Free Falling for a Stranger by Barbara Freethy

if I was unexpectedly pregnant?"
    "You're not, are you?"
    "Well, Sara and I do like to do things together," she joked. "But no, I'm not. If I were, how would you feel?"
    "Terrified. A little girl with your blonde hair, blue eyes and stubborn personality would probably kill me."
    She smiled back at him. "You're just as stubborn as I am."
    "True." He paused. "Do you want to have a baby right now, Emma?"
    She smiled and shook her head. "No. I want to marry you and start our lives. I want to be a little selfish and have you to myself for a while."
    "I feel the same way," he said. "But one day…"
    "One day," she agreed. "In the meantime, we need to be a little more careful than Aiden and Sarah."
    He laughed. "I'm always more careful than Aiden."
    "True. I would really love to see his reaction when Sara tells him he's going to be a father."

    * * *

    "I must admit this is one of your better ideas, Aiden," Drew told his brother as he raised his beer glass to his lips.
    "The beer or the boat?" Aiden asked.
    "Both," Drew said with a laugh. He set down his glass and glanced around the restaurant bar at the yacht club. The far wall was one large window that ran from floor to ceiling and overlooked the bay and the bridge. On the other two walls were television screens playing a variety of sporting events. A few men sat at the bar talking about the wind conditions out on the bay, and another larger group of people had commandeered one of the larger tables. "Nice place."
    "We'll be spending a lot of time here," Aiden said.
    "Unless we decide to dock the boat somewhere cheaper," Burke put in.
    "The Eleanor has always been here," Aiden said.
    "Because Grandpa had money, and this is the best spot in the city," Burke said. "But there are cheaper locations I'm sure."
    "We don't need to worry about that right now," Aiden said, dismissing Burke's concern. "When can you guys get me a check?"
    "Monday for me," Burke said. "I need to move some things around."
    "Monday works for me as well," Drew put in.
    Aiden nodded. "I'll let Grandpa know. He's going to be thrilled that we're keeping the boat in the family. It's a sad situation for him and Grandma, but we're making it a little easier."
    "Grandma didn't even recognize me at the party," Drew said, remembering the fearful look in her eyes when he'd approached her. "That's the first time she hasn't known who I was."
    "There are a lot of us," Burke said quietly. "Don't take it personally."
    "Hard not to take it personally when your grandmother forgets who you are."
    "She usually thinks I'm Grandpa," Aiden said. "She talks to me about stuff as if I'm her husband, and I have no idea what she's talking about."
    "Maybe we can get them both out on the boat again," Burke suggested. "One last ride around the bay."
    "That's a good idea," Drew said.
    "Absolutely," Aiden agreed. He turned his attention to Drew. "Now, let's get back to your mystery woman. Where did you meet her? What was the relationship?"
    Drew took a sip of his beer, then said, "I met her about a year and a half ago, on Isla de los Sueños. I went there for a week with Tim right after I got out of the Navy. She was working at the beachside bar as a bartender."
    "And you hooked up," Aiden said with a nod.
    "Yeah. It was the last night I was there. It wasn't supposed to be anything, just a beautiful woman on a hot tropical night, but…" His voice drifted away as he searched for the right words. "It was more than I expected. She was more than I expected. The next morning, I woke up and she was gone. I later found out she was on a boat that caught fire and exploded. There were supposedly no survivors." He drew in a deep breath as the painful memory ran through him.
    "So how did she survive?" Burke asked curiously.
    "She said she swam for hours and ended up on some small deserted island. I don't know if I believe her. When we spoke just now, she was nervous, wary, evasive. And she mentioned that she wanted to start over, new name, new start."
    "She