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“What?”
She looks away. “Oh, nothing.”
“Not nothing,” I challenge.
“I was just wondering if he knows about you guys?”
“You guys?”
“You know I saw you this morning, right?”
A smile slowly moves across my lips. “Ah. That.”
“Best friend’s girl,” she says sarcastically, shaking her head in disbelief.
“What if I told you he knows?” I ask, and her mouth drops. “It was his idea.”
“Mia,” she breathes. “I don’t know whether to be surprised or impressed. They say you always have to look out for the quiet ones.”
“She’s not that quiet,” I reply. I realize she’s still holding the cigarette, and I slide my hand down her arm, and across her fingers until I can take it from her. I swear I hear her breath catch.
“Well, that’s hot,” she says with a smile.
“Yeah, it can be. Especially when we’re working outside.”
She glances back over at me. “Huh?”
“The renovations on the boat. Mia’s my interior designer. Nick comes over when I need an extra hand.” I narrow my eyes at her. “Why? What were you thinking?”
She smiles and looks away. “You’re an asshole.”
“You’re not wrong.”
“For a minute there, I thought you were interesting,” she confesses.
“I am. And what’s even more interesting, is your interest in who spends time on my boat.”
She shakes her head and starts walking toward Mia. “Don’t get me confused,” she shouts back. “I’m just here for the tea.”
“Nick,” Mia drawls playfully, walking backward into the water, beckoning him to follow with a curl of her finger. “Come swim with me.”
Nick shakes his head. “Nope. Sharks feed at night.”
She turns her attention to Ivy. “You,” she says, pulling her shirt over her head. “Get naked with me, and come frolic in the fairy sea.” Her brunette hair falls across the tops of her pink satin demi cup bra, her hands sliding lower to pop the button on her shorts.
“Seriously?” Ivy questions. Nick mouths the wordsharks, shaking his head.
Ivy glances back toward me, and I stop breathing. Eventhough I don’t know her well, I know afuck-itlook when I see one.
“Fine,” she says finally. She holds my gaze as she pulls her Sandbar tank over her head and tosses it into the sand. In purple lace and sun-kissed skin, she stands barely an arm’s length away from me. “It’s not like some of you haven’t seen me naked already.” Her hands go to the buckle of her studded belt, and her shorts slide down her long, lean legs into the sand. Matching lace panties lie beneath, a shade of purple so dark they’re nearly black.
An amused smile creeps across my lips, my eyes unabashedly devouring every inch of bare skin. Her hair fans out around her in a whirl of purple as she turns, and walks into the luminescent sea.
Mia looks from her to me, and back again. “Okay,” she says. “What did I miss?”
I shake my head. “Nothing. Inside joke.”
“Outside joke, actually,” Ivy clarifies, then leaps into the ocean as a wave rolls through. I watch her path beneath the wave, the stroke of her arms and the kick of her feet stirring a wake of glowing blue. When she emerges on the other side, rings of light radiate from around the motion of her, and I have to remind myself to breathe.
