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“Okay.”
She is resting in my apartment suite. After I had a doctor come to examine her and make sure my housekeeper would take care of what she needed, I contacted my lawyers to make legal arrangements.
I’ve decided to keep the fleet—which is what I wanted anyway—butI’ll rewrite all the rules about relationships between crew members. From what the lawyers explained to me, this kind of harassment from senior officers is not unheard of.
I wanted to be present when they interrogated Tamara, and from what she told me, she had a consensual relationship with the captain. That wasn’t my problem, but what she revealed next was.
She said that Bentley Williams had been planning to seduce Zoe since dinner yesterday when I first saw her. So, she’d been called in to assist as a waitress in his cabin. But when I showed up and asked to see the ship, the bastard had no chance of keeping her there any longer.
He and Tamara chose to have sex in the bedroom, knowing that Zoe was already there. They had the intention of coaxing her into alittle party,but when she opened the door and found them, Zoe was so shocked she locked herself in the bathroom.
Tamara also revealed that the captain tried to blackmail Zoe about a supposedly stolen necklace, which was a lie—there was no jewelry missing. He was counting on Zoe’s inexperience and being in a foreign country. He thought that if she felt threatened, she would eventually give in.
When that didn’t work, he considered opening the bathroom door by force, but in a brief moment of conscience, Tamara convinced him otherwise, promising to reward him for her friend’s absence.
Friend? What afuckingfriend! Friends do not conspire or betray.
According to her statement, it wasn’t the first time that the man had used more aggressive methods to convince someone on the crew to have sex with him. When verbal threats were not enough, he resorted to physical embarrassment or, at least on one occasion, he roofied them.
The lawyers said that those were serious allegations but because we didn’t have evidence before what happened today, they were nothing more than hearsay.
It took my whole body’s restraint not to kill the son of a bitch. I don’t like to think about what might have happened if the situation had been different and only, he and Zoe had been in the room.
I asked my lawyers to dig into the ex-captain’s life and punish him as best they could. I’ll also make sure he never finds work as a captain again. Or in any other position.
I’m finally going to my apartment after almost four hours at thepolice station. After closing the door, I turn around and face the woman. From someone I was insanely attracted to, Zoe has become the one I need to protect.
I’ve never walked that path, so instead of planning, as I do with everything in my universe, I decide to let life show me the next step.
Christos
CHAPTER TEN
For the firsttime in my life, I don’t know what to do.
At first, I was so mesmerized by her beauty, her perfect body, and her angelic face that I didn’t even consider our age gap. But now, as I see her dressed in a robe too big for her delicate body, her hair wet from the shower, and no makeup on her face, I realize that Zoe is a very young woman.
I don’t have to think too long and too hard, though. Without any indication of what might happen next, in the same way she did on the ship, Zoe comes to me.
There is no hesitation. She wraps her arms around my neck, pressing our bodies together.
This woman has the power to unleash a side of me that has never come out with anyone I was sexually involved with before—a protective instinct.
“Thank you.”
I don’t want to talk. Not yet. I’d rather smell her freshly bathed body, feel her feminine form molding to mine and the way her fingers trace the back of my neck.
I tense with desire because she wakes up a savage urge in me, but I know that’s not what she needs right now. “Did you sleep?”
She steps back, seeming to finally realize what she’s done. “Yes, and I’m sorry I jumped on you. I’m not used to this, but?—”
I place my fingers over her lips. “It’s been a hell of a day, and I’m the only familiar face you have.”
“It’s not that, but if I explain myself, you’ll think I’m immature.”
Despite all the shit we’ve been through today, I smile. “Try.”
“I like hugs and being alone. When I saw you, I did it on impulse.”
