First Love, Last Love by Ginna Gray

Author:Ginna Gray
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: cheating, Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 1985-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

“Yes, but not in my sundress.” She felt suddenly breathless. His lips were cold and wet from the pool water but they were warming rapidly against her skin. He smalled of chlorine and sunshine. Water dripped from him, splattering onto the flastone and gathering into an ever-widening puddle at their feet. It felt wonderful to be held in his arms, but already she could feel the moisture seeping through the back of her dress. She turned her head to protest, but before she could utter a sound Jake’s mouth closed over hers.

The kiss was hot and deep and lingering. Mary chuckled and Will made a ribald comment, but Beth heard neither above the load, rocketing beat of her heart. She responded helplessly, her lips quivering, her tongue meeting his touch for touch, stroke for stroke.

When he lifted his head she was overwhelmed and disoriented. His face only an inch from hers, Jake smiled and murmured with lazy satisfaction, “I always like to sample dessert first.”

“Aw, Jake, you don’t really like all that mushy stuff, do you?” Timmy asked in his most disgusted voice, instantly snapping Beth out of her daze.

She pried Jake’s hand loose and stepped away. Her face flaming, she swiped irritatedly at her damp dress and glared at the man responsible. He grinned and winked, then turned to face Timmy’s accusing look. The five-year-old was standing from his tan little body, the picture of outtraged miniature masculinity.

“Sure do, pardner,” Jake drawled laconically. “When you get a little older you’ll learn that girls are almost as much fun as bugs and snails.”

“But Aunt Beth’’s not a girl. She’s old. Even older than my mom. ‘Sides, kissin’ is yucky.”

Jake laughed and ruffled the boy’s wet hair. “Believe me, as you grow older you develop a taste for it, kinda like you do for spinach.”

“Yeeecck!” Scrunching up his face, Timmy gave Jake a look of patent disbelief before marching away to take his place on the other side of the table. It was clear that his hero had slipped a notch.

Struggling to keep from laughing along with the others, Beth swept them with a mock-haughty look and took a seat.

“Don’t worry, sweetheart,” Jake murmured in a voice laced with amusement as he slid in beside her on the redwood bench. “I kinda like older women.”

Beth poked him in the ribs with her elbow and gave him a stern look, then completely spoiled it by bursting out laughing.

The lightheartedness, the teasing, was something new, and Beth could not help but respond to it. It was a side of Jake she was only just coming to know, and it appealed to her tremendously.

The others laughed and chatted, but Beth remained silent. Filling her plate from the platters of food, she listened with only one ear to the conversation, her mind on Mary’s last comment.

Yes, basically Jake was still the man she had fallen in love with all those years ago, but there were changes. Small, subtle changes. In both of them. Certainly she was no longer the wide-eyed innocent.

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