Boating III

Camila's POV
"What are you doing?" I finally manage to ask, snapping my eyes up from his bare upper body.
"You look cold." He mumbles, and when I search his face, his eyes snap up to mine from my chest and it's then that I slowly trail my eyes down to my my nipples that have hardened.
"Yeah..." I swallow thickly, "I'm freezing." I wasn't cold. But I'd die before letting him know that my nipples were hard because of what I'd been thinking about.
My cheeks heat as he steps forward and begins helping me into his shirt, before starting to do up the buttons. His shirt is large, reaching just past my ass. It smells of his cologne and suddenly I never want to take it off.
"What are you doing?" I can't help but hate that I feel so dumbfounded by the man especially when he takes my hand and begins walking.
"We're going to make use of this boat."
I send him a confused look but he keeps walking dragging us further away from the back deck where everyone is partying.
I ogle at his back while he leads me up two flights of stairs to the third and final floor. The place is deserted but it's absolutely beautiful up here with an in ground pool and bar.
I glance around while he lets go of my hand, and brings his hands up to undo the buttons of his shirt on me.
"W-what are you doing-" Something in my stomach flutters at how natural the action seems.
"I'm gonna teach you how to swim." He states simply, dragging the shirt off me and tossing it onto a nearby chair.
My brows furrow. "I know how to swim."
The unimpressed look he sends me clearly references the last time I'd been in a pool. "Clearly not."
Even if he's right, I suddenly have the urge to defend myself. I square my shoulders, "Yes I do."
"Oh, really?" He raises a brow.
I nod, I wasn't entirely bluffing, I knew how to swim. Of course I wasn't the best swimmer, but that was because mamá only took me to two lessons before she didn't have time to take me anymore.
Alejandro nods, his lips twitching for a brief moment and the next thing I know, he's lifting me into his arms and throwing me right into the pool.
No warning, no hesitation.
I don't even have time to scream as I'm instantly submerged in the cold water, it's deep and I try my hardest to tread and get back up, but I start growing tired.
I wasn't used to being thrown in, and I was having a hard time moving my limbs.
Only before I can panic, strong arms wrap around my waist and effortlessly drag me up. Instinctively, I wrap my arms around Alejandro's neck and cling onto him with my legs around his waist.
I try catching my breath as I scowl at Alejandro. That idiot was going to feel my wrath the moment I was able to breathe again.
But to my surprise the man throws his head back and starts laughing. It wasn't a normal, tamed chuckle or scoff, it was a full blown carefree laugh. I blink up at him taking in how attractive he is and my eyes zero in on his cheek where a dimple pops out when he laughs like this.
Never had I ever seen him so delighted and happy and to know it was at my expense made me smile. I couldn't stay mad at him.
But I still unlatch my legs from around him and I take the opportunity to place my hands on his head, pushing him down into the water.
He's so caught off guard that he goes down and I can't help but laugh as I turn and try my hardest to swim away from him and towards the shallow end.
My arms are about to give out, but I keep going even faster when I hear his voice sound from somewhere behind me. "Not so fast, Principessa."
A hand snakes around my upper thigh, yanking me down, and I can't help but shriek and fight against his steel hold.
I wrestle the man in the water, even as he starts going easy on me, I have the disadvantage because the man was physically better than me at everything.
But I don't stop, I push, wiggle and even try to tickle the man until we've both resurfaced and he's chuckling as he watches me struggle pathetically against him.
I manoeuvre away from him, and splash water towards his standing form a foot away. 
"Okay, enough." He calls, walking towards me in the water that's now up to his chest. We had made it towards the shallower end.
He gets closer, close enough to wipe the wet hair away from my face as I continue to slash his face, giggling when I see it annoys him.
He moves closer, grabbing my wrist as tilts his face away from the water I'm splashing at him. In one quick move he pulls me against him, stopping my arms. "I said enough." He reasons as playful as a serious man like him can get, wrapping an arm around my waist and holding me up against him as he makes his way back towards the deeper end.
"And I didn't listen because I don't have to." I reply, wiggling my hand out and splashing some more water on him. He stops in the chin level water and eyes me, his eyes filled with amusement.
"You're such a little brat." He observes as he wraps both his hands around me, pinning my hands down to my sides but I don't dare to wiggle away for I'm too shocked as I watch him dip his head towards me.
His eyes flicker down to my lip, I stop breathing.
Is he...?
But before I can even process anything, his head is dipping down further and he's barring his teeth as he tries to bite my lower jaw.
I shriek and move away but he doesn't let me as he lightly nips at my neck, and I giggle at the tickling sensation.
"Okay, fine. I'll listen." I squirm and he moves back to grin down at me. His smile is so wide that I see the small dimple on his cheek once again. I want to kiss it, but instead, I bring my hands up to push the wet hair from his forehead as I smile up at him.
"You're so pretty." I mumble and it's meant more to myself, but he hears it.
Alejandro stops and smiles down at me his eyes sparking in adoration, I nearly melt at the way he's looking at me. "Grazie piccola," He replies brushing his lips against my cheek gently, "Questo significa molto se viene da qualcuno la cui bellezza è incomparabile." He mumbles against the skin of my cheek, that heats up at his words. (Thank you, baby. | That means a lot coming from someone who's beauty is incomparable.)
I hastily turn away from him and swim away to hide my blush, my stomach erupting in butterflies.
He thinks I'm beautiful.
"Okay, come," He calls from behind me and I turn to look at him. "Let me teach you how to swim."
I give him a look and then he sends me one back. "Properly. You can barely stay afloat on your own, Principessa."
I roll my eyes as I swim back towards him. I see his eye narrow at the action and he looks like he wants to say something but thinks better of it.
"You just have a little problem when you dive in or jump in." He explains and I nod in agreement. "So get on my shoulders and jump in until you get the hang of it." He says and before I can even register what he's saying he's disappearing under the water.
My eyes widen as he spreads my legs apart from behind and crawls under so that I'm on his shoulders before he stands to his full height.
My hands automatically go to grip the top of his head as I look down from this height, shrieking lightly as he stands and moves towards a deeper part.
I cling onto him scared of falling before he lands a light slap on my thigh. "Now, get up and jump Camila, we're gonna keep going until you get this right." He says and my heart rate increases.
I think my heart is gonna shut down before then.
. . .
Heart hammering, hands trembling, the fear gets worse the father out I walk into this ledge and stare down into the crystal blue ocean water.
I couldn't possibly do this.
I look up at the sound of Alejandro's deep voice sounding from down below as he treads water. "Dai, Principessa. You can do it." (Come on)
The other people in the ocean turn to watch and I grow nervous. They were making this even worse.
After perfecting my swimming up in the pool, Alejandro had brought us down to the back deck where the party was. Apparently there was also a diving board out here that went into the ocean, and Alejandro had told me I was ready to do it.
Shaking my nerves off, I walk to the edge and shut my eyes.
Fuck it. And with that I run and jump.
I hit the water with a splash, it nearly knocks the wind out of me but I'm able to swim up and out of the water at a faster pace thanks to the past hour I'd spent with Alejandro.
I make it up, open my eyes and look around me to see the people around me all turn back to mind their own business. But I don't care because I catch sight of Alejandro  who swims towards me, his smile beaming with pride.
I smile and meet him half way, jumping into his arms as he catches me and and treads to keep us afloat."I did it!" I scream, my eyes wide, as I look back up towards the diving board.
Holy shit that was high.
"You did so good." He breathes in agreement shaking his head lightly in disbelief as he stares down at me.
"Thanks." I bite down on my lower lip, loving the way it draws his attention to my lips. I tighten my arms around him. "I had a pretty good teacher."
I can't decide which feeling is better. The lightheaded happiness at the fact that he's proud of me or the butterflies at how he's staring down at me.
I tighten my arms and legs around him, "Alejandro."
He merely hums, it's low and raspier than before as his attention stays on my lips.
Kiss me.
And as though he's able to read my thoughts, the man slowly inches his face closer. So close that I can feel his steady breathing, so close that I'm about to speed up the process and move my face closer, but we're both jolted when a shrill voice sounds.
"Alejandro!" He snaps his head up to the deck where Greta stands, glaring down at us.
Alejandro tenses and let's go of me, nodding towards the ladder to climb back onto the deck, the sudden awkwardness radiating off him telling me that the bitch just ruined our moment.
I climb out of the water and onto the deck as he follows close behind, Greta smiling smugly down at me as I glare at her.
She brushes it off and grabs his hand. "Let's take some pictures so I can send them to daddy."
And then he's walking away from me and disappearing with her.
My mood instantly plummets and Ethan's loud cheering in my ear isn't helping. "Wanna go again?" He asks coming up to me.
I give him a blank look before rolling my eyes. "No, but you should." I say and with that I push him into the water, a small satisfied smile taking up my feature at his look of pure shock as he emerges from underwater.