Breaking Shaun (36 page)

When I got back, Natalie was in her bikini again, and she was cleaning the mess we’d made the night before. When I came in, holding up the box of condoms, she laughed as she carried our trash into the kitchen.

So, I fucked her in the kitchen.

I bent her over the island to taste her pussy first. Then, I fucked her in every position possible. By the time I was done, we were exhausted, and I loved every fucking second of it.

“Holy shit,” Natalie said between breaths, a smile lingering on her lips.

We were naked, panting, and coated in sweat on Marcus and Asia’s kitchen floor.

“Good thing you got those condoms.”

We laughed as we stared at the kitchen ceiling.

“Yeah, and from now on, we both have to carry at least five on us at all times,” I told her.

She tilted her head to look at me. The just-got-fucked look was so sexy on her.

She laughed again and nodded. “Definitely.”

When I finally got my breathing back to normal, I sat up and looked around the kitchen. I’d thrown a few things on the floor while making room on the counter for Natalie, but for the most part, everything looked like it had when we first arrived the day before.

It wasn’t until I looked at my watch that I remembered I had to give surf lessons to the kids, and I only had twenty minutes.

“Shit, I gotta go. I’m gonna be late.”

Natalie sat up and checked the clock on the wall. “Late for what?”

I threw the used condom in the trash and cleaned myself up before pulling my boardshorts back on. “Surf lessons.”

Natalie was pulling her bikini bottoms up, and she paused to look at me suspiciously.

I chuckled when I realized how that had sounded. “Not your kind of surf lessons, Killer. I teach a class every Tuesday. I’m supposed to be there in fifteen minutes, so get your sexy ass movin’ and get dressed. We gotta go.”

Shaun and I were in his car as he drove us along the oceanfront toward another part of the beach. I was sipping the coffee he’d bought me at the store even though it was cold now and didn’t have enough sugar. I needed the caffeine.

The last twenty-four hours had been unlike any I’d ever had. I’d spent the entire time on the beach and having orgasms. It had been fantastic.

Shaun was so easy to be around. I was finally letting myself relax, and it was so liberating.

He had already finished his Red Bull, and he was chewing on his doughnut.

“So, how long have you been giving surf lessons?” I asked.

He peered over at me, and then he pulled his car into a parking lot next to the beach. “A few years,” he admitted before giving me a sly grin.

“And here I was, thinking I’d discovered your hidden talent.”

He chuckled and parked the car. “I’m sure I have more talents you can discover.” He gave me a sexy smile and a wink before opening his door and getting out.

Following him onto the beach as he carried his board, I started applying a layer of sunscreen to my skin. I was beginning to wonder what kind of people he taught. If a group of women showed up in bikinis, I wasn’t sure how I’d handle it. Shaun and I weren’t in a relationship, but that didn’t mean I’d want to sit there and watch him flirt with a bunch of half-naked women. But I guessed I didn’t have a choice. I was stuck here. Just as that realization sank in, I heard a kid yell out from behind us.

“Shaun!”

Shaun and I both turned to see a little girl running toward us with a pair of hot pink sunglasses on her eyes and a Little Mermaid towel hanging over her shoulders. She was wearing a bright blue bathing suit, and her little legs were working hard to get her across the warm sand.

“What’s up, Wonder Woman?” Shaun shouted toward her.

He lifted his hand and waved to a woman watching the little girl from the boardwalk. The woman smiled and waved back before walking away.

Hold on. What?

When the little girl finally reached us, she lifted her head and aimed her sunglasses in my direction. “Who are you?” she asked me before turning to look at Shaun.

Shaun and I grinned at each other before he responded, “Natalie, this is Raven, also known as Wonder Woman. Raven, this is Natalie. She came to hang out with us today.”

“Nice to meet you, Wonder Woman,” I said, smiling at her.

“Are you Shaun’s girlfriend?”

I started to shake my head, and I opened my mouth to respond.

Then, Shaun shouted, “Shaggy! What’s up, man?”

I turned around to see a little boy this time. He looked younger than Raven. He had shaggy dirty-blond hair and light blue eyes. There was no question he would be a heartbreaker when he got older. He took his time walking up to us, and he seemed a lot more reserved than Raven. When he got to us, he gave Shaun a high five and then dropped his towel on the sand.

A few seconds later, another little boy was running up to us. He had dark hair, and he was wearing a pair of Spider-Man swim trunks.

“Mr. Shaun! You will not believe what I’m getting for my birthday!”

He was smiling so brightly that I couldn’t help but smile, too, as I watched him give Shaun a high five.

“What?” Shaun asked.

The little boy stared up at him with wide brown eyes. “I’m getting my very own surfboard!” he said, clenching his hands into fists and thrusting them into the air.

“Heck yeah!” Shaun said, sounding just as excited as the little boy in front of him. “I told you if you kept hounding them, they’d cave,” Shaun said as he mussed the boy’s hair.

I stood back, watching all of this transpire, and I wondered who this man was. I never imagined Shaun as the type to like kids, let alone teach them.

“Noah and Shaggy, this is my friend Natalie. She’s gonna hang out with us today,” Shaun said.

All the kids turned to look at me. I smiled and gave them a small wave.

“Where are our boards?” Noah asked as he looked at the sand around us.

“I brought my board today. You guys think you’re ready for it?”

“Yes!” Raven shouted. “Me first!”

I sat on the sand and watched Shaun take each kid into the water one at a time. The waves were small but seemed to be the perfect size for his students. I smiled as Shaun interacted with them. He was like a big kid himself, splashing in the waves and laughing at their jokes.

That was the moment I first started falling for Shaun.

About an hour later, Raven and I were sitting in the sand, building a castle.

She said, “So, you aren’t Shaun’s girlfriend?”

I shook my head as I piled more sand onto the mound we’d already made. “Nope.”

“Do you know how to surf?”

“Kind of. Shaun is trying to teach me,” I told her.

She continued pushing more wet sand onto the castle. “My mom told her friend, Miss Susan, that she wished she could get a few lessons from Shaun. I told her that he teaches big people, too, but her face just turned red, and she didn’t say anything. Grown-ups are weird.”

I smiled and laughed to myself before responding, “You’re right about that.”

“You should try to marry him. He said he doesn’t want to get married, but I think he’s just joking. He’s really nice, and I bet if you married him, you could be an awesome surfer just like him.”

I grinned as I looked at Shaun out in the water. “You think so?”

“Definitely.”

“Well, that was fun,” Natalie said as we settled into my car.

The kids’ parents had come to get them, and now, I was taking her home.

“I’m glad you enjoyed it.”

She laughed. “I never would have imagined that you taught surf lessons to kids.”

I turned to look at her, and she was smiling at me.

“Why not?”

“With your dirty mouth? I didn’t think people like you were allowed to hang around kids.”

I tried to act offended, but I couldn’t help from grinning. “Hey! I can act responsible when I have to.”

“Well, I see that now.” She paused to pull her hair back into a ponytail. “I guess I learned something new about you today.”

I turned away from the road to look over at Natalie. She smirked at me before relaxing in her seat. She looked out the open passenger window, the wind blowing her hair away from her face.

I normally never told women that I taught surf lessons to little kids. I knew it would only encourage ideas about marriage and kids and how great I’d be as a dad. I didn’t need that shit. But Natalie was different. She probably hated the idea of marriage and kids.

“You’d better keep an eye on Wonder Woman’s mom. I think she’s got the hots for you,” Natalie said, peering over at me with a smirk.

I chuckled. “All the moms have the hots for me, Killer. Have you forgotten how amazingly sexy and charismatic I am?”

“Oh, I could never forget that,” she said sarcastically.

“So, is that what you and Raven were busy talking about?”

She shrugged. “Well, that, and she told me I should marry you, so I could be an awesome surfer, too.”

I started laughing, but it was mostly to cover the unease our conversation was causing in my gut. Just the thought of marriage made me nauseous.

Natalie must have sensed it because she reached over and put her hand on my knee. “Don’t worry, Shaun. I don’t want to marry you.”

I laughed again and shook my head.
Damn, am I that obvious?