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CHAPTER FIVE
ZANDER
The sun beamed on the freshly waxed wooden floor of my family’s yacht. Placing my hands on my hips, my eyes closed. I turned my face to the sky and the bright sun heated my skin.
I inhaled then exhaled as I scanned the lake. Birds chirped as they flew by. Lowering my baseball cap over my eyes, I leaned under the front rail. I reached into the anchor box and pressed the button, raising the anchor. “Perfect day to go fishing, Zander.”
“Since when do you talk to yourself, wolf boy?”
I raised my head, smacking it against the metal rail.
“Shit, fuck!” I yelled, grabbing the back of my noggin.
“Oh, my god, Zander.” I heard her pad across the wooden deck. She dropped to the floor, pulling me into her arms, and snatched my hat off my head. “Are you ok?”
My head rested in her lap. Her breasts brushed my forehead. She smelled delicious like citrus and roses.
“If I’d known this was all I had to do to be close to you, I would have bashed my head a long time ago.”
She swatted my arm.
“Not fucking funny,” she grimaced.
“As much as I want to lie here in your arms, can you step below deck and grab ice and a towel, please?”
“Yeah. But lay on your side until I return.”
She disappeared below deck.
I didn’t expect her to show. Her douche bag pool of guys must have run low for her to agree to meet me early on a Saturday morning.
“Zander, I’ll help you onto the lounge chair.”
“Can you give the captain a thumbs up, so he can set sail?”
“Sure.” She assisted me onto the chair, tossing my baseball cap in my lap. Vicky turned to the tented window on the second floor, raising her thumb in the air.
“What are you doing here, Vicky?”
“You don’t remember asking I meet you here?”
“Yeah, didn’t mean you’d show.”
She laid beside me on the matching lounge chair.
“If you didn’t think I was coming, what did you plan to do?”
I winced. The cold ice froze my nerve endings. “What I planned to do before you propositioned me…Fish.”
Lying on my side, I stared at the wide lake as we set sail.
“Alone?”
“Yes. I don’t have a problem being alone, Vicky,” I huffed.
“What’s your deal?”
“My family. Same as always.”
