Temptation (The Hunted Series Book 1)

by Ivy Smoak

  "Well, have fun. I can't wait to hear all about it. Being whisked away to the beach sounds so romantic."

  "It really does." So romantic.

  "Oh! And you better take a picture with him today. Because I need to see what he looks like. He sounds so dreamy."

  "Yeah, definitely," I lied. I grabbed my bag and headed out of my dorm. "See you later!"

  I only had to wait a few seconds before Professor Hunter pulled up in a red convertible with the top down. His hair was mussed up and he was wearing aviators. He smiled as he leaned over and opened the door for me from the inside. He was wearing khaki shorts and a polo. His legs and arms were tan and muscular.

  I took a deep breath as I got in. "New car?" I asked. It still had that new car smell.

  "No. But I haven't driven it much."

  I grabbed my sunglasses from my bag as he sped off. The wind rushed through my hair. I had never been in a convertible before. I pictured people in the movies standing up in their seats, spreading their arms wide, and screaming at the top of their lungs. I felt like I was already experiencing that feeling just by being next to Professor Hunter.

  "So, where are we going?"

  "I think you can probably guess."

  "Well, it's not raining, so I'm not sure where we could get caught in the rain. But we've been caught in the rain before, so maybe you're skipping that portion. Which means you're probably going the feel of the ocean route. So I'm guessing that we're heading to the beach!"

  Professor Hunter smiled at me.

  "You should have warned me though. What if I hadn't worn a bathing suit?"

  "I was actually hoping you would forget it."

  I lightly pushed his shoulder as I laughed. He pulled onto I-95 and the noise of traffic filled my ears. Professor Hunter was now speeding past all the other cars on the road.

  "You're going to get a ticket!" I yelled over the roar of traffic.

  He slowed down a little, but was still going faster than most of the other cars. "You don't break the rules very often, do you?"

  "Not really. But I do sometimes."

  "Give me an example."

  "You."

  He laughed. "Besides for me."

  "Well. One time...no, that was okay. Well there was another time...hmmm..."

  "Maybe you're right about me then. I am a terrible influence on you."

  "Yeah, you're the worst."

  "Then I'll have to learn to behave myself better."

  "I guess so." I hoped he knew I was kidding. He was so hard to read sometimes. I liked that he was a bad influence on me. I felt alive when I was with him. He was the best thing that had ever happened to me.

  "I don't actually want you to behave around me, Professor Hunter. I like that you're a bad influence on me. I think you're just what I need."

  "Penny, I couldn't behave myself around you even if you begged me to." The convertible sped up again and he turned on the radio.

  ***

  We arrived at the beach in record time. He drove to the end of the boardwalk and parked on a side street.

  "Have you ever been here before?" he asked.

  "I used to come here every summer when I was growing up." I grabbed my stuff and stepped out of the car.

  "All the more special then." He got out of the car, reached into the back seat, and pulled out a towel and a cooler. He put the towel over his shoulder and grabbed my hand.

  "What about you?"

  "I've come down here a few times."

  "So this is where you take all the ladies to impress them?"

  He laughed. "No, I've only ever been here by myself."

  "You're kind of a loner, aren't you?"

  "I guess you could say that I have a hard time trusting people."

  One of the first times I had texted him I had told him that I didn't trust him and he had gotten mad. Everything was different now though. I did trust him. And I wanted to know more about him. No, I wanted to know everything about him.

  "Why?" I asked.

  He squeezed my hand. When we stepped onto the boards, I heard a buzzing noise. Professor Hunter dropped my hand and reached in his pocket. It looked like all the color drained from his face. "I'm sorry, I have to take this." He walked a few paces away from me. I could just barely make out his conversation.

  "This isn't a good time." He sounded angry. "I don't even know why we're still talking about this." He paused and listened to the person on the other end of the line. "I told you I didn't care about any of the specifics. Just sign the damn papers." He ended the call and put the phone back in his pocket.

  He put a smile on his face as he came back over to me, but I could tell that it was forced. "Sorry about that."

  "Is everything okay?"

  "Just a business call." He grabbed my hand again and we took the few steps down to the beach.

  "Something with your tech company?"

  "Well, it's not mine anymore. But yes."

  I looked out at the ocean. I had always imagined how cool it would be to come to the beach when there was no one around. Today was that day. There wasn't anyone on the beach down here except for the occasional passerby. I slid off my flip flops and picked them up in my free hand. The feeling of sand underneath my bare feet was exhilarating. We began walking toward the water.

  "Professor Hunter? You didn't answer my other question."

  He ran his hand through his hair. "I'm sorry, what was your question again?"

  "Why do you have a hard time trusting people?"

  He took a deep breath. He seemed unsettled. "People have a tendency to wear many different masks. I've been bad at seeing people for who they really are until it's too late."

  Shit. And he shouldn't trust me either. I was lying to him about my age.

  He put his towel on top of the sand and sat down, pulling me on top of him.

  "I barely know anything about you," I said breathlessly.

  "You know that I like you and that you like me. What else does anything matter?"

  He lightly tugged my hair so that our faces were only an inch apart. I wanted to tell him that it did matter. But I couldn't resist him when his lips were this close to mine. He was too good at distracting me. I leaned down and kissed him. After a minute, he rolled over so that he was on top of me. He gave me one last kiss and then sat up, pulling me into a seated position with him.

  "So I couldn't bring the real thing, but..." he opened the cooler and brought out two bottles of piña colada cocktails. "I guess these are the next best thing." He popped off each top and handed me one of the bottles.

  "Cheers," I said and clanged my bottle against his. I took a small sip. "This is so good."

  Professor Hunter started coughing. "Ugh! It's disgusting."

  "What? It's delicious."

  "It tastes like the lovechild of a coconut and a bottle of Nyquil."

  I started laughing.

  "You can have mine too. I brought backup for myself," he said, handing me his bottle and replacing it with a bottle of beer.

  "So piña coladas and getting caught in the rain aren't your thing?"

  "I'm all about getting caught in the rain. But I prefer scotch."

  "I like how sophisticated you are."

  "Penny, nothing I'm going to do to you here is sophisticated."

  I gulped. "What do you have in mind?"

  He reached over and touched the strap of my tank top. "Well, I don't think you need this anymore."

  I put down my drink and pulled my tank top off over my head. He reached over, undid the button on my jean shorts, and slowly unzipped them. I lifted my hips slightly and he slowly pulled my shorts down my thighs and off my legs.

  I felt myself blush as he looked at me in my bikini. He stood up and took off his shirt. Now I was the one staring at him. He had an Adonis belt worthy of the god himself. He offered me his hand and pulled me to my feet.

  "Want to go for a swim?"

  "Yes, just let me put some sunscreen on first."

  He la
ughed. "It's almost the end of September. I'm sure you'll be fine."

  "Stop being a bad influence for one second. I get burnt crazy easily." I sat back down and pulled the sunscreen out of my bag.

  He kneeled back down on his towel and took the bottle from me. "Let me do it for you then. Lay down."

  I lay down on my stomach. He lightly touched my back.

  "Penny, I'm so sorry."

  I knew he was referring to the small cuts on my back. The bark from the tree had left a few marks. "The risks of having sex on a golf course I guess. It doesn't hurt, though."

  He gently started to massage the sunscreen onto my shoulders and arms. "Are you sure it doesn't hurt?"

  "I'm sure." I wanted to change the subject. I didn't want him to feel bad about what had happened on the golf course. It was one of the best moments of my life. "You know, when I was younger I used to be so envious of all the girls on the boardwalk that had boyfriends. I couldn't wait until I was older. Holding hands on the boardwalk seemed like the epitome of romance."

  He rubbed the lotion underneath the strings of my bikini and began to massage my lower back. "So did you force your high school boyfriends to take you here? To show all the other girls up?"

  All of my senses seemed on alert when his hands were on me. Except for my hearing. I had been too distracted to hear what he had said.

  "Yes. I mean, no. I'm sorry, what did you say? I wasn't paying attention."

  He laughed. "So you must have brought all your high school boyfriends here. Turn over."

  "No. I wish." I rolled onto my back and propped myself up on my elbows.

  "Couldn't get them to take you here, huh?" He rubbed his hands across my stomach. They dipped slightly below the top of my bathing suit bottom.

  It was so hard to concentrate on what he was saying. His hands were so distracting. I took a deep breath. "No, I mean I didn't have any boyfriends in high school." I closed my eyes. Why did I just tell him that? He was going to think I was weird. But I am weird. I opened my eyes and was surprised to see him smiling at me.

  "I wouldn't have guessed that, Penny. But I find it incredibly adorable." His hands rubbed across my collarbone and then right above my breasts. His hands lingered for a moment. "Your heart's beating so fast."

  I gulped and sat up. "You make me nervous."

  He looked satisfied with my response. "Ready for that swim?"

  "It'll take a minute to dry."

  "Okay, then do me."

  "What?" My heart began to beat even faster.

  He laughed and tossed me the bottle of sunscreen. "Get your mind out of the gutter, Penny. I'm trying to be a good influence here." He lay down on his stomach.

  I liked when his hands were on me, but I was excited to get to really explore his body. I straddled him and began to massage his back. I had never seen such a perfectly sculpted body before, let alone gotten to touch it. His back was so muscular. And he had two small dimples on either side of his spine, right above his shorts. I let my hands dip slightly below his waistline.

  "You're getting a little frisky there," he teased.

  "I just don't want you to get burnt," I responded quickly. I moved my hands to his shoulders and then down his muscular arms. His biceps flexed slightly under my touch. He was so sexy. So perfect. How was I getting so turned on by this?

  "Okay, roll over."

  He followed my instructions and then put his hands under his head so he could watch me. I liked straddling him. He was staring at me. Crap. I completely forgot what I was supposed to be doing. I quickly squirted some sunscreen into my hands and massaged it onto his chest. I could feel his eyes on me and it was hard not to blush.

  I moved my hands down to his abs. I could feel his cock hardening, slowly pressing harder against me. He thought this was hot too. I kept my hands on his abs way longer than necessary. The tip of my finger slowly traced down his happy trail. I looked up and saw his Adam's apple rise and then fall. I smiled at him.

  "Enjoying yourself?" I asked.

  "Very much so. I like being responsible."

  I dipped my hand slightly below the waist of his shorts and his body tensed. He wanted me to touch him. I moved my hand a little lower and then quickly pulled it out of his shorts. "Ready for that swim?"

  Chapter 32

  Monday

  He grabbed my hand and we both ran down to the water. As soon as my toes touched the icy water, I screamed and stopped in my tracks. "Oh my God, it's so cold. There's no way I'm going in!"

  "You get used to it." He leaned down and splashed water up at me.

  "Professor Hunter!" I ran away from him and back up to our towels. I quickly grabbed a small football from my bag. "Let's at least warm up some first!" I tossed it to him. He caught the ball and threw it back to me.

  "I never would have guessed you could throw a football," he said. We continued to throw it back and forth.

  "What? Why?"

  "Has nobody ever told you that you're clumsy?"

  I laughed. The next time I caught it he said, "Now try to see if you can run by me." He drew a line in the sand with his toe and stepped in front of it. "That's the goal line."

  I ran toward him and did a few side steps, but he quickly caught me and twirled me around. I laughed as he twirled me in the air. When he put me back down he kept his arms wrapped around me.

  "You lost. So now we both have to run in the water as fast as we can."

  "Professor Hunter, you're not even wearing a bathing suit. How about a rain check?"

  "Yeah, I thought it would be more fun without a bathing suit." He let go of me, unbuttoned and unzipped his shorts, and then tossed them into the sand. He was left standing there in his gray boxers. "Have you ever been skinny dipping, Penny?"

  My heart was beating fast. "No."

  "Well, I thought you might join me."

  "You did, did you?" I glanced around me, but no one was nearby. Still, I couldn't possibly.

  He grabbed me and kissed me passionately. His hands wandered up my back and untied my bathing suit top.

  "Professor Hunter!" I screamed and held the front of my bikini in place. "It's the middle of the day."

  "I dare you."

  His words sent a fire through me. I could never say no to him. I looked around again. There really wasn't anyone around.

  He pulled off his boxers. And there he was, in the middle of the beach, completely naked, with an erection that had already sprung to life. His eyes were challenging me. And I had never backed down from one of his challenges. I pulled my top off over my head and stepped out of my bathing suit bottom. My heart was beating so fast. I was standing naked on the beach with Professor Hunter. I can't believe this is happening! He grabbed my hand and we ran screaming into the freezing ocean.

  I let go of his hand as a wave came toward us. I dove into it as it crashed down. When I came up, we were deep enough that my shoulders were under the water.

  "I can't believe we're doing this," I said. My whole body was shaking. But I wasn't sure if it was because of the cold water or the thrill of what I was doing. We were in far enough so that the water was pretty still. He hugged me close. Despite how cold it was, he was hard. I wrapped my legs around his waist.

  "Shit it's cold!" I said. My teeth were chattering. "How do you always get me to do such crazy things?"

  He had a smile on his face. "Because you trust me."

  "Well I don't know why. You've convinced me to do so many things that could get us in trouble."

  "There's actually something else that I've always wanted to do." He placed a cold, wet hand on my cheek.

  "And what is that, Professor Hunter?"

  "I've always wanted to have sex in the ocean. Are you on birth control?" he asked, without giving me time to process what he had just said.

  "Yes." I gulped.

  "And is there anything I need to worry about?"

  "You mean do I have any STD's?"

  "Yes."

  "No, I don't."

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sp; As soon as I said I was clean, his hard cock filled me. I hadn't expected it so soon. I let out a tiny cry. "Professor Hunter. We can't do this..."

  He silenced me with a kiss. I let his tongue caress mine as he slowly started to move his length in and out of me. I wrapped my arms around the back of his neck and pressed my naked torso against his. He lightly bit my lip and then kissed me more passionately. His lips tasted salty from the ocean water. I moved my hands down his shoulders and felt his strong biceps. I let my hands wander to his back and felt the muscles beneath his soft skin.

  "Professor Hunter," I moaned when his lips left mine. I tightened my legs around him. The initial panic I felt for doing this in the open was now overcome with the feeling of pleasure. I let my head fall back as he thrust deeper inside of me. He wrapped one arm behind me and made me arch my back. My hair dipped into the water and a chill went through my body. His other hand wandered to my breasts and squeezed each one. His hand then swept down my stomach and I felt his fingers brush against my clit.

  My breathing hitched. He continued to thrust in and out of me, a little faster, as he matched the rhythm with his fingers.

  "Yes!" I screamed.

  He pulled me back up against his chest and squeezed my ass as he guided himself in and out of me, faster and faster. The sound of the waves crashing and the seagulls cawing suddenly disappeared. The only sensation I had was the feeling of him inside me, the pleasure building.

  His cock throbbed and I felt a sudden heat course through me. Oh my God. I clenched around his throbbing cock as my own orgasm washed through me. He kissed me again as more of his hot cum filled me. The sudden warmth inside of me and the coolness of the water made my whole body shiver. I had never felt anything like that before. One last ripple of warmth shot through me. I felt so connected to him, so in sync. When he removed himself, it felt like some of the heat escaped from my body. The salt water stung. I rested my head on Professor Hunter's shoulder, wanting to be as close to him as possible. He kissed the top of my head.

  "We have an audience," he whispered.

  "What?!" I whipped my head to the shore and saw a few boys standing by my bikini. They looked like they were probably in high school. The tallest of the three gave Professor Hunter a thumbs up. "Oh my God," I put my head back on Professor Hunter's shoulder and closed my eyes tight. This isn't happening. He held my naked body tightly, protectively against his.