Page 39 of Fear of Intimacy

“Okay, picture time!”

“I wassurprised you never found out,” Lydia said a couple hours later as all us girls sat at the hotel bar.

“I had no idea. I mean, Wyatt was acting a little different earlier but that was it.”

“Wyatt called me at least three times, worried that you knew or had found the ring.” I said. Every other day, I swore Wyatt was texting me to make sure Josie hadn’t found out. I eventually just took the ring and put it in my drawer by my bed. The day before we left, I went by their apartment and gave Wyatt the ring before Josie got home from work.

“He’s so cute,” she mumbled, looking down at her ring for the hundredth time in the last twenty minutes. Not that I blamed her. It was absolutely gorgeous.

“I’m just happy we pulled it off. The videos and pictures we got were pretty good,” Mila said as she sipped the last of her cocktail.

“I was surprised the guys were able to get such good pictures,” Lydia commented. The pictures the guys took almost looked better than Mila’s. Who knew they could take good photos?

“Speaking of,” Lydia looked over at me, “what exactly happened with you and Trevor?”

“Yeah, why did it look like you rolled around in the dirt together?” Josie leaned forward in her chair as she asked. All eyes landed on me as they waited for an answer. I was tempted not to say anything but with the way they were all staring, I knew I couldn’t get out of it.

“After you guys left us at the gift shop, thanks for that, by the way.” I narrowed my eyes at Josie, who just grinned in response. “Trevor and I walked around for a bit before he overheard a couple talking about a waterfall trail.” I found it comical how each of them listened so intently as I spoke.

“Anyway, we somehow ended up on a ten-mile hikeround trip together. Trevor nudged me and almost sent me into the water so I shoved him back…and he fell in.”

Josie and Mila snorted as Lydia shook her head.

“Not my fault the guy has no balance. But Trevor being Trevor, he shoved me in as payback. Long story short, we had to hurry back into town, and with the way the wind blew, we ended up covered in dirt. That’s all that happened.”

“Nothing else?” Mila asked.

“No.”

“You’re so blind.” Lydia shook her head at me.

“What?”

“You have no idea how smitten Trevor is with you.” Josie sent me a small smile.

“No, he isn’t. He lives to torment me.”

“Definitely blind.” Lydia restated.

The boys took that moment to come over, cutting our conversation off. My eyes instantly found Trevor. He was mid-conversation with Landon as I sat there staring at him. I could still picture him shirtless, water running down his abs. I had to shake the image from my head and look away before he could see the slight blush on my cheeks.

I didn’t know what was going on or what was in the water on this island, but the last few days, I found my walls crumbling. The feelings I kept buried were resurfacing, and I was helpless to stop them. I wasn’t even sure if I wanted to stop them.

“Ready to go get dinner?” Josie shook me out of my thoughts. Nodding along with the others, I quickly drank the last of my cocktail and stood.

With the long day and Josie and Wyatt’s engagement, we all decided to go to dinner at a place the hotel front desk recommended. It was apparently a pretty high-end establishment and the perfect place to celebrate an engagement.

I felt more than saw Trevor coming up to my side. The others walked ahead of us as they talked.

“Got all cleaned up,” he commented. I smoothed my hand down the front of my pale yellow dress. The silk clung to my skin, showing off my developing tan. I didn’t typically wear the color since it clashed with my blonde hair, but with the way Trevor was looking at me, I was glad I decided on it for tonight.

After taking pictures of Josie and Wyatt, I immediately came back to the hotel to shower off all the mud and dirt. Ironically, the mud was just as hard to get off as the sand.

“You did too.” I glanced over at him. Of course he looked downright hot in his white linen pants and dark blue button-up. The sleeves were rolled up to show off his forearms, along with the tattoos that were there. Something was wrong with me as I felt my underwear dampen, all from the sight of Trevor.Get it together, Tasha.

We didn’t say anything else for a moment as we left the hotel. I could feel him glancing at me every few seconds, making me wonder what he was going to say.

“Ever going to admit you purposely pushed me in the water?” he said a moment later.Yep, there it was.

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