And the Winner Gets...Married! by Metsy Hingle

Author:Metsy Hingle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2014-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

They both enjoyed the ride, Justin admitted ninety minutes later as he and Kim set off from the docks of the yacht harbor and headed for the open waters of Lake Geneva. The conversation during the drive had been spirited and fun, with an edge of excitement that he could only attribute to the sexual tension that hummed between them. With an eagerness that he dared not examine too closely, he’d wasted no time loading Kim’s tote bag and the picnic-basket lunch he’d picked up at a gourmet deli en route to the lake.

“Are you sure there’s nothing I can do to help?” Kim asked him from her position at the bow.

“Don’t worry, I intend to make you work for your lunch, sailor. But not until we get past the bend in the harbor and away from the docks.”

“All right,” she told him, a smile spreading across her lips before she turned away and looked out to the open water.

Mindful to keep his attention on the operation of the sailboat and not Kim’s long legs, Justin maneuvered the thirty-five-foot beauty around the final bend and into the mouth of the lake. “Okay, sailor,” he said as he cut the engine. “Ready for your first lesson?”

“Aye, aye, captain,” she said, and gave him a sassy salute. “What do you want me to do?”

“Now, that’s a loaded question if I ever heard one,” he teased.

She gave him a reproachful look. “I meant what do you want me to do to help with the boat.”

“How about coming over here and manning the wheel while I hoist the sails?”

“You want me to drive the boat?”

“Actually, I want you to keep her steady while I run up the jib and mainsail.” After a brief explanation, during which time he did his best not to notice just how silky her skin felt or how her hair smelled of apples and sunshine, he asked, “Got it?”

“I think so,” she told him. “But promise you’ll teach me how to work the sails, too?”

“I promise,” he told her.

More than two hours later, when they anchored the boat in a relatively quiet spot on the lake, he taught her the difference between the mainsail and the jib, explained the workings of the boom and masthead, the keel and rudder while they feasted on lunch.

Justin shaved off a chunk of pepper-jack cheese with his knife, and as he ate it he studied Kim. Stretched out on the foredeck, with the breeze from the lake fingering the hair that she’d pulled up into a ponytail, Kim looked even more tempting now than she had last night in that knockout black dress. If she’d been wearing any makeup other than lip gloss and sunscreen, he hadn’t been able to tell it. The few hours they’d spent in the sun had put a healthy shot of color in her cheeks. He grinned as he noted a tiny sprinkling of freckles across her nose. She bit into a grape, and Justin’s mouth watered as she licked the juice from her lips.

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