Chapter 0488 After a few kisses, Nichs excused himself to change into his own swim trunks. I opted to stay behind, knowing if I went with him, we would be thoroughly distracted for so long that our absence would definitely be noticed.


    No, it was better that we parted for now.


    I went into the bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror. The green swimsuit Nichs had picked out for me was tasteful. It did show off my curves, but in a ssy kind of way. My midriff and back were exposed, but not so much so that I felt naked, like I did when I was wearing the bikini.


    Nichs had good taste.


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    Comfortable, I headed downstairs and out onto the deck, looking for everyone else. I found them out on the sand, near where a volleyball had been erected. Nathan was directing the camera crew nearby, setting them up for the best shots.


    Veronica spotted me and waved me over. She had on a one-piece swimsuit with a halter top, covered in polka dots.


    Her hair was up in a loose bun.


    “The teams have already been picked,” she said. “Do you know how to y?” “A little?” I hadn’t yed any team sports since my days at the academy.


    “Good,” Veronica said. “Because I''ve never yed before in my life.”


    We waited a few minutes until Nichs joined us. My thoughts fizzled out when I spotted him. His shorts were low on his hips and he wasn’t wearing a shirt, revealing miles of hard muscle.


    I could have stared at him for hours, drooling. Veronica elbowed me after a few seconds.


    Bridget, who I had only given a passing nce to before, bounded over to Nichs as he descended from the deck. Her tiny two-piece bikini barely covered her bouncing breasts or her ass. It was as if she was wearing two tiny strips of fabric, not an actual outfit.


    She held out her arms and spun around, giving Nichs the full view.


    Nichs politely kept his nce the other way.


    Inside of me, my wolf snarled, though outwardly, I tried to keep myself contained. Beside me, Julian was less subtle, crossing his arms and frowning.


    The teams were split with Veronica, Julian and I on one team, and Nichs, Bridget, and Jessica on the other.


    Putting me in a position of being able to stare at Nichs’s bare chest through the mesh was not a good idea, and I missed several of the early volleys that should have been easy.


    Even Veronica, who had never yed the game before, was making more ys than me.


    It was so bad, that after a particrly terrible miss, courtesy of the sun reflecting off the shine of sweat on Nichs’s pecs, Julian came over to me


    and said, “Get your head off of Nichs’s chest and into the game, please, Piper.” I blushed fiercely. Of course, he would be the one to notice. Although, with the knowing look Veronica gave me, she probably noticed too.


    I shook my head and focused. Julian was right. With the cameras watching, and showing the footage all across the kingdom, I couldn’t embarrass myself and my team, even if we were just ying for fun.


    Plus, if Julian was still ying his best, even with the distraction of Bridget’s bare skin, then I could certainly do the same seeing Nichs’s.


    From then out, I treated Nichs’s hotness like I couldn’t even see it and focused fully on the ball. And that was


    when I started to notice the obvious weakness on the other team.


    Bridget, being so conscious of her image, focused only on where the cameras were and how to give herself the best angle in front of them. She smiled and posed. While she did make the asional volley, she only did so when the ball was close enough that she wouldn’t have to exert herself.