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“I’m Brielle.” Her voice was soft as she slid her palm against mine, and my smile turned a little smug when I saw goose bumps popping up along her arm. “But my friends call me Brie.”
Instead of releasing her hand, I gripped it tightly. “Are you here for vacation, Brie? Or are you local to the Keys?” Either way, I’d be convincing her to move to New York City real fucking soon.
“Vacation,” she replied. Her smile had grown when I called her by her nickname, and I felt a small bit of triumph that she allowed me that intimacy right off the bat.
I glanced at her hand briefly and couldn’t help thinking how naked her ring finger looked. My thumb stroked over it, and I asked, “By yourself?”
She shook her head, and the sunlight danced over her curls, making them look like they shimmered. “With my best friend,” she answered.
I held back a growl as jealousy surged through me, but when I quirked a brow and spoke, my voice had dropped low. “A female friend?”
Brie’s startled laughter seemed to help her relax, and her blue eyes sparkled. “She’s definitely a girl. Our college wouldn’t have put us together in the same dorm room our freshman year if she wasn’t.”
“Good.” The tension in my body ebbed as the jealousy faded away with my relief. I’d never thought of myself as someone who would steal another man’s woman. But from my reaction to the thought of her with someone else, I knew that if it came down to it, I’d do whatever it took to have Brielle.
A popular song came on the radio at the poolside bar, and someone turned up the volume. I leaned closer so she could hear me. “How long is your trip?”
“I don’t leave for another week.”
I nearly grinned like the Cheshire Cat. I had a whole fucking week to convince her she was mine.
“How about you?”
I did smile then because I could hear the eagerness in her voice. “I just got in and will be here until Monday morning.”
She grinned at me. “Same as me. Perfect.”
“I already thought a weekend at the beach was pretty damn perfect.” I gave her fingers a gentle squeeze, making her glance down at them in surprise, as if she was just realizing that we’d been holding hands the entire time. “But now that I’ve met you, my trip has already gotten better.”
“That’s incredibly sweet of you to say.” A pretty pink blush bloomed on her cheeks, and I was tempted to run my fingers over the color to see if her skin was as silky as it looked.
My brow furrowed minutely when I digested what she’d said. “I’ve never been accused of being sweet before.” I jerked my chin toward her drink and winked. “I think you’ve got me confused with that pink concoction the server was bringing over to you.”
She lifted the glass, wrapped her lips around the straw, and took a gulp of the frosty beverage. I couldn’t take my eyes off her mouth, and once again, my mind was filled with thoughts of her sucking something else. I shoved those images away and silently lectured my body to stand the fuck down. For now.
I licked my lips. “Are you hungry?” I most certainly was.
She looked at me over the rim of her glass with heated blue orbs and nodded. “Uh-huh.”
“I’m taking you to lunch.” My gaze swept down her body again, and a frown curled my lips. I didn’t want all the horny fuckers around there coveting what was mine. “After you cover up.”
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Brie raised an eyebrow, but rather than becoming angry, a corner of her mouth quirked up as her blue orbs twinkled with amusement.
“I suppose that I’m a little underdressed for a restaurant.”
She sat up, and I tried not to ogle her tits as they jiggled in her barely-there bikini top. When she leaned over to reach for her pool bag, there was way too much on display, and I almost lost my shit. Tossing my towel aside, I had my shirt dropped around Brie’s shoulders before she knew what was happening.
“What…?” Her expression indicated that she thought I might have lost my mind, but she didn’t stop me from pulling her arms through the holes and dragging the shirt closed to cover the rest of her body. It was so big on her that she could have worn it as a dress, but she looked unbelievably adorable.
Seeing her wearing my clothes set off something primal inside me, and a wave of possessiveness slammed into me again.
“I have a cover-up in my bag, Lennox,” she huffed, putting one hand on an ample hip while the other gesticulated to emphasize her point.
Holy fuck. Hearing her say my name in that low, naturally sultry voice almost made me come right then and there.
