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Her hands clawed through the water as she tried to resurface Her head broke through and she ca that to happen, and she was s and she treaded water to keep afloat

Brady pulled up alongside her, laughing boisterously

"Don’t laugh at ain

"I can’t help it if you wipe out so extravagantly," he said, cutting the engine on his Jet Ski He dove off the Jet Ski into the water and swahed at rabbed her ar their wet bodies together Liz s She wrapped her legs around his waist and slid her hands up around his neck

Brady held them effortlessly above the water as his lips found hers She would never tire of kissing him They tasted like a h She pressed her body into hiot that they were in the middle of the lake, where other people could see them

He pulled back before she was ready, and she captured his lips once et back to the house I had dinner delivered Nothing special, but it’s good deck food"

"Sounds perfect," she said, leaning forward and kissing hiain

They docked the Jet Skis back in their ports and toweled off Plates of food were sitting on the deck table when they returned Brady peeled back the covering to show her a cheese and bread plate, a fruit plate loaded doith fresh strawberries, pineapple, kiwi, and er food that they picked at as the afternoon sun faded into evening

Liz sat down next to Brady on the outdoor bench with her feet tucked underneath her and her head on his shoulder She yawned, the rush of the day and overexposure to the sun catching up with her, but she wouldn’t dare slip ahen she had so little time left with him

"So, what else do you have planned for the su not for work, but for personal benefit Though she worried it ain?"

"Those are two very different questions" At least he didn’t tense

"I meant them the same," she said

"Well, to the first one, I try to take each day at a time and let ust, and that’s where I’ And in answer to the second, as soon as I can next get away"

She hoped that meant sooner rather than later She didn’t kno ame She would wait for him She knew that she would, but that didn’t o weeks without him in her life In fact, she wanted to spend all of her tiht

"What about you? What are your big summer plans?" he asked

Liz s the sunset, discussing the future She had never been a big one to talk about the future with guys…not that this was that kind of talk

"Working on a portfolio for n coluot her all flustered

"Busy"

"Very I don’t kno I’ll find tiuy," she said flippantly

"You’re seeing a guy?" he asked, turning to face her She wasn’t sure whether he was serious or joking She couldn’t read hiht

"Well, I don’t know if you would call it that," she said

He narrowed his eyes "If you’re talking about anyone other thanher chin and pulling her in for a heated kiss

Liz blinked a few tiain composure when he released her "How could there be anyone else but you?"

And in the suht, wrapped up in his arms, lost to his touch, she really believed that Brady had taken over her world He captured her thoughts, revealed her hidden desires, andIn thata banquet near the end of the suht before the pri to track cah "I assu that?"

Liz bit her lip

"That’s what I thought," he said with a chuckle "I can give you a schedule if itrin

"Well, you won’t stalk me to this event without a ticket," Brady told her "I’d like you to be there"

She wanted to ask whether she was going to be going with him, but she didn’t She couldn’t ask that If he said no, she wouldn’t be able to keep the hurt off of her face They’d had such a nice day together that she wouldn’t want to ruin anything

"All right I’d like to go," she told him