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“I’m scared of the ocean, okay?” Clara sighs and throws her head back to declare it to the sky. “It’s big, and it’s… it’s… blue, and it’s… it’sso big.”
“You’re pretty good at handling big things,” I tease her.
She narrows her eyes at me. “You know what I mean.”
“No, I really don’t.” I rub her back, hoping it will soothe her nerves. “Talk to me. Walk me through it.”
Clara sighs. “I can handle big crowds. Strangers. New experiences in general. I just… look at that. That’s not just water. That’s… that’s our whole planet. That ocean is literally all that stands between us, here right now, and any given continent. It’s like… if I step into that water, I’m stepping into the same water someone else is swimming in over in Peru. Or Australia. And that’s not even getting into the vast nothingness between this tiny island and North America. My home. Nothingness that we don’t know what it actually contains. What’s down there. What could be lurking right where I’m swimming.”
I can’t stop my brow from lifting. “You really gave this some thought.”
“I didn’t sleep much last night.” She smiles sheepishly and toes the sand. “I probably sound crazy.”
“Not at all.”
“Really?”
I nod. “It makes sense. But you know there’s only one thing we can do to get you over this fear so you can live a little.”
Clara scrunches her brow. “What’s that?”
“Something like…this.”
Our surfboards drop to the sand when I suddenly scoop her up around her waist, throw her over my shoulder, and run for the waves. Her shrieks of surprise and laughter spur me on until we crash into the gently rolling tide. I have a firm grip on her ass just so she won’t fall, but I’m only human, so I can’t resist giving it a good smack and squeeze as I spin her around and tread for deeper water.
“Demyen! Put me down!” I pretend not to hear her and just keep wading through the water. “Dem!”
Finally, I let her down—but only by sliding her down my chest until she’s standing in the ocean with me. But now that she’s here, this close, this tangible…
“What?” She laughs and blinks sea spray from her lashes.
I didn’t realize I was staring. “Nothing. You’re just…”
Beautiful. Breathtaking.
Unbelievably perfect.
“You’re a lot heavier than you look.”
Clara gasps playfully and splashes me. “Excuseyou!”
I scoop her up again just to throw her into the waves, which makes her face widen into a shocked expression that has me doubled over laughing.
Does she truly not know how fucking wonderful she is?
“Sorry, my bad,” I casually announce as she splashes and sputters back over to me. “You’re actually the perfect weight.”
“Oh?” She grins and slicks her wet hair back from her face. “For what?”
“This.”
This time, when I pick her up, it’s underneath her thighs, hoisting her up with ease until her legs wrap around my waist and her arms around my neck. My hands wander beneath her bikini to grip her ass, and she doesn’t complain one bit.
Probably because her mouth is too busy being devoured by mine. The salty-sweet of her lips paired with the innocent flick of her tongue drives me wild, and I’m more than happy to float us both in the water forever like this if it means I can continue to taste her. Enjoy her. Drown myself in her.
“Dem?” Clara breathes softly, somewhat panting. “Weren’t we supposed to be surfing?”
“Hmm?” I have to pull myself from the haze of her sweet seduction to remember what she’s talking about. “Ah, right. If you insist.”
