Page 75 of Deadly Misfortunes

Gregory took her to the pool to swim.

“We’ve got this,” Nick said, joining them.

Henry followed them out to the pool.

Nick and Henry looked at the surrounding landscape while Sascha and Gregory went swimming. He got a floating basketball hoop out and put it in the water, and then they tossed a ball into the hoop.

They did that for several “games,” and then Sascha dove under the hoop and tackled Gregory. He laughed and hugged her close, then began kissing her.

“You are a delight.”

“You are mine,” she said. “ I almost feel guilty about the way I treated you at the Worthingtons’ party.”

He smiled and kissed her cheek. “I wasn’t giving up on you. But I will admit that I wanted to dance with you in the worst way. You don’t know how annoyed I was that Camden got to and I didn’t.”

“Camden did that on purpose.”

He laughed. “I suspected as much. And you?”

“He asked.” She shrugged. “I had only time for the one dance. But I will save more for you at the wedding.”

“We’ll have to dance before that.”

“I’m certainly ready. Maybe we can ask Kat and Prescott to go with us.”

“That would be fun.” She didn’t know if Lucy and Damon would want to join them. But they would be welcome.

“Stay here. I’ll be right back.” Gregory pulled a large, floating blue three-layer foam mat out for them to climb on, but he jumped on it from the patio, and she laughed, expecting him to fall into the water or force the mat down into it. But it just floated, really stable.

She’d never seen anything like it.

She swam over to it and climbed on top. She wasn’t sure she could walk across it to him, but she stood up and was shocked she could stand there and keep her balance. He was smiling, waiting for her to walk to him.

Figuring she wouldn’t be able to stay upright and fall into the water in record time, she ran across the mat, wobbling a bit as she went, arms outstretched to keep her balance, grinning like crazy as she headed for the object of her desire.

What she hadn’t expected was for Gregory to rise from where he was sitting and run at her to tackle her, but they were close to the edge at that point, and they both fell off the mat and into the warm water. They came up for air, laughing, hugging each other, kissing.

Then she grabbed hold of the edge of the mat to climb up on it, and he gave her butt a boost. She was laughing so hard. She didn’t need the help, but she was amused by it!

As soon as she was on the mat and stood, he climbed onto the mat, and she immediately pushed him off.

He laughed. This was too much fun. But this time, she let him climb up onto the mat. She was on her hands and knees, looking prepared to tackle him. He got to his feet, crouched, ready for her lunge. But then he lunged at her and took her back on the mat, pinned her down with his body, and kissed her.

This was great. He was so perfect for her.

She wrapped her arms around his neck and deepened the kiss. “This is my favorite water toy.”

“Me?”

She laughed. “Yeah, of course you.” Though she was thinking of the mat and them playing on it. He was too much fun.

But now she wanted to take this into the bedroom. If the bodyguards hadn’t been out there and security cameras hadn't been catching what was going on, she would have made love to him right then and there.

He was already hard and ready. She smiled at him. “Are you ready to retire to the bedroom?”

“I sure am.” He rolled off her and fell into the pool.

She dove after him. She thought he would swim to the stairs, but instead, he turned around and took her into his arms, and they began to kiss each other. She loved the intimacy between them, but she wanted to finish this in bed!