Page 60 of Raine Out (Grand Slam 2)

I sweep her up into my arms and start walking out into the deeper water. “Did you hear that Sammy? Raine wants to kiss you.”

“Alex! Stop!” She wraps her arms tightly around my neck as the water hits her butt. “Seriously, Alex. Stop. We’re too deep.”

I stop when the water’s almost covering her. “We’re fine. I’m a great swimmer. I grew up in the ocean. Lie back and look up at the stars. It’ll calm you down.”

She puts her head back in the water and looks up at the sky. “Don’t let go of me.”

“I won’t,” I say, pushing my hands more firmly into her back and legs as I hold her up. “It’s pretty right?”

“Yeah,” she whispers. “I never see this many stars in D.C.”

“How long have you lived there?”

“Too long,” she sighs. “Almost ten years between there and Virginia, but I’m moving out to San Diego for a while.”

“Really?” I say, floating my body up underneath hers. “Did you quit your job?”

“No. I just have a special assignment out there for a bit.”

“What kind of assignment?”

She glances over at me. “It’s so pretty down here, right?”

“Okay,” I laugh. “We can do small talk.”

She unhooks herself from my body and starts treading water. “I’m sorry. I really can’t talk about my job much.”

“It’s okay.”

A little surge of water bobs over her head. She surfaces and reaches out to me. I grab her hands and pull her into my body. As she wraps her arms around my neck, I put my hands under her butt and lift her onto my waist.

“I don’t want to talk that much right now anyway,” I whisper as she wraps her legs around me.

As I start kissing her neck, she wiggles higher on my body. Her breath is exhaling right into my ear. I let my lips travel across her face until they land on her open mouth. Her tongue immediately comes out to touch mine. I grab the back of her head and pull it into mine as I push her mouth open wider.

“Was that kiss better?” I say as my mouth starts running down her neck.

“Better,” she says, moaning a little as my hand reaches into her swimsuit and cups her breast.

My mouth travels quickly down her body. I start licking her nipple as the water caresses my chin. She lets out a larger moan as I close my mouth over her breast and start sucking.

“Alex,” she says, running her hands over my head, “I feel like I’m going to pass out. I don’t want to drown.”

“I won’t let you,” I say as my mouth crosses over to the other side of her body and pushes her swimsuit to the side.

As I grab her nipple lightly with my teeth, she shudders. “I’m serious. I can’t do this in the water. It’s like sensory overload.”

“Get on my back,” I say, turning around so she can climb on. “I’ll swim us out to the sandbar.”

“No, we should go back in,” she says as I keep getting deeper. “Really. Let’s go back to the shore.”

Her arms wrap around my body as I start to swim faster. As my feet hit the sandbar, I hoist her up on my body and walk the rest of the way until we’re out of the water. I lay her down in the sand.

“We don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do,” I say as I lower myself on top of her.

She starts breathing heavily as I pull the straps of her swimsuit down. I bury my head between her breasts again—paying each one a little attention before I start licking down her body. I yank the rest of her suit down to her knees.

She groans loudly as my lips get below her stomach. I run my tongue through her forcefully—from bottom to top—and then start exploring. I’m only down there for a few minutes before she starts shaking and moaning. I keep going until she screams out my name. When her body stops shaking, I start working my way back up.

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