“Oh, this sounds . . . interesting.”
Mack was walking hand in hand with Dean to the beach behind her sister and brother-in-law, and it filled Mack with so much love that she stopped walking and looked into Dean’s eyes. “Kiss me, Dean.”
“Anytime, babe.” Then his lips came down on hers with a possessiveness she’d only ever experienced with him. It wasn’t a scary possessiveness; it was exhilarating.
She moved in close, plunged her hands into his hair, and massaged his scalp as the kiss deepened. Dean growled and grabbed hold of Mack’s hips, pulling her in close enough to feel what she did to him.
Melinda and Daniel turned around. “Get a room!” Melinda shouted.
Out of the blue, Melinda suddenly turned and engaged her husband in a very hot lip lock.
Mack and Dean pulled apart, laughing, and when they saw Melinda and Daniel, Dean let out a wolf whistle. Dean took hold of Mack’s hand as he pulled her forward. “Come on, let’s go down to the beach and make out.”
“Oh my God, please tell me you aren’t going to be . . . well, you know—” Melinda trailed off, waving her arms around.
Dean replied, laughing, “We just might!”
As they walked to the beach, they were still holding hands. Mack was excited being here with Dean, along with her sister and Daniel. She certainly couldn’t wait to see how Dean reacted once she removed her shorts and top.
She watched her sister and husband as they stopped a bit in front of them. They seemed to be having a ‘discussion,’ but about what, Mack couldn’t make out, as they were whispering.
Sometimes she found it hard to believe Melinda and Daniel were a couple. Her sister was the flighty one, and Daniel, the straitlaced doctor.
Once, when both Mack and Melinda were having a night on the town, they’d gotten rather drunk and Mack had asked her sister what Daniel was like in the sack. Instead of censoring her reply, she had given Mack more details than she actually needed or wanted. Luckily, her sister hadn’t remembered, but unfortunately, Mack had.
Dean let go of Mack’s hand, having arrived at the beach. He started to strip; first, his T-shirt came off, showing his tight abs, then his jeans, to reveal a pair of swimming shorts, which rode low on his hips. Both Mack and Melinda stood frozen to the spot.
Mack came back to her senses, licked her lips, and then nudged her sister. “Hey, he’s mine. Eyes off, Mel.” Just as she spoke, Daniel also started to strip. “Wow, Daniel, when did you get that body . . . and a tattoo? You do realize that I won’t be able to look at you as a conservative doctor anymore,” she teased. Mack knew her brother-in-law had a trim figure, but she had no idea he had a tattoo.
Dean laughed and walked over to put his arm around Mack’s neck. “Stop ogling your brother-in-law.”
“Jealous?”
He gave Mack a hard kiss. “Yes!”
“Then I don’t suppose you want to know that I was ogling you first while you stripped.”
“I can carry on if you like?” Dean teased.
“Don’t you dare. Later, in private, I’ll take you up on the offer.”
“You want to go for a swim?”
“Maybe later. I’ve told Melinda I want to tell her a love story so I’m going to tell her about Rose and Jacob.”
“Okay. I spoke to my grandfather before I came back to the cottage this morning, and he’ll make sure they’re both home tomorrow morning. He said that they can’t wait to meet the woman who has finally captured my heart.”
She reached up and kissed him briefly on the lips. “That is so sweet.”
As she finished talking, she unbuttoned her shorts, slid them down her legs, and kicked them to one side. Seeing the look on Dean’s face, she slowly continued to take her T-shirt off and tossed it over to him. He was standing in front of her, looking at her from the tips of her toes to the top of her head, then he met her eyes.
“You like?
” Mack asked with a saucy grin and hands on her hips.
He groaned. “You little minx. I’m going for a swim to cool off.” Then he ran to the ocean with Daniel following since Melinda had obviously given her husband a show.
Mack laid down next to her sister while Melinda watched the retreating backs of both guys. “He is one hot guy, Mack. God, when he took his shirt off, I nearly fainted.”