Page 19 of His to Seduce
Because of a guy.
Chelsea stepped forward first, Trina quickly following. “Yeah, we were.” Chelsea’s scowl turned to a grin as she raked her gaze over David and me. I released his hand and stepped away. “But I see you had more important things to do, so you’re forgiven.”
“I’m so sorry—”
She lifted a hand and shook her head. “No apologies. Where were you all day? We looked for you for, like, ever.”
“Or an hour,” Trina said, smirking. “Declan and I at least figured with the way you two disappeared last night, you wouldn’t want to be disturbed for a while.”
Next to me, David tried to cover his laugh and failed.
Heat bloomed to my roots and enveloped my entire body. How embarrassing!
“They’re all talking about us,” I said, flinging my head in David’s direction. “I told you they would! They all know.”
“That you got laid?” Chelsea said, teasing. “You’re an adult—it’s bound to happen at some point.”
Kill her. I was going to kill her. As I stepped forward to throttle one of my best friends, David’s hand grabbed my wrist and yanked me back to him.
“Where were you, anyway?” Trina asked. “We looked all over the resort when you didn’t show for the massage.”
Chelsea held up a finger. “Actually, it was after the massage.”
“Nice to know you took the time to relax when you were worried about me,” I muttered.
She stuck her tongue out at me.
“We went snorkeling and cliff jumping,” David said, his shoulders still shaking from laughter.
Chelsea and Trina both turned to me, eyebrows jumping so high up their foreheads I thought they might fly off.“You?”
“Yeah, you didn’t know Camden here is a regular daredevil. Swims with sharks, jumps off fifty-foot cliffs…”
I elbowed David in the ribs to get him to be quiet.
“Twenty feet.”
He shrugged. “Forty.”
My eyes popped. “Really? That high?”
He chortled.
Chelsea’s jaw dropped to the sand. “What? You?” She snapped her mouth closed and clapped her hands. “That’s incredible!”
In the last twenty-four hours, I’d done things I wouldneverhave done before. Their surprise at my ability to actually let loose sent an icky feeling to my stomach.
Was I really so boring? So predictable? The thought tasted like sour milk.
“Yeah, but that’s wonderful. How was it?” Trina asked.
“The jump was terrifying,” I admitted.
“She was incredible,” David said, cutting in before I could finish. But how do you tell someone what you’d experienced? There were no words to describe the thrill that rushed through me or the vivid, bright colors in the water. “All brave and bold.”
I blushed beneath his praise and couldn’t bring myself to look at him.
I hadn’t been brave or bold. I’d been a quivering, terrified mess most of the day and he’d seen me more vulnerable, more real than most people ever had in my life. Somehow, he’d stripped away a layer of protection I wore like armor and now pretended he hadn’t seen it in the first place.
