A Wedding in the Sun by Leonie Mack

Author:Leonie Mack [Mack, Leonie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boldwood Books

Jo’s finger hovered between the icon for the messaging app and the one for making phone calls. Liss and Dec had both written asking when she’d arrive. Ben had sent clipped instructions about parking at the hotel. She was glad to hear they’d survived the trip in the heatwave at least and she needed to let them know about her own mishap.

But she set her phone down again on the bedside table in the small hotel room and gazed out of the sliding doors instead of sending that message.

She missed her kids. She needed to get to this wedding to support them, to work through any last-minute feelings. But right now she was here, staring at the glistening sea and the jagged fingers of rock jutting out into the water, the patches of turquoise, hints of white waves and dark shoals – and listening to Adrián hum inconsistently in the shower, singing a line occasionally of a song she didn’t recognise.

She was definitely here.

When the door of the bathroom slid open five minutes later to reveal her travelling companion in his jeans and nothing else, there were few places Jo could think of that she’d rather be – despite that silly gold chain.

‘Better?’ he asked her, peering into her face.

She nodded, lifting her chin for him to grasp with soft fingers as he studied her face. ‘Hydrated, cool. Everything’s okay now.’

‘Good,’ he said, his voice deep and raspy and skittering over her skin.

Then kiss me. She wasn’t quite brave enough to blurt that out. Instead, she took a deep breath and said, ‘And I’m not drunk.’

‘Hmm?’

‘I know exactly what I’m doing,’ she confirmed. ‘Completely in my right mind.’

His Adam’s apple bobbed as his gaze lifted sharply to hers. ‘What— What are you doing?’

She’d rather hoped he might get the hint, but she also appreciated the importance of full disclosure and open communication. Standing slowly, she looked him square in the face – no smile, no blush, no uncertainty – and said, ‘I’m about to kiss you.’

His eyes drifted closed and his breath whooshed out. ‘Good, because I need to kiss you back so badly.’

Jo remembered the frantic touches of the night before – even if her memories were fuzzy around the edges – but this first kiss wasn’t frantic. It was slow and emphatic and stubborn. The way he clutched the back of her cotton vest top and swallowed a groan etched itself into her.

‘Are we— Can we? Do you want to—’ he murmured as his lips skimmed across her cheek to close just below her ear.

She looped her arms around his neck and came nearer. ‘Yes,’ she said. ‘Yes.’

‘I don’t have a condom,’ he pointed out with an adorably earnest expression.

‘It’s okay,’ she reassured him. ‘I have an IUD and…’

His lips twitched. ‘It’s been a long time for both of us.’ His palm ranged up her back and down again, down further. He bit his lip. ‘I hope this isn’t bad.’

‘It might be,’ she said, sharing his smile. ‘But I’m willing to give it a try.

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