Free Just for the Summer (Chasing Carolina #0.5) by Danielle Jamie Page B

call it, but I’ve changed my mind. I want to do this.”
    He stares up at me with the most breathtaking smile on his face, sparkling brighter than the stars twinkling above us. “Baby, believe me, I really wanna do this right now too, but you deserve better than beach sex and sand in your cooch.”
    I immediately burst out laughing. “Did you really just call my vagina a cooch ?! You’re so cute, even when you’re bruising my ego.”
    His arms tighten around me and his face turns serious. “Listen to me, and listen good, Ashlynn. If I was the asshole Chase you met a few days ago, don’t doubt for one second I wouldn’t be stripping your clothes off and fuckin’ you right here on the beach, not caring who saw us. But I like you and care about you. To me, you deserve better than this. I don’t want you for one single second to think I’m not having sex with you right now because I don’t want to, because I’m pretty sure the raging fuckin’ hard-on in my shorts is telling you otherwise.”
    Well, then. If I was turned on before, I’m way past frickin’ turned on now.
    “Okay. When you put it that way, it sounds all romantic. Who would’ve guessed you, Chase Kenzington, have a romantic bone in your body?” I tease before leaning down and kissing him again.
    His hands squeeze my hips. “We better go before I lose what little self-control I have left,” he whispers against my lips before giving me one more kiss. Lifting me off of him, he stands and brushes the sand from his butt while I brush off my legs and grab my flip-flops.
    Reaching out for my hand, he laces his fingers with mine and wraps our entwined hold behind my back, sealing me to his side as we walk in silence to his truck, just enjoying being with one another and the peacefulness of the beach.
    Today has surpassed all of my expectations. I cannot wait to tell Nikki, Becca, and Tamara about our date. I don’t doubt they’ll attack me the second I walk through the door, wanting to know all about it. I think they were just as excited as I was, if not more, while I waited for Chase tonight.
    I also can’t wait to see how the remainder of our vacation goes, because if every day is like this, I don’t think I’ll ever want to leave South Carolina. When the time comes, my girls will be dragging me away kicking and screaming.
    My head and heart are both telling me two different things right now. My head is saying to make some distance, because I’m setting myself up for heartbreak, but my heart is telling me to grasp onto these moments with both hands, because I’ll cherish this time in my life forever. Right now, my heart is winning.

IT’S BEEN ELEVEN DAYS since my first date with Ashlynn, and let me just say I’ve never had blue balls this bad in my life! My hand just isn’t cutting it. Ashlynn has tried many times to convince me to just fuck her, but I want to make sure she doesn’t regret doing it afterwards, so I’ve been spending every day with her in safe zones.
    I took her to the aquarium for the day earlier this week, then out on my boat for some deep sea fishing and tubing with all of our friends. Vance has been seeing the Reagan chick he had met last summer a lot over the last eleven days, so she’s been over to the house, hanging out with all of us too.
    Today, we went to Family Kingdom, which is an amusement park by the boardwalk. It’s a little cooler, with the temperature only in the low eighties, so we figured it’d be a perfect day to go hang out, play arcade games, and ride roller coasters. Now, we’re heading to the boardwalk to grab dinner before going back to our houses.
    I got a text earlier from one of my friends who lives about a mile down from me, telling me he’s throwing a party tonight and that Vance, Parker, and I can bring whoever we want, so I’m hoping Ashlynn and her friends will join us, since Reagan already told Vance she’ll go.
    Normally, I’d want to go to a party so I can find a new girl to bring