Hailey Abbott_Waking Up to Boys by Hailey Abbott

Author:Hailey Abbott [Hailey Abbott]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-07-29T05:00:00+00:00

Without waiting for a reply, he took off toward the next group of workers farther up the trail. Todd and Chelsea looked at each other and cracked up.

“So,” Chelsea said as her giggles subsided, “want to hit the lake?”

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smiling his cute half smile. “I’ve been doing heavy manual labor all day, I’m exhausted, every muscle in my body aches, and now you want to go exercise some more?”

“But it’s not work,” Chelsea pleaded. “It’s play!”

Todd’s smile widened, and he leaned in closer to her. Her head swam as she breathed in his sexy scent of sunscreen and sweat, and for one dizzying moment she thought he was going to kiss her. Instead, he moved to the side and whispered in her ear. “I like the way you think,” he said as he turned and started running down the mountain. “Last one to the dock has to drive first!”

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As Chelsea watched Todd in the rearview mirror, she couldn’t help being amazed at the way he moved gracefully in and out of the wake. She had spent hours and hours of her life watching the pros and semi-pros board in person, on DVD, and on YouTube, and Todd was not the best. He wasn’t the strongest, the lightest, or the fastest, and he certainly didn’t jump the highest or do the splashiest grabs.

But Chelsea had always thought that Todd was the most capable of making wakeboarding a beautiful sport. His body moved with grace and precision; he had a perfect economy of movement and always seemed to know exactly where he was going and what he was doing. Even 118

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if he ended up on his butt, his body just flowed. He soared through the air, hovering over the water before coming back down in a perfect white spray of foam. Every move was precise, deliberate, and incalculably beautiful, and watching him made Chelsea’s chest tighten with both admiration and longing. It was like she was falling in love with him all over again. Which she just couldn’t allow herself to do. It would hurt too much. It already did.

“Good ride,” Chelsea complimented him when he returned to the boat and stripped his wetsuit down to his waist.

“Thanks.” Todd leaned over her to get a towel, and his hair fell forward, dripping water onto her arm.

“Sorry,” he murmured, smiling almost shyly as he offered her the towel to dry off.

“It’s cool.” Chelsea could barely meet his eyes. “I’ll be soaked in a minute anyway.”

“True,” Todd acknowledged. “Hey, did you see that triple handle pass I pulled earlier? How’d it look?”

“All right,” Chelsea said, smiling.

Todd playfully rolled the towel into a rattail and swatted it at her butt. “All right, yourself,” he grumbled.

“You get out there and try to top me!”

Plunging into the cool, clean lake water after a long day in the sun was almost more refreshing than her easy banter with Todd. Maybe he really does

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