Divine (41 page)

“
It's okay,”
I laughed. “I made you choke on your own water, so we're even.
And actually, that's even funnier because you're supposed to be so
good in the water; it doesn't make sense that you would choke on it.”

“
Well, sometimes
things just don't make sense, do they?”

I moved my hand under
the water and pulled it out quickly, sending a giant splash across
his unsuspecting face. “Nope, I guess not,” I laughed as
I darted away from him.

“
Oh, you're gonna
get it!” He took off after me and grabbed my kicking foot under
the water. “You can't get away!”

“
Hey, no fair!
It's my turn to hide; you go close your eyes!”

His hand broke away
from my foot and he stopped in the water with his eyes tightly
closed. “Marco? You better get away as quick as you can . . .”

I stifled a laugh and
scooted along the surface toward the rocks near the coves deeper end.

“
Marco?”
Jonah flipped himself around on his back and kicked toward me through
the water without waiting for me to respond to his call.

“
Polo.”

He was getting to me
fast, swimming in a straight line directly to where I was hiding. I
wouldn't be able to get away from him; he already knew exactly where
I was.

“
Marco?”

I tucked myself between
two large rocks and waited. “Polo.”

“
Marco?”

“
Polo.”

He was getting closer.
I smiled as he turned back around and moved his toned arms through
the water, pushing himself right into the area I was hiding in. With
his eyes still closed, he moved his hands around my stomach and
grabbed onto my waist, pulling himself into me as I held onto the
giant rock with one hand. He slowly opened his eyes to see me. “I've
got you,” he said in a quiet whisper.

“
I wanted you to
get me.”

My body trembled
against his as he reached out of the water and took my hand away from
the rock, placing it smoothly around the back of his neck. His eyes
immediately lit up at our close touch, the green sparkles dancing
around his pupils, igniting the water around us in the brilliant hue.
He wrapped his arms tightly around my waist and pushed himself
forward to close the small gap between our wanting lips.

The taste of his mouth
enticed me and sent me over the edge with every careful stroke of his
tongue against mine. I craved him, hungered for his mouth, thirsted
for his body. And now, there we were, nestled between the two giant
rocks, fulfilling our desire that we had lusted after for so long.

My fingers trailed up
and met with his wet hair, pulling what was left of the gel out of
his tousled spikes while his lips broke away from mine to move his
kisses down the side of my neck. I sucked in a breath of delight at
feeling the gentle grazing of his teeth against my skin as he kissed
and licked down to my bare shoulder.

I gently opened my
eyes, taking in the sight of the black ocean beyond the lit up cove.
“Jonah,” I breathed against him, “what if someone
sees us?”

His finger trailed its
way along my waist and wrapped itself around the side of my tied
swimsuit, his warm mouth still moving along my shoulder. “Don't
worry, there's no one out there.”

“
Are you sure?”

His mouth left my skin
and he raised up, looking at me passionately with an inviting gaze.
“Yeah, I'm sure; I don't feel anyone out there. But, if it's
bothering you, I can make it more private.”

I smiled at him with
curiosity. “How can you do that?”

“
Here, I'll show
you.” He took his other hand away from my waist and brought it
above the water, skimming his fingers along the surface, drawing an
invisible line that formed a half-circle around our bodies. The ocean
reacted instantly to his touch and rose up above us, creating a solid
curtain of glowing green sea water.

“
Jonah, that's
amazing,” I gasped. “You really do show me something new
every time I see you.”

He looked away from his
watery creation and put his hand back to my side. “I have a lot
of new things I want to show you,” he hinted with lively eyes.

Just as our lips were
about to join together again, Fred swam into our corner of seclusion,
tickling my skin with the flapping of her tiny fins. “Awe,
Fred,” I addressed her with sympathy, “now's not the
time.”

Jonah laughed and
cranked his head around me to see her by my side. “Yeah, Fred,
get outta here. We'll play later.” Like a loyal dog she
listened to his command and fled out of our space, swimming
underneath the glowing curtain and vanishing into the green cove.

“
That's much
better,” I said with a smile. Taking my turn at being
assertive, I pulled his lips against mine and went back to what I was
aching for.

His other hand never
left the edge of my suit bottom during our interruption. He went back
to work while he moved his lips against mine, pulling his finger
along the pink string, creating inside of me an undeniable yearning
for him to untie it.

I waited for him to
make the move, but instead, his hand left my side and traveled up the
skin on my back. My body shivered as I felt him gently tug on the
string of my top; with a single pull it came undone. I stopped our
kiss and pulled it completely off of me, allowing it to drop in the
water and pressing myself back against his solid chest.

We breathed deeply with
excitement at the feeling of our half-naked bodies pressed together
beneath the water. I sighed pleasantly as his hand traveled up and
moved between us, stroking me gently, feeling the volume of my
uncovered breast.

His passionate touch
was almost too much for me to handle. I broke away from his tasteful
mouth and let out in an intoxicated breath, “Jonah.”

Without questioning he
moved me back against the giant rock, bringing his arm up behind me
to cushion my back from its hard surface. His sparkly eyes pierced me
with an erotic gaze while his other hand traced its way back down to
the string on the side of my swimsuit.

I sucked in a breath of
nervous excitement at the feeling of his loving touch on my smooth
skin. He looked absolutely breathtaking in front of me: his shoulders
slick with droplets of salty water, glistening in the colorful light
around us. He was like a magnet drawing me into him, my body
forcefully pressing against his hardness, unable to pull myself away.
But, I didn't want to pull away; I felt overwhelmingly loved and
protected in his powerful arms. In that moment especially, I felt
completely desired by him.

We watched each other
in silence while his fingers flirted with the idea of untying the
bottom of my suit. His chest rose and fell with every excited breath
that he took, taking his time with the delicate string, quietly
teasing me.

I couldn't take it
anymore; I had to have more of him. I reached down and tugged at the
waist of his board shorts, pulling them away from his firm skin.

A delighted smile
formed across his lips. “There's my impatient girl,” he
said in a low drawl. He pulled his hand away from my side and slid
his suit down away from his body, wadding it up in his hand and
tossing it up on the rocks above us.

I dove into his naked
body, completely consumed by his masculinity. Everything that he had
I wanted. No, it was more than that: everything that he had I
needed
.

He kissed into me with
a smile and pulled away at the string on my side. When he got the
first side undone he reached across my stomach and untied the other
one with a single pull. The bottom of my suit fell away from my
excited body and floated down to the deep ocean floor below us.

“
I'll get those
later,” he breathed between our intimate kiss.

I ignored his comment;
I didn't care about my bathing suit. All I cared about was feeling
him,
all
of him.

We searched each others
bodies under the water, exploring places that we had never touched,
feeling the excitement grow between us with each passing second. His
hand seemed to know all the right places to go and he went right to
them, a master of his craft, tempting me to give into him.

Before he pushed me
over the edge of pleasure, I wrapped my legs around his waist and
pulled him into me to experience what I had waited so long to feel.
Our faces displayed the pleasure of the moment as we responded to the
satisfying sensations below, causing my legs to squeeze even tighter
around him. His hard body trembled against mine with every fluid
slide, moving the water around in our space of seclusion, getting
lost in our passion for one another. As I grew wild and released
myself in the all-encompassing passion, I laid back against his arm
and let his instincts take over as he consumed me in the water of his
glowing ocean.

* * *

The rapid beats of
Jonah's heart pounded against his chest as he pulled me tightly
against him, holding me in a tender embrace, meeting my lips with a
breathless kiss. The moment of pure ecstasy between us had been both
passionate and exhilarating, leaving us pleasantly tired and happily
renewed from our submission to the heat of our arousal.

Our lips slowly pulled
away from each other as I opened my eyes to see Jonah's serious face
staring at me with the green I was so fond of. His arm slid away from
behind me and he brought it above the water, reaching behind him and
slicing through the curtain of green with his hand, cutting it in
half like a sword and sending the water crashing to the ocean's
surface.

I smiled at him
pleasantly and closed my eyes, my cheek meeting the muscle of his
shoulder and resting comfortably against it while he held me up
effortlessly in the water. It was so relaxing laying against his
warmth and breathing in the intoxicating skin of the man I loved.

I sighed pleasantly and
slowly opened my eyes again, but what I saw threw me off guard, and I
raised my head away from his shoulder to take in the sight in front
of me: the beautiful sparkle of the green water was slowly fading
away, becoming replaced by a deep, purple hue. It was the most
beautiful shade that I had ever seen. It glowed deeply around us and
sparkled wildly against the blackness of the night, vivid in its
shimmering radiance.

I pulled my head back
and looked into Jonah's eyes, which matched the water perfectly. He
stared softly at me with quiet breaths while my gaze darted around
his face, trying to decipher what the new color meant.

“
Wow,” I
whispered with amazement, “this purple is absolutely beautiful;
I've never seen it before.”

A warm smile lit his
face up. “Don't you know what this color means?”

I pursed my lips,
nervous to open my big mouth and reveal to him my thoughts that might
be wrong. “I think so,” I hesitated. “But I don't
know if I should say it.”

“
I want you to.”

“
But what if I'm
wrong?”

“
You're not.”

I swallowed the lump of
uncertainty in my throat and looked deeper into the purple hue. “I
just, I don't know. You've never had this color before.”

“
You're wrong, I
have
had it before. There were a lot of times when I hid my
eyes from you when you thought they were a different color. But, they
weren't yellow or green; they were purple.”

The news surprised me.
“Well, why don't you just tell me what it means then?”

He paused for a moment
and brought a hand away from my side to brush a wet strand of hair
out of my face. “Love,” he admitted in a whisper. “It
means love.”

His words penetrated me
and sent my heart beating madly against my chest. I had only dreamed
that he would tell me that he loved me one day, that he would
completely open himself up and admit his feelings for me.

“
Love?” I
choked out with a bit of shock in my voice, searching his face in
disbelief. I was afraid that the whole night was some kind of cruel
dream and that I would wake up in my bed without him.

He smiled gently with
vibrant eyes. “Yeah. I love you Summer; I've been in love with
you for a very long time.”

That was all I needed
to hear. I brought my hand up to his face and kissed him with more
passion than ever before, making my blood boil with desire all over
again. My lips broke away from his and I looked back into his eyes of
purple. “I'm in love with you too, Jonah.”