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he
said with a smile. Taking out the bottle of champagne, he popped the top off
and poured the rich, gold bubbly into two glasses. Handing me one he said, “To
us!”
    “To us and to your new business, and to happy and
healthy futures for us both,” I said.
    We clinked and drank.
    He asked, “Ready for a dip?”
    “I don’t know…”
    “Come on,” he said. “If it’s too cold we can get
right back out.”
    I really didn’t want to. I could tell by the air
outside that it was going to be too cold already. His sexy eyes in the
moonlight with the firelight dancing across his face were too convincing
though.
    “Okay, but just for a minute. I want cheesecake.”
    He laughed and agreed. We took some towels that he’d
draped over one of the rocks and walked the little path to the back side of the
lake by moonlight. It felt good to be there with him, holding his warm hand and
having him stop every so often and press his sweet lips to mine. I hadn’t been
this content for a long time.
    When we reached the lake, I looked out over the calm
water. It was so still that it looked like a huge mirror. I could see the
silver reflection of the moon in it and the trees that surrounded it.
    “It’s so pretty,” I told him. “I haven’t been here
in a long time.”
    “Me neither,” he said. “Not since the last time I
was here with you.”
    It would have been the summer before we left for
college. The year that Dax was arrested and both of our lives had radically
changed.
    I pulled off my shirt and skirt, stripping down to
my bikini. I would take off my flip-flops when we reached the edge of the lake.
You never really knew what people would throw down in the sand. I looked at him
and he was watching me.
    “Are you going in?” I asked him.
    “Yep, I was enjoying the warm-up show,” he said.
    “Oh? I’m a warm-up show, am I?”
    He grinned and pulled me against him, hard. I turned
my face up to his and he looked down at me and said, “Yep and the main event
and the closer. You’re the whole show, baby.”
    His mouth found mine and we shared a long, slow
kiss. Our tongues entwined and I could taste champagne on us both. It was so
easy for me to melt into his big arms. I loved him like I knew I would never
love anyone else in my life. He let his hands run down my back and then I felt
them hot against the curves of my ass through my bikini bottoms.
    “Let’s get in,” he said, when we came up for air. I
wrinkled my nose, but after he’d stripped to his boxers, I took his hand and
let him lead me in to where the water covered just up over my ankles.
    “It’s cold!” I squealed.
    “Don’t be such a baby!” he said.
    He grabbed me and as I struggled, we both toppled
forward into the cold water. We came up sputtering and laughing.
    After sharing a few more kisses I said, “At the risk
of sounding like a baby, I’m freezing!”
    He laughed and said, “Me too.”
    We climbed out hand in hand and each of us wrapped
in one of the big towels he had brought. He put his arm around me and we walked
back over to where the toasty fire was still burning. Dax poured me another
glass of champagne and opened himself a beer. We sat by the fire and cuddled
while talking about his business and what his plans were for it. I thought
about bringing up school, but the timing just didn’t seem right.

 
    CHAPTER
TEN
    DAX
    I’m not sure how many beers I had before I realized
I had been talking almost non-stop for an hour. Olivia was so sweet; she was
just sipping her champagne and listening to me. I glanced at the empty bottle
of champagne and decided that sipping maybe wasn’t the right word. We had
cleaned the food off the blanket and laid back on it. I started grabbing and
tickling her first and then we wrestled around. It ended up in another
passionate kiss that started fires in both of us that burned hotter than the
one in the pit. The cold of the lake and the chill of the night air was all
forgotten. We were both burning up