Discover Me & You, A Devil's Kettle Romance: Book 2 by Susan Sey

Author:Susan Sey [Sey, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Third Girl Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2016-11-10T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 21

FOR THE FIRST time in weeks, the sun went out. By Thursday evening, clouds the color of old bruises were sliding across the sky, but the heat refused to relent. Stagnant, thick air spread itself along the North Shore like an old blanket, suffocating and dry, while thunder grumbled beyond the bluffs. It was itchy weather, close and inescapable, the kind that drove dogs to madness and people to murder. Certainly Willa had considered it while Georgie had played Fairy Henchmother in her closet again.

Willa had decided to let her live but as a result she now stood on Main Street wearing a high-collared, vaguely Japanese-looking dress that managed to nod at modesty while leaving no doubt as to the exact size and shape of her body. It was also light and linen, and she had to admit it was comfortable. Way more comfortable than the hour Georgie had spent trying to coax Willa’s stubborn hair into an up-do of some sort.

“Jesus, it’s like the loaves and fishes,” Georgie had muttered bitterly through a mouthful of bobby pins, as if Willa had grown acres of hair just to spite her. “It just keeps coming.”

“Ball cap,” Willa had said smugly. “Pony tail. It’s a classic for a reason.”

“I wonder what part of the brain controls speech,” Georgie mused vaguely and stabbed a bobby pin into Willa’s scalp like she was trying to penetrate the skull. She probably was, Willa realized, and shut up. Fifteen minutes later, Georgie spit out the pins, released her hair and said, “Fuck it.”

Which was how Willa had ended up in public with her arms and legs and all her hair showing. Not to mention her eyes. She felt exposed and naked, dangerously so. But she also felt undeniably…pretty. No, more than pretty. She felt sexy. Eli’s eyes had slid down her body when he’d seen her, hot as a touch, then drifted back up again, and a slow smile had spread across his face. The kind of smile that sent a hot little shimmy through a woman’s stomach. It sat there still, pulsing like an ember, and every inch of her exposed skin felt needful and hungry.

She’d let this dangerous part of her sleep for so long. She couldn’t help that Eli had woken it up, but had it really been a good idea to let Georgie put it on display like this?

Nothing for it now. There was no way through tonight but forward. She circled the hood while Eli climbed out of the passenger side. He drifted hot eyes from the hair swirling around her shoulders all the way down to the toes peeking out of sparkly sandals again, lingering at all the most sensitive places in between. The hunger leapt inside Willa even as the worry twisted tighter.

“I like your shoes,” he said, grinning at her feet.

“Shut up.” She jerked her head down Main toward the gallery. “Let’s go.”

“They sparkle.”

“I said shut up.”

He did and she managed to walk the block and a half to the gallery without tripping on the glorified leather flip flops Georgie had insisted on.

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