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her while she tried to clear her passages. She cast a brief glance down her front to make sure her bikini top had held fast.
    “Are you all right?” Ty asked, his voice raspy from his own bout of coughing.
    She looked up at him, surprised by how close his face was to hers. “I… cough …I’m okay. Just a little… cough …water in the wrong tubes.”
     
    Despite her reassurances, Ty didn’t let her go, instead he pulled her even closer. Ty had hugged her before, but this was…different. Jasmine struggled to not read too much into it, but the way he casually circled his arm around her bare waist took everything she had within her to resist wrapping her legs around his hips. She concentrated on treading water and made a poor attempt to make light of the situation.
    “If I didn’t know any better, I’d think that Freddie did that on purpose.”
    He cocked his head, grinning at her. “Oh, really? And what makes you say that?”
    Jasmine blushed and turned her gaze away from Ty. “He thinks you have…feelings for me. I told him he was clearly mistaken, of course.”
    “And why would you tell him that?” Ty raised an eyebrow, almost as though in challenge.
    “Because you don’t.” Jasmine paused. “You, uh, you don’t… Do you?”
    “What if I did?”
    “Oh, come on, you’re yanking my chain.” Jasmine hadn’t thought it was possible to blush any more than she had been already, but her face felt even hotter than it had before.
    Ty lowered his face, touching his forehead to hers. “What if I told you that I have been dying to hold you in my arms like this since the moment I saw you this afternoon?”
    Jasmine laughed self-deprecatingly. “I’d say that you were full of shit. Seriously, you can stop teasing now. Or at least wait until we’re back on the boat so your friends can get in on the joke.” Speaking of which, Freddie was taking an awful long time circling around to pick them up.
    “Joke? Seriously? Don’t tell me you’ve forgotten what happened in the garage that summer you and Laurel graduated college. I know you were a little drunk, but I thought you’d at least remember.”
    “Of course I remember!” Jasmine snapped. “I felt awful about it. You weren’t even of age!”
    “It was one of the best nights of my life,” Ty said quietly. “I didn’t realise you regretted it.”
    Jasmine was shocked to see that he actually looked hurt. “Oh, Ty, that’s not what I meant!” She lamented. “It’s just that…I’ve felt so bad for taking advantage of you. You were too young. Drunk or not, I should have known better.”
    “You didn’t take advantage of me, Jasmine. If anything, I took advantage of you. I’d only had a couple beers that night, and I found a prime opportunity to kiss the girl I’d been dreaming of kissing since I entered puberty.” He angled his head to rub his nose lightly across her nose. The intimate gesture reawakened the butterflies in Jasmine’s stomach. “I’ve been dying for another opportunity ever since.”
    Jasmine was so close to angling her head just a little more to the right, his lips were so close to hers, but that was when the sound of the boat’s engine grew closer. She attempted to pull away, but his arms were still locked around her waist. “This conversation isn’t over, Jasmine. I know you feel it too, and I’m not letting you run away this time.”
    “You can’t be serious,” Jasmine said.
    “I’ve never been more serious in my life,” replied Ty. He turned to address his friends who’d, finally, reached them with the boat. “Jesus, did you guys take the scenic route or what?”
    “You two looked as though you were having a rather intense conversation, we didn’t want to interrupt.” Freddie smirked. Jasmine glared at him, as he continued, “It’s a shame I wasn’t given an opportunity to place a bet on what the subject of that discussion was. I’m pretty sure I’d have come out ahead on that one.”

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