Free Addy And The Smart Guy (Big Girl Panties #3) by Carter Ashby Page A

This exact bikini?"
    "Sure. What the hell." It would be fun. Another rebellious moment. She couldn't make her reputation any worse, after all. She could hear the gossip now: Did you hear that Addison Hart ran off with her professor? And she wore a bikini. Gasp! "What will you wear, Professor?"
    He grabbed a pair of board shorts. She would have argued that he should wear a Speedo just to make things even, but she happened to think he was going to look incredibly sexy in those shorts.  
    They bought sunscreen and flip-flops, then drove to the water park. There appeared to be an interior that might have locker rooms, so they went in and found that they could rent a locker and change right there. They paid at the counter for a day pass and were given paper wristbands. They separated to go change in the locker rooms. When she came out, he was stowing his clothes in the locker, his muscles rippling as he reached up. He still had his glasses on.  
    He turned, smiling big. "Wow." He moved toward her and put his hands on her shoulders. He slid them down toward her breasts but halted as a passel of kids ran by. He laughed. "I wonder if they make adult water parks. Very, very adult water parks."
    She shoved past him to store her clothes in the locker. They turned, hand-in-hand, to see what they'd missed out on as kids. It was all white and blue surfaces, blindingly brilliant, with the smell of sunscreen permeating the air. There were several large slides, twisting around into a pool; a wave pool; a concrete river of some sort; and several stations for smaller kids with water sprays and slides. There were also cabanas where adults lounged, getting misted from the sprayers built into the ground.  
    "Lots of bikinis," Grey said. "See?"
    She jabbed him with her elbow and looked up at him. "Are we gonna go down that water slide?"
    He frowned up at it. "I think we have to. I think that's why we came here."
    She nodded. "Yes. We must conquer it. For the sake of those two, little rich kids who never got to."
    He took a fortifying breath. "Let's do this."  
    She grabbed his elbow. "I think you should take off your glasses."
    He took her by the shoulders, holding her at arm's length. "I can see about this far in front of me if I take off my glasses."
    "They could get broken. Or lost."
    He thought for a moment before going back to the locker. She stood back from him, to test his vision. He turned around, squinted right at her, and came toward her. Then he looked around, squinting. He put his hand on top of her head. "Lead the way."
    "You got beat up a lot in junior high, didn't you?"
    "I had contacts. And charm. I was okay."
    "Why don't you wear contacts, now?"
    "I hate them. Who do I gotta impress? No one. You've already seen me with my glasses on. It didn't stop you from jumping into bed with me the first chance you got."  
    She shoved him and ran ahead of him, hopefully out of his line of sight. Let him fumble around for her for a while.  
    A lifeguard whistled, making her jump. "No running," the incredibly gorgeous lifeguard said.  
    "Sorry," she said with a bashful smile.
    He winked at her and went on down toward the wave pool. The delay allowed Grey to catch up. He locked his fingers around her elbow. "You're not allowed to run, here," she said.
    "You get in trouble?"
    "Yeah, but it wasn't so bad. The lifeguard is adorable."
    Grey turned toward the direction of the life guard. "You've got strange taste in men, kiddo. He just looks like a brown and orange blotch, to me."
    She giggled and linked her fingers with his. They each picked up inner tubes and headed up the long set of stairs to the tops of the slides. They watched the people in front of them, mostly adults with their kids, or just kids, climb on their inner tubes and push off. Then they each went to a different slide entrance. Addy sat on her inner tube and let another cute lifeguard push her off.
    Halfway down she was laughing gleefully, the sensation of speed filling her with