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“When I look at you?”
“Yes.” Her hair was fanned out around her head in glorious waves. Her cheeks were the color of the last rays of sunshine behind him. And her pillowy lips were temptation personified.
“I see a woman who is smart, compassionate, too beautiful for words. You do this thing to me that is unsettling and intoxicating at the same time.” And no one else had done it before.
“Thing?”
He played with a strand of her hair. “Yeah, you know,thing.” He’d wished for endless summers his whole life. What he wished for now was endless Sophie.
“No one’s ever had a thing for me before.” Her eyes sparkled in pleasure, and he was glad to have been the one to do that.
“You’ve been with some real losers, then.”
She scrunched up her nose. “I’ve always had trouble in that department, but I think you’ve fixed me.”
“You’ve got that backward.” She’d repaired so many broken things inside him…the way he saw himself, his confidence out of the water, his optimism. “You—”
Her finger pressed to his lips. “Shh. Kiss me one more time and let’s leave it at that. You’re a really good kisser.”
“And that’s with my clothes on.” He grabbed her wrist and slid her finger into his mouth for a slow taste up and down.
A visible gulp made its way down her throat. “So you’re saying we should try kissing without any clothes on?”
“Say the word, Sophie.” Oh, the things he wanted to do to her naked body. Things he suspected her past boyfriends might not have done. He shouldn’t. He’d known all along he shouldn’t. But he wasn’t strong enough to fight his desire for her.
“What word would that be?”
He arched a brow. “If I tell you, do you promise to use it?”
She glanced away, and he thought he was going to get shot down. First time that ever happened. But a second later, her gaze hit him with a deadly combination of innocence and sexiness that yanked at every part of his maleness. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to bury himself inside her.
He wanted to… Jesus, he had to stop thinking like anything with her could go beyond the next few days. She deserved so much more than he had to offer.
“Yes,” she whispered.
His lips captured hers in promise. He kissed her until he was sure she knew he’d take good care of her. Until she nudged him and said, “I really need to get back now.”
…
Sophie sat in the very last row watching Zane’s film, but she couldn’t process a darn thing. Yes, she was mesmerized by a giant Zane up on the screen, surfing insane waves and coming out of tubes, or barrels, or whatever they were called, with surf-god sexiness and skill, but all she could really think about was saying the word.
“You are so achingly beautiful,” he’d told her when he’d lifted her off the sand with tenderness and affection. “Tell me you ache to have me inside you and I will.” He’d wrapped his arm around her waist and brought her flush against him, and she’d felt how excited he was. For her.
She’d never thought she’d hear words like that. Never thought someone like him could see her as pretty, yet he’d said so a few times now.
Thinking about her hand in his, his kisses, his touches, reignited the riot of tingles he caused whenever he was near. She ached between her legs, in her breasts, right this very minute, and she hoped no one noticed.
The thought of their bodies intimately connected made it hard to think about anything else. She’d better not have any important conversations this evening. They’d be quashed by her lust for Zane.
It’s more than lust and you know it.
She wiggled her toes in the sand and wrapped her arms around herself. She’d teetered between hot and cold all night. Near the bonfire, warmth spread its reach, but it didn’t quite make it to this last row of plastic chairs. She hadn’t planned on tonight’s cooler temperature and left her sweater in her hotel room.
Take off all your clothes and get on the bed, Sophie. Spread your legs for me.
Apparently hot or cold, she still only had one thing on her mind. Zane had landed himself a permanent spot in the Sophie Chronicles. Even before he kissed her without any clothes on. She giggled.
“Keep your cool, Sophie.”
