Porter (Dick Dynasty #1) (18 page)

Ocean swimming had always been one of my favorite workouts. Fighting the currents just gives an extra boost to all those stabilizer muscles that you don’t normally work out.

I had probably been in the water for a good twenty minutes by the time I finally dragged myself out of the surf and back onto solid ground. It took me a few moments to reorient myself and remember where I had dumped our stuff.

I’d been carried a few hundred yards south of the surf shop where I’d bought our swimsuits, so I used that as a marker and made my way north. I constantly scanned the bodies on the beach looking for Holly.

I was almost certain that she would’ve followed me into the water and tried to out-swim me. I had seen the glint of defiance in her eyes each time I posed even a subtle challenge. I’d been a little excited to get the first contest underway.

She was lying on a towel a few dozen yards off when I spotted her. It didn’t take me long to realize that she had fallen asleep. I couldn’t stop the grin that spread across my face as I thought of all the ways I could mess with her just to get her riled up.

I stood over her, considering my options, and quickly became hypnotized by the gentle rise and fall of her breasts. She was definitely a California girl. She had a flawless beach tan, a body that
screamed
for a bikini, and perfectly smooth legs that could only be attained by a girl who had experience in being beach-ready at all times.

I wanted to reach down and run my hands up them.

A quick shake of the head broke the spell her body had put on me. The droplets of water that fell from my hair onto her body were just enough to gently pull her out of her slumber.

“How long was I out?” she asked groggily.

“I’m not sure. I was out there for about twenty minutes, I think. I thought you’d follow me.”

She sat up and stretched, pressing her breasts against the thin cotton of her top, “I’m not big on the idea of being in water I can’t see through. Put me in a boat and I’m fine, but I’m not about to swim out there and become shark bait.”

My eyes rolled in their sockets.
Jaws
must have ruined her.

“Well, at least you didn’t burn. That would’ve put a damper on things. Roll over and let me get your back.”

A flash of hesitance crossed her face before she slowly rolled over onto her elbows.

I warmed the lotion up between my palms and gently rubbed it into her skin.

“The tide looks like it’s heading out. Did you still want to hit the tide pools in Dana Point?”

“Sure,” I agreed as I started on her legs, “I think we should hit dinner first though. There’s a sushi place up the street that has the best sushi in the state. I can’t remember the last time I didn’t eat there while I was here.”

“Mmmm,” the sound sent a bolt of desire through me, “That sounds delicious, actually.”

“It’s a date then!” I expected her to argue my use of the word “date.”

Instead, she patted the sand in front of her, “Your turn. Get your grape smuggling ass over here.”

I handed her the bottle of sunscreen and sat down on the sand in front of her. She quickly lubed up my back, leaving blazing trails of lightning along my skin wherever she touched, then commanded me to stand up so she could do my legs.

“Make it quick,” I instructed as I rose, “it’s hard to hide a boner in this thing.”

I heard her choke on a gasp and the sound of the lotion bottle hitting the sand. I looked down at her over my shoulder and gave her my million-dollar-smile, “I wasn’t kidding.”

She sprang into action, quickly and sloppily covering my legs from butt cheek to ankle in the creamy protectant.

“Thanks!” I said as I carefully lay down next to her, “I’m glad there weren’t any kids walking by for that!”

“You’re such a pervert,” she accused, “Do you ever talk about anything besides your penis?”

“Not really,” I shrugged, “Before now, I’ve never really met someone who wanted to talk about something else.”

“You really need to find better friends then,” she mumbled.

I just laughed at her and laid my head down on my arms, prompting her to do the same.

I couldn’t tell if her eyes were open behind the lenses of her sunglasses, but the corners of her pouty, paint-free lips were gently curved upward in a contented smile. I told myself that her eyes were open and it was seeing my face that had put that smile there.

A single lock of her reddish-brown hair fell over her forehead. I fought the urge to reach out and brush it back to join the rest that had been tossed over her shoulder.

The dreamy memory of fisting my hands in that hair slammed into me, causing my already-stiff cock to throb against the hard sand beneath me. I squeezed my eyes shut and did my best to think of the least sexy things I could come up with.

It was a trick I used at work to keep myself from getting off too early. I’d make to-do lists, or think about my mailman, or homeless people, and it helped to keep my mind off the task at hand.

It took a bit longer than usual this time, but I finally felt the pressure against my hips begin to lessen and breathed a sigh of relief.

“What’s wrong?”

She
was
awake!

“What do you mean?” I asked casually.

“Your face is all screwed up like you have a cramp or something.”

“Oh, yeah,” I agreed, “a cramp. I should’ve stretched after my workout.”

I hoped I sounded more convincing than I thought I did.

The look on her face told me that she didn’t believe a word that I said.

“Let’s hit the boogie boards in the shallows,” she challenged with a grin, “Last one on their board buys dinner!”

She jumped up and snatched both of the foam boards, bolting for the water.

“No fair!” I called after her, “You’re cheating!”

I pushed myself up from the towel and ran after her. Cold water was the next-best thing when it came to controlling a hard-on and I was all too happy to let it do its work.

She had dropped the larger of the two boards on the sand just before the water and by the time I made it out there, she was already bobbing up and down on the smaller waves with a childish grin splitting her face from ear-to-ear. It would’ve been adorable if the board she was leaning on hadn’t pushed her tits up to her chin giving me an extraordinary view of her cleavage.

Cold water. Now.

I snatched up the board and ran toward her as fast as I could before dropping to my knees beside her and facing the shore.

“That was cheap and you know it,” I said with a playful bump of shoulder against shoulder.

“Call it a handicap,” she laughed, “You have longer legs than I do. I needed a head start to make it a fair race.”

“A head start I could work with! You stole my board!”

“It was an accident?” She turned her giant doe-eyes on me and tried to look innocent. It was working.

“You should be more careful next time. Someone might mistake your accident for sabotage.”

“I’ll try to keep that in mind. Thanks in advance for dinner!” She pushed off the sand with her legs right as a wave crashed down on top of my head, propelling me forward off my board and shoving me face-first into the sand beneath the water.

I fought to right myself and spat a mouthful of sand back onto the beach with a cough as the surf receded behind me. Holly was sitting on top of her board a few feet away doubled over with laughter.

“Are you laughing at me, Miss Nash?” I sputtered.

“Oh,” she gasped, “you bet your ass I’m laughing at you! That was the funniest damn thing I’ve seen all week! That’s saying a
lot
considering all the time I spend on YouTube! I wish I would’ve had my camera! I could make some
serious
money off that on
TMZ
!”

Tears were streaming down her face now and, as hard as I tried, I couldn’t be mad at her for laughing at my misfortune. Her laughter was like music.

I recovered my board from the tumble of waves behind me and kicked sand at her as I passed her, “Let’s go eat. Near death experiences always make me hungry.”

“Near death?” she asked as she jogged up next to me, “You were in two feet of water! You were closer to death swimming around out there with the sharks earlier!”

“I wasn’t in any danger out there.”

“The hell you weren’t!” She flopped down on top of her towel and smiled up at me.

“No really,” I whispered confidentially, “Can you keep a secret?”

Her face grew serious, “Of course I can.”

I crooked a finger at her, motioning for her to lean in closer. I glanced around suspiciously as she moved in and then whispered, “I’m Aquaman.”

She burst into a fit of giggles once more and a smile nearly split my face in half. There wasn’t a sound on Earth I would rather hear.

“You’re such a jackass, Porter!”

She pulled the towel out from under her and began to dry off her hair with the less-sandy side.

“Do we have to change for dinner?” she asked, “Or is this one of those ocean-side catch-of-the-day taco cart-type of places?”

“We’ll definitely need some clothes.” I glanced down at my speedo, which prominently displayed my bulge.

“Damn,” she cursed, “I was hoping I could keep being lazy.”

I wrapped my towel around my waist and waited for her to finish drying her hair. If she didn’t wipe the ocean spray off her tits soon, I’d need more than a towel to make myself acceptable for public presentation.

She finally finished and stood, wrapping the towel around her chest and tucking it under her armpits. She frowned down at our feet.

“What’s wrong?” I asked, glancing down as well.

“I didn’t get to teach you how to build a
real
sandcastle!”

I laughed and used a finger to gently lift her chin until her eyes met mine.

“I guess that means I get another date.”

She didn’t flush, but I saw her eyes flick down to my lips as she swallowed hard. I ran a thumb over her mouth before dropping my hand and wrapping my fingers around hers.

“Let’s go eat.”

I slipped my feet into my flip-flops and grabbed our sand buckets before pulling her with me across the beach toward the car.

“You change first,” I handed her the neatly folded clothes from the bottom of the bag and opened the passenger side door for her.

“Turn around, you creeper!”

I pouted out my bottom lip in mock disappointment, “You never let me have any fun!”

I turned and looked back across the beach while she changed. The sun was inching slowly downward toward the western horizon, casting a blinding reflection off the water. In a couple more hours, with any luck, I’d have her wrapped in my arms over the tide pools watching it set.

“Your turn!” she announced

“That was fast!” I held out a hand to help her out of her car.

“I just put my clothes on over my bathing suit. My days of getting naked on the side of the street ended with college.”

Well
that
left a lot to the imagination. She had probably just spent a lot of days sunbathing on the beach in between classes, but I couldn’t help but wonder if she’d ever had to get dressed in a car after a day of more… Entertaining activities.

It was gonna be a bitch to get the damn Speedo off over the hard-on that had reappeared.

“You made me turn around for that?” I asked, incredulous

I sank into the front seat and leaned back, not bothering to wait for her to avert her gaze. When my dick sprang free of the tight swimsuit, she squeaked, threw her hands over her eyes, and turned away from the car screaming swear words into her palms.

“Oh stop,” I chastised, “It’s not like you’ve never seen a penis before. We’re both adults here.”

“Of course I’ve seen a penis!” she shouted, “I’ve just never seen
your
penis. In all its rigid glory, even! I have a hard enough time…” She cut herself off.

“A
hard
enough time, what, Holly?” I whispered into her ear. I had managed to get my underwear on and I stood close to her, pressing my hips into her ass. She let out a tiny whimper and involuntarily leaned into me just a tiny bit.

“A hard…” she swallowed, “A hard enough time…”

I wrapped my hands around her hips and pulled her into me. I could feel the shiver that ran through her body.

“Do you have a hard time keeping my naked body out of your head, Holly?” I grinded my shaft against her, “Christ knows I think about yours often enough.”

Another moan and her hips swiveled ever so slightly.

“Just one night, Holly. Let’s get it out of our systems.”

I felt her body go rigid and, after a brief moment of indecision, she stepped forward and turned.

“Food, Porter. We need food. And a table. There needs to be more space. I need a buffer.” Her eyes trailed down my chest and stomach to the outline of my erection, “
Now!
”

She turned and walked off in the wrong direction, forcing me to grab my jeans and tee shirt off the front seat. “Holly!” I called after her as I struggled to get my legs into my pants, “Wrong way!”

She turned and came back toward me, not even bothering to laugh as I hopped around on one foot trying to get myself dressed.

I finally got my life together and managed to button my pants. I tugged my shirt down over my head as I power-walked after her.

“Slow down!” I yelled, “We’re not in a rush and you’re about to sprint past the crosswalk we need!”

She came to an abrupt halt next to the traffic signal pole and mashed the button to cross. I caught up with her right as the light changed and she was off again.

“Holly!” I grabbed her wrist as we hit the opposite corner, “Jesus Christ, woman! I was just flirting! Take a few deep breaths and calm down! If you don’t want to sleep with me, I can just jerk off until it turns blue and falls off. It’s not a big deal!”

She furrowed her brow at my joke, glaring scarily.

“I’m sorry,” I tried, hoping she’d lighten up some, “It was wrong of me to invade your space like that.”

“Porter,” she sighed, frustrated, “me not wanting to sleep with you is definitely not the problem.”