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CHAPTER FIVE

TODAY WAS A perfect day to surf. The sea, the sun and the breeze. The water was dappled like diamonds in the brilliant sun.

The only shadow on the day and his plans was his bum shoulder and the fact tonight he had to attend a gala with Lana.

Andrew cursed himself inwardly for giving Jack the day off from training when he saw how ripe the waves were. He’d thought he was doing himself a favor by giving Jack the day off so he could just spend the day collecting his thoughts.

Last night, after he’d walked away from yet another surgery, he’d gone and watched surfing on television. Something he hadn’t done well since his accident. It was a video of his days before the accident. When he had been carefree and Meghan had been alive. From the days when he was still a surgeon and not the half man he’d become. When the whole world had been his for the taking. Now he deserved none of it.

He didn’t know what had compelled him to watch it.

You’re sick and twisted. That’s why.

Now, he was torturing himself further by walking on the beach in the early morning and watching choice waves roll in from the Pacific. This was not going to calm him down in time to escort Lana to the gala tonight. In fact it made him more agitated and he wanted to call it all off, but he couldn’t. He was in too deep.

The gala would be their first real test since announcing their engagement, proving to the world that they were a real couple.

He didn’t know what he was thinking, coming to the beach. As he longingly watched the waves, his hands jammed into his pockets, he spotted a surfer paddling to the shore and then hefting her bright turquoise board out of the water.

Oh, holy heck.

He’d come down here to collect his thoughts and prepare himself for the charade tonight. To steel himself against doing something crazy impulsive with Lana. And now here she was, coming out of the waves, just like the first time he’d seen her.

The short sleeve wetsuit clinging to her curves, her black hair slicked back from the water. The ocean glistening off her exposed skin like diamonds. It took him back to that day a couple of years ago when he’d first seen her. When he was first enticed by her and then realized she was Jack’s sister and therefore off limits.

Pull yourself together.

As if she knew that he was staring at her, Lana looked up, her dark eyes widening in surprise when she saw him.

“Andrew?”

There was no backing out and running the opposite way. He waved and walked over toward her, but keeping a safe distance so he wouldn’t act impulsively.

“Good morning, Lana. A very nice day, isn’t it?”

A very nice day, isn’t it? You idiot.

What, was he in junior high again? At least his voice didn’t crack this time.