Page 3 of Summer with a SEAL

Hunter smirked but didn’t say anything.

“All right, who’s ready to eat?” Jacob asked, rising. He opened the lid of the cooler he’d brought, pulling out packages of hotdogs and buns.

“I’m always ready,” Ryker said. He set his bottle of beer down in the sand and grabbed a skewer, ready to roast his hotdog over the flames.

“Be careful, kids!” one of the women chided as two kids ran by. “Go play farther away from the bonfire.”

Rebecca began passing out juice boxes to the children. She pulled out clear plastic cups for the adults, and Patrick popped the cork on a bottle of wine she handed him.

“I’m good with my wine cooler,” Bailey said, thanking her.

“Emma?” Rebecca asked, offering her a plastic cup of chilled white wine.

“No thank you,” Emma said with a smile. “No wine for me for another seven months.”

Jacob quirked his brow, glancing at the smug look on Hunter’s face and then back at Emma again.

“You’re pregnant?” Rebecca asked with a huge smile. “Congratulations! I had no idea!”

The other women all rushed over to congratulate the couple, and Jacob shook hands with Hunter. “You knew about this?” he asked Noah, catching the expression on his face.

“Just found out after Florida,” he said with a chuckle. “Hunter had to get back to Emma because she wasn’t feeling too great.”

“Well hell,” Jacob said. “There goes the Delta team.”

Hunter chuckled, accepting congratulations from everyone.

The women that Jacob had been watching earlier made their way back to their own towels, spread out on the sand about twenty yards away. Ryker caught Jacob’s eye as he stood, polishing off the hotdog he’d been eating. “I’m going to go see if those ladies want to join us. What do you say?”

“I’m in,” Jacob said with a grin. He put his own hotdog in a bun and wolfed it down in a few bites. “We’ll be back in a few,” he told the other guys. “We’re going to meet the neighbors.”

“Go get some!” Noah said as Bailey playfully elbowed him in the side.

Jacob strode after Ryker toward the women, and he caught the brunette watching him again. His blood heated as his gaze ran over her curves once more. Hell, she was beautiful. Long, tan legs. Wavy brown hair. Gorgeous breasts accentuated by that frilly bikini top.

The dark sunglasses she had on shielded her gaze from him, but if her body language was any indication, she was interested.

And he was ready to have a hell of a good time learning more about her.

Chapter 2

Jessica Lockwood sank down onto her beach towel in the soft sand, watching the ocean waves rolling in and crashing on the shore. The salty breeze blew through her hair, and she brushed a wavy strand back behind her ear, glancing over at her friends.

“Hey, Jess—you want a beer?” Amy asked, opening the cooler tote bag they’d brought with them.

“Sure, hand one over,” she said, taking it from her friend. The bottle opener that Michelle tossed to her landed on the sand, and Jessica grumbled jokingly as she retrieved it. “You throw like a girl.”

Michelle tossed her blonde hair back over her shoulder, grinning. “I am a girl. And I’m pretty sure those military guys over there noticed.”

“And we noticed them,” Amy quipped.

Jessica glanced over to the bonfire further down the beach, and her skin heated as she thought of the man with short cropped brown hair who’d kept glancing her way. Most of the guys seemed to be with a date or girlfriend, but a couple of them appeared to be single.

Him included.

Her guy was tall, with broad shoulders and muscled arms. Maybe he wasn’t quite as big as some of the other men, but he was certainly in perfect shape. Tanned and muscular, with a permanent grin on his face. She’d caught him watching her when she and her friends were down at the water—or had he caught her looking at him?

She flushed, recalling the crooked grin on his face as his gaze roamed over her.

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