“What the fuck is going on?” Sam asked, glancing between the two of us. “You’ve been polite and weird today. Knock it off. Did something happen?”
Cooper stared at me for a beat before shrugging. “She found out I wasn’t the asshole she thought I was all these years, so we came to an agreement.”
“Which is?” Sam asked, staring at me now.
Him looking at me made me sweat. We were lying to my brother, something I never wanted to do.
“We don’t hate each other,” I said and took a long sip of water. “It’s weird, I know.”
Sam laughed and rolled his eyes, completely oblivious to the fact his best friend and sister were doing each other in every way possible. “Of course you don’t hate each other. Idiots.”
Juliet leaned over to whisper something to him, and his eyes got wide. “Uh, we’re heading out.”
“Okay, bye?” I said, laughing at the way my brother stood way too fast. Juliet caught my eye over his shoulder and winked.What the hell?
“She knows,” Cooper said, his tone getting dark and promising.
“I was thinking the same thing. She just winked at me.”
“What do you want to do, baby?”
My heart skipped a beat when he dropped the D from the nickname, and I wiped my sweating palms on my dress. Tonight was the last night of the weekend trip. The last night I’d be with him, and it didn’t matter what we did as long as we were together. “What do you think?”
“Come on.” He held out his hand, and I took it, watching him scrawl our cabin number on the receipt before dragging me out of the restaurant and toward the hot tub area. We both had our suits on under our coverups, since this restaurant was less fancy than the other one. He stopped me in the hall and pressed my back against the wall. “I want to finger you in that tub and watch you fall apart without making a sound.”
“People could see,” I whispered, clenching my legs together as aggressive want coursed through me.
“That’s the point, baby.” He bit down on my bottom lip and tugged. “This is payback.”
“Payback?” I repeated, sounding like an idiot. He had the unique ability to scramble my thoughts. “For what?”
“Flirting with that guy earlier. I wanted to punch him in the face.”
“I wasn’t flirting. I thanked him for returning my sunglasses like a normal human being, you wacko.”
He didn’t smile. He led us to the hot tub, took off his shirt, and slid in. “Get in here.”
My legs shook a little as I removed my cover up and took my time getting into the hot water. It was nine at night, and the stars twinkled down at us. People wandered here and there around the deck, but we were the only two in the tub itself.
I hissed at the hot water, and Cooper dragged me toward him.
“No, I’m not sitting on you. That’s too obvious. If you want me to come, you’ll have to do it when I’m next to you.”
Oh, he liked the challenge. His eyes lit up, but they lingered on my shoulders for a second. “Your skin is burned.”
“Yeah, it’s okay.”
He frowned and dropped a kiss to my shoulder. “Does the hot water hurt it?”
“If I go under any farther, then yes. But I’m okay here.”
He nodded before his fingers found my bottoms and pushed them to the side. He teased my clit in slow circles and stared up at the sky. “Have you thought at all about tomorrow?”
“Hm?” Each swirl of his finger sent a mini explosion to my limbs. My body was so in tune with his touch it wouldn’t take long for me to get off. He purposefully went slow to drag this out.
“Tomorrow. We get off this ship and go back to our normal lives.”Swirl, flick, pinch.
My muscles got tight, and my heart raced as he quickened his movements. His words were like a bucket of cold water that was hard to ignore. The pressure he caused made me dizzy with want, yet the thought of not being with him like this anymore hurt.
