Sold Short (Sidelined Book 3) by Ainslie Paton

Author:Ainslie Paton [Paton, Ainslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Supervised by Cats
Published: 2016-10-04T21:00:00+00:00

FIFTEEN

Sarina touched her lips. It was like Dev had seared them from her face. How had she never guessed he would kiss like it was his only reason to live?

Water rippled around his shoulders and his hair was slicked back, his lashes clumped and spiky. There was nothing soft about Dev without his clothes on, nothing so comfortable as movie night, as lazy breakfasts.

Dev wet wasn’t cute, he was cut your heart out. And given she’d had to harden hers against the disappointment of his casual affection and romantic indifference, it’d taken one hell of a sharp instrument to leave her with a life-threatening wound.

But not even Colby, trained to slay with a kiss, had made her feel so aggressively needy to be touched.

“Get out of the pool, Dev.” He looked like he could happily sink to the bottom and stay there. She’d cheerfully hold him under except that wasn’t going to put her fire out.

He waded to the side, put his hands to the concrete and pressed up to his feet, coming to stand with a torrent of water caressing down his torso and sluicing off his legs. He palmed a hand through his hair, pushing it out of his face, but he kept his eyes down.

“Take me home.”

Up came his chin. “Sarina, I—”

“Shut up.” She’d made the mistake of watching his mouth and that’d never been action, reaction in her body before. Now it was all she could do not to order him to her lips.

She went for her towel but velvet cotton wasn’t what she wanted on her skin. Impatient, she wrangled shorts on, almost strangled herself getting her t-shirt over her damp body.

Beside her, Dev was slower to move, but he didn’t leave for the change rooms. She shouldn’t watch him scrub dry his hair, side-to-side a towel over his back and hold it to his chest where droplets caught in fine dark hair. It only made her anger fizz so loud in her veins it crackled in her ears. She wanted to be the damn towel.

Last time she’d seen him this undressed was when they swam here as students. He’d been more towel than body. Skinny, awkwardly shy and terminally polite. So damn earnest, humble and sweet. Trailed by Reid who was gorgeous to look at and didn’t know it, whose lack of self-awareness was hypnotically bad, his introversion painful to watch. Dev had learned confidence for both of them, on a personal mission to ensure Reid didn’t flame out, a casualty of his own genius. Dev had been quietly awe-inspiring then, bringing them together as a group and driving them forward with his pragmatic, egoless belief and unfailing good cheer.

Like this, elegantly near-naked but stripped of his usual calm and collected, he didn’t look like her Dev. He was all the more vulnerable for not being buttoned down and in control. For having shown her his appetite was made of unexpected carnal ingredients: a teasing touch, a bruising grip, a hard-bodied hug, the sweep of a tongue that poisoned her nervous system and made her sick on lust.

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