CARL

She stood there, frozen as her eyes raked over me, stopping right at the fold of my towel and then crawling back to my face. "Are you trying to seduce me?" The question that fell from her lips. "No matter how I think about it, that's what it looks like you're trying to do."

"My phone was ringing," I blurted, way too eager to escape her accusations, and that only tainted my actions more. It wouldn't exactly be terrible if I were trying to seduce her.

The phone, which seemed like an ...