Grounds for Seduction (Seattle Steam) by Shelli Stevens

Author:Shelli Stevens [Stevens, Shelli]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled; Select Contemporary; contemporary romance; romance; Shelli Stevens; Seattle, friends to lovers, protector, cop, police, law enforcement
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Select Contemporary)
Published: 2017-03-27T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

They walked about a mile before he steered them off the beach and onto a barely noticeable trail in the forest.

“What’s back here?” Madison asked, wiping the sweat from her forehead. She was hot and sticky and hoped that Gabe had told her to wear her swimsuit under her clothes for a reason.

“About fifteen minutes into the forest, there’s a great lake to go swimming in.” He glanced back at her. “If you don’t want to swim, we can just do the picnic lunch.”

“Oh, I’m swimming.” She grinned. “I think I’m wearing half the sand from the beach.”

They kept walking, and soon she spotted the shimmer of a greenish-blue lake. She gave a yelp of excitement and pushed past him to run ahead.

When she reached the opening of the trees, she looked over at the picnic area. It must be a place people came to, because there were picnic tables and fire pits around.

“I love it. Is this only accessible by hiking in?”

“No,” he admitted, coming to stand beside her. “There’s a back road most people don’t know about. But the hike makes it that much better.”

“No kidding.” Madison walked to the picnic table and sat, sighing as her feet started to tingle. “That was a great hike, but my feet are about ready to fall off.”

“And just think.” Gabe set the backpack on the table. “We get to do it again on the way back.”

She raised an eyebrow. “I can handle it. But I plan on staying here for at least an hour, with or without you.”

“With me. This is my time to play, too.” He pulled off his T-shirt, exposing his hard chest.

Madison had to lift her gaze from the taut muscles there, to his shoulder and the jagged red line on it. Her insides twisted as she remembered how he’d acquired it.

“How’s the bullet woun—graze?”

“It’s fine. Forgot I even had it,” he assured her and unzipped his pants.

She laughed. “Whoa there, boy. Give a girl a chance to catch her breath.”

“Catch your breath, mi vida.” He jerked the jeans off his legs and stood in front of her in his boxers. “I’m going swimming. Are you sure you don’t want to come?”

“No, I do. Actually, nothing sounds better than cooling off right now. I’m sweating like a pig.” She grinned and unzipped her sweater.

“Good choice.” Gabe walked over to his backpack and pulled something black and shiny out of it.

“What’s that?” Madison asked as she shrugged out of her shirt and jeans.

“Plastic inner tube.”

She watched as he went to work blowing it up. Although he seemed focused on getting it inflated, his gaze followed her while she undressed. His eyes darkened when she had finished and stood before him in her bikini.

Madison held back her smile. Hmm, so he liked the red string bikini, did he? Good thing she’d thought to pack it on the trip to Whidbey.

But what was the inner tube for? “I’m a pretty good swimmer. I don’t think I’ll need that.”

He raised an eyebrow and kept blowing.

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