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She saw it, too, he was sure of it, because she chuckled, but still, she began work on his leg. “I spent a semester abroad,” she said, “but I’ve been there for a few weeks in the summer, too. A few yearsback.”
“Wow,” said Nolan, genuinely impressed. He didn’t even have a passport. He’d had no need. The most global traveling he’d done was to head over to Disney’s Epcot Center and walk from one country’s pavilion to the next. If seeing the world was anything like making your way through small, square plots of the country’s most famous cultural icons and stereotypes, then he was sure toimpress.
He laughed at his ownjoke.
“What?” asked Lilac, her hands digging soothingly into the muscles above hisknee.
“I was just thinking that the most traveling I’ve done is at Epcot,” hesaid.
Lilac’s hands stopped moving. “We do not speak that name,” she said, then she laughed. “Seriously, though, don’t you get tired of everyone saying Disney is better thanTildy?”
“Itisbetter,” said Nolan without hesitating. “And Universal is, too. Tildy’s just easier to get a job for.” He scrunched his nose as he opened his eyes to look down at her. “Tildy’s even more little-kid-y,” he said, making up a word. But that was exactly how he felt aboutit.
Lilac’s eyes narrowed and she crawled closer to his face, straddling one leg over his torso. All pretense of sunscreen forgotten, she put a hand on his chest and leaned her lips toward his. On instinct more than anything, Nolan raised himself up on his arm slightly and turned his head so his lips could meethers.
She pulled back, though, just as he went in for the kiss. “Traitor,” she whispered, and Nolan wasn’t sure if it was on purpose, but she slid her butt down then, grinding gently but firmly against his hard-on.
Nolan actually groaned—she’d made himgroan, on a public beach of all places—and lay back down against the sand. They’d shifted in all the movement, the towel lost somewhere to the side of them, their bodies catching the last of the day’s sunbeams instead of being trapped beneath the stifling shadow of theumbrella.
He heard the slather and slap of Lilac’s hands together and she started running sunscreen across his torso from where she still sat atop hisbody.
“The right answer was Tildy World is the best damn theme park in the country,” he said, teasing her. He opened one eye to catch her reaction. “Apparently?”
The smug turn of her lips was delectable as she squirted more sunscreen onto her palms. “Wrong again,” she said, rubbing her palms together like she was about to devour him. “But I’ll give partial credit.” She put her hands on his chest and leaned forward again. “It’s the best damn theme park in theworld,” she said, pressing her lips gently towardhis.
“In the world,” repeated Nolan once she’d let go. He couldn’t believe how easily she’d maneuvered him into thatone.
She finished rubbing on his chest and stood, reaching her hand out toward him. “Now show me this damn fine beach before the sun sets and we’ve wasted all this time applyingsunscreen.”
Chuckling, he put his hand in hers, letting her tug at him to get him up but relying more on his own power than hers to bring them both to standing. “Even if it were already completely dark outside, that was no waste, believeme.”
Lilac’s smile then was like sunlightitself.
Chapter Thirteen
Lilac heldthe hotel keycard between her teeth as she shifted her tote bag from one arm to the other and dug through the overnight bag she’d tossed in the backseat of hercar.
“Are you sure you don’t mind?” asked Nolan from behind her. He reached into his swim trunks to pull out a pair of keys. “I can get some cash from my wallet. These beachside hotels cost a bit much, but I can chip in forty or sodollars.”
Lilac glanced over her shoulder to find him cringing. That was only a tiny portion of the hotel cost, but she didn’t care. She’d offered to pay it all. She had her daddy’s charge card for “things to treat herself,” as he’d told her when he’d given it to her when she’d first gone off to college, and he’d never once questioned a charge or accused her of goingoverboard.
Besides, she wasn’t stupid. She’d heard his story and knew the poor guy couldn’t afford to spare much. She pulled the keycard out of her mouth and tossed it in the tote bag as she pulled her cover-up out of the bag. “Keep it,” she said, pulling the long shirt over her head. She should have done that before she’d gone and gotten them a room because several heads had turned when she’d walked into the lobby in her golden bikini. “I offered. Youaccepted.”
Nolan jingled his car keys in his hand absentmindedly. “I know, Ijust…”
“Will your family think it’s weird if you don’t show uptonight?”
“I’ll text Dad,” he said. Despite his clear nervousness, he cracked a smile. “I have condoms in mycar.”
Lilac grinned and rifled more through her bag, bringing out a variety. “You can get those or use one of mine,” she said. “I didn’t know what you’d like, so I cameprepared.”
Nolan’s eyes widened staring at the rows in her hands. Shehadbought enough to bed the entire Miami Dolphins lineup, but she hoped he didn’t think that meant she was the kind of girl to use them all. Not all at onceanyway.
She slipped the condoms back into her bag and took out her sunglasses. The sun was almost gone by now, but the bright red orb glared harshly off the surrounding cars and glass structures. “And I’m on the pill,” she said, “so no worriesthere.”
“Right,” said Nolan, swallowing. “I’ll just grab myshirt—”
Lilac stepped forward and put a hand around his bicep. “The whole point of this is to take clothesoff, not put more clotheson.”
