Page 55 of Good at Being Bad (Rock Canyon, Idaho 8)

Mike wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her flush against him, and took her mouth in a kiss of need, of desperation and passion.

He nipped at her bottom lip and groaned as her hands clung to his shoulders, kissing him back reverently.

The world seemed to tilt as they kissed, him on one side of the fountain wall and her on the other.

And then he realized that the world wasn’t askew. They were falling.

Right into the water.

Ellie screamed just as they hit and they both came up spitting and sputtering. Mike wiped the water from his face, laughing as he leaned back on his hands.

“Well, you wanted to cool off.”

Ellie glared at him, sending a splash of water his way. He shot a stream right back at her and then she threw herself at him. She kept trying to knock his arms out and push him under, but he managed to get ahold of her hands.

“Drowning me isn’t nice.”

“You knocked me into the water!”

He brought her hands up between them and kissed her knuckles. “No, I lost my balance while kissing you and we both fell over. Complete accident.”

“And splashing me?”

“You got me first,” he said.

“Fine, so we’re even.”

He released her hands to embrace her. “Are you cold?”

“Yeah.”

“Okay. We should get out of here anyway. Someone might have heard you scream, and I’m pretty sure they can see the light from their house.”

Mike helped her out of the fountain, and while she gathered up her clothes, he shut off the light.

“I don’t think I can get these back on unless I’m dry,” she hissed.

Mike thought he heard voices in the distance, and made an executive decision. He gathered Ellie in his arms and took off toward the fence.

Chapter Seventeen

Ten minutes later, Ellie finally got her boots zipped and walked over to join Mike, who was watching the cops from the safety of the brush. They’d pushed his motorcycle farther in and sat quietly as the officers walked down the dirt road they’d been parked on, shining their flashlights around.

“You think they’ll come this way to look?” she asked quietly.

“No, but it doesn’t hurt to be safe,” Mike said.

Ellie agreed, especially since she hadn’t really want to get caught with her pants down.

Or getting swept up in another epic kiss with Mike.

Which it was, right up until they’d fallen into the fountain. Ellie had been watching and waiting for him to kiss her. Everything between them had been building for weeks, and it would have come to a head eventually.

Only she had no idea what to do now that it had happened, especially since she wanted it to happen again.

And a few times more after that.

But she was trying to change her ways. No more hooking up unless she was serious about the guy and definitely no more breaking hearts.

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