Priceless Treasure(30)

His head was about to explode now. Maybe he was blind, at least when it came to things he didn’t give a damn about. And that was no way to be when thinking of spending the rest of his life with a woman.

“You guys aren’t ready yet,” Lucas said with an exaggerated sneer as he met them at the private boat.

“Ashton was otherwise engaged this morning,” Lance said, and Ashton shot him a warning look. But Lance ignored it. “With his new employee.”

“Oh, really?” Lucas said, and he was first in line to board the boat and move over to the controls. “I’m guessing this is a young, hot, well-endowed employee.”

“Do you really think you’re running the controls?” Ashton said as he pushed Lucas out of the way.

“A man has to try,” Lucas said with a laugh.

“And don’t talk about Savvy that way,” Ashton added before he could stop himself.

Both Lucas and Lance stopped what they were doing and gave him looks he refused to let into his head.

“Let’s just go,” he said.

He heard Lucas ask Lance if the engagement to Kalli was off. He didn’t stick around long enough to hear his brother answer. He had a boat to get ready to leave port. Besides, from what he’d just learned, he was sure to hear a happy whoop from Lucas, and that would be too much.

Ashton had been hoping for a relaxing afternoon. And while any time spent with his family was good, he also knew that he was going to be grilled. Or eaten alive. Hungry sharks roamed in these waters.





Chapter Fifteen


Savvy was sad to see the day end, but her little sister had to return to her apartment and get ready for her new nursing job. Savvy waved and didn’t walk through the gates until her sister’s taillights faded away. She’d see Lexie again soon — she was hardly about to let another year go by. Well, she wasn’t going to unless her sister decided that her calling was again overseas.

She was proud of her sister, proud that Lexie used her talents to help those less fortunate, but that idealism had pulled the two of them so many miles apart before, and it could do so again. Neither of them was rich or likely to be, and international flights didn’t come cheap.

When Savannah walked down the quiet docks, stepped onto her boat, and made her way to her bedroom, she wasn’t expecting the impact of seeing the rumpled bedding, where she’d been writhing in shameless lust not too many hours earlier.

It stopped her cold, and the ache immediately started back up low in her belly. The way that man’s mouth had caressed her body had been magical. She had a feeling she wasn’t ever going to feel something so earth-shattering — or ocean-shattering — again.

No. She couldn’t think like that. Though she might not be the most romantic woman in the world, she did believe in love and did believe that she wouldn’t be alone forever. But she’d never settle with just any man, especially an engaged man, even if he couldn’t seem to remember he was taken. Even if her sister told her it was all fine and dandy. She just didn’t think that way.#p#分页标题#e#

Shaking off thoughts of Ashton, Savannah threw herself into cleaning mode, stripping her bed, washing the sheets, then cleaning up her room, trying to erase all scents of Ashton from it. It wasn’t working. She could still smell the man even after the bedding came out of the dryer. By the time she was finished, the sun was low in the sky, promising a spectacular sunset. And there was nothing better than sitting on the deck and watching the colors paint the skies.

The moment she sat down, of course, thoughts of Ashton stroking her in all the right places flooded her mind, sending instant fingers of delight throughout her. Yes, images of his mouth on her nipples, his hand sliding up her inner thigh.

She shuddered and tried to catch her breath. If she had these thoughts too often, working for the man wouldn’t work at all. And she wanted this job, wanted to be on the ocean, wanted to be right where she was.

“What are you doing sitting out here all alone?”

Startled by the deep baritone, Savannah froze. But when she turned, she found a smiling Richard Storm approaching her.

“I love sunsets, and I’m hoping for a good one tonight. This is the perfect view right here,” she told him. “Would you like something to drink, or are you just passing by?”

“I would love a drink. But why don’t you come with me to have it? I have a much better spot to watch a sunset from,” he said, holding out his hand and looking at his watch. “I’d say we have about an hour to get situated before the colors begin.”

“I don’t know …” Should she hang out with Richard when she thought the man’s son was a cad? It didn’t seem right.