“I’ve legs, Landon,” I protest as he wades by means of shallower water to return to the seashore.

He gasps dramatically. “I had no concept these had been legs; I assumed I used to be holding onto a tail.”

Landon’s phrases are sufficient to ship me right into a match of laughter, loud sufficient to draw the opposite guys’ consideration from their soccer recreation. I’m acutely conscious that Sebastian’s looking at me—nicely, not me. My ass is hanging within the air for all to see due to the best way I’m slung over Landon’s shoulder. Perhaps this wasn’t the proper swimsuit to put on at this time.

“Are you able to please put me down?” I ask, tapping his again to get his consideration. It’s not precisely probably the most snug place for me to be in.

“No, I feel I like carrying you. Don’t you realize you may’t put a fish on dry land?”

I pinch him sharply. “Not a fish; I’m a mermaid.”

“Ouch, that harm,” Landon complains however units me down on the bottom.

I arise straight, my head somewhat dizzy from hanging the other way up, to seek out the remainder of the group looking at us. “Was she pretending to be a mermaid once more?” Owen asks with a smile, and I grin again at him.

“After all.”

Jake seems to be at me humorous, whereas Stacey laughs, having heard this story earlier than. That is one thing I did for a very long time as a child. I’m not shocked they didn’t overlook. “Wait, are you guys critical?”

I shrug, feeling chilly now that I’m out of the water. “Oh yeah. I used to faux that I used to be a mermaid after we had been youthful. I nonetheless do typically. It’s best to strive it. Pretending is a enjoyable recreation.” I direct the final half at Sebastian, who solely smiles at me as a substitute of scowling. I’m immediately suspicious as a result of it doesn’t add up. Sebastian is pissed at me, so why is he smiling? Bash takes a step nearer to me, and I can’t imagine I forgot as a result of he’s been doing this for years. I take an equal step again and take a look at Landon pleadingly for assist. “Cease him.”

I don’t get to say anymore earlier than I take off working in the wrong way into the water like it may possibly save me. Sebastian is humoring me, as a result of he ought to have caught me by now. His arms wrap round my torso, pulling me to a cease as I swing my arms violently till Sebastian’s pinned them towards me. “You possibly can’t outrun me. Why even strive?” He teases, lifting me as if I had been fabricated from nothing.

“You don’t have to do that,” I plead, wiggling in his grip to attempt to get free to no avail. “We’re not youngsters anymore.”

Bash continues strolling farther into the water, holding me tight for a wholly totally different purpose than I need. I’ve no alternative however to carry onto him, except I need him to drop me. I watch his gaze drop to my chest, heaving from the exertion I spent working earlier than his eyes meet mine. Truthfully, the quantity of occasions I catch him checking them out, you’d assume I put on a DD as a substitute of a B cup. “You’re proper. We’re not youngsters anymore, little Lia,” he says, conserving his face very near mine. I can virtually see the glints of a whiskey colour from this angle. They’re oddly fascinating, similar to his full lips that aren’t flattened into a glance of distaste for as soon as.

Why is his face getting nearer? I-is he going to kiss me? My respiratory hitches as a result of I don’t assume I’d hate that. It wouldn’t be improper to do it once more.

Then Sebastian smirks, dropping me into the water as I shriek, getting a mouthful of salt water. I come up, sputtering as a result of a minuscule a part of me hoped he would kiss me. I wipe my arms over my face, attempting to maintain the salt from getting in my eyes once I hear Bash’s roaring laughter.

He’s already strolling again to the seashore the place our mates are, and I really feel my anger implode. I actually gave him a fucking therapeutic massage final evening, my apology was ignored, and I rode right here your entire means along with his boner up my ass. Not actually, however that’s inappropriate. He can’t simply examine me out and act like he may kiss me, solely to drop me into the water!

I wade by means of the water, attempting to catch as much as him, however his legs are stupidly lengthy. I attain him the place the water hits my ankles, pushing him ahead. The one purpose he budges is as a result of I’ve caught him off guard. “You’re single-handedly probably the most complicated individual—no, asshole—that I’ve ever met! Penelope says I ought to climb you want a tree, however I feel if I did that, it wouldn’t be to fuck you. I feel it’d be so I may kill you. What would you like from me?” I yell angrily.

Sebastian turns, trying baffled, and I push him once more. “You’ve finished nothing however be an asshole to me since I obtained again. A few of it I most likely deserved, however being thrown within the fucking ocean after you stared at my chest was not known as for.”

“Actually? You’re calling me an asshole once more. I assumed we’d made a lot progress, Thalia.” The sarcasm is dripping from his phrases, and my mood is burning purple scorching. That’s all he took from that? Are you kidding me?

Owen is laughing, and I take a look at him with a murderous look earlier than realizing all the things I simply stated. Oh shit. Even the half about climbing Bash like a tree. What did I simply do? He’s going to seek out out all the things. Not that there’s a lot to inform, however sufficient Owen will nonetheless be mad.

I stroll away earlier than saying anything that would get me or Bash in hassle. Not that I care about getting him in hassle. I care about my brother.

“No matter you simply stated, I don’t assume I wish to know,” Blake says, providing me a towel, which I gladly take. My cheeks are flaming purple, and I don’t assume I can do something to cease them. I simply stated all of that in entrance of everybody.

“You imply you didn’t hear me—”

“Dude, I don’t converse French. No one understood you, except another person right here speaks French,” she says, and I freeze.

“I stated all that in French?” I ask, my coronary heart stopping in my chest. Blake nods, and I seize the water from my bag to rinse the salt from my mouth. “However…”

Curiosity lights up in her amber eyes. “What did you say? I solely caught the phrase asshole, and that’s since you had been yelling.”

“You don’t wish to know,” I say, evident at Sebastian, who’s laughing with Vera and Owen. When his eyes make contact with mine, I don’t again down by trying away.

CHAPTER EIGHT

Thalia

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