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and a droplet falls off his long lashes, trails down to his lips. I try to follow its path but can’t because I’m braced. Which makes me aware of where his hands are. Shoot. Suddenly it’s like fire where he’s touching. I take a deep breath and try to focus on looking unaffected. Just a touch. Just a firm, strong hold, on my face and right between my boobs. Just a hot, hot guy that I’ve made out with, holding me in a neck stabilizing position.
    Lifeguarding has never been so hot. Or so awkward.
    When we get to the steps I wriggle away. “You saw that part, you don’t need to do the rest.” I dunk under the water for a moment to cool off and get back to normal. When I come back up he’s laughing.
    “You don’t like being splinted, do you?”
    “No,” I say, worried he’s figured out that I was turned on.
    “I guess I can see that. You’re kind of a control freak, you know that?”
    I stare at him, nonplussed, and pull up a wayward strap that is slipping on my shoulder.
    “I bet you’re the type that has to be on top in bed, too.”
    My mouth falls open. He walks up the stairs out of the river, leaving me eye-level with a pair of really nice, tanned calves. I glare at them angrily, then up at him.
    “Trying to look up my suit?”
    I feel my face going red. Bastard. I stand and push him back into the river, though it’s not particularly safe because it’s shallow. I could care less if he broke his ankle right now. “I should sue you for sexual harassment,” I toss back at him before storming back to the guards. His laughter in the distance only rankles further.
    I don’t understand him at all. I’m not sure I want to.

    Knight

    Damn, I liked my hands between her breasts. I really didn’t start out wanting to hit on her. I just wanted some time away from the guards, time learning something. Doing something other than staring. Staring isn’t enough distraction.
    Rain definitely is. I shouldn’t be watching her butt jiggle as she stomps off but I am. I hold my hands up and look at them. They’re throbbing a little from the long-ass hold it took to get all the way around the river, but they also seem to me to be the luckiest hands around right now.
    I shouldn’t have teased her. She seemed pretty steamed already just from being touched. But sometimes she looks at me and I can just feel that she wants it too. That we both want it, even if we’re smart enough not to take it.
    I sink back into the river where she pushed me to cool off. I stay low in it and creep around to the side that faces the lap pool where the guards are now doing basically frontal rescue drills. I prop myself on my elbows and watch her run it. She’s back in control, with her whistle in her mouth, convinced she’s an asexual force of nature to all of us.
    Not to me. She’s all woman and that’s all there is to it. Now that I’ve held her for the second time I’m sure of it.
    It’s fun to watch the guards fake drown. Some of them get really into it. I frown as Dan swims up and fake drowns right under her. “Only you can save me, Rain.”
    I tense up, and prepare to get out of the water to deal with him. Before I’m halfway out, Rain handles it. She walks to the edge of the pool, and whacks him with a lifeguard tube. He pouts and laughs, but she says something stern and he finally goes back to his drill. She turns to another pair, but I see Dan make a face at her behind her back, and gesture to Mike in a way that makes my hands turn to fists. Only I get to harass my co-sup.
    I get out on the deck and get in the water with the guards. I’ll keep them in line.
    “What are you doing?” She glares down at me.
    “I’m just gonna see if anyone needs help.”
    She frowns, and I know she’s wondering if she has to get in too. She has a towel wrapped around her waist and doesn’t seem like she wants to.
    “I’ve got it. I can see you’re more of a teller than a shower.” I wink at her and turn to the pair nearest me. Neil