‘I’ve really enjoyed today, gorgeous. Thanks for making me feel so special,’ he said, kissing her. Cassie melted in his arms. Being naked and kissed in water, she felt so sexy and wished they had more time. She doubted she would forget today for a very long time. All the new experiences and the laughs they had still made her smile or squirm with the remembered joy.
As they returned and rounded the cape, they spotted the rest of the team sitting on the beach on their own. She felt for the surprise that she kept for them in her pocket.
‘What happened?’ Kayden asked once they reached them.
‘Did the girls get sick of you dorks all at once?’ Cassie joked.
‘No, they’re fine. We’ve just had enough and told them we needed time with our sister,’ Jason said, sounding a little flat.
‘Yeah, there’s only so much girl stuff we can put up with,’ Conor said. ‘They were getting on my nerves.’
‘You can say that again,’ Ethan grumbled. ‘Just one more stupid question and I would have exploded.’
Cassie started to laugh although she stopped when they all looked deadly serious. ‘Sorry, but you guys are unreal. Five women, all available and you’re sick of them already. Jeez, the poor girls have literally thrown themselves at you all day. I don’t get it.’
‘You just hit the nail on the head, Cass, thrown themselves at us. Where’s the chase or the thrill?’ Conor grouched.
Cassie could see they all needed cheering up although she had no idea why. Spoilt little shits. They should be kissing my feet. They should be so grateful. She grinned to herself. They were so going to cop it, the unappreciative sods. She went behind Woody and Jason, who sat together and knelt down, putting her arms around them. They let out a sigh and relaxed with her touch. Even though she knew it was a Cloud Rider’s bond she was amazed how much power she had over them and it excited her just as much as it did them.
As they depended on each other, they now also depended on her. Only, being a female, it was shaking them up a bit. Maybe it was a protective thing that a man naturally feels towards a woman. Whatever it was, she felt it in them, mixed with the need to be with her too. She grinned mischievously to herself. She had a game and now seemed the perfect time to play it. She knew it would rattle them further but the little ungrateful shits deserved it. Afterwards, she was sure they’d be glad to hand her back to Kayden to get some peace for a while.
‘Well I guess we better cheer you all up then. I have a new game that starts off boring, but you’ll love the ending. Do you want to play it?’
‘Go for it, Cass,’ Woody said and she felt his mood lift already in anticipation of what she was going to get up to.
She made them all sit together. They only had their swimmers on and no tops so this was going to be easy-peasy to play, she decided.
‘Now, we’re going to start off with a guessing game and it may sound dumb at first so have patience.’ She started with Woody first and wrote on his back with her finger. He had to guess what the word was.
‘Jam boy,’ he said. ‘What does that mean?’
She pushed him from behind, smiling. ‘You have strawberry hair and are so very sweet.’
Woody smiled and sighed. ‘Jason, check my back. Did she scribble on it?’
He looked. ‘Nope, you’re good.’
‘I know she’s up to no good,’ he said. ‘But I’ll play her dumb frigging game.’
She went to Conor, slipped out the texta from her pocket, wrote ‘Bad Boy’ and he guessed it. On Jason, she wrote ‘Evil Boy’ and on Ethan, ‘Wicked Boy’. Then back to Woody, she wrote ‘Devil Boy’ and stood back, admiring her work. She ran off down the beach laughing.
They all looked at each other’s backs and when they finished laughing at each other’s names, they took off after her. ‘You are so dead, cloud girl!’ they called after her, hitting each other for being so dumb and letting her do it, while laughing and running after her. Kayden watched her pull the texta out and tried to warn her and then just shook his head and grinned, knowing she was really going to cop it this time.
Woody reached her first and had her under his arm, dragging her back. ‘Take it off and we might go lenient on you.’
‘I can’t, I haven’t bought the remover with me. Wait until the girlies see you tomorrow. I doubt if they will be falling all over devil boy now.’ She kept giggling.
‘You little ratbag, I can’t think of anything bad enough to punish you with just yet but give me a minute,’ he was saying as he brought her back to the others. ‘What have you guys decided?’ he asked. ‘She reckons she can’t take it off. She didn’t bring anything to get the stuff off.’