" Looking into his eyes instead of where she was stepping, she put her foot too far to the edge of the step and as she shifted her weight forward to get onto the boat, her foot slid and she ended up falling into Chase.
He caught her—also like some stupid romantic movie—but the bag she was holding whacked him in the leg and he winced. She looked down. It didn’t just hold strands of lights. There was also a big, hard plastic, gold-glitter covered star. With very sharp points. One of which was poking into his leg.
Bailey quickly shifted to move the bag away from his leg but that only managed to press her hips into his.
And the big, hard shape behind his fly.
Her eyes flew to his face.
He was looking down at her. His expression held pain, amusement, heat, and exasperation all at once.
Impressively.
“Sorry I’m poking you,” she said, her voice breathless.
“I was going to say the same.”
His grin registered before his words did. "
― Erin Nicholas , Must Love Alligators (Boys of the Bayou, #5)