“How dare you speak to my buddy like that,” Lucy says in mock anger. She stands up and pulls Marilee to her toes, and my eyes can’t assist however linger for a second on her highly effective legs in these jean shorts once more. Her excessive ponytail swings over her shoulders which are each delicate and toned on the identical time.

Marilee, for her half, is laughing, good-naturedly accepting Jordan’s teasing. “Tremendous, superb. I’ll play.”

“Let’s present them who’s boss,” Lucy says as she begins to pull Mare away. Then she seems again at me and Jordan. “Coming, boys?”

There’s a glint in her eyes, the way in which she’s beckoning me—commanding me—with a single look that makes her simply concerning the sexiest girl I’ve ever seen. No approach I’m turning down that problem. I crack my knuckles. “Guess it’s as much as me to take you down.”

“Oh, you assume so?” Now Lucy’s rounding, stepping proper again as much as me, and we’re toe to toe within the sand. It jogs my memory of when she cornered me in my meals truck a month in the past—again after we have been enemies.

How a lot has modified.

There’s all the time been a cost between us, however now it’s crackling like lightning that is aware of it’s about to be launched. The power is palpable, thrilling.

Full of chance.

And I crave it. I wish to pour it into my veins and explode. Lucy does that to me.

I decrease my face so it’s inside just a few inches of hers. “I do know so.”

She lifts on her tiptoes and locations her palms towards my chest—and a bunch of tiny explosions start. I can hardly stand one other second with out kissing this girl. The phrases I’ve wished to talk to her for the final two days practically fall from my unfastened lips.

Her personal lips practically skim the shell of my ear as she whispers, “I’d wish to see you attempt to take me down.”

And that’s it. No approach can I am going stand on a volleyball court docket and faux like all I would like is to flirt together with her from afar. I would like a lot extra with Lucy.

My palms fall to her waist, and it’s my flip to whisper one thing to her. “Problem accepted.” And with that, I press the tiniest of kisses to her earlobe.

She gasps, and the sound solely reassures me that that is good, and proper, and actual.

Regardless that I’m totally current on this second together with her, I sense the gaze of others, beginning with Jordan and Marilee. One look at them reveals they’re frozen, watching us with huge eyes.

Grinning, I seize Lucy’s hand. “You guys are going to must excuse us for a minute. We’ll be proper again.” Although I truly hope not.

Earlier than they’ll say something, I tug Lucy away, towards the cliffs abutting the seashore simply north of the inn.

“Blake,” she hisses. However she retains trailing me.

I cease and switch, taking the chance to not simply grasp her hand, however entwine each different finger of mine with hers. “Sunshine, for those who don’t wish to include me, I perceive. However I would like to speak to you. So…please?”

She bites that lip I’m dying to kiss once more, and nods. Behind her, the solar is sitting on the horizon, making ready for one more wonderful sundown. The Hallmark Seashore gossips are most likely watching, having a subject day with the way in which we’re sneaking away. However I don’t care about them.

I solely care about her.

What an odd and new sensation. If I’m not cautious, I’d hand over every little thing for this girl. I can’t fairly try this—in any case, I’m nonetheless the logical Blake I’ve all the time been, and I nonetheless have Dad’s phrases in my ear. However not can I faux like these desires of nebulous “success” are sufficient both.

I wish to see if it’s potential to have each.

Need to see if Lucy is prepared to strive.

Lastly, we attain the sandstone cliffs, the place we’d discover a excellent overlook for the approaching sundown if we climbed to the highest. However I don’t wish to be up there for the world to see—each the group gathered on the seashore and anybody who occurs to be on the marina simply north of right here.

I desire a world that’s made up of simply me and Lucy.

So I steer us straight for an outcropping within the reddish brown rocks, the place the solar’s rays solely peek between, the place the sand is darkish and funky, the place the air is damp. After we get there, tucked away from everybody else, even the sound of the ocean is muffled as I flip Lucy to face me, urgent her gently again towards the wall.

There’s sufficient mild that I nonetheless see each certainly one of her excellent options. The bumps in her hair from the place she threw it up in a rubber band. The slight upturn of her nostril. The freckle on the nook of her mouth. The way in which she’s biting her lip, like she desires to talk however isn’t positive what to say.

And the questions in these eyes that I as soon as thought have been icy blue however have since come to consider as Lucy Blue. Wholly, completely belonging to her and solely her.

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