‘Yup. You’re right. Shall we go back to the boat?’

‘Uh huh.’ She kissed him, full on the mouth, wanting to kiss him more, then swam back to the shore, looking like a mermaid with her long, pale blonde hair streaming out behind her.

When they got back to the speedboat, both still joyously happy and ridiculously turned on by the other’s nakedness, Ben opened the cool box. They had bought two bottles of sparkling rosé, and he opened one of them with a flourish, as he inexpertly steered the boat away from the island and further out to sea, away from prying eyes.

When the boat came to rest, the only other craft to be seen were far away, on the horizon.

‘What do we do now, then?’ Natalia asked, with a mischievous glint in her eyes.

‘What you do is lie down, on your back, right there.’ Ben kissed her some more. ‘Leave the rest to me, and forget about everything.’

Still naked, and feeling the sun hot on every inch of her body, Natalia did as he said, presenting herself, supine and vulnerable on the boat’s gleaming white stern.

Ben started to kiss her nipples, which swelled as soon as his lips touched them.

‘You have the most beautiful body I’ve ever seen.’

‘I …’ Natalia started to say something, but couldn’t continue when he was doing such things to her. Instead she clasped his head to her breast, wanting more and more. ‘Oh, please …’

‘How does this feel?’ Ben picked up the bottle of fizzy rosé and poured it all over her taut torso. He started to lap it out of her concave belly and her moans got deeper. ‘Or maybe this?’

He poured it all over her exposed pussy, which tingled with the bubbles. The blazing sun soon made the bubbles hot, which took her to new, exquisite sensory levels.

‘Oh, Ben, oh, God, Mr Movie Star, oh, don’t stop, oh …’

‘Would you like me to drink it out of you?’

‘Oh, yes, please, drink me, fuck me, take me.’ Natalia was beyond caring now.

Ben looked up at her from under his long, thick lashes, and said, ‘One thing at a time. Drinking first, didn’t you say?’ And he proceeded to lick and suck, and lick and suck, all the while pouring more fizzy rosé wine into her cunt.

Natalia’s orgasm was loud, her cries mingling with the sound of the seabirds and the lapping of the sea at the side of the boat. When she came to her senses, she raised herself up on her elbows and looked directly at Ben, challenging him again with her wide-apart, up-slanted eyes.

‘I thank you. The drinking was good. Now, maybe the fucking?’

‘Oh, Jesus.’ The Mediterranean sun was hot on his back, and as he looked at the long, long planes of Natalia’s wanton, naked body, he hoped he would be able to control himself. ‘Are you sure?’ Remembering the state she’d been in the night before, he didn’t want to take advantage of her vulnerability, massively turned on though he was.