He laughed. “You’d assume that manner wouldn’t you. No. Most individuals don’t, or most individuals preserve issues easy or don’t take any possibilities. I really feel like your total life has been that manner.”

“Mine? I’ve labored with a person who was like a father to me since I used to be an adolescent and continued to work with him as an grownup. I don’t see how that’s taking possibilities. When you, you got here and labored for a person that was the precise reverse of you, or at the very least appeared to be. Ranging from the underside you labored your manner as much as being the producer and proprietor of the present. Discuss taking dangers.”

“Calculated. I knew what I used to be doing,” Jason mentioned

I gave him a sideways look. “Actually? Each single time?”

He laughed. “Okay, I knew what I wished the top outcome to be. I wished to be in cost, I wished to work with my father every single day and I acquired to try this. However it got here with exhausting work and dedication, not simply going by the seat of my pants and seeing what would work.”

“Perhaps it is best to strive it someday.”

I leaned nearer to him as I spoke. I used to be enjoying with hearth; I used to be testing him and myself. I wished to see what he would do if I got here nearer to him, if I made him assume that I wished to kiss him. I wished him to kiss me. We had been enjoying round one another for days now and I both wished him to kiss me or we would have liked to maneuver previous this.

“Attempt what?” He moved just a little nearer to me. His eyes darted from my eyes to my lips and again once more. I licked my lips in anticipation considering for certain he would kiss me.

“No matter you need. Be just a little reckless. Have just a little enjoyable. You by no means know what would possibly occur. You can discover that you simply prefer it.”

“Would you?” he requested.

“Would I like what?”

“Prefer it if I used to be just a little reckless, if I attempted one thing that possibly I shouldn’t to see the way it works out.”

“I would love that very a lot,”

My eyes locked on his lips and I watched as he gave me a gradual smile. He moved just a little bit nearer to me and I leaned in the direction of him. I couldn’t consider that I used to be about to kiss a person that two weeks in the past I couldn’t stand being in the identical room with. My breath caught in my throat as I waited for him to press his lips towards mine. I questioned how good of a kisser he could be and marveled that I used to be about to seek out out.

“Good. Final one within the water is a rotten egg!” Jason referred to as and ran in the direction of the water.

It took me a minute to grasp what he was saying and the place he had gone. One second, he was inches from me and the subsequent he was operating in the direction of the water. I didn’t really assume he would go into the water however as he acquired nearer to the water’s edge and didn’t present any signal of stopping, I assumed he would possibly.

Proper earlier than he acquired into the water, I yelled, “I assume I’m the rotten egg!”

He stopped inches from the water and turned to have a look at me. He shook his head and slowly walked again to me. As he did, he saved his eyes on mine and there was a lot need and want trying again my coronary heart skipped a beat. I stood in place as he got here and stopped proper in entrance of me. I didn’t transfer, I hardly breathed as I waited to listen to what he would say or what he would not.

“You proceed to amaze and shock me with who you might be and what you are able to do. I by no means would have thought you’d give in so simply,” he mentioned.

“I wasn’t giving in. It was understanding what I might do and what I couldn’t. Technically, you haven’t gotten within the water but both, I might journey you and make it to the water and win. Perhaps that was my plan all alongside.”

“Was it?” he requested and moved nearer. He positioned his fingers on my hips and I felt his contact all through my physique.

“No. It wasn’t. Was it yours?”

“Natalie, I’ve many plans for you. Plenty of fantastic and thrilling plans for you, for us. You’ll simply have to attend and see what they’re.” His voice barely above a whisper. He didn’t say something extra however walked previous me and to the automobile.

It took me a minute however I adopted behind him and we drove off and to the lone cypress tree. Probably the most well-known tree in all of Monterey and the brand for the 17-mile drive. His phrases, his look, the reminiscence of him standing so near me lingered behind my thoughts. He didn’t say something extra about it, however he saved me, the best way he at all times did. As if he was making an attempt to determine me out or he had and he preferred what he was seeing. The appears advised me that he positively had a plan for me and I couldn’t wait to see what it was.

Chapter 14

Jason

“Two drinks in two days? Ought to I be nervous?” Natalie requested as we sat down at a desk at The Monterey Brewery.

It was late within the afternoon and we had come again to the lodge, dropped off our stuff and headed to a brewery close to the lodge for a drink and a few dinner. I used to be the one who instructed the brewery as I wanted a drink. Between Natalie, the diving, then the 17-mile drive, and most particularly virtually kissing her whereas we had been on the seaside, I wanted a drink. I used to be certain that Natalie wanted one too. I figured each of us might use the prospect to sit down again, have a pleasant drink, some good meals, and overlook about all the pieces for some time.

After the day we had, how we had been with one another, how we had been opening up and speaking to one another, and the way she had teased me about kissing her, I knew it was solely a matter of time earlier than we slept collectively. It wasn’t a query of if however when.

“I’ve been identified to have a drink. Not typically however after I do I desire a beer. A pleasant IPA or stout if the scenario requires it. It isn’t typically I get to a bar that was why I had the rusty nail the opposite evening.”

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