an eye he responded, “Go back down to your cabin and make love for the rest of the day?”
Kate rolled her eyes. “Do you ever think about anything other than sex?”
“When you’re around? No.”
“How about just relaxing in the sun?”
Carlo sighed and feigned disappointment. “Fine. There’s a pool in the back that you can lounge around near.”
“What are you going to do?”
“Watch you lounge around. I’m guessing you’re wearing a sexy little red bikini. Am I right?”
Kate nodded.
“Then I’m wholeheartedly in agreement with your plan for the day.”
Kate wasn’t sure she wanted to follow through on that plan now. He looked too interested in just lounging around and staring at her in a skimpy bathing suit. “Don’t you have some work to do or something?”
“Nope,” he replied and chuckled at her expression. “Relax. I won’t attack you. Not until after breakfast,” he said and stood up to walk over to the buffet that was loaded with breakfast foods.
That was the first time Kate realized that breakfast was already waiting for them. “Good grief. Did everyone already eat?”
“No, they left before breakfast.”
“Who is all this food for? It is enough to feed an army.”
“Just the two of us. I’m guessing Jamil thought we’d need sustenance after a rousing bout of lovemaking so he made sure we were well fed for our afternoon session.”
Kate shook her head. “You really have a one track mind, don’t you?”
“Yep,” he said and piled a plate high with eggs, sausage, biscuits, jam and a mount of fruit.
“Who is that for?” she asked as he set one plate in front of her.
“For you of course. You’ll need to build up your energy.”
Kate laughed again. “We’re going to be just friends, remember?”
“Sure, until you realize that being just friends is a completely unrealistic idea and you attack me sexually.”
Her only response was to dive into her food. Carlo did the same. He told her some of his escapades with Jamil and Phillip while they were in college together and had Kate laughing so hard her sides hurt. Apparently they had gotten into several bar fights over various women and pool games. There were poker stories, fraternity parties and jokes on their fellow classmates, the list seemed endless. “When did you have time to study?”
“Classes were easy,” he said, waving aside her concern.
“Didn’t you say you went to Harvard for both your undergraduate and graduate degrees?”
“Sure. Why?”
She shrugged one shoulder as she said in amazement, “You’re just the first person I’ve ever met who can describe Harvard as ‘easy’. Most people think it was a pretty tough challenge.”
“Well, there were some classes that were difficult, but nothing that my dad didn’t already dish out to us,” he explained. “We had a fun family life but my parents believed in making sure we were prepared for the pressures of college life before we went and wasted their money partying.”
They spent the better part of the day just relaxing by the pool and talking. Kate told him about her friends and college experiences. Carlo countered each of her stories with one of his own. By the time lunch was served, they were laughing so hard they could barely eat the lobster soup and spinach salad.
The afternoon was more relaxed. Kate laid in the sunshine while Carlo read over some documents. She didn’t realize that he wasn’t really reading them but was staring at her behind his sunglasses. She would have covered up her red bikini if she knew what was going through his mind. As it was, she noticed that he dove into the pool several times, but she just assumed he was cooling off from the sun, not from his thoughts.
Kate fell asleep in the afternoon. The hot sun was lulling her to sleep and she finally gave in to the feeling. She had fitful dreams of a tall man in a blue bathing suit with strong, muscular arms and legs, and a stomach that a male model would love to have. And he was walking towards her, gently waking her up and leaning over her.
Kate woke suddenly and found that Carlo really was leaning over her, blocking out the sun. In her still sleepy state, she reached up and pulled Carlo down, kissing him with all the passion she’d been feeling through out the lazy day as they’d talked.
“Kate, I’m only human,” he said and tried to pull away. But her arms tightened around him and he gave in to the lure of his bikini clad mermaid. The deck