“Did we get the wrong one?” Will turns to climb out of the pool. “It’s my fault. We stood there looking like the biggest idiots with two full carts of food staring at all the pasta options. Then we had to figure out how to get all the boxes in the cart without them falling off. We have so much damn food. When we checked out, I’m fairly certain our cashier thought she was being punked. And then near the end, the manager of the store walked over to watch her and I assume to make sure we were going to actually buy all the groceries.”
“I just peeked in the fridge and some of the cabinets and wow.”
“If it was on your list, we bought it,” Will says, towel drying himself off before he walks inside. “I’ll go see if they need any help. Enjoy your walk or whatever it is you two are doing.”
Ev pulls her arm out of mine and starts jogging across the deck and across the walkway over the sand plants. I don’t know what they’re called, but they look spiky. When we get to the end a minute later, we slip out of our shoes and leave them at the edge of the steps on the sand. As soon as my feet hit the warm white sand, a wave of peace washes over me.
“Let’s go bro!” Ev yells, jogging away, then turning around.
Fuck. Her breasts are bouncing up and down in that little triangle top, threatening a nip slip each time, and fuck am I hopeful.
“Come here!” I run after her.
She squeals and turns and runs towards the ocean, trying to throw her hair up in a messy bun as she does. She runs along the edge of the water, glancing over her shoulder at me a few times.
Within seconds, I reach her and lift her into my arms, spinning around. “You can’t outrun me.”
“Knox,” she peeps with a modicum of concern.
“Yea?” I put her down, and she turns to look at me and fucking hell. A nip slip.
Quickly looking around, I realize no one is close enough to see, but they are close enough that I can’t motorboat her right here.
“You are a temptation I can’t fight against.” My hand moves up and cups her breast.
“Knox,” she whispers out, nearly moaning.
“I’m helping you fix your top.”
“Does your cock know that?”
“Ignore him.”
“It’s kind of fucking hard to.” She nibbles on her bottom lip.
“You need to stop that.” Every time she does that, it drives me wild. Makes me want to suck it out of her mouth.
“He says, as he’s cupping her breast, teasing her with his gigantic cock,” she says with that level of sass that drives me wild.
“I love your breasts.”
“I love your cock.”
“I love you, Everlee.” Well, shit. That just happened. We were all fun and flirty and then emotions just took over. Time to double down. “Everything about you. The way you are, the way you look, the way you make me feel. You are… ugh. Men you were with in the past are fucking idiots for letting you go, but thank God they did because they led you to us. To this.”
Her eyes are glassy, but she’s not crying. “Knox.” She cups my cheek. “I love you guys so much it scares me. You’re all so different and so perfect. I love you too.” She pulls my hand off her breast, then grabs it and starts walking down the beach.
“Let’s take it slow, if you don’t mind?” I ask, nodding towards my crotch.
She lets out a soft chuckle and nods.
We turn down the beach and walk into the wind like Will suggested, hand in hand. Just us, the ocean, and our thoughts. After a few minutes, I bring her hand to my mouth and give it a light kiss.
“What was that for?”
“Just because.” I give her hand another quick kiss, then let our combined hands fall between us.
The seagulls I heard earlier are just ahead, following a toddler around as he wobbles on the sand, plopping beside a set of sand toys with a cup of goldfish.
