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“Lights are on out back. He never leaves them on unless he’s out there.”
Kelsie faced the house. “Thanks.” If she knocked and he didn’t answer because he was in the backyard, she’d have probably left.
And cried.
“Here goes nothing,” she whispered as she opened the door and slid down from Spec’s tall truck.
“Give ’im hell,” Spec said while Liv just grinned.
Her pulse fluttered in her neck, making her lightheaded and almost giddy with nerves and anticipation. The second she slammed the truck’s door shut, Spec pulled away. Now, she couldn’t hop back in and chicken out.
She tried not to let her gait show how wobbly her legs felt as she walked around the well-lit side of Ty’s house on the stone path. The gate creaked when she pushed it open, making her wince—so much for the element of surprise. She’d be lucky if he didn’t greet her with a gun like last time.
“Someone there?” Ty called as she shut the gate with another screech. The damn thing needed some oil STAT.
“Asked you a fucking question,” Ty yelled.
“Um, it’s me,” she hollered back. “Uh, Kelsie. Okay, if I come back?”
“Kelsie? Shit. Fuck. Yeah, I didn’t mean to shout at you. Come on back.”
She smiled, and his deep and confident voice washed over her. Though her nerves hadn’t dissipated, she relaxed a fraction. Being in his presence gave her a sense of safety she didn’t have in any other circumstance, and she loved it.
She rounded the back of his house and found him smoking on a round, cushioned daybed. He hadn’t bothered with a shirt and wore a pair of lightweight gray sweats on the bottom. A white stream of smoke danced upward from the end of his cigarette—nope, that was a joint.
Interesting.
“Everything okay?” he asked, sitting straight and on alert.
She drank in the sight of him shirtless and sexy as hell. After not seeing him for days, she couldn’t keep her gaze from raking over his body from top to bottom. Those tattoos, the muscles, God, he was the whole damn package. “You’re so tan,” she blurted.
He grinned, making him even more appealing. “I did a shit lot of surfing.”
Kelsie shivered. The sun-kissed tint looked damn good on him.
“You ever been surfing?” He brought the joint to his lips and inhaled.
Kelsie tracked the movement, noting the way his lips wrapped around it as he sucked.
Her nipples perked to attention.
“No, never.”
“I’ll have to teach you.”
“Yes!” The word came out so fast and loud that she winced. “I mean, yeah, that’d be nice.”
“What are you doing here?”
Ahh, what a question. One she probably should have planned an answer to before she arrived.
“Um, I haven’t seen you in days, and you ignored me tonight.”
Ugh, too needy.
Ty sighed. He took another drag of his joint and said, “Let me get rid of this, and we can talk.”
Shaking her head, she walked toward him. “Don’t. It doesn’t bother me.”
