I smirked and shook my head. No way in hell. “I’m good.”
“Uh-huh…” I watched his lips curl on the ends into a grin as he reached over and threaded my fingers through his own. His hand felt massive in mine. Another thought popped into my mind. Now I knew for a fact that the age-old tale of hand to dick correlation was in fact true. Beau had a very nice package, one I hoped to see again very soon.
We arrived at the bottle toss game booth and Beau slowly let go of my hand before paying for two rounds.
“You want to try it too, Cass?”
“Um, no. You know these things are rigged, right?” I said to him softly.
“Oh, I’m fully aware, darlin’, but it’s for you. I’ve got this.” He winked and turned back to focus on the bottles in front of him. The front of the booth said, “ring any bottle to win.” I laughed internally. There was no way he could actually win at this game.
The first ring bounced off the bottle in the front and fell to the ground. He sighed and paused to concentrate on the next toss. I watched as he flexed his arms before tossing again. Amazingly, the next toss flip-flopped like it was yet again going to bounce off and hit the ground but it didn’t. It was a ringer and the game booth attendant looked just as shocked as I was that it’d actually stuck to the bottle. Beau glanced over his shoulder at me and winked.
“I did it, sweetheart. Told you I would.”
The booth worker waves to a row of small prizes. “Pick out whichever prize you want.”
Beau takes a step back to where I’m watching and nudged my shoulder. “Choose what you’d like, Cassidy Mae.”
“Oh, my goodness. Look at that horse! It looks just like Zeus,” I gasped out.
He looks up to where I’m pointing, “You want the black bedazzled unicorn, darlin’?”
“It’s a miniature Zeus and I love it!” I squealed. I felt like a little girl with her new favorite toy, but I didn’t care.
Beau lifted his chin at the attendant.
“How many more do I have to ring to get that prize for my girl?”
I watched as the booth attendant swooned almost as much as I did over Beau’s charm. “Two more rings.”
“Done. Challenge accepted.”
I swallowed roughly as I watched Beau flex his muscles again as he stretched for another set of tosses. So sexy. If he gave me any more of his charmed, smooth-talking words I was going to have to change these sexy panties. I’m not even going to question why Reagan thought picking out new underwear her brother would like to see me in wasn’t the slightest bit weird.
I glance over at my sequined unicorn and then back at Beau. Tonight was off to a great start. Why was I questioning this with him? My feelings started crashing in with everything that he’s done for me and all the kindness he’s shown me. The way his lips felt against my own. My hand reached up again as if I could still feel the last kiss he left on my lips. I watched the cotton on Beau’s shirt stretch and flex, showing his prominent back muscles bunch. He tossed another two rings and they mysteriously, again, landed on the bottle. I wanted to know what his edge was. How had he mastered this game?
The booth attendant handed over my black sequined Zeus unicorn to Beau. He turned to give it to me and the megawatt grin that crossed his face was something to behold. I just about fainted from the swoon-o-meter.
“Here you go, Cass.”
I heard a squeal erupt from behind us and turned to find Reagan and Rhett walking toward us.
“Oh my gosh, Beau. You won Cassidy Mae a stuffed animal. We need a picture.”
“Rea…”
“Oh no, don’t you Rea me. Get closer.” She motioned with her hands for us to move closer and we scooted together even more. Apparently, it wasn’t close enough. She walked over and pushed us together so close that I could feel his breath against my already warm skin from being so close to my crush.
“There, that’s better. Now hold up the unicorn and smile.”
“Reagan, is this really necessary?” I asked her.
“Yes, now zip it and smile, Cassidy Mae. I’m taking this damn photo.”
“Yes, ma’am,” I said sarcastically saluting her.
I felt Beau loop his arm around my hips as we posed for the photo.
“Perfect! You two are just so freaking cute, I can’t handle it.”
We stood, stuck in the pose long after the picture was taken. I couldn’t tell if he’s feeling the same way, but I didn’t want to move. I wanted to feel the warmth of his hands against my body for just a little while longer because it just felt right. Everything about tonight felt right, for the first time in my life and I wondered if all the crap I dealt with over Andrew had finally rewarded me with something good. Something between Beau and I. A forever.
Reagan brought her phone over and I looked at the picture of us. She’s right, we do look good together. Beau stared at the screen intently and then looked up at me.
“I think you need a bigger prize. We can do better.”
“Beau… I love this unicorn. It’s perfect. I don’t need anything bigger. This is exactly what I wanted.”
“Good, I want to give you everything you could ever want, Cassidy Mae, and I mean to do just that.”
My chest cinched tightly and I swear I might have had a heart attack. I breathed out in choppy breaths, wondering what the heck to say back to him.
“There you go again with that cheese, brother,” Reagan spoke up and caused us all to laugh off the tense moment between Beau and me. Saving me from having to come up with a quick response.
“Rea, will you and Rhett stay here with Cass for a couple of minutes?” Beau hitched a thumb over his shoulder. “I gotta go drain the
