Colt sat on the sand with his knees drawn up. He stared sourly out at the ocean that rhythmically crashed upon the beach.
He was a stupid fool!
He glanced at the scroll laying on the sand and had to fight against the sudden urge to chuck it out into the sea. The stupid thing had almost caused him to lose something of real value.
He glanced over to his other side where Kim was still sprawled out asleep on the sand. He'd almost lost her. In fact for a few terrified moments he'd thought he had and it would have been all his fault!
He'd never felt like this about any woman before!
Colt wiped a hand over his face. How was he going to keep her safe?
He kept looking at her and his thoughts changed. She was so beautiful and she'd kissed him like….like wow!
Before he could stop himself he slid over to straddle her and was rewarded by her eyes opening to stare up at him. He didn't miss the nervousness that he saw rise to life within her eyes as she came to the realization that she was alone with him on this beach.
He wanted to take her hands and press them into the sand above her head and kiss her like she'd kissed him in the cave, but the look in her eyes held him back.
Slowly he settled down onto her and reflexively her hands came up to press against his chest. He stopped.
"What are you afraid of?" He asked slowly.
Her breathing was rapid and her eyes reflected confusion and she seemed to be bound by some unseen force from giving voice to her emotions.
"Afraid you might like it?" Colt asked knowingly.
Still she didn't answer him, but the answer was there in her eyes.
"Want to find out?" He asked feeling a little desperate due to the intense longing that he felt for this woman.
Slowly she shook her head no.
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I couldn't get my heart to calm down even a beat as I watched him watch me. He hadn't said anything since I'd said no.
His lips moved reluctantly, "Okay. I'll let you escape this time, but one day honey. One day you'll be mine and despite whatever you may be thinking I know that you're going to like it." He rolled off of me then and got up and went into the jungle that lay just beyond the beach.
I just lay there in the sand in a relieved state of shock that he'd left and strangely enough remorse. Remorse that I'd said no.