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And considering I was supposed to be married…well, I guess I was the exception. If a man was cheating on me for years, that wasn’t any kind of guy I wanted to marry anyway.

“Can we get the hell out of here yet?”

We were going on two hours, longer than Dawson had teased me about staying on the way up here.

“I suppose you’ve paid your dues.” I wasn’t really in the mood to party anymore. “What else do you have in mind?”

“Tossing you in my pool right after I rip that dress off so I can see what surprise you have on for me under it.”

Oh. Well then.

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“Dawson!” I shrieked as I flew through the air and then gasped as I swallowed a mouthful of water. I jumped out of the pool with a splash and thrust my hair back.

Dawson was nowhere to be seen, and I spun in a circle to find nothing. No hint of him.

Until something warm grasped my ankle and I was tugged beneath the water again.

I kicked out, and those hands came to my waist. The dress he hadn’t bothered stripping me out of before he tossed me into the water wrapped around my legs.

This was madness! I went to shove him, but his grip grew tighter. He pushed off the pool floor, and I was thrust out of the water. My legs wrapped around his waist and the hard length of him pressed right to where I’d been wanting him since that first time I kissed him.

He leaned back, shook his wet hair out of his face.

I shoved mine out of my eyes.

“You’re insane,” I breathed out.

“Not the first time I’ve been told that.” He pressed his cool, wet lips to mine, and my body instantly boiled in his arms. He used his legs to keep us afloat, moving us through the water. My eyes closed, and a hum escaped my throat as he slid his tongue into my mouth. Wet, cool hands pressed between my shoulder blades and then the cool cement of the pool was at my back. His hand moved from my back down, cupping my ass before he shoved the dress clinging to my thighs out of the way and slipped his fingers beneath the thin string of my thong.

“Fuck, Hailey. I can’t keep my hands off you.”

“No one’s asking you to.”

I barely managed to rasp out the words before he stole my breath with a kiss and his fingers slipped inside. I’d always thought water was supposed to dry a girl out, but I’d been primed for Dawson since I first saw him.

And I intended to enjoy every moment I spent with Dawson because if what Logan said earlier was true, this fake thing between us wasn’t necessary anymore.

Which meant my time with Dawson was, most likely, quickly coming to an end.

And I wasn’t walking away until he gave me my marching orders, I just hoped I wasn’t still a virgin when that time came.

CHAPTER21

DAWSON

It was after I made her scream in the pool then brought her to my shower. After she dropped to her knees and sucked me off like she couldn’tnotdo it. And it was after we’d dried off and I threw her back on my bed and teased her with my fingers. My mouth. She came that time while I slid my dick over her soaking wet slit, her ankles hooked at my lower back, begging for more.

I couldn’t do it.

Despite how much I wanted her, I still couldn’t bring myself to give her what she’d originally asked of me, knowing I‘d have to say goodbye to her eventually.

She deserved more, and I wasn’t that guy.

But that didn’t mean I was ready to let her go.

“Do you want to stay? I can order some dinner?”

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