Build it Strong (The Ballard Brothers of Darling Bay Book 2) by Herron Rachael

Author:Herron, Rachael [Herron, Rachael]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: HGA Publishing
Published: 2017-01-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

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uesday was a good, strong bike rider. He should have known, with those incredible calves. As they came around the Third Street curve, she grinned at him, looking cute as hell in her red hang gliding helmet that had doubled nicely as a bike helmet. “They’re probably freaking out right now.”

Aidan had no doubt they were. He was going to hear about this for the rest of his life from Felicia, and he was glad she hadn’t come in this morning. “Probably. But right now, we’ve got some time.”

They hid the bikes in an alley four houses down from the Callahan place. He shouldered the picnic backpack and put the blanket over his arm. “I know a shortcut through the Hildeboom’s backyard. Come on.”

Then they were in her yard, ducking low, hoping none of the workers looked outside. Tuesday giggled behind him, and the sound sent a shiver up Aidan’s spine. He pushed open the gate, shoving the cut wisteria branches and vines out of his way, praying that she was in the mood to get down to her underwear again.

Or less.

He held the gate open for her. “Ladies first.”

She slanted a look he couldn’t decipher at him and ducked under his arm. “You don’t have any water on you, do you?”

Aidan gestured at the pool of steaming hot water. “Like this?”

She shook her head. “Never mind, I’m fine.”

“Or do you mean like this?” He pulled a bottle of water out of the backpack.

“You’re magical.”

Damn it all, her smile was so sweet. How was it that a woman who looked like she did—like the grade-school teacher she was—could light him on fire like she did? He cocked his head to the side and watched her as she drank. She was unselfconscious, glugging it down. She saved the last half for him.

“Here you go. Thank you. You probably saved my life.” She shivered.

“You cold?” He felt a shiver, too, low in his torso.

She nodded. “I think it’s just the excitement of landing. I can’t stop shaking.”

“I get that way sometimes.”

“You do?”

He did, though it was usually only when he had a hang gliding call that felt too close. A few months back, he’d swooped so close to the edge of the cliff he felt the wing tip scrape the very edge of the rock. A little harder, and his flight would have been abruptly ended—he would have fallen to the hard-packed sand fifty feet below. He’d shook like she was now.

That didn’t explain why he was shaking at this moment, though. It was almost imperceptible—when he sneaked a look at his hand, he couldn’t see the tremors.

But he could feel them.

They were entirely due to Tuesday.

Tuesday.

“Let’s do this,” he said.

Aidan went in first. It was only sensible this time. Once Tuesday stripped down to her underwear, he’d be hard again, and if he was in the water, it would be a secret.

And he would get to watch.

Tuesday stood on a wide, mossy rock and pulled her pants off first. She folded them carefully.

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