Page 8 of Falling Overboard

A ten? He was more like a twenty.

“Plus, Thomas doesn’t know what to do with a woman once he has her. Hunter looks like he majored in it and graduated with honors.”

Again, I wanted to fervently agree until I remembered where we were. Given the kind of luck I was having today, the captain was going to stroll by while Georgia was making inappropriate comments and we’d both get fired. I went over to close the door.

She jumped off the counter when she realized what I was doing. “No, wait!”

Then I saw the reason she was trying to stop me. There was a piece of paper taped to the back of the door. “What’s this?”

At the top in Georgia’s handwriting:The sCrew List, oh so cleverly combining the wordsscrewandcrew. Just below that she had written the number100and circled it.

She didn’t have to tell me what it was because it was self-explanatory. All the male crewmembers were listed with numbers next to them. “Are these points?” I asked.

“Yes.”

“How could you have this up already?” The crew meeting had only happened a little while ago.

Georgia didn’t even have the decency to look embarrassed. “I work fast when I’m motivated.”

“Did you not hear Captain Carl and the new rule?”

At that her eyes narrowed and I recognized that look. “I heard him fine.” She hated being told what to do and had a very loose relationship with following rules.

Unlike me, who lived for them.

“The only people who ever shut the laundry room door are the stews. No one else is going to see it,” she said, as if that made it better.

“Was this your idea?”

“Emilie and I came up with it together.”

I should have known that it was both of them. I was pretty sure that cannibals were less man hungry than those two.

And Emilie and Georgia made some bad decisions when left to their own devices.

Like posting a list with points for sleeping with crewmembers.

“This is why two blondes don’t make a right,” I muttered and she just grinned at me. Then I noticed the name on the bottom. “You have Captain Carl on here.”

“Yeah, I do. He is a sexy, sexy man. Anybody who can single-handedly control a one-hundred-and-fifty-foot superyacht deserves to be on this list, and I’m sorry you can’t see it.”

“The captain is married and has a son the same age as you.”

Another shrug. “What can I say? I have daddy issues. But you’ll see that we gave him fifty points because of the unlikelihood of it happening. Especially with his new rule.”

I sighed. “François has a negative number next to his name.”

“We should lose points if we sleep with him. Too easy and gross.”

She wasn’t wrong. That guy was a three-time gold medalist in the Jerk Olympics. “This list is going to get you fired.”

“Only if I get caught, which I won’t.”

Such an unwise thing to do, but both she and Emilie were adults and could make their own truly terrible decisions.

Georgia moved around me and added Hunter’s name to the bottom of the list and gave him twenty-five points.

There was a strange surge in my gut that felt a bit like jealousy and I immediately pushed it down. I couldn’t afford to get fired, so there was no chance that anything could happen between Hunter and me.

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