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but I was a tad frustrated at my ineptitude. Kai looked down at the board, perplexed, then shot me a suspicious glance.
    “Sorry,” I told her meekly, ashamed of my impulsive action. To my surprise, she threw back her head and laughed, her dark eyes still laughing as they met mine.
    “You do realize that now this is war?”
    “Yeah, yeah. Paybacks are hell, and all that.” I grinned. Okay, maybe a week of water sport lessons with this woman wouldn’t be so bad after all.
    Half an hour later, I was managing to climb onto the board without falling off the other side or tipping the damned thing over. By the end of the lesson, I could actually kneel and stand on it with a reasonable amount of stability. Kai kept me in the roped-off area, forcing me to do what seemed like calisthenics on the board, supposedly to improve my balance.
    Deflated and exhausted, I dragged my board out of the water and tried to haul it up with arms that felt like limp noodles. I was part elf, damn it. I was genetically predisposed toward speed and dexterity. Something like this should have been a cakewalk. Why had it taken me so long to ‘get it’? I had a dreadful premonition that I wouldn’t be acceptable at paddleboarding by the end of the week, let alone this surfing thing.
    It didn’t help that I could sense Kai’s disappointment. She’d expected better of me. I’d expected better of me. I know I should have taken some pride in what I’d accomplished, but I was too much of a perfectionist to do so.
    “Here. I’ll carry the boards, and you take the paddles.”
    I dropped my board in relief, feeling even more inadequate by the fact that Kai could manage two of these heavy boards while the paddles would probably be a stretch for me.
    “You should wear a rashie tomorrow.”
    I jerked when she ran a finger along the side of my ribs, feeling like I’d been jolted with some rather erotic electricity. Looking down, I saw my abraded skin. Road rash, or, rather, board rash.
    “I didn’t bring one.” My voice came out weak and breathless. Her hand stayed against my skin, and I dreaded the moment she took it away.
    “I... I, uh, have one I can loan you.” Her eyes darted to my breasts and lingered, her fingers still warm on my ribs. “It might... you’re bigger than I am there, so it might be... tight.”
    And now I couldn’t breathe at all. I stood there like a total idiot, wide-eyed and wanting her hand to follow her eyes. Instead, she jerked it away as if scalded.
    “I’ll bring it tomorrow. The shirt, I mean. Tomorrow.” She spun about, grabbing up both boards as if they weighed nothing and practically jogging across the sand. I ran, trying to keep up with her long-legged stride and accidently knocked a woman over with one of my paddles.
    “Wait! Kai, wait!” I broke into a run, and she hesitated until I caught up, being quite obvious in her attempts to not look at me.
    Darn it all. What had happened? I’d kept the pheromones locked down. In fact, I’d been concentrating far too much on that stupid paddleboard to even think about sex. I didn’t want things to be awkward given we had a whole week of lessons ahead of us, but I couldn’t help my reactions to her today. Had I lost the slight control I had over my succubus side along with my elven dexterity? Maybe around Kai, I was destined to be clumsy and horny? We’d had such a great morning, in spite of my ineptitude in the water. Why had things turned so shitty?
    Things were about to get shittier. My phone beeped as we walked into the surf shack, and I couldn’t hide my obvious disappointment at Irix’s text.
    Running late. Explore sugarcane tomorrow? Be back for dinner .
    I guess I could work on my senior thesis, but I was in Maui for goodness sake. And I really wanted to spend as much time with Irix as possible. Maybe I’d just put on a sexy bikini and get drunk by the pool bar or bake to a crisp on a lounge chair by the ocean.
    “Everything okay?” Kai’s voice