Dying to Tell by Keri Beevis

Author:Keri Beevis [Beevis, Keri]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781912986903
Publisher: Bloodhound Books
Published: 2019-09-26T04:00:00+00:00

He was right. It was fun. They spent the next forty minutes chopping and sautéing onions, peppers and chicken, the mood back to being light-hearted as they laughed and bickered, Jack learning Lila was not actually as bad in the kitchen as she pretended to be, Lila discovering his hidden talent for cooking. Well, she called it a talent; the curry they had prepared looked and smelt good, but she had yet to taste it. He was easy to be around when she wasn’t thinking about the sex and the attraction bit – which admittedly wasn’t often – and she let her guard down, appreciating his dry humour, the similarities in their personalities, how she got every single movie quote or reference he threw her way and vice versa, and in doing so she fell further down the rabbit hole.

Leaving the pot to simmer on a low heat, Jack retrieved her bag from the hallway, taking it upstairs. Lila reached for her crutches and followed, glad to be unburdened of the decision of where she would be sleeping, part relieved, part nervous, when he headed straight to his bedroom, dropping the bag on the floor. It was so stupid how she had been overanalysing this. They’d had sex on his kitchen table that morning and now she was being prudish, wondering where he expected her to sleep. Still that prudish part of her hadn’t wanted to assume and was making her uncharacteristically shy and a little awkward as she followed him into the room.

What had happened that morning had been spontaneous and for her, so out of character. She didn’t regret it, had wanted it to happen, but one-night stands and sexual encounters just for the hell of it were a first for her. She could count her past partners on one hand, had only ever had sex in steady relationships, and she was still trying to figure out the protocol of how fuck buddies were supposed to behave around each other.

Because that’s what they now were, right? Jack wanted her to sleep in his bed, so he obviously planned on having sex with her again.

Annoyed for overthinking things, she focussed on the view from the floor-to-ceiling window, amazed by the sensational sunset. The sky was ablaze with amber, smeared with little bursts of pink, the anchored boats just silhouettes against the glistening water that snaked a path through the dark marshes out towards the sea.

She had photographed the sunset from the quayside on countless occasions, but she had never viewed it from this window. Jack possessed many material things she would never be able to afford and for the most part none of it bothered her. But she was envious of the window, of the view.

‘This is stunning. I wish I had my camera.’

‘The view is why I bought the house.’

‘It is?’ Lila turned briefly to look at him. He was sitting on the edge of the bed, kicking off his shoes.

‘I remember coming back for a second viewing. It was early evening and I got to witness the most gorgeous sunset I’ve ever seen.

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