Woman in Hot Water [Wet and Willing 1] (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour) Read Online Free PDF Page B

For someone with such fair hair and light-blue eyes, his skin wasn’t as pale as she’d expected. Sure it wasn’t tanned, but it wasn’t dead white either, rather, it was a nice, light golden-brown that looked very attractive against his low-slung, pale-blue board shorts.
    “Cat got your tongue?”Jordan challenged her.
    “What? Oh, yes, sure, I’m ready to attempt it. Although it’ll likely take me an hour at least to climb all those steps up the ladder.”
    Both Osborne and Jordan laughed before Osborne said, “The dive team train by running up them three at a time. Besides, there’s not as many as it looks.”
    “How many are there?”
    “One—”
    “You don’t want to know.” Jordan cut Osborne off.
    “One? One hundred? There’s one hundred stairs to climb? And kids do this three times?”
    “One hundred and twelve actually.”
    “I’ll be dead before I even get up there.” Nevertheless Kendra turned to the steps, glanced at the lifeguard on duty who was trying hard not to laugh at her, and started climbing.
    About halfway up she was glad to take a short rest while two children ahead of her on the ladder argued about who should go first. Apparently the older one believed he should have first turn, whereas the younger one was ahead of him on the steps. When she’d caught her breath, Kendra said, “Why don’t you wait and ask the lifeguard at the top who should go first?”
    Fortunately the children thought that was a good idea and began climbing again. Just as well, as she could feel her arm muscles getting a little stiff, and hanging on while they argued wasn’t on her program, although a few minutes to catch her breath had been helpful.
    The children raced up the last twenty or so steps, both eager to put their view to the lifeguard at the top, and by the time Kendra, Osborne, and Jordan arrived, they’d already headed down the tunnel. “Who went first?” Kendra asked a little breathlessly.
    “The older one. I flipped a coin,” the lifeguard replied.
    “Clever solution.” Kendra nodded, still puffing.
    Jordan climbed on a toboggan and went first, then Kendra, with Osborne behind her.
    She felt as though she’d scarcely sat down before she was whipped around the first bend and the tunnel tilted her up the right-hand wall, then back to the middle. She gripped her toboggan so hard she thought her fingernails might end up embedded in the toughened plastic as she was flipped half on her side by the force of the water at the second turn. Then there was a steep downhill slope, the third turn, and she could see the light again of the end of the ride. She lost her grip on her toboggan as she fell into the pool, remembering to swim forward to the end so Osborne wouldn’t land on top of her.
    The pool was only about three feet deep, shallowing quickly so riders could just walk out. “That was wonderful fun,” she said, as she reached Jordan.
    “Want to do it again?”
    “Well, it was over incredibly fast.”
    Osborne almost ran up the stairs. Kendra followed at a much slower pace but without stopping on the way this time. On her second ride, she was less tense about holding onto her toboggan and enjoyed the sensations of being twisted and turned as she rode the tunnel to the end, a lot more.
    “Again?” asked Jordan.
    “I don’t think my legs will cope with climbing the stairs again. Besides, I was more relaxed this time and experienced it more. It was fun.”
    Jordan and Osborne crowded around her at the side of the pool. “Would you like to go out for dinner and dancing?” asked Osborne, his dark eyes piercing through to her soul.
    All the breath was sucked out of her body. Was this a date? A genuine date? But she was way too tired. All she wanted to do was go to bed and sleep for eight hours or so.
    “Can I take a rain check? I’m too tired now,” she asked.
    “Well, in that case let’s have a sauna and get your tired muscles all soothed.” Osborne didn’t wait for her answer.