With a squeal, classy Lexie Underhill jumped in.She didn’t make a big splash.At most, she caused a tiny ripple, but when she came up for air, she let out an audible sigh of pleasure.With a sure stroke, she swam over to the other two.
Laughter ensued.The three of them formed a tight circle as they hovered easily in the water.They were virtually indistinguishable with their long hair gliding over their shoulders and plastering against their backs.Their legs kicked slowly, and their toned arms glided back and forth over the water’s surface.
Zac couldn’t hear what they were saying, but he stared on in fascination.Three of the most beautiful women he’d ever seen were practically naked out in the middle of the Inndigo pool.The water and dim lights made the scene hazy and damn near erotic.Like beautiful nymphs, they glided around, teasing each other and mimicking moves.
Holy.Shit.
On autopilot, he started to follow until he realized he was carrying a purse.He locked it in his Jeep.That got his thinking back on track, and he looked around to see if anyone else had witnessed what they’d done.And were still doing.There weren’t many cars parked in the lot, but he did see a curtain fluttering three rooms down.
Well, shit.
Hewasthe sheriff.
He looked again towards the water.With the muted lighting, there wasn’t a lot to see.Although there was a lot to imagine.
He planted his hands on his hips.
What they were doing deserved at least a citation.He simply couldn’t do it.Their squeals of laughter and excited chatter were too much for him to spoil.It might be a hundred degrees, but the ice had just been broken.He didn’t understand why or how, but something important had happened.
He headed back to the manager’s office.
When he finally made it to the pool, he had towels in hand.The girls were still swimming and playing and being unconsciously sexy and alluring.Wet and stripped down, they were even more difficult to tell apart, but he knew which one was Maxie.By sight, by feel, by sound.He didn’t know what it was, but something about her resonated with something deep inside him.
She was also topless, which didn’t hurt.
No, that didn’t hurt at all.
Kneeling, he picked up the blue sundress.She’d been braless all day?He guessed he’d known that, the way he’d been able to look down her dress when she’d lain in his arms in the flower shop.But he hadn’tunderstoodthat.His fingers automatically drifted over the inside of the bodice.There was some kind of built-in padding.
He’d be damned.Out of the three of them, he never would have expected her to be the one to jump in the pool wearing only panties.
He draped the dress over a pool chair.Not quite sure what to do, he turned towards the water.He wasn’t staring, and the constantly moving water and bodies made it difficult to see anything clearly, but his imagination was working overtime.He’d felt Maxie’s body against him today, all warm and lush and straining.
“Are you going to join us, Sheriff Sexy?”
That would be Roxie, the one who was totally in the buff.
He smiled ruefully.He’d have given his eye teeth to jump in with them—and probably something even more valuable to jump in with Maxie alone—but he had to remember where they were and how stupid this really was.“It’s safer for me to stay out here and guard you imps.”
She treaded water as she grinned up at him saucily.“But it’s so hot up there.”
And it was hotter in the water.
He never got a chance to respond because Maxie, of all people, swam up behind the flirt and dunked her.She just put her hands on Roxie’s shoulders and pushed her down.When the woman came up sputtering for air, Lexie splashed her in the face.
“That’s what you get for flirting with your sister’s man.”
Maxie’s gaze flashed up to meet his.Her expression was surprised, wary and a bit rambunctious.
Smiling, he tossed the towels onto a plastic table.“Have fun, Beauty.”
He watched the three of them, catching flashes of skin and streaks of dark hair.Lexie’s purple bra-and-undie combo stood out like a sore thumb, but she’d become as playful as the rest.Any way he looked at them, they were gorgeous.Naked and natural.The combination was the oddest mix of adult sensuality and innocent joy.Seeing them together, he had no doubt of their connection.They were three parts of a whole that had been put back together.
They could frolic all they wanted.
Giving in to the situation, he put himself on lifeguard duty.Sitting down on a plastic lounger, he tried to get comfortable.
It wasn’t possible.Poolside, the air was even stickier.In jeans, that made it unbearable.Tugging his shirt loose, he indulged in a bit of stripping himself.He kept the shirt on but unbuttoned it, letting what little air movement there was cool him down.
