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“It is.” I smiled. “So, are you going to finally come into the water or what? When I suggested taking a dip, I meant more than just your feet.”
I waded to where he sat with his feet dangling in the water. His lips twisted into a smile. “I’m enjoying watching you swim.”
When I stopped at his feet, his gaze dipped to my bare beasts and his eyes darkened with blatant hunger.
I smirked. “I think you’re only enjoying it because I’m naked.”
“You are not wrong,” he purred, still eyeing my tits.
When I stopped giggling, which I did entirely too much with him, I narrowed my gaze. “You don’t have one of those phobias where you’re afraid of bodies of water, do you? But that would make no sense because you had no problem windsurfing and you’re a great swimmer…”
His eyebrows shot up. “The only crazy fear I have is of heights.”
“Then what’s the problem?”
“No problem, I’m simply preparing myself,” he said, staring into the water.
My eyebrows snapped together. Jamie was an interesting character. “For…?”
“For anything.” He lifted a shoulder nonchalantly as if staring intensely into a pool to prepare himself before getting in was the most natural thing in the world.
“Okay…”
He finally took his eyes off the water’s surface to look at me. His eyes flickered with uncertainty. I got the impression that he contemplated telling me something. Jamie had shared things with me that I knew he hadn’t with anyone else and that made me feel special. It made me feel as if this thing between us was more than a vacation fling for him.
“I can’t see the bottom,” he finally announced.
I blinked. The water was dark, a deep shade of blue-green.
“It’s… unsettling,” he added.
I stared at him with my head tilted. “Oh…”
He lifted an eyebrow. “Oh?”
“I get it now.”
His eyes narrowed. “Do you?”
“You’re a control freak. That’s why you’re afraid of heights too, isn’t it? You find situations that you can’t control unsettling.”
Jamie’s jaw slackened and disbelief flickered across his face. “Jesus, woman. You’ve known me all of a few days. How do you always get it?”
I grinned triumphantly. “Much respect for you for not getting all macho and denying it.”
He laughed. “Don’t congratulate me yet. I suffered through a helicopter ride because I was too manly to remind my friends about my fear of heights.”
I laughed and rested my hands on his thighs. “It’s okay, you don’t have to jump in if you don’t want to.”
“That’s the thing,” he said. “I want to because I’m supposed to be turning over a new leaf.”
“You don’t have to change who you are to enjoy your life, Jamie.”
He watched me through squinted eyes. “How did you get to be so wise?”
“I listened to my old man more often than not. He was always right about things…” I shrugged.
Jamie grinned, blew out a breath, and jumped into the water.
