Elena immediately stopped swimming and stood up. Massimo himself even raised both eyebrows when he spotted Elena. She took comfort in the fact he also seemed surprised to see someone else here.
"Sorry," Elena said. She walked to the edge of the pool and climbed the metal ladder so she was no longer so far away from Massimo. The loud drip-drip-drip of the water droplets falling made Elena even more self conscious.
Still she persisted. "I didn't know you wanted to use the pool today," she explained. "I can leave—"
"Why?" Massimo asked casually. "It's a large enough pool—we can both use it."
Elena couldn't think of an objection to that.
Well, she could, but it was hardly appropriate to tell her boss that this scene was reminding her of the time she walked in on him in the bath. And if he
