A Brush With Love In Fortune's Bay: A Fortune's Bay Novella by Roberta Capizzi

Author:Roberta Capizzi [Capizzi, Roberta]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2018-03-27T04:00:00+00:00

“I’m so sorry for what my brother did.”

Kyla placed the towel with the ice cubes on Caleb’s mouth and winced when he did too. She couldn’t believe her brother would do something so stupid, and so embarrassing, just because he believed in that idiotic curse and all the gossip. He couldn’t have picked a better time to go play Big Brother to the rescue. She didn’t know whether she was more mortified or more pissed. Not only had he acted like a caveman, he’d also ruined what would have been a perfect afternoon—and a perfect first time. If he hadn’t shown up, at this moment she and Caleb would probably be lying on the grass, entangled in each other’s arms. Or maybe they’d be in his bed. Definitely not in his kitchen tending to his wound.

Caleb smiled and put his hand on hers over the towel. “It’s okay. I’m sure he only wanted to protect you from the evil pirate’s heir, who sails from harbor to harbor to steal treasures and young maidens’ virginity.”

Kyla chuckled. Yes, her brother tended to be a little overprotective at times, and she’d always liked that trait of his—but not this time. “Well, you sort of brought this on yourself, though. If you hadn’t started talking about getting naked, we wouldn’t have ended up in that predicament and Conor wouldn’t have punched you.”

His eyes widened. “Hang on, I never said I wanted to paint a portrait of you naked. You’re the one who came up with the Titanic analogy and started talking about stripping.”

“That’s because you were looking at me with a naughty expression when you said that, so I thought you were thinking of that particular kind of portrait.”

He laughed. “I meant a portrait like the Mona Lisa or The Girl With The Pearl Earring. You’re the one with a dirty mind.”

Okay, that was embarrassing. Had her mind been too clouded by the attraction she felt for him that she’d misread the signs? Maybe she really had a dirty mind. It wasn’t like he’d pushed her away or asked her to stop, though. Her cheeks heated at the memory of the feel of his skin under her fingertips, of his hands sliding up her sides and across her back.

“Although, I’ll admit that if your brother hadn’t shown up, I wouldn’t have been able to act like a gentleman and stop. It’s probably better he interrupted us just in time.”

Kyla’s hand was shaking a little now, as she pressed the towel to his lip again. She couldn’t stop fantasizing what it would’ve been like to be in his arms.

“You know, I never got punched because of a woman before.” He interrupted her fantasy, and she blinked, focusing on the here and now again.

“Well, then I’m glad I can be your first. I used to wish I’d be your first kiss and you’d be mine, but that never happened, unfortunately.” Okay, why had she said that?

He smiled. “You already are my first, in a way. The first girl I fell in love with.

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