He raised his eyebrows. “And if I don’t want an out? If I just want to be with you?”

Bailey looked up at him, stunned.

“Yeah, sunshine, I’m attracted as hell to you. I like to flirt with you and sleep with you in my arms. Take crazy fishing trips with you. But what just happened between us back there?” He cocked his head toward the waterfall, watching her eyes track his movement. “Stuff like that doesn’t just happen.”

“I’m scared,” she admitted.

He ducked lower and kissed her forehead, brushing his lips over her eyelids as they slid shut. “I won’t hurt you, sunshine.” His cock hardened as his body rubbed against hers, and then he was moving over her. Parting her thighs. “I’ll never hurt you.”

She spread her legs wider for him, glancing up at him with wide, innocent green eyes. In that moment, she looked afraid. Vulnerable. And he wanted her to be more sure of him than anything else in her life. His hand drifted down to her bare sex, and he felt that she was wet and ready for him.

Ducking down, he kissed her, listening to her soft moans of pleasure. He lined his erection up with her core, and then he was sinking into her again. Her legs wrapped around his waist, holding him to her, and he pinned her hands up and over her head.

Their fingers twined together, and she gripped his hands tightly as he slowly pulled out and pushed back into her wet heat.

“Noah,” she whispered, gasping.

“I’ve got you, sunshine.”

Her pussy clamped down around his cock, and he knew he’d never felt anything better in his entire life. His eyes locked with hers, and he held her gaze as he made love to her, slowly pulling out and inching back inside.

She whimpered and writhed beneath him, and when he felt his balls begin to tighten, he began pumping faster. Harder. Bailey gasped as the base of his erection rubbed against her sensitive clit, and he ground himself against her, growling in approval.

“God, Noah!” she cried out.

He captured her cries with his mouth, and then he made her his, thrusting into her faster and faster until she was clenching around him, shuddering with her release. He stiffened and came inside her tight channel, his hot seed spurting forth.

She opened her eyes as she came back to reality, panting for breath, and he kissed her again, deeply.

“I kind of hope they don’t find us today,” she admitted a minute later.

“Me either, sunshine. Me either.”

Chapter 15

Bailey felt her skin heat as she watched Noah standing in the shallow waves later that afternoon. After a morning of making love, she was deliciously sore. Sated. Not to mention starving. What she wouldn’t give for room service right now.

Not that deserted islands exactly offered that option.

She watched Noah dive into the waves, getting soaked, but he stood up without any fish. Her gaze tracked to the fire he’d lit up at the top of the beach. The driftwood had finally dried out enough to catch fire, and when he’d struck a match and she’d seen the flames and smoke rise, she had a feeling their rescuers would find them today after all.

Noah splashed around some more, diving into the water, and then he finally jumped up, triumphantly holding a fish between his hands. He whooped and hollered, jogging through the incoming waves to head up the beach to her.

“My hero!” she teased, smiling as he grinned from ear to ear.

He chuckled. “I rescue you from the ocean, hold you all night long, make love to you for hours—and this is what makes me your hero?”

“Amongst other things,” she teased.

The sound ofchop-chop-chop-chopsuddenly filled the air, and Noah and Bailey both turned to the water in surprise.

“It’s a helicopter!” Bailey shouted, clapping her hands and jumping up and down. “They found us! They found us!”

Noah whooped and hollered, dropping the fish he’d just caught onto the sand as he waved his arms back and forth in the air. “Hello!” he bellowed. “Over here!”

Bailey ran over to the emergency blanket they’d weighed down, grabbing it and waving it around. The helicopter headed straight for them, and as it got closer, she could see the orange paint of the helicopter with the words “Coast Guard” written in bold, black letters.

Noah grabbed her hand roughly in his, and they waved together, watching as the helicopter circled around above them.