Chapter 16: "The Talk"

It was rare to get Damien and Lucien together for an actual day out. Since Parker had told Damien that she wanted to be able to call her feelings for him ‘love’ he had been more agreeable when it came to her being around Lucien.

The three of them went out for a day at the beach before it got too cold. The ocean was far too cold for Parker to swim in, but Lucien had brought his surfboard.

She wasn’t at all surprised to see he had black swim trunks, but she found it hard to keep her eyes off his pale, well-defined chest. The sun reflected off of him, making him look uncomfortably bright. His blond hair was braided down his back instead of held back in a ponytail, like usual.

Lucien dropped his towel on the sand and ran out into the waves. There was a swell that had blown in in the wake of a hurricane. It brought good surfing waves.