Lovewrecked - Karina Halle Page 0,92
yourself if you don’t at least try.”
I rub my lips together, suddenly too shy to say the next part.
“I was thinking…maybe I could go to school in New Zealand.”
There. I said it.
It has been said.
Tai blinks at me. “New Zealand?”
Oh crap. Oh no. Oh, that was the wrong thing to say.
“I mean, I’m not saying I’ll be near you. No pressure! I just thought…you know, somewhere. Maybe down south where Lacey and Richard are.”
He frowns, shaking his head. Okay, I guess going to school to be near them is a bit of a stretch. “Well, that’s fine. I can come to you.”
“What?”
You can come to me?
“Daisy, are you serious about this?”
I nod, wanting him to go back to what he said before, that he could come to me. “I think so.”
“You think so? Do you really want to move to New Zealand, to go to school?”
“Yes?”
He puts his hand at my cheek and searches my eyes deeply, looking for something inside me. I want him to see what I feel for him. “You’ll stay with me?” he asks, brows furrowed.
“Stay with you?” I repeat, my heart starting to pound.
“Yes,” he says.
“Are you asking or—”
“I’m asking, Daisy. I’m asking that if you move to New Zealand, that we can be together. And if you go to a school somewhere else, we can be together there, too.”
My stomach flips. Butterflies have been unleashed.
“You’d want that?”
“Gingersnap,” he says, pressing his forehead against mine. “I’ll go wherever you go. All I know is that I’m going to be with you. I told you that. One sunrise at a time, with me by your side.”
I thought those were pretty words. I didn’t think he really meant it.
“What about your chartering company?”
“I’ll make it work. You’re never too far from the ocean when you live on an island.” He kisses me softly on the lips. “You have no idea what I’d do for you.”
My god.
I am melting inside.
Whatever glacier my heart used to be has fully dissolved and I am nothing but a puddle. A sappy puddle of love.
Ugh.
Is this the person I’ve become?
One madly in love? Yup.
“Well, you have no idea what I’d do for you,” I tell him, kissing him back, my hand sliding down his rock-hard abs, toward his swim trunks. “And I mean, sexually. In case you didn’t know.”
“You’re never not obvious,” he says, lying on his back and watching me as I take his already hard cock out of his trunks and make a fist. I start running my hand up and down his soft, rigid shaft, watching him watch me, before his eyes roll back and his head flops down on the sand.
I can’t remember the last time I’ve done a good old-fashioned handjob. It’s a skill that’s sorely overlooked.
“God, don’t stop,” Tai says through a groan. “Keep going.”
My hand goes faster and faster and—
“Hey! Hey you guys!”
Oh my god.
I quickly let go of his cock, and look up to see the dinghy approaching us from across the lagoon.
Lacey is sitting at the front, waving her arms at us, looking to be smiling or something. Richard and Fred are behind her, also looking joyous.
Tai sits up, quickly tucking his dick away with a frustrated groan. “What the hell is she so happy about?” he grumbles. “Cockblocker.”
Lacey was supposed to come over here later, and we were going to have a spa day, where I’d light my candle and give her a pedicure (sand makes the best foot scrub), but I have a feeling that’s not it. Unless the boys want pedicures too. There’s no way I’m touching Fred’s feet.
The boat is barely at the shore when Lacey is climbing over the bow, and jumping into the water, running through it toward us, grinning.
She looks insane.
“What’s going on?” I ask her warily.
“We’re getting rescued!” she yells, barreling right into me and pulling me into a hug. “We’re getting rescued!”
I stare at Tai over my shoulder, confused, too afraid to believe her.
“Is this true?” Tai asks them.
“It’s the truth, Captain,” Richard says, grinning. He points to his missing tooth. “And not a moment too soon, I think I was getting used to this look.”
“We’re getting rescued!” Lacey continues to squeal, jumping up and down as she holds me. My brains are getting jostled, it’s hard to know what’s right.
I look to Fred for help.
He nods, standing in the water beside the boat. “We have two hours to pack and get ready. Plane is already on route from Nadi as we speak.”
“This is