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“If you’re so sick of me, Nerida, why are you so determined to give me a goddamn heart attack?”
“Because it’s the only way you pay attention to me!” she cried, shooting forward and making me stumble in the sand. “You know as well as I do that there’s something between us. Just admit that you feel it and—”
“I can’t admit something that doesn’t exist.”
For a moment, the world froze.
No air. No waves. No insects chirping.
Just a stagnant pause where we stood glowering at each other, drowning beneath the stinging, electrifying connection I couldn’t stop.
Finally, she nodded.
Her lips twisted. “Doesn’t exist, huh?”
I grunted in shock as she threw herself against me, dove her hands into my unruly sun-bronzed hair, and jerked my head down.
Her lips crashed hotly to mine.
Her breasts crushed firmly against my wet t-shirt.
Her hands yanked at my strands, sending bolts of pain and indescribable need.
It happened so fast, I just stood there.
Stood there as she plastered every part of her to every part of me and dove her tongue deliciously into my mouth.
I convulsed.
A full-body shudder that had nothing to do with the kiss but the girl fucking kissing me.
She was the sea all over again, pulling me under, ripping me from everything I knew.
I drowned in her.
I lost myself in her.
I wanted and wanted and...couldn’t.
I choked on a groan as her tongue licked me again.
And it broke every fucking bone in my desperate fucking body to plant my trembling hands on her ocean-damp shoulders and gently, firmly, excruciatingly push her away from me.
She didn’t fight.
She gave up.
Gave in.
She bowed her head as tears glittered in her gaze.
Heartache etched her every feature.
And I begged every power there was that she wouldn’t see the same heartbreak in mine.
Slowly, ever so slowly, I ducked and grabbed the blue box that she’d dropped in the sand when she’d grabbed me.
Trying to catch a proper breath, I opened the lid and pulled out the necklace with its silver charm.
