“You’ve been workin’ a lot,” I murmur, taking her hand and gently pulling her toward me. She comes willingly, her arms wrapping around my waist as her cheek presses against my chest.
“This is nice. How come we haven’t done this before?”
“Didn’t know you missed this when you took the tour,” I tease, sliding my palms over her curves to cup her ass.
“You should fire that tour guide; he’s terrible,” she muses and I chuckle as she turns her face to press a kiss to my skin. “Did you go swimming?”
“Yeah, I haven’t gone for a while, and I needed it.”
She nods, humming as she peppers my chest with kisses. “We should do a beach day.”
“Okay,” I whisper, not wanting to interrupt something she clearly needs right now. Instead, I draw little circles on the small of her back with my fingers, my touch light but present, just to show her I’m here.
Moving slowly, Hallie kisses her way down my body, her nails grazing my skin, sending a torrent of sensations through me. She’s unhurried in her movements, taking her time to nip and suck and mark me as she goes.
And then she’s on her knees in front of me, the water from the shower covering her in little droplets of spray as she fists the base of my cock and licks up the underside.
“Hallie.” Her name is a pained groan as she swirls her tongue around the head before taking me in her mouth. It’s a tease, the way she takes a little more before releasing me with an audiblepopbefore diving in again. It’s maddening, her tits bouncing and swaying in time with her enthusiasm for sucking me off andfuck,I like that.
I like ittoo muchbecause before I’m ready, I feel my orgasm barreling down on me with no hope of holding back.
She’s too good.
And like she can read my mind, she sucks me to the back of her throat, holding me there as I come apart. I bite back a curse when she swallows around me, my dick oversensitized when she finally lets me drop from her swollen lips.
She looks dazed, but I can’t think about it for too long because I’m already hauling her up into my arms, my tongue sliding against hers.
Apparently we’re not using words today and that’s all right. I have plenty of ways to tell her just how much Iappreciateher.
16
HALLIE
“It’s too bad Sawyer couldn’t make it tonight,” my mother says as we leave High Tide Tales, the local bookstore on Main Street, after grabbing barbeque with all the fixings.
My father had raised his eyebrows at me as I’d taken a bite of the cornbread. I’d narrowed mine because itwasbetter than my mother’s, but I value my life a whole lot more than I care about picking sides over a square muffin.
“Maybe next time,” I appease her, my gut twisting because I hadn’t asked him.
I never even brought it up.
I tried, but he’d been in the outside shower and all I’d wanted to do was go down on him and watch him fall apart.
And he had—his face masked in pleasure as his body tensed and flexed, his lips parted as he groaned. It was obscene and I loved it.
I’d taken my stress and frustration out on his body—used him to make myself feel better—and while he’d certainly reciprocated, that hadn’t been my intention.
One of the other nurses had casually mentioned that there was a full-time position opening up once my contract is over.I’d gone straight to the charge nurse and then HR who’d both confirmed it.
I’d been told in no uncertain terms that I could have it if I wanted it.
But do I?
Do I want to stay in Starlight Bay? Make a home here?
What would happen with Sawyer? Would he be happy or does he like this temporary situation we have going?
I could have talked to him—been honest and discussed the options—but it all happened too fast. I’d developed actual feelings for him without even realizing it, and the idea that my path was no longer clear had the ground shifting under my feet.
