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“Why justtrying?”
“I don’t know,” I admitted. “I’m not sure.” I blew out a sigh, and pulled my hand from his, cupping it in my own to calm the tingles. “I guess I said it as if it were some simple thing, that I’ve mastered. I just… I remembered you telling me that, in a perfect world, you’d want to play basketball. Do you remember that?”
A grin spread over his face as he nodded. “I do. We had to keep up with the American teams, watch the games, all that. We had to know the trivia.”
“And youlovedit. So…?”
“Dee… I’m too old to be a basketball player now,” he laughed.
“I knowthat,” I giggled. “I’m just saying… maybe you could be like, a kids’ coach or something. Be a mentor. Hell, play some pickup games at the park. I bet you haven’t even donethat, have you?”
His silence spoke volumes. And just when I was about to be smug about it, he sat forward, pinning me with another weighty gaze. “I guess I don’t have to ask if you’ve been swimming, huh?”
I closed my eyes.
I forgot he knew about that—about that fear I’d held of water.
“Is that why you thought I was drowning myself?” I asked, shaking my head. “You thought I’d use my fear to destroy me?”
“It’s exactly the kind of poignant thing I’d expect from you.”
I smiled, pointing my gaze up at the sky, where about a million stars had burst, breaking up the midnight-blue canvas.
“Come on. Let’s go inside.”
I didn’t wait on a response from him—I just went, knowing he would follow. Really, I had no clue what I was doing, or why my brain had gone there, but I headed straight across the villa for the patio doors that would let us out to the other side.
I had spent no time out here yet, but it was beautiful. Big planters lined either side of the deck, creating privacy from the other bungalows and forcing the view out to the lagoon. During the day, the pergola and white fabric shades offered coolness and protection from the sun.
Now though, the moon reflecting off the lagoon made them an ethereal blue-green, and it was… romantic.
Why the hell did I bring him out here?
I turned around, intending to redirect our path back inside, but Zay had already stepped out onto the deck with me.
Blocking the door.
“Have you tried it out yet?” he asked, gesturing to something over my shoulder.
“Huh?”
“The pool.”
I turned around, and my gaze fell on the tiny private pool he was referring to – one of the selling points of getting one of the larger villas, actually, but…
“No,” I answered. “I haven’t.”
He raised an eyebrow. “Not as over the fear as you thought?”
“I am.”
“Okay then… let’s swim.”
Before I could even react to that, he was already taking his clothes off.
I couldn’t do anything but watch.
I expected him to stop at his boxers or something, but no—he stripped to nothing, and then climbed his beautiful, naked ass into my pool like he belonged.
