rude to look at another woman’s husband like he was a lollipop to be licked. Not that I would’ve minded licking him either, but that wasn’t really the point.
Lifting our joined hands, I slung his arm over my shoulder and cuddled deeper into his side when one woman actually swiped her tongue across her lips when we walked past. Jaxon didn’t even hesitate when I wound my arm his waist.
As if it were a natural action he’d done a hundred times before, he adjusted his stride to mine now that we had to walk so close to one another, angled his body slightly toward mine, and held me to him.
An amused smirk appeared on his lips when he glanced into my eyes. “You’re getting mighty comfortable there, aren’t you?”
“Yep.” I wasn’t about to make any excuses about it either. “No one’s eye-screwing my husband on my watch.”
“No one except you, you mean.” He laughed but dipped his head so his cheek was resting on top of my hair. “Don’t worry, baby. There’s no one for me but you. I wouldn’t have bound myself to you for the rest of our lives if there was any doubt about it.”
I knew he was joking, but it didn’t change the fact that I got a tiny little thrill when he said it. A smile tugged at the corners of my lips until he grabbed a flyer for activities around the resort and held it up to me.
“Stick out your finger, close your eyes, and touch the flyer,” he said. “Whatever you touch on is what we’re doing next.”
“This is what you meant when you said you knew what we were going to do?” My heart fluttered in my chest as nerves took hold of my insides. “There’s river rafting and scuba diving on there. Why did you pick up the flyer for adventure activities? Why can’t we choose from the cultural-experiences one?”
“You enjoyed the parasailing, didn’t you?” His amber-gold eyes bore into mine, and I nodded. “Then you’ll enjoy these too. Just pick one.”
I captured his gaze, again only seeing patience and a strange calmness there. It was the same thing I’d seen earlier. He was so damn confident that he could keep me safe and he wasn’t in the least bit worried about it.
I had to admit though, parasailing was one of the best experiences I’d had in my life so far. It was better than any memory I would’ve been able to make at a fort or in a market, and one that would stay with me forever.
So I closed my eyes and jabbed at the pamphlet because I wanted more experiences like that. More of the thrilling activities that Houston Lindsay would never even have considered but Fijian Lindsay was loving.
Until I opened my eyes and saw what my finger had landed on. I felt the blood draining from my face but Jaxon still didn’t look worried. If anything, he looked more excited than I’d ever seen him.
“I’ve always wanted to swim with sharks,” he said, pulling the flyer away and turning it to inspect the address. “This is going to be awesome. Let’s go.”
“No.” My feet stayed planted exactly where they were. “There’s no way I’m swimming with sharks. Bring the activities back. I’ll pick again.”
“That’s not how this works, princess. You picked swimming with sharks, so that’s what we’re doing.”
“No fucking way am I swimming with sharks.” Parasailing was one thing and Fijian Lindsay might be a bit more of an adrenaline junkie than Houston Lindsay, but not by that much. “That’s a hard no. Fuck no.”
“I haven’t heard you cuss very often until right then.” He grinned, winding his arm around my shoulders again and tugging me toward the activity counter. “We’ve got to do it. It must be fate. Otherwise, you would’ve picked something different.”
I was still refusing when he started making the necessary arrangements with the woman behind the desk. “We could be there in twenty minutes.”
She relayed the message into the phone, so transfixed by my bastard of a fake husband that she didn’t even look at me before telling whoever was at the other end that the couple was on their way. She smiled when she put the phone down. “They will be ready when you get there. Have fun.”
“I highly doubt it.” I narrowed my eyes at her, wondering whether the concept of sisterly solidarity was completely lost in the face of a gorgeous man. She just kept smiling as if she