Falling Again for Her Island Fling by Ellie Darkins

Author:Ellie Darkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-07-08T19:24:26+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

SHE HAD DECLINED Guy’s offer to bring his yacht to the island. She didn’t want it anchored off shore, not knowing what impact it might have on the marine life. Her little boat had been puttering around Le Bijou for so long that it felt like part of the ecosystem, and it was perfectly capable of getting them to and from the island, even if it lacked a bit in the luxury stakes. She had half-expected Guy to pull a face when she had insisted that they both use it, but if he had been annoyed he hadn’t shown it.

Instead he had turned up at the marina wearing a casual pair of cargo shorts and a polo shirt with a stuffed rucksack on his back. She could see a tent and a sleeping bag, and was glad that he had taken her instructions seriously. She’d meant what she’d said about not sharing.

Even with separate tents, though, this was probably not one of her best ideas, she thought as she steered them up to the little jetty and tied up her boat. Guy scrambled out first and held out a hand to help her up, and she hesitated before she took it. But it was just a polite gesture, she told herself as she made herself reach out for it, trying to ignore the zing that she felt when his fingers touched hers. They walked over to where she had set up camp the night before and pitched the tents quickly. The sun was setting fast, shadows growing long around them as she knocked tent pegs into the earth and tightened the lines. She was unrolling her sleeping bag when she felt Guy’s eyes on her back and turned to find him watching her.

With the setting sun behind him, she couldn’t make out his expression. He was just a dark silhouette against the bleeding orange of the sun dipping into the water.

‘What is it?’ she asked as the last rays of sunlight streaked around them.

‘It’s...’ Guy hesitated, as if he was making up his mind whether to speak. ‘It’s just strange, being back here again,’ he said eventually, coming round to the front of the tents and spreading a blanket on the ground. ‘We spent so much time here before. And I’ve had this place in my mind for so long.’

‘It’s so strange not being able to remember it,’ Meena said, sitting on the blanket and wondering whether this conversation would have been different if she’d had her memories. If Guy would even have talked about the past at all if she hadn’t been reliant on him to fill in the missing parts for her.

‘It’s strange for me too,’ Guy said, lit now only by the full moon as he dropped down beside her. Darkness had fallen fast, and Meena didn’t want to risk interfering with the natural instincts of the turtles by turning on a torch or lighting a fire. ‘It’s hard to know what to tell you.’

‘I want

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