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the door to his cabin opened. He grimaced. He should have locked it, but he didn’t think anyone would have dared to bother him.
    But of course, Kim never held to anyone’s expectations. She was in the doorway, wearing another one of those sensuous bikinis that pressed up her breasts in the middle, in bright colors that complimented her smooth, dark skin and lush curves. And a low sarong about her wide hips. Her legs were long and toned, her stomach curved in like an hourglass, with soft fat on the front that he wanted to sink his hands into.
    She was soft, womanly, and perfect, and he longed to take her in his arms and show her.
    But she wasn’t for him, he reminded himself for the last time. She was a city girl, and he wasn’t looking for a mate. He wasn’t looking to be destroyed like his dad had been.
    Still, he found himself wondering what just one night with this gorgeous woman would be like. One night together with no strings attached.
    Now that was a dangerous thought. He had a feeling once he found a home inside that body, those arms, he’d never be able to let go. And that thought scared him more than anything.
    “Why are you here?” he asked, standing and shutting the door behind him.
    “I’m trying something I’ve never done before and wanted to see if you’d join me.”
    “What do you mean?” he asked, eyes narrowed.
    “I’m thinking of going skinny dipping.”
    He bit his tongue and then swore. “And you came to tell me this why?”
    “I don’t think it’s safe to go alone.”
    He folded his arms, shifting his weight to try to ignore the erection growing in his pants as he thought about her curves half covered by dark water, glistening in the moonlight. “Damn straight. It’s not safe either way, because I’m not going. It would be unprofessional, not to mention unhygienic.”
    “Oh, please,” she said, taking a step forward to place a hand on his chest. He could feel his heartbeat hammering away beneath it and hoped she wasn’t aware of it. But when she looked up with a grin on her face, he could tell she was. “Like anything about the ocean is hygienic.” She played with the neck of his shirt, pulling it down slightly, teasing the hair of his chest. “It’s wild, untamed, exciting. And natural. That’s what people love about it.”
    That’s what I love about you , he wanted to say. But it made no sense. All the woman did was frustrate him.
    “But if you’re not interested, I suppose I could go ask Wilson,” she said, turning to leave.
    “Like hell,” he growled. When she turned to him with a satisfied smirk, he knew she’d gotten him. But damn if he’d let another man see her naked curves in the moonlight. He didn’t know exactly what this was between them. Didn’t know why she was the first woman he’d kissed in ten years. Didn’t know why it drove him out of his mind to think of another shifter pursuing her.
    And if he did know, he didn’t want to acknowledge that.
    All he knew was she was his. Or she could be tonight. And if they didn’t go all the way, at least he could see her naked.
    Naked in the ocean with a woman as free as the wind. The idea appealed to him. “I’ll change and be right out.”
    “Change?” she asked.
    “I’ll come out in my swimsuit. I’m not promising more,” he said.
    “Tit for tat,” she said cryptically, winking at him before slipping out and shutting the door behind her. “I’ll be waiting for you in the water.”
    No words had ever made him so hard.

5
    W hen he slipped out onto the lower back deck and stepped down onto the swim platform, she was already waiting in the water. He’d changed quickly so she wouldn’t have to wait and because he worried about her out on the deck in the dark.
    The others had exhausted themselves and retreated to their cabins, and he’d forbidden them from coming out in the dark before Bart knocked on their doors. They couldn’t risk people getting hurt at night.
    But he was a light sleeper