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his hands on
you. Does he….?”
    “Never,” Erika assured him
quickly, before turning to swim back to a depth where her feet
could touch the bottom. She stood up and waited for Aiden to catch
up with her, looking around to check no one could see or overhear
them. “He was furious. It took me a long while to convince him not
to call the police. I refused to back up his story if he did.”
    “I bet that went down well.”
    “And I said you might give away
my secrets if he upset you.”
    “Which I never would.” It was
important to him that she understood this.
    “You and I know that, but Marty
doesn’t. He can’t stand the thought of anyone else making money out
of me. In any case, he thinks you’re checking out tomorrow.”
    “But I’m not.”
    “It might help if you did.” She
looked at him pleadingly. “Move somewhere close by and, when we
need to talk, I’ll sneak out of the staff entrance.” When Aiden
hesitated, Erika pushed her point home. “It’ll throw Marty off the
scent and give me the freedom to meet you in secret. He’s watching
my every move today and we won’t have chance to see each other
again after this.”
    She could have added that it
would also make her life a great deal less complicated if she
didn’t need to worry about bumping into Aiden at every turn. Five
years ago he’d had the power to occupy her every waking thought,
filling her head with wonderfully wicked daydreams so that,
whenever they were reunited, she’d felt ready to tear off his
clothes with her teeth and play out her fantasies across his
body.
    Even wrapped in thick sweaters,
in the freezing cold yesterday, she’d been agonisingly conscious of
the strength and power of his body. Now, confronted with a
semi-naked Aiden, she laboured to think of anything other than
exposing the remembered heaven lying south of that tan line.
    Forcing herself to concentrate
on something far less x-rated, she therefore told Aiden she needed
to see the papers again. “Yesterday I was too shocked to take
anything in. I’d like to go through them one more time.”
    “They’re in my suite. We can go
there now if you like.”
    Being alone with Aiden on a cold
hill top and fully dressed was one thing but locked in his suite,
with him sitting too close and nowhere to run, was a less tempting
prospect. Erika panicked. “Can’t you email them to me?”
    “What happens if someone opens
the message, or if Marty sees what you’re up to?”
    “But how will I take advice
without any paperwork?”
    “I’ll arrange the lawyers and
send everything direct. That way, Marty will never know what’s hit
him.”
    Aiden had dropped his voice and
moved in closer to cut down the risk of being overheard but his
nearness made Erika flustered again and she swam to the side to put
some distance between them. Predictably, Aiden did the same,
pulling himself out of the pool to sit beside her on the lounger,
his body even more temptingly touchable on the poolside than it had
been in the water.
    On the pretext of speaking
quietly to her, he sat shoulder to shoulder with her, his leg
resting lightly against Erika’s, the hair on his calf deliciously
rough against her smooth skin. Unable to resist looking sideways at
her, Aiden’s gaze travelled over Erika’s body like inquisitive
fingers; gently trailing up her thighs, across her belly and
between her full breasts, around which her wet swimsuit now clung
almost indecently.
    Responding to his clear desire
and all the memories it evoked, Erika’s nipples hardened and she
cursed her body’s betrayal, crossing her arms over her breasts in
humiliation and praying Aiden wouldn’t comment. Thankfully, he had
the grace to look away.
    “Why don’t you finish your swim
while I take a shower?” he suggested, his voice strangely tight.
“We can go through the papers afterwards.”
    In a surprise reversal, Erika
now found herself the voyeur as Aiden grabbed a towel and turned
his back on her when he wrapped