Page 14 of Shameless

“Hey!” a man yelled from the sidewalk several yards away. I spun and saw a cop-looking dude with a flashlight. “No swimming at night!”

“Oh, shit!” I gasped. “The policia.”

I jogged out of the water, put Sarah down near our clothes and once we both had our shit, I grabbed her hand and we took off, running away from the cop. When I turned to look over my shoulder, the guy hadn’t followed us.

“He’s not coming for us,” I said, and stopped running.

She looked behind us and then quit sprinting too. “Holy crap. You’re going to get me arrested.”

“I hope not, because I doubt they’ll let us work off community service hours at your aunt’s apple farm,” I teased.

“No, I don’t think they would.”

7

Sarah

“I had fun tonight. Thank you,”Blake said as we stood outside the door to my room.

“I did too, even though you almost got us arrested.”

“I doubt they would have carted us off to jail for swimming in the ocean. He was probably just a security guard.”

“Then why did we run?” I questioned.

“For the excitement?”

“Is that a question?” I chuckled.

Blake grinned and I had to look away from his lips that I wanted to kiss. Fuck, he was so hot. I seriously couldn’t fathom why that Stacey chick left him at the altar. Granted, I once thought he was a bad boy, but the man I had dinner with tonight had matured since the last time I’d seen him. I suppose ten years does that to someone.

“Yeah, because you just said you had fun.” He grinned.

I closed my eyes briefly, shaking my head. “Sure, if you’re into running from the cops.”

“All right, next time I’ll just have them arrest us,” he teased.

I rolled my eyes. “There better not be a next time.”

“Maybe tomorrow,” he joked. “What are y’all’s plans?”

Y’all’s. I hadn’t heard that term since the last time I’d gone home to Texas for Christmas. “Lazy day at the pool. What about you?”

“The same, I think. I guess I need to see when I’ve booked all that shit for my honeymoon. Everything is on my phone, but I turned it off.”

I blinked. “You did?”

“Yeah.” He sighed. “Didn’t want to field any calls. If Stacey decides she wants to talk, I don’t want to yet. I gave her a chance before I left.”

“Understandable.”

“Yeah, but I’ll go to the pool tomorrow and see if y’all are there.”

I smiled at his word again. “Still living in Texas, I take it?”

Blake cocked a brow. “Yeah, why?”

“Because you say ‘y’all’.”