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in the waters around him.
“Hopefully she’ll like me even more when I offer her my body … I’ll
be all hers, there only to fulfill her every desire and do with me
just as she pleases.”
    Like some of the women who’d shared
his stretch of sand, he hoped she’d love his massive chest, his
sculpted abs, his honed lovemaking skills …
    He just wasn’t sure how she’d feel
about the blasted fin.
     
    ~~*~~

Chapter
4
     
    ***
     
    Two weeks later
     
    An azure morning marked the
beginning of another day at Siren’s Call Books. Beth arrived once
again at the door of her store. This time, however, her step was
light and she just couldn’t wait to turn the key in the
door.
    “Got to be some Freudian symbolism
in there somewhere,” she smirked, swinging the door open to reveal
a sight that stilled her breath.
    In recent days, her modest
storefront had become a place transformed, this thanks to a new
employee who took abundant pride in his work.
    Every day he adorned the store with
a seaborne decoration; guests marveled at the sight of exotic
seashells in shades of pink, ivory and fuchsia, and at the vision
of shiny pearls retrieved from the depths of the sea.
    The owner of the shop marveled for
her part at the attentiveness of Landon, her fresh hire and newest
friend. He did his duties without complaint and even asked for
additional work. He also had a refreshing habit of hanging on her
every word, buying and reading her books, and presenting her with
an array of ebullient rainbow-hued water lilies, picked from the
sea.
    And today, she noted, even her shop
likened a nature made wonder. The floors of her modest storefront
shone with a freshened polish, and the windows that oversaw them
also gleamed like crystal in the light of the morning
sun.
    Cast in the glory of these warming
rays was a being akin to an angel, a man whose bronzed skin and
golden hair shone even more luxurious in this ethereal
light.
    Completing the package, she couldn’t
help but observe, was a downright sinful pair of blue jeans and a
white button down top; both of which showed off his tall muscled
body to glorious effect.
    Even more amazing was the fact that
the hunky angel could read, and his book of choice was ‘Love on
High Seas’, a novel she’d written and published five years
ago.
    She grinned in spite of herself as
the literate angel—one she also knew as Landon, her new
employee—devoured with wide azure eyes the content of her favorite
book. His aquiline gaze scanned the pages, seeming to treasure
every word.
    “So, my good sir,” advancing across
the floor of her store with brisk confident steps, Beth greeted her
employee with a welcoming smile. “Think you can tear yourself away
from my book long enough to continue your already masterful task of
cleaning up this place? Or would you perhaps like to buy a copy
with your employee discount and take it home?”
    Her smile broadened as Landon rose
to his feet and tossed her book to the ground, putting his hands to
better use by running them down her back as he drew her into his
arms.
    “Yes, Madame, as a matter of fact I
do want to buy that amazingly sexy tome and take it home,” he
whispered against her lips, searing her with a gem blue gaze that
likened the sea itself. “Along with the brilliant, even sexier
woman who wrote it.”
    Beth’s mouth fell agape at this
assertion, only to be seized seconds later in the depths of a
passionate kiss.
    Landon’s full, soft lips covered and
massaged her own, easing her into a pleasurable trance as his
tongue invaded her mouth.
    Her shock abated seconds later as
she joined the rhythm of his kiss, her own tongue entangling with
his as she sank against the surface of his massive
chest.
    Wrapping her arms around his muscled
shoulders she leaned into his kiss, reveling in his citrus-tinged
scent and relishing the feel of his luxurious blond strands as they
brushed her own broad shoulders.
    She didn’t relish the feeling
moments later, as he