When was he going to understand that I was happy for him to protect every other part of me, just not my honour?” ‘I’m just trying to protect your honour,’ he said, guessing it anyway. I trod water and stayed where I was, feeling confused, glad that the night was dark enough to hide my expression. But I couldn’t seem to find the one in his armour. His resolve was as solid as a nuclear bunker’s walls. I tried sticking myself onto him like a barnacle, but eventually Alex managed to pull himself free, holding my wrists in his hand so I couldn’t reattach.
And then he kissed me and I prayed silently and fervently that he took my shudder to be the effect of the water. I didn’t resist because I’d forgotten in that instant how to swim. When I got close to him, his hand snaked under the water, wrapped round my waist and pulled me towards him. I could see Alex in the distance, his skin gleaming in the now inky moonlight. With a deep breath, I tore off my dress then kicked off my underwear and started running towards the sea, praying Nate wasn’t doing a fly-by. I paused for a nanosecond, weighing up my embarrassment at stripping naked over my desire to follow him.
He shrugged off his shorts, but before I could catch an eyeful of anything, he was off, jogging towards the water. Alex’s hands dropped to his shorts and he started undoing his belt. My eyes flitted to the shadowed hollows where his hips disappeared into his shorts, causing a flutter in parts of my body that up until three weeks ago had been flutter-dormant. My eyes fell straightaway to his chest – which was tanned, smooth and ripped with muscle, and which, when you studied it as I had done, in detail, you discovered wasn’t a six-pack but actually a twelve-pack.
‘Swim?’ I pouted, unable to hide my disappointment that he wanted to swim rather than make out with me.Īlex pulled his T-shirt off in one swift move. ‘What might that be?’ I managed to stutter, closing my eyes, anticipating the warmth of his lips against mine. “First I need to do something.’ He pulled me closer towards him until our lips were almost touching.
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