feel in the height of summer. How thrilling it would be to come here with your friends as a teenager to prove you were daring enough to bare it all.
Not that Mia ever would have done anything like that. She’d been neither daring nor reckless enough, even in her teenage years. Especially in her teenage years. Her greatest act of rebellion had been the math tattoo she’d gotten on her eighteenth birthday with her mother’s blessing.
Josh rubbed his nose into her hair. “Me and Wyatt and a bunch of our friends, yeah.”
Her arms tightened around him. “Guy friends or girl friends?”
“Both.” His hands dropped to her ass and squeezed. “Otherwise, what’s the fun?”
“What about Andie?”
“Hell no. I wouldn’t let her. I didn’t want my little sister seeing all my friends naked, and I sure as hell didn’t want my friends seeing my little sister naked.”
Mia smiled, wishing she’d had a big brother to watch over her. “It sounds like maybe she used to come here anyway.”
“Yeah, I guess sometimes she’d sneak off on nights she knew I wouldn’t be here. And then once I left for college there wasn’t much I could do about it.” He touched his thumb under Mia’s chin and tipped her head up to frown at her. “I really don’t want to talk about my sister right now.”
“Fair enough,” she agreed.
When he kissed her, it warmed her down to her toes. The last rays of sunlight danced on the surface of the water as she pressed her body into his, the cold all but forgotten.
He moved farther down the ledge, tugging her along with him. Then he backed up against the edge of the pool and hopped up onto a narrow jut of flat rock so only the tops of his shoulders broke the surface of the water. Pulling her against him, he kissed her again, then spun her around. With her back to him, he picked her up, settling her between his legs.
Mia leaned back against his chest, his thighs bracketing hers, and sighed as his hands smoothed over her belly. His mouth dropped to her neck as he cupped her breasts, and she tilted her head to give him better access.
“I suppose it’s probably against the law to actually have sex here,” she said, digging her fingernails into his thighs.
He nipped her earlobe as his thumbs flicked her nipples. “Definitely.”
“Not to mention unhygienic.”
“Possibly.” His tongue traced the curve of her ear, and he stroked his hands down her body, over her hips to her thighs. “Do you care?”
She rubbed against him, unable to help herself. “Not if you keep doing that.”
One of his hands slid between her thighs as the other spread over her stomach, holding her against him. Not that she needed the encouragement. His caresses already had her quivering and writhing against him.
“Oh my god, are we really doing this?” Her head dropped back against his shoulder as his fingers stroked her with leisurely circles.
“Why not?” His breath was hot on her neck, his voice a low murmur in her ear.
“I thought with the cold water you might have a little trouble with…shrinkage.”
He pressed his very obvious arousal into the cleavage of her ass cheeks. “Does it feel like I’m having any trouble right now?”
“No.” Her chest hitched as his strokes grew less leisurely. “No, it does not.”
“But I can stop if you want.”
Her hand clamped on his wrist. “Don’t you dare.”
A low, rumbling laugh reverberated through his chest and into hers. “Then I guess we’re doing this.”
She let out a surprised squeak as he lifted her up. The buoyancy of the water rendered her nearly weightless in his hands as he lowered her onto him. Her surprised squeak quickly morphed into a gratified moan, and she reached back to tangle her fingers in his wet hair.
Oh yeah.
They were definitely doing this.
Reptiles had life figured out. That was what Mia decided as she stretched out on the sun-warmed rock beside the swimming hole.
She and Josh had stayed in the water until twinkling stars had pierced the last watery rays of sunlight in the sky overhead, and then they’d gotten out and dried off, rubbing warmth into each other’s chilled bodies with the towels he’d brought.
At first she’d been skeptical when he told her to lie down on the blanket. But as soon as she sat her bare butt down on the thin quilt, the stored heat radiating off the stone began to seep into her body. Lying back, she stretched her hands