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tried to hold back, to save something for next time.  
    “Mac,” she said breathlessly, “touch me. Don’t be afraid. I won’t break.”
    “I might,” he said gruffly, making her laugh.  
    “No, you won’t.”
    Keeping his gaze fixed on her face, he untied the top of her bikini and drew it down, revealing gorgeous breasts.  
    “Linda,” he said on a long exhale as he watched her nipples harden before his eyes. “Sexiest girl I ever met.”
    She ran her fingers through his hair, drawing him down to her and then gasping when he drew the tight tip of her right breast into his mouth.  
    One taste of her and he was a goner, completely lost to her in every possible way.

    The feel of her fingers sliding through his hair drew him out of the memory.
    She sat on his lap, making him groan from the press of her bottom against his erection. “Whatever you’re thinking about, it must be something good.”
    “I’m thinking about the red bikini.”
    “ Ahhhh .”
    “Remember that first night we spent together?”
    “Do I ever! We drove each other insane.”
    “For months, we drove each other insane. I thought I was literally going to die from wanting you for all those months you made me wait.”
    “I did not make you wait! You made me wait!”  
    “I was trying to be honorable.”
    She snorted with laughter. “While we did almost everything but …”
    “It was so hot. All of it.”
    “Mmm, and the phone calls.” She fanned her face. “Speaking of hot.”
    “So hot. Every time the ferries have been canceled since that first night, I think of you and the red bikini and the back room at the marina.”
    “Don’t forget the spiders.”
    “Just a few, but I got rid of them.”
    “I’ll never forget the way I ached leaving you the next day,” she said. “In the course of two days, I lost interest in school and my life in Providence and fell completely in love with you and your island.”
    “Took you long enough to say so.”
    “You’re still holding a grudge about that?”
    “I’ll always hold a grudge about how long you made me wait to hear that you’d fallen as hard for me as I had for you.”
    “Three weeks, Mac. I waited three weeks to tell you that.”
    “Torture.”
    She laughed softly as he hugged her more tightly. “You were in the biggest rush.”
    “I knew what I wanted, and I was determined to get it—and you. Sometimes I wonder if your parents didn’t resent me until the day they died for luring you out of school to my remote little island.”
    “They loved you.”
    “Not at first, they didn’t.”
    “They always liked you. They just thought we were too young to make major life decisions.”
    “We were way too young at nineteen and twenty. I would’ve flipped my lid if any of our kids had done what we did.”
    “But there was no telling us that.”
    “Nope, and I don’t regret anything we did. It was right for us.”
    “Yes, it was. So, so right. I don’t know how we made it to December.”
    “Six of the longest months of my entire life.”
    “Mine, too. I remember the time, two weeks before the wedding, when I came off the ferry and you literally picked me up and carried me to the truck and didn’t say a single word to me until I was under you in that little bed at the marina. We almost gave in that day.”
    He shuddered forty years later, thinking about the overpowering desire they’d felt for each other from the beginning. “ So close. I was dying for you by then.”
    “Remind me why we decided to wait?”
    “Because it was going to be your first time. I wanted it to be special—and because you were afraid I would break you.”
      Linda laughed at the memory. “I still worry about that sometimes.” She squirmed on his lap, intentionally this time. “You’re… formidable.”
    “You were more than up for the job.”
    “Very funny, but I was totally terrified that I wouldn’t be able to do it, and after all that build-up, it would be a total