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Unbelievable
"Let’s go, kids," Little John called
"Come on, live a little"
"That seems more like a quick route to death Unless you have so me safe"
He took the helmet froers over o, Paxton," I fired back
He slid the helmet ontothe sa you wanted froht now"
"Not an option Tellforward to?"
I sed and focused on what I’d been drea of for the last six months "Mykonos We have an optional shore excursion that week, and I want to go to Mykonos"
His eyes flashed with surprise, but he quickly masked it "Really?"
"Really My dad proposed to my e, co about being there with Dad that made her abandon her fears and eo of the hope that ht now, that fear was holding round and off that zip-line
"Done I will take you to Mykonos"
My breath caught, knowing how much that shore excursion cost, and that it wasn’t included in et rin was back in place seconds before a lens came over my left shoulder Our privacy was at an end "It’s up to you, Firecracker, but you’ve got about a minute to decide"
Wasn’t that the theh the crowd to where Landon stood on a platfor more than a little irritated
My mind raced a million miles an hour, but it slowed the minute Paxton put his hands on my shoulders and demanded my attention "If you do this, I’ll take you to Mykonos I will personally make sure that this is the trip of your life But you have to accept the agree, the suite, the caue swiped across his lower lip and, as sexy as it was, it seemed more like a nervous, subconscious motion "Then I’ll fly you home, first class, on me You can think of this as that one day you al insanely stupid"
"And what happens to you? Nothing, right? You pull the next name out of the tutor hat?"
He shook his head "Every other tutor is assigned And besides, you were hand-picked for ths If I lose you, I probably fail All these people"--he gestured to the crew around us and leaned in to whisper--"they all lose their jobs"
A heavy weight settled on my shoulders, and I wondered in that instant if that hat he’d been thinking of back on the ship, if that hatdoes it take?"