Second Chance: A Military Football Romance

Cora's eyes met mine, and I smiled. Where most girls would shy away from acknowledging the heat between us, she seemed to be perfectly comfortable with it. I hoped like hell that she would let me take her back to the cabin after the fireworks and finish what we started the day before. I hadn't stopped thinking about her since she left me hard and needy when she left me to join her friends for a girl's only night out.

"You look beautiful." I smiled at her as we pulled up. "All of you do. You want to hang out with a band of bad boys all evening and see if you can make good men out of us?"

They chuckled, and Emily reached for Clay's hand. "Something tells me that there is little-to-no hope for any of you."

"Hey." Daniel got up and lifted his hands to the side. "Not even me?"

Cora smiled and reached for me, sliding down my body as she got into the boat and moved toward Daniel.

"Maybe you, Dan, but only you." She glanced over her shoulder. "The rest of these guys are lost causes."

He smirked and sat back down. "That's good with me, then. Just making sure you guys didn't label me as you do them. I'm only guilty by association."

I rolled my eyes. "In most courts of law, that would be more than enough."

Dedra moved up behind Daniel and leaned over, kissing his cheek as they started in on their conversation. I made my way to the front to get around all of our friends and find the one person I wanted to spend the evening with.

Cora.

"Help me get all this stuff laid out on the deck and we can make everyone a sandwich, unless you guys already ate?" She was bent over, working to get stuff out of one of the bags. Her shorts were short and her bikini top tiny, letting plenty of her breasts show.

I reached down and tugged her up as she put a Cheeto in her mouth. She gave a little yelp as I wrapped my arms around her and leaned down, kissing her softly twice.

"I expect you to come give me a kiss or something when we see each other. I'm jealous that these other girls are trained so well." I kissed her again and licked at my lips. "Mmmm, cheesy."

"Yes, you are." She smiled and ran her hands up my back. "I didn't realize you wanted attention."

"I'm a needy kinda guy. I always want attention." I leaned down and kissed her again, taking my time until the catcalls at the back of the bo

at caused me to pull back. "Shut up, guys."

"They're just jealous." She pulled away from me and turned back to the food. "Did you eat lunch?"

"Nope, and I think I might love you for the simple fact that you brought food. I'm fucking starving." I leaned over and made a quick sandwich for myself.

"We all are." Derek moved up with Cindy beside him and muscled me out of the way to make one, too. I didn't mind so much seeing that my new spot a little bit farther back gave me a great view of Cora's long legs and shapely ass.

She turned and lifted her eyebrow at me. "Are you checking me out?"

"Girl, I've stripped you already and was working on making you my dessert." I smirked as her cheeks colored and Cindy giggled.

"You're not right, you know that?" She picked up a bag of chips and walked to the back of the boat, bumping me with her shoulder as she did. "Come with me."

"There's nothing I'd rather do." I spun on my heel and walked to the back, stopping only to grab two beers for us. I sat down next to her and offered her one as I shoved more of my sandwich in my mouth and tried to talk around it. "You like beer?"

"I love it." She reached out and wiped the side of my mouth before popping the top on her beer and taking a long drink.

I couldn't help but stare at her for a few seconds, a little surprised at how comfortable she was around me after we'd made a mess of each other the day before. I leaned over and kissed her cheek before pressing my lips to her ear.

"Let's watch the action and then go create some of our own. You wanna?"

"We'll see." She smirked and nibbled at her sandwich. "What have you guys been up to today? You're all looking pretty burnt."

Maybe was better than no. I'd learned that a long time ago. "We've been out here dicking around with the other million people on the water. Waiting on you guys while you were shopping. How much shopping do you girls do? Doesn't it get old?"

"No." Emily sat down beside Dedra and smiled over at me. "We went over to the other side of the lake where the strip center was. It's pretty over there. We should have a picnic next week or something when the Fourth of July people have finally cleared out."

"Sounds like fun to me. I have this new baked bean recipe I want to try, anyways. Maybe you guys could grill burgers for us that day." Cindy licked at her fingers and glanced over at Derek, who was watching her like a hawk.