“You’re covered in sand. Here. Look up. I have eye drops in my purse.”
“Of course you do.”
She growls.
Delaney.
Shegrowls.
And fuck me if that noise doesn’t have a direct impact on my dick while I’m sitting here with sand in my eyeball.
“It’s just sand,” I mutter. “I can handle this without you treating me like you’re my fuckingbabysitter. Andmy hand was asleep.”
She sighs. “Okay. Fine. Your hand was asleep. Can youpleaselet me help you before you end up wearing a pirate patch to your sister’s wedding?”
I glare at her, but lifting my eyes is a bad idea right now.
Is there sand in both?
Fantastic. I have sand inbothof my eyes now.
I stare down and blink a lot again. Sun’s bright off the water.
Sand is officially a bigger nemesis than Delaney now.
“I’d wear a pirate patch to her wedding if she asked me to,” I say.
“And if she sees you like this, she’ll freak out, because evensmallthings arebigthings to her right now.”
“Believe it or not, I’m not causing problems on purpose.”
“What’s done is done. All we can do now is fix it and make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
“You sound like your mother.”
The beach freezes over. Frost. All over the sand. Waves stop rolling because they’ve been hit by a blast from the ice queen and the entire ocean is officially glaciers now.
This?
This is the sound ofwell, Theo, you really stuck your foot in it now.
Of course I did.
This is Laney.
It was inevitable.
“Tilt. Your fucking. Head,” Delaney says.
One, holy shit. She saidfuck.
Two, thisI’m speaking through a clenched jaw and if you weren’t in danger of losing your eyeballs right now, I would be pulling that same move I pulled on you to shove you into the pool yesterday except this time I’d hold your head underwater until you weren’t my problem anymorething that she’s doing is hot.
Hello, my name is Theo, and I am irrepressibly turned on by judgmental Little Miss Perfects who won’t make sandcastles with me, andI don’t know why.
I tilt my head.
She grabs the skin around my eye socket—the one that’s worse—including my eyelid, forcibly separates it, and squirts a whole purse-size bottle of eye drops into it.
