t done this shit for no one in a long time. Fuckin no one Mac, but you got me doin it. Can’t say why really, cuz that’s how things be in life sometimes. You…got me…you just fuckengot me.” 

Jeff don’t look at me when he speaking, and his face sorta not showing me much, but his words shake through me good and hard. 

He start’s speaking again, his low voice the loudest thing in the quiet of the ranch.

“I don’t want you to leave Mac…I just don’t… If you do then, okay but… I don’t think I survive it…not this time.” Jeff say the last part so quiet, even in the silence it hard to hear, and I know he aint talkin bout me. 

Not with that last part. 

I want to ask him who he talking bout, but I know some things bring too much pain. 

Know that kinda pain too well If I’m being honest. The type after someone let you down so hard you can’t barely get up out the hole they left you in. 

Sorta my family in a nutshell.

I decide to sit down next to him then, and for the first time, Jeff the one too scared to look at me. 

I understand that too.

Last thing he want is someone else to make him hurt like that again. 

The idea stir something inside me.

The idea someone hurt this strong, gentle man. I swear to god and everything eles I gonna do my damndest to make sure that don’t happen to him again. 

Then it’s my turn to do what i think Jeff need me to do for him. 

I grab his face and kiss him softly on the lips, and he kiss me back, and that tingling on my neck, chest, cock, and legs go through me, and I don’t ever want it to end.

It's crazy. 

I didn't think my desire for this man could get more intense, but I feel a heat go throughout my body not like anything I have before.  My hand starts groping his body like it got a mind of its own. Starts going down, reaching for his giant, swollen package. Jeff laugh, and sit up, backing his cock away from me.

“Not just yet boy. Still gotta day of work ahead of us and we already startin the day late.” 

He rise, grinning at my disappointed face. And God damn am I disappointed, and so damn horny. It just ain't right he makin me wait even more.

“Don’t worry…it be worth it later.” He say, and reach down his hand to get me up. Then he smack my ass before he walk away.

Fuckin Jeff.

Gotta say, I had more energy that day working then I had in a long time . Can’t tell you how happy I was to do it either, and Jeff smile like I never seen before and he barely leave my side the whole time except for when he make us lunch.

 He keep us as busy as possible cuz the second we stop, we gonna jump each other's bones, then the horses will be forgotten for the rest of the day. Maybe the rest of the week. 

We finish up round five that night. 

Jeff make me clean up while he  makes them steaks he save for special occasions, along with his loaded baked potatoes with sour cream and butter. Then he clean up, and we eat out on the porch together. 

I talk nonstop bout nothin really; Wishing that show Knightrider was still on, how badass that car and David Hasselhoff was, and how much I wanna enter a rodeo as a clown rather than\ a rider cuz it look way more fun.  I always seen myself as a bit of a daredevil. Jeff do his usual thing of smiling and saying nothing, watchin the sun set behind the trees, but I know he listening to every word I say..

When we finish eating, He start doing the dishes, and I'm watching him from behind, drooling over what he got going on in them jeans of his.

“You lookin at my ass boy?” He say. He ain’t facing me, but I can hear his smile in his words. The way he say it, with his deep drawl. making my cock and balls twitch. I don’t say nothin, i just stare at his muscular tatted arms in his no sleeve flannel, and that plump muscle ass and them beefy thighs stuffed in his blue jeans.

Fuck it. I’m done waiting.

I go up behind him, and smack his ass hard before grabbing a handful of one of his round cheeks. It nice and firm, and Jeff grunt as I hit it.

“What you think you doing pup? I didn’t say it time for this.” Jeff say as he dry off a plate and put it in the cabinet.

I still don’t say nothing. I’ve been waiting too long for this and my shorts so wet with pre-cum, my hard rod showing right through the material. 

I ignore him, keep my hand on his ass, and my other hand starts wandering through his flannel, rubs across the bumps of his abs, all the way up to his big hairy chest. I grab hold of one of his pecs, patting it firmly, feeling how hard it is. My fingers pinch one of his nipples.and jeff let out another groan, closing his eyes. I start unbuttoning his shirt, and my tongue runs up his bicep and shoulder where I start kissing softly, then I pull open his shirt and wrap my lips round a hairy nipple and start sucking hard.

“I say what you doing…?” Jeff growls, his chest pushing into my face as he starts breathing hard. I push my way between Jeff and the sink, cup his firm ass in both my hands, and run my face and tongue across his broad chest, stopping to suckle his pec, my whole mouth massaging his rock hard nipple. His monster pulse through his jeans against me, and Jeff starts rocking back and forth, moaning as my mouth continues to go to work. I grab his forearm,  pull it above his head, and dive into his pit, rubbing my tongue up and down the rough hair. I take a deep inhale of his musk, and like starting up and engine, the smell activate my cock. I start groaning and panting, and Jeff just laughing his sexy ass growl of a laugh.

“You like my stink?” He drawl. I only nod my head in a horny daze. Jeff grabs the back of my head and push my face deeper into his armpit. I take another deep inhale that send my cock into overdrive. 

*Just couldn’t wait, could ya,* He say, and there’s a lower, more aggressive rumble in his voice now. I can hear the hunger setting in, and it got my stomach twisting with excitement.

“No sir.” I say without thinking, the words coming out in a gasp. .Jeff takes a handful of my hair and pull my head away from his armpit. 

“So that how you want it…?” He say and he take a harder grip on my hair. 

“Yes sir…’

‘You want your daddy to use your body the way I want to use it?” He say, his voice becoming a full growl. Now he aint playing, and my whole body start shivering.

“Yes sir…please.” 

“You ain’t gotta say no more.” He say.  Next thing,  Jeff picks my ass fully off the ground  and throw me over his shoulder like it nothing. He yanks my shorts down to my knees and smacks my bare ass causing me to cry out, then march to his bedroom where he drop me on his bed, and pull his shirt off. 

His powerful muscle body towers over me, An alpha in heat, leering down at me, a hunger in his eyes like I never seen before.  My whole body buzz in anticipation as I start moving back on the bed.

“Come here boy…” He growls and crawl after me. Over the top of me. 

Our lips smash together, and now he shoving his tongue deep in my mouth, moaning into it. He push into my body, spreading my legs with his thighs and pushing his crotch into mine. Then He fall onto me, crushing me with his weight, and he wraps his powerful arms around my torso and I’m enveloped in his powerful frame and body heat. I grip the back of his head and back, moaning every time he grind his hips into me, pressing his massive bulge into my cock and ass, causing pleasure to streak through the rest of my body. 

After what seem like we kissing for a lifetime, he pull away and sit up on his knees. I stare up at him, fucking mesmerized by this man.  

“Strip…I wanna see that hard little body.”  He command, and I can’t get my clothes off fast enough. 

I’m back on the bed,  on my knees facing him in less then ten seconds, my dick pointing at him at full attention.

“Jerk it, nice and slow for me.” He say

I grip my dick and start stroking my shaft slowly, my eyes not leaving his face as he start pulling at one of his nipples. 

“Goddamn pup…you so fucking beautiful.” Jeff say, and he sits back on his knees and start rubbing his bulge, now coming down his thigh, his eyes drinking in every inch of my body.

I rub my finger over the tip of my head where a glob of precum is dripping off.

“Taste it.” He say.

 I ain’t never tasted my own cum, but I do what he say, and put my finger in my mouth, it tastes little salty. Meanwhile Jeff is pulling at his snake harder and harder, licking his lips, taking a full grip of his shaft through his pants.

“Turn around…let me see that perky little ass.”

Again I ain’t ever do anything like this before, but Jeff got a control over me I can’t deny, and I turn, get on my hands and knees, and arch my back.

“Fuck that look nice…Spread them cheeks. Show daddy your hole.” I do it and Jeff move forward and start massaging my ass  cheeks with his rough hands, I wait, tense,  almost holding my breath for him to put his finger on my hole. He give my ass a few hard smacks, and I cry out, but he don’t even put a finger on it.

“Turn around…on your hands and knees.^ Jeff orders and I do as he say again with out a second thought.

Fuck!

He got his pants off, and his HUGE cock and horse balls are out, bigger then I remember. Long and veiny, and thicker then my fucking forearm. Sitting in a nest of ginger-brown pubes. The pink tip of his bulbous head poke just out the foreskin, a drop of cum running down it. 

“This what you been pining for all day ain’t it?” he say as I stare at it

“Yes sir”

“Then what you waiting for. Get to sucking your daddy dick boy.”

Jeff grips his hard cock and pulls back the foreskin revealing his fat mushroom head. I lean forward and wrap my lips round the smooth, warm knob,  tasting Jeffs precum and start sucking.

“Ya boy…suck the tip." Jeff said and grabs my hand and has me gripping it. It’s so goddamn girthy my hand just barely fits around it, and I start making long slow strokes while I keep sucking the tip. Jeff’s deep moans encourage me to keep stroking harder, and I start using both hands, pumping his cock harder and faster. Jeff puts his hands in my hair and grips my head.

“Stick your tongue out and open your mouth.” He orders. I do it and he push in, my mouth is fully clogged by his giant member. Jeff starts thrusting his hips and my mouth is forced wider as his shaft slides across my tongue toward my throat.

“Good boy…now open a little wider. Let me see them tonsils.” I do as he says and his fat head pushes in to my throat. I gag, my eyes watering, but I find myself wanting more of it..

“Thank you sir…” I gasp and Jeff barely let me finish before he pushes in and passes his cock into my throat. I choke and gag loudly. Drool drips down my lips. Jeff holds my head in place and groans loudly as my throat squeezes around his head. He pulls it out with a satisfied grunt. meanwhile I’m panting in another one of them horny dazes.

Jeff reaches down and grabs my cheeks, squeezes hard so my tongue comes out, pulls me toward his face and wraps his lips around it sucking my tongue greedily, then takes the other hand and starts stroking my rail hard dick, causing my whole body to spasm. 

Now he got me. 

The back of my neck is in a firm grip, pushed up against his powerful torso. Jeff spits in his hand, then goes back to kissing me deep and hard, slathering my cock with his saliva and stroking it up and down. I don’t know what to do with myself. I’m a moaning, pleasure rag doll in Jeff’s powerful hands . His mouth start to nibble my neck, then his mouth goes down to my nipples, where he inhales my pec. 

“Nyuhhh…God Sir….YHUUUH.” I moan, and my body is covered in goose flesh.

Jeff’s all over my quivering naked body, and all I can do is whimper, completely  taken away.

Next thing I know, Jeff lay me on my back my legs over his shoulders. He lean down,  kissing my belly, then he take my cock into his mouth and starts sucking hard. My hips lift up into his face.

  “Ngguuhhh.’ That the only sound I make as his mouth goes deeper and deeper down my cock

That’s when he presses his finger on my tight hole and my whole body bucks .

 I wasn’t expecting it. it's a shock, but in the best way

“Mmmmm…You likin that ain’t you pup?” Jeff says as his mouth releases my cock and his  tongue starts making its way down my shaft toward my balls and taint. 

The shivers I feel as he kiss and lick just below my balls make me shake. His tongue then moves to my hole and the bliss I feel rolls over me. I can’t even imagine what his dick would feel like splitting me open.

I put my knuckle in my mouth and groan loudly, grinding my ass into his face. Spurred by this, Jeff takes my legs and bends me and half, leans forward, and he starts feasting on my clenched hole. 

The feeling is crazy. 

My hole responds to his tongue massaging it,  triggering my cock to throb and leak like crazy against my stomach. I don’t know how Jeff is doing it, or how he got so good, but he’s making my body experience levels of pleasure I didn’t know exist.

Now I’m on my back, my thighs gripped in Jeff's massive biceps. He lift me up so '”m almost doing a headstand, and pushes his tongue in and out of my ass, groaning like he eating his favorite meal, all the while stroking my cock, and all I can do is live in the pleasure

“Nnuuuu…Sir…You gonna make me cum.” I gasp. With a smack of his lips, Jeff raises his head from my ass and looks down at me.

‘You say you bout to cum boy?” He say, his strokes on my dick slowing, somehow making it tingle even more. 

‘Yes sir…’ I say, my balls tightening more with each glide of his hands over my shaft

“Not yet pup…come here.” Jeff lowers my legs down  and grabs both of my hands pulling me up so I’m sitting on his lap, My legs straddling him, and we’re face to face again. I fall into his body, my head resting on his shoulder, my mouth kissing it. I lift my face and find his lips. We start kissing hard and desperate, all while he jerking my cock and I’m jerking his for a while. He lets go of mine and wraps his strong arms around my chest and pulls me into him. I do the same to him and start grinding hard, my cock rubbing into his.

“Fuuuck boy…keep going like that.” Jeff moans. The sweat covering our bodies mix together. His rough body hair scrapes across my red chest and stomach, sending chills through me and causing more goosebumps. Both our stomachs are sticky with precum and mix in with the swealt

Me and Jeff locked in as one, Our mouths, tongues, chests, stomachs, and hard cocks, both pulsing against one another as I grind hard against him, our moans vibrating through our mouths, kissing deeper.

I feel my balls clench tight. 

The heat before cumming, radiates over my crotch.

“Ohhh goooddd fuuck! I’m cumming. “I groan in Jeff’s mouth.

“Cum for me boy…” Jeff growls sucking on my lower lip.

‘Fuuuuuuck!” My seed starts oozes out of my cock, the warmth dribbling down both our dicks. Jeff pulls away from my mouth, latching it on my nipple.

“OHhhh…SHIIITT!”” My cocks start to squirt harder as my sensitive nipple sends powerful surges into my balls. That’s when Jeff starts to spasm, and a bassy growl comes out of him and becomes louder and louder.  I can feel his cum surge through his cock.  

Jizz explodes out of him.

“Fuck! Fuck! FUCK!” Jeff bellows into my chest, each word coming with a gush of cum. He  squirting so hard, it hits me and him in our chests, and Jeff’s spasms rocks both our bodies. His moans go higher, and he buries his face harder into me, shaking as his jizz keeps coming, 

It takes a minute for him to stop bucking in my arms, the last spasms of his orgasm pulling grunts out of him. I can’t help but laugh, the high I’m feeling overwhelming any sense I got. Jeff’s head is in my neck, his hot breath blowing on it, then he starts his rumbling laugh too, and we sit in a sticky, spunk and sweat covered mess.  

Jeff grabs my face and looks into it, his expression as dazed and high as I feel. We start making out again and neither of us want to let go of the other. 

We don’t want this to end. 

Our kissing go from hard, then to much softer, more tender, but it still hold the same passion. Jeff keeps hold of my head, his fingers rubbing my cheeks and going through my hair. He looks into my face, his eyes holding a yearning in them.

“Can’t…believe this happening...” Jeff say, his voice huskier than usual. I have never understood something more in my life. 

I’m here with the man I’ve been dreaming bout since I was in high school. Jerked off too nearly every night, thought bout whenever I hooked up with anyone else. I’m here in his powerful arms, and he looking deep into my eyes, longing for more of me like we just ain't got done making love to one another. 

The thought of making love to Jeff sends a jolt powerful through my chest…

That for sure what we just did… 

And we still doing it right now. 

Now Jeff laughing, his eyes crinkling in that sexy way they do when he truly happy.

“What you do to me Mac…?Turn me into a fucking animal.” He chuckles, then push his face in mine, nibbling my chin. Then his voice become a whisper..”what you do to me boy…?”

  I honestly got know idea what to say. So I just hold on to him, sitting on his crossed legs, both are soft cocks pressed against another, and gaze into Jeff’s ruddy, handsome face. 

None of this seem real.  

This wasn’t supposed to be a part of my shitty life. 

I was never suppose to be this happy. 

Even more unbelievable is that Jeff just as happy. I can see it in his face, and I’m the one making him feel it…

It hard to even describe, but…

Shit I don’t know…

I just know I’d fight with everything I got so it don’t ever end.

Jeff’s eyes then go sad, and his next breaths come out more ragged then before. 

“You alright?” I say, rubbing my hand up and down the middle of his back. Jeff let out a long groaning sigh before he speak.

“Mac…” Jeff whisper, and  he squeezes me tight into his chest, and pulls back his face from mine just a bit so he can look me right in my eyes. 

“Promise me something okay…please don’t ever leave.” A slight tremble comes to his lips. “Even if it ain’t like this….If you decide you don’t want it to keep goin on like this-”

“What the hell you goin on bout?” I cut in, exaggerating my accent to sound more like him. “THis is only day one of the fuckfest I got planned for us.” I look down at the mess we cause.  “Don’t tell me you ain’t gonna be able to handle it old man. Shit…I’m bout ready for round two.” I give him a devilish grin. Jeff stares at me a bit taken aback at first, then lets out one of his loud barking laughs, his head falling back as he do.

“Who you think you are, callin me old man?” He say and dig into my ribs. I start yelping and squirming in his arm, but there aint no way in hell I’m getting out of his powerful grip, and he keep doing digging.. 

“Stop! I sorry!” I shout, laughing to the point of my stomach start hurting.

“Sorry what!.” Jeff growls

“Sorry sir! I’m sorry sir!” I cry out tears in my eyes, and Jeff laughing along with me and kissing all over my chest and neck. I ain’t never have my heart feel so full. 

He stop tickling me and I look down at him. 

“I’m sorry sir.” I say a big smile on my face. Jeff's evil expression softens then. 

“You good boy…It’s just Jeff right now…”He say, Then his face fall just a bit, and Jeff’s breath comes up short. He looks away from me and swallows hard.  

It bout ten heartbeats of silence between us.  Then Jeff takes a inhale of breath.

“Goddamn Mac…

“Now you gone and make me think I fallin in love with you.”

End