Bird of Paradise by Katie MacAlister

Author:Katie MacAlister
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: romance, romantic comedy, humor

Chapter Five

“Moonlight is the stuff that magic is made of,” Hero said decisively to no one in particular, which, considering she was sitting alone on a bench, was good. “It's romance, it's fantasy, it's excitement and mystery. Moonlight in the Caribbean—” She gazed out across the velvety croquet playing field, the rich green grass tinted black and silver by the waxing moon. She flexed her bare toes into the lawn, enjoying its coolness against the soles of her feet. It felt so good, she scooted off the bench and sat cross-legged on the ground, the grass tickling her bare legs. Absently plucking a piece of grass, she looked across the way to where a line of coconut palms rustled in the fragrant evening breeze, standing like guardians along a curved stretch of protected beach. The distant thunder of waves pounding onto the island was a muted undertone to air filled with soft noises of night birds and faint strains of Caribbean music from an open-air lounge on the far side of the resort, punctuated occasionally by a shriek and burst of laughter from the swimming pool next to the lounge.

She sighed and tossed the blade of grass away. “Moonlight in the Caribbean is the most romantic thing in the world, and should be outlawed when you're alone and have no one to enjoy it with and are feeling very sorry for yourself.” She looked around. The line of cabanas was uniformly dark except hers. Evidently everyone had gone off to dance under the stars, or partake in the moonlight swim mentioned as part of the evening's after-hour activities.

Everyone but her. True, she had been asked. Adam, escorting her back to her cabana after the horrible orange incident, had said he'd heard several people were planning on enjoying a swim later, and would she be interested in joining them?

She blanched at the thought then, and she blanched now. Appearing in front of everyone in her swimsuit was not her idea of fun. Although she told herself she cared little what Adam thought about her—nipple exploding womanizer that he was—she knew she was lying to herself. She did care, rot his hide. And because she cared, she wasn't going to expose herself to the look of horror sure to be in his eyes when he caught sight of all her exposed flesh.

“Buck up, old girl,” she told herself. “This too shall pass. Just a couple of weeks and you'll be home and he'll be forgotten and everything will be the way it was.” With, she suspected, the exception of her heart. She greatly feared she was in danger of losing that particular organ to Adam. She wasn't happy about that idea, but as it was clearly the result of her snapped mind, there was little she could do.

Other than repeatedly deny the attraction. And to reiterate his bad points to herself. And there was the matter of his fan club, as she'd taken to thinking of the women that seemed to chase after him everywhere.

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