He made a sound. “You’re worried aboutme?”
I laughed. “I can handle some hits. Don’t forget I was your mother’s bodyguard.”
He laid his hands over mine and threaded our fingers together. “Hold on to me. Tightly.”
I wrapped him securely in my arms like he wanted me to, and the Jet Ski fired up. The roar of the motor went straight down to my bones, and I shivered. The last time I’d gotten on one of these was a few years ago. Convincing someone to take me out on the water took a lot of effort and time I didn’t have. Like Darcy, I was a hard worker and rarely took days away from the job. We surged forward faster than I’d expected, and I held on to him tighter. He gasped, then laughed as he hit the throttle a little lighter. We bounced over a few waves and my ass slammed on the soft leather seat.
“You okay?” I shouted over the rumbling of the Jet Ski.
“Yeah, fine.” The delight in his voice melted my insides. We were off again. He drove slower than I would have liked at first, moving with the rippling water. We vaulted over the waves like we were flying, and I closed my eyes every time we soared through the air, the wind in my hair as well as the spray of water. I gripped Darcy harder, and his gut moved under my touch as he laughed in a joy I didn’t think I’d heard from him yet.
He turned a bit too sharply, and I moved with the Jet Ski so I didn’t tumble off, and the only reason Darcy didn’t tip over was because of how tightly I held him. He stopped the machine, gasping in shock, and I patted his stomach again.
“Still fine?” I asked with a chuckle.
“Whoa. She’s got some power.” He clutched my arm. After a moment, he pulled my hand to his mouth, kissing the back of it. I froze, shock slithering through me and settling low in my belly, burning until it melted into desire. My cock jumped, even if I was soaked with water and cold as the breeze fluttered around us. “Keep going?” He pressed himself back against my chubby, and I angled my hips up to nudge his lower back.
“Yeah, a bit longer.”
He hit the throttle again, and we took off. We spent the next half hour flying across the waves, and there were a few times we were nearly thrown off, but Darcy kept us upright. When he finally pulled the Jet Ski back to the jetty, Levi was waiting there to help me off.
I patted his arm as a thank-you when he passed me Lemonade’s harness. Bending down to give her a kiss between her eyes, I petted across her head. “Good girl.”
She whuffed at me, and I laughed when I straightened. Next Levi gave me my cane, and I gripped it tightly in my hand as Darcy came to my side. He reached over to unbuckle my life jacket, and while a part of me wanted to argue that I wasn’t a child and didn’t need help, I let him because there was something intimate about the way he did it. Once he had the life jacket unbuckled, his fingers grazed over my bare chest and slid the jacket off my shoulders.
Levi snorted, and the sound of footsteps on the wooden jetty told me he was stomping off.
“I still don’t think he likes me very much,” Darcy mumbled, a note of amusement in his voice as he finally got the life jacket off both my arms. “But at least he’s not glaring now.”
I chuckled. “Trust me, he likes you more than he did. Levi takes a lot of time to warm up to people.”
“Why is that?”
I shook my head, droplets of water flicking from my wet hair. “To be honest, I don’t know. I never asked him. Work was work. How many of your employee’s lives do you know about?”
“None.”
I shrugged. “Levi’s a good worker, and a friend, and if he wanted to tell me anything he’d do it.”
“So you assume he has nothing to say,” Darcy said contemplatively.
“Exactly.” I used the cane to tap around and get my bearings as I made my way to the spot where we’d left a few towels. I reached down, grabbed them, and passed one to Darcy when he came up behind me.
“Do we leave the Jet Ski there?” he asked. He took the towel from me, stroking his fingers over my wrist in a move I suspected was intentional.
“Yes. This is my personal jetty. Levi will come back and lock it up. We have other places to be.” I curled my arm around his waist and dragged him closer, leaning in to smell his skin. His deodorant was barely perceptible since we’d been in the water, but that meant his natural scent lingered, a muskiness that had my cock twitching.
Darcy leaned into me, pressing his hard cock on my thigh, and I sighed. “Where are we going? I hope it involves your dick and my ass.”
I burst out in laughter. “As much as I’d love nothing more than to get you naked, not right now. See that house over there?” Turning ever so slightly, I pointed in the direction I thought my next-door neighbor’s home was.
“Yeah?” He ground his cock harder, and I moaned.Fucking tease.
“We’re going there.”
Darcy stopped wriggling and stilled. “Who lives there?”
I grinned and slanted my mouth against his in a hard kiss that had him whimpering into my mouth. “My parents.”
