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Commandments. I had to set a good example, especially for the younger lifeguards.
    With each stroke I prepared myself for the save, even if it was a mock one. Each rescue involved a series of decisions. In rough water, Blake and I would have tag-teamed it, one swimming out with a torpedo buoy and the other using the line to pull the victim back to shore. If a swimmer was farther out, we’d use surfboards. But since practice rescues weren’t on the morning workout schedule I had none of that.
    On a perfect white flag day, like today, I was doing it old school. There was no need for Blake or any of the other guards to get involved.
    Surfacing, I swept the water, even though like a dolphin’s radar I knew exactly where Kelsey was. With ten more feet to go, I ducked my head in the water.
    As I zeroed in, I fought the urge to take her into my arms and kiss her.
    It didn’t matter that’d I’d seen hundreds of hot babes on the beach before. Kelsey was… different. I couldn’t explain it. Not yet.
    I surfaced in front of her. “I’m here to save the day.”
    “Gee, I was hoping for that Hoff guy.”
    “This ain’t Baywatch , babe.”
    My training kicked in. I grabbed her right arm with my right hand, and in one motion pulled her to me as I turned her around. Ignoring the tinge of pink on her shoulders, I hooked my arms underneath her into the cross-chest carry and began to kick.
    I was the fucking poster boy for lifeguarding. Until she moved. With my body beneath hers, her ass bumped my dick, sparking an arousal I wasn’t prepared for.
    “Don’t help,” I said more sternly than I should have, but I was frustrated. All eyes were on us. This wasn’t the time or place to play ocean games even if the siren in my arms tempted me from my post.
    “Sorry.”
    Now I felt bad. If a victim was able, they could help kick to shore, but the thought of Kelsey, accidentally or purposely rubbing up against me, and I’d be the one in need of rescue.
    I needed a distraction from the way her long hair floated in the water, exactly like the mermaid she’d claimed to be.
    “So do you come to this beach often?”
    “Oh, more lifeguard humor. Do you talk to all your victims this way?”
    “I make conversation to reassure them.” Which was true, but I’d never used a lame line like that before.
    Our limbs tangled as I let a gentle wave carry us the rest of the way to shore. I dragged her arm around my shoulder like she was any other drowning victim and helped her to her feet.
    Blake jogged down to help.
    “I got it,” I said and he wisely backed away.
    Circling my arm around her waist, we stumbled to the dry sand. Without the water to cool me, my body heated and I was surprised not to see steam rising off me. I eased her to the sand and handed her my towel.
    She blotted her face and I noticed a sprinkle of freckles across the bridge of her nose. I hadn’t seen them yesterday. With her hair slicked back, her eyes seemed like twin setting suns. Being in her orbit made me feel dizzy, like I’d been out in the heat all day.
    Still, I wanted to lick each salty droplet off of Kelsey’s skin.
    She patted the towel just above the swell of her breasts. “What about your specialty?”
    I smiled. There was nothing I’d liked better than to give Kelsey mouth-to-mouth. But I couldn’t trust her not to turn it into a kiss. Hell, I couldn’t trust myself. Not even with my co-workers watching on.
    “With you chatting during the rescue I figured you didn’t need it.”
    “Me?” She tossed a handful of sand at my feet. “You’re the one who wouldn’t shut up.”
    True, I hadn’t. Talking kept me from thinking about how her body floated against mine. Kelsey’s soft, lush curves and me, totally the opposite.
    “Well, thank you for saving me.”
    “Anytime.”
    She batted her eyelashes. “How will I ever repay you?” The drawl sweetened and thickened, like honey.
    Man, I could think of a few things. A lot of things. “A date.