Sneaking a glance at his chiseled profile, I puffed a tiny sigh.The guy could make a killing as a model.
“You’re thinking awfully hard over there,” he said.“I hope your thoughts are about how you want to go on another date with me.”
“That sounds like your thoughts.”
He pinned me with his megawatt grin.“See?Brilliant minds think alike.”
Though I was shaking my head, I couldn’t help but grin at his silliness.
“How ’bout tomorrow?You got anything going on?”
“No.”I dragged the word out to four syllables.“What did you have in mind?”
Putting his finger to his lips, he played at mulling over something big.“I was thinking I’d pick you up at noon, take you to lunch, then maybe whack some balls around the back nine at the public course.”Turning in his seat, he added, “Unless I’ve read you completely wrong.You have golfed before, yeah?”
“Yeah.But I warn you, my sport is skiing.Golfing only nine holes could take until sunset.”
“Excellent.”
I burst out laughing.“I didn’t take you as a glutton for punishment.”
“Spending all day with you sounds like a reward.”The sincerity in his tone sobered me right up.
Luckily, we were in front of his house.
“Huh.It still kinda throws me that you already knew where I lived.But I’m going to need an address for picking you up tomorrow.”
I rattled off my street and apartment number, which he promptly put in his phone.When he glanced up at me, his eyes intensified from their usual gunmetal gray to the intense blue-gray he’d trained on me the first time he kissed me, and again on the raft.Before I had a chance to prepare, he’d already cupped my cheek and tugged me halfway across the console separating us.He met me with a barely-there kiss that shouldn’t have even registered, let alone sent a cascade of sparks through me.
“Thanks for the ride.See you tomorrow, Saylor.”
“You really do kinda suck at golf,” Cash said, laughing as I whiffed yet another ball on the tee.
“I did warn you,” I shot over my shoulder at him.
As I stood over my shot once again, I sensed a warmth on my back that had nothing to do with the perfect blue-sky day.
“Mind if I help you?”His gravelly voice resonated through me as he wrapped his arms around me to cover my hands on my driver.“Keep your head down, eyes on the ball, and rotate back like this.”He guided my swing back and stopped at its apex.“It’s right at this point you sneak a glance up at your stick.Don’t do that.”
I’d turned my entire head to gaze up at him, catching his grin as I did so, my body tingling with awareness at him holding me so close.
“Keep your focus on the ball and swing through.”He guided me through the swing, though we were a foot back from my ball, so all we shot was air.
After a beat he let me go and stepped back, taking his delicious warmth with him.Yet when I positioned myself over the ball, the phantom sensation of his body over mine guiding me through the swing clung to my skin.When I connected with the ball and sent it sailing off the tee, I wasn’t sure who was more excited: Cash or me.
Jumping up and down, I dropped my club and leaped into his arms.“Did you see that?I sent it!”
His laughter rumbled deep in his chest, the vibrations echoing through mine where our bodies pressed together.“I did.Nice shot, Ace.”
For a long minute, we smiled at each other.Then his eyes turned to molten silver as he slid his big hands over my ass and gave my cheeks a squeeze.
“Um, you should probably put me down now.I doubt the ladies in the group behind us will consider this proper decorum on the links.”
“Proper decorum is overrated.”He smirked.“But for a kiss, I’ll set you back on your feet.”
Knowing how his kisses affected me, I shot him a dubious look.Then I leaned in and kissed the edge of his sculpted jaw before feathering a trail of kisses to his ear.“Thanks for the mini lesson.You can put me down now,” I whispered.
With one more caress over my ass, he let me go, though not without making me slide all the way down his front in the process.I sensed every ripple of his abs and the semi at the apex of his thighs.The wicked delight in his eyes told me he knew exactly what I’d noticed.
