CHAPTER TWENTY Cole
CHAPTER TWENTY
Cole
S omething I never thought about when I asked Ginger to swim with us? Bathing suits. Ginger’s curves usually do things to me no other woman’s do. But it was a lot easier to withstand when I didn’t know what she felt like wrapped around my cock. Thing is, she’s not even wearing anything skimpy like I assumed she might. It’s as though she’s wearing the most modest bathing suit she owns because she’s in the pool with Mabel. But despite the coverage, the hot pink one piece with a halter-style neck and an open back is still hot as fuck. As the last point of pool volleyball is scored, Mabel cheers, “We beat Daddy!” and the two of them high-five. But it doesn’t end there. I’m dumbfounded as they high-five with the other hand too, then clap their own hands together, turn sideways and bump elbows before landing a high ten in perfect sync.
They have a handshake?! When the fuck did that happen?
I laugh, incredulous.
“Alright, Mabes. Time to get ready for bed,” I tell her as I climb out of the pool and grab a towel from the pile I placed on the outdoor table earlier. Miraculously, she doesn’t argue, which tells me we wore her out and she might actually be ready for bed on time. Maybe pool baths aren’t so bad after all? I’d never admit it, but it isn’t so bad to step outside my comfort zone once in a while.
Ginger gets out behind me, and I feel like I’m watching her in my periphery in slow motion. The way the water trickles down her skin is almost like it doesn’t want to let go of her, any more than I would if I had her in my grasp. I hand her a fluffy white towel and follow her gaze that rakes over the raised G in cursive nestled under my ribcage.
When she’s this close to me, there’s no way she doesn’t notice it, and I can see the question in her eyes when they meet mine. I was already in the water with Mabes when she came out, so it wouldn’t have been visible earlier. But I’m not hiding it now. It’s been there since the summer she kissed me. Since the summer she flipped my world upside down and turned into the only woman I’ve never been able to stop from invading my head. A reminder of the summer I thought about her every goddamn night at Grosvenor. How I never said no to her, how I always compared other girls I knew to her. How she was the light in any room she entered. Those ten seconds she kissed me fucked me right up and showed me why I could never let myself really ever fall for her. Because I knew in those ten seconds that, if I did, I’d never be able to get back up.