“I hear that. Maybe when my parents croak, they’ll leave me theirs.”

I snort laugh. “Your life goal is dependent on the two people who love you most in the world dying?”

“Don’t knock my dreams.” He hums deep in his throat. “Last summer.”

“Yeah, I’ve been thinking about that too.”

“About what you’re going to do without me?”

“We’ve spent summers apart before,” I remind him.

“Yeah, I know, but what if you end up on one side of the world and I’m on the other?”

“We’ll see each other when we can. Plus, we can text and video chat.”

“Let’s make a pact.”

Opening my eyes, I smile at him. “A pact? What are you, twelve?”

He splashes water at me again.

“Can we talk about this on the way back? My legs are jelly, and if we keep treading water, you’re going to have to carry me back to the house.”

His gaze drops below my face but from the neck down I’m below the water, so his scan of my body is thwarted. It gives me a small thrill that he attempted to check me out anyway.

“I’m enjoying this. Grab on.”

I wrap my arms around his chest from behind and without thinking, circle his waist with my legs. It isn’t until my foot brushes against his dick that I realize my mistake and quickly bring my legs back behind him. Bare ass I can handle… bare dick… big nope.

“Try not to kick me in the balls.” He chuckles.

If he’s felt uncomfortable since our kiss, he hasn’t shown it. I desperately wish I could go back to when I wasn’t so aware of him. They were simpler times.

But I am all too aware of him. His back, for example. The man has back muscles that are hard and flex in front of me. And his chest and abs are defined. Not too bulky, but it’s obvious that he’s got more than a skinny-guy six-pack. I’m not even going to mention his butt. Captain America has America’s ass? Please. Tanner wins that contest every day of the week. His aforementioned lack of modesty has given me plenty of glimpses over the years.

Yeah, Tanner’s ridiculously hot. I’ve always known all of these things. I didn’t suddenly gain the ability to see. That kiss just made me less objective about it. Hot is just hot, but the chemistry I felt kissing him can’t be as easily dismissed. Long ago before I knew how awesome he was, maybe. Definitely not now. Especially when I know he feels the same way—or did.

“Okay, so back to my genius idea,” he says.