Rendezvous by Sami Lee

Author:Sami Lee [Lee, Sami]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: alpha male, vacation, second chance, Romance, erotic romance, international, beach
ISBN: 9781941641101
Publisher: Sami Lee
Published: 2014-07-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Reed waited, body tense, while Cassie considered his request. At long last, she conceded. “All right. I’ll get the dingy ready.”

“I’ll help.”

They worked together, gathering items for a light picnic and then climbing into the dingy and casting off. Reed used the oars rather than have the sound of the motor puncture the evening stillness. He rowed the short distance to shore, where they beached the vessel and hopped out. Cassie pointed to a spot to the right. “There’s a place up here, it’s not far.”

Reed followed her lead up the beach then through the trees along something she assured him was supposed to be a track. It was close to fifteen minutes before they came upon a lagoon nestled amongst the rocks and palm trees. It was about the size of the average swimming pool, but there was nothing average about the intense cerulean tinge to the water or the outcropping of rocks at one end over which water tumbled, splashing into the lagoon below. With the setting sun painting the sky above them a deep magenta, it looked like everyone’s image of paradise.

“There is limestone in these rocks,” Cassie explained. “That’s why the water looks so blue. And behind the waterfall there is a series of caves you can swim through.”

“I’ve never seen anything like this,” Reed breathed, keeping his voice low out of a sense of reverence. “How come we’re the only ones here?”

“Only the locals know about this place. I think we’ve all tacitly agreed to keep it a secret from the tourists.”

But she’d brought him—a tourist and an outsider—here. It meant more to Reed than he could say. He just hoped Cassie didn’t consider this her parting gift to him.

“It’s a perfect spot for a moonlight picnic. You hungry?”

When Cassie bent over to rummage through the cooler backpack Reed had set on the ground beside him, Reed placed a hand on her back. “Not right now. Can we talk for a bit first?”

Cassie straightened again. The reserve he’d come to expect from the past few days was back in her eyes. “About what?”

“Us.”

“Reed…”

“Hear me out, Cass. Please.”

She crossed her arms over her chest—classic defensive posture. But she didn’t tell him to shut up, that was a bonus. “All right.”

Reed let out the breath he’d been holding. He squeezed Cassie’s shoulder, opened his mouth to speak. No words came out because he had no idea where to start. He released her and turned away, walking the few steps down to the edge of the lagoon and staring into the fathomless blue.

He didn’t hear Cassie come up behind him, and he was so tense that when she spoke he jolted as though from a trance.

“Reed, what is it?”

“You accused me of keeping things from you our entire marriage,” he began at last. “You’re right. I didn’t talk to you about what happened on the job because it can be so ugly sometimes, and I didn’t want you to know how ugly. I didn’t want you to have to deal with it.

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