CHAPTER 5
Ruby
“She’s waking up!”
“Give her space.”
I try and get my bearings and feel something underneath me.
A man!
I blink my eyes a few times to make sure this is really happening. I’ve never fainted before but I’m remembering what just happened.
I hear a loud round of cheers and then the crowd starts chanting.
“Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!”
This is all happening so fast.
“Kiss him!”
“Give the hero a kiss!”
“Do it!”
“You don’t have to listen to them,” he says softly as I lay on top of him.
I push myself up just a bit so he’s not so close to my face. I need to get a good look at him from more than three inches.
I’ve never seen such a feral looking yet handsome man before. I never would have taken him for my type, but then again I always thought Daryl was a real Mr. Nice Guy, and look how that turned out for me.
The chants get louder and I have to admit I like where they’re going with it.
It sure doesn’t hurt that I already know there are a bunch of news crews here and this will spread like wildfire on the internet. I wouldn’t mind taking a poke at the two cheaters back home.
But there’s a different kind of poke that’s on my mind at the moment.
I feel something pressing into my lower stomach and something hard running along my pelvis and the top of my thigh.
My mind does the quick mental math. Are you kidding me?
How hung is this guy?
And why is he harder than a rock?
“Maybe I want to listen to them,” I say.
“Maybe we should,” he says.
I look down at his lips. They’re surprisingly soft looking considering it’s hot, it’s the beach, and oh…he just had a knife in-between them!
Part of me feel embarrassed with so many people looking on, but the large majority of me feels extremely horny.
I guess the saying about never feeling more alive than when you stare down death is completely true.
And I want nothing more than to celebrate my second chance right now.
Right here.
With him.
My hero.
Screw it!
I lean in and close my eyes.
I stop just short and then move the rest of the way.
He’s built, handsome, and a hero, but I’m not expecting too much.
But everything is what I get.
I feel my nipples harden and my midsection tighten.
My heart races almost as if I was back in that water staring down that ferocious monster again.
But this is a different kind of monster, namely the one in his pants and what I’m guessing a guy who’s in as good a shape as he is can do with it.
But more than anything I feel butterflies.
I want to write it off as just everything that’s happened in the last hour, but it’s so much more than that.
It feels so deep. So real. So passionate, even though it’s such a simple kiss.
I hear more and more clapping and cheering and I don’t want to end this anytime soon. Based on the lip lock he’s got on me and what’s pressing up against me I can see he doesn’t either.
I move my hands and place them on his body. His muscles are thick and huge, as everything is with him apparently.
“Okay, enough you lovebirds,” a voice says.
“I’m getting the exclusive!”
“I was here first bitch!”
I hear a loud thump in the sand and our lips come apart.
I turn and see two of the very attractive and polished news ladies wrestling in the sand.
Suddenly one bops the other over the head with her microphone and knocks her out cold!
“Somebody get an ambulance,” a man yells.
“Yeah, somebody better call an ambulance,” the mystery man below me says.
“Somebody might be hurt,” I say.
We both pause for a minute before busting out laughing.
“Now’s our chance,” I say.
“Agreed. Let’s get out of here,” he says.
We jump up from the sand and as the crowd now circles around the two women we quietly slide out of there.
Together.