“We have plenty of time to learn everything about each other. I can’t get enough of what I do know about you,” he said, melting her heart a bit more.
Savvy had to laugh. “You’re a very smooth talker, Mr. Storm.”
“I’ve been told that before.” He turned her around so her back was against the rail, and he pressed tightly into her.
“I just bet you have,” she said. But she forgot the rest of what she’d been about to say when his lips fused with hers.
She barely felt him grip her hips and lift her onto the rail. But she was more than happy when he stepped inside the V of her legs, and then she felt his hardness pressing against her heat.
“It doesn’t matter how many times we make love. I feel like a randy teenager the second I’m within five feet of you,” Ashton said as he broke away from her lips and trailed his tongue down the side of her throat.
“Well, I have nothing to compare this with, but I feel the same,” she said before a small moan escaped her throat.
“I’d better get you inside, Savvy, before a passenger interrupts us.”
“You’re right, Ash. If we don’t go to your room now, I won’t be responsible for what happens. Your reputation is on the line, you know.”
His eyes narrowed and he pressed his arousal into her for another moment before pulling her down from her perch and stepping back.
“Damn, I want you,” he said.
She believed him. “And I love knowing that,” she replied.
When she realized she’d been sitting on the rail, high above the water, and hadn’t even noticed, she knew she was in more trouble than she’d thought. In this man’s presence, all she could feel was love, excitement, and passion. There was so little room for silly fears.
He took her hand and they raced off toward his suite, passing an employee who tried to get his attention. Ashton didn’t even slow down. Right now, nothing mattered to either of them except each other.
In a perfect world, it would always be this way.
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Chapter Twenty-Seven
Another deep swell sent the ship careening to the left.
Savvy cringed as she looked over at Ashton, where he and his team of men and women were navigating through the storm.
“We’ve gotten through the worst of it, darling,” Ashton assured her, looking her way.
No, no one on the ship was unaware of their relationship now. And for some reason, Savvy didn’t even care about that anymore. She was doing her job, so her romance with the boss wasn’t so disgraceful, she assured herself.
“I’m having a hard time believing you,” she said with a nervous chuckle as she looked out the giant windows and saw only wall after wall of nothing but foaming salt water crashing virtually in her face. “I should have known better than to go out onto the ocean with a captain whose last name is Storm.”
“Oh, that only brings a little bit more excitement,” he said. “Thrills¸ chills, and spills. But in a few more minutes we will be able to make it back down to my suite.”
After a few more nail-biting moments, she discovered that he was right, darn him. The waters calmed. There were still some swells, but as she looked out the window, she noticed stars breaking through the cloud cover. Her body began to relax.
For the next little while, his people continued steering the boat through the water, soon allowing the computers to take over, and then she saw more and more stars above them. She didn’t notice at first that Ashton was now kneeling in front of her.
“It’s all under control, Savvy. We’re through the storm, and the passengers have been notified and offered complimentary drinks at the bar tonight — any of them who still have the stomach for it. Let’s get out of here and enjoy ourselves. Just the two of us.”
He reached for her fingers and peeled them away from the rim of her chair. She hadn’t even realized she’d been holding on with such a death grip.
The two of them slowly made their way to his suite, the rocking of the boat a little more intense than it normally was, but nothing like it had been for the past couple of hours.
“I have to admit that wasn’t the most enjoyable of the nights I’ve had on this cruise,” Savvy said after Ashton shut the door behind them. “I have a pretty strong stomach, but it’s a little stirred up right now.”
“The ocean is so much more powerful than most people realize. It does take a lot of lives every year, but I have an incredibly competent group of people working for me, and they’d never let us get into a situation that we couldn’t get out of. If we’d been in the middle of the storm, it might have been a different story, but we just caught the edges, thankfully.”