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again.”
    In answer to my frown his eyes widened. He was trying to send me a message, but I had no clue what that message was.
    “We need to be going,” he took his wet clothes back from me, “Don’t we, sweetheart.”
    I raised an eyebrow at the endearment but decided to go with it. “Yes,” I turned to Belle. “My accidentally dunking him the river threw us off our schedule for the day.”
    Belle’s lips twitched. “Oh well then. I’ll see you out.”
    “Thank you again,” I hurried to say since Liam was refusing to look at her anymore.
    “You’re welcome.” She held the door open for us, and Liam quickly stepped outside. She grinned at him and then gave me a wink. “And lucky you.”
    I had no time to ask her what she meant because Liam was practically running from the house. Chasing after him, I finally cut up with him once we were out of sight of the guest house.
    “What on earth happened?” I said, trying to match his long strides.
    He threw me a look over his shoulder and I realized it was a look of pure mortification.
    Suspicion dawned on me, and laughter trembled in my voice when I said, “She didn’t…”
    “Walk in on me while I was naked in the shower?” he said, clearly horrified by the experience.
    “What?”
    Do not laugh, do not laugh!
    “I was in the damn shower and she walked in with a bunch of clean towels for me. While I was naked. In the shower.”
    “She was just being helpful,” I said, losing my battle with amusement.
    Hearing the laughter in my words, he cut me a dirty look. “She stared at my…” he gestured to his dick.
    “As in… was she coming on to you?” Yuck!
    “No.” He shook his head, the color still high on his cheeks. “She was very matter of fact actually.” He stopped and scowled at me. “She congratulated me on my penis.”
    I felt the laughter coming, and as much as I tried to stop it, it was too much. I threw my head back and burst into stomach-hurting hilarity at the image of big Liam Brody standing in a shower while Belle congratulated him on his dick.
    Now I understood her words at the door, “And lucky you.”
    “Ha!” I laughed harder.
    By the time I got myself under control again, Liam was wearing a reluctant grin, and staring at me with warmth in his eyes that made me flush.
    “I can’t believe that happened to you.” I said, a little out of breath. We began walking again. “Actually I can. Fuc—”
    “—king Valentine’s Day,” he finished for me, smiling widely now.
    And then something occurred to me, my eyes zeroing in on his crotch before I could stop myself. “Just how big are you?” I blurted out.
    There was no blush on his cheeks for me. Instead he cut me a hot look that made me tingle all over. “Wouldn’t you like to know.”
    Actually I would, that’s why I asked.
    Instead of saying that, I shrugged nonchalantly. “I’m not really interested in a penis that probably hundreds of women have seen.”
    “Not hundreds,” he said, eyeing me thoughtfully.
    I wasn’t sure I believed that. “Oh really.”
    “Really,” he said, suddenly sounding quite serious. “I guess I’m one of those old fashioned types that has to actually like a woman before I’ll sleep with her. The sex is better.”
    Liking that answer more than I should, I tried to shift my wayward thoughts, imagining Belle congratulating him all over again. What a character! Part of me wished we’d had the chance to stay and get to know her a little better.
    Just like that I was off again, laughing more at Liam’s mortification than anything else. This time his deep laughter joined my uncontrollable giggling.
    ***
    “This is more like it,” I mused, letting the distant sun warm my face.
    We’d grabbed some sandwiches and snacks from the store at Laggan and then we’d found a layby on the A86 at Loch Laggan in Ardverikie. We’d taken our small picnic down on to the beach by the loch, where I’d placed a couple of towels for us to sit on.
    There