Temptation (The Hunted, #1)(45)

"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.

"Oh, shit. Hey!" he yelled to the boys.

I opened my eyes and saw them running off with my bathing suit. Crap!

His hands left my back and I realized he was about to run after them.

"Don't you dare leave me in this ocean!"

Professor Hunter started laughing harder than I had ever seen him laugh. "Penny, I'm so sorry," he was able to say, interspersed between his laughter.

"Stop laughing! This isn't funny, Professor Hunter! I just bought that." But I started laughing too. I couldn't believe someone had just stolen my bikini. Or that I was naked in the ocean in the first place.

"I'll buy you a new one."

I looked back at the sand and didn't see anyone. "Should we make a run for it? It's freezing." I unwound my legs from his waist and let him grab my hand. We began to run.

"Oh, wait. The coast isn't exactly clear." Professor Hunter pointed toward the boardwalk. "Boys don't steal bikinis and run away. They stay to look."

I was completely mortified. "What do we do?"

A wave crashed down behind us. It probably would have knocked me over, but Professor Hunter lifted me over his shoulder.

"Professor Hunter, put me down!" I was very self-conscious about my naked ass being up in the air on a public beach. The boys were probably snapping photos. I didn't need my ass to go viral.

He laughed and walked the rest of the way out of the water. When he put me down I quickly ran to our towels. I wrapped my towel around myself as he casually strolled toward me.

"Penny, those boys were far away, they could barely see you."

"But they could still see me! And they probably took pictures with their phones. And they...they saw us having...well, you know."

"The highlight of their young lives, I'm sure." He slowly began to dry off with his towel.

I slid my shorts back on and pulled my tank top on. Without my bikini top, my breasts had no support. And my body was so cold that my nipples were trying to poke through my shirt. I folded my arms across my chest and sat down. I should have been furious with him, but instead I just felt relaxed. I just had sex in the ocean. With Professor Hunter. None of this even felt real. It was just a crazy dream. A crazy, sexy, awesome dream.

Professor Hunter pulled on his boxers and shorts, but kept his shirt off. He sat down beside me and rubbed my back. Just his touch made my body tingle. "Are you ready for part two of our date?"

"That depends on what we're doing. I'm not exactly dressed to go anywhere."

"Well, how about we go to my place?"

He got up and pulled me to my feet. I was sad to see him put his shirt back on, but I couldn't be more excited to see where he lived. It would be the perfect opportunity to learn more about him.

"That sounds perfect."





Chapter 33


Monday

We pulled into the parking garage of the fancy new apartments that had been built on the edge of Main Street. "You live here?" I remembered seeing flyers advertising them. I think you could buy one of them for close to a million dollars. Professor Hunter was definitely loaded.

"Yes." He turned onto the third story of the parking garage. He pulled into a space next to his black Audi coupe and a line of several other cars.

"Your neighbors have really nice cars too." Of course they did. Anyone who could afford to live here was insanely wealthy.

He stepped out of the convertible. "Those are mine."

"Seriously?" I got out of the car and looked around. "All of them? One of them looks like the Batmobile!"

"Yeah. Turns out it's never very convenient to drive though. And it doesn't give me any superpowers." He put his hands in his pockets as he watched me take my hoodie out of my bag, zip it up, and lift the hood over my head.

"Okay, I'm ready," I said.

"What, do you think I'm sneaking you in? I don't believe that anyone from the university lives here."

"Well I don't want to get caught. Someone in the lobby might see us."

He laughed. "Okay." He put his hand on the small of my back and led me over to an elevator. I noticed that there were two other elevators in the parking garage. One was in the middle and one was on the opposite side from us. Weird. I was just about to ask why there weren't any buttons by the elevator when he opened his wallet and swiped a card where the buttons usually would be. The doors opened immediately and we stepped in. He touched the button for the top floor and the elevator doors closed.

"Penthouse, huh?"

"I guess you could say that."

I looked around the elevator. There was a door on the opposite side of the elevator as well. So maybe each floor had two apartments? I thought about the other two elevators. No, each floor probably had six apartments. I had seen elevators going directly to rooms before in the movies, but never in real life. But when the elevator stopped, the doors didn't open. Professor Hunter took out a different card and swiped it next to the buttons. The doors parted, he grabbed my hand, and we stepped into his apartment.