Make Me Risk It by Beth Kery

Author:Beth Kery [Kery, Beth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781101988251
Google: 8QReCwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B01AHKY378
Barnesnoble: B01AHKY378
Goodreads: 28648775
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2016-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Present Day

Harper thought maybe she swam faster than she had for her varsity swim meet finals to get away from Jacob, but there was no real competition. He caught her ankle almost immediately, yanking her backward in the water. She broke the surface, snorting with laughter and wiping water out of her eyes.

“Too slow, sucka,” Jacob murmured. Seeing his smug smile, she splashed water in his face.

“Hey,” he said, brows furrowed in an expression of mock offense. He grabbed the arm she’d been planning on using to splash him again. Then he grabbed the other, bringing her closer to him. She squirmed, trying to get away and laughing at her failure.

“Stupid to resist,” he said, still grinning even wider now. She loved seeing that smile.

“Cocky bastard.” She deliberately bumped her forehead into his, clunking their skulls. She saw his eye go wide in disbelief before she took advantage of his loosened hold and heaved her body away from him. He grabbed her again on the shallow end, and she surfaced, choking with laughter.

“That look on your face,” she gasped as he hauled her against him.

“You could have really hurt me.”

“Oh, poor baby,” she crooned, rubbing his forehead as if to soothe him.

Their faces were only inches apart, their naked bodies sliding and pressing together. She circled his arms around his neck, her legs tightening around his hips. Water droplets clung to his long, dark lashes, highlighting his beautiful eyes.

“Where’d a nice girl like you ever learn how to do a Liverpool Kiss?”

“Liverpool Kiss?” she wondered, panting. “That thing I did with our heads? That’s just a basic lesson from Practical Single Woman Living in the Twenty-First Century.”

“Tough world,” he murmured, sliding his big hands along her hips, back, and waist. His eyes glittered. “Soft girl,” he growled, and something swooped in her belly.

“Don’t try to sweet-talk your way out of this,” she admonished.

“You’re the one who head-butted me.”

She grinned. The realization of just how ebullient she felt, even after the strange, stressful night, struck her. That he could make it all fade, all from a few minutes of horsing around in the water together. She shook her head dazedly.

“How do you do it?” she wondered quietly.

“Do what?” he asked, his deft fingers running up and down her spine. She shivered in pleasure.

“Make it all go away so easily . . . make me forget,” she mused, shifting her bare breasts against his solid chest and leaning back in his hold slightly, trying to get a better perspective on his face.

“Isn’t that what I told you I’d do?” he asked.

“Maybe that’s how you’re able to keep people at arm’s length so effortlessly.”

“You’re hardly at arm’s length,” he said with a heavy-lidded glance between their naked, pressing bodies.

“I mean your charm. You make us weak-minded, spineless females forget about getting too close,” she mused, her tone light, but sarcastic, as well.

His gaze went sharp at that. Her heart seemed to skip a beat as he studied her face for a charged few seconds.

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