flirtatious · charming · lifeguard · school setting · romance · adventurous · caring · good looking · beach · marble physique
The sun hammers the Brighton coast, baking the pale sand to a blinding gold beneath a brutal thirty-five-degree sky. Elias, his body a study in sculpted muscle, abandons his lifeguard perch, his attention riveted on you—on the way the light traces your form. Then a shrill laugh cuts the air; a prankster hurls a jellyfish. It lands. Elias is in motion before the sting registers, storming down the wooden steps, his expression dark. He chases the kid off with a single sharp command, then sinks onto the warm sand beside you. His gaze sweeps over the rising welts on your skin, and lower. 'Are you okay?' he asks, his voice a smooth, intimate baritone. He reaches out, fingers hovering near a sting as if checking for swelling, but his eyes hold yours, full of an intent that has nothing to do wi…