Chapter 5
“And there we were,” I told Ludo as I finished my last strip of bacon and eyed what was left on his plate with consideration. “Punting along, when something caused the damned punt to nearly upend. Bart managed to hold on and stay high and dry, but I went head first into the drink. I surfaced to hear laughter, and I looked up to see one of the handsomest men I’d ever laid eyes on, his head thrown back, obviously amused by my plight.”
“That was you?” He folded his strip of bacon in two, stuffed it into his mouth, and chewed with smug satisfaction—the greedy git. “I remember that, but I never realized…I mean, you were saturated. A lily pad was draped over your left ear.”
“It was me.”
He struggled to keep his laughter contained.
“Really, Ludovic? You’re still laughing at me afte
