Page 79 of Forbidden King (Magnolia Falls)

I thought about talking to Hayes and telling him how I was feeling. I hadn’t brought it up to any of the guys, but they’d noticed how much time I spent with her, especially since Hayes had left town.

I didn’t feel right discussing it with them before I talked to him.

And what would I even say?

I can’t get enough of your sister, and I get off to thoughts of her in the shower every fucking day. I think about her every fucking minute of the day.

He’d laugh in my face, and he’d have every right to.

My track record was not good. But I’d also never felt this way about anyone.

So maybe I’d talk to her about it once we were out in the water.

Admit that I was feeling things I’d never felt before.

“You got lucky finding this house on the canal. It’s perfect for swimming,” I said, as I followed her outside. “You don’t have the boats over here.”

She’d slipped into her pink bikini, and I was doing everything in my power not to stare. Her tan skin glistened in the last bit of sunlight, and when we got down to the little dock sitting by the water, she dropped her shorts.

“Are you going to swim fully clothed?” She turned around and smiled at me.

I yanked my tee over my head and kicked off my shoes. I didn’t miss the way her eyes raked over me as I shoved my jeans down my legs, leaving me in nothing but my black fitted briefs.

Her eyes widened, and I followed her gaze down to see my erection straining against the fabric. I was hard every single time I was around this girl, and there was no hiding it when I was standing here with just thin cotton covering my eager dick.

“I told you it’s been a while, so it is what it is,” I said.

She chuckled before pulling all that pretty blonde hair up into a messy knot on top of her head and wrapping some kind of hair tie around it. She stepped down the few steps into the water and gasped as she let go, keeping her head just above the water. I followed her in and yelped as I adjusted to the cold water.

“It actually feels good after sitting in the car all day.” I swam behind her as she glanced over her shoulder.

“Come check out this cool little cove I found the other day.”

I moved beside her, rolling onto my back and tipping my head back to wet my hair.

“Where are you taking me?” I asked, before I rolled back onto my stomach just in time to see her ass above the water as she kicked ahead of me.

“Just trust me.” She swam a little further before coming to a stop under a huge tree, which formed a large canopy over the water. “Look at this. Someone hung a swing over here. And look through the branches. The sun’s about to set, and we have the perfect view. Have you ever seen anything more beautiful?”

She held onto the rope hanging off the tree as she stared straight up at the orange-and-pink-filled sky—but I was staring right at her.

“I can’t say I have.”

Her head straightened, and she caught me looking at her as I pushed to stand, finding the bottom with my feet, and I moved in front of her.

I gripped the sides of the shabby wood that she’d pulled herself to sit on, and she held onto the rope on each side. “You want me to push you?”

“Nope.” Her voice was just above a whisper.

“You know what we were talking about in the car?”

“Yes.” She reached out with one hand and stroked the hair away from my face as I moved to stand between her legs.

“I sometimes wonder if maybe I’ve always been single because the only girl I really ever wanted was the one I couldn’t have.” My heart raced as I admitted to her what I’d been wondering since my grandmother called me out on it.

“But you can have her. You’ve just decided to become ridiculously moral all of a sudden.”

“He’s my best friend, Saylor,” I said, as she reached for my shoulders and pulled herself forward. My hands found her perfectly round ass, and I stepped back from the swing, and her legs wrapped around my waist. “We have a pact, the five of us. You know that.”

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