Temptation

Chapter 10

Tyler slipped his shirt over his head, tossing it into the sand along with his wallet and phone and began undoing his belt and jeans.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"Going in," he chuckled, pulling his jeans down.

"In your underwear?" I laughed.

"Its either that or nude," he smirked. "I'm not gonna drive back in wet clothes."

"Whatever works," I giggled.

"Are you coming or not?" he looked at me expectantly.

I looked back at the water and then for some reason I decided 'screw it'. I'd take the risk.

"Oh fine," I groaned, pulling off my shirt.

Tyler's eyes immediately looked down from my face when my shirt came off. I started undoing my jeans and he didn't take his eyes off me.

"Something interesting Daniels?" I smirked, throwing my jeans into the pile of clothes.

"N-no," he stuttered, looking back to my eyes.

I figured I'd get a running start and took off for the water. He followed close behind. I faced my stupid fear and jumped into the water. I didn't go very far, still nervous about the current, but I felt safe when Tyler's arms wrapped around me from behind. He rested his head on my shoulder.

"Not so bad, is it?" he said in my ear.

The feeling of his breath on my ear sent a shiver down my back.

"Not as long as you're here," I smiled, turning around in his arms to face him.

I wrapped my arms around his neck and we stood there in the water like that for a few seconds before our lips met again. Once again I felt the fireworks. I wished for the sake of my relationship with Cameron that I didn't feel anything when Tyler kissed me but I couldn't push the feeling away. I didn't want to. I mean, I wanted to because I didn't wanna lose Cameron, but at the same time, I wanted Tyler so bad. It was this feeling of need and want for him that I couldn't seem to control. He was intoxicating. At first I thought it was just a crazy rush of lust because... well damn he's gorgeous... but then another feeling came into the mix and as we stood there in the water holding each other, kissing like we never wanted to stop, I realized something. Sure I had lust for him, but that wasn't all I had for him and it kinda scared me to think I had feelings for Tyler.

We pulled apart and I rested my head on his chest listening to his heartbeat. He rubbed his hand up and down my back and fiddled with the ends of my hair.

"You're beautiful," he breathed, sliding his hand down my back.

I let out a heavy sigh against his shoulder and moved my head to look up at him. I searched his eyes trying to read what he was thinking. He backed up a couple inches and I let my arms drop from around his neck.

"We should get back," he said, looking toward our clothes laying on the sand.

"It's like early afternoon," I gave him a confused look. "Do you have other plans today?"

"No. I just don't want anyone to, uh..." he shifted his weight to his other side. "Worry about us."

"I don't think they care," I laughed lightly as we walked back through the water to our clothes.

He didn't say anything. We threw our clothes on and trekked back to the truck. The drive back to the hotel was quiet with only a few words said here and there. We listened to the radio on a low volume and I attempted to dry my hair somewhat by letting the wind rush in through my window.