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“Because the Titanic sank”

“Our boat won’t sink, Moan said “We have the best captain in the whole world Tigger won’t let that happen”

Teague flashed a grin at Sabrina “Can’t argue with that logic I gotta agree with the kids”

“Is that so,” Sabrina replied, a littleme that your boat is unsinkable?”

He leaned forward “I’ you that I’m the best captain in the whole world and I’d never let anything happen to you”

She opened her mouth but didn’t say a word Instead she blew out a se hand overtop hers After a few moments she offered up a small, hesitant smile “Okay, Captain, our lives are in your hands”

It was a siue liked the words and how theybecause after all the crap he’d seen over the years and then the shit storm that had been Syria, he swore he’d never be responsible for another huain

Yet here he was, doing just that Wanting to protect this young mother and her children Jesus H Christ What the hell was happening to him?

As they dashed out into the rain, heading to his boat for shelter, he realized that he was about as far away fro

At least he hoped it was

Chapter Eighteen

If Sabrina thought sleeping on a boat with Teague only a few feet away and not being able to touch him was hard, she apparently didn’t knohat hard was Because sleeping in a cottage when he was in another one, several hundred feet aas even harder

She thought about him more than she cared to admit, and she fantasized about hih, her kids were all over hi one day and then the two of them had cleaned the pike and cooked it up for dinner He’d also helped Morgan build the biggest sand castle the world had ever seen (according to her daughter) and then he’d let Morgan serve him tea on the beach

Tea on the beach

Just thislesson (to the delight of the twins) and she’d lost all ability to think straight with his hands on her Especially with the inappropriate touching going on underneath the water