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I put on the same shorts and shirt I’d had on last night before they tore them off me and checked my phone.
Trinity:
Hey, I’m so sorry. Work called me in. They had an emergency. A real one, not a gossip one. Like drop everything and get your ass to the office. Not sure what it is, but I’ll let you know! Sorry to bail like that.
That didn’t sound good. But at least she wasn’t wandering around the halls lost. Not that she would, considering she’d been here so much while we grew up she practically lived here.
My bare feet padded on the marble floors, the whole house quiet around me. There was something soothing about knowing you were alone like this, but close to people. Very different from actually being alone.
The choice was what mattered.
A shadow filled the door to the now empty terrace. I saw the bridesmaids all heading down to the beach, but Beau was blocking the way out.
“Beau.”
“Hey, Izzy-bear.”
“You have a lot of fucking nerve calling me that, after everything.”
He winced, gripping the back of his neck. “Yeah. I was hoping we could talk?”
“I don’t want to talk to you.”
“I know I didn’t?—”
“There you are,” Joel said, sweeping past my ex, pulling me into his arms, and kissing me so indecently I was glad I’d put my shorts on. My bikini wasn’t enough to cover my arousal, and perfume filled the surrounding air. “We won, and crushed it, so we convinced everyone to play volleyball.”
I grinned. Something I was actually good at. “There’s too many people to play volleyball.”
“Shh,” he kissed my forehead quickly. “We know, but we’re going to do it anyway. Come on.”
He grabbed my hand and tugged me past Beau before he could say another word. “You okay?”
“Yeah. Thanks for the rescue. He wants to talk, and I’m not interested.”
Joel stopped long enough to sweep me off my feet. “Well, he’s going to have to try harder than that. And when he does, you’ll have a wall of bodies between you and him.”
Heat touched my cheeks, but I didn’t say anything. I loved someone having my back. “Does the rescue come with door-to-door service?”
“It does. That, and it’s been long enough that I think you need a refresher on that sunscreen, right?”
“Right. Probably a good idea. Where did Vaughn put it?”
“Right here,” Vaughn appeared right as Joel put me down, and suddenly I was surrounded by skin, muscle, andscent. “I think we can help with that, but you might have to lose the shirt.”
My mouth dropped open. “You guys don’t have to put it on me right now.”
Cade turned me to him, fingers brushing the hem of my shirt. I nodded, and he tugged it off. “You said you don’t want him back, right?”
“I’d want a cactus up the ass before I want him back.”
Hawk coughed, covering his mouth, and Cade’s eyes sparkled with amusement. “Does not wanting him back include not wanting to torture him?”
“Not necessarily.”
Vaughn passed him the sunscreen, which Cade sprayed across my stomach and in a line up to my chest. “I’m glad. Because the five of us rubbing sunscreen into your perfect body is enough to make a dead man jealous.”
I didn’t know who pulled the shorts off me to leave me in just the bathing suit, and I didn’t care. Cade’s fingers slipping across my skin had my eyes closing. “Just don’t make me indecent.”
