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She stabbed her feet into flip-flops, found her way to the condo’s front door and went down the open stairway to the parking lot Unsure of the fastest route, she wandered to the side and around the back until she found an opening to the beach and the infernal noise She found the man, bare back and all, hunched over a solid plank of wood, saw at the ready
Sawdust flew all over his stone patio and what looked to be a e shed with shelves for tools Beyond, the sailboat in need of TLC sat on its stand
She wondered how he’d n off on this The boards she knew in San Francisco would never allow such a workspace in the condo common area, which she assumed the beach had to be
Laura shook her head at the whole situation
The man was taller than he looked froistered the knot of muscles in his shoulders and biceps as he worked to steady the saw All she could think about was the horrible noise bouncing through her ears and ricocheting through her skull What kind of man went on vacation in the Caribbean just to literally saood? She glanced at him, and then beyond him, to the rusted-out bow of the boat on risers near the beach
“Excuse me,” she shouted, now that she was just feet from the man “Excuse me!”
The noise was far too loud for hih she was less than two feet fro her patience, reached up and tapped the man hard on his bare shoulder
The lared at her over his shoulder, his eyes barely visible through the work goggles he wore Seeing her, he put down the saw and raised the goggles, revealing brown eyes that alles up to his short brown hair and studied her
He had a rugged face, etched a little by the weather, but with that aled men have He could be thirty-five or forty-five He stayed in shape, clear fro six-pack abs, but his stomach was flat and lean
Laura realized with a shock that the last ti, it had been Dean In a hotel room
She shook the thought fro not to look at the miles of very tanned and very bare skin before her He was annoyed, that much was clear by the thin slash of his mouth, and the way his brow furrowed