Second Chance: A Military Football Romance

"We'll be there shortly. Tell Cindy to round up some hot guys. We need something pretty to look at after the week we've had." I let out a short sigh and picked up the phone. "See you soon."

Emily glanced over at me as I dropped the call. "Thanks again for staying behind with me. I'm not sure I would have gotten through Mimi's funeral without you."

"I'll always be here for you. Now it's time to leave the past in the past and enjoy our summer. You ready?"

"Hell yes. Drive faster."

Chapter Two

Brody

"You getting tired of all of this yet?" Daniel glanced over at me as we lay on the dock just outside the house, our feet skimming across the top of the lake.

I opened my eyes and turned to look at him as I ran my hand over my chest. "Is that a joke? We have a boat, plenty of beer, and a new wave of scantily clad chicks rolling in daily. This is heaven. I'm staying forever."

He laughed and turned to look up at the sky. "Real life waits at the end of this summer. Sucks."

I sat up and grumbled under my breath at him. "Always pissing on the parade."

A boat pulled by just a few feet from us and the group of girls on it started to give us shit. I couldn't have been more thrilled. Daniel not so much, but me? I knew how to handle a woman, and they were all the same.

"Hey, good looking," a leggy blonde called out as she stood up from the passenger's side seat of the boat, pulling off her sunglasses.

"Hey there. You guys behaving yourselves?" I glanced down the lake, not giving her too much attention.

Daniel sat up beside me and growled. We'd been friends for a while, and he was a good guy – maybe too good. He hadn't

dated much. School mattered too much to divert his attention from it.

And, that's why you'll be a doctor and I'll be a pauper.

"Behaving?" The girls laughed. "Who wants to behave? That doesn't sound like fun, at all."

"Right." I pressed my hand into the dock beside me and pushed up, getting to my feet in one smooth motion. I pulled my t-shirt over my head. "Come get me. I'll drive you girls around a little."

"Brody. Come on, dude," Daniel mumbled and got up, giving me a look.

"What? Come with us. What harm can it do? There's a blow job in one of those girls. No?" I was half-whispering, but could have cared less if all of them heard me. Most of us were at the lake to get laid and forget about reality, and I was their king.

Daniel turned his attention back to the girls as they giggled. "You think?"

"Yep." I turned back to blondie. "You up for it? Like to go fast?"

"I love fast." She tapped her friend's shoulder as the girl bobbed up and down in the driver’s seat.

The driver pulled her headphones off and glanced up. "What?"

"We're letting sexy over there take us for a ride." Blondie glanced up to me and tilted her head. "You prepared for the afternoon?"

Condoms. I slipped my hands in my pockets and shook my head.

"Nope. A pretty woman like yourself doesn't go everywhere prepared for a chance encounter with the man of her dreams?" I gave her a sexy smile, letting my eyes moved down her taunt, tanned flesh, imagining all the ways I could make her moan. She was breathtaking, and yet a dime a dozen.

"Is that a joke?" she laughed.

"I guess so." I bent down and picked up my shirt before turning to Daniel. "Let's go, buddy. Time for a beer run, anyway."

We started back toward the house as she called out to me. "Wait. Where are you going?"