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It didn’t.
Thank God.
But for that brief second, I swore it was her, and that was all it took for my heart to start pounding and my cock to turn hard.
What the hell is wrong with me?
Why am I acting like a fucking schoolboy? With jitters in my chest and a hard-on in my trunks?
I didn’t want Jovana here.
I didn’t give a shit about what she was doing or how she felt or the level of hate she had toward me.
I hadn’t even seen her since the night she’d left my condo two months ago—the rollout had kept us so busy, the guys and I didn’t have a chance to pop by the bar.
So I didn’t understand why my brain was conjuring up images or why my body was reacting so strongly.
She was an ex-fish.
I’d moved on to bigger and better catches.
In fact, there was an entire school of fish on this yacht.
And I was loving it.
I was loving life.
But even though I no longer saw her face, the feeling hadn’t left my body. There was this nagging ache inside me that made absolutely no sense. That I couldn’t push away even with a hard swallow or by tapping my fist against my chest.
Or even by looking at the school of six.
Surely, alcohol could make it all disappear.
I downed what was left in my glass, the liquor just starting to burn my throat as I heard, “You all right, buddy?”
My friend Freddy stood by my chair, the dermatologist looking at me as if I were in one of his exam rooms. “Yeah ... why?”
“You’re a little flushed.”
“Flushed?”
Damn it, I’d loved that color on Jovana.
Jovana?
Why am I still thinking about her?
“Nah, I’m not flushed,” I told him. “I’m buzzed.” I pointed at the sky. “And I’m hot as hell from all this sun.”
He shook my shoulder before he took a seat beside me. “It’s time to get some rays on that pasty New England skin of yours.” He smiled. “But you do have sunscreen on, don’t you?”
I laughed. “You can’t help yourself, can you?”
“I’m about to go put some on the ladies. Looks like they’ve rubbed themselves in oil.” He ran his hand over his thick, curly mop of hair before he tucked his arms under his head. “I wouldn’t be a good doctor if I didn’t cover them in better protection.”
“Any excuse to touch them.” I paused. “Am I right?”
I chuckled as he smiled.
