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I lowered my lashes, trying to hide the flood of color I could feel rising in my cheeks.
Penny stubbornly crossed her arms. “You always say I have to even though I hate when it feels sticky.”
Wyatt swallowed hard and nodded.
“Would you mind?” I looked over my shoulder at him.
He looked around, searching for the discarded bottle of sunscreen. “Yeah.” He cleared his throat, and I hid a smile. “Of course.”
Satisfied that she wasn’t the only one being tortured with sunscreen, Penny walked back toward the hole she’d been digging in the sand.
Wyatt squirted a dollop of sunscreen on his hands and rubbed them together. I wiggled on the towel, mostly to inch a little closer to him but also to help ease the ache that pooled between my legs.
Jesus, he smells good—like sun and sand and spicy man cologne.
Nothing more had happened between Wyatt and me, but the memory of that one kiss was seared into my mind. His hands hovered over my shoulders for a fraction of a second before his wide palms smoothed over me. Warm and rough, his hands made slow work of moving down the slopes of my shoulders, up the back of my neck, and across my shoulder blades.
Despite the summer sun, goose bumps erupted on my skin. When I thought he was done, he squirted another blob of sunscreen on his hands and moved lower, smoothing lotion over the rest of my back.
I looked at him over my shoulder. “Very thorough,” I teased.
His hands moved slowly up my back. His fingers toyed with the slim strap forming an X across my shoulder blades, dipping beneath them and tracing over every inch of exposed skin.
“I like to be thorough.”
Oh, hell. I’m sure you do.
I pressed my knees together and hugged them. We were surrounded by families, and his kid was only feet away, but all I could think about was him hovering over me and pressing me into the warm sand as he covered my mouth with his. My nipples hardened to needy little points.
I wanted to see just how thorough he could be.
I had opened my mouth to speak when a volleyball inelegantly plopped beside me, sending little grains of sand flying up. The rowdy laughter of Kevin and Michael broke the spell, and Wyatt hopped to his feet.
I also stood and shook out my towel before stuffing it into my beach bag. I had to go. There was no way I could sit with him, with myboss, on the beach and not think about naughty, delicious things I wish he would do to me. It was better to keep my distance.
Flustered, I threw my bag over my shoulder. “Okay, well, I think I am going to go after all.”
Wyatt frowned again, and I turned from him to power walk toward the car.
“Hey, Lark.”
I stopped and turned toward him.
“Tootie is having everyone over for dinner tonight. She asked me to see if you’re free.”
I glanced at my watch.
As if I have anything else to do.
“Yeah, sure. I can make that work.”
“I’ll drive.” Wyatt flashed a rare grin, and I nearly melted in a gooey puddle right there.
16
WYATT
I checkedmy hair for the seventeenth time and cursed myself for feeling nervous.
