Another Chance to Love by Cheris Hodges

Author:Cheris Hodges
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, african american, south carolina, small town romance, cheris hodges
Publisher: Cheris Hodges

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Paige sat beside the pool, her mind as empty as her glass. The Nashville sun had tanned her brown skin over the past three days. Patrick was rarely at the condo because his girlfriend, a Tennessee State University graduate student, kept him busy. She had changed him, Paige noticed. Patrick looked as if he’d dropped thirty pounds and he dressed more stylishly. She wanted to meet this mystery chick and find out what her secret was, but right now she was more content watching sweat roll down her flat belly. She wished it were Brian’s tongue running across her body. Quickly she stood and reproached herself for thinking of him.

Brian isn’t thinking about you. He’s rekindling his romance with Olivia.

Paige walked into the condo and fixed herself another rum and cola. She’d been drinking for three days, but the alcohol didn’t take her mind off Brian. If anything, it made the longing for him worse. She dreamed of him at night, so she stayed up late watching old movies and eating marshmallows and then she would get up and run six miles. By mid-afternoon, Paige would be lounging in her bikini at the community pool, dozing off as the afternoon crept by. Patrick would wake her up before heading out with his girlfriend and then Paige would get up and fix herself a sandwich, return to the pool and drink some more.

As she walked over to her chaise, someone whistled behind her. Paige turned around and smiled at the young man. She hoped he would stay where he was, but he took her smile as an invitation to come over. “How you doing, ma?” the boy asked, revealing a gold tooth and his youth.

“Not too good,” Paige said as she took a sip of her drink.

“Really? What’s wrong?” he asked as he looked up and down her body. “‘Cause you look great.”

Paige sloshed her drink around in her glass. “Well, my man is getting back with his ex-wife. I haven’t had a good night’s sleep in three days and the last thing I want is to talk to some gold tooth playboy coming over here to try and pick me up because he likes the way my ass and breasts look in my bikini.”

He threw up both of his hands as if she were holding a gun ready to shoot him. “Damn, ma, it’s not like you’re all of that.”

Paige rolled her eyes. “I must be some of that, otherwise you wouldn’t have ambled your ass over here.”

The boy walked away as if his pride had been destroyed. Paige rolled her eyes. It was obvious that she was back to her old abrasive self. She plopped down on the chaise, closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep. After what seemed only a few minutes later, Patrick was waking her up. She’d actually been asleep for an hour and the deep tan lines on her shoulders told her that she needed a new type of sunscreen.

“Still living the lush life, I see,” he said as he took her empty glass from her hand.

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