Cruisin' for a SEAL by Sharon Hamilton

Author:Sharon Hamilton
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Military, Suspense, SEALs
ISBN: 1496090608
Publisher: AL Publishing
Published: 2014-03-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

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THE NEXT DAY, Sophia submitted to Roberto for their pre-planned midmorning rehearsal in the vacant auditorium. They had a dance class to teach that afternoon, and then would be the highlight dancers for a mini grand review involving much of the dance staff from all countries. It was supposed to show the unity of the international crew of the ship.

It was a total lie.

Roberto was back to being well behaved and charming. Sophia knew he was working hard to get back on her good side. The pattern for him seemed to be to show his nasty side, then show his soft side. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. She warned herself not to trust this courteous Roberto, knowing the evil Roberto was lurking, ready to pounce, especially if she didn’t give him what he wanted.

She was becoming more and more convinced his plan was to take her at any cost. His hands held her waist a little too long, they slipped down previously avoided body parts in casual caresses. His sighs and little grunts, not perceptible to anyone but her, were dangerously obvious. Did he think this sort of behavior was desired? If Mark weren’t around, she’d be going to Brazil to meet Matheus and his family. Roberto, even if she had been interested, and she never had been, would have been at best a distant second. As it was, he’d never been on her radar. What, she wondered, made him think he ever could be?

She’d felt this cruise was a big mistake. The wedding was being planned by people she hadn’t met. “It’s the way we do it here. My mother would never forgive herself,” Matheus had said in his soft, Brazilian accent. She’d loved that part about him. His gentleness was what had attracted her to him. And the promise of an exotic life in a foreign land.

And then, just a dream, Mark had appeared on that cobblestoned street, near the place where Matheus had proposed last year. That’s the day her whole world had changed. She impulsively decided the handsome American would be her goodbye kiss to all the men she’d loved, a goodbye kiss to her single life. She’d be taking the path away from everything familiar, from where her loving father had lived, and replacing it with an exciting new adventure in Brazil with her handsome new husband.

She hadn’t expected that Mark’s ways would charm her so completely. The simple, direct way he’d tried to talk to her when he didn’t know she understood, with that casual American drawl and straightforward honesty that had gone straight to her heart. Just the way her father had been, the airman with the bomber jacket her mother had fallen for in Italy those years ago. Had she fallen for Mark because she missed her dad?

She knew the answer was no. But being in Mark’s arms felt like coming home, like remembering the way the Central Valley looked in the early morning hours when the tule fog covered everything with a gray blanket.

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