After-Hours Dive💧💦🫦“Get in the water.”Diego’s voice cut across the quiet patio. I stood at the edge of the pool in the dark, the villa lights low behind me, wine glass still in my hand. The air smelled of chlorine, warm stone, and the night-blooming jasmine that climbed the pergola. He was already in the deep end, water lapping at his chest, watching me like he had been waiting for this exact moment all week and had no intention of leaving without it.“It’s late,” I said. My voice sounded steadier than I felt. “You were supposed to finish the filters and go home.”“I finished an hour ago.” He swam closer until his feet could touch the bottom. Water ran down the hard lines of his shoulders, the ridges of his stomach, and the thin pale scar that cut across his left ribs. “You’ve been sitting up there in that robe since sunset. Either come in or admit you’re scared of what happens when you do.”I set the glass down on the stone coping carefully, as if the sound of it might wake the
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