OLIVER

The boat bobbed on the water in the marina and I thought about slipping the rope and taking my baby out for a spin. Since leaving Mari in the library yesterday, though, I hadn’t had the energy to go for a sail. I didn’t want to do it alone.

It wasn’t like Mari called out for my cousin while we were in the throes of passion, but it didn’t do a man’s ego any good to have a woman wrapped up in his arms pull away and ask about another ...