Manservant by Shari J. Ryan

Author:Shari J. Ryan [Ryan, Shari J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-05-12T16:00:00+00:00

This is totally not awkward. Not even a little bit. I kissed one of you last night and fondled the other ten minutes ago. After only two days, I think am officially a beach whore. It does have a nice ring to it, I suppose.

I grab my towel and quickly wrap it around myself, hoping to detract some of the attention away from my body, which is apparently under a spotlight. “Guppy, what are you doing here?” Sterling’s words sound chipper, but at the same time there is an inflection of what the fuckery. Because, yeah, he offered me swim lessons too, and probably not at zero degree thirty in the freaking morning. Maybe I should have taken him up on his offer instead.

“Oh, uh—” Name. Name. His name. “Liam, offered me swim lessons.”

“Ahh, nice, nice. How’d she do?” Sterling asks Liam.

“Before or after the wave almost stripped her bare?” Liam asks, laughing. Holy crap, why would you say that to him? No.

“It was nothing.” I laugh nervously, combing my fingers through my wet strands.

“I wouldn’t call that nothing,” Liam adds in. “I copped a feel.” What, are we . . . fifth graders in the boys’ bathroom?

“You do know I’m standing right here,” I pipe in.

“Yeah, you should um, pull your towel up a bit,” Liam mutters and gestures to me, pointing at my on-alert frozen nipples. I grip my towel and hold it against my neck for full coverage. I look back and forth between the two of them, and I feel the testosterone in the air. Sterling expressed that he’s interested in me, but why is Liam acting possessive all of a sudden? I feel like he might come over here and claw his mark into me to claim his territory or something.

“I’m going to get going,” I tell them. I think that would be best for all parties involved at this point.

“Where’s your stuff?” Sterling asks Liam. “You not going back into the water today?”

“I’ll be back at it tomorrow. I pulled something yesterday, so I’m taking a rest day,” Liam tells him.

I feel completely uncomfortable right now, especially seeing the somewhat crushed look on Sterling’s face. It was bad enough I basically told him he couldn’t call me last night after he kissed me, but seeing/hearing all of this now is kind of a slap in the face. He’s misreading this whole situation, and understandably so.

“Hey, Guppy, I know what you said last night, but—” I should just start running now. Sterling makes his way over to me and takes me by the arm, bringing me a few feet away from his brother and Liam. “I couldn’t stop thinking about you last night. That kiss—” Yeah, that word was a little louder than the rest of his words. “It was something else and—did you feel it too?”

I’m trying to avoid the obvious peripheral stare Liam is hiding, not-so-subtly, when I look up at Sterling. “Yeah, I felt it too, but—I told you my reasons. I just need to get settled in here for a bit and figure some things out.

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