Epilogue
Harrison stood on the top dock watching the third boat of the day slide into the slip.
The captain threw a line to the young man waiting for them, and the boat was quickly secured.
He’d only been on the island for a couple of weeks, but he still hadn’t given up the habit of coming down to check out the new guests, not after what Max had been through over the last few months.
Watching a woman get out of the boat, he quickly went over her information in his head.
Juillet Cox, school teacher, here on vacation alone.
Deciding she wasn’t much of interest, he started to turn away, but then she looked over at him with a pair of green eyes that took his breath away, and he froze.
A wave of desire so powerful it was like a punch in the gut hit him, and he staggered back a couple of steps, suddenly on his guard.
There was nothing that he loved more than a beautiful woman, and he’d certainly sampled his share since his first kiss when he was ten, but this woman did something totally unexpected to him.
Backing away from her, he finally managed to tear his gaze away, then took the coward's way out and walked away from the marina.
He didn’t stop until he got to his office in the community center, quietly closed the door, and then sank into the chair behind his desk, his heart still pounding.
It couldn’t be happening to him, he couldn’t be falling prey to the island’s magic.
He was above all that, a man who didn’t need a woman in his life, no matter how alluring she was.