Page 118 of The Perfect Spiral
“Well, I guess you’ll be sitting here for the rest of your life then.” I tried to pull my hand out of his, but he tightened his grip and leaned in until his lips were lightly brushing against my ear.
“Admit that you were jealous, baby doll. I wouldn’t blame you.” He kissed my ear and smacked my ass. “Damn, I love your butt.” He lay back down and waited for me to say it.
I was stubborn, and he knew that I wasn’t going to admit it. Not by a long shot. Then it clicked, remembering what Andy said during our girl talk.
He must’ve been jealous of Caleb then. I smirked to myself and leaned into his ear, causing him to tense slightly.
“If you touch me like that again, I’ll have to bring you to the hospital to get my foot removed from your ass... I’ll admit it when you admit you were jealous of Caleb on New Year’s.”
I sealed the statement with a kiss on the lower part of his ear, making him groan. Andy taught me well. I can tease when I want to tease. My powers are being put to good use to find out if he was jealous of Caleb.
“I wasn’t jealous of that dimwit. Why would I be?” I just smiled down at him and settled myself back onto the sand-covered towel. We continued to stare at each other, riling each other up to see who would cave first.
I took off his glasses when he took mine off. The intensity of his stare was making me hot. I could feel the heat rise up between my legs and I subtly closed them over to stop it from being noticeable.
My other hand played with the sand above my head. I felt him lean closer to me, our lips were millimeters apart. Feeling his hot breath on my lips sent tingles everywhere around my body.
“I don’t get jealous, baby doll.”
I smirked up at him, causing my lips to brush his. I saw his jaw clench. “Good, I wouldn’t want you to be upset if I went out with that guy over there.” He closed his eyes and let out a grunt.
“Stop trying to piss me off, baby doll. It’ll backfire. He’s not good enough for you.”
“Is someone jealous?” I teased and backed away from him, although all I wanted to do was to press my lips to his and pull him on top of me. But I couldn’t, for so many reasons.
But you don’t like him, Alex.
“Like I said, I don’t get jealous.” He turned to face the sky once more with a squeeze of my hand. I could see his jaw was tense. Then I saw him look over at Matt, the guy who gave me his number.
He stared hard at him. Not jealous my ass. He doesn’t like you, Alex, this is him being protective again. The more logical side of my brain was being a little more active today.
I closed my eyes back over and felt him stir after a while of just lying there. His face was away from me every time I opened my eyes to look at him.
I felt his breath once more and I was about to open my eyes when I felt his lips on mine. It was light and a peck, but I froze. He justkissed me, on the beach, in public, where people could see us. I pulled away from him.
“Are you crazy? What if the media were here?” I hissed quietly at him.
He had a wicked smile on his face like he was plotting something. “I don’t care. Let them see.”
“Knox, you’ve lost your damn mind! I’m going back into the water.”
“I can do what I want, baby doll!”
I walked away from him, rubbing the sand off my legs in the process, and got to the water, standing in it up to my knees.
“Are you Knox Carter?” A pretty brunette came over to him, stroking his shoulder. I smirked over at him and continued to play with my feet in the water.
I spotted Adam and picked him up. He still had my hat on him, although it was soaking wet. He nodded at the brunette and she thrust a pen in his face.
“Can you sign my swimsuit? I got the one with your name on the back.”
“Sure.” He took the pen and looked at her, unsure as to where exactly he was expected to sign her bikini. This made me laugh, and I turned to face Adam who was playing with my hat. “Uh, where exactly—”
“My butt, across your name if you don’t mind.” She bit onto the end of her finger in a seductive manner. She twirled herself around and plumped her butt up while he squatted down to get his face as close as possible.
“I like seeing you from this angle,” she seduced.
Adam did not need to see this. I did not need to see this.
