Total pages in book: 166
Estimated words: 157273 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 786(@200wpm)___ 629(@250wpm)___ 524(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 157273 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 786(@200wpm)___ 629(@250wpm)___ 524(@300wpm)
“You’ve never seen my game, Rousseau.” The water hit my knees, and I walked on. Fuck, it was cold this time of year. “Trust me, if I was trying, you’d know.”
“Guys with game don’t look like they’re trying,” she countered as my ear brushed against the side of her ribs.
“You have to stop dating those dancers. If you can’t tell someone’s working their ass off for you, then they don’t deserve you.” A wave hit my thighs, and Allie gasped as it soaked her feet.
“It’s freezing!”
“Invigorating, right?” I let her slip a few inches as the next wave hit, and she squeaked. “Makes you feel alive.”
“You’re going to be dead if you drop me in this water!” She caught me completely off guard, breaking through my hold on her and wrapping her legs around my waist. Her strong thighs locked around me, and her hands spasmed like she didn’t know what to do with them.
I would have laughed my ass off if I hadn’t been distracted by the thought-stealing feel of her body against mine. Her warm, soft skin sent little jolts of awareness through my nervous system everywhere we connected.
“I won’t let you fall,” I promised, lifting my hands to support her thighs, steering clear of the perfection of her ass.
She drew back, locking her gaze with mine as her hands hovered inches above my shoulders. There was heat in those whiskey-colored depths, and a flare of interest that had my complete attention as her breathing picked up.
“You could touch me, you know.” Another wave came, but it didn’t reach Allie. “I did promise you a distraction.”
“Using sex as a distraction gets messy.” She ran her tongue over her bottom lip, then bit it softly.
“Who said anything about sex?” My grip on her thighs tightened as my eyes tracked the movement. I wanted to lean forward and suck that lip free, wanted to trace it with my tongue, wanted to sink inside her mouth and finally know how she tasted. I was used to craving things I could never have when it came to Allie, but the way she was looking at me now had me wondering, had me wanting. “I was just trying to save you from looking like an awkward Frankenstein up there with your hands in the air.”
She scoffed. “I was abiding by the terms of our agreement. Our rules were that you could touch me in public,” she reminded me. “Not that I could touch you. I wouldn’t want to take advantage of you in the heat of the moment.”
“So you’ll admit it’s a moment?” Fuck, her lips were only inches from mine. I thought I’d understood the meaning of yearning, but I hadn’t really. Not until right now.
“I’ll admit that you were having a moment.”
“Such a stickler for the technicalities.” I tore my gaze from her mouth and found her watching me. Our gazes held . . . and heated. “Agreement amended. My rule is you can touch me whenever you want, Alessandra. Public. Private. Doesn’t matter to me. Any part of me. With any part of you. Anytime you want.” Another burst of cold water hit my thighs, and I wished it had been a few inches higher. “Now might be good, since we’re putting on a show and all.”
Her hands settled on my shoulders with a light touch. “I mean, if it’s for the show,” she whispered, and her fingers slid along my skin, then interlaced behind my neck.
Need shot down my spine, and I tugged her closer on pure reflex. Nothing more than a touch, than the sensation of her in my arms, and fire raced through my veins. There was a reason I’d never flirted with her in our teens, never crossed the line. I’d instinctively known if I ever got my hands on her, I’d never let go.
Fuck, I’d had no idea what to do with her then, but I did now. I knew hundreds of ways to distract her, and I had the suspicion she would make every single one of them feel brand new.
Her hands slid into my hair on a soft sigh, and my breath caught.
She glanced at my mouth and parted her lips, then blinked twice. “I’m going back to shore.” Her thighs slackened as she unlocked her ankles, and I loosened my grip.
“I’ll take you,” I protested, biting back a groan as she slid down my body. Freezing her in the water had never been part of the plan.
“I’m not a stranger to cold water.” Her hands skimmed my chest as her feet hit the sand, the ocean coming up to her waist. True to her words, she didn’t even flinch, even when a wave came and soaked her tank top up to her ribs. “And you should probably give yourself a minute out here before you come back.” A smirk tilted her mouth as she backed away toward shore, her eyes lighting up as she stripped off her shirt.