I Saw Her Standing There by Marie Force

the house with Will and Cameron. Lucy loved the way the brothers bickered incessantly but with an underlying affection that was reminiscent of her relationship with her sister, Emma. There was nothing she and Emma wouldn’t say to each other and nothing they wouldn’t do for each other. She sensed the same sort of bond between Will and Colton, even if they were annoyed by the other’s presence at the house.
    “I should tell Dad we caught you with a guy,” Will said, sending the girls into fits of giggles as Colton scowled at him.
    “If you do that, I’ll tell him you drank all his scotch.”
    “You wouldn’t dare.”
    “Do it and you’ll find out.”
    Even though Colton was clearly pissed off by the turn of events, Lucy couldn’t help but laugh at his distress. She wondered if he knew how adorable he could be, and seeing him with his brother gave her an all-new perspective on his personality. It was a good perspective that only made her like him more than she already did.
    She ran her finger around in the sand, stopping only when she sensed him hovering over her shoulder.
    “That’s amazing. You just sat there and drew that?”
    Lucy snapped out of her musings to take notice of what she’d drawn. The man in the sand looked an awful lot like him. She’d drawn him without even thinking about what she was doing.
    “That’s awesome, Luce,” Cameron said.
    “You totally captured him,” Will added.
    Lucy felt like she’d exposed her private thoughts through the image that had appeared at the end of her index finger. She swept her fingers across the sand, erasing the drawing. “Just scribbling.”
    “Will you do that again sometime on paper?” Colton asked her.
    “Maybe.”
    “Have you shown her your drawings yet?” Will asked.
    “No.”
    “You can draw, Colton?” Lucy asked.
    “His drawings are amazing.” Will stood as the sun headed for the horizon on the far side of the lake and the temperature began to cool. “Let’s make a fire. Do we have hot dogs?”
    “
We
have hot dogs,” Colton said.
    “That we’re happy to share with you guys,” Lucy said with a pointed look for him.
    “We’ll get them,” Will said, reaching out to help Cameron up.
    “You may as well get the s’mores stuff, too,” Colton said begrudgingly.
    “Yay,” Cameron said as she and Will headed for the house with all four dogs following them.
    “It’s very nice of you to share with your brother,” Lucy said.
    “Whatever. He didn’t give me much choice.”
    “You never told me you could draw.”
    “You never told me you can, too.”
    She smiled at his reply. “Today was fun. Being here with them . . . I haven’t gotten to spend a lot of time with them together. It’s nice to see how good he is to her and how much he loves her. It makes me happy to see her happy.”
    “I like seeing how much she loves him. He deserves that as much as she does.”
    “Awww, underneath all that bluster, you’re a romantic!”
    “Ew, I am not. Don’t say such awful things about me.”
    Lucy tossed a small handful of sand at him.
    “Oh really? We’re throwing sand now?”
    “
We’re
not throwing sand.
I
am.” She sent another pinch of sand in his direction and hit him square in the face.
    He stared at her, disbelieving, as he spit a mouthful of sand to the side before lunging at her, making her scream with laughter as he came down on top of her. When he had her pinned to the beach blanket, he looked down at her with a sinister expression on his face. “It’s a good thing I’m not a vengeful kind of guy. You forget I was raised with six brothers and three sisters. I know everything there is to know about exacting revenge.”
    She batted her eyelashes at him. “Please don’t hurt me, big strong man of the mountains.”
    With a low growl, he brought his lips down on hers, drawing her into an incendiary kiss filled with the frustration she’d felt coming from him all afternoon. He’d gone along with what everyone