"Hold on, guys!" Clay yelled.
I reached for Cora, wrapping my arm around her waist and pulling her to almost lay on top of me as I pressed my other arm to Dedra's chest and grabbed the bar on the other side of her.
"Fuck, hold on." I ground my teeth and kept the girls locked to me as they screamed.
The boat righted itself, and I half expected either of them, or really both of them to jump up and light into Clay. Instead, I got a lot of giggles.
Cora rolled off of me and laid back onto her back. "Shit. That was crazy. Why didn't you warn us?"
"I forgot about it for a minute there. Clay drives like a bat out of hell." I moved up to a sitting position and glanced over my shoulder to see him giving me the thumbs up. I flipped him off and let out a long sigh.
Cora sat up and pressed her shoulder against mine, surprising me a little. "Why not, Brody? She was cute."
"Who was cute?" I leaned back, pressing my hand just behind her rear as I extended my legs out.
"The blonde from the movie rental place."
"Oh. Yeah, she was alright." I looked up at the sky. "I'm not interested in another fling right now. It gets tiring."
"What?" She chuckled. "Are you being serious?"
"Yeah." I turned my head to watch her. My heart skipped another beat, and I realized that I was in trouble. I could easily find myself coveting the idea of her time, her attention, her sex.
"Stop it." She pushed at my arm.
"What am I doing?" I pulled off my sunglasses and let my eyes move down her chest over her tummy to her legs.
"Pulling my leg." She crossed her legs and turned her attention back to the water.
"Whatever you say, pretty girl."
Women. I would never figure them out. That I was trying was a tell-tale sign that I needed to get a couple of beers in me and find a quiet place on the beach to fall asleep. Pretty soon, I'd be trying to sweep the woman next to me off her feet.
No. Never. That wasn't me, at all.
Chapter 16
Cora
He had to be pulling my leg. The soft tone of his voice said otherwise, but I wasn't falling for his tricks. He wasn't nearly as interested in me as he played to be. All the other guys had come by the house the day before, but I'd not heard a peep from him. I wasn't sure what I was expecting, but being ignored surely wasn't it.
We made it out to the island a few minutes later, and he and the boys ran off to play a game of beach volleyball, inviting us to come, of course, but laying out sounded much better.
"So..." Cindy dropped down in the sand next to me.
"So what?" I lifted my sunglasses so I could see her better.
"So, I saw you and Brody cuddling on the front of the boat." She smirked as Emily let out a soft laugh.
"Oh... that. Right, well Clay turned the boat too hard and caused me to roll onto the sexy bastard. You probably helped plan it. At least, some of you did." I lifted my eyebrow as I turned my gaze to Emily.
She lifted her hands in the air. "Me? Oh, hell no. I didn't do that. Clay just drives like a crazy man, from what I can tell."
Emily shrugged and laid back, letting out a sigh. "You should be happy about it, though. Brody is wicked hot."
"Agreed." Cindy laid down and brushed the sand from her chest as Dedra piped in from the other side of me.
"Yep. Sexy as sin." She wagged her eyebrows.