I stopped, turning to face him. “Amazing. Stunning. Wild.”
“So, you’re not quitting anymore?”
I paused, but I knew my answer. “Are you going to break my heart again or run if things get hard because I don’t think I could ever forgive you if you did?”
The place was quiet, so we didn’t have to watch our words.
“I’m not going anywhere. I’ve been running away from my life since I was fifteen. I don’t want to run anymore.”
“What does that mean about work? You’re going back to the UK, and we see each other when we can?”
He let out a sad sigh. “Can we think about that? We’ve got a couple of weeks. Let’s enjoy those, and then we can see how we all feel.”
“All?” Excitement lilted my tone.
“Finn is coming on the boat.”
I wiggled my brows. “I knew we’d persuade him.”
He wrapped his fingers in mine, tugging me close. “Thank you.”
“For?”
“Forgiving me. Coming here, even though you hated me. Being patient with me. Showing me areallygood time. For Finn.”
I rolled my eyes. “Twinkle is growing on me, but you, Jasper Fischer, were worth waiting for.” I scrunched my nose. “Although, I could have done without the years of blue balls and the heartbreak.”
He leant in, his mouth dusting my ear. “I promise to spend forever making it up to you.”
My heart stopped and my mouth fell open because I was sure I just heard Jasper offer me forever. Before I could melt into a messy puddle of emotions, I wrapped my arms around him, forcing a deep grunt from his chest.
“What are you doing?”
“Hugging you.”
“Gah, you know I hate them.”
“I know, but I can’t kiss you right now because the internet would go into meltdown if anyone found out we were together, so you will accept the hug in the interim.”
“Fine.”
I smiled as he nuzzled into my neck. “Fine, but just know, I’m not enjoying it… much.”
JASPER
“Do we have to go?”Travis moaned as he laid out on the bed, totally naked, his legs and arms spread wide, his pert arse facing upward.
I couldn’t resist bending over and biting his juicy cheek before Finn grabbed his hand and tried to pull him up.
“Yes, Travis. Get up,” Finn instructed.
“You shouldn’t have let me fall asleep.”
I took his other hand, helping Finn to get him up. “Well, you’re getting old and all that sex it’s obviously tiring you out,” I said with a smile as I looked down at his once again semi-hard cock.
This last week had been almost idyllic. We reset all the equipment, overseen the data collection, which was now much more in line with what we were finding from the other countries. Travis and I had dived most days, him getting to play in the submersible and taking some stunning photos with the top of the range cameras we’d had fitted to it, and Finn had whipped the office into an effective machine that I was no longer worried was going to destroy my life’s work. Now we were going to a party to thank everyone for their hard work in helping us these last few weeks before we took the new boat to its next port.
And when we weren’t working, we were wrapped in each other. And not just sex… although there wasa lotof that, but in bed, watching movies, reading. Being around them both settled something inside me. I’d smiled more in the last week than I thought possible, and the thought of being alone with them on a boat for over a week was like the icing on the cake.
