Total pages in book: 114
Estimated words: 108636 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 543(@200wpm)___ 435(@250wpm)___ 362(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 108636 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 543(@200wpm)___ 435(@250wpm)___ 362(@300wpm)
I pull up my Midnight chat with Beau and start typing.
ElizaBeth: What happs, Mr. Man? You missin me or whats?.
I see the spinning wheel indicate he’s typing and wait for his message. It comes quickly, and I can practically see his serious face on the other side all the way from here.
ThunderStruck: Where are you? Are you drinking?
ElizaBeth: I think I’M drunnk on a boatt. HAHA Member that song???
ThunderStruck: You’re not close to the sides of this boat, are you?
I laugh. Gosh, he’s funny. And sexy. And perfect. And his cock is big, but, like, the perfect kind of big, you know? Not scary-big where you’re afraid the tip is going to touch your tonsils. But where you feel so, so full in the best way.
ElizaBeth: Nope. Seated sitting right on my ass right now. No danger in sight.
ThunderStruck: That’s good. I’m suddenly wishing I were on this boat with you.
ElizaBeth: Oh boy, Mr. Banks has FOOMA. HAHA You’re funny
ThunderStruck: I don’t have FOMO. But I do have some drunk June memories…
ElizaBeth: I only pukled on your shoes that one time a couple years agoo, and it wsnt even my fault
ThunderStruck: Where are you?
ElizaBeth: On. A BOAT. DIDn’t we already estabish that???
ThunderStruck: I meant, where is the boat?
I giggle. What a silly question.
ElizaBeth: Um, in the water?
ThunderStruck: Forget it. I have Avery on Life360.
ElizaBeth: Wait, what’r you gonna do with that?
ElizaBeth: Beauuu, hellooo?
ElizaBeth: Did you fall overbord??/
ElizaBeth: Oh. Wait I’m on the boot. HAHAHAH
“Oh well,” I mutter to myself, standing up and making my way down below to pee. It’s a quick trip, and when I come back up, Avery and Kristin are taking another shot, so I join them.
A couple of guys cheer us on, and Avery pulls me over to flirt with them.
“June, this is Garrett. Garrett, this is my bestie, June.”
Garrett has blond hair and a lazy smile, and I don’t feel even a smidge of attraction. I picture him trying to be as cool as Beau, and it makes me laugh out loud. Garrett’s eyebrows draw together, and Avery laughs, chiding, “Whew, girl, you’re gone. You’d better get yourself together quick because we’re going to Luau Room after this.”
I give her the thumbs-up, and she shakes her head, explaining to Garrett, “She doesn’t get out much anymore. She’s a highly motivated individual, you know? Super smart, bound for success, and all that.”
He smiles and shrugs. “She’s hot too.”
“Smokin’,” I correct, and that makes him laugh.
“Love the confidence, babe.”
I nod. It’s not me normally, but right now with this many shots in my system, and while I’m on Midnight talking to Beau, I’m ready to take on the whole wide world. Probably Mars, even.
A boat horn blows, making me nearly jump out of my skin, and Avery turns both of us around to look. I lean on her heavily.
“Oh my God!” she shrieks. “What the hell is Beau doing?”
“Beau?” I question. Shock urges a bucket of adrenaline to dump into my veins. Hell, I’m probably one more boat-horn-blow away from being scared into sobriety.
“Yes!” she screams. “He’s on that boat over there! See him?”
Black shorts, a white shirt, dark hair, chiseled face, and a bright smile, he stands out like the sun in the middle of a group of clouds. Oh, I see him, all right. I see him and then some. If I could hop on his boat right now and fuck him, I’d do it in a nanosecond.
Avery pulls me toward the side of the boat where he’s pulling up, and I do my best not to fall down while I’m keeping up. When she gets within talking distance, she starts shouting across the space between us. “What are you doing here?”
“I was out and then saw you were close on Life 360.”
It’s a hollow excuse at best, but she doesn’t question it at all. Part of me can’t believe it, but I guess she has no reason to suspect her brother and best friend are sneaking around behind her back either.
“Are you headed back in now?” she asks, pulling me forward and making me trip over myself. “Because this one could really stand to end her partying a little early.”
“I can see that.” Beau smiles at me, and the wild urge to fuck him on a boat grows tenfold. “Take her to the back of the boat, and we’ll get her switched over.”
“Great!” Avery agrees, completely unaware that she’s leaned right into what I suspect was Beau’s plan all along. I might be a little boozed-up, but I know mischief and ulterior motives when I see them.
I teeter to the back of boat and down onto the stern deck, and Beau places a walking pick between the two boats for me to cross.
I look down toward my feet and back up at Beau.
“C’mon, Juni,” he says, and when I look at the water beneath the walking pick, I can feel my eyeballs get real big.