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Now that she was focusing, she could hear insects, bird calls, the faint gurgle of the water, leaves rustling in the slight breeze, and…nothing else.
It was freakingquiethere.
Then she heard heavy footsteps on the bottom of the boat as Theo moved toward the side by the dock. He reached out and grabbed one of the posts, grasped the rope that was looped on the floor of the boat, and tied them to the dock.
Okay, the cabin was cute, but watching Theo’s shoulder, back, and arm muscles bunch, and his ass as he bent and worked tying up the boat wasnotcute. It was hot. And she hoped it would take him an hour to get the boat secured.
It didn’t. It took about another minute.
“Let’s go, New York.” With one booted foot still on the boat and the other on the first rung of the short ladder that led up to the dock, Theo held his hand out as he straddled the space.
She grabbed her suitcase and handed it to him.
He shook his head, but he took the bag and swung it up onto the dock. Then he extended his hand again. “You know those shoes are ridiculous, right?”
“These shoes are amazing,” she corrected.
“Maybe for traipsing around in New York, but not for Autre.”
In her opinion, they werenotamazing for traipsing around in New York. Her feet would have been killing her after an hour on city sidewalks in these. But she just smiled at him. “It’s not like I’m going hiking here.” She looked around. “These will be just fine for porch sittin’.” She gaveporch sittin’a little southern drawl of her own.
The corner of his mouth twitched. But he just curled his fingers. “Come on.”
She knew touching him was a bad idea, but she didn’t really have a choice. He was very firmly in her way. And her damned shoes were not going to be great on the ladder that was basically six slats of wood that went straight up.
She put her hand in his, immediately registering three things—how hot his skin was, how big his hand was, and how rough his palm was against hers.
Okay, four things.
She also definitely registered the sharp shaft of need that arrowed through her belly to her pussy.
She wanted his handthere. There was no denying it.
Dammit.
He pulled her up, and she stepped to the side of the boat. He shifted, letting her move in front of him.
“Up you go.” He turned, still balancing with one foot on the boat, one on the ladder, and put his hands on her hips.
Savannah worked very hard tonotgasp or moan. She grasped the ladder with both hands and put a foot up on the first rung.
Theo lifted her, his hands steady and strong and she climbed up, very aware the entire time that her butt and then the back of her thighs were right in his face. If he’d puckered his lips, he could have kissed her ass, literally, without even having to lean in.
The climb up six rungs seemed to take twenty minutes. She finally stepped up onto the dock and let out a long breath.
Theo climbed up behind her, and Savannah took a quick step forward to avoid him bumping into her and sending her over the other side.
“Right this way, madam,” he said, mockingly, starting up the dock that was only slightly less rickety than the one back where they’d gotten into the boat.
He walked right past her suitcase.
Savannah rolled her eyes and grabbed the huge hard-sided suitcase, but because everything inside took up only about one-sixth of the space, it all shifted with a softthunkas she put the bag upright on its wheels to follow him.
It was a very good thing it wasn’t heavy because about five steps later, she had to pick it up and carry it. There was no way wheels were going to work over the uneven stones that lined a twenty-foot, barely-there path from the dock to the porch of the cabin.
Theo stood by the open door of the cabin, waiting for her.
She stepped past him with an eye roll, but once she was past the threshold, her attention was completely on the cabin.
