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‘Where’s your sense of adventure?’
‘Back upstairs, where it doesn’t run the risk of being eaten by sharks.’
He let go of her hand and started uncorking the champagne. ‘Unless sharks have developed a way of walking on sand, you’ll have to come up with a better excuse.’
‘I’m not wearing any knickers. I don’t want to catch cold.’
His grin was utterly shameless. ‘That’s a very good reason.’ He popped the cork, poured out a glass of golden liquid and handed it to her. Setting the bottle down, he shucked off his shorts and got onto the bed. Casting her a hot glance, he patted the space beside him. ‘I’ll be your body blanket. If I fail completely in my task you’ll be free to return to the safety of my bed.’
He saw her battle for a response. But his insistent patting finally won through. The mixture of hunger, innocence and vulnerability on her face touched a part of him he’d long thought dead. When she set her glass down and slid into his arms, Rafael swore to make her forget everything about her bastard of a father. If only for a few hours.
Why taking on that task meant so much to him, he refused to consider.
He made love to her with a slow, leisurely tempo even though everything inside him clamoured for quick, fiery satisfaction.
When she came apart in his arms, he let himself be swept away into his own release. Sleep wasn’t far behind and, gathering her close, he kissed her temple and pulled the cashmere blanket over them.
CHAPTER TEN
THE INTRUSION OF light behind her eyelids came with firm, warm lips brushing her jaw.
‘Wake up, querida...’
‘Hmm, no...don’t want to...’
A soft deep laugh. ‘Come on, wake up or you’ll miss the sunrise.’
‘Sun...no...’ She wanted to stay just as she was, suspended between dream and reality, entranced by the sultry air on her face and hard, firm...aroused male curved around her.
‘Open your eyes. I promise you, it’s spectacular.’
She opened her eyes, simply because she couldn’t resist him, and found herself gazing into deep blue eyes. Eyes she’d looked into many times. But still her heart caught as if it’d been tugged by a powerful string.
‘Buenos días,’ Rafael murmured. ‘Look.’ He nodded beyond the canopy to the east. She followed his gaze and froze at the sheer beauty of the gathering sunrise. Orange, yellow and blue where the light faded, it was nature at its most spectacular and she lay there, enfolded in Rafael’s arms, silent and in complete awe as the sun spread its stunning rays across the sky.
‘Wow,’ she whispered.
‘Indeed. Does that win me Brownie points?’ he whispered hotly into her ear.
Turning from the sight, she looked again into mesmerising eyes. And once again she felt her heart stutter in awe.
‘It depends what you intend to use the points for.’
‘To get you to come yachting with me today. My yacht is moored at the Marina. We can take her out for the day.’
More alone time with Rafael. Too much...too much...
She should’ve heeded the screeching voice of caution. But Raven had a feeling she was already too far gone. ‘I’d love to. On one condition.’
He mock frowned. ‘Condition...my second least favourite word.’
‘What’s your least favourite?’
‘No.’
She laughed. ‘That figures. Well, I need to exercise. Then you need to have your session. Then we’ll go yachting.’
With a quick, hard kiss, he released her and sat back. ‘You can do your exercise right here on the beach.’
She felt heat rise. ‘While you watch?’
‘I’m a harmless audience. Besides, I want to see if this Krav Maga is worth all the hype.’
She bit her lip and hesitated.
‘What?’ he demanded.
‘I...I’m not wearing any knickers, remember?’
His laugh was shameless and filled with predatory anticipation. ‘Kinky Krav Maga...sounds even better.’ He lounged back against the plump pillows, folded golden muscled arms and waited.
It was the hottest, most erotic exercise routine Raven had ever performed.
* * *
The rest of the day went like a dream. Rafael’s yacht was the last word in luxury. With a crew of four, they sailed around the Los Cabos islands, stopped at a seafront restaurant for a lunch of cerviche and sweet potato fries, then sunbathed on the twenty-foot deck until it got too hot. Then he encouraged her to join him in the shower below deck.
She clung to him in the aftermath of another pulse-destroying orgasm.
‘Hmm...I have a feeling you won’t be needing my services for much longer.’
