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I leaned in toward him. “Good thing you like a challenge.” I reached for his jaw and pulled him in close so that I could get a taste of him. I was finally able to do this out in the open where anyone could see, and I planned to take full advanta—
Something wet and sandy smacked us both in the head, and I jerked away to see the group of kids—little beasts, as Solo referred to them—laughing as the rubber ball they’d launched our way rolled off behind us.
Solo sat up and glared as he wiped the sand from his head. “I wonder if those little bastards have ever played dodgeball with a pro,” he said, but before I could answer, he was off. As he stared them down and aimed for one in the middle, I hoped the kids knew how to run like hell.
10 Solo
TEN MINUTES LATER, I wiped my sandy hands off on my shorts and stood in front of Panther, blocking the sun from his sexy body. He’d been watching as I knocked out every one of those punks without breaking a sweat, and he had a crooked grin on his face.
“Have fun with the soccer team?”
“I wanted to aim for their heads, but their dad looks like he could bench-press my ass.” I held my hand out to Panther. “Care to help me get all this sand off? I’ll let you rub me down…”
Panther was off his towel in two seconds, grabbing my hand and taking off, running so fast that he practically jerked me down the beach until my legs caught up.
“Oh fuck me,” I yelled as my feet hit the water. “Why’s it so damn cold?”
Panther looked over his shoulder and smirked as he pulled me along behind him, heading deeper into the water. “Is it supposed to be hot?”
“It’s the middle of fucking summer, so it’s not supposed to be coming off a goddamn snowy mountain.”
“Don’t worry. In a minute you’ll be numb enough not to feel it.”
“I think this is far enough,” I said once the water reached the tops of our thighs. “I don’t need my dick freezing off.”
Panther turned around and walked back toward me, keeping our hands linked. “Oh yeah? So you’d like me to rub you off right here?” As a wave crashed into the back of him, his grip on my hand tightened, and then he pulled me down into the water with him.
Frozen needles pricked my entire body as the ocean engulfed me, and I immediately pushed up to the surface, sputtering and ready to murder my boyfriend.
“You think you’re really fucking funny, don’t you?”
Panther braced himself as another set of waves rolled in behind him, and when the water sprayed up around him, I swear on all that was holy that he looked like some kind of sea god.
“You seemed to need a little bit of a cooldown, so I figured why not kill two birds with one stone.”
I ran my hands back over my hair, and when Panther’s eyes roamed over my torso, I grinned. “Sure you aren’t the one who needs a bit of a cooldown? Eyes above the waist, Lieutenant Hughes.”
Panther turned to wade out farther into the water, and now that my body had, in fact, become numb to the frigid temperatures, I followed. It was clear he’d grown up spending his summers on the beach with the perfectly executed dives under the cresting waves. As I hurried to catch up with him, I marveled at how at home he seemed here.
When I finally made it out past the breakers to where the water lapped against our chests, I swam over to him and reached for the waistband of his shorts. Panther automatically moved in closer to me, and as our bodies bumped up against one another, I let out a low hum of pleasure.
“You know,” I said as I tipped my face up into the warm rays, “I think I could get used to this.”
“This?” Panther wrapped his arms around my waist, and I wound mine around his neck.
“Yeah. The sun, the surf, you… Seems like a pretty good way to spend my weekends, if you ask me.”
“I couldn’t agree more. I love this place. Always have.” Panther placed his lips to my jaw and kissed his way up to my ear. “But now, I seem to love it even more.”
I smiled and opened my eyes, and I noticed Panther looking at me the same way he had the night of the Navy Ball—with that deep intensity I felt all the way to my bones.
“Jesus, Panther. I swear, you get this look in your eyes and it makes it hard to breathe.”
Panther traced his fingers down the side of my neck, then around to the back of it, and brushed his lips over the top of mine. “And what look is that?”
