Alex POV
All morning, I had been a man under siege. My eyes were the traitors because they kept drifting, unauthorized, to Catherine lips. They were plump, pink, and currently moving at a mile a minute as she teased me. Ever since I saw her naked at the stream, my self-control had been fraying. The image of her bare skin was seared into my brain, a permanent file I couldn't delete.
I’m a thirty-six-year-old man for goodness sake. I’ve run global corporations. I’ve stood my ground in rooms full of corporate sharks. But on this island, I’d had more involuntary erections than a teenager in a locker room. It was exhausting.
Under the shade of the banyan tree, her voice was a playful needle, poking at my dignity. I told her I’d shut her up. She didn't believe me. She kept pushing, her eyes b
