“She’ll love it,” Tina murmured.  “We’ll need to get her into swim lessons, by the way.”

Bette nodded, then murmured, “Maybe I could teach her.”

Tina smiled, glancing at her wife, “How about we combine both your teaching her, and swim lessons?  She may enjoy the socializing aspect of the lessons.”

Bette laughed, “Okay…okay…swim lessons also.  I am a patient teacher, by the way….,,”as they both sat up. Their massage therapists had indicated the sessions for their foot massages would require them to move to the reclining chairs set further out on the terrace.

Tina chuckled, as she leaned forward to kiss the brunette, “I know how patient a teacher you can be, baby,” she murmured huskily into Bette’s mouth, as she kissed her softly.

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“Gin and tonic, please,” Tina asked, as the bartender came up to ask her order.

The man next to her joked, “I thought for sure that you were going to ask for a Cosmo,” as he leaned against the bar.

Tina wrinkled her eyebrows, as she brushed back her hair from her face.  Her diamond engagement ring sparkled, as did the entwined circles of her gold and platinum wedding band, as she combed her hair back.

The man caught the glint of the rings, picked up by the rotating glitter ball over the dance floor area of the bar.

“Oh…sorry…I thought,” he began.

“What?,” Tina asked, in a challenging tone.

“That you were too sexy to be by yourself,” he added.

“Well, I’m not by myself…,” Tina responded, nodding her thanks at the bartender, as he handed her drink to her.

“But, still…too sexy,” the man cut in.

Tina shook her head, as she took a sip of her drink.  Mmm…delicious.  She raised her glass at the bartender to acknowledge the quality of the drink.  He smiled back at her, and indicated he’d started a tab for her.

She walked to one of the side-by-side lounge chairs scattered near the bar, selecting a pair with an unobstructed view of the main infinity pool, which looked out, in turn, to a view of the ocean.

Her body was still vibrating from the private sunset ride on one of the boats patterned after the traditional dhoni that Linda had arranged for them.  Since it was powered in a way similar to a speedboat, Bette had piloted the boat herself, selecting a route that merely encircled the resort, never straying more than fifty feet from the surrounding reefs.  Dani had arranged for dinner made up of marinated mackerel served with salmon roe vinaigrette and seared king prawns atop black rice risotto, kept warm under domed lids in a specially-designed cabinet on one side of the boat.