Page 70 of Faking it For Summer

“It was just a joke,” I say quickly.

“Uh-huh. Hey there, Juniper, Wendy. Good to see you both.”

“Hey, Rafe.” Wendy offers him a wave and looks back at her phone.

Juniper eyes him and blushes. “Hey,” she says, her voice high-pitched.

He grunts at her. His eyes narrow at her sexy black dress. If I’m not mistaken, Rafe thinks Juniper is hot.

“You into her?” I ask him.

His eyes fly back to me as he frowns. “What are you talking about?”

“Are you into Juniper?”

“Don’t be crazy. Of course not.” He looks at his watch. “I’ll be back.” And with that, he’s gone.

I wonder what that was about, but I’m the last person to be questioning anyone else.

“Tonight is the night. I’m going to have some fun,” Mia sings loudly and continues dancing. She’s shaking her hair back and forth now and getting completely carried away.

“Be careful, Mia.”

“I’m fine. I’m having—oops!”

She screams as her clumsy-ass trips, and she goes flying. I step forward and reach my arms out to catch her. Her drinkspills everywhere, including on my shirt, but I’m glad I’m able to catch her in my arms before she falls to the ground. She hits me with a thud that leaves us both winded as I slowly lower her to the ground.

“You saved me. I thought I was going to fall to the floor.”

“I guess I’m just your regular knight in shining armor.”

“I guess so,” she says, grabbing the sides of my face and pressing her lips against mine. “You’re just amazing, Luke. You know that, right?”

My heart beats double-time as she looks at me, then strokes the side of my face, and runs her fingers through my hair. She presses her body up against mine and wraps her arms around my neck. Her breasts press up against my chest, and I wrap my arms around her waist.

“I guess you’re really thankful, aren’t you?”

“I’m so thankful,” she says as she brushes her lips against my cheek and then my neck.

Her fingers run down the side of my body, and my cock grows hard in my pants. I run my fingers down the small of her back and squeeze her ass, and she presses into me. She grabs my face and kisses me harder, and for a few moments, the world is still, the bar is quiet, and all I can feel and think about is our two hearts as they beat in simultaneous connection.

I deepen the kiss, my tongue slipping into her mouth. She moans as she sucks my lower lip. I smell the jasmine of her scent and feel the softness of her body. I pull her tighter to me so she can feel the hardness in my pants.

Fuck. This is why I came back to Coconut Beach. For all of this. I don’t know if the kiss is because she’s grateful that I caught her or what, but this was a moment I’d been waiting for—a real connection.

“My gosh, that was close,” she says as she suddenly pulls away from me.

“What?” I stare at her in confusion.

She grins and nods to the side.

“I saw Andi and Rex come in, and they were glancing at us. Did I do a good job?”

I realize that the entire thing was fake. She wasn’t kissing me because she wanted to. She was kissing me as part of the act.

“Oh, yeah. You’re a really good actress. I saw them as well,” I say quickly. “That’s why I slipped you the tongue so that it would be more believable.”

“Well, great. Good job.” She licks her lips and swallows hard. “A-plus for effort.” She giggles.