Riptide (A Renegades Novel) by Skye Jordan & Joan Swan

Author:Skye Jordan & Joan Swan [Jordan, Skye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cygnet Books
Published: 2017-05-11T18:30:00+00:00

18

Zach pulled up to the gate of Jax Chamberlin’s Maui property with Sophia singing to the soundtrack of Moana in the backseat and Tessa holding his hand across the car’s console. He’d finished filming the last surfing scene earlier that day, and Jax had called to tell him the studio had an offer waiting.

He would have been elated if Tessa and Sophia’s departure wasn’t imminent. But they only had a few days left in Hawaii, leaving Zach unsettled and depressed.

The gates parted before Zach could even ring the bell, and a deep voice drenched with melodrama announced, “Enter at your own risk, mwahahahahaha” over the intercom with a laugh wicked enough to belong in a haunted house.

“Mommy?” Sophia’s nervous voice came from the backseat. “What’s that scary voice?”

“Effing idiots,” Zach said under his breath. Then he told Sophia, “It’s just my friends being silly.”

When he met Tessa’s gaze, she was smiling at him, and her eyes sparkled.

“Have I told you how beautiful you look?” he asked. She was wearing a pretty slip of a dress that accentuated all the curves of her body. Her hair was down and straight. She looked amazing.

“Maybe half a dozen times.” She looked ahead as they coasted inside the gates and onto the property. “Good Lord.” Her gaze skipped around the manicured grounds and over the three-story modern home at the water’s edge. “This is worth…millions. Like, multimillions.”

“And it’s only one of his homes.”

Her suspicious gaze turned on Zach. “He earns that much as a stuntman?”

Zach laughed. “Hardly. He was an actor before he started the Renegades. That’s where he got the bulk of his fortune.”

“Ah.”

The air in the car shifted, and Zach glanced at Tessa. He couldn’t pinpoint how he knew she’d grown tense, only that she had. “What’s bothering you?”

She shook her head and lowered her voice. “Our little angel isn’t always an angel, if you know what I mean. I hope we don’t embarrass you.”

Zach chuckled and squeezed her hand. “Believe me, if anyone’s going to embarrass me, it won’t be anyone in this car. It will be the other Renegades. And I’ll just go ahead and apologize in advance.”

Zach parked and stood from the car, opened the back door for Sophia and unbuckled her. She squirmed out of her seat. Straightening, Zach met Tessa’s gaze over the roof of the car.

“What?” he asked.

“Look at you all savvy with a car seat already.”

He wasn’t sure which gave him more joy, the fact that she noticed or her praise. Either way, that one small thing gave him an irrational thrill. He huffed on his nails, then buffed them on his shirt, making Tessa laugh.

As if things weren’t already fantastic, Sophia pressed her little body against his leg and wound her hand in his. “Daddy,” she said looking up at the house, “is this the house with the pool?”

He bent, collected her in his arms, and met Tessa at the front of the car, where he curled his free hand around hers. “It sure is,” he told Sophia.

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