Taryn Belle - In Too Deep

“Listen. I don’t even know your name, and that’s going to make for a very bad story when I tell it back home. I’m Alex. Did I mention that already?”

“I believe you did. Nicola,” she said, swinging two more tanks onto the dock.

Alex was impressed—the things weighed a ton, and even though she was slender and feminine she lifted them with ease. He reached out for one of them, his fingers brushing against hers. “Can I give you a hand with those?”

“I’m good.” She paused, finally turning to face him. Her eyes pierced through him, sending a charge through his body. “It’s okay. You’re forgiven, all right? I get that you were under a lot of stress. But I really don’t—”

“I almost drowned when I was five,” Alex blurted out. Her eyes widened, and he shook his head. He’d never told this story to anyone, and here he was about to lay it on a practical stranger. “In the ocean. My mother told my brother to watch me, but he got distracted.”

“That sounds awful,” she said carefully. “How old was your brother?”

“Ten. And already a rock star—in his own mind, anyway.”

Her brow furrowed and then cleared. “Rock star.” She grinned. “Dev Stone is your brother.”

He shrugged. “I guess someone had to get stuck with the job.”

She nodded slowly. “I’m tutoring tonight. Eight o’clock at Pablo’s.”

“Great! I’ll see you...”

But she was already walking away, her long, tanned legs making him ache with every move.

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