Senior Week Kiss by Maggie Dallen

Author:Maggie Dallen [Dallen, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-14T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

“Tell me again about those other plans?” Jax said.

At least I thought that was what he said. It was hard to hear when water kept lapping at my ear. After spending ages playing in the surf, we’d moved beyond the breakers to the gently bobbing sea and I had just discovered the miraculous joy that was floating in salt water.

I was weightless, my face lifted up to the sun. This might be heaven. “It’s so relaxing here,” I murmured.

He was close to my side. While he could stand, I’d been treading water and I’d discovered it was just so much easier to float.

There was probably a life lesson there.

He moved beside me, a warm comforting presence in the water. I was grateful for the rippling waves his movements created because his nearness was the one thing keeping me from worrying that I was going to drift out to sea.

I let myself imagine for one moment that I was alone in these vast depths. The water lapping at my ears drowned out the noise of the kids on the shore and for a second I could feel it—what it would be to be lost at sea, just me and the fish and the whales and the sharks…

I jerked myself upright so quickly I sputtered on some saltwater that splashed into my mouth as I’d gasped.

Jax gripped my waist, holding my head above the water as I caught my breath.

“You all right?” His concerned gaze met mine and I couldn’t breathe all over again. We weren’t alone…but we might as well have been. No one around us was close enough to pop this bubble of isolation and even if they were, I wouldn’t have noticed them.

I couldn’t look away from those eyes, not for anything in the world.

His hands on my waist were strong, the heat from his body overwhelming as he drew me closer—not so close that we were pressed together but close enough that I wanted to be.

Badly.

I couldn’t quite seem to get enough air in my lungs and my breathing grew shallow and frantic as I clutched at his shoulders. Soon all I could hear was my own short breaths and his labored exhales, as though he too were struggling for control, if not over his lungs than over his body which seemed to tense and flex beneath my hands. It might sound cheesy but it made me feel like I was tempting my luck with a newly domesticated animal. He was under control…for now, but if I gave him the slightest sign of wavering, he would pounce.

The thought of exactly how he would pounce had me licking my lips.

His gaze followed and he let out a quiet groan. “You are killing me here, Cat.”

I stared at him, thrown off-kilter by the gruff intensity in his voice that was so at odds with the laid-back demeanor I’d come to know.

I finally managed to tear my eyes away from his dangerously hypnotic gaze but the traitorous things fell to his lips instead.

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