Dashing Through the No by Sivec Tara

Author:Sivec, Tara
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Tara Sivec
Published: 2020-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

Tess

“My little firestarter.”

Six months ago

“…and then my ass and my dick were just flopping in the ocean breeze as I ran across the sand and dove into the water to start a new life.”

The hot, homeless-looking surfer and professional caddie I agreed to a date with gives me a lopsided smile that turns my legs to jelly, while I stand here leaning my back against the railing on the upper deck of the Summersweet Island ferry, just blinking at him.

“I know, you’re still shocked about the short hair thing, aren’t you? It’s hard to imagine me without a head of glorious, shaggy golden locks.”

He runs a hand through those glorious, shaggy golden locks, and I just shake my head at him.

“I’m actually shocked our first date started literally ten minutes ago down on the ferry dock, and I already know your entire life story,” I reply. A blast of the ferry horn signaling we’re getting ready to leave the dock punctuates my point as I continue to shake my head at him. “That’s really what you want to lead with on a first date, huh?”

It’s actually pretty genius he led with that damn Christmas Eve story. Even though I’m still in shock that we no more than got our tickets and walked up here to the top deck before he started word-vomiting, I just want to wrap my arms around him and hug the hell out of him for what a shitty father and miserable earlier existence he had. And I’m not a fucking hugger. Gross.

Bodhi turns around to rest his arms on the railing and look out at the ocean as the ferry’s engine revs, and it slowly starts to pull away from the dock. I turn and do the same, refusing to acknowledge the goose bumps that pop up all over my body, when Bodhi slides his arms down the railing a few inches to close the distance between us, until the side of our arms are pressed together.

“I figure it’s best to begin a date by dumping all your baggage out right away, instead of carrying that heavy shit around with you for months.” He shrugs, his arm rubbing up and down against mine with the motion and making the back of my damn neck tingle this time.

“So, what’s the plan for tonight exactly, now that I know everything about you? We’re just going to… ride the ferry?”

Bodhi shrugs again. “I don’t know. But I do know I’ve only gotten to ride the ferry once so far, it was fun as hell, and I wanted to do it again with the hottest girl ever. We can play the rest of the night by ear and do whatever.”

“That sounds awful,” I complain, ignoring the butterflies in my stomach when he calls me the hottest girl ever. Pushing away from the railing to reach into my black crossbody canvas bag that says I don’t put out with a picture of a fire extinguisher that has a big X through it, I grab my spiral planner, flipping it open to today’s date.

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