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the abrupt pushing of his cock against her scantily clad sex was like a dousing of water on her body—shockingly sobering.
    She went completely still, not wanting to give him any excuse to retaliate against her.  She didn’t know these men.  She didn’t know what they were capable of.  All she knew was that she had to survive this and get away somehow.  If she had to pretend to be a good girl and go along with their plans, then that’s what she’d do.
    The position she was in did not escape her notice.
    She gasped, dragging breath into her lungs.  A tension had entered every muscle in his body.  He looked down at her with some indescribable emotion in his dark blue eyes.  She looked at him, entranced.  He was breathing raggedly, as if he’d just run a race, but she knew she hadn’t put up enough of a fight to cause him that kind of exertion.
    He was fighting for control over himself.
    He shifted suddenly, bringing that hard ridge of muscle against her softness.  A shudder rippled through him.
    “You know you could hurt her,” Dante said gruffly from the door.  “Remember what we talked about?”
    “I know this.  You think I forgot?”  Zach swallowed and tensed but didn’t glance back at Dante.  Slowly, he removed himself from her body.
    “Don’t try to escape again.  Got it?”
    Jasmine nodded, scuffling up on the bunk away from him.  Her eyes followed his hand as he adjusted the bulging spot in his fatigues.  She caught herself staring at his massive erection, mesmerized, then realizing what she was doing, dragged her eyes off his crotch.
    Luckily, he hadn’t noticed.  She didn’t need to give him any reason to think she was interested.
    “Now, why are you here?  And don’t give me some lame excuse about sunbathing.  We both know you don’t need a tan.”
    Jasmine swallowed, hoping they’d buy the lie she’d been telling herself all day.  “I’m on vacation.”
    “Doing what?” Zach asked.
    “Fishing.”
    He gave her a hard look.  “How about you tell us the truth?”
    “What makes you think that wasn’t the truth?” she said, feeling resentful.
    “I was fishing for the most part.  And I already said I was meeting someone here.  He just didn’t show up.”
    “And why didn’t he show up?”
    “I don’t know.  I don’t have cell service this far out.”
    “And he couldn’t reach you by radio?”  He gave her a skeptical look.  “We’re not idiots.  Did his name happen to be Riker?”
    She went stiff when she heard the name.
    “It is, isn’t it?”
    “No.  Not at all.  Besides, I’m not familiar with radios.”
    “So you thought it was okay to go gallivanting off into the ocean with no knowledge of boating, radios, or anything else, and that nothing bad would happen to you?”  He gave an exasperated sigh.  “It doesn’t matter why you’re here or that you’re lying to us.  Keep your secrets if you want to.  That’s beside the point.  What I want to know is what you were picking up, and where you were going afterward?”
    “I had a full tank when I left Miami.  I should’ve had enough to get back and then some.”
    “Think you got enough to make it to Panama?  Mexico?”
    She’d heard enough about those places that she knew she didn’t want to go there.  “I have no idea.  This is the first time it’s ever been out on the water.  Mom died before her and Dad could go anywhere in it.”
    Just thinking about her mother made tears well up in her eyes.
    They gave her a look.
    She swallowed, fighting back the sting in her eyes.  She couldn’t afford to look weak in front of them.  “There’s a map and manual under the ignition with charts.  In a cabinet.  It’s pretty idiot proof, which is the only way I managed to get out here.  Really, y’all don’t need me for anything.  I already told you you can have the boat if you’ll drop me off.”
    Lucas, who’d joined them, nodded and left to go look for charts and the manual.