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Kai exhaled slowly, looking around them.
“Do you feel better?” Jun asked him. They’d meditated for only about ten minutes, but sometimes that was all a person needed.
“More relaxed,” Kai admitted.
“Meditation lowers blood pressure, gives peace of mind and clarity, helps you feel better and focus more.” She tried to think of the dozen other benefits she’d learned, but Kai staring at her made her brain feel like spaghetti.
“I can see that,” Kai said. “If you didn’t stare at me while I did it.” He grinned. “You’re a distraction.”
“I’m not.” He was the distraction, with those sharp brown eyes and that smooth tanned face, that rugged square jaw.
“Oh, yes, you are.”
“Let’s try a little bit of stretching,” Jun offered, eager to get on her feet and lose the hormones buzzing in her veins.
“Yoga? I don’t know.” Kai shook his head. “I’ve never really done yoga before.”
“You haven’t?” exclaimed Jun, shocked. “But with surfing, it could help with your balance, flexibility and strength. Why haven’t you been doing yoga? I would think every surfer would be doing an hour a day.”
Kai shrugged. “Just never got into it.”
Jun shook her head in disbelief. “Okay, let’s start with Mountain pose,” she said as she arranged herself. “Palms together and feet apart, stand straight.” Kai stood and mimicked her. “Breathe in...and out...”
“There’s a lot of breathing,” Kai muttered.
“The body needs oxygen, and we don’t give it enough,” Jun said. “Now let’s curl down for Downward-Facing Dog.” Jun showed Kai what she meant, curling her back and putting her palms on the spongy grass, her body making a tentlike triangle. Kai followed her, craning his neck to keep up. Jun tried not to be distracted by Kai’s bulging calf muscles. She failed.
“Now let’s head up to Warrior pose.” Jun straightened, took one giant step with a bent knee. Kai mimicked, but his foot was turned the wrong way.
“Out, like this,” Jun said as she broke her own pose to help Kai get into the right position. “Then bend down and twist for Triangle pose.” Jun put her hands on his thick shoulders and helped him twist. Yoga usually calmed her, but feeling Kai’s strong muscles beneath her hands, she felt nerves prick along her skin, and her stomach was a riot of emotions. Why was she nervous? She noticed Kai staring up at her.
“I feel like a pretzel,” he said. Jun felt warmth grow in the pit of her stomach.
“You don’t look like one,” she said. You look amazingly, heart-stoppingly sexy.
Kai met her gaze, twisted as he was, and wobbled, nearly losing his balance. Jun tried to save him by grabbing his shoulder, but she overcorrected, and Kai’s weak knee wasn’t able to compensate. They both went tumbling down into the grass, Kai on his back and Jun right on top of him.
“Are you okay?” Kai asked, grabbing Jun’s shoulders, concern on his face.
“I’m...” Jun was about to say fine, but then she realized she was pressed against Kai, their noses nearly touching, his rigid stomach and muscled chest firm beneath her. She didn’t want to move, yet she wasn’t sure she should stay still. She was deliciously uncomfortable.
She felt as though she were drowning in his warm, rich eyes, as they’d grown suddenly and irrevocably serious. He wasn’t letting go of her shoulders, and she didn’t want him to. If she’d thought sitting next to him had been distracting, lying on top of him was a whole other level of irrational thought. Unable to help herself, she glanced at Kai’s lower lip, full and just millimeters from her own mouth. She could feel the hormones zinging through her veins, lighting her blood on fire. The only important question was: What do his lips feel like?
She didn’t know whether she was moving closer to him or he to her, but before she could regain control, her lips touched his, igniting a spark she knew immediately she wouldn’t be able to control. Jun had wondered if she even remembered how to kiss a man, but with Kai, it was as if she’d always been meant to kiss him. His lips gently explored hers, tasting like the mild trade winds off the sea. Jun’s lips parted and she felt his tongue, the warm wetness of it, and suddenly the blaze in her mind ran so hot she felt she might faint from the heat. All she wanted was more of him. His arms tightened around her waist, pressing her closer into his body, and she thought they might melt together. His hands ran the length of her back, and she shivered, wishing for a minute she could rip off her top, feel his hands on her bare skin.
