Risk Me by Lexi Scott

Author:Lexi Scott [Scott, Lexi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled, Silver Strand, Lexi Scott, Depths, surfer, contemporary romance, new adult, workplace, romance, online, friends to lovers, Embrace, beach, surf, NA, long distance, ocean
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Maren

My muscles feel deliciously jelly-like. It’s been way too long since I spent the day just having fun. Not worrying about bills or work or my father or chores. Today was like a little slice of paradise.

It sure as hell didn’t hurt that I spent the day gazing at an Adonis.

The time I’ve spent face to face with Cohen is still so fractional compared to the time we spent on the phone, when he pretty much existed as a figment of my imagination.

My imagination, I quickly realize, is shamefully weak. It couldn’t begin to fathom dark, velvety eyes that could look at me with such adorable sweetness, then flip to starved sexiness in a flash. It failed to consider the possibility of the irresistible dimple that creases one side of his cheek, the cutest detail that softens his sharply handsome face. And his body? Broad shoulders, strong arms, a smooth, perfect back, bulging thighs that straddle a surfboard the way I only wish I could straddle him—

Stop it, stop it, you pervert! You’re here to chaperone. Community service. Mind out of the gutter, Maren.

With that thought, I use every ounce of willpower in my body to tear my eyes away from Cohen and smile at Kona, handing her a sandwich from the packed cooler.

“Thank you.” She sighs, then tears into it with a huge bite. She barely chews before she swallows. “I could eat a horse. Surfing destroys me,” she says happily.

“You looked amazing out there,” I say.

“Thanks. Deo is a great teacher. I’m lucky I got into this program. I heard there were, like, five hundred applications for fifteen spots.” She raises her eyebrows. “I remember when I first showed up with my beat-to-hell board—my dad’s buddy found it for me cheap at a garage sale—Deo didn’t laugh at me or roll his eyes or anything. He said if I could work a piece of crap sled like that, imagine what I could do on a real board.”

“She kicks all our asses,” Darren says, coming up behind us to snag two sandwiches with his big hands. “Kona makes us look like a bunch of kooks.”

“Nah,” Kona says, blushing and taking another bite.

“You know it,” Darren says with a crooked smile. “One day I’ll brag about how I surfed a couple summers with the great Kona Dhani.”

Kona looks up at Darren, wipes the breadcrumbs off her mouth with the back of her hand, and shakes her head.

“Crazy talk,” she says with a hint of sadness in her voice. “Too bad my parents already have my life all planned out, and they’re pretty dead set on me being a doctor, not a surfer. Before they even let me submit my application to do this program, I had to get straight As all year and convince them that surfing is just as much a sport as soccer or softball. They’re cool with me doing it as long as I could get a scholarship based on it.”

“Hey, you can totally be a surfing doctor,” Darren suggests, and they both laugh.

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