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I shiver. “The things his mattress has seen. No thanks. I’ll stay with one of my girlfriends. It’ll be fine.”
“Your choice. I need to go. Make sure to lock up after me.”
Those words burn as they hit me. I’m not an eighteen-year-old innocent girl anymore but it doesn’t matter to Flynn. He will always think of me as a little sister. Someone to be protected and nothing more.
Chapter 4
In a world full of fish, be a mermaid.
Flynn
When I open the door toBootleggerand the noise hits me, I nearly turn around and go back home. I completely forgot it was Mermaid Karaoke Week.
Weston spots me and waves. Damn. I can’t run away now. He’ll want to know what’s bugging me since Mermaid Karaoke Week is usually my favorite part of tourist season.
“Hey, Flynn,” a woman I don’t recognize purrs at me.
I keep going, but she grabs my bicep to stop me.
“Where are you going in such a hurry?”
“Meeting a friend.”
She bats her eyelashes at me. “I’m your friend, aren’t I?”
I peel her hand away from my bicep. I don’t want any woman touching me except the one woman I cannot have. “Not tonight, darling.”
“But,” she pouts, “I can’t give you my vote for sexiest man on the island unless I taste the goods.”
She rakes her gaze over my body as she licks her lips. Usually, I can be tempted by this kind of display. Not tonight. Not when a vision of Sophia covered in nothing but a towel is seared into my brain.
“I guess another man will have to win this year,” I say and leave before she has the chance to grab me again.
“Five Fathoms Summer IPA,” I order as I sit down on a barstool next to Weston.
He claps me on the back. “The women still throwing themselves at you?”
“I’m going to kill Lana for coming up with the sexiest man on the island competition.”
“What’s wrong? Not winning this year? You’re lucky I can’t compete, or you wouldn’t have a chance.”
As a police officer for Smuggler’s Rest, he’s ineligible. Initially, there weren’t many rules about who could compete to be the sexiest man on the island. The only rule was you had to kiss the person you voted for.
No one expected women to start speeding so they’d get pulled over by the men on the police force. All men in the service industry were disqualified before women started setting fires.
“Be my guest. I’m not interested in being auctioned off like a piece of meat at the end of the summer.”
Part of the whole sexiest man on the island competition is a charity auction at the end of tourist season. You can’t winunless you agree to be auctioned off. It was fun for the first few times, but I’m over it.
I’m over tourists throwing themselves at me. I’m over waking up next to a woman whose name I don’t know. There’s only one woman I want to wake up next to.
“I heard you saw my sister today.”
I grunt. I saw entirely too much of his sister today.
“You didn’t tell me she moved home.”
He shrugs. “I figured you knew. It’s the talk of the town.”
