Page 14 of On The Beach

Captain Mick looked chagrined. "It's not high tourist season, Babycakes. And I try not to mess with those who live here—it's an island, and it can get pretty claustrophobic when things go bad…and thingsalwaysgo bad when it comes to anything more than a one-night stand."

I shook my head, appalled with him and myself. "I know how to pick ‘em."

"That goes both ways, Babycakes. Are you clean?"

"I wish I was the kind of woman who had to worry about that stuff. The last time I slept with someone was…well, over a year ago, and since then, I've been tested, poked, and prodded as women normally are once a year."

He looked at me blankly.

"It's called a pap smear and a yearly physical."

"Besides diseases, darling, we also have to consider?—"

"I'm on birth control," I interrupted him. "How could you…we be so…irresponsible?"

"I'm so sorry. I've never ever…and I mean,ever…what I'm trying to say is that I've never gone in bare. I just…your ass is…." Mick raised his hands in defeat and then added somberly, "Belle, it's never happened before."

"Really?" I could hardly believe that.

Big bad Captain Mick seduced by little Belle to the point that he lost his mind and forgot a condom?

Maybe he did it to all the women he fucked. God! I hopehe didn't give me something chronic, only whatever I could fix with an antibiotic.

"Yes," Mick barked.

"You're not lying?"

"Christ! Why would I lie about this?"

Ah, fuck it!I'd go home and get tested and go from there. The awesome sex was worth it…as long as he hadn't given me HIV, genital herpes…damn it!

I shrugged. "I mean…as long as you haven't given me some nasty disease, it's kinda…I don't know; it makes me feel sexy that you couldn't resist me."

"You areverysexy." Mick pulled me back into his arms.

"I think I need to clean up again," I told him mischievously, letting the serious stuff go.

But you never let the serious stuff go? What's going on with you, Belle?

It's the island magic. I'm under a spell.

"Let me help you." Mick went down on his knees to pick up the soap. "You better hold on to my shoulders for support."

I did as he asked and enjoyed my second orgasm of the morning.

CHAPTER 5

do lizards have bottoms?

MICK

"Didn't you already bang her last night?" Franco asked, beer in hand, as we watched Belle talk animatedly to Madam Cedella.

She was in a white summer dress that was sexy as hell, but it was her sandals that werehot. Beautiful, high, and strappy, that made me want to see them wrapped around my flanks when I fucked her. But that would be a repeat, and I was just as puzzled as Franco that Istillwanted her.

"Didn't think you went for seconds," Cato mused.

"That's what I thought. And, you bring her to the races…withyou?" Riri wiped the bar counter, eyebrows raised. "Remember that Spanish girl?"

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