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“Ow!” Jenna Baker hopped on her right foot and clutched at the bruised toes on her left one Shooting a furious glare at the bolted-down table in her so-tiny-that-claustrophobics-would-die cabin, she called down silent curses on the head of the man as the reason for this cruise from hell

Nick Falco

His ie rose up in her mind, and just for a second Jenna enjoyed the nearly instant wash of heat that whipped through her But the heat was gone a moment later, to be replaced by a cold fury

Better all around if she concentrated on that particular eer aboard Falcon’s Pride, she hadn’t coy to party She was here for a reason A daood one

While her aching toes throbbed in concert with her heartbeat, Jenna cautiously stood on both feet and took the step and a half that brought her to aup her clothes, and the few outfits she’d brought with her looked crowded in the narroardrobe Snatching a pale yellow blouse off the attached-to-the-rod hanger, she carried it to the bathroom, just another step away

It was the size of an airplane bathroo door was so slender, Jenna had slapped one ar the shower, half-afraid she’d scrape her niles off

“Really nice, Nick,” she raded this old boat and turned it into your flagship, you ht into those people who aren’t living in the owner’s penthouse on the top deck”

But she told herself that was typical enough She’d knohat Nick was like even before she’d o He was ahis cruise line become the premier one in the world He did what he had to do when he had to do it And he didn’t ies for it

She’d been working for him when she met him An assistant cruise director on one of the other cruise ships in the Falcon line She’d loved the job, loved the idea of travel and stupidly, had fallen in love with the boss All because of a roht encounter and Nick’s undeniable charm

Jenna had known darn well that the boss would never get involved with an eeous Nick Falco had stuuest, she hadn’t corrected him She should have and she knew it, but oman wouldn’t have been swept away by a chiseled jaw, ice-blue eyes and thick black hair that just teers in it?

She sighed a little, set her hands on the sides of the soapdish-size sink and remembered how it had been froic Pure and si and her heart had beaten so frantically, it had been hard to breathe He’d swept her into a dance, there in the starlight, with the Hawaiian breeze caressing the on the air like a sigh