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“It’s an invitation for lines to become blurry and that’s not how I work.”
She shrugs, and a smile so blinding finds her face it makes an unfamiliar feeling spread through my chest.Shit, she is gorgeous.“I don’t think any lines will get blurry.” I put a hand over my eyes and rub my forehead trying to figure out how to be clearer and also to break whatever spell she’s just cast over me by smiling at me like that. “Why won’t you look at me?”
“Well, for one, because of how you’re dressed.”
She looks down at herself and then back up at me. “What’s wrong with how I’m dressed?”
I shoot her a glare. “Don’t.”
She frowns, lowering her eyebrows and pursing her lips. “I’m in my bedroom, in my house, that I pay for. I can dress however I like.”
“True, but if you’re going to summon me here to kill a spider the size of your pinky nail, put on some clothes.” She scowls at me and I resist the urge to let a chuckle fall from my lips. “Shay—”
“I’ve seen the way you look at me, you know,” she blurts out and I freeze.
“What? I’m not looking at you in any way that’s inappropriate.” I don’t know what she’s seen. I do my very best not to let my eyes linger on her too long or to stare at her with anything but my blank, vacant expression I use while on duty.
“A woman knows when a man is looking at her.” She looks up at me through those full lashes and I know at this moment I have to resign. She’s too fucking tempting. All I want is to sink my teeth into her and bend her over every surface in this room.
I’ll wait until next week to resign so that she doesn’t think it’s in direct relation to this. At the end of the day, I don’t want her to be embarrassed for something I feel just as strongly about as she does. I’ll sit her and her parents down and thank them for the opportunity and offer to help them find my replacement but tell them I ultimately need to step away. I’ll make up something that won’t hurt her feelings. I’ll tell them I’m going back overseas. They’ll never know. But I can’t keep being her bodyguard. I want her too fucking much, and clearly, she wants me too.
Next week, I’ll be done.
The next day, Shay Eastwood lost both of her parents.
Present Day
That day still haunts me. I had to be the one to tell her because news reports got leaked before the police could even get to her, and the last thing I wanted was for the internet to tell her that her parents were dead. I get up from the bench and make my way toward her heated pool. The lights on her pool are always on and I walk around it once. I had planned to quit, but there was no way I could leave her then. Not when her whole life changed in the blink of an eye and she felt like I was one of the few people she could depend on.
There was an instance or two that she’d tried again that I know stemmed from grief given that one of the times was the day of their funerals, but after that, she stopped. Things were polite and appropriate and then she met Paxton which seemed to also halt my feelings as well. She seemed happy and I couldn’t have her, so I forced myself not to look at her. Not to think about her. Not to touch my dick to thoughts of her riding me. I stopped all of it.As much as I could.But now she’s single again and she’s older and stronger…andstill off limits.
My thoughts are interrupted by her voice. “I thought you had things to do?” The sound of her flip-flops scraping against the pavement comes closer as she drops her towel down on the chair next to where I’m sitting. She’s wearing a crocheted bathing suit cover-up and I can see scraps of red beneath it and the strings tied around her neck. Her hair is pulled into a sleek bun at the top of her head and though it’s dark, the light from the pool allows me to see that her face is free from makeup.
Fuck me.If I see this girl in a red bikini right now, I will want to gauge my own eyes out. Her bathing suits rarely have any coverage over her ass and even less over what I assume to be very round and very perfect C-cup tits. “I don’t blame you, my pool is pretty nice.” She pulls her cover up over her head and tosses it to the chair.
Fuck.I try to remain unfazed but her bathing suit leaves very little to the imagination.
The throb in my dick has me shifting in my seat to relieve the ache. I’m trying to keep my gaze just on her face and not let it focus on her body, but it’s hard to miss. Hard to miss the tiny triangles that cover her tits or the even tinier one between her legs. “You’ve had a little bit to drink tonight; you sure you should be getting in the water?”
She looks at me as if to say,seriously?“Well, I guess it’s a good thing my lifeguard is on duty.” She heads towards the water and I stifle a groan when she turns around and I see that her bikini bottoms are a thong style highlighting her perfect ass.
“Isn’t Veronica coming?”
“She has a phone.” She giggles. “And a way into my house for that matter.”
I glare at her. “The main gate is one thing, but I told you not to share the code to the house with anyone.”
“It’s V.”
“I don’t care. I said no one. I’m changing it again,” I bark at her, already planning for what the new six digit code will be and I’m grateful for this new irritation so I can stop focusing on how bad I want to run my hands over her gorgeous curves.
“You think I can’t trust V?” She’s wading through the water slowly, the ripples barely grazing her breasts and my gaze flits back to them. She cocks her head to the side and gives me an innocent look that has my previous irritation melting away.
Don’t look at her tits.
“I think if she’s coming into the house intoxicated with Derek, she won’t have enough discretion to not let him see what she’s typing in, and I am not around Derek enough to know whether I trust him or not.”
She huffs. “Fine. Make it something easy for me to remember though.”
