Two if by Sea by Marie Carnay

never work in real life and you know it. What woman would date two men?”
    Dave shrugged. “What about that joint you guys stay at—what’s it called—Billionaires’ Cove?”
    “Midnight Cove.”
    “Same difference. Damon says there’s a few making it work there.”
    Tony thought about Ian and Trent and their girlfriend Holly. The man had a point. But move up the coast and settle down? “I don’t know if I’m the stay-at-home type.”
    Dave laughed again. “Who said you need to do that? I still bartend on tons of cruises, Tony. Jen doesn’t mind. Hell, she likes it when I’m gone—it gives her a chance to be by herself for a while without my dirty clothes all over the floor.”
    Tony snorted. He’d never figure out women. “You really think there’s a chance?”
    “You won’t know until you try.” Dave stood up. “That’s why you two have been MIA since the cruise started, isn’t it? You’re trying to win her over?”
    “Something like that.”
    “Good luck.” Dave clapped Tony on the back as he passed. “I think you’re gonna need it.”
    Talking about a future with Daphne was as silly as wishing for super powers. She had a great job in LA. A whole life built around everything he wasn’t. She did everything by the book.
    Convince her to move to some tiny town on the edge of the ocean to try out a relationship with two men? She’d laugh in his face and walk away. If she couldn’t, she’d probably push him in the pool.
    Tony tried to smile, but it came out in a grimace. “Thanks.”
    “If you need me to do any more digging on the thefts, let me know.” Dave opened the door and the music’s deep beat filled the room.
    The thefts. That’s what Tony should be focused on, not a woman who was probably packing up right now and demanding to be let off the ship. Daphne wasn’t one of their usual flings. She had class and sophistication. Intelligence and humility.
    Date two men at once? It’d be so far beneath her; she’d never consider it. Tony scrubbed his face with his hand. Damn Damon and Ian for even suggesting Midnight Cove. He’d thought it foolish and unrealistic before, but now that he’d tasted what a future could be like, he hated it.
    It was a place he’d never be able to call home. When they landed he’d ask Damon to buy him out of the place. No point in having a house that would never be filled.
    He strode out of the back room and into the club. Tony needed to get his mind off Daphne and onto something else. Anything else.
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DAPHNE
    Daphne pulled her hair off her face and ran her fingers through the curls. Was couch-head a thing? Because she had it. Damn Damon and his sexy body. That sinful tongue. She blushed just thinking about him.
    How could they be so reckless? She’d let him strip her half naked in some room she’d never seen before. A room where any employee could have walked in. This was happening too often. One look at his wicked smile or one word from his naughty lips and she turned into some other woman.
    She needed to remember who she was and where she came from. Daphne Meadows had pulled herself up by her bootstraps and made something out of nothing. Earth-shattering orgasms weren’t worth throwing it all away.
    Movement outside the window caught her eye. The couple from before were back, sitting at the bar a few feet away. Laughing and drinking.
    She’d had a moment—a complete and total freakout—when she thought the woman could see her. But nothing came of it. The couple had peeled themselves off the window, Damon had run off to get her something non-alcoholic and she’d put her clothes back on.
    The woman leaned against her lover, her fingers weaving through his hair as they chatted at the bar. They were oblivious to the panic and embarrassment they’d launched inside her.
    She glanced at the couch and ran her hand over the soft leather. If Damon hadn’t stopped…If he hadn’t wiped his face and kissed her lips and said he’d be right