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A hand waving from Seas the Day caught my attention, and I knew we needed to go back no matter how much I didn’t want to.

“I guess our time is up,” she said sadly from behind me.

Placing one hand on her knee, I patted it and kept it on her leg until someone on the boat would be able to see if they were looking our way where my hand was sitting.

As we idled up the boat, Stella’s hands slid down my front and rested on my hips for a moment before she completely pulled away. Scout was holding his hand out for her to take the moment we stopped.

Scout winked down at me once Stella was securely on the platform, making me want to punch him. With a raised brow, he asked. “Have fun?”

“Oh my god, that was the most fun I’ve had in a long time. I want to do that every day.”

“Well, maybe tomorrow I can take you out, and we’ll hit some big waves.” The smirk on his face let me know Scout knew what he was saying was meant to bother me.

“Oh, I...I think I’d rather have Remy take me out if it’s okay.”

“Whatever the guest wants, the guest gets, right, Rem?”

“Right,” I gritted out. I just knew he was going to give me so much shit when we were alone.

“Good,” she looked back at me. “I’m going to see what the girls are up to. Find out if we’re going snorkeling or not.”

My eyes stayed on her retreating form. Stella’s perky ass swayed, giving me a show she didn’t know she was giving.

“Do you want to tell me what you’re thinking?” Scout asked from beside me. When I looked over at him, I found him watching Stella walk away as well.

Scout was a good guy. He worked on the same boat as I did my first season, and I felt like I could open up to him. “I don’t know, but for the first time in my life, I feel this strange pull toward her.” He opened his mouth but closed it when I held my hand up. “I know this is the worst timing, but I can’t help it. What do I do?”

“Well, while you were out there letting one of our guests

feel you up—”

“That is not what was happening,” I interrupted him with a bark.

“Dude, don’t get your panties all up in a bunch. Just listen to me, okay?”

“Fine, what happened while I was out on the water?”

“The Captain was checking the weather, and there’s a big storm system coming in. We’re going to have to dock for at least a day, so that will give you time to spend with your lady if you want.”

It would. My work would be very little, and if the guests asked for me to do something with them, I had to comply.

“Since the weather is going to get bad, we’re going to take them snorkeling today, and then tonight during their sunset dinner, we’ll inform them of what’s going to happen tomorrow.”

I clapped him on the shoulder. “You guys got it all planned out, didn’t you?”

“What do you expect? The inside crew is freaking out about all the work they’re going to have to do. Owen and I agreed they could stay back while we take them snorkeling to give them some time off if you said it was okay.”

“Like I want to deal with the wrath of Ophelia if she doesn’t get her break,” I laughed out. She would be a horrible bitch if I didn’t agree.

“I thought you’d see it that way.”

Slapping him on the back, I pushed him toward the stairs. “Thanks, now let’s get all this put up and something to eat before we have to head out.”

“Fuck, I hate it when we have to put out the slide. We should say it’s got a hole in it, so we don’t have to deal with it for the rest of the season.”

“If anything happened to that damn slide, they’d want to know who was responsible, and then they’d take it out of our paycheck.” I, for one, wasn’t giving up that money just so I don’t have to haul that damn slide up the side of the boat.

“Ugh! Stop being reasonable.”