Pool Games

It was just supposed to be a private afternoon between friends. A chance for Daisy to get comfortable with wearing a bikini. But when Colton shows up things take a sexy turn, and Daisy's plans for college, for Spring Break--and maybe even the rest of her life--will never be the same...

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“I wish I hadn’t let you talk me into this.”

“It will be fine. It’s just us, after all.” Her smile turned into a smirk. “We need to get you out of your shell, especially if we’re going away to spring break together next year.”

I shuddered again. I wasn’t really looking forward to that, but then I’d never been good with crowds. But Tanya had her heart set on going, saying that it was a part of the college experience that she really didn’t want to miss. And she knew there was no better way to get her parents to agree to pay for the trip than to tell them that I was going with her. They seemed to be under the impression that I would somehow keep her out of trouble.

If only they knew...

We’d gone off for our first year of college together and it had been far more common for her to get me into trouble, rather than me keeping her out of it.

I sighed and plucked at the edges of the bikini top, wishing that I could find some way to make the fabric cover just a little more of my breasts. I should have known better than to let Tanya pick this for me, but I’d never liked swimsuit shopping and had not wanted to go on my own.

She had insisted that I try it on. Saying that there was no way in hell that I could wear a one piece to spring break next year.

She had also been the one who insisted that I buy it, even though I was sure that it couldn’t be fitting quite right. Not only did the cups of the top seem a little small, but the bottom had a real tendency to ride up my ass as if it were trying to turn itself into a thong.

Still, it had been a lot easier to agree with Tanya than to try to argue with her on something like this.

“Stop fussing with it.”

“Easy for you to say.” I sat on my hands so that I could at least make an attempt to do as she asked, however.

The sliding door behind us opened and a male voice called out, “Hey, Tanya, have you seen my—”

I bolted forward, diving into the pool almost before I recognized the voice.

Tanya’s stepbrother, Colton.

The last person I would want to see me in a swimsuit, much less…

I surfaced near the edge of the pool, just in time to hear him laugh and say, “What the hell?”

“I promised Daisy that no one else would be home today. She’s… a little self-conscious about what she’s wearing.”

“Oh, really?” I saw one brow go up and he gave me an arch look.

I sank lower in the water. I was fairly certain that I was close enough to the wall that he really wouldn’t be able to see more than I wanted him to. Still, my face was burning and I wished I could sink under the surface until he left. “What are you doing here?”

He got the oddest look on his face. Something almost like… disappointment. But then the expression disappeared. So quickly, I was sure that I must have imagined it. “I had some leftover pizza in the fridge but it’s gone now. You wouldn’t happen to know what happened to it?”

Tanya rolled her eyes, seemingly unaware that the gesture was lost on her stepbrother, since he was still looking in my direction instead of hers. “Ask your father. I’m pretty sure I saw him munching on a slice before he left for the airport this morning.”

The phone inside the house rang and he disappeared through the glass doors. I nearly braced myself to haul out of the pool when Colton returned, and I sank back down again. “Here,” he said, handing her the cordless phone. Their family was one of the few I knew who actually still had a landline instead of relying solely on cell phones. “Someone’s calling about an order you placed.”

Tanya took the device from him and headed back into the house to have her conversation.

Colton started walking toward the pool.

“Don’t get any closer.”