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Kensley’s whole body thrilled as the two of them couldn’t keep their eyes off each other while apologizing rather profusely and unnecessarily to each other as well.
“So romantic,” she murmured. “A real meet-cute.”
“You think that’s cute?” Hunter asked beside her.
“Yes, that’s cute.”
“I offered to buy your virginity for millions of dollars—”
“No, that was the very antithesis of a meet-cute,” she said, with a teasing lilt in her voice. “Here they come,” she whispered. “Act normal.”
Kensley was the first to give herself up. But it didn’t matter because Marcy was already halfway in love, and Dash covered the other half. They spent a little time together before they parted ways.
Someone he knew stopped Hunter, so she quickly excused herself and ran off to the closest cotton candy stand.
Her heart nearly fell out of her chest when Hugh Blankshaw, her ex-fiancé, as surreal as that sounded, came up to her.
“Kensley,” Hugh said. “You look amazing, as always.”
“Hugh. Hi. How are you?” Of all the places, did she have to meet him here? She would also have to have been dead not to feel Hunter’s gaze on her, the instant Hugh approached her, even while he listened to the man who was talking to him.
“I’m good. I see you with McLeod now.”
“It’s not… Yes,” she said instead. “It’s good seeing you. I should go.”
Hugh reached out and gripped her arm. As if she were connected to him on some celestial plane, she felt Hunter’s blood reaching incinerating levels through her own veins.
“Kensley, please listen to me. He’s a dangerous man. A bad man. If he hasn’t touched you already, he’ll do so in a way that will change you and take away all your innocence. Fuck, Kensley, he’s connected to some of the most dangerous men on the planet. You should be afraid of him. Get away from him immediately.” Hugh spoke harshly and quickly, aware that Hunter was already coming toward them, his stride eating up the distance in no time. Hugh said some other things, but she barely registered them. Her main aim was for him to unhand her before Hunter got there.
She didn’t want to start anything. Not that she was worried for Hunter coming out worse for wear, but she was genuinely and innately afraid that Hugh would be the one demolished.
She had just escaped his grasp when Hunter got to them.
“McLeod,” Hugh said as Hunter pulled her into his side, his arm possessively wrapped around her waist.
Hunter neither acknowledged nor returned the greeting, and Kensley was forced to lay her hand over his chest and direct him away from the man.
“What did he say to you?” Hunter asked, his jaw tightly clenched.
“He said you're a dangerous man,” she said, keeping her tone light. “That I should stay away from you,” she added, as they walked past a few stalls down to the shimmering sun-lit lake. For a moment, just walking beside him under a striking summer sky, her body tingling continuously from his sexy, manly nearness, a wave of tantalizing happiness washed over her.
There had to be something wrong with her, considering Hugh had just warned her to stay away from Hunter.
“He said you were bad news,” she added, poking the bear for reasons she couldn’t understand.
She gasped as Hunter grabbed her around the waist and pinned her flush against a tree they had come upon in a secluded area away from everything and everyone else.
She bit her lip as he pressed into her.
“What else did he say?” He asked gruffly, his gaze centering around her mouth.
“That you’ll change me. That you’ll touch me in ways that aren’t… normal. That you’ll want me in ways that are deviant... abnormal.”
She swallowed as Hunter curled his hand around her throat. His lips were inches away from hers.
“He told me to be very afraid of you.”
He lifted his head a little away from her to stare directly into her eyes.
