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And then grinned at me.
“Come on in, Dee. The water’s nice.”
I swallowed.
Hard.
“I’m gonna grab a bathing suit,” I said, knowing exactly how ridiculous it sounded.
With his arms propped up on the side of the pool, Zay shrugged. “Whatever makes you feel most comfortable.”
Shit.
When he put it that way, it made me wonder if getting a bathing suit, instead of just stripping, was…childish. Which, the opportunity to revel in, and outgrow that quality had been taken from me, so if itwaschildish, maybe I was within my rights.
But… the longer I stood there, wrestling internally with the choice, the less comfortable I became with the idea of… leaning on comfort.
And before I could talk myself out of it… I stripped too.
Whilehewatched.
I got my ass in that water for alittlecamouflage as fast as I could, but still… it was a step, right?
Now if I could just go to the other side of the pool now, where Isaiah was waiting for me.
Maybe.
Waiting to do…what?
There wasn’t time to think about it really, because he took it upon himself to come to me when I didn’t go to him. Before I could put up any kind of resistance, his arms were around me, holding me close in the balmy water.
“What are we doing right now?” I asked, forcing myself to meet his eyes. “What is the purpose of this?”
“You invited me inside,” he countered. “We can do whatever you want.”
“What if I don’t know what I want?”
“What if you do?” He shrugged. “What if you knowexactlywhat you want, but… it’s wrong of you? But you want it anyway?”
“Who says it’s wrong?”
He smirked, and his hands dropped, skimming my skin under the water. “Your sister, for one,” he said, fingers pressing into my hips as he pulled me against him. Even under water, I could feel how hard he was, and in that moment, I was confident that if this were any other man, that would’ve repulsed me.
Because it was Isaiah, I maneuvered a hand between us, to grab him, and squeeze. “She’s not here right now though, is she?”
“Fuck,” he whispered, and then his fingers were in my hair, holding me in place as his mouth crashed into mine. Like the first kiss, the world stopped, but this time, there was nothing reserved about the way he devoured me, like I was some long-lost treasure of his.
Like I…belongedto him.
And shit… maybe I did.
It was the only semi-logical explanation for how easily I simply melted into him, not just comfortable in this sudden ramping up between us, butcomfortedby it. With one of his hands gripping my ass, his other fingers grasping the back of my neck, his dick hard against my stomach, and his tongue in my mouth, I felt more grounded, much morealivethan I had since… I wasn’t sure when.
Maybe never.
It didn’t matter.
What mattered was that I wasn’t some ruined doll who’d been used and abused too much to be valued. I hadn’t realized how badly I needed that assurance, thatcertainty, until right in this moment, and… maybe this wasn’t even about that.
