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I declined because I was so distracted.
    Robert made a beautiful dive off the high side of the sailboat. I didn't realize he was an accomplished diver. The water was crowded with splashing tourists, all shouting and screaming. I quickly lost sight of him. It seemed illogical to worry, but I moved around the boat trying to find him in the water. There was no Robert, so I climbed down the ladder to look for him. The water was sparkling blue, but...
    The blue should have been ice blue. When I hopped off the ladder, the shock closed around me and froze my breath. I opened my mouth to gasp, but the cold paralyzed my chest muscles. I assumed there would be some warmth inside the caldera of an active volcano, but there was none. My head went under the water, and my arms seemed disconnected. I wasn't even able to spit out a mouthful of water. An involuntary jerk propelled me above water level again. My legs were working, but I still wasn't able to breathe. I was hoping to adjust to the water, but my body went limp instead. Was this how people drown?
    As I sunk slowly, the salt burned my eyes, and I had yet to take a breath. Now totally underwater, I couldn't even cry for help. I tried to push one arm above water. My hand was so cold I couldn't determine if it had broken the surface or not. I gasped and swallowed a massive amount of seawater. Once again I flexed and pushed upward to choke and cough. I was desperate for air, a chance to call out. The cold water closed over my head again, and I felt a strong hand grasp my wrist.
    Another arm wrapped around my chest just under my breasts and lifted me. I heard his familiar voice in my ear. "Breathe if you can. I've got you."
    He put one leg between my thighs, so that I could sit on him, like riding a pony. It would have been exciting if I hadn't been drowning. Then he pulled me tightly against his chest. I was still strangling.
    "How can you do this?" I whispered when I finally regained my voice. "Aren't you frozen too?"
    "Of course I am, but my hobbies are swimming and body surfing," he smiled. "You are safe. I'll help you get back on the sailboat."
    Onboard we wrapped up in towels, and I pressed against his bare skin. We were both shivering from the icy water.
    "Let me warm you," he said.
    I slipped one arm around his shoulders. The muscles were hard and masculine, wrapped around a powerful bone structure. I suddenly realized I had never felt so much male strength. A swimmer's body? A shiver ran through me, not entirely from the cold. With his free hand he dried my legs with one end of the towel. We spent the rest of the cruise huddled together. Had this man just saved my life? Perhaps my body would have adjusted slowly to the frigid water. Or perhaps not. At least it was the last time I would leap into water without testing the temperature.
    "I've wanted to hold you like this since the day I first saw you on the beach," Robert admitted as he continued to rub me with the towel.
    "Just how much of me did you see on that beach?"
    "Not nearly as much as you saw of me," he replied, laughing. "You had a shirt and also a thin, scarf thing over your bikini bottom."
    "And you were naked? Just holding a towel over your ..."
    "Yes. I was trying to get into the island mood. We Brits don't have the same free spirit as some of the other Europeans. Besides, I'm basically a colonist, just like you. Being from Africa is a little like being raised during the 1960s in the United States. I've been to some topless beaches in Tunisia, but I've never been nude on a beach before. That was my first time."
    "So that was your ass I saw? I was half asleep when you strolled by, and I wasn't sure if your butt was a dream."
    "If I had known you were looking, I would have gone all out," Robert laughed and squeezed me against his chest. I felt my temperature rise like a buzz of electricity.
    This had certainly been a day of extremes. Betrayal, dating, volcano, drowning, and all in a short space of time. Life could