My smile widened and I was grinning at him. He took his index finger and traced it over my lips and then drew over the curve of my mouth.

Stone added with a smirk "You even have the fairytale green hair."

I closed my mouth and frowned at the mention of the made-up colour.

"Will you ever let that go and forget about it?" I asked.

He shook his head twice. His lip twitched again before finally dragging his gaze away from me and then moving towards the horizon.

The contrast between the light from the sun and the darkness of him was overwhelming. The sight was devastating.

I wondered if he knew how badly he was affecting me.

By the way, he carried himself with such authority and dominance without even speaking most of the time suggested that he was aware of his effect on people, but I wondered if he knew his effect on me.

Giving in to him, I voiced "Thank you."

He studied me quietly before he spoke huskily "For what?"

"For making me feel good about myself." I admitted before reluctantly telling him the truth "You are a good guy."

Stone smiled. It was small and a little strained, but it was present on his face.

"I mean that you are a good guy deep down." I tried to explain myself so he would not get an even bigger ego "Really deep and hidden in the depths of your dark soul."

"Was that meant to be a compliment?" He said, chuckling to himself.

"I see past the leather jacket and the scary scowl and the overall intimidating-ness of you." I laughed "I know that you are a big giant teddy bear on the inside."

He scowled and I laughed. His scowl disappeared after a second and his lip twitched again.

The silence and closeness left no room for lies.

I panicked and I felt the need to say something else. He had called me beautiful and what I had said back was that he was barely a good guy.

I blurted out "I guess what I’m trying to say is I like you."

There was no guessing about it but I did not add that to my confession.

Before he could respond, Lana and Brennan's laughter as they approached us interrupted the moment.

The two lovebirds sat on the sand next to us and they both stopped chatting as they noticed the atmosphere.

Brennan appeared a little scared as he looked at Stone but quickly recovered by laughing like he was trying hard to contain his amusement.

"Sorry, have we interrupted something?" Brennan asked, grinning.

"No. Of course not." I quickly disclosed before changing the conversation back to them "You two were not in the water for long."

Lana looked slightly uncomfortable when she shrugged "We wanted to make sure you two had not killed each other."