I take the material and run it though my hands. “What’s this?” I ask.
“New suit.”
I frown at the polka dot two-piece. “But I liked your old one. I liked it a lot.”
She goes up on her toes, and puts her mouth near my ear, “Well, you can’t very well be hanging out on the beach with a perma-boner, now can you?”
A groan born from sexual need rises in my throat. “And you think this is going to change that? One look at your beautiful body in this and I’m a goner.”
The smile that comes over her face fucks me over, and it’s all I can do not to drag her into my arms and take her right here on the counter. But tonight, however. Tonight, I’m going to have her here all to myself and I plan to take full advantage of it. Oh, yeah, I want this woman at my mercy while I do dirty things to her.
“Great, now I’m going to have to whack off before going for a swim,” I say and her laughter trails behind her as she dashes upstairs. I tug off my shirt and toss it into the washing machine, and grab a bottle of water from the fridge. I crack it open and take a drink, needing something to cool me down.
Fallon comes back down with Chase, and one look at her and I begin to thicken. After last night, you’d think I’d be sated, but no, the more time I spend with her, the more I want her—in so many ways. And that’s all kinds of fucked up.
“You like?” she asks when she reaches the landing.
I growl, and put my hand on her curvy hip when Chase runs past us. “I’m going to wreck you tonight,” I say and hand her the bottle of water. She wraps her lips around it and takes a long pull. When she finishes, she wipes her mouth with the back of her hand, and her chest heaves.
“Promise?” she asks with a sexy grin that wraps around my cock and tugs.
“Let’s go, Jamie,” Chase says from the door.
“Hey, what about me? she asks, with a laugh. “Jeez, you spend one day fishing with him, and he forgets all about me.”
“I didn’t forget about you,” I assure her. “And I promise to show you that later.” I put my hand on her back and urge her to go ahead of me, partly because Chase is jumping up and down and eager to go, and partly because I want to see her ass in those cute bikini bottoms. She opens the door, and takes Chase’s hand when he looks like he’s about to dart away without us.
“Mommy, Huxley was chasing the fish today.”
“Was he really?” she asks.
“Can we get a Huxley?”
“We can talk about that,” she says, and before I reach her, her cell phone rings. She goes perfectly still, her body as stiff as a surfboard.
“What?” I ask.
Her eyes widen. Why does she look so spooked?
“Nothing. Just leave it,” she says lightly, but her body language is telling a different story. Who does she think is calling, and why does she not want to answer?
“Are you sure?” I jerk my thumb over my shoulder. “I can grab it for you?”
She nods quickly. “It’s vacation time. No electronics,” she says. “And I don’t think Chase can wait another minute.”
“Fair enough.”
Chase tugs on her hand. “Come on, Mommy.”
Forgetting her ringing phone, I step outside with them, and shut the door behind us. The late day sun falls over Fallon, lighting a halo over her head. Her flip flops smack against her feet as she hurries down the beach toward the water. Huxley comes running when he sees Chase, and it doesn’t surprise me. It was love at first sight for Chase, and he spent more time playing with the dog than fishing today. Worms really aren’t his thing, and that thought makes me chuckle. No, dogs are definitely his thing and I’m glad Fallon is considering one. Ethan wasn’t a lover of dogs, having been bit as a child in the park. To be fair, it was an incredibly hot day, and he’d been teasing the dog with a stick, no matter how many times I told him to stop. The animal nipped his ear in protest, and he’d disliked dogs ever since.
Fallon kicks her flip flops off and goes from one foot to the other. “The sand is smoking hot,” she says as her lush breasts bounce with the movement. I stare, mesmerized.
Motherfucker.
Is she trying to kill me?
“That’s not the only thing that’s hot,” I whisper into her ear as I scoop her up.