Page 63 of Sunset

“I’ll get some extra security here and station someone outside her house. You don’t have to tell her, if you don’t want, too.” Kade says.

I shake my head. “I have too, she’d notice.”

“Yeah, she would,” Brynn laughs.

Brynn’s laugh is what I needed to pull me out of this funk that Nate’s news left me in.

“Go for a walk with me, Firefly?” I ask her.

She nods and stands up. After saying goodbye to Lin and Kade, we head out to the beach hand-in-hand. She’s quiet for a few minutes, before she starts talking.

“I think Josh will better for the town. But it’s only six months, before we will be electing a new mayor.” She says.

“I wonder if Kade is still interested in running. Though, I think he’d have a hard time going up against Josh.” I say.

Kade is liked, but Josh is a local and liked just as much. So, if it came to it, I think the town would vote for a local, before they’d vote for someone so new to the area.

“I think the only reason Kade was talking about running was to get Bert out of office. If Josh does a good job, I don’t think Kade has any interest in it.” She says.

I nod my head in agreement.

“Here’s to hoping we can finally move on with the villas, though. I’d like to have them up, before next season, and be able to work out the kinks in the off season.” She says.

“Knowing Kade, he’ll make it happen the second he has the green light to do it. He would move mountains to make Lin happy, and Lin will agree with you on having any problems worked out, before the season.” I tell her, giving her hand a squeeze.

When she looks up at me and smiles, I couldn’t stop myself from leaning in and kissing her, if my life depended on it. She kisses me back with a smile on her face.

That smile is still there, when she pulls back. I know that look, playful Brynn is about to come out. It’s also a smile that warns me to be on guard.

She wastes no time in proving me right, when she runs ahead of me a few feet, and then turns back and kicks her foot through the water, sending a spray of water at me, soaking my shirt.

I rush forward and grab her around the waist and lift her over my shoulder.

“You’re going to pay for that!” I say, as I spin her around with her ass in the air.

When I set her down, the guy she had a date with, Daniel, is standing on the back steps of The Sunset Inn, watching us with a look I don’t like on his face.

Brynn must follow my line of sight, because she sighs.

“What’s he doing here?” She mumbles more to herself, but I still feel the need to remind her she’s mine.

“Probably wants another date,” I say, as she looks at me. “What are you going to tell him, Firefly?”

She gets an evil look on her face. “Well, not what I want, too. My mom would come back from the dead just to whoop my ass.” She smirks.

“You are mine,” I growl.

She pats my arm and turns to head over to see what he wants, but I grab her arm and pull her back to me.

Then, I stake my claim. I kiss her, and my body only relaxes, once she melts into me and kisses me back. She knows what I’m doing, and she’s letting me be a caveman.

“I’ve been yours from day one.” She says, pulling back with a smile and winking, before turning to go see what Daniel wants.

I follow not too far behind her. After the events from the other day with the mayor, Bert, I’m not ready to let her out of my sight just yet.

“Hey, Daniel. Anything I can help you with?” She says in her formal work voice.

I walk past them and sit on the wicker couch and pull out my phone, pretending to be doing something else. I have no idea what is even on my screen, because all I focus on is them.

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