The Summer Escape by Jill Shalvis

Author:Jill Shalvis [Shalvis, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-06-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Owen was yanked from an erotic dream involving a moonlit night on the lake and a naked Anna when his phone began buzzing its way across his nightstand. It was 6:00 a.m., and the caller was the woman in his dream.

“Sorry if I woke you,” Anna said.

He scrubbed a hand down his face, trying to shrug off the sensual fog. Turbo helped by climbing up his body to lick his face. “You okay?” he asked Anna, not the dog, who he gently pushed away.

“I’ve . . . got a question,” she said.

In his dream she’d had a question too, involving kissing her way down his body and asking him after each brush of her lips if he liked what she was doing . . .

“So?” she asked.

He’d missed her question and did his best to shove the dream away.

“I’m not sure you understand how this phone thing works,” she said. “You have to actually use words.”

“Maybe I’d rather use my words on other things.”

“Ah, so you do have an allocated number of words per day. I knew it.” There was amusement in her voice now. “What is it? One hundred? Two hundred?”

He smiled. “Anna.”

“One.”

He laughed.

“Oh, crap,” she said. “I gotta go, my other line’s going off.”

“Your question—”

But she was gone.

He was still thinking about her a few hours later at work out on the lake, when a hard gust of wind came out of nowhere, knocking him right off his paddleboard and face-first into the water.

When he surfaced, Ky was laughing so hard he nearly fell off his own board. “You okay, princess? Need a hand?”

He offered Ky his middle finger and climbed back on his board, eyeing the wild whitecaps that had appeared across the water as far as the eye could see. Had to be fifteen knots, which certainly hadn’t been in his daily weather memo. But that was Tahoe for you—in regards to the weather, the only thing you could predict was that it would be unpredictable.

They’d given a kayaking class that had ended an hour ago and were now trying out some new boards. “Someone wasn’t thinking about what he was doing,” Ky said. “Someone’s mind was far away. Probably on the woman who’s turned him upside down and inside out—just like that last gust of wind.”

Owen rolled his eyes. “I was thinking about how I’m going to kick my partner’s ass back to shore so that he has to buy lunch.”

“You’re on. Three, two . . .” And Ky took off.

“Cheater!” Owen yelled.

As they’d done a thousand times, they raced for the beach, dogging the crazy swells the best they could. When Ky, ahead of Owen by one length of a board, turned to look back and eye him smugly, Owen grinned. Ky’s smug smile faded as he whipped back around, but it was too late.

He took a huge swell right in the face and was launched.

Owen laughed so hard, he had to drop to his knees to hold on.

Ky surfaced, sputtering. “I meant to do that,” he said as Owen stood back up and passed right on by him.

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