Page 84 of Tempting Me

“Did she tell you to say that, or are you speaking from experience?”

The latter.

She moves to the couch and sits.

“I don’t think my family thinks I can turn The Marina around. No, I know they don’t. My parents are still thinking about selling it.”

“What?”

I join her on the couch, our knees touching. “When?”

“They haven’t made an official decision, but this summer is pretty much the last chance it has. ThatIhave.”

“ Why didn’t you say something sooner?”

“I—” She cuts herself off and shakes her head with a firm smile. “It’s not something I like to talk about.”

She looks away quickly, tucking a loose hair behind her left ear. “How’s the construction business going?”

How's the construction business going?

Is she for real right now?

I study her for a moment. She looks everywhere but at me.

She’s not telling me something.

I want to ask her about it right now, but this is all new for us.

What’s overstepping and what isn’t?

“Business is good. Would have been better if you had hired me from the start.”

She nods. “Agreed.”

And then she looks at my lips while biting her lower one, and I can’t do this small talk anymore.

I lean in to kiss her.

Shay doesn’t just kiss me back—she crawls into my lap.

She straddles me, so I take full advantage and run my hands up her bare thighs until I reach her ass and give it a squeeze.

My dick grows immediately in my jeans, ready to pop the zipper like some teenager who has a girl in his lap for the first time.

Last night I had her against me in the water, and that was nice, but this right here, with nothing is between us, is killing me.

I love it.

She starts to grind her hips against me.

“Up,” I command, and her body moves as if I’m pressing a button.

I flick the button of her shorts open and then tug.

“Take these off.”

She climbs off me to do what I said, one hand holding onto my shoulder for balance.

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