“Which is why I’m askingyou,not your supervisors. Surely, you must have figured out what half of my fun is here.”
She couldn’t help but bat her eyelashes. “I have some idea.”
“Let me hear it. Tell mehowon the same wavelength we are.”
“You want my honest opinion, sir?”
“I always want a professional’s opinion.”
Wow. He really does think I’m a pro.Why wouldn’t he? She was working here as a Butterfly, wasn’t she? And so far, she had played the part perfectly. Eden had been exactly what he was looking for on La Mariposa.
“I think you want to be the primary man a woman has in her life. Her anchor.” Eden slyly opened her robe as she rolled onto her side, letting the sun hit her skin. “The one she actually goes to bed with at night, but this place doesn’t let us do that.”
“The real but, though?”
“Hmm.” Eden dangled over the armrest of her lounge chair, careful not to tip herself over.I’d land right in his lap, though.Still, she had some decorum to keep for the next twelve hours. “You’re the type who could have any woman he wanted in any circumstance.”
He did not refute that.
“Yet you come here. To a place where you can’t have the illusion of monogamy with a woman you just met. The very nature of this island is that any woman in white has a guy on top of her at any moment, right? So, you can’t get jealous. You can’t be angry that you’ve missed an opportunity to have dinner with me because another man jumped first. So… you must like that. Either you prefer the detachment a place like this offers, or you actively get off on sharing a woman. Even with strangers.”
“What an astute observation. You’re not too far off the mark.”
“You’re at least not disgusted by the presence of another man in your sex life.”
“You might be on to something.”
Eden had a hundred questions, but none of them were appropriate for the documents she signed when she arrived. “You get off on ‘your’ woman thinking about you while fucking someone else.”
“And what do you think about that?”
An answer already played with her lips. “I think it’s hot. Definitely puts a spin on things around here.”
“So, you can understand why I’m enamored with the idea of having you as my date tonight. Nobody else will know that you and I are there together. Because the fantasy that I’m asking from you is the promise that you’re comparing every guy there to me.” He leaned in closer, voice lower. “And I come out on top.”
Something fluttered between Eden’s heart and throat.He has such a way with… describing his fantasy.If Eden had heard about this back in the city, she might have laughed. She definitely would not have taken it seriously. But here? In the middle of the Caribbean? It made as much sense as anything else.
“You might not even find me there,” Eden said with a prominent pout. “It might be so busy and, uh, active… that we’re a total missed connection.”
“I don’t care. Not only am I sure that I’ll find you and make sure everyone else there knows I fuck you best, but…”
She reached across the gap between them and silenced him with a finger. “I’m all yours tonight, sir,” she promised, “if you offer me something in return.”
When she lowered her finger, he asked herWhat?with a quirk of his brow.
“There will be other Butterflies there, of course. They’ll probably be throwing themselves at you because it’s the last chance to get bonuses.” Surely, he knew about those. “Fulfillmyfantasy by turning them all down until you find me. And if for some sad reason we never meet tonight, and you give in to temptation with someone else… think ofmethe whole time.”
His predatory grin stopped the fluttering in her body.My word.Whatever creature had been causing a stir in her sternum had been slain with one flash of that smile. “Easy. But it won’t come to that.”
“But I can’t make any promises that when you find me, I’m not with someone else.”
“I don’t care. I can wait for my turn.”
She shivered. “Or you could just join in. That’s the kind of party it is.”
He likewise leaned in closer. “How about we give each other a preview? Especially you.”
“Especiallyme?”
