Covered In Paint: Book Five of the Art Of Love Series by Donna McDonald

Author:Donna McDonald [McDonald, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary Romance, Humor, Romantic Comedy
Published: 2015-01-19T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Brooke walked to the short kitchen counter and pulled a bottle of her favorite red wine from the rack Shane had left for her. It was the last bottle of the three she’d purchased a couple weeks ago. Grading was the teaching task she hated most and her stress level over it showed in her low stock of lubrication. She was down to the last set of papers—thankfully. She could probably get through them with a calming herbal tea if necessary.

“We’re two very different people, Drake. Our age difference doesn’t bother me, but I’ve had serious reservations from the beginning about getting involved with you. It wasn’t a point in your favor that you overrode them. Frankly, I still don’t know how I feel about a man who can destroy my ability to think like a rational human being.”

“Rational thinking is overrated. It keeps you from taking chances.”

“You wouldn’t understand how intimidating people like you are to the rest of us normal human beings. You just assume everyone thinks like you and wants to lay bare their soul to the world.”

“Is that your segue back to discussing what you saw in my class? I’m unclear where this conversation is headed, Dr. Daniels.”

Brooke snickered at her speech and his question. Drake was no stranger to verbal sparring—that much was obvious. The truth was she’d all but forgotten the naked woman in his class. Well, more like the woman had ceased to matter to her. The whole thing actually seemed like it happened years ago.

A lot had transpired since that day. She’d slept with Drake as she’d intended to—once figuratively and once literally. She’d also scheduled herself for breast surgery and still hadn’t told a soul what was happening.

It wasn’t that she was keeping the lump in her breast a secret on purpose. She’d just been waiting for the right time to talk to her mother about it. She definitely wasn’t up to telling the man sitting in her chair about her physical flaw yet, even if there was no good way of getting out of the rest of the discussion Drake seemed determined to have tonight.

“Did Michael talk to you about my conversation with him?” Brooke asked, keeping her back to Drake as she added an aerator to the bottle.

Behind her, she heard him sigh. For some reason, his willingness to confess made her forgive him instantly. She turned to see him nodding.

“Yes. Michael came to see me. He said you had gone to see him because you were upset over what you saw in my class.”

Brooke shook her head and snorted as she turned back to their drinks and poured.

“Now I totally believe my mother’s story about Michael and Shane going to see her at school and begging her to date Will. I guess him coming to see you means Michael has decided we should be dating.”

“I don’t care about that. Michael’s opinion doesn’t really count. What have you decided about it?”

Sighing and wondering if she could keep from revealing truths she wasn’t ready to share yet, Brooke turned and walked back with their glasses.

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