I wrap an arm around her shoulders and kiss the top of her head. “Do you trust me?”
She eyes me cautiously. “Nothing good has ever started with that sentence.”
“That a no?” It’s impossible to keep the grin off of my face, and it only makes her that much more wary.
She grimaces. “It’s a maybe?”
Smiling, I kiss her on the lips this time. “Good enough for me.” Dropping my arm from her shoulders to her waist, I bring her body flush against mine, and jump.
Chapter 17
Cambria
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He’s fucking crazy.
But I love it.
A scream tears from my throat as we fall, but it morphs from fear to excitement. I’ve never felt as absolutely free as I do in this moment, plunging to my possible death. For just a few brief moments, I feel like I’m flying.
We break through the surface of the water feet first, swallowed by the pond. I launch down until my momentum slows and nearly reach the ground beneath the waves, my feet brushing the rock. I lost Atlas when we hit the water, so I swim up to the surface to make sure he survived the fall, or at least catch my breath before hunting for him.
Sputtering, I suck air into my lungs and brush the water from my face, but smile. Atlas’ head breaks through a moment later, grinning ear to ear.
“Lucien was wrong,you’repsychotic, not me,” I laugh, splashing him.
“You’re both crazy!” Dorian shouts from far above us, still on the ledge with Lucien.
I tread water, beckoning them to join us. “Come on, boys! All the cool kids are jumping off the bridge, you should too!”
“Do it, do it, do it!” Atlas chants beside me.
“I think we’ll walk, thanks,” Lucien calls out, frowning down at us.
But with the way he’s looking over the ledge at us, he isn’t watching Dorian behind him, taking a running start. The two of them fly over the edge and Atlas and I kick out of the center of the pool hastily to avoid being crushed. Lucien’s surprised shout and Dorian’s whoop are lost as they crash beneath the surface, moments later coming up sputtering and cursing.
