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“HR.”
I drew my lips down and made my hand tremble over my chest.
“HR gets a bad rep.”
“And I am sure you’ll improve that bad rep.”
She motioned her head. “Do you like working as a concierge?”
“Yeah. I haven’t had problems and most of the guests have been refreshingly down to earth. I’ve got a potential job lined up when I graduate for a marketing department at a firm. ” I lifted my shoulder. “Who knows what the future holds?”
We reached the shaded area near a gated exit and I watched her exhale a shaky breath. Her eyes roamed over my lips. She pulled her mouth in and she inched closer to me so that her sand-covered feet were over mine. The action made her more aware of herself. Emotions that I couldn’t divine flickered across her face. Was she holding herself back from me?
Leaning my body against the gate, I lowered my head to her and lifted her hands to the sides of my face. She massaged my face, stroking her thumb over my scar.
I
brought the tip of my index finger over my mouth and brushed it over her tempting lips. Eyes glazed over a little, she separated her mouth enough to nip on my finger a little. So, the little vixen in her was out to play. She drew a little bit of my finger into her oral heat. In a matter of seconds, my cock swelled to readiness. She started panting and I withdrew my finger. She stared at my bare chest. Shutting down entirely, she stepped back, and her face fell flat. I understood that look of self-judgment all too well, and as much as I tried to keep my mind busy in order not to think about her, it was a losing battle.
I remained where I was and sought her wandering gaze until she looked at me directly.
“I want to kiss, and lick, and suck, every inch of you. Have you trembling in the palm of my hands while you surrender your body to me so I can supply you with what you’re craving. I can see it.” I flicked my eyes from her face to her erect nipples. “And I can feel it.” I brushed my fingers over her nipples, and ran circles around them for a second. Almost inaudibly, she moaned and I dropped my hand. “And when you really let go, make no mistake, you won’t want to come back from it.”
***
I offered to take Beth home after we all went for a little competitive swim. I hadn’t been as good as I could’ve been because I’d been sidetracked. Seeing Beth’s body move into the water was like an adrenaline rush for me. She walked into the deep ends of the water and dived right in with Rylan, Joel, and Bri.
She was in the passenger side of my car again, humming along to another song on the radio. But I knew that what I’d told her wasn’t too far from her mind. While she was good at controlling how she felt from showing at times, I’d catch glimpses of her deep in thought. Right now, though, she was pretty chill. What made her go from carefree to such self-consciousness so quickly? Was it me? Had some jerk messed her head in some way? Was that why she was here for the summer? To get her mind off of him? If so, I could the rebound guy for her. I’d used enough girls that letting Beth use me was only fair.
As another song ended and I drove into the garage to park, her music high was coming down. She angled her head to the side when the car was off.
“Let’s go out this Saturday. Celebrate your first days at the Paloma.”
“I can get on board with that.”
***
Bethany
“That’s the face I had after the new-hire orientation,” Pierce said as he tipped his chin and took a seat across from me. Pierce’s sudden appearance was just what I needed to not think about Chase during my last break before the end of the day.
This morning, Pierce and Chase had been in the kitchen having coffee with Aunt Deborah and Nancy. Uncle Anton had to be in Miami to see the progress of the new hotel he was building. He’d been preoccupied. Cassidy had told me that she’d drive me on my first day of work, but I’d heard her snoring when I knocked on her door. There was no way that I was going to interrupt her sleep. I thought she’d had an ongoing roll in the hay with this guy she’d danced with at the party three days ago. Since the party, she’d only come to the Pruitts’ to bathe and change clothes. Both Chase and Pierce had offered to drive me, and I had decided to go with Pierce. Chase’s expressive hazel eyes searched mine and I saw a little bit of longing in them. It’d been difficult for me to look at him without thinking about how his lips tasted or how strong the planes of his face had felt in my hands.
I sighed. “Mrs. Clark explained everything well, so it’s not overwhelming.”
Pierce took a seat across from me. “Yeah, she runs a tight ship. Everything is in compliance with local and federal laws on her end. And we’ve had few infractions due to Claude’s Energizer bunny finesse.”
I smiled. “I know! It’s like he’s everywhere at once.”
Claude chose that exact moment to open the door and make an entrance into the break room. He was an average-height man with black hair that was cut to this skin. He had sharp coffee-brown eyes and wore a light gray suit that looked custom made for his stout build. He blew me an air kiss. Upon meeting him, I instantly liked him.
“You called?” He arched his brow at Pierce, who stood up.
“It seems like I did,” Pierce said. He hauled himself up. “Family dinner is at 7 p.m.”
I nodded and he trotted out of the break room.
***
