Now that she felt free to say it, she never wanted to stop telling him. As free as it made him feel, Mary felt that it complicated some things for her. She still had no idea what she was going to tell her father when they landed in Nassau. All she knew was that she didn't want to leave Jim.

Mary wrapped her arms around him as he carried her over to the bed. "I'd like that. We're both still covered in sweat and saltwater." They had bathed together before and Mary enjoyed the intimacy of it. She wrapped a blanket from the bed around her while he went to see about the water.