She blinks water from her lashes, rubbing the side of her head. “Yeah.”
“Can you swim?”
When she nods, we push off from the platform and swim toward shore. We stumble onto the sand, where I cup her face with both hands, gently rubbing her temple. My body is still experiencing phantom fear, pulse racing, skin ice-cold in response to that moment she went underwater and how it felt like my entire world had stopped.
“Fuck, baby. When I saw you go under…” I take a breath.
“I’m fine,” she says, shoving wet hair out of her eyes. “I just got stunned for a second and then disoriented. I wasn’t sure where I was.”
“That scared the shit out of me.” The relief coursing through my veins has me leaning down to give her a quick kiss, just to make sure she’s really there.
She makes a strangled noise when our lips touch. At first, I mistake her reaction for anger.
But then I realize it’s panic.
And that’s when I remember we’re not alone.
I called her “baby.”
I kissed her.
Andwe’re not alone.
Someone clears their throat, and I turn my head to see every single person we know on this earth staring back at us.
DAD CHAT
DEAN DI LAURENTIS
So. That happened.
JOHN TUCKER
JOHN LOGAN REMOVED GARRETT GRAHAM FROM DAD CHAT.
DEAN DI LAURENTIS
Real mature.
JOHN LOGAN
Fuck off, Dean.
COLIN FITZGERALD
DEAN DI LAURENTIS
JAKE CONNELLY ADDED GARRETT GRAHAM TO DAD CHAT.
GARRETT GRAHAM REMOVED JOHN LOGAN FROM DAD CHAT.
JOHN TUCKER
Add him back, G. The father of the penis needs to grovel to the father of the vagina.
DEAN DI LAURENTIS
Agreed.
