Crazy For You by Alexander S.B

Author:Alexander, S.B.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-25T00:00:00+00:00

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When we reached our friends, he set me down. I had to hold onto him for a minute to steady myself, and not because a wave had thrown me around like a volleyball in a tense match. My jitters were due to the brown-eyed guy who was looking at me as though I had saved him.

“About fucking time, man,” Grady said to Colton. “I thought you wouldn’t go through with it.”

Mia, Georgia, and I exchanged a perplexed look. Did Grady mean save me or something else? I didn’t want to ask, but Colton’s don’t-you-dare expression made me go with something else. Maybe he liked me but had been afraid to make the first move, although saving me wasn’t what I’d had in mind.

Georgia and Mia snapped into action, asking me if I was okay.

“I’m fine,” I told my friends.

Mia narrowed her eyes. “Don’t scare us like that again.”

I didn’t plan to. It was a freak accident, and if I hadn’t gulped down the saltwater, I might’ve been able to swim in.

Georgia hugged me briefly. “Let’s not go swimming for a while. Now that you’re good, I have to run. Mom is taking me to dinner for our monthly mom-and-daughter time.”

Normally, depression set in any time Georgia and her mom did the whole bonding thing. I often thought of my mom. If she’d been alive, we would have many similar nights. But with Colton near me, I couldn’t think straight, let alone drop into a deep depression.

“What?” Mia squealed. “I thought we would grab a bite. You know, all five of us.”

I couldn’t eat. My stomach was in a knot the size of Earth, a love knot or a lust knot or both. But if going out to eat meant sitting next to Colton, I was all for it. I wasn’t sure about hanging with Grady. He brought out the feisty side of me, and I didn’t want to ruin the high I was on.

Grady cocooned Mia in his arms from behind, nuzzling her neck. “You’re my dinner, baby.”

I refrained from rolling my eyes as Mia giggled.

“We have the house all to ourselves. My dad is gone until tomorrow,” Grady said, looking at Colton as though he dared him to agree to dinner.

Colton waved him off. “It’s time I head home and face the music.”

I let out a quiet sigh. I didn’t want to watch Grady and Mia suck face all night. On the other hand, anxiety settled in my bones, hoping Colton didn’t take another beating from his dad. Maybe he didn’t have to go home just yet.

“Want to have dinner at my house?” I asked Colton. “Afterwards, you can change the oil in my car like you promised.”

He gave me the sweetest look. “Sounds like a plan.”

A swarm of butterflies went wild in my stomach. I wanted to say really or seriously or something shockingly idiotic, but I kept my lips glued together, feeling like I’d just won the boyfriend lottery.

Georgia’s eyes got bigger the longer she stood there. “Well, my work is done.

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