Nikki Logan - The Billionaire Of Coral Bay

He snorted. ‘What’s the point of being your best when no one’s around to see it?’

He didn’t mean to be dismissive, but he saw her reaction in the flash behind her eyes.

‘I’m around.’ She shrugged, almost embarrassed. ‘I’ll know.’

‘And you reserve the best of yourself for yourself?’ he asked, knowing any hope of a congenial day with her was probably already sunk.

Her curious gaze suggested he was more alien to her than some of the creatures they’d just been studying. ‘Why would I give it to someone else?’

She crossed to their piled-up belongings and began to shove her snorkelling equipment into the canvas bag.

Rich pressed the beach towel she’d supplied to his chest as he watched her go, and disguised the full-body shiver that followed. But he couldn’t blame it on the chilly water alone—there was something else at play here, something more...disquieting.

He patted his face dry with the sun-warmed fabric to buy himself a moment to identify the uncomfortable sensation.

For all his success—for all his professional renown—Rich suddenly had the most unsettling suspicion that he might have missed something fundamental about life.

Why would anyone give the best of themselves to someone else?

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