NOEL LAY ON THE LONG sofa, anxiety humming through his body as he stared up at the ceiling, the sound of the waterfall behind him refusing to lull him to the sleep he must find.
He felt tense and frustrated. At the dinner table he had hoped for some sign from Elise that she would invite him to her bedroom this evening. After remaining cool toward one another for nearly a week, he could stand being separated from her no longer. Each day he and the boy spent in the jungle, only half his mind and body were on his teachings while the other half was constantly reenacting the lovemaking he and Elise had shared.
When he had awoken the following morning, he had tried to convince himself that, though he had at last found a woman who craved him only as a man, another episode such as the one they h
