Senior Year Box Set

“You need to be careful with my sister. All she can talk about are your muscles. Especially after you leaped up and pulled yourself into that upper chamber in the cave,” Alex shared.

“I have no plans to do anything with your sister other than hang out. I do enjoy her company, but I’ve done enough hooking up on this vacation so far,” I said to reassure him, then smiled. “She likes my muscles?”

“A little too much.”

“What about you and Camilla? You have a thing for her, don’t you?” I asked.

Alex gave me a sad look and shook his head.

“I have to keep reminding myself that someday she’ll be my stepmother.”

“I bet she’s putting on the skimpy bikini she wore at the pool right now,” I said and gave him the faraway look I’d been perfecting.

After the movie last night, we’d taken a swim. Several of the girls from the dating service joined us. It had been fun to goof off with them and Alex and Nat. Camilla didn’t get into the water, but she sat poolside and watched us play. She was distracting, sitting there with a cocktail. I imagined her by the pool in my upcoming Bond movie as eye candy for a scene.

“She better not. I don’t need to fight off every guy at the beach if she wears that here.”

I waggled my eyebrows.

“She did say she wanted both of us to take a shower with her …”

I had to dance out of his reach as he made a halfhearted effort to slug me.

“That’s not what she meant.”

“You sure?” I asked, with both eyebrows raised.

“I’m sure. Now stop talking about her that way. It’s hard enough without you egging me on,” Alex all but pleaded.

“Like you were last night.”

I’d teased Alex about being hot for his future stepmom last night.

“Stop it,” Alex said.

I don’t know what I expected when I first met Alex, but I never imagined I would start to like him. I guess I figured he would be an entitled rich kid.

“Let’s give the girls a little show and leave our shirts off,” I suggested.

“You go ahead,” Alex said as we grabbed our stuff and walked out.

When we came out, two teenage girls rushed up and wanted a picture. I stood between them and had Alex take it. When they left, Camilla and Nat joined us.

“Why did you keep your arms back and only act as though you were putting them around them?” Nat asked.

“What’s she talking about?” Camilla asked.

“On my lawyer’s advice, I’ve started what she calls the six-inch rule. One of her clients had a complaint made that he’d been too handsy. She said she expects this will become a trend for possible litigation. As a precaution, she suggested I do the faux-arm routine,” I explained.

“Sometimes, I wonder about America. It seems they are afraid to let men be men,” Camilla said.

“I agree with some of that. I do believe in mutual consent, though. But it’s a two-way street. I’ve had stuff done to me that would be frowned upon if I were a girl. As a guy, you’re supposed to just suck it up and let it go,” I said.

“You poor thing. Did you get violated in the pool yesterday?” Nat teased.

I blinked my eyes rapidly and let my bottom lip quiver.

“They touched my special place,” I said in a little boy’s voice, and then I brightened. “Want to see?”

“Let’s go before he drops his trunks right here,” Alex said.

“But …” Nat started, and then all but combusted.

Her brother laughed.

“I’ll show you later,” I stage-whispered.

That was too much for Nat. She took off towards the rental hut.

“Between the two of you, she might not survive this vacation,” Camilla said and left us standing there.

“Too much?” I asked Alex.

“No, that was funny. You better watch out, though. My sister knows how to get even,” Alex warned.

As we walked to the rental place, I related what Kendal, my first PA, had done to her brother. Alex vowed to hide all the superglue in the house and threatened that I’d better not share that story with Nat.

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We rented a boat and driver for a half-day. The rental shop provided us with tubes and wakeboards. According to the girls, we hit the jackpot when it came to drivers. Kostas looked to be college age and was attractive. When I thought about it, I realized this would be an ideal part-time job. I’d bet he pulled a lot of tail carting vacationers around for the day.

Nat wanted to try tubing first. They had two, so she and Alex hit the water. Kostas attached the tubes to ski ropes to be pulled behind the boat. He showed them how to hang on.

“You want to take it easy or go fast?” Kostas asked.

“Fast!” they both said at the same time.

Before he started, Camilla leaned over to him.

“Just don’t kill them,” she suggested.

“I’ll bounce them around a little. I’ll make sure they are safe,” he assured her.